HJ 6

This bill is a joint resolution by the Maryland General Assembly that calls for reducing the risk of nuclear weapons use by endorsing the "Back from the Brink" movement's five key policies: pursuing multilateral nuclear disarmament, renouncing first-use of nuclear weapons, ending the President's sole authority to launch nuclear attacks, taking weapons off hair-trigger alert, and canceling nuclear modernization plans. The resolution urges Maryland's Congressional delegation to cosponsor federal House Resolution 77, which embraces these same goals, and calls on the President and Senate to endorse the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. As a resolution rather than binding legislation, this measure expresses the Maryland legislature's official position on federal nuclear weapons policy without creating any state laws or requirements.