S.Amdt. 466

SA 466. Mr. SMITH (for himself and Mr. Hatch) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 762, making supplemental appropriations to support Department of Defense operations in Iraq, Department of Homeland Security, and Related Efforts for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2003, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 89, between lines 4 and 5, insert the following:

TITLE V--GENERAL PROVISIONS, THIS ACT

Sec. 501. (a) None of the funds made available during fiscal year 2003 by this or any other Act may be made available to the Government of the Russian Federation unless the President determines and certifies in writing to the appropriate congressional committees that such Government is not enforcing any statute, executive order, regulation, or other government policy that would discriminate, or would have as its principal effect discrimination, against a religious group or a religious community in violation of an international agreement on human rights or religious freedoms to which the Russian Federation is a party.

(b) In this section the term “appropriate congressional committees” means the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives.

(c) The prohibition in subsection (a) shall take effect on the date that is 45 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.