S.Amdt. 776

SA 776. Mr. VAN HOLLEN 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 REQUIREMENT FOR PRIOR NOTIFICATION
OF SHIPMENTS OF DEFENSE ARTICLES.

Section 36(i) of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C.
2776(i)) is amended to read as follows:
``(i) Prior Notification of Shipment of Arms.--Thirty days
prior to the first and last shipment relating to a sale of
defense articles subject to the requirements of subsection
(b), the President shall provide notification of such pending
shipment, in unclassified form, with a separate, classified
annex as necessary, to the Chairperson and Ranking Member
of--
``(1) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate; and
``(2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of
Representatives.''.
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