S.Amdt. 2449

SA 2449. Mr. PAUL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 22, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt employees with health coverage under TRICARE or the Veterans Administration from being taken into account for purposes of determining the employers to which the employer mandate applies under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. PROHIBITION ON ASSISTANCE TO FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS THAT VIOLATE HUMAN RIGHTS WITH RESPECT TO RELIGION.

(a) In General.--Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a list of each foreign government that the President determines, based on credible information, enforces a death sentence or life imprisonment on the basis of--

(1) anti-apostasy laws that explicitly prohibit the disaffiliation from a particular religion;

(2) anti-blasphemy laws; or

(3) laws prohibiting marriage between individuals of different religious faiths.

(b) Prohibition on Assistance.--No amounts may be obligated or expended to provide United States assistance to the government of a country identified in the report submitted by the President under subsection (a).

(c) Appropriate Congressional Committees.--In this section, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means--

(1) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and

(2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.