S.Amdt. 5941

SA 5941. Mr. PORTMAN (for himself and Mr. Durbin) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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:

Strike section 1232 and insert the following:

SEC. 1232. EXTENSION AND MODIFICATION OF PROHIBITION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS RELATING TO SOVEREIGNTY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION OVER CRIMEA.

Section 1234 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 (Public Law 117-81; 135 Stat. 1974) is amended--

(1) in the section heading, by inserting “or certain parts of ukraine” after “crimea”; and

(2) by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

“(a) Prohibition.--None of the funds authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2022 or 2023 for the Department of Defense may be obligated or expended to implement any activity that recognizes the sovereignty of the Russian Federation over Crimea, Kherson Oblast, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Donetsk Oblast, or Luhansk Oblast.”.