S.Amdt. 639

SA 639. Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself, Mr. Tillis, Ms. Cortez Masto, Mr.
Young, Mr. Braun, and Mr. Marshall) submitted an amendment intended to
be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for
fiscal year 2024 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. ___. MODIFICATION OF PROHIBITION.

Section 211 of the Department of Commerce and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (as contained in section
101(b) of division A of Public Law 105-277; 112 Stat. 2681-
88) is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)(2)--
(A) by inserting ``or entity of the executive branch''
after ``U.S. court'';
(B) by striking ``by a designated national''; and
(C) by inserting before the period at the end the
following: ``that was used in connection with a business or
assets that were confiscated unless the original owner of the
mark, trade name, or commercial name, or the bona fide
successor-in-interest has expressly consented'';
(2) in subsection (b)--
(A) by inserting ``or entity of the executive branch''
after ``U.S. court''; and
(B) by striking ``by a designated national or its
successor-in-interest'';
(3) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e);
(4) by inserting after subsection (c) the following:
``(d) Subsections (a)(2) and (b) of this section shall
apply only if the person or entity asserting the rights knew
or had reason to know at the time when the person or entity
acquired the rights asserted that the mark, trade name, or
commercial name was the

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same as or substantially similar to a mark, trade name, or
commercial name that was used in connection with a business
or assets that were confiscated.''; and
(5) in subsection (e), as so redesignated, by striking ``In
this section:'' and all that follows through ``(2) The term''
and inserting the following: ``In this section, the term''.
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