S.Amdt. 6334

SA 6334. Mr. BROWN 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:

At the end of subtitle E of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1262. REPORT ON POLITICAL PRISONERS IN EGYPT.

(a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the status of political prisoners in Egypt.

(b) Matters to Be Included.--The report required by subsection (a) shall include a detailed assessment of how many individuals are detained, imprisoned, or the victim of an enforced disappearance in Egypt, including individuals who--

(1) are human rights defenders;

(2) are detained, imprisoned, or otherwise physically restricted because of their political, religious, other conscientiously-held beliefs, or their identity;

(3) are prisoners who are arbitrarily detained;

(4) are victims of enforced disappearance or are reasonably suspected of being detained or imprisoned in a secret location; or

(5) have been subject to torture or other gross violations of human rights while detained or imprisoned.

(c) Form.--The report required by subsection (a) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but portions of the report may contain a classified annex, provided that the annex is provided separately from the unclassified report.

(d) Withholding of Foreign Military Financing Funding.--Of the unobligated balance of amounts appropriated or otherwise made available for Foreign Military Financing assistance for Egypt, $300,000,000 may not be provided to the Government of Egypt until the report required under subsection (a) has been submitted to the appropriate congressional committees.

(e) Appropriate Congressional Committees.--In this section, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means--

(1) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate; and

(2) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.