[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 287 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 287

 To enhance the energy security of United States allies, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 13, 2015

 Mr. Turner (for himself, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Mr. Bridenstine, Mr. Kelly 
of Pennsylvania, Mr. Duncan of South Carolina, Mr. Schock, Mr. Pearce, 
 Mr. Latta, Mr. Stivers, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Farenthold, Mr. Franks of 
Arizona, Mr. Lance, Mr. McClintock, Mr. Conaway, Mr. Sensenbrenner, Mr. 
   Dent, Mr. Bishop of Utah, Mr. McCaul, Mr. Lamborn, Mr. Lucas, Mr. 
 Gibbs, Mr. Chabot, Mr. Marino, Mr. Schweikert, Ms. Jenkins of Kansas, 
  Mr. Zinke, Mr. Westerman, Mr. Palazzo, Mr. Kline, Mr. Barletta, Mr. 
Tipton, Mr. Johnson of Ohio, Mr. Mullin, Mr. Pittenger, and Mr. Salmon) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To enhance the energy security of United States allies, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``American Job Creation and Strategic 
Alliances LNG Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    Section 3(c) of the Natural Gas Act (15 U.S.C. 717b(c)) is 
amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``For purposes'';
            (2) by striking ``a nation with which there is in effect a 
        free trade agreement requiring national treatment for trade in 
        natural gas'' and inserting ``a World Trade Organization member 
        nation''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(2) For purposes of this subsection, the term `World Trade 
Organization member nation' means a country described in section 2(10) 
of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (19 U.S.C. 3501(10)).''.

SEC. 3. PENDING APPLICATIONS.

    The amendments made by section 2 shall apply with respect to 
applications for the authorization to export natural gas under section 
3 of the Natural Gas Act (15 U.S.C. 717b) that are pending on, or filed 
on or after, the date of enactment of this Act.
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