[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4805 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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117th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 4805
To provide for emergency acquisition authority in the event of armed
attack against a United States ally or partner by a foreign adversary
of the United States.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
September 8, 2022
Mr. Cornyn (for himself, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Tillis, Mr. Durbin, Mr.
Wicker, Mr. King, Mr. Rubio, Mr. Blumenthal, Mrs. Blackburn, Ms.
Hassan, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. Peters, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Graham, and
Ms. Cortez Masto) introduced the following bill; which was read twice
and referred to the Committee on Armed Services
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A BILL
To provide for emergency acquisition authority in the event of armed
attack against a United States ally or partner by a foreign adversary
of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Securing American Acquisitions,
Readiness, and Military Stockpiles Act of 2022'' or the ``Securing
American ARMS Act of 2022''.
SEC. 2. EMERGENCY ACQUISITION AUTHORITY.
Section 3204 of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)--
(A) in paragraph (6), by striking ``; or'' and
inserting a semicolon;
(B) in paragraph (7), by striking the period at the
end and inserting ``; or''; and
(C) by adding at the end the following new
paragraph:
``(8) the head of the agency--
``(A) determines that the use of procedures other
than competitive procedures is necessary to--
``(i) replenish United States stockpiles
with like defense articles when those
stockpiles are diminished as a result of the
United States providing defense articles in
response to an armed attack, by a foreign
adversary of the United States (as that term is
defined in section 8(c) of the Secure and
Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019 (47
U.S.C. 1607(c))) against--
``(I) a United States ally (as that
term is defined in section 201(d) of
the Act of December 2, 1942, entitled,
`To provide benefits for the injury,
disability, death, or enemy detention
of employees of contractors with the
United States, and for other purposes'
(56 Stat. 1028, chapter 668; 42 U.S.C.
1711(d))); or
``(II) a United States partner; or
``(ii) to contract for the movement or
delivery of defense articles transferred to
such ally or partner through the President's
drawdown authorities in connection with such
response;
provided that the United States is not a party to the
hostilities; and
``(B) submits to the congressional defense
committees written notification of the use of such
procedures within one week after such use.''; and
(2) in subsection (e)(1), by striking ``and (7)'' and
inserting ``(7), and (8)''.
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