Title: INF Treaty Compliance Act of 2019
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
INF Treaty Compliance Act of 2019
This bill prohibits the Department of Defense from using funds to test, procure, or field any missile that would be prohibited under the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles. (The President announced in February 2019 that he intends to withdraw the United States from the treaty, commonly referred to as the "INF Treaty.")

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1249 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1249

To prohibit the Secretary of Defense from obligating or expending funds 
                 for missiles banned by the INF Treaty.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 14, 2019

   Ms. Gabbard (for herself, Ms. Omar, Mr. McGovern, and Mr. Pocan) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
 Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case 
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of 
                        the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the Secretary of Defense from obligating or expending funds 
                 for missiles banned by the INF Treaty.

    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 ``INF Treaty Compliance Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. STATEMENT OF POLICY.

    It is the policy of the United States to uphold the Treaty on the 
Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, entered into force with respect 
to the United States on March 5, 1970, which commits the United States 
as a State Party ``to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective 
measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early 
date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and 
complete disarmament under strict and effective international 
control'', including through such measures as the INF Treaty.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR MISSILES BANNED BY THE 
              INF TREATY.

    (a) Prohibition.--None of the funds authorized to be appropriated 
or otherwise made available for the Department of Defense for fiscal 
year 2020 or any fiscal year thereafter may be obligated or expended 
for the testing and evaluation, procurement, or fielding of any missile 
prohibited under the INF Treaty (as if such treaty is in force).
    (b) Definitions.--In this Act:
            (1) The term ``INF Treaty'' means the Treaty Between the 
        United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist 
        Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and 
        Shorter-Range Missiles, commonly referred to as the 
        ``Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty'', signed at 
        Washington December 8, 1987, and entered into force June 1, 
        1988.
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