Title: Civil Deployment Notification Act of 2020
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Civil Deployment Notification Act of 2020
This bill requires the President to provide Congress with notice of intent to use militia and armed forces to suppress an insurrection in a state or to enforce federal authority and a justification for exercising such authority. The bill provides that the President's authority to use such military force expires 14 days after it is exercised unless Congress enacts an extension of such authority.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7215 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7215

  To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for congressional 
  notice and termination requirements for use of authority under the 
               Insurrection Act, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 15, 2020

    Mr. Keating (for himself, Mrs. Trahan, Ms. Dean, Mr. Casten of 
Illinois, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Himes, Mr. Gonzalez of Texas, and Ms. Jackson 
Lee) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
                           on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for congressional 
  notice and termination requirements for use of authority under the 
               Insurrection Act, 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 ``Civil Deployment Notification Act of 
2020.''

SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION AND TERMINATION REQUIREMENTS FOR USE 
              OF AUTHORITY UNDER INSURRECTION ACT.

    (a) Federal Aid for State Governments.--Section 251 of title 10, 
United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Whenever'' and inserting ``(a) In 
        General.--Subject to section 256 of this title and subsection 
        (b), whenever''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsections:
    ``(b) Notification Requirement.--The President may only exercise 
the authority under subsection (a) after submitting to the appropriate 
members of Congress notice of the intent to exercise such authority 
together with the justification of the President for exercising such 
authority.
    ``(c) Appropriate Members of Congress.--In this section, the term 
`appropriate members of Congress' means--
            ``(1) the chair and ranking minority member of--
                    ``(A) the Committees on Armed Services of the 
                Senate and House of Representatives;
                    ``(B) the Committee on Homeland Security of the 
                House of Representatives;
                    ``(C) the Committee on Homeland Security and 
                Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and
                    ``(D) the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate 
                and House of Representatives;
            ``(2) the Speaker and minority leader of the House of 
        Representatives;
            ``(3) the majority and minority leaders of the Senate; and
            ``(4) such other member or members of the congressional 
        leadership as may be included by the President.''.
    (b) Use of Militia and Armed Forces To Enforce Federal Authority.--
Section 252 of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Whenever'' and inserting ``(a) In 
        General.--Subject to section 256 of this title and subsection 
        (b), whenever''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsections:
    ``(b) Notification Requirement.--The President may only exercise 
the authority under subsection (a) after submitting to the appropriate 
members of Congress notice of the intent to exercise such authority 
together with the justification of the President for exercising such 
authority.
    ``(c) Appropriate Members of Congress.--In this section, the term 
`appropriate members of Congress' means--
            ``(1) the chair and ranking minority member of--
                    ``(A) the Committees on Armed Services of the 
                Senate and House of Representatives;
                    ``(B) the Committee on Homeland Security of the 
                House of Representatives;
                    ``(C) the Committee on Homeland Security and 
                Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and
                    ``(D) the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate 
                and House of Representatives;
            ``(2) the Speaker and minority leader of the House of 
        Representatives;
            ``(3) the majority and minority leaders of the Senate; and
            ``(4) such other member or members of the congressional 
        leadership as may be included by the President.''.
    (c) Use of Militia and Armed Forces To Enforce Federal Authority.--
Section 253 of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``The President'' and inserting ``(a) In 
        General.--(1) Subject to section 256 of this title and 
        subsection (b), the President'';
            (2) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as 
        subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively;
            (3) by inserting ``(2)'' before ``In any situation'';
            (4) by striking ``clause (1)'' and inserting ``paragraph 
        (1)(A)''; and
            (5) by adding at the end the following new subsections:
    ``(b) Notification Requirement.--The President may only exercise 
the authority under subsection (a) after submitting to the appropriate 
members of Congress notice of the intent to exercise such authority 
together with the justification of the President for exercising such 
authority.
    ``(c) Appropriate Members of Congress.--In this section, the term 
`appropriate members of Congress' means--
            ``(1) the chair and ranking minority member of--
                    ``(A) the Committees on Armed Services of the 
                Senate and House of Representatives;
                    ``(B) the Committee on Homeland Security of the 
                House of Representatives;
                    ``(C) the Committee on Homeland Security and 
                Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and
                    ``(D) the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate 
                and House of Representatives;
            ``(2) the Speaker and minority leader of the House of 
        Representatives;
            ``(3) the majority and minority leaders of the Senate; and
            ``(4) such other member or members of the congressional 
        leadership as may be included by the President.''.
    (d) Termination.--
            (1) In general.--Chapter 13 of title 10, United States 
        Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
        section:
``Sec. 256. Termination of authority
    ``Authority exercised under section 251, 252, or 253 of this title 
shall terminate on the date that is 14 days after the first day on 
which such authority is exercised unless such authority is specifically 
extended pursuant to the enactment of a law or joint resolution.''.
            (2) Clerical amendment.--The table of sections at the 
        beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after the 
        item relating to section 255 the following new item:

``256. Termination of authority.''.
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