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Boosting Long-term U.S. Engagement in the Pacific Act

H.R. 562 · 119th Congress · Jan 20, 2025 · Lineage

A BILL

To advance a comprehensive, long-term United States strategy and policy for the Pacific Islands, and for other purposes.

Section 1 Short title and table of contents

(a)
Short title— This Act may be cited as the “Boosting Long-term U.S. Engagement in the Pacific Act” or the “BLUE Pacific Act”.
(b)
Table of contents— The table of contents for this Act is as follows:

Sec. 2 Definitions

In this Act:
(1)
Appropriate congressional committees— Except as otherwise provided, the term appropriate congressional committees means—
(A)
the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives; and
(B)
the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate.
(2)
Pacific Islands— The terms Pacific Islands means the Cook Islands, the Republic of Fiji, the Republic of Kiribati, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Nauru, Niue, the Republic of Palau, the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, the Independent State of Samoa, the Solomon Islands, the Kingdom of Tonga, Tuvalu, and the Republic of Vanuatu.

Sec. 3 Authority to consolidate reports; form of reports

(a)
Authority To consolidate reports— Any reports required to be submitted to the appropriate congressional committees under this Act that are subject to deadlines for submission consisting of the same units of time may be consolidated into a single report that is submitted to the appropriate congressional committees pursuant to such deadlines and that contains all information required under such reports.
(b)
Form of reports— Each report required to be submitted to the appropriate congressional committees under this Act and any consolidated report described in subsection (a) shall be submitted in unclassified form but may contain a classified annex.