S.Amdt. 746

SA 746. Mr. MERKLEY 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 end of subtitle G of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1083. REPORTING ON TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION IN ANNUAL
COUNTRY REPORTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICES.

Section 116(d) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22
U.S.C. 2151n(d)) is amended by adding at the end the
following:
``(13) Wherever applicable, a description of the nature and
extent of acts of transnational repression that occurred
during the preceding year, including identification of--
``(A) incidents in which a government harassed,
intimidated, or killed individuals outside of their
internationally recognized borders and the patterns of such
repression among repeat offenders;
``(B) countries in which such transnational repression
occurs and the roles of the governments of such countries in
enabling, preventing, mitigating, and responding to such
acts;
``(C) the tactics used by the governments of countries
identified pursuant to subparagraph (A), including the
actions identified and any new techniques observed;
``(D) in the case of digital surveillance and harassment,
the type of technology or platform, including social media,
smart city technology, health tracking systems, general
surveillance technology, and data access, transfer, and
storage procedures, used by the governments of countries
identified pursuant to subparagraph (A) for such actions; and
``(E) groups and types of individuals targeted by acts of
transnational repression in each country in which such acts
occur.''.
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