Pacific Partnership Act
Sponsored By: Representative Case
Introduced
Summary
A coordinated U.S. strategy to guide diplomacy, security, and economic engagement across the Pacific Islands region. This bill would require a formal Strategy for Pacific Partnership and set rules for consultation, coordination, and reporting to address disasters, fisheries, and transnational crime.
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- For Pacific Island governments, regional organizations, and civil society: would create formal consultative processes to align programming, avoid exceeding absorptive capacity, and support a shared regional development vision.
- For the U.S. government and Congress: would require the President, with the Secretary of State, to submit a Strategy for Pacific Partnership by Jan 1, 2026 and again by Jan 1, 2030 that lists goals, threat assessments, response plans, resource needs, and coordination mechanisms.
- For regional forums and reporting agencies: would extend immunities to the Pacific Islands Forum under the International Organizations Immunities Act and require annual updates to reports on transnational crime, fisheries management, and trafficking in persons with a Pacific regional focus.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Add Pacific crime focus to reports
This bill would require the State Department to add a Pacific Islands section on transnational crime to three yearly reports. The reports cover narcotics control, fisheries management, and trafficking in persons. If enacted, the new regional sections would begin with the next annual updates.
Legal immunities for Pacific Islands Forum
This bill would allow the U.S. to extend standard international-organization immunities to the Pacific Islands Forum. If extended, the Forum would get protections in U.S. courts similar to other international bodies the U.S. works with. The authority to extend these immunities would take effect upon enactment.
U.S. plan and coordination for Pacific Islands
This bill would require the President to send a Strategy for Pacific Partnership to Congress by January 1, 2026, and again by January 1, 2030. The plan would set goals, assess threats like natural disasters and illegal fishing, list needed resources, and explain how agencies and partners would work together. U.S. agencies would need to follow and carry out any relevant guidance documents for the Pacific Islands. The President would set up a formal process to coordinate aid with allies and regional groups so programs fit local goals and do not overlap. The bill defines which committees get the plan and what areas count as the Pacific Islands.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Case
HI • D
Cosponsors
Del. Radewagen, Aumua Amata Coleman [R-AS-At Large]
AS • R
Sponsored 5/13/2025
Tokuda
HI • D
Sponsored 5/13/2025
Del. Moylan, James C. [R-GU-At Large]
GU • R
Sponsored 5/13/2025
Del. King-Hinds, Kimberlyn [R-MP-At Large]
MP • R
Sponsored 5/13/2025
Womack
AR • R
Sponsored 5/13/2025
Lawler
NY • R
Sponsored 5/13/2025
Olszewski
MD • D
Sponsored 5/13/2025
Gottheimer
NJ • D
Sponsored 5/13/2025
Lieu
CA • D
Sponsored 5/13/2025
Larsen (WA)
WA • D
Sponsored 5/13/2025
Bera
CA • D
Sponsored 5/13/2025
Titus
NV • D
Sponsored 5/13/2025
Fitzpatrick
PA • R
Sponsored 5/13/2025
Krishnamoorthi
IL • D
Sponsored 5/13/2025
Sherman
CA • D
Sponsored 5/13/2025
Kim
CA • R
Sponsored 5/13/2025
Veasey
TX • D
Sponsored 5/15/2025
Begich
AK • R
Sponsored 5/20/2025
Strickland
WA • D
Sponsored 6/9/2025
Castro (TX)
TX • D
Sponsored 6/17/2025
McBride
DE • D
Sponsored 6/25/2025
Norcross
NJ • D
Sponsored 6/30/2025
Bell
MO • D
Sponsored 7/17/2025
Nunn (IA)
IA • R
Sponsored 9/30/2025
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