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To provide for nuclear weapons abolition and economic conversion in accordance with District of Columbia Initiative Measure Number 37 of 1992, while ensuring environmental restoration and clean-energy conversion.

USA115th CongressHR-3853| House 
| Updated: 10/17/2017
Eleanor Holmes Norton

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Democratic Representative

District of Columbia

Cosponsors (2)
Janice D. Schakowsky (Democratic)James P. McGovern (Democratic)

Foreign Affairs Committee, Armed Services Committee, Strategic Forces Subcommittee

  • Introduced
  • In Committee
  • On Floor
  • Passed Chamber
  • Enacted
Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act of 2017 This bill requires the U.S. government: (1) to provide leadership to negotiate and enter into a multilateral treaty or other international agreement that provides for the dismantlement and elimination of all nuclear weapons in every country by 2024; (2) once the President certifies that all countries have eliminated such weapons or begun such elimination under established legal requirements, to redirect resources that are being used for nuclear weapons programs to addressing human and infrastructure needs and to converting nuclear weapons industry employees, processes, plants, and programs to constructive, ecologically beneficial peacetime activities; (3) to undertake efforts to eliminate war, armed conflict, and all military operations; and (4) to promote policies to induce all other countries to join in such commitments.
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Sep 27, 2017
Introduced in House
Sep 27, 2017
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Sep 27, 2017
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1277)
Oct 17, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces.
  • September 27, 2017
    Introduced in House


  • September 27, 2017
    Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.


  • September 27, 2017
    Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1277)


  • October 17, 2017
    Referred to the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces.

International Affairs

Alternative and renewable resourcesArms control and nonproliferationConflicts and warsCongressional oversightInternational law and treatiesMilitary operations and strategyNuclear weaponsRadioactive wastes and releases

To provide for nuclear weapons abolition and economic conversion in accordance with District of Columbia Initiative Measure Number 37 of 1992, while ensuring environmental restoration and clean-energy conversion.

USA115th CongressHR-3853| House 
| Updated: 10/17/2017
Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act of 2017 This bill requires the U.S. government: (1) to provide leadership to negotiate and enter into a multilateral treaty or other international agreement that provides for the dismantlement and elimination of all nuclear weapons in every country by 2024; (2) once the President certifies that all countries have eliminated such weapons or begun such elimination under established legal requirements, to redirect resources that are being used for nuclear weapons programs to addressing human and infrastructure needs and to converting nuclear weapons industry employees, processes, plants, and programs to constructive, ecologically beneficial peacetime activities; (3) to undertake efforts to eliminate war, armed conflict, and all military operations; and (4) to promote policies to induce all other countries to join in such commitments.
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Timeline
Sep 27, 2017
Introduced in House
Sep 27, 2017
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Sep 27, 2017
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1277)
Oct 17, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces.
  • September 27, 2017
    Introduced in House


  • September 27, 2017
    Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.


  • September 27, 2017
    Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1277)


  • October 17, 2017
    Referred to the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces.
Eleanor Holmes Norton

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Democratic Representative

District of Columbia

Cosponsors (2)
Janice D. Schakowsky (Democratic)James P. McGovern (Democratic)

Foreign Affairs Committee, Armed Services Committee, Strategic Forces Subcommittee

International Affairs

  • Introduced
  • In Committee
  • On Floor
  • Passed Chamber
  • Enacted
Alternative and renewable resourcesArms control and nonproliferationConflicts and warsCongressional oversightInternational law and treatiesMilitary operations and strategyNuclear weaponsRadioactive wastes and releases