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Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval Act"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill establishes that any convention or agreement on pandemic-related issues reached by the World Health Assembly (WHA) pursuant to a specified negotiating body shall be deemed to be a treaty requiring the advice and consent of the Senate."},{"k":"p","t":"Specifically, this bill applies to any international instrument negotiated by the intergovernmental negotiating body established by the WHA in December 2021 to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response."}],"words":76},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Deems any pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response agreement reached by the World Health Assembly through its International Negotiating Body to be a treaty requiring Senate advice and consent, and bars it from having legal effect in the United States before Senate ratification.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 5","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1425/text/eh#H5CDF58D72717411BB9BD6D413FF04A6F"},{"label":"Sec. 6","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1425/text/eh#HE379F981553A4D6D84B5E9431567768F"}]},"core_areas":["Senate treaty ratification of a World Health Assembly pandemic agreement","Legal effect of an unratified pandemic agreement in United States law and courts"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Deems any convention, agreement, or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response reached by the World Health Assembly through the work of its International Negotiating Body to be a treaty under article II, section 2, clause 2 of the Constitution.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 5","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1425/text/eh#H5CDF58D72717411BB9BD6D413FF04A6F"}},{"text":"Applies the requirement of Senate advice and consent, with two-thirds of Senators concurring, to such an 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otherwise not in accordance with law.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 6","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1425/text/eh#HE379F981553A4D6D84B5E9431567768F"}},{"text":"States as the policy of the United States support for Taiwan's full participation in the World Health Organization.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1425/text/eh#H7CC496C89C664F65B64953B8E28A96F9"}}],"unexpected":[{"category":"off_subject","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1425/text/eh#H7CC496C89C664F65B64953B8E28A96F9"},"heading":"Statement of policy","effect":"States as U.S. policy support for Taiwan's full participation in the World Health Organization, a subject separate from Senate ratification of a pandemic agreement or its legal effect.","amount":null,"quote":"It is the policy of the United States to unequivocally support Taiwan’s full participation in the World Health Organization."}]}],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2024-09-11","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1425/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-01","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1425","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1425/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/118-hr-1425.png","v":"ed8f04bacd03","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 1425, 118th Congress: No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval Act. House: 219 Yea, 199 Nay. Outcome: Passed House, 11 Sep 2024."}}