S.Amdt. 2348

SA 2348. Mr. BLUMENTHAL submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed to amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and

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Mr. McCain) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 5515, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 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 B of title VIII, add the following:

SEC. 823. ENHANCEMENT OF MONITORING AND INVESTIGATION OF
TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS.

Section 1704 of the National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2013 (22 U.S.C. 7104b) is amended by adding at
the end the following new subsection:
``(e) Supply Chain Transparency.--
``(1) In general.--To facilitate monitoring and
investigation of human trafficking, the Office of Management
and Budget shall ensure that the searchable public website
established pursuant to the Federal Funding Accountability
and Transparency Act of 2006 (Public Law 109-282) includes
the following information on Federal awards at each tier to
both domestic and foreign awardees:
``(A) The location of the entity receiving the award and
the location of performance and production facilities under
the award, including the name of a facility, street address,
city, State if applicable, congressional district if
applicable, and country.
``(B) Notice of whether a contractor must provide a
compliance plan to prevent human trafficking under section
1703 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 2013 (22 U.S.C. 1704a).
``(C) Notice of whether the location of performance or
production facilities is within a country ranked at tier 2 or
tier 3 in the most recent Human Trafficking Report of the
Department of State.
``(D) Additional information that facilitates monitoring
and investigation of human trafficking.
``(2) Phase-in period for reporting subcontracts and
subgrants.--Pursuant to paragraph (1), the Director of the
Office of Management and Budget shall--
``(A) issue a time-bound plan to phase in the new reporting
not later than January 1, 2020; and
``(B) require reporting of subcontract and subgrant data at
all tiers not later than January 1, 2022.
``(3) Exceptions.--
``(A) Minimum threshold.--Consistent with the Federal
Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Public
Law 109-282), executive agencies need not disclose contracts,
subcontracts, grants, subgrants, or cooperative agreements
less than $25,000 or contractors with gross income less than
$300,000 in the previous tax year.
``(B) Security risks.--An awarding agency need not disclose
the identity of a foreign awardee if the awarding agency
certifies that disclosure of the contractor's identity would
pose a security risk to the contractor or its contractual
mission.
``(4) Scope.--For purposes of this section--
``(A) awards include contracts and subcontracts, grants and
subgrants, and cooperative agreements; and
``(B) subcontracts include--
``(i) all tiers of the supply chain, not just those to
which the prime contractor is a party; and
``(ii) supplier agreements with vendors, such as long-term
arrangements for materials or supplies that benefit multiple
contracts or with respect to which costs are normally applied
to a contractor's general and administrative expenses or
indirect costs.''.
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