[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 116 (Wednesday, June 24, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3224-S3225]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1701. Mr. CARDIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2021 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 appropriate place in title XII, insert the 
     following:

      Subtitle__--Enhancing Human Rights Protections in Arms Sales

     SEC. __. SHORT TITLE.

       This subtitle may be cited as the ``Enhancing Human Rights 
     Protections in Arms Sales Act of 2020''.

     SEC. __. STRATEGY ON ENHANCING HUMAN RIGHTS CONSIDERATIONS IN 
                   UNITED STATES MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND ARMS 
                   TRANSFERS.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, with the 
     concurrence of the Secretary of Defense, shall submit to the 
     appropriate congressional committees a strategy to enhance 
     United States efforts to ensure human rights protections for 
     United States military assistance and arms transfers. The 
     strategy shall include processes and procedures to--
       (1) determine when United States military assistance and 
     arms transfers are used to commit gross violations of 
     internationally recognized human rights;
       (2) determine when United States military assistance and 
     arms transfers are used to undermine international peace and 
     security or contribute to gross violations of internationally 
     recognized human rights, including acts of gender-based 
     violence and acts of violence against children, violations of 
     international humanitarian law, terrorism, mass atrocities, 
     or transnational organized crime;
       (3) detect other violations of United States law concerning 
     United States military or security assistance, cooperation, 
     and arms

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     transfers, including the diversion of such assistance or the 
     use of such assistance by security force or police units 
     credibly implicated in gross violations of internationally 
     recognized human rights;
       (4) train partner militaries, security, and police forces 
     on methods for preventing civilian causalities; and
       (5) determine whether individuals or units that have 
     received United States military, security, or police training 
     or have participated or are scheduled to participate in joint 
     exercises with United States forces have later been credibly 
     implicated in gross violations of internationally recognized 
     human rights.
       (b) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' 
     means the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Armed 
     Services and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 
     Representatives.
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