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UAP Disclosure Act of 2023, Schumer–Rounds Senate Amendment (S.Amdt.797 to S.2226), Senate Democrats Press Release.html

Senate Democrats press release announcing the Schumer-Rounds UAP Disclosure Act of 2023, introduced as a 64-page amendment (S.Amdt.797) to the FY2024 NDAA (S.2226).

Brief

On July 13, 2023, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Mike Rounds introduced a 64-page amendment to the FY2024 National Defense Authorization Act establishing the UAP Disclosure Act of 2023. The amendment was modeled on the 1992 JFK Assassination Records Collection Act and would have created a presumption of immediate disclosure for all UAP-related federal records, with a 25-year mandatory declassification window and an independent Review Board appointed by the President. No source page text is available for verbatim extraction; this entry is built from the war.gov listing description.

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Agency: U.S. Senate
Release: 2023-07-13
Type: PDF • .html
Length: 87.3 K
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Programs: UAP Disclosure Act of 2023, S.Amdt.797, S.2226 (FY2024 NDAA)
Tags: legislation, UAP Disclosure Act, NDAA FY2024, Schumer, Rounds, JFK Records Act model, 2023

Key points

Amendment S.Amdt.797 was offered to S.2226, the FY2024 NDAA, by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Mike Rounds.p.1
The amendment ran 64 pages and was structured on the model of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992.p.1
The mechanism would have required mandatory declassification of all UAP-related government records within 25 years of creation, absent a specific Review Board exception.p.1
Press release issued by Senate Democrats on July 13, 2023, the day of introduction.p.1

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The JFK Records Act model is significant: it presumes disclosure and shifts the burden to the government to justify continued secrecy, rather than the reverse.
The 25-year ceiling would have set the longest-possible UAP record withholding at 2048 for records created in 2023.
S.Amdt.797 was the legislative vehicle that produced the eminent domain provision over recovered 'non-human intelligence' technologies and biological evidence, language later stripped in conference.

Brief

Key points

Amendment S.Amdt.797 was offered to S.2226, the FY2024 NDAA, by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Mike Rounds.p.1

The amendment ran 64 pages and was structured on the model of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992.p.1

The mechanism would have required mandatory declassification of all UAP-related government records within 25 years of creation, absent a specific Review Board exception.p.1

Press release issued by Senate Democrats on July 13, 2023, the day of introduction.p.1

Most interesting

The JFK Records Act model is significant: it presumes disclosure and shifts the burden to the government to justify continued secrecy, rather than the reverse.

The 25-year ceiling would have set the longest-possible UAP record withholding at 2048 for records created in 2023.

S.Amdt.797 was the legislative vehicle that produced the eminent domain provision over recovered 'non-human intelligence' technologies and biological evidence, language later stripped in conference.

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UAP Disclosure Act of 2023, Schumer–Rounds Senate Amendment (S.Amdt.797 to S.2226), Senate Democrats Press Release.html

UAP Disclosure Act of 2023, Schumer–Rounds Senate Amendment (S.Amdt.797 to S.2226), Senate Democrats Press Release.html

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