S.Amdt. 519

SA 519. Mr. CARDIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2018 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 appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY TO ASSIST GOVERNMENT OF
NIGERIA EFFORTS TO COUNTER BOKO HARAM.

(a) In General.--Not later than 120 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter for the
next three years, the President shall submit to the
appropriate congressional committees a report that contains a
comprehensive strategy to support Nigeria's efforts to
counter Boko Haram through engagement with the Nigerian
security sector.
(b) Elements.--The report required under subsection (a)
shall include--
(1) an assessment conducted by the Office of the Director
of National Intelligence of the major obstacles to Nigeria's
military effectiveness in northeastern Nigeria, including
recommendations for United States Government diplomatic
actions and security cooperation programs and activities to
address such obstacles and a description of funding needs and
actions that must be taken by the Government of Nigeria to
address such obstacles;
(2) an assessment of the efforts taken by the Nigerian
military to hold soldiers accountable for human rights
violations, including the Zaria massacre;
(3) a plan for the United States Government to work to help
the Government of Nigeria increase its capacity to
investigate and prosecute human rights abuses and to
effectively try cases through transparent mechanisms;
(4) a description of all security cooperation currently
being provided to the Nigerian security sector, as well as a
description of current deployment of uniformed personnel
currently assisting with counter-Boko Haram efforts in the
Lake Chad Basin and a description of their location and their
responsibilities; and
(5) any other matters the President deems appropriate.
(c) Form.--The report required under subsection (a) shall
be submitted in unclassified form with a classified annex.
(d) Prohibition of Transfers.--No precision-guided
munitions or other types of air-delivered bombs may be
transferred to the Government of Nigeria until the President
certifies that the Government of Nigeria has made progress on
military accountability for human rights abuses, including
for the Zaria massacre in December 2015 that killed 300
people, and has publicly issued the findings of the inquiry
into the January 2016 bombing in Rann.
(e) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate congressional committees''
means--
(1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Foreign Relations, and the Select Committee on Intelligence
of the Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Foreign Relations, and the Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence of the House of Representatives.
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