What is the Schumer-Rounds UAP amendment?
“The Schumer-Rounds amendment is a 2023 bipartisan proposal to the National Defense Authorization Act that would establish a UAP Records Review Board with subpoena authority — modeled on the 1992 JFK Records Act.”
The Schumer-Rounds amendment is the formal Senate UAP-disclosure legislation introduced in July 2023 by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD). Drafted with explicit reference to the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, it would have established an independent UAP Records Review Board appointed by the President with subpoena authority over executive-branch agencies. The board would be empowered to compel disclosure of records concerning "unidentified anomalous phenomena, technologies of unknown origin, and non-human intelligence." The original text passed the Senate as an amendment to the FY2024 NDAA but was largely stripped during House-Senate conference: the Review Board was removed; reporting requirements, eminent-domain authority over recovered material, and whistleblower protections survived in narrower form. Schumer and Rounds reintroduced an updated version in 2024. The amendment provides the statutory backdrop for the 2026 PURSUE Release 01 disclosures.