S.Amdt. 3169

SA 3169. Mr. MURPHY 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. EXTENSION AND MODIFICATION OF GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT
CENTER.

(a) Funding Availability and Limitations.--Paragraph (2) of
subsection (f) of section 1287 of the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328;
22 U.S.C. 2656 note) is amended to read as follows:
``(2) Funding availability and limitations.--
``(A) Certification.--The Secretary of State shall only
provide funds under paragraph (1) to an entity described in
that paragraph if the Secretary certifies to the appropriate
congressional committees that the entity receiving such
funds--
``(i) has been selected in accordance with relevant
existing regulations;
``(ii) has the capability and experience necessary to
fulfill the purposes described in that paragraph;
``(iii) is nonpartisan; and
``(iv) is compatible with United States national security
and foreign policy interests and objectives.
``(B) Partisan political activity.--The Secretary of State
shall not knowingly provide funds under this subsection to
any entity engaged in unlawful partisan political activity
within the United States, including by carrying out
activities that--
``(i) are directed toward the success or failure of a
political party, a candidate for partisan political office,
or a partisan political group; or
``(ii) result in unlawful partisan censorship of speech
protected under the First Amendment to the Constitution of
the United States.''.
(b) Extension.--Subsection (j) of such section is amended
by striking ``on the date that is 8 years after the date of
the enactment of this Act'' and inserting ``on September 30,
2034''.
(c) Severability.--If any provision of this section, an
amendment made by this section, or the application of such
provision or amendment to any person or circumstance is held
to be unconstitutional, the remainder of this section and the
amendments made by this section, and the application of the
provision or amendment to any other person or circumstance,
shall not be affected.

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