[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 20 (Wednesday, February 3, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S335]
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SA 72. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 5, setting forth the
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year
2021 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal
years 2022 through 2030; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:
At the end of title III, add the following:
SEC. 3___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO ALLOWING
STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO DIVEST FROM
ENTITIES THAT ENGAGE IN COMMERCE-RELATED OR
INVESTMENT-RELATED BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, OR
SANCTIONS ACTIVITY WITH RESPECT TO ISRAEL.
The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate
may revise the allocations of a committee or committees,
aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution,
and make adjustments to the pay-as-you-go ledger, for one or
more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, amendments between
the Houses, motions, or conference reports relating to
allowing for a State or local government to adopt and enforce
measures to divest the assets of the State or local
government from, prohibit investment of the assets of the
State or local government in, or restrict contracting by the
State or local government for goods and services with an
entity that the State or local government determines, using
credible information available to the public, knowingly
engages in commerce-related or investment-related boycott,
divestment, or sanctions activity in the course of interstate
or international commerce that is intended to penalize,
inflict economic harm on, or otherwise limit commercial
relations with Israel or persons doing business in Israel or
Israeli-controlled territories for purposes of coercing
political action by, or imposing policy positions on, the
Government of Israel, by the amounts provided in such
legislation for those purposes, provided that such
legislation would not increase the deficit over either the
period of the total of fiscal years 2021 through 2025 or the
period of the total of fiscal years 2021 through 2030.
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