Title: Container Missile Notification Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Container Missile Notification Act
This bill requires the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to notify Congress if the intelligence community receives intelligence that Russia, China, Iran, or North Korea is deploying (or about to deploy) a missile launcher disguised as or concealed in a shipping container. Currently, ODNI is only required to notify Congress about intelligence that Russia is deploying the Club-K container missile system.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8267 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8267

  To amend the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 to 
   ensure that Congress is notified of the deployment or transfer of 
        containerized missile systems by Russia, China, or Iran.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 1, 2022

 Mr. Fallon (for himself and Mr. Himes) introduced the following bill; 
  which was referred to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 to 
   ensure that Congress is notified of the deployment or transfer of 
        containerized missile systems by Russia, China, or Iran.

    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 ``Container Missile Notification 
Act''.

SEC. 2. NOTICE OF DEPLOYMENT OR TRANSFER OF CONTAINERIZED MISSILE 
              SYSTEMS BY RUSSIA, CHINA, OR IRAN.

    Section 501 of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2016 (division M of Public Law 114-113; 129 Stat. 2923) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``the Russian Federation'' each place it 
        appears and inserting ``a covered country'';
            (2) by striking ``Club-K container missile system'' each 
        place it appears and inserting ``missile launcher disguised as 
        or concealed in a shipping container'';
            (3) in subsection (a)(1)--
                    (A) by striking ``deploy, the'' and inserting 
                ``deploy, a''; and
                    (B) by striking ``the Russian military'' and 
                inserting ``the military of the covered country'';
            (4) by striking subsection (c) and inserting the following 
        new subsection:
    ``(c) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
        `appropriate congressional committees' means the following:
                    ``(A) The congressional intelligence committees.
                    ``(B) The Committees on Armed Services of the House 
                of Representatives and the Senate.
                    ``(C) The Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House 
                of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign 
                Relations of the Senate.
            ``(2) Covered country.--The term `covered country' means 
        the following:
                    ``(A) Russia.
                    ``(B) China.
                    ``(C) Iran.
                    ``(D) North Korea.''; and
            (5) in the heading, by striking ``club-k container missile 
        system by the russian federation'' and inserting 
        ``containerized missile system by russia or certain other 
        countries''.
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