S.Amdt. 2531

SA 2531. Mr. MENENDEZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and 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 G of title XII, add the following:

SEC. __. SECURITY ASSISTANCE FOR SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA.

(a) Requirement.--All defense articles, defense services,
security and military assistance, and related cooperation
provided to a country in sub-Saharan Africa shall be provided
as part of a comprehensive strategy for democracy and
institution-building in such country.
(b) Prohibition of Assistance.--Defense articles, defense
services, security and military assistance, and related
cooperation may not be provided in any fiscal year to any
country in sub-Saharan Africa in which less than $2,000,000
in United States assistance in democracy and governance
programming is being administered in such fiscal year unless,
not less than 15 calendar days before such assistance is
provided, the Secretary of State or the Secretary of Defense,
as applicable, notifies the appropriate committees of
Congress of the intent to provide such assistance.
(c) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
means--
(1) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Foreign Relations of the Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.
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