S.Amdt. 2800

SA 2800. Mr. BLUMENTHAL submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed to amendment SA 2282 proposed by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and
Mr. McCain) 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:
``(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;
``(B) require reporting of subcontract and subgrant data at
tier one not later than January 1, 2020;
``(C) require reporting of subcontract and subgrant data at
tier two not later than January 1, 2022; and
``(D) include in the annual report required by section 2(g)
of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act
(Public

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Law 109-282; 31 U.S.C. 6101 note), progress on these stages
and options for transparency at lower stages starting in
fiscal year 2023.
``(3) Exceptions.--
``(A) Minimum threshold.--Consistent with the Federal
Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Public
Law 109-282; 31 U.S.C. 6101 note), 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.
``(C) Waivers.--
``(i) Guidance.--Not later than one year after the date of
enactment of this subsection, the Office of Management and
Budget shall issue guidance to establish a process by which a
contractor, subcontractor, grantee, subgrantee, or parties to
cooperative agreements may request a waiver from any of the
requirements set forth in the section.
``(ii) Criteria.--To receive a waiver, the contractor,
subcontractor, grantee, subgrantee, or party to a cooperative
agreement must demonstrate why it cannot currently meet the
requirements and must explain the steps it will take to meet
the requirements once the waiver expires.
``(iii) Expiration.--This waiver option will expire on
January 1, 2021.
``(iv) Waiver list.--The Office of Management and Budget
shall maintain a public list of all contractors,
subcontractors, grantees, subgrantees, or parties to
cooperative agreements that have received a waiver.
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