[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 123 (Tuesday, July 18, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S3074]
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SA 895. Mr. RUBIO 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 appropriate place in title XII, insert the
following:
SEC. 12__. PROHIBITION AGAINST UNITED STATES CONTRIBUTIONS TO
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS THAT ADVOCATE FOR
SEXUAL ACTIVITY AMONG MINORS.
Chapter 1 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961
(22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.) is amended by inserting after
section 113 the following:
``SEC. 114. PROHIBITION AGAINST UNITED STATES CONTRIBUTIONS
TO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS THAT ADVOCATE
FOR SEXUAL ACTIVITY AMONG MINORS.
``Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no assistance
may be provided under this part to--
``(1) any international organization that supports,
advocates for, or seeks to decriminalize sexual relations or
sexual conduct by persons who are younger than the minimum
age of consent (as defined by the national government of the
country in which such persons reside), or condemns laws
prohibiting such behavior; or
``(2) any entity or organization that--
``(A) supports or advocates for the belief that sexual
activity involving persons below the domestically prescribed
minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual in fact even
when it is not consensual under law; or
``(B) opposes any statute that recognizes that persons
below the prescribed age of consent do not have the capacity
to engage in consensual sex under any circumstance.''.
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