S.Amdt. 3297

SA 3297. Mr. LEE (for himself and Mr. Curtis) submitted an amendment
intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2296, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2026 for military activities of the
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel

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strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in subtitle B of title X, insert
the following:

SEC. __. EXCEPTION TO PROHIBITION ON CONSTRUCTION OF NAVAL
VESSELS IN FOREIGN SHIPYARDS.

Section 8679 of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ``subsection (b)'' and
inserting ``subsections (b) and (c)''; and
(2) in subsection (b)--
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``to do so.'' and
inserting the following: ``to do so, provided that--
``(A) the foreign shipyard concerned is located in a North
Atlantic Treaty Organization member country or a country in
the Indo-Pacific Region that is party to a mutual defense
treaty with the United States; and
``(B) the cost of the construction concerned is less than
the cost would be if such construction occurred in a domestic
shipyard.''; and
(B) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
``(3) Before the construction of a naval vessel, or a major
component of the hull or superstructure of a naval vessel,
may commence at a foreign shipyard pursuant to this
subsection, the Secretary of the Navy shall submit to
Congress a certification that the foreign shipyard is not
owned or operated by a Chinese company or a multinational
company domiciled in the People's Republic of China.''.
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