[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 76 (Monday, May 18, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S2976]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1251. Mr. BROWN (for himself, Mr. Peters, Mr. Schumer, Ms. 
Stabenow, Mr. Menendez, and Mr. Casey) submitted an amendment intended 
to be proposed to amendment SA 1221 proposed by Mr. Hatch to the bill 
H.R. 1314, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a 
right to an administrative appeal relating to adverse determinations of 
tax-exempt status of certain organizations; as follows:

       At the end of section 107, add the following:
       (c) Limitations on Additional Countries Joining the Trans-
     Pacific Partnership Agreement.--
       (1) In general.--The trade authorities procedures shall 
     apply to an implementing bill submitted with respect to an 
     agreement described in subsection (a)(2) with the Trans-
     Pacific Partnership countries only if that implementing bill 
     covers only the countries that are parties to the 
     negotiations for that agreement as of the date of the 
     enactment of this Act.
       (2) Applicability of trade authorities procedures to 
     additional countries.--If a country or countries not a party 
     to the negotiations for the agreement described in subsection 
     (a)(2) as of the date of the enactment of this Act enter into 
     negotiations to join the agreement after that date, the trade 
     authorities procedures shall apply to an implementing bill 
     submitted with respect to an agreement with such country or 
     countries to join the agreement described in subsection 
     (a)(2) only if--
       (A) the President notifies Congress of the intention of the 
     President to enter into negotiations with such country or 
     countries in accordance with section 105(a)(1)(A);
       (B) during the 90-day period provided for under section 
     105(a)(1)(A) before the President initiates such 
     negotiations--
       (i) the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committee on Finance of the Senate 
     each certify that such country or countries are capable of 
     meeting the standards of the Trans-Pacific Partnership; and
       (ii) the House of Representatives and the Senate each 
     approve a resolution approving such country or countries 
     entering into negotiations to join the agreement described in 
     subsection (a)(2);
       (C) the agreement with such country or countries to join 
     the agreement described in subsection (a)(2) is entered into 
     before--
       (i) July 1, 2018; or
       (ii) July 1, 2021, if trade authorities procedures are 
     extended under section 103(c); and
       (D) that implementing bill covers only such country or 
     countries.
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