[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 383 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 383

  To provide for the establishment of policy on the deployment by the 
   United States of an antiballistic missile system and of advanced 
                    theater missile defense systems.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

            February 10 (legislative day, January 30), 1995

 Mr. Thurmond (for himself, Mr. Kyl, Mr. Smith, Mr. Lott, Mr. Inhofe, 
 Mr. McCain, and Mr. Kempthorne) introduced the following bill; which 
     was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide for the establishment of policy on the deployment by the 
   United States of an antiballistic missile system and of advanced 
                    theater missile defense systems.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. STATEMENT OF POLICY.

    It shall be the policy of the United States to--
            (1) deploy at the earliest practical date an antiballistic 
        missile system that is capable of providing a highly effective 
        defense of the United States against ballistic missile attacks; 
        and
            (2) provide at the earliest practical date highly effective 
        theater missile defenses (TMDs) to forward-deployed and 
        expeditionary elements of the Armed Forces of the United States 
        and to friendly forces and allies of the United States.

SEC. 2. ACTIONS OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE.

    (a) ABM Systems.--The Secretary of Defense shall develop for 
deployment at the earliest practical date a cost-effective, 
operationally effective antiballistic missile system designed to 
protect the United States against ballistic missile attacks.
    (b) Advanced Theater Missile Defenses.--The Secretary of Defense 
shall develop for deployment at the earliest practical date advanced 
theater missile defense systems.

SEC. 3. REPORT TO CONGRESS.

    (a) Requirement.--Not later than 60 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the 
congressional defense committees a plan for the deployment of an 
antiballistic missile system pursuant to section 2(a) and for the 
deployment of theater missile defense systems pursuant to section 2(b).
    (b) Congressional Defense Committees.--For purposes of this 
section, the term ``congressional defense committees'' means--
            (1) the Committee on National Security and the Committee on 
        Appropriations of the House of Representatives; and
            (2) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
        Appropriations of the Senate.
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