[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5072-S5073]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2847. Mr. HICKENLOOPER submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed by him 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 appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. PERIODIC NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATES ON CERTAIN 
                   EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE.

       Title XI of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 
     3231 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following 
     new section (and conforming the table of contents at the 
     beginning of such Act accordingly):

     ``SEC. 1115. PERIODIC NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATES ON 
                   CERTAIN EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE.

       ``(a) Requirement.--Not later than the date that is 4 years 
     after the date of the enactment of this section, and on a 
     basis that is not less frequent than once every 4 years 
     thereafter, the Director of National Intelligence, acting 
     through the National Intelligence Council, shall--
       ``(1) produce a National Intelligence Estimate on the 
     national security and economic security effects of climate 
     change; and
       ``(2) submit to the congressional intelligence committees 
     such National Intelligence Estimate.
       ``(b) Form.--Each National Intelligence Estimate under 
     subsection (a)(2) may be submitted in classified form, but if 
     so submitted, shall include an unclassified executive 
     summary.''.

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