[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S2961]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 806. Mr. SCHATZ 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:

       Insert after section 1253 the following:

     SEC. 1253A. USES OF FUNDS RECEIVED FROM ANY TRANSFERS OF 
                   SUBMARINES TO AUSTRALIA UNDER THE AUKUS 
                   PARTNERSHIP.

       If the President is authorized to transfer submarines to 
     Australia under the security activities framework for the 
     partnership among Australia, the United Kingdom, and the 
     United States, carries out such a transfer, and the transfer 
     occurs in compliance with section 21 of the Arms Export 
     Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2761) and is not subject to section 36 
     of such Act (22 U.S.C. 2776) or section 8678 of title 10, 
     United States Code, the President may use funds received 
     pursuant to the transfer--
       (1) for the acquisition of submarines to replace the 
     submarines transferred to the Government of Australia;
       (2) for improvements to the submarine industrial base of 
     the United States; or
       (3) with respect to any public or private shipyard in the 
     United States at which the sustainment, repair, or upgrade of 
     submarines occurs and at which there are fewer individuals 
     employed in the submarine industrial base than are necessary 
     to efficiently carry out such activities, to improve the 
     training, retention, and recruitment of the submarine 
     industrial base workforce at such shipyard.

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