S.Amdt. 1793

SA 1793. Mr. DURBIN (for himself, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Udall, Mr. Murphy,
and Mr. Tester) 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 division A , insert the
following:

SEC. ___. PROHIBITION ON USE OF NATIONAL DEFENSE FUNDS FOR
PHYSICAL BARRIER ALONG THE SOUTHERN BORDER.

(a) Prohibition.--National defense funds may not be
obligated, expended, or otherwise used to design or carry out
a project to construct, replace, or modify a wall, fence, or
other physical barrier along the international border between
the United States and Mexico.
(b) National Defense Funds Defined.--In this section, the
term ``national defense funds'' means--
(1) amounts authorized to be appropriated for any purpose
under this division or authorized to be appropriated in
division A of any National Defense Authorization Act for any
of the fiscal years 2016 through 2020, including any amounts
of such an authorization made available to the Department of
Defense and transferred to another authorization by the
Secretary of Defense pursuant to transfer authority available
to the Secretary; and
(2) amounts appropriated in any Act pursuant to an
authorization of appropriations described in paragraph (1).
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