Bill Details
HR.1888 - 119th Congress
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2025-03-05 - 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.
Introduced Date
2025-03-05
Policy Area
International Affairs
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- Rep. Casar, Greg [D-Texas-35]
- Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-Arizona-7]
- Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-Massachusetts-2]
- Rep. Omar, Ilhan [D-Minnesota-5]
- Rep. Pingree, Chellie [D-Maine-1]
- Rep. Ramirez, Delia C. [D-Illinois-3]
- Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-Illinois-9]
- Rep. Tlaib, Rashida [D-Michigan-12]
- Rep. Thanedar, Shri [D-Michigan-13]
- Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-New York-20]
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This bill says the United States should join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and work with other nuclear-armed countries to eliminate nuclear weapons worldwide. It also says that, once all countries with nuclear weapons have started a verified and permanent process of getting rid of them, federal money and workers now tied to nuclear weapons should be shifted to help fight climate change and meet other public needs like health care, housing, education, farming, and environmental cleanup.
- Congress states that the U.S. should sign the treaty and later ratify it when it is clear that doing so would lead to the full dismantling of nuclear weapons with strong international oversight.
- The President would begin redirecting funding for nuclear weapons programs only after certifying that all nuclear-armed countries have begun a verifiable and irreversible elimination process under the treaty.
- Those resources would be used to support clean energy, including the conversion of nuclear weapons facilities and programs, and to retrain workers in the nuclear weapons industry.
- The bill also calls for using those redirected resources to help with broader public needs, including health care, housing, education, agriculture, environmental restoration, and long-term radioactive waste monitoring.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1888 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1888
To direct the United States to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of
Nuclear Weapons and convert nuclear weapons industry resources and
personnel to purposes relating to addressing the climate crisis, and
for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 5, 2025
Ms. Norton (for herself, Mr. Casar, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. McGovern, Ms.
Omar, Ms. Pingree, Mrs. Ramirez, Ms. Schakowsky, and Ms. Tlaib)
introduced the following bill; which was 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
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A BILL
To direct the United States to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of
Nuclear Weapons and convert nuclear weapons industry resources and
personnel to purposes relating to addressing the climate crisis, and
for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Nuclear Weapons Abolition and
Conversion Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS.
It is the sense of Congress that the United States should provide
leadership by--
(1) signing the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear
Weapons;
(2) ratifying such treaty when it is clear that
ratification will result in--
(A) the dismantlement and elimination of all
nuclear weapons in every country; and
(B) strict and effective international control of
such dismantlement and elimination; and
(3) working with the other nuclear-armed nations to ensure
the verifiable and irreversible elimination of all nuclear
weapons from all countries, in accordance with the Treaty on
the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
SEC. 3. UNITED STATES ABOLITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND CONVERSION OF
RESOURCES TO ENERGY AND ECONOMIC PURPOSES.
Beginning on the date on which the President certifies to Congress
that all countries possessing nuclear weapons have begun the verifiable
and irreversible elimination of such weapons under the Treaty on the
Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the President shall transfer the
funding appropriated for nuclear weapons programs to be used for--
(1) purposes related to addressing the climate crisis,
including through the development and deployment of clean,
renewable energy sources, by converting all nuclear weapons
industry processes, plants, and programs for such purposes and
by retraining nuclear industry employees;
(2) addressing human and infrastructure needs, such as
health care, housing, education, agriculture, and environmental
restoration, including long-term radioactive waste monitoring;
and
(3) actively promote policies to induce all other countries
to join in the commitments referred to in paragraphs (1) and
(2) to create a more peaceful and secure world.
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