[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2370 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2370

 To provide procedures for the contribution of volunteer United States 
         military personnel to international peace operations.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 8, 1994

  Mr. Simon (for himself, Mr. Pell, Mr. Reid, Mr. Boren, Ms. Moseley-
Braun, and Mr. Jeffords) introduced the following bill; which was read 
         twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide procedures for the contribution of volunteer United States 
         military personnel to international peace operations.

    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 ``International Peace Operations 
Support Act of 1994''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) With the end of the Cold War, the United States is 
        clearly the undisputed world economic and military leader and 
        as such bears major international responsibilities.
            (2) Threats to the long-term security and well-being of the 
        United States no longer derive primarily from the risk of 
        external military aggression against the United States or its 
        closest treaty allies but in large measure derive from 
        instability from a variety of causes: population movements, 
        ethnic and regional conflicts including genocide against ethnic 
        and religious groups, famine, terrorism, narcotics trafficking, 
        and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
            (3) To address such threats, the United States has 
        increasingly turned to the United Nations and other 
        international peace operations, which at times offer the best 
        and most cost-effective way to prevent, contain, and resolve 
        such problems.
            (4) In numerous crisis situations, most recently the 
        massacres in Rwanda, the United Nations has been unable to 
        respond with peace operations in a swift manner.
            (5) The Secretary-General of the United Nations has asked 
        member states to identify in advance units which are available 
        for contribution to international peace operations under the 
        auspices of the United Nations in order to create a rapid 
        response capability.
            (6) United States participation and leadership in the 
        initiative of the Secretary-General is critical to leveraging 
        contributions from other nations and, in that way, limiting the 
        United States share of the burden and helping the United 
        Nations to achieve success.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    For purposes of this Act--
            (1) the term ``appropriate congressional consultation'' 
        means consultation as described in section 3 of the War Powers 
        Resolution; and
            (2) the term ``international peace operations'' means any 
        such operation carried out under chapter VI or chapter VII of 
        the United Nations Charter or under the auspices of the 
        Organization of American States.

SEC. 4. REPORT ON PLAN TO ORGANIZE VOLUNTEER UNITS.

    Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 
the President shall submit a report to the Congress setting forth--
            (1) a plan for--
                    (A) organizing into units of the Armed Forces a 
                contingency force of up to 3,000 personnel, comprised 
                of current active-duty military personnel, who 
                volunteer additionally and specifically to serve in 
                international peace operations and who receive added 
                compensation for such service;
                    (B) recruiting personnel to serve in such units; 
                and
                    (C) providing training to such personnel which is 
                appropriate to such operations; and
            (2) proposed procedures to implement such plan.

SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION.

    (a) In General.--Upon approval by the United Nations Security 
Council of an international peace operation, the President, after 
appropriate congressional consultation, is authorized to make 
immediately available for such operations those units of the Armed 
Forces of the United States which are organized under section 4(1)(A).
    (b) Termination of Use of United States Armed Forces.--(1) Subject 
to paragraph (2), the President may terminate United States 
participation in international peace operations at any time and take 
whatever actions he deems necessary to protect United States forces.
    (2) Notwithstanding section 5(b) of the War Powers Resolution, not 
later than 180 days after a Presidential report is submitted or 
required to be submitted under section 4(a) of the War Powers 
Resolution in connection with the participation of the Armed Forces of 
the United States in an international peace operation, the President 
shall terminate any use of the Armed Forces with respect to which such 
report was submitted or required to be submitted, unless the Congress 
has extended by law such 180-day period.

SEC. 6. AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.

    Funds available to the Department of Defense are authorized to be 
available to carry out section 5(a).

SEC. 7. WAR POWERS RESOLUTION REQUIREMENTS.

    Except as otherwise provided, this Act does not supersede the 
requirements of the War Powers Resolution.
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