§3310 — Title 50 War and National Defense | U.S. Code

Summary

The President must send an annual report, in both classified and unclassified form, to the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the House Armed Services Committee, and the House International Relations Committee by February 1 each year. The report must list every U.S. security arrangement or commitment to other countries, say if it is a written agreement (for example, a treaty, pre‑positioning deal, or access agreement) or a stated policy, and give its history. It must also judge whether the United States can meet those commitments after planned reductions in defense forces, provide a plan for meeting them with the projected force, and recommend whether each arrangement should continue, be changed, or end.

Title 50, §3310

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(a)The President shall submit to the congressional committees specified in subsection (d) each year a report (in both classified and unclassified form) on United States security arrangements with, and commitments to, other nations.

(b)The President shall include in each such report the following:

(1)A description of—

(A)each security arrangement with, or commitment to, other nations, whether based upon (i) a formal document (including a mutual defense treaty, a pre-positioning arrangement or agreement, or an access agreement), or (ii) an expressed policy; and

(B)the historical origins of each such arrangement or commitment.

(2)An evaluation of the ability of the United States to meet its commitments based on the projected reductions in the defense structure of the United States.

(3)A plan for meeting each of those commitments with the force structure projected for the future.

(4)An assessment of the need to continue, modify, or discontinue each of those arrangements and commitments in view of the changing international security situation.

(c)The President shall submit the report required by subsection (a) not later than February 1 of each year.

(d)The congressional committees referred to in subsection (a) are the following:

(1)The Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.

(2)The Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 404c of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Amendments

1999—Subsec. (d)(2). Pub. L. 106–65 substituted “Committee on Armed Services” for “Committee on National Security”. 1996—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 104–106, § 1502(c)(4)(C)(i), substituted “shall submit to the congressional committees specified in subsection (d) each year” for “shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services and on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committees on Armed Services and Foreign Relations of the Senate each year”. Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 104–106, § 1502(c)(4)(C)(ii), substituted “The President” for “(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the President” and struck out par. (2) which read as follows: “In the case of the report required to be submitted in 1991, the evaluation, plan, and assessment referred to in paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) of subsection (b) may be submitted not later than May 1, 1991.” Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 104–106, § 1502(c)(4)(C)(iii), added subsec. (d).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Committee on International Relations of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Foreign Affairs of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 6, One Hundred Tenth Congress, Jan. 5, 2007.

§3310 Annual report on United States security arrangements and commitments with other nations