Title: Allied Burden Sharing Report Act of 2018
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
Allied Burden Sharing Report Act of 2018
This bill directs the Department of Defense to submit an annual report to Congress describing:

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3198 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3198

    To require annual reports on allied contributions to the common 
                    defense, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 11, 2018

    Mr. Lee introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require annual reports on allied contributions to the common 
                    defense, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Allied Burden Sharing Report Act of 
2018''.

SEC. 2. FINDING; SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    (a) Finding.--Congress finds that section 1003 of the Department of 
Defense Authorization Act, 1985 (Public Law 98-525; 63 Stat. 2241)--
            (1) expresses the sense of Congress that, due to threats 
        that are ever-changing, Congress must be informed with respect 
        to allied contributions to the common defense to properly 
        assess the readiness of the United States and allied nations 
        for threats; and
            (2) requires the Secretary of Defense to submit to Congress 
        an annual report on the contributions of allies to the common 
        defense.
    (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) the threats facing the United States--
                    (A) extend beyond the global war on terror; and
                    (B) include near-peer threats; and
            (2) the President should seek from each allied nation 
        acceptance of international security responsibilities and 
        agreements to make contributions to the common defense 
        commensurate with the economic resources and security 
        environment of such allied nation.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Allied nation.--The term ``allied nation'' means--
                    (A) each member state of the North Atlantic Treaty 
                Organization;
                    (B) Australia;
                    (C) Japan;
                    (D) South Korea;
                    (E) New Zealand; and
                    (F) each member state of the Gulf Cooperation 
                Council.
            (2) Appropriate committees of congress.--The term 
        ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means--
                    (A) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee 
                on Foreign Relations, and the Committee on 
                Appropriations of the Senate; and
                    (B) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee 
                on Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Appropriations 
                of the House of Representatives.
            (3) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of Defense.

SEC. 4. REPORTS ON ALLIED CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COMMON DEFENSE.

    (a) In General.--Not later than March 1 each year, the Secretary, 
in coordination with the heads of other Federal agencies, as the 
Secretary determines to be necessary, shall submit to the appropriate 
committees of Congress a report containing a description of--
            (1) the annual defense spending by each allied nation, 
        including available data on nominal budget figures and defense 
        spending as a percentage of the gross domestic products of such 
        allied nations for the fiscal year immediately preceding the 
        fiscal year in which the report is submitted;
            (2) the activities of each such allied nation to contribute 
        to military or stability operations in which the Armed Forces 
        of the United States are a participant;
            (3) any limitations placed by any such allied nation on the 
        use of such contributions; and
            (4) any actions undertaken by the United States or by other 
        countries to minimize such limitations.
    (b) Form.--Each report under subsection (a) shall be submitted in 
unclassified form, but may contain a classified annex.
    (c) Availability.--A report submitted under subsection (a) shall be 
made available on request to any Member of Congress.
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