[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4920 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4920

 To provide for the continued applicability of the requirements of the 
                    ABM Treaty to the United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 12, 2002

  Ms. Lee (for herself, Mr. Kucinich, and Ms. Woolsey) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on International 
                               Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for the continued applicability of the requirements of the 
                    ABM Treaty to the United States.

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

SECTION 1. CODIFICATION OF ABM TREATY REQUIREMENTS.

    (a) Codification.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
requirements contained in Articles I through XII of the ABM Treaty (as 
in force with respect to the United States on June 12, 2002) shall 
continue to apply with respect to the United States beginning on and 
after the date of the enactment of this Act.
    (b) Definition.--In this section, the term ``ABM Treaty'' means the 
Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet 
Socialist Republics on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile 
Systems, signed at Moscow on May 26, 1972 (23 UST 3435), and includes 
the Protocol to that Treaty, signed at Moscow on July 3, 1974 (27 UST 
1645).
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