808 
ticable steps to ensure that mechanisms are in place 
for monitoring, oversight, and control of such funds: 
Provided further, That funds made available pursu-
ant to this paragraph shall be subject to prior con-
sultation with the appropriate congressional commit-
tees, and the regular notification procedures of the 
Committees on Appropriations. 
(4) TRAINING
RELATED
TO
INTERNATIONAL 
HUMANITARIAN LAW.—The Secretary of State shall 
offer training related to the requirements of inter-
national humanitarian law as a component of any 
package of lethal assistance funded by this Act with 
funds appropriated under the headings ‘‘Peace-
keeping Operations’’ and ‘‘Foreign Military Financ-
ing Program’’: Provided, That the requirement of 
this paragraph shall not apply to a country that is 
a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization 
(NATO), is a major non-NATO ally designated by 
section 517(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
1961, or is complying with international humani-
tarian law: Provided further, That any such training 
shall be made available through an open and trans-
parent process. 
(5) SECURITY FORCE PROFESSIONALIZATION.— 
Funds appropriated by this Act under the headings 
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‘‘International Narcotics Control and Law Enforce-
ment’’ and ‘‘Peacekeeping Operations’’ shall be 
made available to increase the capacity of foreign 
military and law enforcement personnel to operate in 
accordance with appropriate standards relating to 
human rights and the protection of civilians in the 
manner specified under this section in the explana-
tory statement described in section 4 (in the matter 
preceding division A of this consolidated Act), fol-
lowing consultation with the Committees on Appro-
priations: Provided, That funds made available pur-
suant to this paragraph shall only be made available 
on an open and competitive basis. 
(b) AUTHORITIES.— 
(1) RECONSTITUTING
CIVILIAN
POLICE
AU-
THORITY.—In providing assistance with funds ap-
propriated by this Act under section 660(b)(6) of 
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, support for a 
nation emerging from instability may be deemed to 
mean support for regional, district, municipal, or 
other sub-national entity emerging from instability, 
as well as a nation emerging from instability. 
(2) DISARMAMENT, DEMOBILIZATION, AND RE-
INTEGRATION.—Section 7034(d) of the Department 
of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs 
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Appropriations Act, 2015 (division J of Public Law 
113–235) shall continue in effect during fiscal year 
2019. 
(3) INTERNATIONAL PRISON CONDITIONS.—Of 
the funds appropriated by this Act under the head-
ings ‘‘Development Assistance’’, ‘‘Economic Support 
Fund’’, and ‘‘International Narcotics Control and 
Law Enforcement’’, not less than $5,000,000 shall 
be made available for assistance to eliminate inhu-
mane conditions in foreign prisons and other deten-
tion facilities, notwithstanding section 660 of the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961: Provided, That the 
Secretary of State and the USAID Administrator 
shall consult with the Committees on Appropriations 
on the proposed uses of such funds prior to obliga-
tion and not later than 120 days after enactment of 
this Act: Provided further, That such funds shall be 
in addition to funds otherwise made available by this 
Act for such purpose. 
(4) EXTENSION OF WAR RESERVES STOCKPILE 
AUTHORITY.— 
(A) Section 12001(d) of the Department of 
Defense Appropriations Act, 2005 (Public Law 
108–287; 118 Stat. 1011) is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘of this section’’ and all that follows 
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through the period at the end and inserting ‘‘of 
this section after September 30, 2020.’’. 
(B) Section 514(b)(2)(A) of the Foreign 
Assistance 
Act 
of 
1961 
(22 
U.S.C. 
2321h(b)(2)(A)) is amended by striking ‘‘and 
2019’’ and inserting ‘‘2019, and 2020’’. 
(5) COMMERCIAL LEASING OF DEFENSE ARTI-
CLES.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
and subject to the regular notification procedures of 
the Committees on Appropriations, the authority of 
section 23(a) of the Arms Export Control Act may 
be used to provide financing to Israel, Egypt, the 
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and 
major non-NATO allies for the procurement by leas-
ing (including leasing with an option to purchase) of 
defense articles from United States commercial sup-
pliers, not including Major Defense Equipment 
(other than helicopters and other types of aircraft 
having possible civilian application), if the President 
determines that there are compelling foreign policy 
or national security reasons for those defense arti-
cles being provided by commercial lease rather than 
by government-to-government sale under such Act. 
(6) SPECIAL
DEFENSE
ACQUISITION
FUND.— 
Not to exceed $900,000,000 may be obligated pursu-
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ant to section 51(c)(2) of the Arms Export Control 
Act for the purposes of the Special Defense Acquisi-
tion Fund (the Fund), to remain available for obli-
gation until September 30, 2021: Provided, That the 
provision of defense articles and defense services to 
foreign countries or international organizations from 
the Fund shall be subject to the concurrence of the 
Secretary of State. 
(7) PUBLIC DISCLOSURE.—For the purposes of 
funds appropriated by this Act and prior Acts mak-
ing appropriations for the Department of State, for-
eign operations, and related programs that are made 
available for assistance for units of foreign security 
forces, the term ‘‘to the maximum extent prac-
ticable’’ in section 620M(d)(7) of the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2378d) means that the 
identity of such units shall be made publicly avail-
able unless the Secretary of State, on a case-by-case 
basis, determines and reports to the appropriate con-
gressional committees that disclosure would endan-
ger the safety of human sources or reveal sensitive 
intelligence sources and methods, or that non-disclo-
sure is in the national security interest of the United 
States: Provided, That any such determination shall 
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include a detailed justification, and may be sub-
mitted in classified form. 
(c) LIMITATIONS.— 
(1) CHILD SOLDIERS.—Funds appropriated by 
this Act should not be used to support any military 
training or operations that include child soldiers. 
(2) LANDMINES AND CLUSTER MUNITIONS.— 
(A) LANDMINES.—Notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, demining equipment 
available to the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development and the Department of 
State and used in support of the clearance of 
landmines and unexploded ordnance for human-
itarian purposes may be disposed of on a grant 
basis in foreign countries, subject to such terms 
and conditions as the Secretary of State may 
prescribe. 
(B) CLUSTER
MUNITIONS.—No military 
assistance shall be furnished for cluster muni-
tions, no defense export license for cluster mu-
nitions may be issued, and no cluster munitions 
or cluster munitions technology shall be sold or 
transferred, unless— 
(i) the submunitions of the cluster 
munitions, after arming, do not result in 
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more than 1 percent unexploded ordnance 
across the range of intended operational 
environments, and the agreement applica-
ble to the assistance, transfer, or sale of 
such cluster munitions or cluster munitions 
technology specifies that the cluster muni-
tions will only be used against clearly de-
fined military targets and will not be used 
where civilians are known to be present or 
in areas normally inhabited by civilians; or 
(ii) such assistance, license, sale, or 
transfer is for the purpose of demilitarizing 
or permanently disposing of such cluster 
munitions. 
(3) CROWD
CONTROL
ITEMS.—Funds appro-
priated by this Act should not be used for tear gas, 
small arms, light weapons, ammunition, or other 
items for crowd control purposes for foreign security 
forces that use excessive force to repress peaceful ex-
pression, association, or assembly in countries that 
the Secretary of State determines are undemocratic 
or are undergoing democratic transitions. 
(d) REPORTS.— 
(1) SECURITY ASSISTANCE REPORT.—Not later 
than 120 days after enactment of this Act, the Sec-
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retary of State shall submit to the Committees on 
Appropriations a report on funds obligated and ex-
pended during fiscal year 2018, by country and pur-
pose of assistance, under the headings ‘‘Peace-
keeping Operations’’, ‘‘International Military Edu-
cation and Training’’, and ‘‘Foreign Military Fi-
nancing Program’’. 
(2) QUARTERLY
STATUS
REPORT.—Following 
the submission of the quarterly report required by 
section 36 of Public Law 90–629 (22 U.S.C. 2776), 
the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Sec-
retary of Defense, shall submit to the Committees on 
Appropriations a status report that contains the in-
formation described under the heading ‘‘Foreign 
Military Financing Program’’ in House Report 115– 
829. 
(3) VETTING REPORT.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days 
after enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
State shall submit a report to the appropriate 
congressional committees on foreign assistance 
cases submitted for vetting for purposes of sec-
tion 620M of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
1961 during the preceding fiscal year, includ-
ing— 
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(i) the total number of cases sub-
mitted, approved, suspended, or rejected 
for human rights reasons; and 
(ii) for cases rejected, a description of 
the steps taken to assist the foreign gov-
ernment in taking effective measures to 
bring the responsible members of the secu-
rity forces to justice, in accordance with 
section 620M(c) of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961. 
(B) FORM.—The report required by this 
paragraph shall be submitted in unclassified 
form, but may be accompanied by a classified 
annex. 
(4) ANNUAL FOREIGN MILITARY TRAINING RE-
PORT.—For the purposes of implementing section 
656 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, the term 
‘‘military training provided to foreign military per-
sonnel by the Department of Defense and the De-
partment of State’’ shall be deemed to include all 
military training provided by foreign governments 
with funds appropriated to the Department of De-
fense or the Department of State, except for train-
ing provided by the government of a country des-
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ignated by section 517(b) of such Act as a major 
non-NATO ally. 
ARMS TRADE TREATY 
SEC. 7050. None of the funds appropriated by this 
Act may be obligated or expended to implement the Arms 
Trade Treaty until the Senate approves a resolution of 
ratification for the Treaty. 
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES 
SEC. 7051. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to send or otherwise pay for the attend-
ance of more than 50 employees of agencies or depart-
ments of the United States Government who are stationed 
in the United States, at any single international con-
ference occurring outside the United States, unless the 
Secretary of State reports to the Committees on Appro-
priations at least 5 days in advance that such attendance 
is important to the national interest: Provided, That for 
purposes of this section the term ‘‘international con-
ference’’ shall mean a conference attended by representa-
tives of the United States Government and of foreign gov-
ernments, international organizations, or nongovern-
mental organizations. 
AIRCRAFT TRANSFER, COORDINATION, AND USE 
SEC. 7052. (a) TRANSFER AUTHORITY.—Notwith-
standing any other provision of law or regulation, aircraft 
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