text: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
  
      This Act may be cited as the ``International Peacekeeping Reform 
  Act of 1997''.
  
  SEC. 2 LIMITATION ON THE USE OF FUNDS FOR UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING 
                ACTIVITIES.
  
      (a) Limitation.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none 
  of the funds made available to the Department of State under the 
  account ``Contributions for International Peacekeeping Activities'' or 
  any other funds made available to the Department of State under any law 
  to pay for assessed or voluntary contributions to United Nations 
  peacekeeping activities shall be available for obligation or 
  expenditure to the United Nations to establish, expand in size, or 
  modify in mission a United Nations peacekeeping operations unless, with 
  respect to such peacekeeping operation--
              (1) the President submits a certification to the 
          appropriate congressional committees under subsection (c); and
              (2) except as provided in paragraph (b), the President has 
          notified the appropriate congressional committees of the intent 
          to support the establishment of the peacekeeping operation at 
          least 15 days before any vote in the Security Council to 
          establish, expand, or modify such operation. The notification 
          shall include the following:
                      (A) A cost assessment of such action (including the 
                  total estimated cost and the United States share of 
                  such cost).
                      (B) Identification of the source of funding for the 
                  United States share of the costs of the action (whether 
                  in an annual budget request, reprogramming 
                  notification, a rescission of funds, a budget 
                  amendment, or a supplemental budget request.
      (b) Presidential Determination of Existence of Emergency.--If the 
  President determines that an emergency exists which prevented 
  submission of the 15-day advance notification specified in paragraph 
  (a) and that the proposed action is in the direct national security 
  interests of the United States, the notification described in paragraph 
  (a) shall be provided in a timely manner but no later than 48 hours 
  after the vote by the Security Council.
      (c) Certification to Congress.--The President shall determine and 
  certify to the Congress that the United Nations Peacekeeping operation 
  described under paragraph (a) meets the following requirements:
              (1) The operation involves an international conflict in 
          which hostilities have ceased and all significant parties to 
          the conflict agree to the imposition of United Nations 
          peacekeeping forces for the purpose of seeking an enduring 
          solution to the conflict.
              (2) With respect to any assessed contribution to such 
          United Nations peacekeeping activity, the percentage of the 
          United States assessed share for the total cost of the 
          operation is no greater than the percentage of the United 
          States assessed share for the regular United Nations budget.
              (3) In the event that the provision of United States 
          intelligence information involving sensitive sources and 
          methods on intelligence gathering is planned to be provided to 
          the United Nations to support the operation, adequate measures 
          have been taken by the United Nations to protect such 
          information.
              (4) With respect to the participation in the operation of 
          units of the United States Armed Forces trained to carry out 
          direct combat missions--
                      (A) the operation directly advances United States 
                  national security interests,
                      (B) the participation of such units is critical to 
                  the success of the operation,
                      (C) such units will be under the operational 
                  command and control of the United States Armed Forces, 
                  and
                      (D) any member of the United States Armed Forces 
                  participating in the operation would have access to the 
                  full protection of the Geneva Convention Relative to 
                  the Treatment of Prisoners of War (signed at Geneva, 
                  August 12, 1949) if captured and held by combatants or 
                  other parties to the conflict.
      (d) Definitions.--As used in this section:
              (1) the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' means 
          the Foreign Relations and Appropriations Committees of the 
          Senate and the International Relations and Appropriations 
          Committees of the House of Representatives;
              (2) the term ``adequate measures'' refers to the 
          implementation of procedures for protecting intelligence 
          sources and methods (including protection from release to 
          nations and foreign nationals that are otherwise not eligible 
          to receive such information) no less stringent than procedures 
          maintained by nations with which the United States regularly 
          shares similar types of intelligence information, as determined 
          by the Director of Central Intelligence upon consultation with 
          the Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense; and
              (3) the term ``direct combat'' means engaging an enemy or 
          hostile force with individual or crew-served weapons while 
          being exposed to direct enemy fire, a high probability of 
          direct physical contact with the enemy or hostile force, and a 
          substantial risk of capture.
target: International Peacekeeping Reform Act of 1997 - Prohibits funds made available to the Department of State under the Contributions for International Peacekeeping Activities Account, or under any law to pay for contributions for United Nations peacekeeping activities, from being available to the United Nations for the establishment, expansion, or modification in mission of a United Nations peacekeeping operation unless the President:  (1) makes the certification required by this Act; and (2) notifies the Congress, at least 15 days before (or in the event of an emergency, within 48 hours after) any vote by the United Nations Security Council to establish, expand, or modify such operation, of the intent to support the operation. 
  Directs the President to certify that the peacekeeping operation meets the following requirements:  (1) the operation involves an international conflict in which hostilities have ceased and all significant parties to the conflict agree to the imposition of United Nations forces to seek an enduring solution to the conflict; (2) the percentage of the U.S.-assessed share of the operation's cost is no greater than the percentage of the share for the regular United Nations budget; (3) adequate measures have been taken by the United Nations to protect sensitive U.S.-supplied intelligence information; and (4) with respect to units of the U.S. armed forces trained to carry out direct combat missions, the operation advances U.S. national security interests, the units are critical to the success of the operation and will be under U.S. command and control, and any armed forces member would be protected by the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
feat_title: International Peacekeeping Reform Act of 1997