S.Amdt. 4316

SA 4316. Mr. BOOKER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed to
the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022
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 XII, insert the
following:

SEC. 1264. REPORTS ON POTENTIAL GENOCIDE, CRIMES AGAINST
HUMANITY, OR WAR CRIMES IN ETHIOPIA.

(a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, and every 180 days thereafter
until the date on which current hostilities in the Tigray
region of Ethiopia have ceased due to a ceasefire or peace
agreement, the Secretary of State, after consultation with
the heads of other Federal departments and agencies
represented on the Atrocity Early Warning Task Force and with
representatives of human rights organizations, shall submit
to the appropriate committees of Congress a report that
includes a determination with respect to whether actions in
Ethiopia by the military forces of Ethiopia and Eritrea or
other armed actors constitute--
(1) genocide (as defined in section 1091 of title 18,
United States Code);
(2) crimes against humanity; or
(3) war crimes.
(b) Form.--Each report required by subsection (a) shall be
submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified
annex that is provided separately.
(c) Public Availability.--The Secretary shall make each
report submitted under subsection (a) available to the public
on an internet website of the Department of State.
(d) Appropriate Committees of Congress.--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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