[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.4

                       One Hundred Sixth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
   the sixth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine


                                 An Act


 
To declare it to be the policy of the United States to deploy a national 
                            missile defense.

    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 ``National Missile Defense Act of 
1999''.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE POLICY.

    It is the policy of the United States to deploy as soon as is 
technologically possible an effective National Missile Defense system 
capable of defending the territory of the United States against limited 
ballistic missile attack (whether accidental, unauthorized, or 
deliberate) with funding subject to the annual authorization of 
appropriations and the annual appropriation of funds for National 
Missile Defense.

SEC. 3. POLICY ON REDUCTION OF RUSSIAN NUCLEAR FORCES.

    It is the policy of the United States to seek continued negotiated 
reductions in Russian nuclear forces.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.