[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4650]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2304. Mr. COTTON submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2025 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 XXVIII, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. 28__. AUTHORITY TO CARRY OUT FOREIGN-FUNDED CONSTRUCTION 
                   PROJECTS INCIDENT TO FOREIGN MILITARY SALES.

       (a) In General.--Subchapter I of chapter 169 of title 10, 
     United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new section:

     ``Sec. 2818. Foreign military sales funded construction

       ``(a) In General.--The Secretary concerned may carry out a 
     military construction project not otherwise authorized by law 
     that is funded in full by a country or countries 
     participating in the foreign military sales program and is 
     incident to the sale or lease of defense articles or defense 
     services under the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2751 et 
     seq.).
       ``(b) Notification Required.--When a decision is made to 
     carry out a military construction project under this section 
     for which the estimated cost exceeds $250,000,000, the 
     Secretary concerned shall notify the appropriate committees 
     of Congress of the scope of the proposed project.
       ``(c) Definitions.--In this section:
       ``(1) The terms `defense article' and `defense service' 
     have the meanings given those terms in section 47 of the Arms 
     Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2794).
       ``(2) The term `foreign military sales program' means the 
     program authorized under chapter 2 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 
     2761 et seq.).''.
       (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the 
     beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after the 
     item relating to section 2817 the following new item:

``2818. Foreign military sales funded construction.''.
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