[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 90 (Monday, June 8, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S3877]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1833. Ms. BALDWIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table, as follows:

       At the end of subtitle G of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1283. REPORT ON ACTIONS OF CERTAIN NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY 
                   ORGANIZATION AND PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE 
                   COUNTRIES ON HOLOCAUST ERA ASSETS AND RELATED 
                   ISSUES.

       (a) Report Required.--Not later than 180 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State 
     shall, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, submit 
     to Congress an assessment of the compliance of each covered 
     country with, and the progress of such country toward, the 
     goals and objectives of the 2009 Terezin Declaration on 
     Holocaust Era Assets and Related Issues.
       (b) Elements.--The assessment of a country under the report 
     required by subsection (a) shall include the following:
       (1) An assessment of national laws or enforceable policies 
     supporting the goals and objectives of the Terezin 
     Declaration, including--
       (A) the return to the rightful owner of any property that 
     was wrongfully confiscated or transferred to another 
     individual by Nazi, Nazi collaborator, or Communist regimes;
       (B) if return of such property is no longer possible, the 
     provision of comparable substitute property or the payment of 
     equitable compensation to the rightful owner in accordance 
     with principles of justice and through an expeditious claims-
     driven administrative process that is just, transparent, and 
     fair;
       (C) the return to Jewish communities of any religious or 
     communal property that was stolen as a result of the 
     Holocaust or subsequently nationalized by Communist regimes;
       (D) the use of the Washington Conference Principles on 
     Nazi-Confiscated Art, agreed to December 3, 1998, in settling 
     all claims involving publically and privately held movable 
     property.
       (2) An assessment of national administrative and legal 
     processes successfully implementing such laws.
       (3) An assessment of mechanism for and demonstrable 
     progress on the resolution of claims of United States citizen 
     Holocaust survivors and United States citizen family members 
     of Holocaust victims.
       (4) Recommendations for actions to be taken by the country, 
     and the United States Government, to improve country 
     compliance with, and progress toward, the goals and 
     objectives of the Terezin Declaration.
       (c) Covered Country Defined.--In this section, the term 
     ``covered country'' means any country that is a signatory or 
     observer to the 2009 Terezin Declaration on Holocaust Era 
     Assets and Related Issues among the following:
       (1) A country that is a signatory to the Partnership for 
     Peace Framework Documents, but is not a member of the North 
     Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
       (2) A country that became a member of the North Atlantic 
     Treaty Organization after January 1, 1999.
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