S.Amdt. 585

SA 585. Mr. YOUNG 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

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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 G of title XII, add the following:

SEC. ___. LIMITATION ON SALE OR LICENSE FOR EXPORT OF DEFENSE
ARTICLES TO SAUDI ARABIA.

(a) In General.--The United States Government may not enter
into an agreement to sell or lease any defense article to the
Government of Saudi Arabia, and may not issue any license for
the export of a defense article to the Government of Saudi
Arabia pursuant to the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C.
2751 et seq.), during fiscal year 2018 until 14 days after
the date on which the Secretary of State, in coordination
with the Administrator of the United States Agency for
International Development, submits to the appropriate
committees of Congress and the Comptroller General of the
United States a certification described in subsection (b),
together with a detailed justification for the certification.
(b) Certification Described.--A certification described in
this subsection is a certification as follows:
(1) That the Government of Saudi Arabia is complying fully
with its obligations in Yemen under each of the following:
(A) Customary international law rule 55.
(B) Articles 14 and 18 of the Additional Protocol (II) to
the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949.
(2) That the Government of Saudi Arabia is facilitating the
delivery and installation of cranes to the port of Hodeidah
that will expedite the delivery of humanitarian assistance.
(c) Comptroller General Report.--Not later than 60 days
after the submittal of the certification described in
subsection (b), the Comptroller General shall submit to the
appropriate committees of Congress a report assessing whether
the conclusions in the certification are fully supported, and
the justification for the certification pursuant to
subsection (a) is sufficiently detailed, and identifying
whether any shortcomings, limitations, or other reportable
matters exist that affect the quality of the certification.
(d) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) 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.
(2) The term ``defense article'' has the meaning given that
term in section 47 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C.
2794).
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