[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 99 (Thursday, June 13, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3616]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 631. Mr. MURPHY 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 A of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1207. PROHIBITION ON SALES AND TRANSFERS TO SAUDI ARABIA 
                   AND THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.

       (a) Restriction on Transfer.--Except as provided in 
     subsection (c), during the period beginning on the date of 
     the enactment of this Act and ending on September 30, 2020, 
     the United States Government--
       (1) may not sell, transfer, or authorize licenses for 
     export to a covered foreign country for any item designated 
     under Category III, IV, VII, or VIII on the United States 
     Munitions List pursuant to section 38(a)(1) of the Arms 
     Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2778(a)(1)); and
       (2) shall suspend any licenses or other approvals that were 
     issued before the date of the enactment of this Act for the 
     export to a covered foreign country of any item designated 
     under Category IV of the United States Munitions List.
       (b) Prohibition on Transfer of Components or 
     Technologies.--Except as provided in subsection (c), 
     beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act--
       (1) any entity in the United States shall not sell or 
     transfer intellectual property, electronic components, or 
     related technologies to a covered foreign country for any 
     item designated under Category IV of the United States 
     Munitions List; and
       (2) any licenses or other approvals that were issued before 
     the date of the enactment of this Act for assembly or 
     production in a covered foreign country for any item 
     designated under Category IV of the United States Munitions 
     List shall be void.
       (c) Exception.--The prohibitions under subsections (a) and 
     (b) shall not apply to sales, transfers, or export licenses 
     relating to ground-based missile defense systems.
       (d) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Covered foreign country.--The term ``covered foreign 
     country'' means Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
       (2) Entity in the united states.--The term ``entity in the 
     United States'' means an officer or employee of the United 
     States Government acting in an official capacity or a person 
     engaged in the business of brokering activities with respect 
     to the manufacture, export, import, or transfer of any 
     defense article or defense service in the United States.
       (3) Ground-based missile defense systems.--The term 
     ``ground-based missile defense system'' mean an anti-
     ballistic missile system for intercepting or destroying an 
     incoming short-, medium-, or long-range ballistic missile.
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