Sec. 1246. PROHIBITION ON NEW START TREATY INFORMATION SHARING

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## SEC. 1246 PROHIBITION ON NEW START TREATY INFORMATION SHARING ###

(a)Prohibition None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2024 for the Department of Defense may be made available to provide the Russian Federation with notifications as required by the New START Treaty. ###

(b)Waiver The Secretary of Defense, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State, may waive the prohibition in subsection

(a)if the Secretary of Defense certifies to the appropriate congressional committees in writing that— ####

(1)the Russian Federation is providing similar information to the United States as required by the New START Treaty; or ####

(2)it is in the national security interest of the United States to unilaterally provide such notifications to the Russian Federation ###

(c)Definitions In this section— ####

(1)the term “appropriate congressional committees” means— #####

(A)the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives; and #####

(B)the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate; and ####

(2)the term “New START Treaty” means the Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, signed at Prague April 8, 2010, and entered into force February 5, 2011.