S.Amdt. 806

SA 806. 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. USES OF FUNDS RECEIVED FROM ANY TRANSFERS OF
SUBMARINES TO AUSTRALIA UNDER THE AUKUS
PARTNERSHIP.

If the President is authorized to transfer submarines to
Australia under the security activities framework for the
partnership among Australia, the United Kingdom, and the
United States, carries out such a transfer, and the transfer
occurs in compliance with section 21 of the Arms Export
Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2761) and is not subject to section 36
of such Act (22 U.S.C. 2776) or section 8678 of title 10,
United States Code, the President may use funds received
pursuant to the transfer--
(1) for the acquisition of submarines to replace the
submarines transferred to the Government of Australia;
(2) for improvements to the submarine industrial base of
the United States; or
(3) with respect to any public or private shipyard in the
United States at which the sustainment, repair, or upgrade of
submarines occurs and at which there are fewer individuals
employed in the submarine industrial base than are necessary
to efficiently carry out such activities, to improve the
training, retention, and recruitment of the submarine
industrial base workforce at such shipyard.

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