Visual Protection of Strategic Assets Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, Visual Protection of Strategic Assets Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting foreign governments, international partners, and aid recipients. The main policy domain is Foreign Policy, Immigration, Defense.
Who Benefits and How
foreign governments, international partners, and aid recipients may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies, foreign governments, international partners, and aid recipients may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section id1ea7b2af37304c2a972b5af4cf609503: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Visual Protection of Strategic Assets Act.
- Section id1288fe10c0914c12a98fbac9507ea05f: 2. Improvements to the prohibition on espionage Section 793 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: (i)(1)In this...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, Visual Protection of Strategic Assets Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting foreign governments, international partners, and aid recipients.
Key Policy Areas
Foreign Policy, Immigration, Defense
Primary Purpose
This bill, Visual Protection of Strategic Assets Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting foreign governments, international partners, and aid recipients.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- foreign governments, international partners, and aid recipients
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- foreign governments, international partners, and aid recipients
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeRead twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in Senate
Mr. Cotton introduced the following bill; which was read twice …
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Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_commission"
- → The commission identified in the operative section
- "secretary_of_defense"
- → Secretary of Defense
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
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