Nuclear Security and Nonproliferation Accounting Act

I 116TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 4185 To direct the Comptroller General of the United States to submit to Congress annual reports on the budget for international and domestic nuclear security and nuclear nonproliferation programs of the United States. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AUGUST 13, 2019 Mr. PANETTA (for himself and Mr. FLEISCHMANN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs A BILL To direct the Comptroller General of the United States to submit to Congress annual reports on the budget for international and domestic nuclear security and nuclear nonproliferation programs of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Nuclear Security and 4 Nonproliferation Accounting Act’’. 5 VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:39 Aug 16, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H4185.IH H4185 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 2 •HR 4185 IH SEC. 2. ANNUAL REPORTS ON NUCLEAR SECURITY AND NU- 1 CLEAR NONPROLIFERATION PROGRAM 2 BUDGETS. 3 (a) REPORTS BY GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY 4 OFFICE.—Not later than 270 days after the date on which 5 the President submits to Congress the budget pursuant 6 to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, for fiscal 7 year 2021 and each fiscal year thereafter, the Comptroller 8 General of the United States shall submit to the appro- 9 priate congressional committees a report on the budgets 10 for nuclear security and nuclear nonproliferation programs 11 contained in such budget submitted by the President. 12 (b) MATTERS INCLUDED.—The report under sub- 13 section (a) shall include the following with respect to the 14 budget of the President covered by the report: 15 (1) A summary, at the program level, of all of 16 the funding provided for the nuclear security and 17 nuclear nonproliferation programs of the Depart- 18 ment of Defense, the Department of State, the De- 19 partment of the Treasury, the Department of Jus- 20 tice, the Department of Commerce, the Department 21 of Energy, the Department of Homeland Security, 22 the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Office 23 of the Director of National Intelligence. 24 (2) A summary of the budget for each nuclear 25 security and nuclear nonproliferation program of the 26 VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:39 Aug 16, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H4185.IH H4185 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 3 •HR 4185 IH elements of the Federal Government specified in 1 paragraph (1). 2 (3) An assessment of— 3 (A) any changes in the budget estimates 4 for nuclear security and nuclear nonprolifera- 5 tion programs between the previous fiscal year 6 and the fiscal year covered by such budget; 7 (B) redundancies with respect to nuclear 8 security and nuclear nonproliferation programs 9 that may exist in the Federal Government; 10 (C) how accurately budget estimates have 11 anticipated funds expended on nuclear security 12 and nuclear nonproliferation programs; and 13 (D) how funds for nuclear security and nu- 14 clear nonproliferation programs that are not ob- 15 ligated or expended for the purpose for which 16 they are appropriated are transferred or repro- 17 grammed. 18 (4) Recommendations, as appropriate, for the 19 development of new metrics to evaluate Federal nu- 20 clear security and nuclear nonproliferation pro- 21 grams. 22 (c) FORM.—Each report under subsection (a) shall 23 be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a clas- 24 sified annex. 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:39 Aug 16, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H4185.IH H4185 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 4 •HR 4185 IH (d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 1 (1) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT- 2 TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com- 3 mittees’’ means— 4 (A) the Committee on Appropriations, the 5 Committee on Armed Services, the Committee 6 on the Budget, the Committee on Energy and 7 Commerce, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 8 and the Committee on Homeland Security of 9 the House of Representatives; and 10 (B) the Committee on Appropriations, the 11 Committee on Armed Services, the Committee 12 on the Budget, the Committee on Energy and 13 Natural Resources, the Committee on Foreign 14 Relations, and the Committee on Homeland Se- 15 curity and Governmental Affairs of the Senate. 16 (2) NUCLEAR SECURITY AND NUCLEAR NON- 17 PROLIFERATION PROGRAM.—The term ‘‘nuclear se- 18 curity and nuclear nonproliferation program’’ means 19 a program of the Federal Government with the goal 20 of— 21 (A) preventing nuclear and radiological 22 terrorism; 23 (B) preventing nuclear proliferation; 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:39 Aug 16, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H4185.IH H4185 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 5 •HR 4185 IH (C) implementing arms control agree- 1 ments; 2 (D) stopping illicit transfers of nuclear 3 technology; 4 (E) screening cargo at domestic and inter- 5 national ports; 6 (F) researching and developing tools and 7 strategies to address future non-proliferation 8 activities; or 9 (G) supporting any other activity involving 10 the security of nuclear and radiological mate- 11 rials. 12 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:39 Aug 16, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\H4185.IH H4185 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS