S.Amdt. 873

SA 873. Mr. DURBIN (for himself, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Van Hollen, and Mr.
Kaine) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA
764 proposed by Mr. Inhofe 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 G of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1290. LIMITATION ON SECURITY ASSISTANCE TO CAMEROON.

(a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), no
Federal funds may be obligated or expended to provide any
security assistance or to engage in any security cooperation
with the military and security forces of Cameroon until the
date on which the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with
the Secretary of State, certifies to the appropriate
committees of Congress that such military and security
forces--
(1) have demonstrated significant progress in abiding by
international human rights standards and preventing abuses in
the Anglophone conflict; and
(2) are not using any United States assistance in carrying
out such abuses.
(b) Exception.--Notwithstanding subsection (a), Federal
funds may be obligated or expended to conduct or support
programs providing training and equipment to national
security forces of Cameroon for the purposes of
counterterrorism operations in the fight against Boko Haram.
(c) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
means--
(1) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on
Armed Services, and the Committee on Appropriations of the
Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on
Armed Services, and the Committee on Appropriations of the
House of Representatives.
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