S.Amdt. 267

SA 267. Mrs. SHAHEEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2020 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:

SEC. 12__. EFFORTS TO ENSURE MEANINGFUL PARTICIPATION OF
AFGHAN WOMEN IN PEACE NEGOTIATIONS IN
AFGHANISTAN.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of State, in coordination
with the Secretary of Defense, shall carry out activities to
ensure the meaningful participation of Afghan women in the
ongoing peace process in Afghanistan in a manner consistent
with the Women, Peace, and Security Act of 2017 (22 U.S.C.
2151 note; Public Law 115-68), which shall include--
(1) United States Government advocacy for the inclusion of
Afghan women leaders in ongoing and future negotiations to
end the conflict in Afghanistan; and
(2) efforts to ensure that any agreement reached with the
Taliban preserves constitutional protections on women's and
girls' human rights and ensures their freedom of movement,
rights to education and work, political participation, and
access to healthcare and justice.
(b) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in
coordination with the Secretary of Defense, shall submit to
the appropriate committees of Congress a report describing
the steps taken to fulfill the duties of the Secretary of
State and the Secretary of Defense under subsection (a).
(c) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
means--
(1) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Foreign Relations of the Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.
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