S.Amdt. 4395

SA 4395. Mr. BLUMENTHAL 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:

At the end of subtitle H of title VIII, add the following:

SEC. 899C. REPORT ON DELAY IN ISSUANCE OF FINAL RULE ON
ENDING TRAFFICKING IN GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING.

Section 1708(c)(1) of the National Defense Authorization
Act for Fiscal Year 2013 (22 U.S.C. 7104d(c)(1)) is amended
by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
``(C)(i) If the final rule on defining `recruitment fees'
(FAR Case 2015-017), which would further amend the amended
Federal Acquisition Regulation pursuant to subparagraph (A)
(FAR Case 2013-001, final rule issued January 22, 2015), has
not been issued by October 31, 2016, the Secretary of
Defense, the Administrator for General Services, and the
Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space shall, not
later than November 30, 2016, jointly submit to the
appropriate congressional committees a report on the reasons
for the delay.
``(ii) In this subparagraph, the term `appropriate
congressional committees' means--
``(I) the congressional defense committees;
``(II) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee
on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate;
and
``(III) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee
on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of
Representatives.''.
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