S.Amdt. 1410

SA 1410. Mr. MENENDEZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 1221 proposed by Mr. Hatch to the bill H.R. 1314, to
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a right to an
administrative appeal relating to adverse determinations of tax-exempt
status of certain organizations; which was ordered to lie on the table;
as follows:

On page 100, between lines 13 and 14, insert the following:
(B) Exception.--
(i) Invoking exception.--If the Secretary of State submits
to the appropriate congressional committees a letter stating
that a country subject to subparagraph (A) has taken concrete
actions to implement the principal recommendations in the
most recent annual report on trafficking in persons, this
paragraph shall not apply with respect to agreements with
that country.
(ii) Content of letter; public availability.--A letter
submitted under clause (i) with respect to a country shall--

(I) include a description of the concrete actions that the
country has taken to implement the principal recommendations
described in clause (i); and
(II) be made available to the public.

(iii) Appropriate congressional committees defined.--In
this subparagraph, the term ``appropriate congressional
committees'' means--

(I) the Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on
Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives; and
(II) the Committee on Finance and the Committee on Foreign
Relations of the Senate.

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