S.Amdt. 631

SA 631. 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 A of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1207. PROHIBITION ON SALES AND TRANSFERS TO SAUDI ARABIA
AND THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.

(a) Restriction on Transfer.--Except as provided in
subsection (c), during the period beginning on the date of
the enactment of this Act and ending on September 30, 2020,
the United States Government--
(1) may not sell, transfer, or authorize licenses for
export to a covered foreign country for any item designated
under Category III, IV, VII, or VIII on the United States
Munitions List pursuant to section 38(a)(1) of the Arms
Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2778(a)(1)); and
(2) shall suspend any licenses or other approvals that were
issued before the date of the enactment of this Act for the
export to a covered foreign country of any item designated
under Category IV of the United States Munitions List.
(b) Prohibition on Transfer of Components or
Technologies.--Except as provided in subsection (c),
beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act--
(1) any entity in the United States shall not sell or
transfer intellectual property, electronic components, or
related technologies to a covered foreign country for any
item designated under Category IV of the United States
Munitions List; and
(2) any licenses or other approvals that were issued before
the date of the enactment of this Act for assembly or
production in a covered foreign country for any item
designated under Category IV of the United States Munitions
List shall be void.
(c) Exception.--The prohibitions under subsections (a) and
(b) shall not apply to sales, transfers, or export licenses
relating to ground-based missile defense systems.
(d) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Covered foreign country.--The term ``covered foreign
country'' means Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
(2) Entity in the united states.--The term ``entity in the
United States'' means an officer or employee of the United
States Government acting in an official capacity or a person
engaged in the business of brokering activities with respect
to the manufacture, export, import, or transfer of any
defense article or defense service in the United States.
(3) Ground-based missile defense systems.--The term
``ground-based missile defense system'' mean an anti-
ballistic missile system for intercepting or destroying an
incoming short-, medium-, or long-range ballistic missile.
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