Title: Preserving Arms Control Treaties (PACT) Act of 2019
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
Preserving Arms Control Treaties (PACT) Act of 2019
This bill prohibits the use of funds to take any action that would violate the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty) during the six-month withdrawal period that started after the United States provided notice of its intention to withdraw from the treaty on February 2, 2019.
During the six-month period, the Department of State shall periodically report to Congress on (1) U.S. efforts to bring Russia into compliance with the INF Treaty during the withdrawal period, (2) the status of the development of various Russian missile systems that would fall under the INF Treaty, and (3) the status of negotiations of the new arms control proposal the President referenced in his State of the Union Address on February 5, 2019.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 705 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 705

To prohibit the use of funds to take any action that would constitute a 
   violation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty for the 
 duration of the six-month withdrawal period from the INF Treaty, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 7, 2019

 Mr. Van Hollen (for himself, Ms. Warren, Mr. Markey, Mr. Sanders, Ms. 
 Klobuchar, Ms. Smith, and Ms. Harris) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the use of funds to take any action that would constitute a 
   violation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty for the 
 duration of the six-month withdrawal period from the INF Treaty, 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 ``Preserving Arms Control Treaties 
(PACT) Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS TO TAKE ACTIONS THAT WOULD 
              CONSTITUTE VIOLATIONS OF THE INTERMEDIATE-RANGE NUCLEAR 
              FORCES TREATY DURING THE SIX-MONTH WITHDRAWAL PERIOD FROM 
              THE TREATY.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds may be 
obligated or expended to take any action that would constitute a 
violation of the INF Treaty for the duration of the six-month 
withdrawal period under the Treaty, effective as of February 2, 2019.

SEC. 3. REPORT ON INF TREATY WITHDRAWAL.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 30 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, and every 30 days thereafter during the six-
month withdrawal period described in section (2), the Secretary of 
State, in concurrence with the Secretary of Defense and the Director of 
National Intelligence, shall submit to the appropriate committees of 
Congress a report that includes the following elements:
            (1) A description of diplomatic, economic, and INF-
        compliant military measures that the United States has 
        undertaken in order to bring the Russian Federation back into 
        compliance during the six-month withdrawal period, including 
        consultations with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) 
        allies.
            (2) A description of the status of the development of the 
        Russian Federation's GLCM (SSC-8) and any other INF-range 
        systems, their capabilities, current deployment levels, and the 
        threat they may pose to the United States European and Asian 
        allies and assets in the region.
            (3) A formal, detailed description of the arms control 
        proposal that the President referenced in his State of the 
        Union Address on February 5, 2019, and the status of any offer 
        to convene the party or parties therein referenced to negotiate 
        the terms of a new agreement.
    (b) Form of Report.--The report required under subsection (a) shall 
be unclassified with a classified annex if necessary.

SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Appropriate committees of congress.--the term 
        ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means--
                    (A) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the 
                Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee on 
                Appropriations of the Senate; and
                    (B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee 
                on Armed Services, and the Committee on Appropriations 
                of the House of Representatives.
            (2) INF treaty.--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, together with the Memorandum 
        of Understanding and Two Protocols, signed at Washington 
        December 8, 1987, and entered into force June 1, 1988.
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