S 497 · 107th Congress 2001–2003, ended

Landmine Elimination and Victim Assistance Act of 2001

Introduced Mar 8, 2001 Originated Senate Sponsor Patrick J. Leahy D-VT

Latest action · Mar 8, 2001 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2081)

Progress

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IntroducedMar 8, 2001
Passed SenateNot reached
Passed HouseNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Landmine Elimination and Victim Assistance Act of 2001 - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the Department of Defense should field currently available weapons, other technologies, tactics, and operational concepts that provide suitable alternatives to anti-personnel mines and mixed anti-tank mine systems; and (2) the United States should end its use of such mines and join the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction.

Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 to make permanent (currently terminates on October 23, 2003) the prohibition on the transfer of anti-personnel landmines.

Directs the President to establish an interagency working group to develop a comprehensive plan for expanded mine action programs, including victim rehabilitation, social support, and economic reintegration.

Cosponsors 30

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 8, 2001 to Sep 13, 2001; 19 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-PA	Arlen Specter	Original	Mar 8, 2001
D-MD	Barbara A. Mikulski	Original	Mar 8, 2001
D-ND	Byron L. Dorgan	Original	Mar 8, 2001
D-CA	Dianne Feinstein	Original	Mar 8, 2001
D-RI	Jack Reed	Original	Mar 8, 2001
R-VT	James M. Jeffords	Original	Mar 8, 2001
D-NM	Jeff Bingaman	Original	Mar 8, 2001
D-WV	John D. Rockefeller IV	Original	Mar 8, 2001
D-MA	John F. Kerry	Original	Mar 8, 2001
D-ND	Kent Conrad	Original	Mar 8, 2001
R-ID	Mike Crapo	Original	Mar 8, 2001
R-KY	Mitch McConnell	Original	Mar 8, 2001
D-WA	Patty Murray	Original	Mar 8, 2001
D-MD	Paul S. Sarbanes	Original	Mar 8, 2001
D-IL	Richard J. Durbin	Original	Mar 8, 2001
D-NJ	Robert G. Torricelli	Original	Mar 8, 2001
D-WI	Russell D. Feingold	Original	Mar 8, 2001
R-ME	Susan M. Collins	Original	Mar 8, 2001
D-IA	Tom Harkin	Original	Mar 8, 2001
D-NV	Harry Reid		Apr 23, 2001
D-WI	Herb Kohl		Apr 23, 2001
R-RI	Lincoln Chafee		Apr 23, 2001
D-MN	Paul D. Wellstone		Apr 23, 2001
D-SD	Thomas A. Daschle		Apr 23, 2001
D-CT	Christopher J. Dodd		May 14, 2001
D-MA	Edward M. Kennedy		May 14, 2001
D-SD	Tim Johnson		May 23, 2001
D-MI	Debbie Stabenow		Jun 25, 2001
D-NY	Hillary Rodham Clinton		Jun 29, 2001
D-NJ	Jon S. Corzine		Sep 13, 2001

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
Senate	Armed Services Committee	Referred Mar 8, 2001

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Mar 8, 2001Introduced in Senate
Mar 8, 2001Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2080-2081)
Mar 8, 2001Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2081)

In the Congressional Record 1

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

Where	In the Record	Members	Date
Senate	Debate and remarks S2080Text printed S2081	Patrick J. Leahy D-VT (text)	Mar 8, 2001

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: A bill to express the sense of Congress that the Department of Defense should field currently available weapons, other technologies, tactics and operational concepts that provide suitable alternatives to anti-personnel mines and mixed anti-tank mine systems and that the United States should end its use of such mines and join the Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines as soon as possible, to expand support for mine action programs including mine victim assistance, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Landmine Elimination and Victim Assistance Act of 2001

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Mar 8, 2001Introduced in Senate

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