S.Amdt. 2387

SA 2387. Ms. ERNST (for herself, Mr. Marshall, and Mr. Braun)
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 A of title VIII, add the following:

SEC. 812. FOREIGN ADVERSARY FUNDING.

(a) In General.--For purposes of reporting spending data
under section 2 of the Federal Funding Accountability and
Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note; Public Law
109-282), the Secretary of Defense shall require the tracking
and reporting of all other transaction agreements and
subawards of any amount awarded to an entity located in a
foreign country of concern.
(b) Publication.--The reporting on subawards required under
subsection (a) shall be published on the website established
under section 2(b)(1) of the Federal Funding Accountability
and Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101 note; Public Law
109-282).
(c) Reporting of Subawards.--The recipient of a subaward
described in subsection (a) shall disclose data with respect
to the subaward in the same manner as subawards are disclosed
in paragraph (2) of section 2(d) of the Federal Funding
Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. 6101
note; Public Law 109-282).
(d) Form.--If any information required to be reported by
this section is classified, such information may be submitted
in the form of a classified annex consistent with the
protection of sources and methods.
(e) Guidance.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall issue
guidance that establishes consistency for complying with this
section for agencies and recipients of subawards described in
subsection (a), including establishing standards for
disclosed data.
(f) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Foreign country of concern.--The term ``foreign country
of concern'' means any of the following:
(A) The People's Republic of China.
(B) The Russian Federation.
(C) The Islamic Republic of Iran.
(D) The Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
(2) Subaward.--The term ``subaward''--
(A) means an award provided by a pass-through entity to a
subrecipient for the subrecipient to carry out part of a
Federal award received by the pass-through entity;
(B) includes an award described in subparagraph (A) that is
passed from a subrecipient to another subrecipient; and
(C) does not include payments to a beneficiary of a Federal
program.
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