[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2194 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2194

  To amend the Arms Export Control Act to provide the President with 
discretionary authority to impose nuclear non-proliferation controls on 
                           a foreign country.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 19, 1998

  Mr. Roberts introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Arms Export Control Act to provide the President with 
discretionary authority to impose nuclear non-proliferation controls on 
                           a foreign country.

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

SECTION 1. PRESIDENTIAL AUTHORITY TO IMPOSE NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION 
              CONTROLS.

    (a) Amendment of the Arms Export Control Act.--
            (1) Reprocessing transfers; illegal exports.--Section 
        102(a) of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2799aa-1(a)) 
        is amended by striking ``no funds'' and all that follows 
        through ``making guarantees,'' and inserting the following: 
        ``the President may suspend or terminate the provision of 
        economic assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
        (including economic support fund assistance under chapter 4 of 
        part II of that Act) or military assistance, grant military 
        education and training, or peacekeeping assistance under part 
        II of that Act, or the extension of military credits or the 
        making of guarantees under the Arms Export Control Act,''.
            (2) Transfer or use of nuclear explosive devices.--Section 
        102(b) of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2799aa-1(b)) 
        is amended--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``shall forthwith 
                impose'' and inserting ``may impose'';
                    (B) by striking paragraphs (4), (5), and (7);
                    (C) by redesignating paragraphs (6) and (8) as 
                paragraphs (4) and (5), respectively; and
                    (D) by amending paragraph (4) (as redesignated) to 
                read as follows:
    ``(4) If the President decides to impose any sanction against a 
country under paragraph (1)(C) or (1)(D), the President shall forthwith 
so inform that country and shall impose the sanction beginning 30 days 
after submitting to Congress the report required by paragraph (1) 
unless, and to the extent that, there is enacted during the 30-day 
period a law prohibiting the imposition of that sanction.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply to determinations made by the President before, on, or after the 
date of enactment of this Act.
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