A bill to amend the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 with respect to export controls on high performance computers.

Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to allow a new composite theoretical performance level established by the President for high-performance computers subject to certain export controls to take effect 30 (currently 180) days after the President reports to specified congressional committees setting forth the new level and its justification. Applies such revised effective date to any changes to the composite theoretical performance level proposed by the President on or after January 1, 2000.

[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2539 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2539

 To amend the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 
     with respect to export controls on high performance computers.


_______________________________________________________________________


                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 10, 2000

   Mr. Reid (for himself, Mr. Bennett, Mr. Daschle, Mr. Kerry, Mrs. 
  Murray, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. Kennedy, Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Abraham, and Mr. 
Grams) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 
        to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 
     with respect to export controls on high performance computers.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ADJUSTMENT OF COMPOSITE THEORETICAL PERFORMANCE.

    (a) In General.--Section 1211(d) of the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 (50 U.S.C. App. 2404 note) is 
amended--
            (1) in the second sentence, by striking ``180'' and 
        inserting ``30''; and
            (2) by adding at the end, the following new sentence: ``The 
        30-day reporting requirement shall apply to any changes to the 
        composite theoretical performance level for purposes of 
        subsection (a) proposed by the President on or after January 1, 
        2000.''.
                                 <all>