US Congress Senate Bill 4474 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on August 6 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-08-06 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Pending: Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Limits the export of certain unmanned aircraft systems and related equipment. Specifically, such systems and equipment may not be exported except to the government of (1) a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member country, (2) Australia, (3) Israel, (4) Japan, (5) New Zealand, or (6) South Korea. This limitation shall apply to unmanned aircraft systems that (1) are described in the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Annex, or (2) meet certain qualifications relating to flight range and payload capacity. (The MTCR is a multilateral informal political understanding that addresses the proliferation of missile technologies.)

A bill to amend the Arms Export Control Act to prohibit the export of certain unmanned aircraft systems.

Sen. Christopher Murphy [D-CT]	Sen. Mike Lee [R-UT]	Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]
Sen. Rand Paul [R-KY]	Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-08-06	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/4474/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s4474/BILLS-116s4474is.pdf