S.Amdt. 2292

SA 2292. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him 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 E of title VIII, add the following:

SEC. 891. REPORT ON ABILITY OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TO
IDENTIFY PROHIBITED SEAFOOD IMPORTS IN SUPPLY
CHAIN FOR FOOD PROCUREMENT.

Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Inspector General of the Department of Defense
shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report
assessing whether the Department has policies and procedures
in place to

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verify that the food the Department procures does not include
seafood originating in the People's Republic of China the
importation of which is prohibited under section 307 of the
Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1307), including pursuant to a
presumption under--
(1) section 3 of the Act entitled ``An Act to ensure that
goods made with forced labor in the Xinjiang Autonomous
Region of the People's Republic of China do not enter the
United States market, and for other purposes'', approved
December 23, 2021 (Public Law 117-78; 22 U.S.C. 6901 note)
(commonly referred to as the ``Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention
Act''); or
(2) section 302A of the North Korea Sanctions and Policy
Enhancement Act of 2016 (22 U.S.C. 9241a).
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