S.Amdt. 377

SA 377. Mr. CARDIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him 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 end of title XII, add the following:

Subtitle H--Strategy to Enhance Human Rights Protections in Arms Sales

SEC. 1291. SHORT TITLE.

This subtitle may be cited as the ``Enhancing Human Rights
Protections in Arms Sales Act of 2019''.

SEC. 1292. STRATEGY TO ENHANCE HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTIONS 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, and every two years thereafter,
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--
(1) processes and procedures to--
(A) determine when United States military assistance and
arms transfers are used to commit gross violations of
internationally recognized human rights;
(B) 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;
(C) detect other violations of United States law concerning
United States military or security assistance, cooperation,
and arms 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;
(D) train partner militaries, security, and police forces
on methods for preventing civilian causalities; and
(E) 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;
(2) an implementation plan detailing specific and
measurable goals, benchmarks, timetables, performance
metrics, and monitoring and evaluation plans; and
(3) a report--
(A) detailing any United States military assistance and
arms transfers which the Secretary of State and the Secretary
of Defense determine to have been used, or are at risk of
being 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; and
(B) describing any measures to be taken by relevant
recipient countries or by the United States to ensure
accountability for prior misuse and to prevent future misuse.
(b) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate congressional committees''
means the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Foreign Relations, and the Committee on Appropriations of the
Senate and the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Appropriations of the
House of Representatives.
______