Lets the U.S. send obsolete military and medical supplies to Taiwan for reserve stocks.
This bill would let the U.S. President send older military and medical supplies from Department of Defense storage to Taiwan. These supplies would be kept in Taiwan as reserve stocks. This changes current rules that limit such transfers, but would require the President to tell Congress about any planned transfers and report on them yearly.
Today, existing law (Section 514 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961) limits how the U.S. can transfer excess defense articles. If this bill becomes law, the President would be able to transfer specific obsolete or surplus humanitarian, medical, and defense items from U.S. military inventory directly to a stockpile in Taiwan, overriding those existing limits. The President would also need to notify Congress before any transfer and the Secretary of State would report on transfers yearly.
S 5595 · 119th Congress · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 10/10
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