Naval Station Guantanamo Bay Protection Act

Naval Station Guantanamo Bay Protection Act

This bill prohibits the President from modifying, terminating, abandoning, or transferring the lease with the government of Cuba by which the United States acquired 45 square miles of land and waters that currently contain Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, unless: (1) the President notifies Congress of the proposed lease change, and (2) afterwards Congress enacts a law authorizing the change.

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 654 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 654

To prohibit the modification, termination, abandonment, or transfer of 
   the lease by which the United States acquired the land and waters 
            containing Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 2, 2015

   Mr. Jolly (for himself, Mr. Burgess, Mr. Byrne, Mr. Rothfus, Mr. 
   Salmon, Mr. Nugent, Mrs. Walorski, Mr. Bilirakis, Mr. Ribble, Mr. 
 Hudson, Mr. Diaz-Balart, Mr. Curbelo of Florida, Mr. Johnson of Ohio, 
Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, Mr. Franks of Arizona, Mr. Stutzman, Mr. Gohmert, Mr. 
    Mooney of West Virginia, Mr. Coffman, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Yoho, Mr. 
  Chaffetz, Mr. Gowdy, and Mr. Harris) introduced the following bill; 
         which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the modification, termination, abandonment, or transfer of 
   the lease by which the United States acquired the land and waters 
            containing Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

    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 ``Naval Station Guantanamo Bay 
Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON MODIFICATION, TERMINATION, ABANDONMENT, OR 
              TRANSFER OF LEASE, GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA.

    (a) Prohibition.--The President may not modify, terminate, abandon, 
or transfer the lease with the Government of Cuba by which the United 
States acquired 45-square miles of land and waters that currently 
contain Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, unless--
            (1) the President notifies Congress of the proposed 
        modification, termination, abandonment, or transfer of the 
        lease; and
            (2) after such notification, Congress enacts a law 
        authorizing that modification, termination, abandonment, or 
        transfer.
    (b) No New Grant of Authority.--Nothing in subsection (a) shall be 
construed to grant the President any authority regarding the lease 
described in such subsection that does not already exist before the 
date of the enactment of this Act.
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