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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 1888 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To direct the United States to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear |
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| 6 | 6 | | Weapons and convert nuclear weapons industry resources and personnel |
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| 7 | 7 | | to purposes relating to addressing the climate crisis, and for other |
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| 8 | 8 | | purposes. |
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| 9 | 9 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 10 | 10 | | MARCH5, 2025 |
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| 11 | 11 | | Ms. N |
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| 12 | 12 | | ORTON(for herself, Mr. CASAR, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. MCGOVERN, Ms. |
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| 13 | 13 | | O |
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| 14 | 14 | | MAR, Ms. PINGREE, Mrs. RAMIREZ, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, and Ms. TLAIB) |
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| 15 | 15 | | introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on |
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| 16 | 16 | | Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for |
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| 17 | 17 | | a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for |
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| 18 | 18 | | consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com- |
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| 19 | 19 | | mittee concerned |
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| 20 | 20 | | A BILL |
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| 21 | 21 | | To direct the United States to sign the Treaty on the Prohi- |
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| 22 | 22 | | bition of Nuclear Weapons and convert nuclear weapons |
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| 23 | 23 | | industry resources and personnel to purposes relating |
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| 24 | 24 | | to addressing the climate crisis, and for other purposes. |
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| 25 | 25 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 26 | 26 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 27 | 27 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 28 | 28 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Nuclear Weapons Abo-4 |
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| 29 | 29 | | lition and Conversion Act of 2025’’. 5 |
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| 32 | 32 | | •HR 1888 IH |
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| 33 | 33 | | SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 1 |
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| 34 | 34 | | It is the sense of Congress that the United States 2 |
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| 35 | 35 | | should provide leadership by— 3 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (1) signing the Treaty on the Prohibition of 4 |
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| 37 | 37 | | Nuclear Weapons; 5 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (2) ratifying such treaty when it is clear that 6 |
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| 39 | 39 | | ratification will result in— 7 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (A) the dismantlement and elimination of 8 |
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| 41 | 41 | | all nuclear weapons in every country; and 9 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (B) strict and effective international con-10 |
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| 43 | 43 | | trol of such dismantlement and elimination; and 11 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (3) working with the other nuclear-armed na-12 |
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| 45 | 45 | | tions to ensure the verifiable and irreversible elimi-13 |
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| 46 | 46 | | nation of all nuclear weapons from all countries, in 14 |
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| 47 | 47 | | accordance with the Treaty on the Prohibition of 15 |
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| 48 | 48 | | Nuclear Weapons. 16 |
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| 49 | 49 | | SEC. 3. UNITED STATES ABOLITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS 17 |
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| 50 | 50 | | AND CONVERSION OF RESOURCES TO EN-18 |
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| 51 | 51 | | ERGY AND ECONOMIC PURPOSES. 19 |
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| 52 | 52 | | Beginning on the date on which the President cer-20 |
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| 53 | 53 | | tifies to Congress that all countries possessing nuclear 21 |
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| 54 | 54 | | weapons have begun the verifiable and irreversible elimi-22 |
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| 55 | 55 | | nation of such weapons under the Treaty on the Prohibi-23 |
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| 56 | 56 | | tion of Nuclear Weapons, the President shall transfer the 24 |
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| 57 | 57 | | funding appropriated for nuclear weapons programs to be 25 |
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| 58 | 58 | | used for— 26 |
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| 61 | 61 | | •HR 1888 IH |
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| 62 | 62 | | (1) purposes related to addressing the climate 1 |
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| 63 | 63 | | crisis, including through the development and de-2 |
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| 64 | 64 | | ployment of clean, renewable energy sources, by con-3 |
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| 65 | 65 | | verting all nuclear weapons industry processes, 4 |
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| 66 | 66 | | plants, and programs for such purposes and by re-5 |
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| 67 | 67 | | training nuclear industry employees; 6 |
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| 68 | 68 | | (2) addressing human and infrastructure needs, 7 |
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| 69 | 69 | | such as health care, housing, education, agriculture, 8 |
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| 70 | 70 | | and environmental restoration, including long-term 9 |
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| 71 | 71 | | radioactive waste monitoring; and 10 |
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| 72 | 72 | | (3) actively promote policies to induce all other 11 |
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| 73 | 73 | | countries to join in the commitments referred to in 12 |
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| 74 | 74 | | paragraphs (1) and (2) to create a more peaceful 13 |
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| 75 | 75 | | and secure world. 14 |
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