{"format":1,"id":"119-hr-1263","congress":119,"number":"H.R. 1263","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 Inter-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 Inter-Parliamentary Working Group to facilitate closer cooperation on shared interests and values."},{"type":"Official Title from EH (Engrossed in House) bill text","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 Inter-Parliamentary Working Group to facilitate closer cooperation on shared interests and values."},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"Strengthening the Quad Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"Strengthening the Quad Act"},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Strengthening the Quad Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Strengthening the Quad Act"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2025-02-12","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2025-05-19","vote":{"id":"119-2025-h132","question":"On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass","title":"Strengthening the Quad Act","result":"Passed","yea":334,"nay":51,"present":0,"not_voting":47,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll132.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"pending","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"not_yet","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":"2025-05-20"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2025-02-12","stage":"Introduced in 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 summarize current and past Quad initiatives, including those to promote broad-based and inclusive economic growth, technology cooperation, energy innovation, and resilient supply chains. The strategy shall also recommend (1) how Congress can help address certain barriers to implementing and expanding Quad cooperation, (2) new authorities needed to strengthen U.S. leadership in and contributions to Quad initiatives, and (3) additional resources needed to expand successful initiatives."}],"words":142},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Requires the Secretary of State to submit a strategy on engagement and cooperation with the Quad (Australia, India, Japan and the United States) and to seek a written agreement establishing a Quad Inter-Parliamentary Working Group.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1263/text/eh#H4F9F91EE12C748A4B502BFE88B755971"},{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1263/text/eh#HDC3C8D35E15B48279BE4DCDA4AEB4FE7"}]},"core_areas":["Strategy report on United States engagement with the Quad countries","Quad Inter-Parliamentary Working Group and its United States Group"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Requires the Secretary of State to submit to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, within 180 days of enactment, a strategy for bolstering engagement and cooperation with the Quad.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1263/text/eh#H4F9F91EE12C748A4B502BFE88B755971"}},{"text":"Requires the strategy to summarize current and past Quad initiatives across the United States Government, 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/119th-congress/house-bill/1263/text/eh#H4F9F91EE12C748A4B502BFE88B755971"}},{"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 help address them, including new authorities and additional resources needed.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1263/text/eh#H4F9F91EE12C748A4B502BFE88B755971"}},{"text":"Requires the Secretary of State, within 60 days of enactment, to seek negotiations with the Governments of Australia, India and Japan toward a written agreement establishing a Quad Inter-Parliamentary Working Group.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1263/text/eh#HDC3C8D35E15B48279BE4DCDA4AEB4FE7"}},{"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 enter into the written agreement.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1263/text/eh#HDC3C8D35E15B48279BE4DCDA4AEB4FE7"}},{"text":"Directs the United States Group to seek to meet at least annually with legislative representatives of Australia, India and Japan, and to submit an annual report on its activities, expenditures and recommendations for enhancing the Quad.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1263/text/eh#HDC3C8D35E15B48279BE4DCDA4AEB4FE7"}}],"unexpected":[],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2025-05-19","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1263/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-09-29","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1263","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1263/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/119-hr-1263.png","v":"3312f7370534","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 1263, 119th Congress: Strengthening the Quad Act. House: 334 Yea, 51 Nay. Senate: not yet considered. Outcome: Passed House, 19 May 2025."}}