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115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3853 
To provide for nuclear weapons abolition and economic conversion in accord-
ance with District of Columbia Initiative Measure Number 37 of 1992, 
while ensuring environmental restoration and clean-energy conversion. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017 
Ms. NORTON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 
Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide for nuclear weapons abolition and economic con-
version in accordance with District of Columbia Initiative 
Measure Number 37 of 1992, while ensuring environ-
mental restoration and clean-energy conversion. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Nuclear Weapons Abo-
lition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act of 2017’’. 
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SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS ABOLI-
TION AND ECONOMIC AND ENERGY CONVER-
SION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The United States Government 
shall— 
(1) provide leadership to negotiate and enter 
into a multilateral treaty or other international 
agreement by the date that is three years after the 
date of the enactment of this Act that provides for— 
(A) the dismantlement and elimination of 
all nuclear weapons in every country by not 
later than 2024; and 
(B) strict and effective international con-
trol of such dismantlement and elimination; 
(2) redirect resources that are being used for 
nuclear weapons programs to use— 
(A) in converting all nuclear weapons in-
dustry employees, processes, plants, and pro-
grams smoothly to constructive, ecologically 
beneficial peacetime activities, including strict 
control of all fissile material and radioactive 
waste, during the period in which nuclear weap-
ons must be dismantled and eliminated pursu-
ant to the treaty or other international agree-
ment described in paragraph (1); and 
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(B) in addressing human and infrastruc-
ture needs, including development and deploy-
ment of sustainable carbon-free and nuclear- 
free energy sources, health care, housing, edu-
cation, agriculture, and environmental restora-
tion, including long-term radioactive waste mon-
itoring; 
(3) undertake vigorous, good-faith efforts to 
eliminate war, armed conflict, and all military oper-
ations; and 
(4) actively promote policies to induce all other 
countries to join in the commitments described in 
this subsection to create a more peaceful and secure 
world. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Subsection (a)(2) shall take 
effect on the date on which the President certifies to Con-
gress that all countries possessing nuclear weapons have— 
(1) eliminated such weapons; or 
(2) begun such elimination under established 
legal requirements comparable to those described in 
subsection (a). 
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