S.Amdt. 1081

SA 1081. Mr. YOUNG (for himself, Mr. Murphy, and Mr. Heller)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1003
proposed by Mr. McCain (for himself and Mr. Reed) to the bill H.R.
2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2018 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:

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

SEC. ___. LIMITATION ON REFUELING OF AIRCRAFT OF SAUDI ARABIA
FOR OPERATIONS IN YEMEN.

(a) In General.--None of the funds authorized to be
appropriated by this Act may be obligated or expended for the
refueling of aircraft of Saudi Arabia for operations in Yemen
until 14 days after the date on which the Secretary of State,
in coordination with the Administrator of the United States
Agency for International Development, submits to the
appropriate committees of Congress and the Comptroller
General of the United States a certification described in
subsection (b), together with a detailed justification for
the certification.
(b) Certification Described.--A certification described in
this subsection is a certification as follows:
(1) That the Government of Saudi Arabia is complying fully
with its obligations in Yemen under each of the following:
(A) Customary international law rule 55.
(B) Articles 14 and 18 of the Additional Protocol (II) to
the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949.
(2) That the Government of Saudi Arabia is facilitating the
delivery and installation of cranes to the port of Hodeidah
that will expedite the delivery of humanitarian assistance.
(c) Comptroller General Report.--Not later than 60 days
after the submittal of the certification described in
subsection (b), the Comptroller General shall submit to the
appropriate committees of Congress a report assessing whether
the conclusions in the certification are fully supported, and
the justification for the certification pursuant to
subsection (a) is sufficiently detailed, and identifying
whether any shortcomings, limitations, or other reportable
matters exist that affect the quality of the certification.
(d) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
means--
(1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Foreign Relations, and the Committee on Appropriations of the
Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Appropriations of the
House of Representatives.
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