[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2539-S2540]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 364. Mr. MANCHIN (for himself, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Rounds, and Mr. 
Scott of Florida) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him 
to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024 
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 C of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1240A. EXPANSION OF FORFEITED PROPERTY AVAILABLE TO 
                   REMEDIATE HARMS TO UKRAINE FROM RUSSIAN 
                   AGGRESSION.

       (a) In General.--Subsection (c) of section 1708 of the 
     Additional Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023 
     (division M of Public Law 117-328) is amended--

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       (1) in paragraph (2), by striking ``which property 
     belonged'' and all that follows and inserting the following: 
     ``which property--
       ``(A) belonged to, was possessed by, or was controlled by a 
     person subject to sanctions imposed by the United States with 
     respect to the Russian Federation under any provision of law;
       ``(B) was involved in an act in violation of--
       ``(i) any sanction described in subparagraph (A); or
       ``(ii) any restriction on the export, reexport, or in-
     country transfer of items imposed by the United States under 
     the Export Administration Regulations, or any restriction on 
     the export, reexport, or retransfer of defense articles under 
     the International Traffic in Arms Regulations under 
     subchapter M of chapter I of title 22, Code of Federal 
     Regulations, with respect to--

       ``(I) the Russian Federation, Belarus, the Crimea, or the 
     so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republic regions of 
     Ukraine;
       ``(II) any person in any such country or region on a 
     restricted parties list; or
       ``(III) any person located in any other country that has 
     been added to a restricted parties list in connection with 
     the malign conduct of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, 
     including the annexation of the Crimea region of Ukraine in 
     March 2014 and the invasion beginning in February 2022 of 
     Ukraine, as substantially enabled by Belarus; or

       ``(C) was involved in any related conspiracy, scheme, or 
     other Federal offense arising from the actions of, or doing 
     business with or acting on behalf of, the Russian Federation, 
     Belarus, or the Crimea, or the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk 
     People's Republic regions of Ukraine.''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(3) The term `Export Administration Regulations' has the 
     meaning given that term in section 1742 of the Export Control 
     Reform Act of 2018 (50 U.S.C. 4801).
       ``(4) The term `restricted parties list' means any of the 
     following lists maintained by the Bureau of Industry and 
     Security:
       ``(A) The Entity List set forth in Supplement No. 4 to part 
     744 of the Export Administration Regulations.
       ``(B) The Denied Persons List maintained pursuant to 
     section 764.3(a)(2) of the Export Administration Regulations.
       ``(C) The Unverified List set forth in Supplement No. 6 to 
     part 744 of the Export Administration Regulations.''.
       (b) Semiannual Reports.--Such section is further amended--
       (1) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections 
     (d) and (e), respectively; and
       (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
       ``(c) Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
     enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
     Fiscal Year 2024, and every 180 days thereafter, the Attorney 
     General, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury 
     and the Secretary of State, shall submit to the appropriate 
     congressional committees a report on--
       ``(1) transfers made under subsection (a) during the 180 
     days preceding submission of the report; and
       ``(2) progress made in remediating the harms of Russian 
     aggression towards Ukraine as a result of such transfers.''.
       (c) Plan Required.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 30 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Attorney General, in 
     consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and the 
     Secretary of State, shall submit to the appropriate 
     congressional committees a plan for using the authority 
     provided by section 1708 of the Additional Ukraine 
     Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023, as amended by this 
     section.
       (2) Appropriate congressional committees defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' 
     has the meaning given that term by section 1708 of the 
     Additional Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023, as 
     amended by this section.
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