S.Amdt. 2657

SA 2657. Mr. RISCH 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 A of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1216. PERMANENT ENACTMENT OF CERTAIN GENERAL
APPROPRIATIONS PROVISIONS.

(a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the
``American Values Act''.
(b) Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.--Section 104(f) of the
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151b(f)) is
amended to read as follows:
``(f) Prohibition on Use of Funds for Abortions and
Involuntary Sterilizations.--None of the funds authorized to
be appropriated or otherwise made available to carry out this
Act may be made available--
``(1) to pay for the performance of abortions as a method
of family planning or to motivate or coerce any person to
practice abortions;
``(2) to pay for the performance of involuntary
sterilization as a method of family planning or to coerce or
provide any financial incentive to any person to undergo
sterilizations;
``(3) to pay for biomedical research which relates in whole
or in part, to methods of, or the performance of, abortions
or involuntary sterilization as a means of family planning;
``(4) to lobby for or against abortion; or
``(5) to any organization or program which, as determined
by the President, supports or participates in the management
of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary
sterilization.''.
(c) Peace Corps Act.--Section 301(b) of the Peace Corps Act
(22 U.S.C. 2501a(b)) is amended by adding at the end the
following:
``(3) Subject to section 614 of the Financial Services and
General Government Appropriations Act, 2014 (division E of
Public Law 113-76; 128 Stat. 227), none of the funds
authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available to
carry out this Act may be used to pay for abortions.''.
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