[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 78 (Wednesday, May 20, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3195-S3196]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1430. Mr. MENENDEZ 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; which was ordered to lie on the table; 
as follows:


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       On page 100, between lines 13 and 14, insert the following:
       (B) Exception.--
       (i) Invoking exception.--If the President submits to the 
     appropriate congressional committees a letter stating that a 
     country subject to subparagraph (A) has taken concrete 
     actions to implement the principal recommendations in the 
     most recent annual report on trafficking in persons, this 
     paragraph shall not apply with respect to agreements with 
     that country.
       (ii) Content of letter; public availability.--A letter 
     submitted under clause (i) with respect to a country shall--

       (I) include a description of the concrete actions that the 
     country has taken to implement the principal recommendations 
     described in clause (i); and
       (II) be made available to the public.

       (iii) Appropriate congressional committees defined.--In 
     this subparagraph, the term ``appropriate congressional 
     committees'' means--

       (I) the Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on 
     Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives; and
       (II) the Committee on Finance and the Committee on Foreign 
     Relations of the Senate.

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