[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4730-S4731]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2386. Ms. ERNST (for herself and Ms. Rosen) submitted an amendment 
intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 4638, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2025 for military activities of the 
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense 
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel 
strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle F of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. __. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS.

       (a) In General.--Chapter 2 of title 10, United States Code, 
     is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

     ``Sec. 120a. Department of Defense international agreements

       ``(a) Transmittal of Agreements to Congress.--
       ``(1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
     Secretary of Defense shall transmit to Congress the text of 
     any covered international agreement (including the text of 
     any oral covered international agreement, which agreement 
     shall be reduced to writing) as soon as practicable after 
     such agreement has entered into force with respect to the 
     United States but in no event later than 60 days thereafter.
       ``(2) Exception.--Any covered international agreement the 
     immediate public disclosure of which would, in the opinion of 
     the President, be prejudicial to the national security of the 
     United States shall not be transmitted to Congress under 
     paragraph (1) but shall be transmitted to the Committee on 
     Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed 
     Services of the House of Representatives under an appropriate 
     injunction of secrecy to be removed only upon due notice from 
     the President.
       ``(b) Transmittal of Agreements to Secretary of State.--The 
     Secretary of Defense shall transmit to the Secretary of State 
     the text of any covered international agreement entered into 
     by the Secretary of Defense on behalf of the United States 
     not later than 20 days after such agreement has been signed.
       ``(c) Annual Report Required.--Not later than March 1, 
     2025, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of Defense 
     shall, under the signature of the Secretary, transmit to the 
     Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee 
     on Armed Services of the House of Representatives a report 
     that includes the following:
       ``(1) An identification of each covered international 
     agreement that, during the one-year period preceding the date 
     on which the report is submitted, was transmitted to Congress 
     after the expiration of the 60-day period referred to in 
     subsection (a), and a full and complete description of the 
     reasons for each late transmittal.
       ``(2) An identification of any agreements in force with 
     respect to the United States that will expire during the two-
     year period beginning on the date on which the report is 
     submitted, and a status update for each such agreement.
       ``(d) Covered International Agreement Defined.--In this 
     section, the term `covered

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     international agreement' means an international agreement--
       ``(1) that is not a treaty;
       ``(2) to which the United States is a party; and
       ``(3) to which any other party is a country--
       ``(A) where members of the armed forces are stationed on a 
     permanent or rotational basis; or
       ``(B) that will be used by the Department of Defense for 
     training purposes.''.
       (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the 
     beginning of chapter 2 of such title is amended by adding at 
     the end the following new item:

``120a. Department of Defense international agreements.''.
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