Official Summaries

Chinese Spy Balloon Assessment Act

This bill requires the Department of Defense to consult with the President and report on the effects on national security of surveillance conducted by China via the high-altitude surveillance balloon shot down in the United States in February 2023. The report must be submitted in an unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.

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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 934 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 934

To direct the Secretary of Defense to submit a report about the effects 
  on national security of the surveillance conducted by the People's 
Republic of China via the high-altitude surveillance balloon shot down 
 in the airspace of the United States in February 2023, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 4, 2025

    Mr. Fry (for himself, Ms. Hageman, Mr. Webster of Florida, Ms. 
  Malliotakis, Mr. Norman, Mr. Higgins of Louisiana, and Mr. Biggs of 
   Arizona) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of Defense to submit a report about the effects 
  on national security of the surveillance conducted by the People's 
Republic of China via the high-altitude surveillance balloon shot down 
 in the airspace of the United States in February 2023, 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 ``Chinese Spy Balloon Assessment 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORT ON THE EFFECTS ON NATIONAL SECURITY OF CERTAIN 
              SURVEILLANCE CONDUCTED BY THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

    (a) Report.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the 
President, shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the 
Senate and the House of Representatives a report about the effects on 
national security of surveillance conducted by the People's Republic of 
China via the high-altitude surveillance balloon shot down in the 
airspace of the United States in February 2023, including--
            (1) a description of any such effects on military 
        installations; and
            (2) an analysis of any technology and materials recovered 
        from the high-altitude surveillance balloon, including each 
        country of origin of such technology and materials, if a 
        country of origin can be determined.
    (b) Form.--The report required under this section shall be 
submitted in an unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.
    (c) Military Installation Defined.--In this section, the term 
``military installation'' has the meaning given such term in section 
2801 of title 10, United States Code.
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