[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 99 (Thursday, June 13, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3508]
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SA 479. Mr. CRUZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2020 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 F of title XII, add the following:
SEC. 1272. REPORT ON THE CONTINUING PARTICIPATION OF CAMBODIA
IN THE GENERALIZED SYSTEM OF PREFERENCES.
(a) Report.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to the
appropriate committees of Congress a report setting forth the
following:
(1) A determination as to whether, if its status as such
were reviewed, the Government of Cambodia would meet the
criteria in sections 501 and 502(c) of the Trade Act of 1974
(19 U.S.C. 2461, 2462(c)) for designation as--
(A) a beneficiary developing country; or
(B) a least-developed beneficiary developing country.
(2) A decision as to whether the application of duty-free
treatment under the Generalized System of Preferences to the
Government of Cambodia should be withdrawn, suspended, or
limited pursuant to section 502(d) of the Trade Act of 1974
(19 U.S.C. 2462(d)).
(b) Form.--The report required by subsection (a) shall be
submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified
annex.
(c) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
means--
(1) the Committee on Finance of the Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of
Representatives.
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