S.Amdt. 2533

SA 2533. 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 F of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 12__. REPORT ON TRANS-SAHARA COUNTERTERRORISM
PARTNERSHIP AND PARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EAST
AFRICA COUNTERTERRORISM.

(a) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in
consultation with the Secretary of State and the
Administrator of the United States Agency for International
Development, shall submit to the appropriate committees of
Congress a report that--
(1) updates the report submitted under section 1206(a)(3)
of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
2014 (Public Law 113-66; 127 Stat. 900; 22 U.S.C. 2151 note);
and
(2) provides a comprehensive review of the manner in which
the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership and the
Partnership For Regional East Africa Counterterrorism support
the policy priorities of the President in the west and
northwest regions of Africa and east Africa.
(b) Matters to Be Included.--The report required by
subsection (a) shall include the following:
(1) Each of the elements set forth in section 1206(a)(3) of
such Act.
(2) A detailed description of the policy priorities of the
President in the west and northwest regions of Africa and
east Africa;
(3) An assessment of the manner in which the strategic
priorities of the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership
and the Partnership For Regional East Africa
Counterterrorism, as described in the report submitted under
section 7042(b) of the Consolidated Further and Continuing
Appropriations Act, 2015 (Public Law 113-235), support
priorities of the President in such regions.
(4) An assessment of the manner in which security
cooperation authorized to be conducted in Africa under this
Act and under title 10 of the United States Code, has been
coordinated with activities of the Trans-Sahara
Counterterrorism Partnership and the Partnership For Regional
East Africa Counterterrorism to meet identified policy
priorities during each of the three fiscal years beginning
before the date of the enactment of this Act.
(5) A description of countering violence extremism and any
additional counterterrorism programs and activities
implemented in Africa by the Department of State, the
Department of Defense, and the United States Agency for
International Development that--
(A) support such policy priorities; and
(B) are separate from the programs and activities of the
Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership and the Partnership
For Regional East Africa Counterterrorism.
(6) The amounts programmed through the Trans-Sahara
Counterterrorism Partnership and the Partnership For Regional
East Africa Counterterrorism during each of the three fiscal
years beginning before the date of the enactment of this Act,
including, to the maximum extent practicable, funding
information disaggregated by country.
(7) Data on allocations, unobligated balances, unliquidated
obligations, and disbursements for the Trans-Sahara
Counterterrorism Partnership and the Partnership For Regional
East Africa Counterterrorism by country and account for each
of the three fiscal years beginning before the date of the
enactment of this Act.
(8) A description of the processes in each administering
agency for collecting and maintaining financial data related
to the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership and the
Partnership For Regional East Africa Counterterrorism.
(c) Form.--The report required by subsection (a) shall be
submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified
annex.
(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, the Committee on Appropriations, and the
Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Appropriations, and the
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of
Representatives.
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