S.Amdt. 594

SA 594. Mr. MURPHY 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 subtitle F of title VIII, add the following:

SEC. 866. AUTHORITY TO RESTRICT PROCUREMENT FROM COUNTRIES
THAT QUALIFY FOR RECIPROCAL PROCUREMENT.

The Secretary of Defense may restrict acquisitions pursuant
to subsection (c) of section 225.872-1 of the Defense Federal
Acquisition Regulation Supplement to domestic sources or
reject an otherwise acceptable offer from a qualifying
country listed in subsection (a) of such section (or any
successor regulation), for national defense reason, if
restricting the acquisition would have a substantial positive
effect on domestic employment. Before determining not to
apply the restrictions of chapter 83 of title 41, United
States Code (commonly referred to as the ``Buy American
Act'') pursuant to such section, the Secretary shall conduct
an assessment of the impact on domestic employment. The
Secretary shall provide an annual report on the findings of
all such assessments to the congressional defense committees
and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Homeland Security
of the House of Representatives.
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