S.Amdt. 1566

SA 1566. Ms. CORTEZ MASTO (for herself and Mr. Cornyn) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1388 proposed by Mrs.
Murray (for herself and Mr. Schumer) to the bill H.R. 815, to amend
title 38, United States Code, to make certain improvements relating to
the eligibility of veterans to receive reimbursement for emergency
treatment furnished through the Veterans Community Care program, and
for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:
Sec. __. (a) Not later than 120 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State and the
Secretary of the Treasury shall provide to the appropriate
congressional committees a report on Russia's purported
suspension of certain provisions of the Russia tax treaty.
The report shall be submitted in unclassified form but may
contain a classified annex as necessary.
(b) The report required under subsection (a) shall include
an analysis of the effect of Russia's purported suspension of
treaty provisions and an analysis of how the United States
has responded, or could respond, to such suspensions.
(c) In this section:
(1) The term ``appropriate congressional committees'' means
the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on
Finance of the Senate.
(2) The term ``Russia tax treaty'' means the Convention
Between the United States of America and the Russian
Federation for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the
Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income
and Capital, signed at Washington August 25, 1992.
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