S.Amdt. 2629

SA 2629. Mr. LEE 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 appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. CONSTRUCTION OF NAVAL VESSELS IN SHIPYARDS IN NORTH
ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION COUNTRIES.

Section 8679 of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ``subsection (b)'' and
inserting ``subsections (b) and (c)'';
(2) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); and
(3) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new
subsection (c):
``(c) Construction of Naval Vessels in Shipyards in NATO
Countries.--The Secretary of the Navy may construct a naval
vessel in a foreign shipyard if--
``(1) the shipyard is located within the boundaries of a
member country of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; and
``(2) the cost of construction of such vessel in such
shipyard will be less than the cost of construction of such
vessel in a domestic shipyard.''.
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