S.Amdt. 6450

SA 6450. Mr. REED (for Mr. Portman) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 proposed by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 for military activities of the Department of Defense and 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 appropriate place in title XII, insert the following:

SEC. __. PROHIBITION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS RELATING TO SOVEREIGNTY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION OVER SOVEREIGN UKRAINIAN TERRITORY.

(a) In General.--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 striking “crimea” and inserting “sovereign ukranian territory”; and

(2) in subsection (a), by striking “over Crimea” and inserting “over territory internationally recognized to be the sovereign territory of Ukraine, including Crimea and territory the Russian Federation claimed to have annexed in Kherson Oblast, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Donetsk Oblast, and Luhansk Oblast”.

(b) Clerical Amendments.--The tables of sections in section 2(b) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 (Public Law 117-81; 135 Stat. 1541) and at the beginning of title XII of such Act (135 Stat. 1956) are amended, in the matter relating to section 1234, by striking “Crimea” and inserting “sovereign Ukranian territory”.