{"format":1,"id":"118-hr-5375","congress":118,"number":"H.R. 5375","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Strengthening the Quad Act","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To require a strategy for bolstering engagement and cooperation between the United States, Australia, India, and Japan and to seek to establish a Quad Intra-Parliamentary Working Group to facilitate closer cooperation on shared interests and values.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To require a strategy for bolstering engagement and cooperation between the United States, Australia, India, and Japan and to seek to establish a Quad Intra-Parliamentary Working Group to facilitate closer cooperation on shared interests and values."},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Strengthening the Quad Act"},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"Strengthening the Quad Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Strengthening the Quad Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"Strengthening the Quad Act"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2023-09-08","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2024-02-15","vote":{"id":"118-2024-h54","question":"On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended","title":"Strengthening the Quad Act","result":"Passed","yea":379,"nay":39,"present":0,"not_voting":13,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2024/roll054.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"na","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"na","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.","date":"2024-02-26"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2024-02-15","stage":"Passed House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Strengthening the Quad Act"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill directs the Department of State to seek to establish a working group with Japan, Australia, and India to facilitate closer cooperation on shared interests and values. (The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, also known as the Quad, is a coalition comprised of the United States and these three countries.)"},{"k":"p","t":"The bill also requires the State Department to report to Congress a strategy for bolstering engagement and cooperation with the Quad. The strategy shall address cooperation on issues including (1) broad-based and inclusive economic growth; (2) technology cooperation and energy innovation; and (3) resilient supply chains, including for critical minerals."}],"words":103},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Requires the Secretary of State to submit a strategy on engagement and cooperation with the Quad (the United States, Australia, India and Japan) and to seek a written agreement to establish a Quad Intra-Parliamentary Working Group.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5375/text/eh#HE97FAA48F27A4C37A1D9BB4209C9917F"},{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5375/text/eh#H1F7080AD8FAF4188969DE34DD12B6010"}]},"core_areas":["Strategy for United States engagement and cooperation with the Quad","Quad Intra-Parliamentary Working Group and its United States Group"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Requires the Secretary of State to submit a strategy for bolstering engagement and cooperation with the Quad to the appropriate congressional committees within 180 days after enactment.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5375/text/eh#HE97FAA48F27A4C37A1D9BB4209C9917F"}},{"text":"Requires the strategy to summarize current and past Quad initiatives, proposals agreed to by all Quad countries since January 2021, and joint initiatives and agreements with Quad countries and other Indo-Pacific partners since January 2021.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5375/text/eh#HE97FAA48F27A4C37A1D9BB4209C9917F"}},{"text":"Requires the strategy to describe diplomatic and bureaucratic barriers to implementing and expanding existing Quad cooperation, and to list recommendations on how Congress could assist, including any new authorities and additional resources needed.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5375/text/eh#HE97FAA48F27A4C37A1D9BB4209C9917F"}},{"text":"Requires the Secretary of State, within 60 days after enactment, to seek to enter into negotiations with Japan, Australia and India toward a written agreement establishing a Quad Intra-Parliamentary Working Group.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5375/text/eh#H1F7080AD8FAF4188969DE34DD12B6010"}},{"text":"Establishes a United States Group of not more than 24 Members of Congress, half appointed by the Speaker of the House and half by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, once the Quad governments sign the written agreement.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5375/text/eh#H1F7080AD8FAF4188969DE34DD12B6010"}},{"text":"States that no additional funds are authorized to carry out the Act and that its requirements are to be carried out using amounts otherwise authorized.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 5","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5375/text/eh#H11395C3126EC4BC3A2A6FB6AF80ACD15"}}],"unexpected":[],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2024-02-15","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5375/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-02","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5375","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5375/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/118-hr-5375.png","v":"a9b7d40e930a","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 5375, 118th Congress: Strengthening the Quad Act. House: 379 Yea, 39 Nay. Outcome: Passed House, 15 Feb 2024."}}