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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSA 6225. Mr. KENNEDY (for himself and Mr. Whitehouse) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 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 C of title XII, add the following:
SEC. 1230. REPORT ON THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION'S PERSECUTION OF
RELIGIOUS GROUPS IN OCCUPIED TERRITORIES OF
UKRAINE; IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS.
(a) Report Required.—
(1) In general.—Not later than 120 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter for 3
years, the Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense, in
coordination with the Director of National Intelligence and
the Secretary of the Treasury, shall jointly submit to the
appropriate congressional committees a report that includes—
(A) a detailed description of the Government of the Russian
Federation and its state-affiliated, quasi-state, or
occupation-era activities that involve the persecution or
suppression of, or discrimination against, or otherwise
directly or indirectly involve engaging in or facilitating
serious human rights abuse against, Christians, Jews, and
Muslims (including Crimean Tatars), and other religious
minorities not affiliated with the Russian Orthodox Church,
and their respective religious organizations in Russian-
occupied territories of Ukraine;
(B) an identification of churches, synagogues, mosques,
other religious facilities, including Christian, Jewish,
Muslim, and other minority religious institutions, that have
been destroyed, damaged, seized, repurposed, or otherwise
appropriated directly or indirectly by persons operating for
or on behalf of the Government of the Russian Federation in
occupied territories of Ukraine;
(C) an assessment of—
(i) the number of Christians, Jews, Muslims (including
Crimean Tatars), and other religious minorities who are not
affiliated with the Russian Orthodox Church, who have been
subjected to persecution, imprisonment, or forced
displacement in occupied territories of Ukraine;
(ii) restrictions imposed on Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and
other religions not affiliated with the Russian Orthodox
Church's religious practices, worship services, or religious
education in occupied territories;
(iii) efforts to compel Christian organizations to
affiliate with Moscow-based religious institutions or to
suppress Christian activity not affiliated with Moscow-based
religions;
(iv) efforts by the Government of the Russian Federation,
by authorities exercising de facto governmental control in
occupied territory, or by entities or individuals otherwise
affiliated with the Russian Federation, to compel Christian
organizations in Ukraine and in occupied territories—
(I) to affiliate with Moscow-based religious institutions;
or
(II) to suppress Christian, Jewish, Muslim, or any other
denominations not aligned with Russian state interests; and
(v) the overall impact of the Russian Federation's invasion
of Ukraine, and its occupation of Ukrainian territory, on
religious freedom in occupied territories of Ukraine,
including Crimea and Sevastopol; and
(D) a list of individuals and entities affiliated with the
Government of the Russian Federation, or exercising de facto
authority in occupied territory, that—
(i) are responsible for persecution or suppression of, or
discrimination against, Christians, Jews, or Muslims in
Ukraine and in the occupied territories of Ukraine; or
(ii) have otherwise engaged in or attempted to engage in
any of the conduct described in this subsection.
(2) Form.—The report required by paragraph (1) shall be
submitted in an unclassified form, but may include a
classified annex.
(b) Imposition of Sanctions.—The President may impose
sanctions pursuant to the International Emergency Economic
Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) with respect to each
foreign person on the list required by subsection (a)(1)(D).
(c) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.—In this
section, the term “appropriate congressional committees”
means—
(1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, the Committee on Foreign
Relations, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the
Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Financial Services, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of
Representatives.