Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Container Missile Notification Act”.
Container Missile Notification Act
A BILL
To amend the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 to ensure that Congress is notified of the deployment or transfer of containerized missile systems by Russia, China, or Iran.
Sec. 2 Notice of deployment or transfer of containerized missile systems by Russia, China, or Iran
Section 501 of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (division M of Public Law 114–113; 129 Stat. 2923) is amended—
by striking “the Russian Federation” each place it appears and inserting “a covered country”;
by striking “Club-K container missile system” each place it appears and inserting “missile launcher disguised as or concealed in a shipping container”;
in subsection (a)(1)—
by striking “deploy, the” and inserting “deploy, a”; and
by striking “the Russian military” and inserting “the military of the covered country”;
by striking subsection (c) and inserting the following new subsection:
“(c) Definitions—In this section:
“(1) Appropriate congressional committees—The term appropriate congressional committees means the following:
“(A) The congressional intelligence committees.
“(B) The Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
“(C) The Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.
“(2) Covered country—The term covered country means the following:
“(A) Russia.
“(B) China.
“(C) Iran.
“(D) North Korea.”
in the heading, by striking “CLUB–K CONTAINER MISSILE SYSTEM BY THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION” and inserting “containerized missile system by Russia or certain other countries”.