119-hr4190

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4190 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 4190

 To amend title 10, United States Code, to modify the definitions 
 relating to humanitarian demining assistance and stockpiled 
 conventional munitions assistance.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 June 26, 2025

 Mr. Mast (for himself and Mr. LaLota) 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 amend title 10, United States Code, to modify the definitions 
 relating to humanitarian demining assistance and stockpiled 
 conventional munitions assistance.

 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 Defining Humanitarian Demining 
Assistance Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS RELATING TO HUMANITARIAN DEMINING ASSISTANCE AND 
 STOCKPILED CONVENTIONAL MUNITIONS ASSISTANCE.

 Subsection

    (e) of 

section 407 of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
 ``

    (e) In this section:
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    (1) The term `humanitarian demining assistance', as it 
 relates to training and support--
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        (A) means detection and clearance of landmines, 
 unexploded explosive ordnance, and other explosive 
 remnants of war; and
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        (B) includes activities related to the use of 
 competencies prescribed by the International Mine 
 Action Standards to furnish education, training, 
 technical assistance, and infrastructure development 
 with respect to, and equipment for--
 ``
            (i) the detection and clearance of 
 landmines, unexploded explosive ordnance, and 
 other explosive remnants of war.
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            (ii) the development of national 
 standards and standard operating procedures for 
 such detection and clearance; and
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            (iii) explosive safety.
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    (2) The term `stockpiled conventional munitions 
 assistance', as it relates to the support of humanitarian 
 assistance efforts--
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        (A) means training and support in the disposal, 
 demilitarization, physical security of stockpiles, and 
 lifecycle stockpile management of potentially dangerous 
 stockpiles of explosive ordnance, small arms, and light 
 weapons, including man-portable air-defense systems; 
 and
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        (B) includes activities related to the use of 
 International Ammunition Technical Guidelines to 
 support the capacity building of a foreign security 
 institution by furnishing education, training, 
 technical assistance, and infrastructure development 
 with respect to, and equipment for--
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            (i) explosive safety, and
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            (ii) the disposal, demilitarization, 
 physical security of stockpiles, stockpile 
 management, national standards and standard 
 operating procedure development of potentially 
 dangerous stockpiles of explosive ordnance, 
 small arms, and light weapons, including man-
 portable air-defense systems.''.
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