S.Amdt. 819

SA 819. Mr. RISCH 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 F of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1282. REPORT ON ACTIONS OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
THAT THREATEN UNITED STATES NATIONAL SECURITY
INTERESTS.

(a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in
consultation with the Secretary of State and the heads of
other relevant Federal departments and agencies, shall submit
to the appropriate committees of Congress a report containing
an assessment of the extent to which the foreign policy of
the Republic of South Africa threatens United States national
security interests, including as such foreign policy relates
to--
(1) strategic military and economic engagement by the
Republic of South Africa with the Russian Federation and
People's Republic of China;
(2) actions taken by the Republic of South Africa, and
actions of officials of the Republic of South Africa, to
support, directly and indirectly, the Russian Federation in
its war in Ukraine;
(3) actions taken by the Republic of South Africa to evade
or enforce United States sanctions on Specially Designated
Nationals conducting activities and transactions in the
Republic of South Africa;
(4) actions taken by the Republic of South Africa to build
alliances against the national interests of the United States
with malign actors such as Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela;
(5) the scope and scale of financial and other forms of
public corruption to support strategic alliances with malign
actors; and
(6) the security and stability of the southern Africa
region.
(b) Form.--The report required by subsection (a) shall be
submitted in classified form and shall include an
unclassified summary.
(c) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
means--
(1) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Foreign Relations of the Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.
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