SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘United States-Jordan 
Defense Cooperation Act of 2015’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) As of January 22, 2015, the United States 
Government has provided $3,046,343,000 in assist-
ance to the Syria humanitarian response, of which 
nearly $467,000,000 has been to the Hashemite 
Kingdom of Jordan. 
(2) As of January 2015, according to the 
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 
(UNHCR), there are 621,937 registered Syrian ref-
ugees in Jordan and 83.8 percent of those refugees 
live outside refugee camps. 
(3) In 2000, the United States and Jordan 
signed a free-trade agreement that went into force 
in 2001. 
(4) In 1996, the United States granted Jordan 
major non-NATO ally status. 
(5) Jordan is suffering from the Syrian refugee 
crisis and the threat of the Islamic State of Iraq and 
the Levant (ISIL). 
(6) The Government of Jordan was elected as 
a non-permanent member of the United Nations Se-
curity Council beginning in January 2014 and ter-
minating in December 2015. 
(7) Enhanced support for defense cooperation 
with Jordan is important to the national security of 
the United States, including through creation of a 
status in law for Jordan similar to the countries in 
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Japan, 
Australia, the Republic of Korea, Israel, and New 
Zealand, with respect to consideration by Congress 
of foreign military sales to Jordan. 
(8) The Colorado National Guard’s relationship 
with the Jordanian military provides a significant 
benefit to both the United States and Jordan. 
(9) Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh was bru-
tally murdered by ISIL. 
(10) On February 3, 2015, Secretary of State 
John Kerry and Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser 
Judeh signed a new Memorandum of Understanding 
that reflects the intention to increase United States 
assistance to the Government of Jordan from 
$660,000,000 to $1,000,000,000 per year for the 
years 2015 through 2017. 
SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It should be the policy of the United States to sup-
port the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in its response
to the Syrian refugee crisis, provide necessary assistance 
to alleviate the domestic burden to provide basic needs for 
the assimilated Syrian refugees, cooperate with Jordan to 
combat the terrorist threat from the Islamic State of Iraq 
and the Levant (ISIL) or other terrorist organizations, 
and help secure the border between Jordan and its neigh-
bors Syria and Iraq. 
SEC. 4. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that expeditious consider-
ation of certifications of letters of offer to sell defense arti-
cles, defense services, design and construction services, 
and major defense equipment to the Hashemite Kingdom 
of Jordan under section 36(b) of the Arms Export Control 
Act (22 U.S.C. 2776(b)) is fully consistent with United 
States security and foreign policy interests and the objec-
tives of world peace and security. 
SEC. 5. ENHANCED DEFENSE COOPERATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—For the 3-year period beginning 
on the date of the enactment of this Act, the Hashemite 
Kingdom of Jordan shall be treated as if it were a country 
listed in the provisions of law described in subsection (b) 
for purposes of applying and administering such provi-
sions of law.
(b) PROVISIONS OF LAW.—The provisions of law de-
scribed in this subsection are the following provisions of 
the Arms Export Control Act: 
(1) Subsections (b)(2), (d)(2)(B), (d)(3)(A)(i), 
and (d)(5) of section 3 (22 U.S.C. 2753). 
(2) Subsections (e)(2)(A), (h)(1)(A), (h)(2) of 
section 21 (22 U.S.C. 2761). 
(3) Subsections (b)(1), (b)(2), (b)(6), (c), and 
(d)(2)(A) of section 36 (22 U.S.C. 2776). 
(4) Section 62(c)(1) (22 U.S.C. 2796a(c)(1)). 
(5) Section 63(a)(2) (22 U.S.C. 2796b(a)(2)). 
SEC. 6. MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING. 
The Secretary of State is authorized, subject to the 
availability of appropriations, to enter into a Memo-
randum of Understanding with the Hashemite Kingdom 
of Jordan to increase economic support funds, military co-
operation, including joint military exercises, personnel ex-
changes, support for international peacekeeping missions, 
and enhanced strategic dialogue. 
Passed the House of Representatives July 7, 2015. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 907 
AN ACT 
To improve defense cooperation between the United 
States and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.