S.Amdt. 2386

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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