Bill Details
S.680 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-02-20 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text: CR S1130-1131)
Introduced Date
2025-02-20
Policy Area
International Affairs
Committees
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Cosponsors
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- Sen. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-West Virginia]
- Sen. Hoeven, John [R-North Dakota]
- Sen. Justice, James C. [R-West Virginia]
- Sen. Lee, Mike [R-Utah]
- Sen. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-Wyoming]
- Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-Mississippi]
- Sen. Hagerty, Bill [R-Tennessee]
- Sen. Budd, Ted [R-North Carolina]
- Sen. Scott, Rick [R-Florida]
- Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-Tennessee]
- Sen. Cornyn, John [R-Texas]
- Sen. McCormick, David [R-Pennsylvania]
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This bill would stop the U.S. government from spending money on two major international environmental agreements until China is no longer treated as a developing country under those agreements. In simple terms, the bill says federal funds could not be used for these programs until the President tells Congress that the rules have been changed to remove China from the “developing country” category in one agreement and to add China to a more developed-country list in the other. The bill is meant to pressure the international groups behind these agreements to change how they classify China before U.S. money can be used to support their work.
- It would block federal money for the Montreal Protocol, which is the international agreement aimed at protecting the ozone layer, until the President certifies that China has been removed from the agreement’s developing-country definition.
- It would also block federal money for the United Nations climate change framework, including its meetings, operations, and related funds, until China is placed in Annex I of that agreement.
- The President would have to make these certifications to the Senate and House committees that oversee foreign relations, foreign affairs, and appropriations.
- The bill’s stated goal is to end what its supporters see as an unfair advantage for China in these international environmental agreements.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 680 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 680
To prohibit funding for the Montreal Protocol on Substances that
Deplete the Ozone Layer and the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change until China is no longer defined a developing country.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
February 20, 2025
Mr. Barrasso (for himself, Mrs. Capito, Mr. Hoeven, Mr. Justice, Mr.
Lee, Ms. Lummis, Mr. Wicker, and Mr. Hagerty) introduced the following
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign
Relations
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To prohibit funding for the Montreal Protocol on Substances that
Deplete the Ozone Layer and the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change until China is no longer defined a developing country.
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 ``Ending China's Unfair Advantage Act
of 2025''.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term
``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
(A) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the
Senate;
(B) the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate;
(C) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House
of Representatives; and
(D) the Committee on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives.
(2) Montreal protocol.--The term ``Montreal Protocol''
means the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the
Ozone Layer, done at Montreal September 16, 1987.
(3) United nations framework convention on climate
change.--The term ``United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change'' means the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change, adopted in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June
1992.
SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR THE MONTREAL PROTOCOL ON
SUBSTANCES THAT DEPLETE THE OZONE LAYER UNTIL CHINA IS NO
LONGER DEFINED AS A DEVELOPING COUNTRY.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Federal funds may be
obligated or expended to implement the Montreal Protocol, including its
protocols and amendments, or any fund established under the Protocol,
until the President certifies to the appropriate congressional
committees that the Parties to the Montreal Protocol have amended their
Decision I/12E, ``Clarification of terms and definitions: developing
countries,'' made at the First Meeting of the Parties to remove the
People's Republic of China.
SEC. 4. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR THE UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK
CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE UNTIL CHINA IS INCLUDED
AMONG THE COUNTRIES LISTED IN ANNEX I OF THE CONVENTION.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Federal funds may be
obligated or expended to fund the operations and meetings of the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, including it protocols
or agreements, or any fund established under the Convention or its
agreements, until the President certifies to the appropriate
congressional committees that the Parties to the Framework Convention
have included the People's Republic of China in Annex I of the
Convention.
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