S.Amdt. 4161

SA 4161. Mr. RUBIO (for himself and Mr. Cruz) submitted an amendment
intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2943, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2017 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:

Strike section 1204 and insert the following:

SEC. 1204. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR TRAVEL TO CUBA OR
TO INVITE, ASSIST, OR OTHERWISE ASSURE THE
PARTICIPATION OF CUBA IN CERTAIN JOINT OR
MULTILATERAL EXERCISES.

(a) Prohibition.--No amounts authorized to be appropriated
by this Act, or by any Act enacted before the date of the
enactment of this Act, may be used for a purpose specified in
subsection (b) until the Secretary of Defense, in
coordination with the Director of National Intelligence,
submits to Congress written assurances that--
(1) the Cuban military has ceased committing human rights
abuses against civil rights activists and other citizens of
Cuba;
(2) the Cuban military has ceased providing military
intelligence, weapons training, strategic planning, and
security logistics to the military and security forces of
Venezuela;
(3) the Cuban military and other security forces in Cuba
have ceased all persecution, intimidation, arrest,
imprisonment, and assassination of dissidents and members of
faith based organizations;
(4) the Government of Cuba no longer demands that the
United States relinquish control of Guantanamo Bay, in
violation of an international treaty; and
(5) the officials of the Cuban military that were indicted
in the murder of United States citizens during the shootdown
of planes operated by the Brothers to the Rescue humanitarian
organization in 1996 are brought to justice.
(b) Purposes.--The purposes specified in this subsection
are as follows:
(1) To station personnel or authorize temporary duty for
personnel at the United States embassy in Cuba.
(2) To invite, assist, or otherwise assure the
participation of the Government of Cuba in any joint or
multilateral exercise or related security conference between
the United States and Cuba.
(c) Exception.--The prohibition in subsection (a) shall not
apply to any travel or joint or multilateral exercise or
operation related to humanitarian assistance or disaster
response.
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