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S. 497 (IS) - Landmine Elimination and Victim Assistance Act of 2001
- Category
- Bills and Statutes
- Collection
- Congressional Bills
- SuDoc Class Number
- Y 1.6:
Y 1.4/1:
- Congress Number
- 107th Congress
- Congress Session
- 1st Session
- Last Action Date Listed
- March 8, 2001
- Action
- Mr. Leahy (for himself, Ms. Collins, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Conrad, Mr. Specter, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. McConnell, Mr. Dorgan, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Sarbanes, Mr. Jeffords, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Torricelli, Ms. Mikulski, Mr. Reed, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Feingold, and Mr. Durbin) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services
- Bill Number
- S. 497
- Bill Version
- Introduced in Senate (IS)
- Short Title
- Landmine Elimination and Victim Assistance Act of 2001
- Full Title
- To express the sense of Congress that the Department of Defense should field currently available weapons, other technologies, tactics and operational concepts that provide suitable alternatives to anti- personnel mines and mixed anti-tank mine systems and that the United States should end its use of such mines and join the Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines as soon as possible, to expand support for mine action programs including mine victim assistance, and for other purposes.
- Sponsors
- Patrick J. Leahy(VT)
- Cosponsors
- Susan M. Collins (ME); Jeff Bingaman (NM); Mike Crapo (ID); Kent Conrad (ND); Arlen Specter (PA); Dianne Feinstein (CA); John D. Rockefeller IV (WV); Mitch McConnell (KY); Byron L. Dorgan (ND); John F. Kerry (MA); Paul S. Sarbanes (MD); James M. Jeffords (VT); Tom Harkin (IA); Robert G. Torricelli (NJ); Barbara A. Mikulski (MD); Jack Reed (RI); Patty Murray (WA); Russell D. Feingold (WI); Richard J. Durbin (IL)
- Committees
- Committee on Armed Services (Standing)
- United States Code Reference
- 22 U.S.C. 2778note