S.Amdt. 4236

SA 4236. Mr. LUGAR submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2766, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2007 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

Beginning on page 453, strike line 1 though page 461, line 7, and insert the following:

SEC. 1206. MODIFICATION OF AUTHORITIES RELATING TO THE BUILDING OF THE CAPACITY OF FOREIGN MILITARY FORCES.

(a) Authority.--The President may direct the Secretary of State to work with the Secretary of Defense to provide assistance to help build the capacity of partner nations' military forces to disrupt or destroy terrorist networks, close safe havens, or participate in or support United States, coalition, or international military or stability operations.

(b) Types of Partnership Security Capacity Building.--The partnership security capacity building authorized under subsection (a) may include the provision of equipment, supplies, services, training, and funding.

(c) Availability of Funds.--

(1) Transfer of funds.--The Secretary of Defense may support partnership security capacity building as authorized under subsection (a) by transferring funds available to the Department of Defense to a partnership security building account of the Department of State for use as provided under paragraph (2). Any funds so transferred shall remain available until expended.

(2) Use of funds.--The funds transferred to the partnership security building account under paragraph (1) shall, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State, be made available for use by the Secretary of Defense to carry out activities to build partnership security capacity. The amount of funds made available for such purpose may not exceed $400,000,000 in any fiscal year.

(d) Approval and Notification Requirements.--Not later than 10 days before approving the use by the Secretary of Defense of funds to carry out activities to build partnership security capacity under subsection (c)(2), the Secretary of State shall submit to the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on International Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives a notification of the countries chosen to be recipients and the specific type of assistance that will be provided, including the specific entity within the recipient country that will be provided the assistance and the type and duration of such assistance.

(e) Applicable Law.--The authorities and limitations in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.) and the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-102) shall be applicable to assistance provided and funds transferred under the authority of this section.

(f) Expiration.--The authority in this section shall expire on September 30, 2008.

(g) Repeal of Superseded Authority and Modification of Existing Reporting Requirement.--Section 1206 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006 (Public Law 109-163; 119 Stat. 3456) is amended--

(1) in the heading, by striking “authority to build” and inserting “report on”;

(2) by striking subsections (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), and (g); and

(3) in subsection (f)--

(A) by striking “(f) Report.--”;

(B) by striking “the congressional committees specified in subsection (e)(3)” and inserting “the congressional defense committees and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives”;

(C) in paragraph (1), by striking “, including strengths and weaknesses for the purposes described in subsection (a)”;

(D) in paragraph (2), by striking “, including for the purposes described in subsection (a)”; and

(E) in paragraph (3), by striking “, including for the purposes described in subsection (a)”.