S.Amdt. 1833

SA 1833. Ms. BALDWIN 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, 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:

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

SEC. 1283. REPORT ON ACTIONS OF CERTAIN NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY
ORGANIZATION AND PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE
COUNTRIES ON HOLOCAUST ERA ASSETS AND RELATED
ISSUES.

(a) Report Required.--Not later than 180 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State
shall, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, submit
to Congress an assessment of the compliance of each covered
country with, and the progress of such country toward, the
goals and objectives of the 2009 Terezin Declaration on
Holocaust Era Assets and Related Issues.
(b) Elements.--The assessment of a country under the report
required by subsection (a) shall include the following:
(1) An assessment of national laws or enforceable policies
supporting the goals and objectives of the Terezin
Declaration, including--
(A) the return to the rightful owner of any property that
was wrongfully confiscated or transferred to another
individual by Nazi, Nazi collaborator, or Communist regimes;
(B) if return of such property is no longer possible, the
provision of comparable substitute property or the payment of
equitable compensation to the rightful owner in accordance
with principles of justice and through an expeditious claims-
driven administrative process that is just, transparent, and
fair;
(C) the return to Jewish communities of any religious or
communal property that was stolen as a result of the
Holocaust or subsequently nationalized by Communist regimes;
(D) the use of the Washington Conference Principles on
Nazi-Confiscated Art, agreed to December 3, 1998, in settling
all claims involving publically and privately held movable
property.
(2) An assessment of national administrative and legal
processes successfully implementing such laws.
(3) An assessment of mechanism for and demonstrable
progress on the resolution of claims of United States citizen
Holocaust survivors and United States citizen family members
of Holocaust victims.
(4) Recommendations for actions to be taken by the country,
and the United States Government, to improve country
compliance with, and progress toward, the goals and
objectives of the Terezin Declaration.
(c) Covered Country Defined.--In this section, the term
``covered country'' means any country that is a signatory or
observer to the 2009 Terezin Declaration on Holocaust Era
Assets and Related Issues among the following:
(1) A country that is a signatory to the Partnership for
Peace Framework Documents, but is not a member of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
(2) A country that became a member of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization after January 1, 1999.
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