S.Amdt. 1507

SA 1507. Mr. PORTMAN (for himself and Mr. McCain) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr.
McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to authorize appropriations for fiscal
year 2016 for military activities of the Department of Defense and for
military construction, to prescribe military personnel strengths for
such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on
the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle D of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1258. APPROVAL OF EXPORT LICENCES AND LETTERS OF REQUEST
TO ASSIST THE GOVERNMENT OF UKRAINE.

(a) In General.--
(1) Export license applications.--The Secretary of State
shall provide the specified congressional committees a
detailed list of all export license applications, including
requests for marketing licenses, for the sale of defense
articles and defense services to Ukraine. The list shall
include the date when the application or request was first
submitted, the current status of each application or request,
and the estimated timeline for adjudication of such
applications or requests. The Secretary shall give priority
to processing these applications and requests.
(2) Letters of request.--The Secretary of State shall also
provide the specified congressional committees a detailed
list of all pending Letters of Request for Foreign Military
Sales to Ukraine, including the date when the letter was
first submitted, the current status, and the estimated
timeline for adjudication of such letters.
(b) Reports.--Not later than 30 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, and every 90 days thereafter, the
Secretary of State shall submit to the specified
congressional committees a report outlining the status of the
applications, requests for marketing licenses and Letters of
Request described under subsection (a). The report shall
terminate upon certification by the President that the
sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Government of
Ukraine has been restored or 5 years after the date of the
enactment of this Act, whichever occurs first.
(c) Specified Congressional Committees Defined.--In this
subsection, the term ``specified congressional committees''
means--
(1) the congressional defense committees; and
(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and
the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of
Representatives.
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