Container Missile Notification Act

Bill: 117-hr-8267
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Fallon, Pat [R-TX-4]
Introduced: 2022-07-01
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Latest action: action_date: 2022-07-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select).

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-07-01
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Container Missile Notification Act</b></p> <p>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.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8267 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 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Container Missile Notification Act . 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 .