[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2539-S2540]
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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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