S.Amdt. 2055

SA 2055. Mr. COATS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1197, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2014 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:

On page _, between lines _ and _, insert the following:

SEC. __. ASSESSMENTS OF ARMS CONTROL, NONPROLIFERATION, AND DISARMAMENT AGREEMENT VERIFICATION.

Section 306 of the Arms Control and Disarmament Act (22 U.S.C. 2577) is amended--

(1) in subsection (a)(3), by inserting “the intelligence community, and the Department of Defense” after “Department of State”; and

(2) in subsection (b)--

(A) by striking “Request.--Upon” and inserting the following: “Request.--

“(1) In general.--Upon”;

(B) by striking “Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate or the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives” and inserting “Committee on Foreign Relations, the Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on Armed Services, or the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate or the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on Armed Services, or the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives”; and

(C) by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:

“(2) Content.--The report required under paragraph (1) shall specify--

“(A) the types of violations that the foreign country might engage in or attempt if the proposal becomes an agreement; and

“(B) the economic sanctions, military responses, and other options that might be considered by the United States Government in response to any such violation.

“(3) Proposal defined.--In this subsection, the term ‘proposal' means any proposal, whether formal or informal or in ‘white paper' form, that is, either directly or through intermediaries, provided in writing to a foreign country by the United States or provided in writing to the United States by a foreign country.”.