S.Amdt. 1434

SA 1434. Mr. HATCH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 1251 submitted by Mr. Brown (for himself, Mr. Peters, Mr.
Schumer, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Menendez, and Mr. Casey) to the 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:

Beginning on page 1 of the amendment, strike ``Additional
Countries'' on line 2 and all that follows and insert the
following:
Procedures With Respect to Agreements With Countries Not in
Compliance With Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.--

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(1) Invoking exception.--If the President submits to the
appropriate congressional committees a letter stating that a
country subject to paragraph (6) of section 106(b) has taken
concrete actions to implement the principal recommendations
in the most recent annual report on trafficking in persons
described in that paragraph, that paragraph shall not apply
with respect to agreements with that country.
(2) Content of letter; public availability.--A letter
submitted under paragraph (1) with respect to a country
shall--
(A) include a description of the concrete actions that the
country has taken to implement the principal recommendations
described in paragraph (1); and
(B) be made available to the public.
(3) Appropriate congressional committees defined.--In this
subsection, the term ``appropriate congressional committees''
means--
(A) the Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on
Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives; and
(B) the Committee on Finance and the Committee on Foreign
Relations of the Senate.
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