Title: LIMIT Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Limitations on the Insurrection act including Mechanisms for Invoking its Termination Act or the LIMIT Act
This bill provides that the authorities for federal aid to state governments, use of militia and armed forces to enforce federal authority, and interference with state and federal law under the Insurrection Act may only be exercised after the President declares a national emergency under the National Emergencies Act applicable to the situation for which any such authority is exercised. The bill prohibits the exercise of an authority if the national emergency has been terminated.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7124 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7124

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 8, 2020

  Mr. Brown of Maryland (for himself, Mr. Khanna, Ms. Norton, Mr. Ted 
  Lieu of California, and Mr. Moulton) 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 additional 
 requirements for the 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 ``Limitations on the Insurrection act 
including Mechanisms for Invoking its Termination Act'' or the ``LIMIT 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR USE OF AUTHORITY UNDER INSURRECTION 
              ACT.

    (a) Additional Requirements.--
            (1) In general.--Chapter 13 of title 10, United States 
        Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
        section:
``Sec. 256. Requirements for use of authority
    ``The authority under section 251, 252, or 253 of this title--
            ``(1) may only be exercised after the President declares a 
        national emergency under the National Emergencies Act (50 
        U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) applicable to the situation for which the 
        authority is exercised; and
            ``(2) may not be exercised if the national emergency has 
        been terminated.''.
            (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. Requirements for use of authority.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--Such chapter is further amended--
            (1) in section 251, by striking ``Whenever'' and inserting 
        ``Subject to the requirements under section 256 of this title, 
        whenever'';
            (2) in section 252, by striking ``Whenever'' and inserting 
        ``Subject to the requirements under section 256 of this title, 
        whenever''; and
            (3) in section 253, by striking ``The President'' and 
        inserting ``Subject to the requirements under section 256 of 
        this title, the President''.
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