# Case-Zablocki Act **Status: stub — expand.** Codified at **1 U.S.C. § 112b**, enacted 1972 after Senate hearings revealed a set of secret security commitments to Spain, Laos, Thailand, Ethiopia and South Korea that Congress had never seen. The Act requires the Secretary of State to transmit the text of every international agreement other than a treaty to Congress — the disclosure regime for the [[Executive Agreement]] track that had grown up outside Article II. **It is a reporting statute, not an approval statute.** Congress learns; Congress does not consent. Compliance was chronically late and incomplete for fifty years. The **2022 amendments** (Inhofe NDAA for FY2023, Pub. L. 117-263, effective September 2023) tightened it substantially: monthly rather than post-hoc transmittal, to the leadership of both chambers and to the [[Senate Foreign Relations Committee]] and House Foreign Affairs Committee; a required statement of the **legal authority** the State Department believes supports each agreement; public publication; and — the genuinely new part — coverage of **qualifying non-binding instruments**, the political commitments that carry much of the real traffic and had previously escaped reporting entirely. ## See also - [[How a Treaty Is Made and Ratified]] - [[Executive Agreement]] - [[Senate Foreign Relations Committee]] - [[Department of State]]