[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 827 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 827

     To provide for nuclear disarmament and economic conversion in 
 accordance with District of Columbia Initiative Measure Number 37 of 
                                 1993.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 25, 1997

  Ms. Norton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
  Committee on National Security, and in addition to the Committee on 
International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
     To provide for nuclear disarmament and economic conversion in 
 accordance with District of Columbia Initiative Measure Number 37 of 
                                 1993.

    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 ``Nuclear Disarmament and Economic 
Conversion Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT AND ECONOMIC CONVERSION.

    The United States Government--
            (1) shall disable and dismantle all its nuclear weapons and 
        refrain from replacing them at any time with any weapons of 
        mass destruction;
            (2) shall undertake vigorous good faith efforts to 
        eliminate war, armed conflict, and all military operations;
            (3) shall actively promote policies to induce all other 
        countries to join in these commitments for peace on earth; and
            (4) shall redirect resources that are currently being used 
        for nuclear weapons programs to use--
                    (A) in converting all nuclear weapons industry 
                employees, processes, plants, and programs smoothly to 
                constructive, ecologically beneficial peacetime 
                activities during the 3 years following the effective 
                date of this Act, and
                    (B) in addressing human needs such as housing, 
                health care, education, agriculture, and environmental 
                restoration.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act shall take effect when the President certifies to the 
Congress that all foreign countries possessing nuclear weapons have 
established legal requirements comparable to those set forth in section 
2 and those requirements have taken effect.
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