S.Amdt. 1766

SA 1766. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1260, to establish a new Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the National Science Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub program, to require a strategy and report on economic security, science, research, innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to establish a critical supply chain resiliency program, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

In title V of division B, at the end add the following:

SEC. 25__. ACTION TO PREVENT PARAMILITARY ACTORS FROM PARTICIPATING IN INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES.

(a) In General.--Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretaries of Defense, Commerce, Treasury, and Homeland Security shall promulgate and implement regulations to--

(1) coordinate in identifying foreign fishing vessels that engage in paramilitary operations; and

(2) report such vessels to each international fisheries management organization in which the United States is a member for inclusion in each such organization's respective Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing vessel list.

(b) Definition of Paramilitary Operations.--In this section, the term “paramilitary operations”--

(1) means actions taken by the operator of a fishing vessel to attack or intimidate vessels operating in international waters, or the exclusive economic zone of a foreign country, by firing upon a vessel, ramming a vessel, intentionally maneuvering near another vessel in an unsafe manner with intent to frighten or intimidate, intentionally entering or remaining within the exclusive economic zone of a foreign country without the permission of the government of that country, or otherwise violating the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea while coordinating with the military of a foreign country in a military operation; and

(2) includes efforts to gather and report military intelligence on behalf of a foreign country.