S.Amdt. 3112

SA 3112. Mr. CARDIN 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 F of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1291. INCLUSION OF SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY ABUSE IN
HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT.

The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.)
is amended--
(1) in section 116 (22 U.S.C. 2151n), by adding at the end
the following new subsection:
``(h) Surveillance Technology.--
``(1) In general.--The report required under subsection (d)
shall to the extent feasible include a description of the use
of foreign commercial spyware by the government of each
country in which there are systematic acts of political
repression, to conduct surveillance, including passive or
active monitoring, against activists, journalists, opposition
politicians, or other individuals

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for the purposes of suppressing dissent or intimidating
critics.
``(2) Defined term.--In this subsection, the term `foreign
commercial spyware' means the term referred to in section
6318 of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization
Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (Public Law 117-263).''; and
(2) in section 502B (22 U.S.C. 2304)--
(A) by redesignating the second subsection designated
subsection (i) as subsection (j); and
(B) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
``(k) Surveillance Technology.--
``(1) In general.--The report required under subsection (b)
shall to the extent feasible include a description of the use
of foreign commercial spyware by the government of each
country in which there are systematic acts of political
repression, to conduct surveillance, including passive or
active monitoring, against activists, journalists, opposition
politicians, or other individuals for the purposes of
suppressing dissent or intimidating critics.
``(2) Defined term.--In this subsection, the term `foreign
commercial spyware' means the term referred to in section
6318 of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization
Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (Public Law 117-263).''.
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