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Senate Bill 27
118th Congress(2023-2024)
Focus on the Mission Act of 2023
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Introduced in Senate on Jan 24, 2023
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S. 27 (Introduced-in-Senate)


118th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 27


To prohibit the Department of Defense from requiring contractors to provide information relating to greenhouse gas emissions.


IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

January 24 (legislative day, January 3), 2023

Mr. Hoeven (for himself, Mr. Risch, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Ms. Ernst, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Cruz, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Tillis, Ms. Lummis, Mrs. Fischer, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Lee, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. Rubio, Mrs. Blackburn, and Mr. Cassidy) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services


A BILL

To prohibit the Department of Defense from requiring contractors to provide information relating to greenhouse gas emissions.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the “Focus on the Mission Act of 2023”.

SEC. 2. Prohibition on requiring defense contractors to provide information relating to greenhouse gas emissions.

(a) Definitions.—In this Act:

(1) GREENHOUSE GAS.—The term “greenhouse gas” means—

(A) carbon dioxide;

(B) methane;

(C) nitrous oxide;

(D) nitrogen trifluoride;

(E) hydrofluorocarbons;

(F) perfluorcarbons; or

(G) sulfur hexafluoride.

(2) GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORY.—The term “greenhouse gas inventory” means a quantified list of an entity’s annual greenhouse gas emissions.

(3) SCOPE 1 EMISSIONS.—The term “Scope 1 emissions” means direct greenhouse gas emissions from sources that are owned or controlled by the reporting entity.

(4) SCOPE 2 EMISSIONS.—The term “Scope 2 emissions” means indirect greenhouse gas emissions associated with the generation of electricity, heating and cooling, or steam, when these are purchased or acquired for the reporting entity’s own consumption but occur at sources owned or controlled by another entity.

(5) SCOPE 3 EMISSIONS.—The term “Scope 3 emissions” means greenhouse gas emissions, other than those that are Scope 2 emissions, that are a consequence of the operations of the reporting entity but occur at sources other than those owned or controlled by the entity.

(b) Prohibition on disclosure requirements.—The Secretary of Defense may not require the recipient of a Federal contract to provide a greenhouse gas inventory or to provide any other report on greenhouse gas emissions, including Scope 1 emissions, Scope 2 emissions, or Scope 3 emissions.