Paris Climate Accord Accountability Act

Paris Climate Accord Accountability Act

This bill prohibits the use of any funds to take action providing for the United States to become a party to the Paris Agreement unless the Senate provides its advice and consent to ratification of the agreement.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 466 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 466

To prohibit the use of funds to provide for the United States to become 
                    a party to the Paris Agreement.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 25, 2021

     Mr. Gonzalez of Ohio (for himself, Mr. Hagedorn, Mr. Joyce of 
  Pennsylvania, Mr. Tiffany, Mr. Steil, Mr. Guest, Mr. Balderson, Mr. 
  Meijer, and Mr. Armstrong) introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the use of funds to provide for the United States to become 
                    a party to the Paris Agreement.

    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 ``Paris Climate Accord Accountability 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS TO PROVIDE FOR THE UNITED STATES TO 
              BECOME A PARTY TO THE PARIS AGREEMENT.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds are authorized 
to be appropriated, obligated, or expended to take any action to 
provide for the United States to become a party to the Paris Agreement 
unless the Senate provides its advice and consent to ratification of 
the Paris Agreement.

SEC. 3. PARIS AGREEMENT DEFINED.

    In this Act, the term ``Paris Agreement'' means the decision by the 
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change's 21st Conference 
of Parties in Paris, France, adopted December 12, 2015.
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