S.Amdt. 528

SA 528. Mr. LEAHY 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:

On page 603, after line 25, add the following:
(e) Comptroller General of the United States Report.--
(1) In general.--Not later than May 1, 2018, the
Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the
appropriate committees of Congress a report that sets forth
the following:
(A) A description of the mechanisms and authorities used by
the Department of Defense and the Department of State to
conduct training of foreign security forces on human rights
and international humanitarian law.
(B) A description of the funding used to support the
training described in paragraph (1).
(C) A description and assessment of the methodology used by
each of the Department of Defense and the Department of State
to assess the effectiveness of such training.
(D) Such recommendations for improvements to such training
as the Comptroller General considers appropriate.
(E) Such other matters relating to such training as the
Comptroller General considers appropriate.
(2) Appropriate committees of congress defined.--In this
subsection, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
means--
(A) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Foreign Relations, and the Committee on Appropriations of the
Senate; and
(B) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Appropriations of the
House of Representatives.
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