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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 1187 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To require the release to the public of all documents, reports, and other |
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| 6 | 6 | | records relating to unidentified anomalous phenomena, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | FEBRUARY11, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. B |
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| 10 | 10 | | URCHETTintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 11 | 11 | | Committee on Oversight and Government Reform |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To require the release to the public of all documents, reports, |
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| 14 | 14 | | and other records relating to unidentified anomalous phe- |
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| 15 | 15 | | nomena, and for other purposes. |
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| 16 | 16 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 17 | 17 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 18 | 18 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 19 | 19 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘UAP Transparency 4 |
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| 20 | 20 | | Act’’. 5 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SEC. 2. PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF CERTAIN INFORMATION 6 |
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| 22 | 22 | | RELATING TO UNIDENTIFIED ANOMALOUS 7 |
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| 23 | 23 | | PHENOMENA. 8 |
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| 24 | 24 | | (a) I |
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| 25 | 25 | | NGENERAL.—Not later than 270 days after the 9 |
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| 26 | 26 | | date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall di-10 |
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| 29 | 29 | | •HR 1187 IH |
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| 30 | 30 | | rect the head of each Federal department or agency in 1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | possession of documents, reports, or other records relating 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | to unidentified anomalous phenomena to declassify and 3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | make available on a publicly available website of each such 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | department or agency all such documents, reports, or 5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | other records. 6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (b) R |
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| 37 | 37 | | EPORT.—Not later than 360 days after the date 7 |
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| 38 | 38 | | of the enactment of this Act and quarterly thereafter, the 8 |
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| 39 | 39 | | President shall transmit to the Committee on Oversight 9 |
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| 40 | 40 | | and Accountability of the House of Representatives and 10 |
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| 41 | 41 | | the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 11 |
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| 42 | 42 | | Affairs of the Senate a report detailing the progress to-12 |
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| 43 | 43 | | ward implementing subsection (a) made by each Federal 13 |
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| 44 | 44 | | department and agency. 14 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (c) D |
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| 46 | 46 | | EFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘uniden-15 |
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| 47 | 47 | | tified anomalous phenomena’’ has the meaning given such 16 |
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| 48 | 48 | | term in section 1683 of the National Defense Authoriza-17 |
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| 49 | 49 | | tion Act for Fiscal Year 2022 (50 U.S.C. 3373). 18 |
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