Title: Nuclear Security and Nonproliferation Accounting Act
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
Nuclear Security and Nonproliferation Accounting Act
This bill directs the Government Accountability Office to annually report to Congress an assessment of the budgets for nuclear-security and nuclear-nonproliferation programs in the President's budget for that fiscal year. The report shall include (1) assessments of any changes in budget estimates from the previous fiscal year; and (2) recommendations for developing new metrics for evaluating such programs, as appropriate.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4185 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4185

  To direct the Comptroller General of the United States to submit to 
 Congress annual reports on the budget for international and domestic 
 nuclear security and nuclear nonproliferation programs of the United 
                                States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 13, 2019

Mr. Panetta (for himself and Mr. Fleischmann) introduced the following 
      bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Comptroller General of the United States to submit to 
 Congress annual reports on the budget for international and domestic 
 nuclear security and nuclear nonproliferation programs of the United 
                                States.

    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 ``Nuclear Security and 
Nonproliferation Accounting Act''.

SEC. 2. ANNUAL REPORTS ON NUCLEAR SECURITY AND NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION 
              PROGRAM BUDGETS.

    (a) Reports by Government Accountability Office.--Not later than 
270 days after the date on which the President submits to Congress the 
budget pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, for 
fiscal year 2021 and each fiscal year thereafter, the Comptroller 
General of the United States shall submit to the appropriate 
congressional committees a report on the budgets for nuclear security 
and nuclear nonproliferation programs contained in such budget 
submitted by the President.
    (b) Matters Included.--The report under subsection (a) shall 
include the following with respect to the budget of the President 
covered by the report:
            (1) A summary, at the program level, of all of the funding 
        provided for the nuclear security and nuclear nonproliferation 
        programs of the Department of Defense, the Department of State, 
        the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Justice, the 
        Department of Commerce, the Department of Energy, the 
        Department of Homeland Security, the Nuclear Regulatory 
        Commission, and the Office of the Director of National 
        Intelligence.
            (2) A summary of the budget for each nuclear security and 
        nuclear nonproliferation program of the elements of the Federal 
        Government specified in paragraph (1).
            (3) An assessment of--
                    (A) any changes in the budget estimates for nuclear 
                security and nuclear nonproliferation programs between 
                the previous fiscal year and the fiscal year covered by 
                such budget;
                    (B) redundancies with respect to nuclear security 
                and nuclear nonproliferation programs that may exist in 
                the Federal Government;
                    (C) how accurately budget estimates have 
                anticipated funds expended on nuclear security and 
                nuclear nonproliferation programs; and
                    (D) how funds for nuclear security and nuclear 
                nonproliferation programs that are not obligated or 
                expended for the purpose for which they are 
                appropriated are transferred or reprogrammed.
            (4) Recommendations, as appropriate, for the development of 
        new metrics to evaluate Federal nuclear security and nuclear 
        nonproliferation programs.
    (c) Form.--Each report under subsection (a) shall be submitted in 
unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.
    (d) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
        ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
                    (A) the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee 
                on Armed Services, the Committee on the Budget, the 
                Committee on Energy and Commerce, the Committee on 
                Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Homeland Security 
                of the House of Representatives; and
                    (B) the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee 
                on Armed Services, the Committee on the Budget, the 
                Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, the 
                Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Committee on 
                Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the 
                Senate.
            (2) Nuclear security and nuclear nonproliferation 
        program.--The term ``nuclear security and nuclear 
        nonproliferation program'' means a program of the Federal 
        Government with the goal of--
                    (A) preventing nuclear and radiological terrorism;
                    (B) preventing nuclear proliferation;
                    (C) implementing arms control agreements;
                    (D) stopping illicit transfers of nuclear 
                technology;
                    (E) screening cargo at domestic and international 
                ports;
                    (F) researching and developing tools and strategies 
                to address future non-proliferation activities; or
                    (G) supporting any other activity involving the 
                security of nuclear and radiological materials.
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