S.Amdt. 805

SA 805. Mr. SCHATZ 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:

Insert after section 1253 the following:

SEC. 1253A. REPORT ON USE OF AUKUS PARTNERSHIP FUNDS.

If the President has the authority to accept from the
Government of Australia monetary contributions made by the
Government of Australia for use by the Department of Defense
in support of non-nuclear related aspects of submarine
security activities among Australia, the United Kingdom, and
the United States and an AUKUS Submarine Security Activities
Account is established in the Treasury of the Untied States,
the President shall provide to Congress a report on any funds
not expended from such account, including--
(1) an explanation as to why such funds were not used to
upgrade facilities at shipyards for infrastructure supporting
submarine maintenance, repairs, and sustainment;
(2) a description of how funds in such account were used at
United States shipyards to recruit, train, and retain local
workforce talent to support the submarine industrial base;
and
(3) a projection of workforce shortfalls and requirements
anticipated by the Department of Defense during the
subsequent 5-year period at each shipyard conducting
submarine industrial base work supporting activities of the
trilateral security partnership among the United States, the
United Kingdom, and Australia (commonly known as the ``AUKUS
partnership'') .
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