[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 88 (Thursday, May 20, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S3231]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1766. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 1260, to establish a new Directorate for Technology 
and Innovation in the National Science Foundation, to establish a 
regional technology hub program, to require a strategy and report on 
economic security, science, research, innovation, manufacturing, and 
job creation, to establish a critical supply chain resiliency program, 
and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       In title V of division B, at the end add the following:

     SEC. 25__. ACTION TO PREVENT PARAMILITARY ACTORS FROM 
                   PARTICIPATING IN INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 6 months after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretaries of Defense, Commerce, 
     Treasury, and Homeland Security shall promulgate and 
     implement regulations to--
       (1) coordinate in identifying foreign fishing vessels that 
     engage in paramilitary operations; and
       (2) report such vessels to each international fisheries 
     management organization in which the United States is a 
     member for inclusion in each such organization's respective 
     Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing vessel list.
       (b) Definition of Paramilitary Operations.--In this 
     section, the term ``paramilitary operations''--
       (1) means actions taken by the operator of a fishing vessel 
     to attack or intimidate vessels operating in international 
     waters, or the exclusive economic zone of a foreign country, 
     by firing upon a vessel, ramming a vessel, intentionally 
     maneuvering near another vessel in an unsafe manner with 
     intent to frighten or intimidate, intentionally entering or 
     remaining within the exclusive economic zone of a foreign 
     country without the permission of the government of that 
     country, or otherwise violating the United Nations Convention 
     on the Law of the Sea while coordinating with the military of 
     a foreign country in a military operation; and
       (2) includes efforts to gather and report military 
     intelligence on behalf of a foreign country.
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