S.Amdt. 2257

SA 2257. Mrs. BLACKBURN submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed by her to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for
fiscal year 2025 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 H of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1095. PROHIBITION ON AWARDS AND CONTRACTS FOR ENTITIES
DOING BUSINESS WITH CHINESE MILITARY COMPANIES.

No future-year award or contract of the Department of
Defense shall be granted to any entity that does business
with a Chinese military company (as defined in section 1260H
of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 116-283;
134 Stat. 3965; 10 U.S.C. 113 note)) that operates indirectly
or directly in the United States.
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