S.Amdt. 2717

SA 2717. 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 E of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 12__. EQUALITY OF TREATMENT IN ARMS SALES FOR TAIWAN.

(a) In General.--The President shall ensure that the United
States Government treats any proposed arms sale for Taiwan
with the same timeline, process, and procedure, including
formal notification to Congress under the Arms Export Control
Act (22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.), accorded to a proposed arms
transfer for any other country.
(b) OIG Reporting.--For each of the five years beginning on
the day after the date of the enactment of this Act, the
Inspectors General of the Department of State and the
Department of Defense shall--
(1) review the compliance of the Department of State and
the Department of Defense, respectively, with this section;
and
(2) submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a
report on such compliance.
(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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