Sec. 301. United States-Philippines Security Consultative Committee
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Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense shall establish a consultative committee (to be known as the United States-Philippines Security Consultative Committee ) to include the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Defense of the Philippines in the development of a strategy for jointly strengthening the national security and defense institutions of the Philippines and the capacity of such institutions to carry out operations across the Philippines (including inland and maritime areas) relating to— counterterrorism and counterinsurgency; counternarcotics and countering other forms of illicit trafficking; cyber defense and prevention of cyber crimes; and border and maritime security and air defense.
The United States-Philippines Security Consultative Committee shall evaluate— existing technologies, equipment, and weapons systems of the national security and defense institutions of the Philippines; and the upgrades to such technologies, equipment, and systems necessary to ensure the continued defense of the national sovereignty and national territory of the Philippines. Not later than 180 days after the establishment of the United States-Philippines Security Consultative Committee, the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, may enter into consultations with the Government of Philippines to strengthen existing, or establish new, bilateral security and defense cooperation agreements or lines of effort to address capacity-building and resource needs identified by the consultative committee.
Not later than 30 days after the date on which the United States-Philippines Security Consultative Committee is established, and not later than 15 days after any meeting of the United States-Philippines Security Consultative Committee thereafter, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense shall, on request by any of the appropriate committees of Congress, jointly brief the appropriate committees of Congress on progress made by the consultative committee. Not later than 30 days after the completion of any consultation with the Government of Philippines under subsection (c), the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense shall brief the appropriate committees of Congress on the implementation of agreed upon areas of cooperation or lines of effort.
In this subsection, the term appropriate committees of Congress means— the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate; and the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives.