S.Amdt. 1701

SA 1701. Mr. CARDIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2021 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 in title XII, insert the
following:

Subtitle__--Enhancing Human Rights Protections in Arms Sales

SEC. __. SHORT TITLE.

This subtitle may be cited as the ``Enhancing Human Rights
Protections in Arms Sales Act of 2020''.

SEC. __. STRATEGY ON ENHANCING HUMAN RIGHTS CONSIDERATIONS IN
UNITED STATES MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND ARMS
TRANSFERS.

(a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, with the
concurrence of the Secretary of Defense, shall submit to the
appropriate congressional committees a strategy to enhance
United States efforts to ensure human rights protections for
United States military assistance and arms transfers. The
strategy shall include processes and procedures to--
(1) determine when United States military assistance and
arms transfers are used to commit gross violations of
internationally recognized human rights;
(2) determine when United States military assistance and
arms transfers are used to undermine international peace and
security or contribute to gross violations of internationally
recognized human rights, including acts of gender-based
violence and acts of violence against children, violations of
international humanitarian law, terrorism, mass atrocities,
or transnational organized crime;
(3) detect other violations of United States law concerning
United States military or security assistance, cooperation,
and arms

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transfers, including the diversion of such assistance or the
use of such assistance by security force or police units
credibly implicated in gross violations of internationally
recognized human rights;
(4) train partner militaries, security, and police forces
on methods for preventing civilian causalities; and
(5) determine whether individuals or units that have
received United States military, security, or police training
or have participated or are scheduled to participate in joint
exercises with United States forces have later been credibly
implicated in gross violations of internationally recognized
human rights.
(b) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate congressional committees''
means the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Armed
Services and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of
Representatives.
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