S.Amdt. 6345

SA 6345. Mr. VAN HOLLEN 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 F of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1276. LIMITATION ON TRANSFER OF F-16 AIRCRAFT.

(a) In General.--The President may not sell or authorize a license for the export of new F-16 aircraft or F-16 upgrade technology or modernization kits pursuant to any authority provided by the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.) to the Government of Turkey, or to any agency or instrumentality of Turkey, unless the President provides to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, and the congressional defense committees a certification that--

(1) such transfer is in the national interest of the United States; and

(2) includes a detailed description of concrete steps taken to ensure that such F-16s are not used by Turkey for repeated unauthorized territorial overflights of Greece or military operations against United States allies, including the Syrian Democratic Forces, in the fight against ISIS.

(b) Additional Limitation.--Notwithstanding a certification described in subsection (a), a transfer of new F-16 aircraft or F-16 upgrade technology or modernization kits described in that subsection may not be carried out before the date on which Turkey ratifies the accession of Sweden and Finland to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.