; 132 Stat. 5587) is amended, in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking six years and inserting “12 years”. (b) Section 1287(j) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 ( Public Law 114–328 ; 22 U.S.C. 2656 note) is amended by striking on the date that is 8 years after the date of the enactment of this Act and inserting on September 30, 2029 . 205. Recognition of Russian actions in Ukraine as a genocide (a) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The Russian Federation's illegal, premeditated, unprovoked, and brutal war against Ukraine includes extensive, systematic, and flagrant atrocities against the people of Ukraine. (2) Article II of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (in this section referred to as the Genocide Convention ), adopted and opened for signature in 1948 and entered into force in 1951, defines genocide as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group