114TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION S. 1635

AN ACT To authorize the Department of State for fiscal year 2016,

and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1

tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2

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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 1

(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 2

‘‘Department of State Operations Authorization and Em-3

bassy Security Act, Fiscal Year 2016’’. 4

(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 5

this Act is as follows: 6

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.

Sec. 2. Definitions.

TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF STATE AUTHORITIES AND ACTIVITIES

Subtitle A—Basic Authorities and Activities

Sec. 101. American spaces review.

Sec. 102. Identifying bilateral investment treaty opportunities.

Sec. 103. Reinstatement of Hong Kong report.

Sec. 104. Interagency hostage recovery coordinator.

Sec. 105. United States-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue review.

Sec. 106. Report on human rights violations in Burma.

Sec. 107. Combating anti-semitism.

Sec. 108. Biotechnology grants.

Sec. 109. Definition of ‘‘use’’ in passport and visa offenses.

Sec. 110. Science and technology fellowships.

Sec. 111. Name changes.

Sec. 112. Anti-piracy information sharing.

Sec. 113. Report reform.

Sec. 114. Sense of Congress on the United States alliance with Japan.

Sec. 115. Sense of Congress on the defense relationship between the United

States and the Republic of India.

Sec. 116. Sense of Congress on the United States alliance with the Republic

of Korea.

Sec. 117. Sense of Congress on the relationship between the United States and

Taiwan.

Sec. 118. Report on political freedom in Venezuela.

Sec. 119. Strategy for the Middle East in the event of a comprehensive nuclear

agreement with Iran.

Sec. 120. Department of State international cyberspace policy strategy.

Sec. 121. Waiver of fees for renewal of immigrant visa for adopted child in cer-

tain situations.

Sec. 122. Sense of Congress on anti-Israel and anti-Semitic incitement within

the Palestinian Authority.

Sec. 123. Support for the sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity, and

inviolability of post-Soviet countries in light of Russian aggres-

sion and interference.

Sec. 124. Russian propaganda report.

Sec. 125. Approval of export licences and letters of request to assist the Gov-

ernment of Ukraine.

Subtitle B—Additional Matters

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Sec. 131. Atrocities prevention board.

Sec. 132. United States engagement in the Indo-Pacific.

Sec. 133. Joint action plan to combat prejudice and discrimination and to fos-

ter inclusion.

Sec. 134. Report on developing country debt sustainability.

Sec. 135. United States strategy to prevent and respond to gender-based vio-

lence globally.

Sec. 136. International corruption and accountability.

Sec. 137. Quadrennial diplomacy and development review.

Sec. 138. Disappeared persons in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Sal-

vador.

Sec. 139. Report on implementation by the Government of Bahrain of rec-

ommendations from the Bahrain Independent Commission of

Inquiry.

Sec. 140. Report on United States humanitarian assistance to Haiti and wheth-

er recent elections in Haiti meet international election stand-

ards.

Sec. 141. Sense of Congress with respect to the imposition of additional sanc-

tions against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

TITLE II—ORGANIZATION AND PERSONNEL OF THE

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Subtitle A—Organizational Matters

Sec. 201. Rightsizing accountability.

Sec. 202. Integration of foreign economic policy.

Sec. 203. Review of Bureau of African Affairs and Bureau of Near Eastern Af-

fairs jurisdictions.

Sec. 204. Special envoys, representatives, advisors, and coordinators.

Sec. 205. Conflict prevention, mitigation and resolution, and the inclusion and

participation of women.

Sec. 206. Information technology system security.

Sec. 207. Analysis of embassy cost sharing.

Sec. 208. Parent advisory committee to the Interagency Working Group to Pre-

vent International Parental Child Abduction.

Sec. 209. Improving research and evaluation of public diplomacy.

Sec. 210. Enhanced institutional capacity of the Bureau of African Affairs.

Subtitle B—Personnel Matters

Sec. 211. Review of Foreign Service Officer compensation.

Sec. 212. Repeal of recertification requirement for senior Foreign Service.

Sec. 213. Compensatory time off for travel.

Sec. 214. Certificates of demonstrated competence.

Sec. 215. Foreign Service assignment restrictions.

Sec. 216. Security clearance suspensions.

Sec. 217. Economic statecraft education and training.

Sec. 218. Report on diversity recruitment, employment, retention, and pro-

motion.

Sec. 219. Expansion of the Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Program,

the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship Program,

and the Donald M. Payne International Development Fellow-

ship Program.

Sec. 220. Retention of mid- and senior-level professionals from underrep-

resented groups.

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Sec. 221. Review of jurisdictional responsibilities of the Special Representative

to Afghanistan and Pakistan and the Bureau of South and

Central Asian Affairs.

Sec. 222. Congressional notification of countries compliance with minimum

standards for the elimination of trafficking.

Sec. 223. International religious freedom training program.

TITLE III—INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Subtitle A—United States Contributions to International Organizations

Sec. 301. Reports concerning the United Nations.

Sec. 302. Annual report on financial contributions to international organiza-

tions.

Sec. 303. Report on peacekeeping arrears, credits, and contributions.

Sec. 304. Assessment rate transparency.

Subtitle B—Accountability at International Organizations

Sec. 311. Preventing abuse in peacekeeping.

Sec. 312. Inclusion of peacekeeping abuses in country report on human rights

practices.

Sec. 313. Evaluation of United Nations peacekeeping missions.

Subtitle C—Personnel Matters

Sec. 321. Encouraging employment of United States citizens at the United Na-

tions.

Sec. 322. Ensuring appropriate United Nations personnel salaries.

TITLE IV—CONSULAR AUTHORITIES

Sec. 401. Visa ineligibility for international child abductors.

Sec. 402. Presumption of immigrant intent for H and L visa classifications.

Sec. 403. Visa information sharing.

TITLE V—EMBASSY SECURITY

Subtitle A—Allocation of Authorized Security Appropriations.

Sec. 501. Worldwide security protection.

Sec. 502. Embassy security, construction and maintenance.

Subtitle B—Contracting and Other Matters.

Sec. 511. Local guard contracts abroad under diplomatic security program.

Sec. 512. Disciplinary action resulting from unsatisfactory leadership in rela-

tion to a security incident.

Sec. 513. Management and staff accountability.

Sec. 514. Security enhancements for soft targets.

Subtitle C—Marine Corps Security Guard Program

Sec. 521. Additional reports on expansion and enhancement of Marine Corps

Security Guard Program.

Subtitle D—Defending High Threat, High Risk Posts

Sec. 531. Designation and reporting for high threat, high risk posts.

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Sec. 532. Designation and reporting for high-risk counterintelligence threat

posts.

Sec. 533. Enhanced qualifications for Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for

high threat, high risk posts.

Sec. 534. Security environment threat list briefings.

Sec. 535. Comptroller General of the United States report on implementation

of Benghazi Accountability Review Board recommendations.

Sec. 536. Foreign Affairs Security Training Center.

Sec. 537. Language training.

Subtitle E—Accountability Review Boards

Sec. 541. Provision of copies of accountability review board reports to Con-

gress.

Sec. 542. Staffing.

TITLE VI—MANAGEMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

Sec. 601. Short title.

Sec. 602. Competitive hiring status for former employees of the Special Inspec-

tor General for Iraq Reconstruction.

Sec. 603. Assurance of independence of IT systems.

Sec. 604. Protecting the integrity of internal investigations.

Sec. 605. Report on Inspector General inspection and auditing of Foreign Serv-

ice posts and bureaus and operating units Department of

State.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 1

In this Act: 2

(1) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT-3

TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-4

mittees’’ means— 5

(A) the Committee on Foreign Relations of 6

the Senate; 7

(B) the Committee on Appropriations of 8

the Senate; 9

(C) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 10

the House of Representatives; and 11

(D) the Committee on Appropriations of 12

the House of Representatives. 13

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(2) DEPARTMENT.—The term ‘‘Department’’ 1

means the Department of State. 2

(3) PEACEKEEPING CREDITS.—The term 3

‘‘peacekeeping credits’’ means the amounts by which 4

United States assessed peacekeeping contributions 5

exceed actual expenditures, apportioned to the 6

United States, of peacekeeping operations by the 7

United Nations during a United Nations peace-8

keeping fiscal year. 9

(4) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 10

the Secretary of State. 11

TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF 12

STATE AUTHORITIES AND AC-13

TIVITIES 14

Subtitle A—Basic Authorities and 15

Activities 16

SEC. 101. AMERICAN SPACES REVIEW. 17

Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-18

ment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a report to 19

the appropriate congressional committees that includes— 20

(1) the full costs incurred by the Department to 21

provide American Spaces, including— 22

(A) American Centers, American Corners, 23

Binational Centers, Information Resource Cen-24

ters, and Science Centers; and 25

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(B) the total costs of all associated— 1

(i) employee salaries, including foreign 2

service, American civilian, and locally em-3

ployed staff; 4

(ii) programming expenses; 5

(iii) operating expenses; 6

(iv) contracting expenses; and 7

(v) security expenses; 8

(2) a breakdown of the total costs described in 9

paragraph (1) by each space and type of space; 10

(3) the total fees collected for entry to, or the 11

use of, American Spaces and related resources, in-12

cluding a breakdown by the type of fee for each 13

space and type of space; and 14

(4) the total usage rates, including by type of 15

service, for each space and type of space. 16

SEC. 102. IDENTIFYING BILATERAL INVESTMENT TREATY 17

OPPORTUNITIES. 18

Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-19

ment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in consultation 20

with the United States Trade Representative, shall submit 21

a report to the appropriate congressional committees that 22

includes a detailed description of— 23

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(1) the status of all ongoing investment treaty 1

negotiations, including a strategy and timetable for 2

concluding each such negotiation; 3

(2) a strategy to expand the investment treaty 4

agenda, including through— 5

(A) launching new investment treaty nego-6

tiations with foreign partners that are currently 7

capable of entering into such negotiations; and 8

(B) building the capacity of foreign part-9

ners to enter into such negotiations, including 10

by encouraging the adoption of best practices 11

with respect to investment; and 12

(3) an estimate of any resources that will be 13

needed, including anticipated staffing levels— 14

(A) to conclude all ongoing negotiations 15

described in paragraph (1); 16

(B) to launch new investment treaty nego-17

tiations, as described in paragraph (2)(A); and 18

(C) to build the capacity of foreign part-19

ners, as described in paragraph (2)(B). 20

SEC. 103. REINSTATEMENT OF HONG KONG REPORT. 21

(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 22

date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter 23

through 2020, the Secretary shall submit the report re-24

quired under section 301 of the United States-Hong Kong 25

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Policy Act of 1992 (22 U.S.C. 5731) to the appropriate 1

congressional committees. 2

(b) PUBLIC DISCLOSURE.—The report submitted 3

under subsection (a) should be unclassified and made pub-4

licly available, including through the Department’s public 5

website. 6

(c) TREATMENT OF HONG KONG UNDER UNITED 7

STATES LAW.— 8

(1) SECRETARY OF STATE CERTIFICATION RE-9

QUIREMENT.— 10

(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days 11

after the date of the enactment of this Act, and 12

annually thereafter, the Secretary shall certify 13

to Congress whether Hong Kong Special Ad-14

ministrative Region is sufficiently autonomous 15

to justify different treatment for its citizens 16

from the treatment accorded to other citizens of 17

the People’s Republic of China in any new laws, 18

agreements, treaties, or arrangements entered 19

into between the United States and Hong Kong 20

after the date of the enactment of this Act. 21

(B) FACTOR FOR CONSIDERATION.—In 22

making a certification under subparagraph (A), 23

the Secretary should consider the terms, obliga-24

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tions, and expectations expressed in the Joint 1

Declaration with respect to Hong Kong. 2

(C) EXCEPTION.—A certification shall not 3

be required under this subsection with respect 4

to any new laws, agreements, treaties, or ar-5

rangements that support human rights, rule of 6

law, or democracy in the Hong Kong Special 7

Administrative Region. 8

(2) WAIVER AUTHORITY.—The Secretary may 9

waive the application of paragraph (1) if the Sec-10

retary— 11

(A) determines that such a waiver is in the 12

national interests of the United States; and 13

(B) on or before the date on which such 14

waiver would take effect, submits a notice of, 15

and justification for, the waiver to the Com-16

mittee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and 17

the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House 18

of Representatives. 19

SEC. 104. INTERAGENCY HOSTAGE RECOVERY COORDI-20

NATOR. 21

(a) IN GENERAL.— 22

(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 60 days after 23

the date of the enactment of this Act, the President 24

shall designate an existing Federal officer to coordi-25

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nate efforts to secure the release of United States 1

persons who are hostages of hostile groups or state 2

sponsors of terrorism. For purposes of carrying out 3

the duties described in paragraph (2), such officer 4

shall have the title of ‘‘Interagency Hostage Recov-5

ery Coordinator’’. 6

(2) DUTIES.—The Coordinator shall have the 7

following duties: 8

(A) Coordinate and direct all activities of 9

the Federal Government relating to each hos-10

tage situation described in paragraph (1) to en-11

sure efforts to secure the release of all hostages 12

in the hostage situation are properly resourced 13

and correct lines of authority are established 14

and maintained. 15

(B) Establish and direct a fusion cell con-16

sisting of appropriate personnel of the Federal 17

Government with purview over each hostage sit-18

uation described in paragraph (1). 19

(C) Develop a strategy to keep family 20

members of hostages described in paragraph (1) 21

informed of the status of such hostages and in-22

form such family members of updates, proce-23

dures, and policies that do not compromise the 24

national security of the United States. 25

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(b) LIMITATION ON AUTHORITY.—The authority of 1

the Interagency Hostage Recovery Coordinator shall be 2

limited to hostage cases outside the United States. 3

(c) QUARTERLY REPORT.— 4

(1) IN GENERAL.—On a quarterly basis, the 5

Coordinator shall submit to the appropriate congres-6

sional committees and the members of Congress de-7

scribed in paragraph (2) a report that includes a 8

summary of each hostage situation described in sub- 9

section (a)(1) and efforts to secure the release of all 10

hostages in such hostage situation. 11

(2) MEMBERS OF CONGRESS DESCRIBED.—The 12

members of Congress described in this subparagraph 13

are, with respect to a United States person hostage 14

covered by a report under paragraph (1), the Sen-15

ators representing the State, and the Member, Dele-16

gate, or Resident Commissioner of the House of 17

Representatives representing the district, where a 18

hostage described in subjection (a)(1) resides. 19

(3) FORM OF REPORT.—Each report under this 20

subsection may be submitted in classified or unclas-21

sified form. 22

(d) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-23

tion shall be construed as authorizing the Federal Govern-24

ment to negotiate with a state sponsor of terrorism or an 25

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organization that the Secretary has designated as a for-1

eign terrorist organization pursuant to section 219 of the 2

Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189) or any 3

other hostage-takers. 4

(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 5

(1) HOSTILE GROUP.—The term ‘‘hostile 6

group’’ means— 7

(A) a group that is designated as a foreign 8

terrorist organization under section 219(a) of 9

the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 10

1189(a)); 11

(B) a group that is engaged in armed con-12

flict with the United States; or 13

(C) any other group that the President de-14

termines to be a hostile group for purposes of 15

this paragraph. 16

(2) STATE SPONSOR OF TERRORISM.—The term 17

‘‘state sponsor of terrorism’’— 18

(A) means a country the government of 19

which the Secretary has determined, for pur-20

poses of section 6(j) of the Export Administra-21

tion Act of 1979, section 620A of the Foreign 22

Assistance Act of 1961, section 40 of the Arms 23

Export Control Act, or any other provision of 24

law, to be a government that has repeatedly 25

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provided support for acts of international ter-1

rorism; and 2

(B) includes North Korea. 3

SEC. 105. UNITED STATES-CHINA STRATEGIC AND ECO-4

NOMIC DIALOGUE REVIEW. 5

(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 6

date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in coordi-7

nation with the Secretary of the Treasury, and in con-8

sultation with other departments and agencies, as appro-9

priate, shall— 10

(1) conduct a review of the United States-China 11

Strategic and Economic Dialogue (referred to in this 12

section as the ‘‘Dialogue’’); and 13

(2) submit a report to the appropriate congres-14

sional committees that contains the findings of such 15

review. 16

(b) CONTENTS.—The report described in subsection 17

(a) shall include— 18

(1) a list of all commitments agreed to by the 19

United States and China at each of the first 6 20

rounds of meetings; 21

(2) an assessment of the status of each commit-22

ment agreed to by the United States and China at 23

each of the first 6 rounds of meetings, including a 24

detailed description of— 25

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(A) any actions that have been taken with 1

respect to such commitments; 2

(B) any aspects of such commitments that 3

remain unfulfilled; and 4

(C) any actions that remain necessary to 5

fulfill any unfulfilled commitments described in 6

subparagraph (B); 7

(3) an assessment of the effectiveness of the 8

Dialogue in achieving and fulfilling significant com-9

mitments on United States priorities in the bilateral 10

relationship, including— 11

(A) the security situation in the East and 12

South China Seas, including a peaceful resolu-13

tion of maritime disputes in the region; 14

(B) denuclearization of the Korean Penin-15

sula; 16

(C) cybertheft of United States intellectual 17

property; 18

(D) the treatment of political dissidents, 19

media representatives, and ethnic and religious 20

minorities; 21

(E) reciprocal treatment of United States 22

journalists and academics in China, including 23

issuance of visas; 24

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(F) expanding investment and trade oppor-1

tunities for United States businesses; 2

(G) repatriation of North Korean refugees 3

from China to North Korea; and 4

(H) promoting and protecting rule of law 5

and democratic institutions in Hong Kong; and 6

(4) recommendations for enhancing the effec-7

tiveness of the Dialogue in achieving and fulfilling 8

significant commitments on United States priorities 9

described in paragraph (3), including consideration 10

of the use of predetermined benchmarks for assess-11

ing whether the commitments achieved are signifi-12

cantly furthering such priorities. 13

SEC. 106. REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN 14

BURMA. 15

Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-16

ment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a report to 17

the majority leader of the Senate, the minority leader of 18

the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 19

the majority leader of the House of Representatives, the 20

minority leader of the House of Representatives, the Com-21

mittee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, and the Com-22

mittee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives 23

that— 24

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(1) describes in detail all known widespread or 1

systematic civil or political rights violations, includ-2

ing violations that may constitute crimes against hu-3

manity against ethnic, racial, or religious minorities 4

in Burma, including the Rohingya people; and 5

(2) provides recommendations for holding per-6

petrators of the violations described in paragraph 7

(1) accountable for their actions. 8

SEC. 107. COMBATING ANTI-SEMITISM. 9

Of the amount authorized to be appropriated for Dip-10

lomatic and Consular Programs, $500,000 shall be made 11

available to the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, 12

and Labor, to be used in support of efforts by American 13

and European Jewish and other civil society organizations, 14

focusing on youth, to combat anti-Semitism and other 15

forms of religious, ethnic, or racial intolerance in Europe. 16

SEC. 108. BIOTECHNOLOGY GRANTS. 17

Title I of the State Department Basic Authorities Act 18

of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2651a et seq.), is amended by adding 19

at the end the following: 20

‘‘SEC. 63. BIOTECHNOLOGY GRANTS AUTHORIZED. 21

‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State is au-22

thorized to support, through grants, cooperative agree-23

ments, contracts, outreach, and public diplomacy activi-24

ties, activities promoting the benefits of agricultural bio-25

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technology, biofuels, science-based regulatory systems, and 1

the application of such technologies for trade and develop-2

ment. 3

‘‘(b) LIMITATION.—The total amount of grants pro-4

vided pursuant to subsection (a) shall not exceed $500,000 5

in any fiscal year.’’. 6

SEC. 109. DEFINITION OF ‘‘USE’’ IN PASSPORT AND VISA OF-7

FENSES. 8

(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 75 of title 18, United 9

States Code, is amended by inserting before section 1541 10

the following: 11

‘‘SEC. 1540. DEFINITION OF ‘USE’ AND ‘USES’. 12

‘‘In this chapter, the terms ‘use’ and ‘uses’ shall be 13

given their plain meaning, which shall include use for iden-14

tification purposes.’’. 15

(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 16

for chapter 75 of title 18, United States Code, is amended 17

by inserting before the item relating to section 1541 the 18

following: 19

‘‘1540. Definition of ‘use’ and ‘uses’.’’.

SEC. 110. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FELLOWSHIPS. 20

Section 504 of the Foreign Relations Authorization 21

Act, Fiscal Year 1979 (22 U.S.C. 2656d) is amended by 22

adding at the end the following: 23

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‘‘(e) GRANTS AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS RE-1

LATED TO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FELLOWSHIP 2

PROGRAMS.— 3

‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary is authorized 4

to provide grants or enter into cooperative agree-5

ments for science and technology fellowship pro-6

grams of the Department of State. 7

‘‘(2) RECRUITMENT; STIPENDS.—Assistance au-8

thorized under paragraph (1) may be used— 9

‘‘(A) to recruit fellows; and 10

‘‘(B) to pay stipends, travel, and other ap-11

propriate expenses to fellows. 12

‘‘(3) CLASSIFICATION OF STIPENDS.—Stipends 13

paid under paragraph (2)(B) shall not be considered 14

compensation for purposes of section 209 of title 18, 15

United States Code. 16

‘‘(4) LIMITATION.—The total amount of assist-17

ance provided under this subsection may not exceed 18

$500,000 in any fiscal year.’’. 19

SEC. 111. NAME CHANGES. 20

(a) PUBLIC LAW 87–195.—Section 607(d) of the 21

Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2357(d)) is 22

amended by striking ‘‘Assistant Secretary of State for 23

Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific 24

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Affairs’’ and inserting ‘‘Assistant Secretary of State for 1

Oceans, Environment, and Science’’. 2

(b) PUBLIC LAW 88–206.—Section 617(a) of the 3

Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7671p(a)) is amended by strik-4

ing ‘‘Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and Inter-5

national Environmental and Scientific Affairs’’ and insert-6

ing ‘‘Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans, Environ-7

ment, and Science’’. 8

(c) PUBLIC LAW 93–126.—Section 9(a) of the De-9

partment of State Appropriations Authorization Act of 10

1973 (22 U.S.C. 2655a) is amended— 11

(1) by striking ‘‘Bureau of Oceans and Inter-12

national Environmental and Scientific Affairs’’ and 13

inserting ‘‘Bureau of Oceans, Environment, and 14

Science’’; and 15

(2) by striking ‘‘Assistant Secretary of State 16

for Oceans and International Environmental and 17

Scientific Affairs’’ and inserting ‘‘Assistant Sec-18

retary of State for Oceans, Environment, and 19

Science’’. 20

(d) PUBLIC LAW 106–113.—Section 1112(a) of the 21

Admiral James W. Nance and Meg Donovan Foreign Re-22

lations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2000 and 2001 23

(22 U.S.C. 2652c(a)) is amended by striking ‘‘Verification 24

and Compliance.’’ and inserting ‘‘Arms Control, 25

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Verification, and Compliance (referred to in this section 1

as the ‘Assistant Secretary’).’’. 2

SEC. 112. ANTI-PIRACY INFORMATION SHARING. 3

The Secretary is authorized to provide for the partici-4

pation of the United States in the Information Sharing 5

Centre located in Singapore, as established by the Re-6

gional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and 7

Armed Robbery Against Ships in Asia, done at Singapore 8

November 11, 2004. 9

SEC. 113. REPORT REFORM. 10

(a) HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT.—Section 549 of the 11

Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2347h) is re-12

pealed. 13

(b) ROUGH DIAMONDS ANNUAL REPORT.—Section 14

12 of the Clean Diamond Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 3911) 15

is amended to read as follows: 16

‘‘SEC. 12. REPORTS. 17

‘‘For each country that, during the preceding 12- 18

month period, exported rough diamonds to the United 19

States, the exportation of which was not controlled 20

through the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, and 21

if the failure to do so has significantly increased the likeli-22

hood that those diamonds not so controlled are being im-23

ported into the United States, the President shall submit 24

a semi-annual report to Congress that explains what ac-25

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tions have been taken by the United States or such coun-1

try since the previous report to ensure that diamonds, the 2

exportation of which was not controlled through the Kim-3

berley Process Certification Scheme, are not being im-4

ported from that country into the United States. A coun-5

try shall be included in the report required under this sec-6

tion until the country is controlling the importation and 7

exportation of rough diamonds through the Kimberley 8

Process Certification Scheme.’’. 9

SEC. 114. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE UNITED STATES AL-10

LIANCE WITH JAPAN. 11

It is the sense of Congress that— 12

(1) the alliance between the United States and 13

Japan is a cornerstone of peace, security, and sta-14

bility in the Asia-Pacific region and around the 15

world; 16

(2) Prime Minister Shiuzo Abe’s visit to the 17

United States in April 2015 and historic address to 18

a Joint Session of Congress symbolized the strength 19

and importance of ties between the United States 20

and Japan; 21

(3) in 2015, which marks 70 years since the 22

end of World War II, the United States and Japan 23

continue to strengthen the alliance and work to-24

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gether to ensure a peaceful and prosperous future 1

for the Asia-Pacific region and the world; 2

(4) the Governments and people of the United 3

States and Japan share values, interests, and capa-4

bilities that have helped to build a strong rules-based 5

international order, based on a commitment to rules, 6

norms and institutions; 7

(5) the revised Guidelines for United States- 8

Japan Defense Cooperation and Japan’s policy of 9

‘‘Proactive Contribution to Peace’’ will reinforce de-10

terrence, update the roles and missions of the 11

United States and Japan, enable Japan to expand 12

its contributions to regional and global security, and 13

allow the United States Government and the Gov-14

ernment of Japan to enhance cooperation on secu-15

rity issues in the region and beyond; 16

(6) the United States remain resolute in its 17

commitments under the Treaty of Mutual Coopera-18

tion and Security to respond to any armed attack in 19

the territories under the administration of Japan; 20

(7) although the United States Government 21

does not take a position on the ultimate sovereignty 22

of the Senkaku Islands, the United States Govern-23

ment acknowledges that they are under the adminis-24

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tration of Japan and opposes any unilateral actions 1

that would seek to undermine such administration; 2

(8) the United States Government reaffirms 3

that the unilateral actions of a third party will not 4

affect the United States acknowledgment of the ad-5

ministration of Japan over the Senkaku Islands; 6

(9) the United States Government and the Gov-7

ernment of Japan continue to work together on com-8

mon security interests, including to confront the 9

threat posed by the nuclear and ballistic missile pro-10

grams of the Democratic People’s Republic of 11

Korea; 12

(10) the United States Government and the 13

Government of Japan remain committed to ensuring 14

maritime security and respect for international law, 15

including freedom of navigation and overflight; and 16

(11) the United States Government and the 17

Government of Japan continue to oppose the use of 18

coercion, intimidation, or force to change the status 19

quo, including in the East and South China Seas. 20

SEC. 115. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE DEFENSE RELA-21

TIONSHIP BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES 22

AND THE REPUBLIC OF INDIA. 23

(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following find-24

ings: 25

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(1) The United States has an upgraded, stra-1

tegic-plus relationship with India based on regional 2

cooperation, space science cooperation, and defense 3

cooperation. 4

(2) The defense relationship between the United 5

States and the Republic of India is strengthened by 6

the common commitment of both countries to de-7

mocracy. 8

(3) The United States and the Republic of 9

India share a common and long-standing commit-10

ment to civilian control of the military. 11

(4) The United States and the Republic of 12

India have increasingly worked together on defense 13

cooperation across a range of activities, exercises, 14

initiatives, and research. 15

(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-16

gress that the United States should— 17

(1) continue to expand defense cooperation with 18

the Republic of India; 19

(2) welcome the role of the Republic of India in 20

providing security and stability in the Indo-Pacific 21

region and beyond; 22

(3) work cooperatively with the Republic of 23

India on matters relating to our common defense; 24

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(4) vigorously support the implementation of 1

the United States-India Defense Framework Agree-2

ment; and 3

(5) support the India Defense Trade and Tech-4

nology Initiative. 5

SEC. 116. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE UNITED STATES AL-6

LIANCE WITH THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA. 7

It is the sense of Congress that— 8

(1) the alliance between the United States and 9

the Republic of Korea has served as an anchor for 10

stability, security, and prosperity on the Korean Pe-11

ninsula, in the Asia-Pacific region, and around the 12

world; 13

(2) the United States and the Republic of 14

Korea continue to strengthen and adapt the bilat-15

eral, regional, and global scope of the comprehensive 16

strategic alliance between the 2 nations, to serve as 17

a linchpin of peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific 18

region, recognizing the shared values of democracy, 19

human rights, free and open markets, and the rule 20

of law, as reaffirmed in the May 2013 ‘‘Joint Dec-21

laration in Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary 22

of the Alliance between the Republic of Korea and 23

the United States of America’’; 24

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(3) the United States and the Republic of 1

Korea continue to broaden and deepen the alliance 2

by strengthening the combined defense posture on 3

the Korean Peninsula, enhancing mutual security 4

based on the Republic of Korea-United States Mu-5

tual Defense Treaty, and promoting cooperation for 6

regional and global security in the 21st century; 7

(4) the United States and the Republic of 8

Korea share deep concerns that the nuclear, cyber, 9

and ballistic missiles programs of North Korea and 10

its repeated provocations pose grave threats to peace 11

and stability on the Korean Peninsula and North-12

east Asia and recognize that both nations are deter-13

mined to achieve the peaceful denuclearization of 14

North Korea and remain fully committed to con-15

tinuing close cooperation on the full range of issues 16

related to North Korea; 17

(5) the United States and the Republic of 18

Korea are particularly concerned that the nuclear 19

and ballistic missile programs of North Korea, in-20

cluding North Korean efforts to miniaturize their 21

nuclear technology and improve the mobility of their 22

ballistic missiles, have gathered significant momen-23

tum and are poised to expand in the coming years; 24

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(6) the Republic of Korea has made progress in 1

enhancing future warfighting and interoperability 2

capabilities by taking steps toward procuring Patriot 3

Advanced Capability missiles, F–35 Joint Strike 4

Fighter Aircraft, and RQ–4 Global Hawk Surveil-5

lance Aircraft; 6

(7) the United States supports the vision of a 7

Korean Peninsula free of nuclear weapons, free from 8

the fear of war, and peacefully reunited on the basis 9

of democratic and free market principles, as articu-10

lated in President Park’s address in Dresden, Ger-11

many; and 12

(8) the United States and the Republic of 13

Korea share the future interests of both nations in 14

securing peace and stability on the Korean Penin-15

sula and in Northeast Asia. 16

SEC. 117. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE RELATIONSHIP BE-17

TWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND TAIWAN. 18

It is the sense of the Congress that— 19

(1) the United States policy toward Taiwan is 20

based upon the Taiwan Relations Act (Public Law 21

96–8), which was enacted in 1979, and the Six As-22

surances given by President Ronald Reagan in 1982; 23

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(2) provision of defensive weapons to Taiwan 1

should continue as mandated in the Taiwan Rela-2

tions Act; and 3

(3) enhanced trade relations with Taiwan 4

should be pursued to mutually benefit the citizens of 5

both countries. 6

SEC. 118. REPORT ON POLITICAL FREEDOM IN VENEZUELA. 7

Not later than 90 days after the date of the enact-8

ment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a report to 9

the appropriate congressional committees that includes— 10

(1) an assessment of the support provided by 11

the United States to the people of Venezuela in their 12

aspiration to live under conditions of peace and rep-13

resentative democracy (as defined by the Inter- 14

American Democratic Charter of the Organization of 15

American States, done at Lima September 11, 16

2001); 17

(2) an assessment of work carried out by the 18

United States, in cooperation with the other member 19

states of the Organization of American States and 20

countries of the European Union, to ensure— 21

(A) the peaceful resolution of the current 22

political situation in Venezuela; and 23

(B) the immediate cessation of violence 24

against antigovernment protestors; 25

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(3) a list of the government and security offi-1

cials in Venezuela who— 2

(A) are responsible for, or complicit in, the 3

use of force in relation to antigovernment pro-4

tests and similar acts of violence; and 5

(B) have had their financial assets in the 6

United States frozen or been placed on a visa 7

ban by the United States; and 8

(4) an assessment of United States support for 9

the development of democratic political processes 10

and independent civil society in Venezuela. 11

SEC. 119. STRATEGY FOR THE MIDDLE EAST IN THE EVENT 12

OF A COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR AGREE-13

MENT WITH IRAN. 14

(a) STRATEGY REQUIRED.—The Secretary of State 15

shall, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, other 16

members of the National Security Council, and the heads 17

of other appropriate departments and agencies of the 18

United States Government, develop a strategy for the 19

United States for the Middle East. 20

(b) ELEMENTS.—The strategy shall include the fol-21

lowing: 22

(1) Efforts to counter Iranian-sponsored ter-23

rorism in Middle East region. 24

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(2) Efforts to reassure United States allies and 1

partners in Middle East. 2

(3) Efforts to address the potential for a con-3

ventional or nuclear arms race in the Middle East. 4

(c) SUBMISSION TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 60 5

days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-6

retary shall submit the strategy developed under sub-7

section (a) to— 8

(1) the majority leader, the minority leader, the 9

Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 10

Foreign Relations, and the Select Committee on In-11

telligence of the Senate; and 12

(2) the Speaker, the majority leader, the minor-13

ity leader, the Committee on Armed Services, the 14

Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Permanent 15

Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of 16

Representatives. 17

SEC. 120. DEPARTMENT OF STATE INTERNATIONAL CYBER-18

SPACE POLICY STRATEGY. 19

(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 20

date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State 21

shall produce a comprehensive strategy, with a classified 22

annex if necessary, relating to United States international 23

policy with regard to cyberspace. 24

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(b) ELEMENTS.—The strategy required in subsection 1

(a) shall include: 2

(1) A review of actions and activities under-3

taken by the Secretary of State to date to support 4

the goal of the President’s International Strategy for 5

Cyberspace, released in May 2011, to ‘‘work inter-6

nationally to promote an open, interoperable, secure, 7

and reliable information and communications infra-8

structure that supports international trade and com-9

merce, strengthens international security, and fos-10

ters free expression and innovation’’. 11

(2) A plan of action to guide the Secretary’s di-12

plomacy with regard to nation-states, including con-13

ducting bilateral and multilateral activities to de-14

velop the norms of responsible international behavior 15

in cyberspace, and status review of existing discus-16

sions in multilateral fora to obtain agreements on 17

international norms in cyberspace. 18

(3) A review of the alternative concepts with re-19

gard to international norms in cyberspace offered by 20

other prominent nation-state actors, including 21

China, Russia, Brazil, and India. 22

(4) A detailed description of threats to United 23

States national security in cyberspace from other na-24

tion-states, state-sponsored actors and private ac-25

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tors, to United States Federal and private sector in-1

frastructure, United States intellectual property, and 2

the privacy of United States citizens. 3

(5) A review of policy tools available to the 4

President of United States to deter nation-states, 5

state-sponsored actors, and private actors, including, 6

but not limited to, those outlined in Executive Order 7

13694, released on April 1, 2015. 8

(6) A review of resources required by the Sec-9

retary, including the Office of the Coordinator for 10

Cyber Issues, to conduct activities to build respon-11

sible norms of international cyber behavior. 12

(c) CONSULTATION.—The Secretary shall consult 13

with other United States Government agencies, including 14

the intelligence community, and, as appropriate, the 15

United States private sector, and United States non-16

governmental organizations with recognized credentials 17

and expertise in foreign policy, national security, and cy-18

bersecurity. 19

(d) RELEASE.—The Secretary shall publicly release 20

the strategy required in subsection (a) and brief the Com-21

mittee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Com-22

mittee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives 23

upon its release, including on the classified annex, should 24

the strategy include such an annex. 25

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SEC. 121. WAIVER OF FEES FOR RENEWAL OF IMMIGRANT 1

VISA FOR ADOPTED CHILD IN CERTAIN SITU-2

ATIONS. 3

Section 221(c) of the Immigration and Nationality 4

Act (8 U.S.C. 1201(c)) is amended to read as follows: 5

‘‘(c) PERIOD OF VALIDITY; RENEWAL OR REPLACE-6

MENT.— 7

‘‘(1) IMMIGRANT VISAS.—An immigrant visa 8

shall be valid for such period, not exceeding 6 9

months, as shall be by regulations prescribed, except 10

that any visa issued to a child lawfully adopted by 11

a United States citizen and spouse while such citizen 12

is serving abroad in the United States Armed 13

Forces, or is employed abroad by the United States 14

Government, or is temporarily abroad on business, 15

shall be valid until such time, for a period not to ex-16

ceed 3 years, as the adoptive citizen parent returns 17

to the United States in due course of his service, 18

employment, or business. 19

‘‘(2) NONIMMIGRANT VISAS.—A nonimmigrant 20

visa shall be valid for such periods as shall be pre-21

scribed by regulations. In prescribing the period of 22

validity of a nonimmigrant visa in the case of na-23

tionals of any foreign country who are eligible for 24

such visas, the Secretary of State shall, insofar as 25

practicable, accord to such nationals the same treat-26

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ment upon a reciprocal basis as such foreign country 1

accords to nationals of the United States who are 2

within a similar class, except that in the case of 3

aliens who are nationals of a foreign country and 4

who either are granted refugee status and firmly re-5

settled in another foreign country or are granted 6

permanent residence and residing in another foreign 7

country, the Secretary of State may prescribe the 8

period of validity of such a visa based upon the 9

treatment granted by that other foreign country to 10

alien refugees and permanent residents, respectively, 11

in the United States. 12

‘‘(3) VISA REPLACEMENT.—An immigrant visa 13

may be replaced under the original number during 14

the fiscal year in which the original visa was issued 15

for an immigrant who establishes to the satisfaction 16

of the consular officer that the immigrant— 17

‘‘(A) was unable to use the original immi-18

grant visa during the period of its validity be-19

cause of reasons beyond his control and for 20

which he was not responsible; 21

‘‘(B) is found by a consular officer to be 22

eligible for an immigrant visa; and 23

‘‘(C) pays again the statutory fees for an 24

application and an immigrant visa. 25

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‘‘(4) FEE WAIVER.—If an immigrant visa was 1

issued, on or after March 27, 2013, for a child who 2

has been lawfully adopted, or who is coming to the 3

United States to be adopted, by a United States cit-4

izen, any statutory immigrant visa fees relating to a 5

renewal or replacement of such visa may be waived 6

or, if already paid, may be refunded upon request, 7

subject to such criteria as the Secretary of State 8

may prescribe, if— 9

‘‘(A) the immigrant child was unable to 10

use the original immigrant visa during the pe-11

riod of its validity as a direct result of extraor-12

dinary circumstances, including the denial of an 13

exit permit; and 14

‘‘(B) if such inability was attributable to 15

factors beyond the control of the adopting par-16

ent or parents and of the immigrant.’’. 17

SEC. 122. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON ANTI-ISRAEL AND ANTI- 18

SEMITIC INCITEMENT WITHIN THE PALES-19

TINIAN AUTHORITY. 20

(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that the 1995 In-21

terim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, 22

commonly referred to as Oslo II, specifically details that 23

Israel and the Palestinian Authority shall ‘‘abstain from 24

incitement, including hostile propaganda, against each 25

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other and, without derogating from the principle of free-1

dom of expression, shall take legal measures to prevent 2

such incitement by any organizations, groups or individ-3

uals within their jurisdiction’’. 4

(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—Congress— 5

(1) expresses support and admiration for indi-6

viduals and organizations working to encourage co-7

operation between Israeli Jews and Palestinians, in-8

cluding— 9

(A) Professor Mohammed Dajani Daoudi, 10

who took students from al-Quds University in 11

Jerusalem to visit Auschwitz in March 2014 12

only to return to death threats by fellow Pal-13

estinians and expulsion from his teacher’s 14

union; 15

(B) the Israel Palestine Center for Re-16

search and Information, the only joint Israeli- 17

Palestinian public policy think-tank, 18

(C) United Hatzalah, a nonprofit, fully vol-19

unteer Emergency Medical Services organiza-20

tion that, mobilizing volunteers who are reli-21

gious or secular Jews, Arabs, Muslims, and 22

Christians, provides EMS services to all people 23

in Israel regardless of race, religion, or national 24

origin; and 25

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(D) Breaking the Impasse, an apolitical 1

initiative of Palestinian and Israeli business and 2

civil society leaders who advocate for a two- 3

state solution and an urgent diplomatic solution 4

to the conflict; 5

(2) reiterates strong condemnation of anti- 6

Israel and anti-Semitic incitement in the Palestinian 7

Authority as antithetical to the stated desire to 8

achieve a just, lasting, and comprehensive peace set-9

tlement; and 10

(3) urges President Abbas and Palestinian Au-11

thority officials to discontinue all official incitement 12

that runs contrary to the determination to put an 13

end to decades of confrontation. 14

SEC. 123. SUPPORT FOR THE SOVEREIGNTY, INDEPEND-15

ENCE, TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY, AND INVIO-16

LABILITY OF POST-SOVIET COUNTRIES IN 17

LIGHT OF RUSSIAN AGGRESSION AND INTER-18

FERENCE. 19

It is the sense of Congress that Congress— 20

(1) supports the sovereignty, independence, ter-21

ritorial integrity, and inviolability of post-Soviet 22

countries within their internationally recognized bor-23

ders; 24

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(2) expresses deep concern over increasingly ag-1

gressive actions by the Russian Federation; 2

(3) is committed to providing sufficient funding 3

for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs of 4

the Department of State to address subversive and 5

destabilizing activities by the Russian Federation 6

within post-Soviet countries; 7

(4) supports robust engagement between the 8

United States and post-Soviet countries through— 9

(A) the promotion of strengthened people- 10

to-people ties, including through educational 11

and cultural exchange programs; 12

(B) anticorruption assistance; 13

(C) public diplomacy; 14

(D) economic diplomacy; and 15

(E) other democratic reform efforts; 16

(5) encourages the President to further enhance 17

nondefense cooperation and diplomatic engagement 18

with post-Soviet countries; 19

(6) condemns the subversive and destabilizing 20

activities undertaken by the Russian Federation 21

within post-Soviet countries; 22

(7) encourages enhanced cooperation between 23

the United States and the European Union to pro-24

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mote greater Euro-Atlantic integration, including 1

through— 2

(A) the enlargement of the European 3

Union; and 4

(B) the Open Door policy of the North At-5

lantic Treaty Organization; 6

(8) urges continued cooperation between the 7

United States and the European Union to maintain 8

sanctions against the Russian Federation until the 9

Government of Russia has— 10

(A) fully implemented all provisions of the 11

Minsk agreements, done at Minsk September 5, 12

2014 and February 12, 2015; and 13

(B) demonstrated respect for the territorial 14

sovereignty of Ukraine; 15

(9) calls on the member states of the European 16

Union to extend the current sanctions regime 17

against the Russian Federation; and 18

(10) urges the consideration of additional sanc-19

tions if the Russian Federation continue to engage 20

in subversive and destabilizing activities within post- 21

Soviet countries. 22

SEC. 124. RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA REPORT. 23

(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-24

gress that— 25

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(1) the Russian Federation is waging a propa-1

ganda war against the United States and our allies; 2

and 3

(2) a successful strategy must be implemented 4

to counter the threat posed by Russian propaganda. 5

(b) REPORT.—Not later than 120 days after the date 6

of the enactment of this Act, and annually for the fol-7

lowing 3 years, the Secretary, in consultation with appro-8

priate Federal officials, shall submit an unclassified re-9

port, with a classified annex, to the Committee on Foreign 10

Relations of the Senate, the Select Committee on Intel-11

ligence of the Senate, the Committee on Foreign Affairs 12

of the House of Representatives, and the Permanent Se-13

lect Committee on Intelligence of the House of Represent-14

atives that contains a detailed analysis of— 15

(1) the recent use of propaganda by the Gov-16

ernment of Russia, including— 17

(A) the forms of propaganda used, includ-18

ing types of media and programming; 19

(B) the principal countries and regions tar-20

geted by Russian propaganda; and 21

(C) the impact of Russian propaganda on 22

such targets; 23

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(2) the response by United States allies, par-1

ticularly European allies, to counter the threat of 2

Russian propaganda; 3

(3) the response by the United States to the 4

threat of Russian propaganda; 5

(4) the extent of the effectiveness of programs 6

currently in use to counter Russian propaganda; 7

(5) a strategy for improving the effectiveness of 8

such programs; 9

(6) any additional authority needed to counter 10

the threat of Russian propaganda; and 11

(7) the additional funding needed to success-12

fully implement the strategy referred to in para-13

graph (5). 14

SEC. 125. APPROVAL OF EXPORT LICENCES AND LETTERS 15

OF REQUEST TO ASSIST THE GOVERNMENT 16

OF UKRAINE. 17

(a) IN GENERAL.— 18

(1) EXPORT LICENSE APPLICATIONS.— 19

(A) SUBMISSION TO CONGRESS.—The Sec-20

retary shall submit to the specified congres-21

sional committees a detailed list of all export li-22

cense applications, including requests for mar-23

keting licenses, for the sale of defense articles 24

and defense services to Ukraine. 25

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(B) CONTENTS.—The list submitted under 1

subparagraph (A) shall include— 2

(i) the date on which the application 3

or request was first submitted; 4

(ii) the current status of each applica-5

tion or request; and 6

(iii) the estimated timeline for adju-7

dication of such applications or requests. 8

(C) PRIORITY.—The Secretary should give 9

priority to processing the applications and re-10

quests included on the list submitted under sub-11

paragraph (A). 12

(2) LETTERS OF REQUEST.—The Secretary 13

shall submit to the specified congressional commit-14

tees a detailed list of all pending Letters of Request 15

for Foreign Military Sales to Ukraine, including— 16

(A) the date on which each such letter was 17

first submitted; 18

(B) the current status of each such letter; 19

and 20

(C) the estimated timeline for the adju-21

dication of each such letter. 22

(b) REPORTS.— 23

(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after 24

the date of the enactment of this Act, and every 90 25

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days thereafter until the date set forth in paragraph 1

(2), the Secretary shall submit a report to the speci-2

fied congressional committees that describes the sta-3

tus of the applications, requests for marketing li-4

censes, and Letters of Request described in sub-5

section (a). 6

(2) TERMINATION DATE.—The date set forth in 7

this paragraph is the earlier of— 8

(A) the date on which the President cer-9

tifies to Congress that the sovereignty and ter-10

ritorial integrity of the Government of Ukraine 11

has been restored; or 12

(B) the date that is 5 years after the date 13

of the enactment of this Act. 14

(c) SPECIFIED CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DE-15

FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘specified congressional 16

committees’’ means— 17

(1) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 18

Senate; 19

(2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 20

House of Representatives; 21

(3) the Committee on Armed Services of the 22

Senate; and 23

(4) the Committee on Armed Services of the 24

House of Representatives. 25

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Subtitle B—Additional Matters 1

SEC. 131. ATROCITIES PREVENTION BOARD. 2

(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The President is authorized 3

to establish, within the Executive Office of the President, 4

an Interagency Atrocities Prevention Board (referred to 5

in this section as the ‘‘Board’’). 6

(b) DUTIES.—The Board is authorized— 7

(1) to coordinate an interagency approach to 8

preventing mass atrocities; 9

(2) to propose policies to integrate the early 10

warning systems of national security agencies, in-11

cluding intelligence agencies, with respect to inci-12

dents of mass atrocities and to coordinate the policy 13

response to such incidents; 14

(3) to identify relevant Federal agencies, which 15

shall track and report on Federal funding spent on 16

atrocity prevention efforts; 17

(4) to oversee the development and implementa-18

tion of comprehensive atrocities prevention and re-19

sponse strategies; 20

(5) to identify available resources and policy op-21

tions necessary to prevent the emergence or esca-22

lation of mass atrocities; 23

(6) to identify and propose policies to close gaps 24

in expertise, readiness, and planning for atrocities 25

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prevention and early action across Federal agencies, 1

including training for employees at relevant Federal 2

agencies; 3

(7) to engage relevant civil society and non-4

governmental organization stakeholders in regular 5

consultations to solicit current information on coun-6

tries of concern; and 7

(8) to conduct an atrocity-specific expert review 8

of policy and programming of all countries at risk 9

for mass atrocities. 10

(c) LEADERSHIP.— 11

(1) IN GENERAL.—The Board shall be headed 12

by a Senior Director, who— 13

(A) shall be appointed by the President; 14

and 15

(B) shall report to the Assistant to the 16

President for National Security Affairs. 17

(2) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Senior Director is 18

authorized to have primary responsibility for— 19

(A) recommending and, if adopted, pro-20

moting United States Government policies on 21

preventing mass atrocities; and 22

(B) carrying out the duties described in 23

subsection (b). 24

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(d) COMPOSITION.—The Board shall be composed 1

of— 2

(1) representatives from— 3

(A) the Department of State; 4

(B) the United States Agency for Inter-5

national Development; 6

(C) the Department of Defense; 7

(D) the Department of Justice; 8

(E) the Department of the Treasury; 9

(F) the Department of Homeland Security; 10

(G) the Central Intelligence Agency; 11

(H) the Office of the Director of National 12

Intelligence; 13

(I) the United States Mission to the 14

United Nations; and 15

(J) the Federal Bureau of Investigation; 16

and 17

(2) such other individuals as the President may 18

appoint. 19

(e) COORDINATION.—The Board is authorized to co-20

ordinate with relevant officials and government agencies 21

responsible for foreign policy with respect to particular re-22

gions and countries to help provide a cohesive, whole of 23

government response and policy direction to emerging and 24

ongoing atrocities. 25

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(f) REPORT.—Not later than 90 days after the date 1

of the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit 2

to the appropriate congressional committees a classified 3

report, with an unclassified annex, which shall include— 4

(1) an update on the interagency review man-5

dated by Presidential Study Directive 10 that in-6

cludes— 7

(A) an evaluation of current mechanisms 8

and capacities for government-wide detection, 9

early warning, information-sharing, contingency 10

planning, and coordination of efforts to prevent 11

and respond to situations of genocide, mass 12

atrocities, and other mass violence, including 13

such mass gender- and ethnicity-based violence; 14

(B) an assessment of the funding spent by 15

relevant Federal agencies on atrocity prevention 16

activities; 17

(C) current annual global assessments of 18

sources of conflict and instability; 19

(D) recommendations to further strength-20

en United States capabilities to improve the 21

mechanisms described in subparagraph (A); and 22

(E) evaluations of the various approaches 23

to enhancing capabilities and improving the 24

mechanisms described in subparagraph (A); 25

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(2) recommendations to ensure burden sharing 1

by— 2

(A) improving international cooperation 3

and coordination to enhance multilateral mech-4

anisms for preventing genocide and atrocities, 5

including improving the role of regional and 6

international organizations in conflict preven-7

tion, mitigation, and response; and 8

(B) strengthening regional organizations; 9

and 10

(3) the implementation status of the rec-11

ommendations contained in the interagency review 12

described in paragraph (1). 13

(g) MATERIALS AND BRIEFINGS.—The Senior Direc-14

tor and the members of the Board shall brief the Com-15

mittee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Com-16

mittee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives 17

at least annually. 18

(h) SUNSET.—This section shall cease to be effective 19

on June 30, 2017. 20

SEC. 132. UNITED STATES ENGAGEMENT IN THE INDO-PA-21

CIFIC. 22

(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 23

date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State 24

shall submit a comprehensive assessment to the Chairmen 25

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and Ranking Members of the Committee on Foreign Rela-1

tions of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs 2

of the House of Representatives of the United States en-3

gagement in the Indo-Pacific, including with partners 4

across the Indo-Pacific region. 5

(b) ELEMENTS.—The assessment submitted under 6

subsection (a) shall include— 7

(1) a review of current and emerging United 8

States diplomatic, national security, and economic 9

interests and trends in the Indo-Pacific region; 10

(2) a review of resources devoted to United 11

States diplomatic, economic, trade, development, and 12

cultural engagement and plans in the Indo-Pacific 13

region during the 10-year period ending on the date 14

of the enactment of this Act; 15

(3) options for the realignment of United States 16

engagement in the Indo-Pacific region to respond to 17

new opportunities and challenges, including linking 18

United States strategy more broadly across the 19

Indo-Pacific region; and 20

(4) the views of noted policy leaders and re-21

gional experts, including leaders and experts in the 22

Indo-Pacific region, on the opportunities and chal-23

lenges to United States engagement across the Indo- 24

Pacific region. 25

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(c) CONSULTATION.—The Secretary, as appropriate, 1

shall consult with— 2

(1) other United States Government agencies; 3

and 4

(2) independent, nongovernmental organizations 5

with recognized credentials and expertise in foreign 6

policy, national security, and international economic 7

affairs that have access to policy experts throughout 8

the United States and from the Indo-Pacific region. 9

SEC. 133. JOINT ACTION PLAN TO COMBAT PREJUDICE AND 10

DISCRIMINATION AND TO FOSTER INCLU-11

SION. 12

(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary is authorized to 13

enter into a bilateral joint action plan with the European 14

Union to combat prejudice and discrimination and to fos-15

ter inclusion (referred to in this section as the ‘‘Joint Ac-16

tion Plan’’). 17

(b) CONTENTS OF JOINT ACTION PLAN.—The Joint 18

Action Plan shall— 19

(1) address anti-Semitism; 20

(2) address prejudice against, and the discrimi-21

natory treatment of, racial, ethnic, and religious mi-22

norities; 23

(3) promote equality of opportunity for access 24

to quality education and economic opportunities; and 25

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(4) promote equal treatment by the justice sys-1

tem. 2

(c) COOPERATION.—In developing the Joint Action 3

Plan, the Secretary shall— 4

(1) leverage interagency policy expertise in the 5

United States and Europe; 6

(2) develop partnerships among civil society and 7

private sector stakeholders; and 8

(3) draw upon the extensive work done by the 9

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Eu-10

rope to address anti-Semitism. 11

(d) INITIATIVES.—The Joint Action Plan may in-12

clude initiatives for promoting equality of opportunity and 13

methods of eliminating prejudice and discrimination based 14

on religion, race, or ethnicity, including— 15

(1) training programs; 16

(2) regional initiatives to promote equality of 17

opportunity through the strengthening of democratic 18

institutions; 19

(3) public-private partnerships with enterprises 20

and nongovernmental organizations; 21

(4) exchanges of technical experts; 22

(5) scholarships and fellowships; and 23

(6) political empowerment and leadership initia-24

tives. 25

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(e) DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY.—The Secretary 1

shall task an existing Deputy Assistant Secretary with the 2

responsibility for coordinating the implementation of the 3

Joint Action Plan with his or her European Union coun-4

terpart. 5

(f) LEGAL EFFECTS.—Any Joint Action Plan adopt-6

ed under this section— 7

(1) shall not be legally binding; and 8

(2) shall create no rights or obligations under 9

international or United States law. 10

(g) RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-11

tion may be construed to authorize— 12

(1) the Secretary to enter into a legally binding 13

agreement or Joint Action Plan with the European 14

Union; or 15

(2) any additional appropriations for the pur-16

poses and initiatives described in this section. 17

(h) PROGRESS REPORT.—Not later than 180 days 18

after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 19

shall submit a progress report on the development of the 20

Joint Action Plan to the Committee on Foreign Relations 21

of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 22

the House of Representatives. 23

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SEC. 134. REPORT ON DEVELOPING COUNTRY DEBT SUS-1

TAINABILITY. 2

(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 3

date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in coordi-4

nation with the Secretary of Treasury, shall submit a re-5

port containing an assessment of the current external debt 6

environment for developing countries and identifying par-7

ticular near-term risks to debt sustainability to— 8

(1) the appropriate congressional committees; 9

(2) the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 10

Urban Affairs of the Senate; and 11

(3) the Committee on Financial Services of the 12

House of Representatives. 13

(b) CONTENTS.—The report submitted under sub-14

section (a) shall assess— 15

(1) the impact of new lending relationships, in-16

cluding the role of new creditors; 17

(2) the adequacy of current multilateral surveil-18

lance mechanisms in guarding against debt distress 19

in developing countries; 20

(3) the ability of developing countries to borrow 21

on global capital markets; and 22

(4) the interaction between debt sustainability 23

objectives of the developing world and the develop-24

ment-oriented investment agenda of the G–20, in-25

cluding the impact of— 26

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(A) current debt sustainability objectives 1

on investment in developing countries; and 2

(B) investment objectives proposed by the 3

G–20 on the ability to meet the goals of— 4

(i) the Heavily Indebted Poor Country 5

Initiative; and 6

(ii) the Multilateral Debt Relief Initia-7

tive. 8

SEC. 135. UNITED STATES STRATEGY TO PREVENT AND RE-9

SPOND TO GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE GLOB-10

ALLY. 11

(a) GLOBAL STRATEGY REQUIREMENT.—Not later 12

than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 13

and biennially thereafter for 6 years, the Secretary of 14

State shall develop or update a United States global strat-15

egy to prevent and respond to violence against women and 16

girls. The strategy shall be transmitted to the appropriate 17

congressional committees and made publicly available on 18

the Internet. 19

(b) INITIAL STRATEGY.—For the purposes of this 20

section, the ‘‘United States Strategy to Prevent and Re-21

spond to Gender-Based Violence Globally’’, issued in Au-22

gust 2012, shall be deemed to fulfill the initial require-23

ment of subsection (a). 24

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(c) COLLABORATION AND COORDINATION.—In devel-1

oping the strategy under subsection (a), the Secretary of 2

State shall consult with— 3

(1) the heads of relevant Federal agencies; 4

(2) the Senior Policy Operating Group on Traf-5

ficking in Persons; and 6

(3) representatives of civil society and multilat-7

eral organizations with demonstrated experience in 8

addressing violence against women and girls or pro-9

moting gender equality internationally. 10

(d) PRIORITY COUNTRY SELECTION.—To further the 11

objectives of the strategy described in subsection (a), the 12

Secretary shall identify no less than 4 eligible low-income 13

and lower-middle income countries with significant levels 14

of violence against women and girls, including within dis-15

placed communities, that have the governmental or non-16

governmental organizational capacity to manage and im-17

plement gender-based violence prevention and response 18

program activities and should, when possible, be geo-19

graphically, ethnically, and culturally diverse from one an-20

other. 21

(e) COUNTRY PLANS.—In each country identified 22

under subsection (d) the Secretary shall develop com-23

prehensive, multisectoral, and holistic individual country 24

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plans designed to address and respond to violence against 1

women and girls that include— 2

(1) an assessment and description of the cur-3

rent or potential capacity of the government of each 4

identified country and civil society organizations in 5

each such identified country to address and respond 6

to violence against women and girls; 7

(2) an identification of coordination mecha-8

nisms with Federal agencies that— 9

(A) have existing programs relevant to the 10

strategy; 11

(B) will be involved in new program activi-12

ties; and 13

(C) are engaged in broader United States 14

strategies around development; 15

(3) a description of the monitoring and evalua-16

tion mechanisms established for each identified 17

country, and their intended use in assessing overall 18

progress in prevention and response; 19

(4) a projection of the general levels of re-20

sources needed to achieve the stated objectives in 21

each identified country, including an accounting of— 22

(A) activities and funding already ex-23

pended by the Department of State, the United 24

States Agency for International Development, 25

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other Federal agencies, donor country govern-1

ments, and multilateral institutions; and 2

(B) leveraged private sector resources; and 3

(5) strategies, as appropriate, designed to ac-4

commodate the needs of stateless, disabled, inter-5

nally displaced, refugee, or religious or ethnic minor-6

ity women and girls. 7

(f) REPORT ON PRIORITY COUNTRY SELECTION AND 8

COUNTRY PLANS.—Not more than 90 days after selection 9

of the priority countries required under subsection (d), 10

and annually thereafter, the Secretary of State shall sub-11

mit to the appropriate congressional committees a report 12

detailing the priority country selection process, the devel-13

opment of specific country plans, and include an overview 14

of all programming and specific activities being under-15

taken, the budget resources requested, and the specific ac-16

tivities to be supported by each Executive agency under 17

the strategy if such resources are provided. 18

(g) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-19

tion may be construed to authorize any additional appro-20

priations for the purposes and initiatives of this section. 21

SEC. 136. INTERNATIONAL CORRUPTION AND ACCOUNT-22

ABILITY. 23

(a) ANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than June 1 of each 24

year, the Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator 25

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of the United States Agency for International Develop-1

ment (referred to in this section as the ‘‘USAID Adminis-2

trator’’), the Secretary of Defense, and the heads of ap-3

propriate intelligence agencies, shall submit to the appro-4

priate congressional committees a Country Report on Cor-5

ruption Practices, with a classified annex, which shall in-6

clude information about countries for which a corruption 7

analysis was conducted under subsection (b). 8

(b) CORRUPTION ANALYSIS ELEMENTS.—The cor-9

ruption analysis conducted under this subsection should 10

include, among other elements— 11

(1) an analysis of individuals and associations 12

that comprise corruption networks in the country, 13

including, as applicable— 14

(A) government officials; 15

(B) private sector actors; 16

(C) criminals; and 17

(D) members of illegal armed groups; 18

(2) the identification of the state functions that 19

have been captured by corrupt networks in the coun-20

try, including, as applicable functions of— 21

(A) the judicial branch; 22

(B) the taxing authority; 23

(C) the central bank; and 24

(D) specific military or police units; 25

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(3) the identification of— 1

(A) the key economic activities, whether 2

licit or illicit, which are dominated by members 3

of the corrupt network; and 4

(B) other revenue streams that enrich such 5

members; and 6

(4) the identification of enablers of corrupt 7

practices, within the country and outside the coun-8

try. 9

(c) PUBLICATION AND BRIEFINGS.—The Secretary 10

shall— 11

(1) publish the Country Report on Corruption 12

and Accountability submitted under subsection (a) 13

on the website of the Department; and 14

(2) brief the Committee on Foreign Relations of 15

the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 16

the House of Representatives on the information 17

contained in the report published under paragraph 18

(1). 19

SEC. 137. QUADRENNIAL DIPLOMACY AND DEVELOPMENT 20

REVIEW. 21

(a) REQUIREMENT.— 22

(1) QUADRENNIAL REVIEWS REQUIRED.— 23

Under the direction of the President, the Secretary 24

of State shall every 4 years, during a year following 25

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a year evenly divisible by 4, conduct a review of 1

United States diplomacy and development (to be 2

known as a ‘‘quadrennial diplomacy and develop-3

ment review’’). 4

(2) SCOPE OF REVIEWS.—Each quadrennial di-5

plomacy and development review shall be a com-6

prehensive examination of the national diplomacy 7

and development policy and strategic framework of 8

the United States for the next 4-year period until a 9

subsequent review is due under paragraph (1). The 10

review shall include— 11

(A) recommendations regarding the long- 12

term diplomacy and development policy and 13

strategic framework of the United States; 14

(B) priorities of the United States for di-15

plomacy and development; and 16

(C) guidance on the related programs, as-17

sets, capabilities, budget, policies, and authori-18

ties of the Department of State and United 19

States Agency for International Development. 20

(3) CONSULTATION.—In conducting each quad-21

rennial diplomacy and development review, after con-22

sultation with Department of State and United 23

States Agency for International Development offi-24

cials, the Secretary of State should consult with— 25

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(A) the heads of other relevant Federal 1

agencies, including the Secretary of Defense, 2

the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of 3

Homeland Security, the Attorney General, the 4

Secretary of Health and Human Services, the 5

Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Com-6

merce, the Chief Executive Officer of the Mil-7

lennium Challenge Corporation, and the Direc-8

tor of National Intelligence; 9

(B) any other Federal agency that provides 10

foreign assistance, including at a minimum the 11

Export-Import Bank of the United States and 12

the Overseas Private Investment Corporation; 13

(C) the Committee on Foreign Relations 14

and the Committee on Appropriations of the 15

Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs 16

and the Committee on Appropriations of the 17

House of Representatives and, as appropriate, 18

other members of Congress; and 19

(D) other relevant governmental and non-20

governmental entities, including private sector 21

representatives, academics, and other policy ex-22

perts. 23

(b) CONTENTS OF REVIEW.—Each quadrennial diplo-24

macy and development review shall— 25

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(1) delineate, as appropriate, the national diplo-1

macy and development policy and strategic frame-2

work of the United States, consistent with appro-3

priate national, Department of State, and United 4

States Agency for International Development strate-5

gies, strategic plans, and relevant presidential direc-6

tives, including the national security strategy pre-7

scribed pursuant to section 108 of the National Se-8

curity Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 404a); 9

(2) outline and prioritize the full range of crit-10

ical national diplomacy and development areas, capa-11

bilities, and resources, including those implemented 12

across agencies, and address the full range of chal-13

lenges confronting the United States in this regard; 14

(3) describe the interagency cooperation, and 15

preparedness of relevant Federal assets, and the in-16

frastructure, budget plan, and other elements of the 17

diplomacy and development policies and programs of 18

the United States required to execute successfully 19

the full range of mission priorities outlined under 20

paragraph (2); 21

(4) describe the roles of international organiza-22

tions and multilateral institutions in advancing 23

United States diplomatic and development objec-24

tives, including the mechanisms for coordinating and 25

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harmonizing development policies and programs with 1

partner countries and among donors; 2

(5) identify the budget plan required to provide 3

sufficient resources to successfully execute the full 4

range of mission priorities outlined under paragraph 5

(2); 6

(6) include an assessment of the organizational 7

alignment of the Department of State and the 8

United States Agency for International Development 9

with the national diplomacy and development policy 10

and strategic framework referred to in paragraph 11

(1) and the diplomacy and development mission pri-12

orities outlined under paragraph (2); 13

(7) review and assess the effectiveness of the 14

management mechanisms of the Department of 15

State and the United States Agency for Inter-16

national Development for executing the strategic pri-17

orities outlined in the quadrennial diplomacy and de-18

velopment review, including the extent to which such 19

effectiveness has been enhanced since the previous 20

report; and 21

(8) the relationship between the requirements of 22

the quadrennial diplomacy and development review 23

and the acquisition strategy and expenditure plan 24

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within the Department of State and the United 1

States Agency for International Development. 2

(c) FOREIGN AFFAIRS POLICY BOARD REVIEW.— 3

The Secretary of State should apprise the Foreign Affairs 4

Policy Board on an ongoing basis of the work undertaken 5

in the conduct of the quadrennial diplomacy and develop-6

ment review. 7

(d) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-8

tion may be construed to authorize any additional appro-9

priations for the purposes and initiatives under this sec-10

tion. 11

SEC. 138. DISAPPEARED PERSONS IN MEXICO, GUATEMALA, 12

HONDURAS, AND EL SALVADOR. 13

(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following find-14

ings: 15

(1) The United States— 16

(A) values governance, security, and the 17

rule of law in Mexico and Central America; and 18

(B) has reemphasized its commitment to 19

this region following the humanitarian crisis of 20

unaccompanied children from these countries 21

across the international border between the 22

United States and Mexico in 2014. 23

(2) Individuals migrating from Central America 24

to the United States face great peril during their 25

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journey. Many go missing along the way and are 1

often never heard from again. 2

(b) REPORT OF DISAPPEARED PERSONS.—Not later 3

than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 4

and annually thereafter, the Secretary, in close consulta-5

tion with the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement 6

Agency, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Director 7

of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the heads of 8

other relevant Federal agencies, shall submit a report to 9

the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and 10

the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Rep-11

resentatives that includes— 12

(1) the number of cases of enforced disappear-13

ances in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Sal-14

vador; 15

(2) an assessment of causes for the disappear-16

ances described in paragraph (1); 17

(3) the primary individuals and groups respon-18

sible for such disappearances; and 19

(4) the official government response in those 20

countries to account for such disappeared persons. 21

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SEC. 139. REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION BY THE GOVERN-1

MENT OF BAHRAIN OF RECOMMENDATIONS 2

FROM THE BAHRAIN INDEPENDENT COMMIS-3

SION OF INQUIRY. 4

(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 60 days after the 5

date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall sub-6

mit an unclassified report to the appropriate congressional 7

committees that describes the implementation by the Gov-8

ernment of Bahrain of the recommendations contained in 9

the 2011 Report of the Bahrain Independent Commission 10

of Inquiry (referred to in this section as the ‘‘Bahrain Re-11

port’’). 12

(b) CONTENT.—The report required under subsection 13

(a) shall include— 14

(1) a description of the specific steps taken by 15

the Government of Bahrain to implement each of the 16

26 recommendations contained in the Bahrain Re-17

port; 18

(2) an assessment of whether the Government 19

of Bahrain has ‘‘fully complied with’’, ‘‘partially im-20

plemented’’, or ‘‘not meaningfully implemented’’ 21

each recommendation referred to in paragraph (1); 22

and 23

(3) an assessment of the impact of the findings 24

in the Bahrain Report for the United States security 25

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posture in the Arab Gulf and the area of responsi-1

bility of the United States Central Command. 2

SEC. 140. REPORT ON UNITED STATES HUMANITARIAN AS-3

SISTANCE TO HAITI AND WHETHER RECENT 4

ELECTIONS IN HAITI MEET INTERNATIONAL 5

ELECTION STANDARDS. 6

(a) REAUTHORIZATION.—Section 5(a) of the Assess-7

ing Progress in Haiti Act of 2014 (22 U.S.C. 2151 note) 8

is amended by striking ‘‘December 31, 2017’’ and insert-9

ing ‘‘December 31, 2022’’. 10

(b) REPORT.—Section 5(b) of the Assessing Progress 11

in Haiti Act of 2014 (22 U.S.C. 2151 note) is amended— 12

(1) in paragraph (12), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 13

end; 14

(2) in paragraph (13), by striking the period at 15

the end and inserting a semicolon; and 16

(3) by adding at the end the following: 17

‘‘(14) a determination of whether recent Hai-18

tian elections are free, fair and responsive to the 19

people of Haiti; and 20

‘‘(15) a description of any attempts to dis-21

qualify candidates for political officers in Haiti for 22

political reasons.’’. 23

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SEC. 141. SENSE OF CONGRESS WITH RESPECT TO THE IM-1

POSITION OF ADDITIONAL SANCTIONS 2

AGAINST THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S RE-3

PUBLIC OF KOREA. 4

(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following find-5

ings: 6

(1) The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 7

(in this section referred to as the ‘‘DPRK’’) tested 8

nuclear weapons on 3 separate occasions, in October 9

2006, in May 2009, and in February 2013. 10

(2) Nuclear experts have reported that the 11

DPRK may currently have as many as 20 nuclear 12

warheads and has the potential to possess as many 13

as 100 warheads within the next 5 years. 14

(3) According to the 2014 Department of De-15

fense report, ‘‘Military and Security Developments 16

Involving the Democratic People’s Republic of 17

Korea’’ (in this subsection referred to as the ‘‘2014 18

DoD report’’), the DPRK has proliferated nuclear 19

technology to Libya via the proliferation network of 20

Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan. 21

(4) According to the 2014 DoD report, ‘‘North 22

Korea also provided Syria with nuclear reactor tech-23

nology until 2007.’’. 24

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(5) On September 6, 2007, as part of ‘‘Oper-1

ation Orchard’’, the Israeli Air Force destroyed the 2

suspected nuclear facility in Syria. 3

(6) According to the 2014 DoD report, ‘‘North 4

Korea has exported conventional and ballistic mis-5

sile-related equipment, components, materials, and 6

technical assistance to countries in Africa, Asia, and 7

the Middle East.’’. 8

(7) On November 29, 1987, DPRK agents 9

planted explosive devices onboard Korean Air flight 10

858, which killed all 115 passengers and crew on 11

board. 12

(8) On March 26, 2010, the DPRK fired upon 13

and sank the South Korean warship Cheonan, killing 14

46 of her crew. 15

(9) On November 23, 2010, the DPRK shelled 16

South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island, killing 4 South 17

Korean citizens. 18

(10) On February 7, 2014, the United Nations 19

Commission of Inquiry on human rights in DPRK 20

(in this subsection referred to as the ‘‘Commission 21

of Inquiry’’) released a report detailing the atrocious 22

human rights record of the DPRK. 23

(11) Dr. Michael Kirby, Chair of the Commis-24

sion of Inquiry, stated on March 17, 2014, ‘‘The 25

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Commission of Inquiry has found systematic, wide-1

spread, and grave human rights violations occurring 2

in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. It has 3

also found a disturbing array of crimes against hu-4

manity. These crimes are committed against inmates 5

of political and other prison camps; against starving 6

populations; against religious believers; against per-7

sons who try to flee the country—including those 8

forcibly repatriated by China.’’. 9

(12) Dr. Michael Kirby also stated, ‘‘These 10

crimes arise from policies established at the highest 11

level of the State. They have been committed, and 12

continue to take place in the Democratic People’s 13

Republic of Korea, because the policies, institutions, 14

and patterns of impunity that lie at their heart re-15

main in place. The gravity, scale, duration, and na-16

ture of the unspeakable atrocities committed in the 17

country reveal a totalitarian State that does not 18

have any parallel in the contemporary world.’’. 19

(13) The Commission of Inquiry also notes, 20

‘‘Since 1950, the Democratic People’s Republic of 21

Korea has engaged in the systematic abduction, de-22

nial of repatriation, and subsequent enforced dis-23

appearance of persons from other countries on a 24

large scale and as a matter of State policy. Well over 25

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200,000 persons, including children, who were 1

brought from other countries to the Democratic Peo-2

ple’s Republic of Korea may have become victims of 3

enforced disappearance,’’ and states that the DPRK 4

has failed to account or address this injustice in any 5

way. 6

(14) According to reports and analysis from or-7

ganizations such as the International Network for 8

the Human Rights of North Korean Overseas Labor, 9

the Korea Policy Research Center, NK Watch, the 10

Asian Institute for Policy Studies, the Center for 11

International and Strategic Studies, and the George 12

W. Bush Institute, there may currently be as many 13

as 100,000 North Korean overseas laborers in var-14

ious nations around the world. 15

(15) Such forced North Korean laborers are 16

often subjected to harsh working conditions under 17

the direct supervision of DPRK officials, and their 18

salaries contribute to anywhere from $150,000,000 19

to $230,000,000 a year to the DPRK state coffers. 20

(16) According to the Director of National 21

Intelligence’s 2015 Worldwide Threat Assessment, 22

‘‘North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile pro-23

grams pose a serious threat to the United States 24

and to the security environment in East Asia.’’. 25

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(17) The Worldwide Threat Assessment states, 1

‘‘North Korea has also expanded the size and so-2

phistication of its ballistic missile forces, ranging 3

from close-range ballistic missiles to ICBMs, while 4

continuing to conduct test launches. In 2014, North 5

Korea launched an unprecedented number of bal-6

listic missiles.’’. 7

(18) On December 19, 2015, the Federal Bu-8

reau of Investigation declared that the DPRK was 9

responsible for a cyberattack on Sony Pictures con-10

ducted on November 24, 2014. 11

(19) From 1988 to 2008, the DPRK was des-12

ignated by the United States Government as a state 13

sponsor of terrorism. 14

(20) The DPRK is currently in violation of 15

United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1695 16

(2006), 1718 (2006), 1874 (2009), 2087 (2013), 17

and 2094 (2013). 18

(21) The DPRK repeatedly violated agreements 19

with the United States and the other so-called Six- 20

Party Talks partners (the Republic of Korea, Japan, 21

the Russian Federation, and the People’s Republic 22

of China) designed to halt its nuclear weapons pro-23

gram, while receiving significant concessions, includ-24

ing fuel, oil, and food aid. 25

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(22) The Six-Party Talks have not been held 1

since December 2008. 2

(23) On May 9, 2015, the DPRK claimed that 3

it has test-fired a ballistic missile from a submarine. 4

(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-5

gress that— 6

(1) the DPRK represents a serious threat to 7

the national security of the United States and 8

United States allies in East Asia and to inter-9

national peace and stability, and grossly violates the 10

human rights of its own people; 11

(2) the Secretary of State and the Secretary of 12

the Treasury should impose additional sanctions 13

against the DPRK, including targeting its financial 14

assets around the world, specific designations relat-15

ing to human rights abuses, and a redesignation of 16

the DPRK as a state sponsor of terror; and 17

(3) the President should not resume the nego-18

tiations with the DPRK, either bilaterally or as part 19

of the Six-Party Talks, without strict preconditions, 20

including that the DPRK— 21

(A) adhere to its denuclearization commit-22

ments outlined in the 2005 Joint Statement of 23

the Six-Party Talks; 24

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(B) commit to halting its ballistic missile 1

programs and its proliferation activities; 2

(C) cease military provocations; and 3

(D) measurably and significantly improve 4

its human rights record. 5

TITLE II—ORGANIZATION AND 6

PERSONNEL OF THE DEPART-7

MENT OF STATE 8

Subtitle A—Organizational Matters 9

SEC. 201. RIGHTSIZING ACCOUNTABILITY. 10

(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 60 days after re-11

ceiving rightsizing recommendations pursuant to a review 12

conducted by the Office of Management, Policy, 13

Rightsizing, and Innovation relating to overseas staffing 14

levels at United States overseas posts, the relevant chief 15

of mission, in coordination with the relevant regional bu-16

reau, shall submit a response to the Office of Manage-17

ment, Policy, Rightsizing, and Innovation that describes— 18

(1) any rightsizing recommendations that are 19

accepted by such chief of mission and regional bu-20

reau; 21

(2) a detailed schedule for implementation of 22

any such recommendations; 23

(3) any recommendations that are rejected; and 24

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(4) a detailed justification providing the basis 1

for the rejection of any such recommendations. 2

(b) ANNUAL REPORT.—On the date on which the 3

President’s annual budget request is submitted to Con-4

gress, the Secretary shall submit an annual report to the 5

appropriate congressional committees that describes the 6

status of all rightsizing recommendations and responses 7

described in subsection (a) from the preceding 5 years, 8

including— 9

(1) a list of all such rightsizing recommenda-10

tions made, including whether each such rec-11

ommendation was accepted or rejected by the rel-12

evant chief of mission and regional bureau; 13

(2) for each accepted recommendation, a de-14

tailed description of the current status of its imple-15

mentation according to the schedule provided pursu-16

ant to subsection (a)(2), including an explanation 17

for any departure from, or changes to, such sched-18

ule; and 19

(3) for any rejected recommendations, the jus-20

tification provided pursuant to subsection (a)(4). 21

(c) REPORT ON REGIONAL BUREAU STAFFING.—In 22

conjunction with each report required under subsection 23

(b), the Secretary shall submit a supplemental report to 24

the appropriate congressional committees that includes— 25

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(1) an enumeration of the domestic staff posi-1

tions in each regional bureau of the Department; 2

(2) a detailed explanation of the extent to which 3

the staffing of each regional bureau reflects the 4

overseas requirements of the United States within 5

each such region; 6

(3) a detailed plan, including an implementa-7

tion schedule, for how the Department will seek to 8

rectify any significant imbalances in staffing among 9

regional bureaus or between any regional bureau and 10

the overseas requirements of the United States with-11

in such region if the Secretary determines that such 12

staffing does not reflect— 13

(A) the foreign policy priorities of the 14

United States; or 15

(B) the effective conduct of the foreign af-16

fairs of the United States; and 17

(4) a detailed description of the implementation 18

status of any plan provided pursuant to paragraph 19

(3), including an explanation for any departure 20

from, or changes to, the implementation schedule 21

provided with such plan. 22

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SEC. 202. INTEGRATION OF FOREIGN ECONOMIC POLICY. 1

(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, in conjunction 2

with the Under Secretary of Economic Growth, Energy, 3

and the Environment, shall establish— 4

(1) foreign economic policy priorities for each 5

regional bureau, including for individual countries, 6

as appropriate; and 7

(2) policies and guidance for integrating such 8

foreign economic policy priorities throughout the De-9

partment. 10

(b) DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY.—Within each 11

regional bureau of the Department, the Secretary shall 12

task an existing Deputy Assistant Secretary with appro-13

priate training and background in economic and commer-14

cial affairs with the responsibility for economic matters 15

and interests within the responsibilities of such regional 16

bureau, including the integration of the foreign economic 17

policy priorities established pursuant to subsection (a). 18

(c) COORDINATION.—The Deputy Assistant Sec-19

retary given the responsibility for economic matters and 20

interests pursuant to subsection (b) within each bureau 21

shall— 22

(1) at the direction of the relevant Assistant 23

Secretary, review and report to the Assistant Sec-24

retary of such bureau on all economic matters and 25

interests; and 26

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(2) serve as liaison with the Office of the Under 1

Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the 2

Environment. 3

SEC. 203. REVIEW OF BUREAU OF AFRICAN AFFAIRS AND 4

BUREAU OF NEAR EASTERN AFFAIRS JURIS-5

DICTIONS. 6

(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 7

date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall— 8

(1) conduct a review of the jurisdictional re-9

sponsibility of the Bureau of African Affairs and 10

that of the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs relating 11

to the North African countries of Morocco, Algeria, 12

Tunisia, and Libya; and 13

(2) submit a report to the appropriate congres-14

sional committees that includes— 15

(A) the findings of the review conducted 16

under paragraph (1); and 17

(B) recommendations on whether jurisdic-18

tional responsibility among the bureaus referred 19

to in paragraph (1) should be adjusted. 20

(b) REVIEW.—The review conducted under sub-21

section (a)(1) shall— 22

(1) identify regional strategic priorities; 23

(2) assess regional dynamics between the North 24

Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa regions, including 25

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the degree to which the priorities identified pursuant 1

to paragraph (1)— 2

(A) are distinct between each such region; 3

or 4

(B) have similar application across such 5

regions; 6

(3) identify current priorities and effectiveness 7

of United States Government regional engagement 8

in North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, including 9

through security assistance, economic assistance, hu-10

manitarian assistance, and trade; 11

(4) assess the degree to which such engagement 12

is— 13

(A) inefficient, duplicative, or uncoordi-14

nated between the North Africa and Sub-Saha-15

ran Africa regions; or 16

(B) otherwise harmed or limited as a re-17

sult of the current division of jurisdictional re-18

sponsibilities; 19

(5) assess the overall coherence and effective-20

ness of the current division of jurisdictional respon-21

sibilities in Africa between the Bureau of African 22

Affairs and the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, in-23

cluding with regard to coordination with other 24

United States departments or agencies; and 25

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(6) assess any opportunities and costs of trans-1

ferring jurisdictional responsibility of Morocco, Alge-2

ria, Tunisia and Libya from the Bureau of Near 3

Eastern Affairs to the Bureau of African Affairs. 4

SEC. 204. SPECIAL ENVOYS, REPRESENTATIVES, ADVISORS, 5

AND COORDINATORS. 6

Not later than 90 days after the date of the enact-7

ment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a report to 8

the appropriate congressional committees on special en-9

voys, representatives, advisors, and coordinators of the 10

Department, which shall include— 11

(1) a tabulation of the current names, ranks, 12

positions, and responsibilities of all special envoy, 13

representative, advisor, and coordinator positions at 14

the Department, with a separate accounting of all 15

such positions at the level of Assistant Secretary (or 16

equivalent) or above; and 17

(2) for each position identified pursuant to 18

paragraph (1)— 19

(A) the date on which the position was cre-20

ated; 21

(B) the mechanism by which the position 22

was created, including the authority under 23

which the position was created; 24

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(C) the positions authorized under section 1

1(d) of the State Department Basic Authorities 2

Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2651a(d)); 3

(D) a description of whether, and the ex-4

tent to which, the responsibilities assigned to 5

the position duplicate the responsibilities of 6

other current officials within the Department, 7

including other special envoys, representatives, 8

and advisors; 9

(E) which current official within the De-10

partment would be assigned the responsibilities 11

of the position in the absence of the position; 12

(F) to which current official within the De-13

partment the position directly reports; 14

(G) the total number of staff assigned to 15

support the position; and 16

(H) with the exception of those created by 17

statute, a detailed explanation of the necessity 18

of the position to the effective conduct of the 19

foreign affairs of the United States. 20

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SEC. 205. CONFLICT PREVENTION, MITIGATION AND RESO-1

LUTION, AND THE INCLUSION AND PARTICI-2

PATION OF WOMEN. 3

Section 704 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 4

U.S.C. 4024) is amended by adding at the end the fol-5

lowing: 6

‘‘(e) The Secretary, in conjunction with the Adminis-7

trator of the United States Agency for International De-8

velopment, shall ensure that all appropriate personnel, re-9

sponsible for, or deploying to, countries or regions consid-10

ered to be at risk of, undergoing, or emerging from violent 11

conflict, including special envoys, members of mediation 12

or negotiation teams, relevant members of the civil service 13

or foreign service, and contractors, obtain training, as ap-14

propriate, in the following areas, each of which shall in-15

clude a focus on women and ensuring women’s meaningful 16

inclusion and participation: 17

‘‘(1) Conflict prevention, mitigation, and resolu-18

tion. 19

‘‘(2) Protecting civilians from violence, exploi-20

tation, and trafficking in persons. 21

‘‘(3) International human rights law and inter-22

national humanitarian law.’’. 23

SEC. 206. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM SECURITY. 24

(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall regularly con-25

sult with the Director of the National Security Agency and 26

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any other departments or agencies the Secretary deter-1

mines to be appropriate regarding the security of United 2

States Government and nongovernment information tech-3

nology systems and networks owned, operated, managed, 4

or utilized by the Department, including any such systems 5

or networks facilitating the use of sensitive or classified 6

information. 7

(b) CONSULTATION.—In performing the consulta-8

tions required under subsection (a), the Secretary shall 9

make all such systems and networks available to the Di-10

rector of the National Security Agency and any other such 11

departments or agencies to carry out such tests and proce-12

dures as are necessary to ensure adequate policies and 13

protections are in place to prevent penetrations or com-14

promises of such systems and networks, including by mali-15

cious intrusions by any unauthorized individual or state 16

actor or other entity. 17

(c) SECURITY BREACH REPORTING.—Not later than 18

180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and 19

every 180 days thereafter, the Secretary, in consultation 20

with the Director of the National Security Agency and any 21

other departments or agencies the Secretary determines 22

to be appropriate, shall submit a report to the appropriate 23

congressional committees and to the Select Committee on 24

Intelligence of the Senate and the Permanent Select Com-25

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mittee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives 1

that describes in detail— 2

(1) all known or suspected penetrations or com-3

promises of the systems or networks described in 4

subsection (a) facilitating the use of classified infor-5

mation; and 6

(2) all known or suspected significant penetra-7

tions or compromises of any other such systems and 8

networks that occurred since the submission of the 9

prior report. 10

(d) CONTENT.—Each report submitted under sub-11

section (c) shall include— 12

(1) a description of the relevant information 13

technology system or network penetrated or com-14

promised; 15

(2) an assessment of the date and time such 16

penetration or compromise occurred; 17

(3) an assessment of the duration for which 18

such system or network was penetrated or com-19

promised, including whether such penetration or 20

compromise is ongoing; 21

(4) an assessment of the amount and sensitivity 22

of information accessed and available to have been 23

accessed by such penetration or compromise, includ-24

ing any such information contained on systems and 25

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networks owned, operated, managed, or utilized by 1

any other department or agency of the United States 2

Government; 3

(5) an assessment of whether such system or 4

network was penetrated by a malicious intrusion, in-5

cluding an assessment of— 6

(A) the known or suspected perpetrators, 7

including state actors; and 8

(B) the methods used to conduct such pen-9

etration or compromise; and 10

(6) a description of the actions the Department 11

has taken, or plans to take, to prevent future, simi-12

lar penetrations or compromises of such systems and 13

networks. 14

SEC. 207. ANALYSIS OF EMBASSY COST SHARING. 15

Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-16

ment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United 17

States shall submit a report to the appropriate congres-18

sional committees and to the Select Committee on Intel-19

ligence of the Senate and the Permanent Select Committee 20

on Intelligence of the House of Representatives that as-21

sesses the cost-effectiveness and performance of the Inter-22

national Cooperative Administrative Support Services sys-23

tem (referred to in this section as the ‘‘ICASS system’’), 24

including by assessing— 25

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(1) the general performance of the ICASS sys-1

tem in providing cost-effective, timely, efficient, ap-2

propriate, and reliable services that meet the needs 3

of all departments and agencies served; 4

(2) the extent to which additional cost savings 5

and greater performance can be achieved under the 6

current ICASS system and rules; 7

(3) the standards applied in the selection of the 8

ICASS provider and the extent to which such stand-9

ards are consistently applied; and 10

(4) potential reforms to the ICASS system, in-11

cluding— 12

(A) the selection of more than 1 service 13

provider under certain circumstances; 14

(B) options for all departments or agencies 15

to opt out of ICASS entirely or to opt out of 16

individual services, including by debundling 17

service packages; 18

(C) increasing the reliance on locally em-19

ployed staff or outsourcing to local firms, as ap-20

propriate; and 21

(D) other modifications to the current 22

ICASS system and rules that would incentivize 23

greater effectiveness and cost efficiency. 24

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SEC. 208. PARENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO THE INTER-1

AGENCY WORKING GROUP TO PREVENT 2

INTERNATIONAL PARENTAL CHILD ABDUC-3

TION. 4

Section 433(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 5

(6 U.S.C. 241(b)) is amended to read as follows: 6

‘‘(b) INTERAGENCY COORDINATION.— 7

‘‘(1) INTERAGENCY WORKING GROUP.—The 8

Secretary of State shall convene and chair an inter-9

agency working group to prevent international pa-10

rental child abduction, which shall be composed of 11

presidentially appointed, Senate confirmed, officials 12

from— 13

‘‘(A) the Department of State; 14

‘‘(B) the Department of Homeland Secu-15

rity, including U.S. Customs and Border Pro-16

tection and U.S. Immigration and Customs En-17

forcement; and 18

‘‘(C) the Department of Justice, including 19

the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 20

‘‘(2) ADVISORY COMMITTEE.—The Secretary of 21

State shall convene an advisory committee to the 22

interagency working group established pursuant to 23

paragraph (1), for the duration of the working 24

group’s existence, which shall be composed of not 25

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less than 3 left-behind parents, serving for 2-year 1

terms, who— 2

‘‘(A) shall be selected by the Secretary; 3

and 4

‘‘(B) shall periodically consult with the 5

interagency working group on all activities of 6

the interagency working group, as appro-7

priate.’’. 8

SEC. 209. IMPROVING RESEARCH AND EVALUATION OF 9

PUBLIC DIPLOMACY. 10

(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall— 11

(1) conduct regular research and evaluation of 12

public diplomacy programs and activities of the De-13

partment, including through the routine use of audi-14

ence research, digital analytics, and impact evalua-15

tions, to plan and execute such programs and activi-16

ties; and 17

(2) make the findings of the research and eval-18

uations conducted under paragraph (1) available to 19

Congress. 20

(b) DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH AND EVALUATION.— 21

(1) APPOINTMENT.—Not later than 90 days 22

after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-23

retary shall appoint a Director of Research and 24

Evaluation in the Office of Policy, Planning, and 25

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Resources for the Under Secretary for Public Diplo-1

macy and Public Affairs. 2

(2) LIMITATION ON APPOINTMENT.—The ap-3

pointment of a Director of Research and Evaluation 4

pursuant to paragraph (1) shall not result in an in-5

crease in the overall full-time equivalent positions 6

within the Department. 7

(3) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Director of Re-8

search and Evaluation shall— 9

(A) coordinate and oversee the research 10

and evaluation of public diplomacy programs of 11

the Department— 12

(i) to improve public diplomacy strate-13

gies and tactics; and 14

(ii) to ensure that programs are in-15

creasing the knowledge, understanding, 16

and trust of the United States by relevant 17

target audiences; 18

(B) report to the Director of Policy and 19

Planning; 20

(C) routinely organize and oversee audi-21

ence research, digital analytics and impact eval-22

uations across all public diplomacy bureaus and 23

offices of the Department; 24

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(D) support embassy public affairs sec-1

tions; 2

(E) share appropriate public diplomacy re-3

search and evaluation information within the 4

Department and with other Federal depart-5

ments and agencies; 6

(F) regularly design and coordinate stand-7

ardized research questions, methodologies, and 8

procedures to ensure that public diplomacy ac-9

tivities across all public diplomacy bureaus and 10

offices are designed to meet appropriate foreign 11

policy objectives; and 12

(G) report quarterly to the United States 13

Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, 14

through the Commission’s Subcommittee on Re-15

search and Evaluation established pursuant to 16

subsection (e), regarding the research and eval-17

uation of all public diplomacy bureaus and of-18

fices of the Department. 19

(4) GUIDANCE AND TRAINING.—Not later than 20

180 days after his or her appointment pursuant to 21

paragraph (1), the Director of Research and Evalua-22

tion shall create guidance and training for all public 23

diplomacy officers regarding the reading and inter-24

pretation of public diplomacy program evaluation 25

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findings to ensure that such findings and lessons 1

learned are implemented in the planning and evalua-2

tion of all public diplomacy programs and activities 3

throughout the Department. 4

(c) PRIORITIZING RESEARCH AND EVALUATION.— 5

(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director of Policy, 6

Planning, and Resources shall ensure that research 7

and evaluation, as coordinated and overseen by the 8

Director of Research and Evaluation, supports stra-9

tegic planning and resource allocation across all pub-10

lic diplomacy bureaus and offices of the Department. 11

(2) ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES.—Amounts al-12

located for the purposes of research and evaluation 13

of public diplomacy programs and activities pursu-14

ant to subsection (a) shall be made available to be 15

disbursed at the direction of the Director of Re-16

search and Evaluation among the research and eval-17

uation staff across all public diplomacy bureaus and 18

offices of the Department. 19

(3) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of 20

Congress that the Department should allocate, for 21

the purposes of research and evaluation of public di-22

plomacy activities and programs pursuant to sub-23

section (a)— 24

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(A) 3 to 5 percent of program funds made 1

available under the heading ‘‘EDUCATIONAL 2

AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMS’’; and 3

(B) 3 to 5 percent of program funds allo-4

cated for public diplomacy programs under the 5

heading ‘‘DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR PRO-6

GRAMS’’. 7

(d) LIMITED EXEMPTION.—The Paperwork Reduc-8

tion Act of 1980 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) shall not apply 9

to collections of information directed at foreign individuals 10

conducted by, or on behalf of, the Department for the pur-11

pose of audience research and impact evaluations, in ac-12

cordance with the requirements under this section and in 13

connection with the Department’s activities conducted 14

pursuant to the United States Information and Edu-15

cational Exchange Act (22 U.S.C. 1431 et seq.) or the 16

Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 17

(22 U.S.C. 2451 et seq.). 18

(e) ADVISORY COMMISSION ON PUBLIC DIPLO-19

MACY.— 20

(1) SUBCOMMITTEE FOR RESEARCH AND EVAL-21

UATION.—The Advisory Commission on Public Di-22

plomacy shall establish a Subcommittee for Research 23

and Evaluation to monitor and advise on the re-24

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search and evaluation activities of the Department 1

and the Broadcasting Board of Governors. 2

(2) REPORT.—The Subcommittee for Research 3

and Evaluation established pursuant to paragraph 4

(1) shall submit an annual report to Congress in 5

conjunction with the Commission on Public Diplo-6

macy’s Comprehensive Annual Report on the per-7

formance of the Department and the Broadcasting 8

Board of Governors in carrying out research and 9

evaluations of their respective public diplomacy pro-10

gramming. 11

(3) REAUTHORIZATION.—Section 1334 of the 12

Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 13

1998 (22 U.S.C. 6553) is amended by striking ‘‘Oc-14

tober 1, 2015’’ and inserting ‘‘October 1, 2020’’. 15

(f) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 16

(1) AUDIENCE RESEARCH.—The term ‘‘audi-17

ence research’’ means research conducted at the out-18

set of public diplomacy program or campaign plan-19

ning and design on specific audience segments to un-20

derstand the attitudes, interests, knowledge and be-21

haviors of such audience segments. 22

(2) DIGITAL ANALYTICS.—The term ‘‘digital 23

analytics’’ means the analysis of qualitative and 24

quantitative data, accumulated in digital format, to 25

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indicate the outputs and outcomes of a public diplo-1

macy program or campaign. 2

(3) IMPACT EVALUATION.—The term ‘‘impact 3

evaluation’’ means an assessment of the changes in 4

the audience targeted by a public diplomacy program 5

or campaign that can be attributed to such program 6

or campaign. 7

SEC. 210. ENHANCED INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY OF THE 8

BUREAU OF AFRICAN AFFAIRS. 9

(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall strengthen 10

the institutional capacity of the Bureau of African Affairs 11

to oversee programs and engage in strategic planning and 12

crisis management by— 13

(1) establishing an office within the Bureau of 14

African Affairs that is separate and distinct from 15

the regional affairs office specifically charged with 16

overseeing strategy development and program imple-17

mentation related to security assistance; 18

(2) planning to facilitate the long-term planning 19

process; and 20

(3) developing a concrete plan to rightsize the 21

Bureau of African Affairs not later than 180 days 22

after the date enactment of this Act. 23

(b) REPORT.—Not later than 90 days after the date 24

of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit 25

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a report to the appropriate congressional committees that 1

describes the actions that have been taken to carry out 2

subsection (a). 3

(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Nothing 4

in this section may be construed to authorize the appro-5

priation of additional amounts to carry out this section, 6

and the Secretary shall use existing resources to carry out 7

the provisions of this section. 8

Subtitle B—Personnel Matters 9

SEC. 211. REVIEW OF FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICER COM-10

PENSATION. 11

(a) INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT.— 12

(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after 13

the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 14

shall commission an independent assessment of For-15

eign Service Officer compensation to ensure that 16

such compensation is achieving its purposes and the 17

goals of the Department, including to recruit, retain, 18

and maintain the world’s premier diplomatic corps. 19

(2) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after 20

the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 21

shall submit a report to the appropriate congres-22

sional committees that includes— 23

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(A) the results of the independent assess-1

ment commissioned pursuant to paragraph (1); 2

and 3

(B) the views of the Secretary regarding 4

Foreign Service Officer compensation. 5

(b) CONTENT.—The report required under subsection 6

(a) shall include— 7

(1) a list of all compensation received by For-8

eign Service Officers assigned domestically or over-9

seas, including base salary and any other benefits, 10

allowances, differentials, or other financial incen-11

tives; 12

(2) for each form of compensation described in 13

paragraph (1)— 14

(A) an explanation of its stated purpose; 15

(B) a description of all relevant authori-16

ties, including statutory authority; and 17

(C) an assessment of the degree to which 18

its historical and current use matches its stated 19

purpose; and 20

(3) an assessment of the effectiveness of each 21

form of compensation described in paragraph (1) 22

in— 23

(A) achieving its stated purpose; 24

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(B) achieving the recruiting and retention 1

goals of the Department; and 2

(C) achieving the assignment placement 3

needs of the Department. 4

SEC. 212. REPEAL OF RECERTIFICATION REQUIREMENT 5

FOR SENIOR FOREIGN SERVICE. 6

Section 305 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 7

U.S.C. 3945) is amended by striking subsection (d). 8

SEC. 213. COMPENSATORY TIME OFF FOR TRAVEL. 9

Section 5550b of title 5, United States Code, is 10

amended by adding at the end the following: 11

‘‘(c) The maximum amount of compensatory time off 12

that may be earned under this section may not exceed 104 13

hours during any leave year (as defined in section 14

630.201(b) of title 5, Code of Federal Regulations).’’. 15

SEC. 214. CERTIFICATES OF DEMONSTRATED COM-16

PETENCE. 17

Not later than 7 days after submitting the report re-18

quired under section 304(a)(4) of the Foreign Service Act 19

of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3944(a)(4)) to the Committee on For-20

eign Relations of the Senate, the President shall make the 21

report available to the public, including by posting the on 22

the website of the Department in a conspicuous manner 23

and location. 24

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SEC. 215. FOREIGN SERVICE ASSIGNMENT RESTRICTIONS. 1

(a) APPEAL OF ASSIGNMENT RESTRICTION.—The 2

Secretary shall establish a right and process for employees 3

to appeal any assignment restriction or preclusion. 4

(b) CERTIFICATION.—Upon full implementation of a 5

right and process for employees to appeal an assignment 6

restriction or preclusion, the Secretary shall submit a re-7

port to the appropriate congressional committees that— 8

(1) certifies that such appeals process has been 9

fully implemented; and 10

(2) includes a detailed description of such proc-11

ess. 12

(c) NOTICE.—The Secretary shall— 13

(1) publish the right and process established 14

pursuant to subsection (a) in the Foreign Affairs 15

Manual; and 16

(2) include a reference to such publication in 17

the report required under subsection (b). 18

(d) PROHIBITING DISCRIMINATION.—Section 19

502(a)(2) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 20

3982(a)(2)) is amended to read as follows: 21

‘‘(2) In making assignments under paragraph 22

(1), the Secretary shall ensure that a member of the 23

Service is not assigned to, or restricted from, a posi-24

tion at a post in a particular geographic area, or do-25

mestically in a position working on issues relating to 26

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a particular geographic area, exclusively on the basis 1

of the race, ethnicity, or religion of that member.’’. 2

SEC. 216. SECURITY CLEARANCE SUSPENSIONS. 3

(a) SUSPENSION.—Section 610 of the Foreign Serv-4

ice Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4010) is amended— 5

(1) by striking the section heading and insert-6

ing the following: 7

‘‘SEC. 610. SEPARATION FOR CAUSE; SUSPENSION.’’; and 8

(2) by adding at the end the following: 9

‘‘(c)(1) In order to promote the efficiency of the Serv-10

ice, the Secretary may suspend a member of the Service 11

without pay when— 12

‘‘(A) the member’s security clearance is sus-13

pended; or 14

‘‘(B) there is reasonable cause to believe that 15

the member has committed a crime for which a sen-16

tence of imprisonment may be imposed. 17

‘‘(2) Any member of the Foreign Service for whom 18

a suspension is proposed under this subsection shall be 19

entitled to— 20

‘‘(A) written notice stating the specific reasons 21

for the proposed suspension; 22

‘‘(B) a reasonable time to respond orally and in 23

writing to the proposed suspension; 24

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‘‘(C) representation by an attorney or other 1

representative; and 2

‘‘(D) a final written decision, including the spe-3

cific reasons for such decision, as soon as prac-4

ticable. 5

‘‘(3) Any member suspended under this subsection 6

may file a grievance in accordance with the procedures ap-7

plicable to grievances under chapter 11. 8

‘‘(4) If a grievance is filed under paragraph (3)— 9

‘‘(A) the review by the Foreign Service Griev-10

ance Board shall be limited to a determination of 11

whether the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2) 12

have been fulfilled; and 13

‘‘(B) the Board may not exercise the authority 14

provided under section 1106(8). 15

‘‘(5) In this subsection: 16

‘‘(A) The term ‘reasonable time’ means— 17

‘‘(i) with respect to a member of the For-18

eign Service assigned to duty in the United 19

States, 15 days after receiving notice of the 20

proposed suspension; and 21

‘‘(ii) with respect to a member of the For-22

eign Service assigned to duty outside the 23

United States, 30 days after receiving notice of 24

the proposed suspension. 25

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‘‘(B) The terms ‘suspend’ and ‘suspension’ 1

mean placing a member of the Foreign Service in a 2

temporary status without duties and pay.’’. 3

(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 4

in section 2 of such Act is amended by striking the item 5

relating to section 610 and inserting the following: 6

‘‘Sec. 610. Separation for cause; suspension.’’.

SEC. 217. ECONOMIC STATECRAFT EDUCATION AND TRAIN-7

ING. 8

The Secretary shall establish curriculum at the For-9

eign Services Institute to develop the practical foreign eco-10

nomic policy expertise and skill sets of Foreign Service 11

officers, including by making available distance-learning 12

courses in commercial, economic, and business affairs, in-13

cluding in— 14

(1) the global business environment; 15

(2) the economics of development; 16

(3) development and infrastructure finance; 17

(4) current trade and investment agreements 18

negotiations; 19

(5) implementing existing multilateral and 20

World Trade Organization agreements, and United 21

States trade and investment agreements; 22

(6) best practices for customs and export proce-23

dures; and 24

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(7) market analysis and global supply chain 1

management. 2

SEC. 218. REPORT ON DIVERSITY RECRUITMENT, EMPLOY-3

MENT, RETENTION, AND PROMOTION. 4

(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 5

date of the enactment of this Act, and quadrennially there-6

after, the Secretary of State shall submit a comprehensive 7

report to Congress that— 8

(1) describes the efforts, consistent with exist-9

ing law, including procedures, effects, and results of 10

the Department since the period covered by the prior 11

such report, to promote equal opportunity and inclu-12

sion for all American employees in direct hire and 13

personal service contractors status, particularly em-14

ployees of the Foreign Service, to include equal op-15

portunity for all races, ethnicities, ages, genders, 16

and service-disabled veterans, with a focus on tradi-17

tionally underrepresented minority groups; 18

(2) includes a section on— 19

(A) the diversity of selection boards; 20

(B) the employment of minority and serv-21

ice-disabled veterans during the most recent 10- 22

year period, including— 23

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(i) the number hired through direct 1

hires, internships, and fellowship pro-2

grams; 3

(ii) the number promoted to senior 4

positions, including FS–01, GS–15, Senior 5

Executive Service, and Senior Foreign 6

Service; and 7

(iii) attrition rates by grade, civil and 8

foreign services, and the senior level ranks 9

listed in clause (ii); 10

(C) mentorship and retention programs; 11

and 12

(3) is organized in terms of real numbers and 13

percentages at all levels. 14

(b) CONTENTS.—Each report submitted under sub-15

section (a) shall describe the efforts of the Department— 16

(1) to propagate fairness, impartiality, and in-17

clusion in the work environment domestically and 18

abroad; 19

(2) to eradicate harassment, intolerance, and 20

discrimination; 21

(3) to refrain from engaging in unlawful dis-22

crimination in any phase of the employment process, 23

including recruitment, hiring, evaluation, assign-24

ments, promotion, retention, and training; 25

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(4) to eliminate illegal retaliation against em-1

ployees for participating in a protected equal em-2

ployment opportunity activity; 3

(5) to provide reasonable accommodation for 4

qualified employees and applicants with disabilities; 5

(6) to resolve workplace conflicts, confronta-6

tions, and complaints in a prompt, impartial, con-7

structive, and timely manner; 8

(7) to improve demographic data availability 9

and analysis regarding recruitment, hiring, pro-10

motion, training, length in service, assignment re-11

strictions, and pass-through programs; 12

(8) to recruit a diverse staff by— 13

(A) recruiting women, minorities, veterans, 14

and undergraduate and graduate students; 15

(B) recruiting at historically Black colleges 16

and universities, Hispanic serving institutions, 17

women’s colleges, and colleges that typically 18

serve majority minority populations; 19

(C) sponsoring and recruiting at job fairs 20

in urban communities; 21

(D) placing job advertisements in news-22

papers, magazines, and job sites oriented to-23

ward women and people of color; 24

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(E) providing opportunities through the 1

Foreign Service Internship Program and other 2

hiring initiatives; and 3

(F) recruiting mid- and senior-level profes-4

sionals through programs such as— 5

(i) the International Career Advance-6

ment Program; 7

(ii) the Public Policy and Inter-8

national Affairs Fellowship Program; 9

(iii) the Institute for International 10

Public Policy Fellowship Program; 11

(iv) Seminar XXI at the Massachu-12

setts Institute of Technology’s Center for 13

International Studies; and 14

(v) other similar, highly respected, 15

international leadership programs; and 16

(9) to provide opportunities through— 17

(A) the Charles B. Rangel International 18

Affairs Fellowship Program; 19

(B) the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Af-20

fairs Fellowship Program; and 21

(C) the Donald M. Payne International 22

Development Fellowship Program. 23

(c) SCOPE OF INITIAL REPORT.—The first report 24

submitted to Congress under this section shall include the 25

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information described in subsection (b) for the 3 fiscal 1

years immediately preceding the fiscal year in which the 2

report is submitted. 3

SEC. 219. EXPANSION OF THE CHARLES B. RANGEL INTER-4

NATIONAL AFFAIRS PROGRAM, THE THOMAS 5

R. PICKERING FOREIGN AFFAIRS FELLOW-6

SHIP PROGRAM, AND THE DONALD M. PAYNE 7

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FELLOW-8

SHIP PROGRAM. 9

(a) ADDITIONAL FELLOWSHIPS AUTHORIZED.—Be-10

ginning in fiscal year 2016, the Secretary shall— 11

(1) increase by 10 the number of fellows se-12

lected for the Charles B. Rangel International Af-13

fairs Program; 14

(2) increase by 10 the number of fellows se-15

lected for the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs 16

Fellowship Program; and 17

(3) increase by 5 the number of fellows selected 18

for the Donald M. Payne International Development 19

Fellowship Program. 20

(b) PAYNE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM.—Undergraduate 21

and graduate components of the Donald M. Payne Inter-22

national Development Fellowship Program are authorized 23

to conduct outreach to attract outstanding students who 24

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represent diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds 1

with an interest in pursuing a Foreign Service career. 2

SEC. 220. RETENTION OF MID- AND SENIOR-LEVEL PROFES-3

SIONALS FROM UNDERREPRESENTED 4

GROUPS. 5

(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary should provide at-6

tention and oversight to the employment, retention, and 7

promotion of underrepresented groups to promote a di-8

verse ethnic representation among mid- and senior-level 9

career professionals through programs such as— 10

(1) the International Career Advancement Pro-11

gram; 12

(2) Seminar XXI at the Massachusetts Insti-13

tute of Technology’s Center for International Stud-14

ies; and 15

(3) other highly respected international leader-16

ship programs. 17

(b) REVIEW OF PAST PROGRAMS.—The Secretary 18

should review past programs designed to increase minority 19

representation in international affairs positions, includ-20

ing— 21

(1) the USAID Undergraduate Cooperative and 22

Graduate Economics Program; 23

(2) the Public Policy and International Affairs 24

Fellowship Program; and 25

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(3) the Institute for International Public Policy 1

Fellowship Program. 2

SEC. 221. REVIEW OF JURISDICTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES 3

OF THE SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE TO AF-4

GHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN AND THE BU-5

REAU OF SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIAN AF-6

FAIRS. 7

(a) REVIEW.—The Secretary of State shall conduct 8

a review of the jurisdictional responsibilities of the Special 9

Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan (SRAP) and 10

the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs (SCA). 11

(b) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 12

of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit 13

to the appropriate congressional committees a report on 14

the findings of the review conducted under subsection (a), 15

including recommendations on whether jurisdictional re-16

sponsibility between the 2 offices should be adjusted. 17

SEC. 222. CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION OF COUNTRIES 18

COMPLIANCE WITH MINIMUM STANDARDS 19

FOR THE ELIMINATION OF TRAFFICKING. 20

Section 110 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act 21

of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7107) is amended by adding at the 22

end the following: 23

‘‘(g) CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION.—Not later 24

than 30 days before the anticipated submission of each 25

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annual report under subsection (b)(1), the Secretary of 1

State shall notify and brief the appropriate congressional 2

committees concerning the countries that will be upgraded 3

to a higher tier or downgraded to a lower tier in such re-4

port.’’. 5

SEC. 223. INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM TRAINING 6

PROGRAM. 7

Section 708 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 8

U.S.C. 4028) is amended— 9

(1) by redesignating subsections (b) and (c) as 10

subsections (d) and (e), respectively; 11

(2) in subsection (d), as redesignated, by insert-12

ing ‘‘REFUGEES’’ before ‘‘The Secretary of State’’; 13

(3) in subsection (e), as redesignated, by insert-14

ing ‘‘CHILD SOLDIERS’’ before ‘‘The Secretary of 15

State’’; and 16

(4) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the 17

following: 18

‘‘(a) DEVELOPMENT OF CURRICULUM.— 19

‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Ambassador at Large 20

for International Religious Freedom appointed under 21

section 101(b) of the International Religious Free-22

dom Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6411(b)) shall develop 23

a curriculum for Foreign Service Officers that in-24

cludes training on— 25

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‘‘(A) the scope and strategic value of inter-1

national religious freedom; 2

‘‘(B) how violations of international reli-3

gious freedom harm fundamental United States 4

interests; 5

‘‘(C) how the advancement of international 6

religious freedom can advance such interests; 7

‘‘(D) how United States international reli-8

gious freedom policy should be carried out in 9

practice by United States diplomats and other 10

Foreign Service Officers; and 11

‘‘(E) the relevance and relationship of 12

international religious freedom to United States 13

defense, diplomacy, development, and public af-14

fairs efforts to combat violent extremism. 15

‘‘(2) ROLE OF OTHER OFFICIALS.—The Ambas-16

sador at Large for International Religious Freedom 17

shall carry out paragraph (1)— 18

‘‘(A) in coordination with the Director of 19

the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs 20

Training Center and other Federal officials, as 21

appropriate; and 22

‘‘(B) in consultation with the United 23

States Commission on International Religious 24

Freedom established under section 201(a) of 25

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the International Religious Freedom Act of 1

1998 (22 U.S.C. 6431(a)). 2

‘‘(3) RESOURCES.—The Secretary of State shall 3

ensure the availability of sufficient resources to de-4

velop and implement the curriculum required under 5

this subsection. 6

‘‘(b) RELIGIOUS FREEDOM TRAINING.— 7

‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than the date 8

that is 1 year after the date of the enactment of the 9

Department of State Operations Authorization and 10

Embassy Security Act, Fiscal Year 2016, the Direc-11

tor of the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs 12

Training Center shall begin training on religious 13

freedom, using the curriculum developed under sub-14

section (a), for Foreign Service officers, including— 15

‘‘(A) entry level officers; 16

‘‘(B) officers prior to departure for posting 17

outside the United States; and 18

‘‘(C) incoming deputy chiefs of mission 19

and ambassadors. 20

‘‘(2) ELEMENTS.—The training required under 21

paragraph (1) shall be substantively incorporated 22

into— 23

‘‘(A) the A–100 course attended by For-24

eign Service Officers; 25

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‘‘(B) the specific country courses required 1

of Foreign Service Officers prior to a posting 2

outside the United States, with training tailored 3

to— 4

‘‘(i) the particular religious demog-5

raphy of such country; 6

‘‘(ii) religious freedom conditions in 7

such country; 8

‘‘(iii) religious engagement strategies; 9

and 10

‘‘(iv) United States strategies for ad-11

vancing religious freedom. 12

‘‘(C) the courses required of incoming dep-13

uty chiefs of mission and ambassadors. 14

‘‘(c) INFORMATION SHARING.—The curriculum and 15

training materials developed pursuant to subsections (a) 16

and (b) shall be shared with the United States Armed 17

Forces and all other Federal departments and agencies 18

whose personnel serve as attaches, advisors, detailees, or 19

otherwise in United States embassies globally to provide 20

training on— 21

‘‘(1) United States religious freedom policies; 22

‘‘(2) religious traditions; 23

‘‘(3) religious engagement strategies; 24

‘‘(4) religious and cultural issues; and 25

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‘‘(5) efforts to combat terrorism and violent re-1

ligious extremism.’’. 2

TITLE III—INTERNATIONAL 3

ORGANIZATIONS 4

Subtitle A—United States Con-5

tributions to International Or-6

ganizations 7

SEC. 301. REPORTS CONCERNING THE UNITED NATIONS. 8

(a) REPORT ON ANTI-SEMITIC ACTIVITY AT THE 9

UNITED NATIONS AND ITS AGENCIES.—Not later than 10

180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and 11

annually thereafter, the Secretary shall submit a report 12

to the appropriate congressional committees that de-13

scribes— 14

(1) all activities at the United Nations and its 15

subagencies that can be construed to exhibit an anti- 16

Semitic bias, including official statements, proposed 17

resolutions, and United Nations investigations; 18

(2) the use of United Nations resources to pro-19

mote anti-Semitic or anti-Israel rhetoric or propa-20

ganda, including publications, internet websites, and 21

textbooks or other educational materials used to 22

propagate political rhetoric regarding the Israeli-Pal-23

estinian conflict; and 24

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(3) specific actions taken by the United States 1

Government to address any of the activities de-2

scribed in paragraphs (1) and (2). 3

(b) REPORT ON ALL UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT 4

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE UNITED NATIONS.—Section 4(c) 5

of the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 (22 6

U.S.C. 287b(c)) is amended— 7

(1) by redesignating paragraphs (1), (2), (3), 8

(4), and (5) as paragraphs (2), (3), (5), (6), and 9

(7), respectively; and 10

(2) by inserting before paragraph (2), as so re-11

designated, the following: 12

‘‘(1) CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE UNITED NA-13

TIONS.— 14

‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—A detailed description 15

of all assessed and voluntary contributions, in-16

cluding in-kind contributions, of the United 17

States to the United Nations and to each of its 18

affiliated agencies and related bodies— 19

‘‘(i) during the preceding fiscal year; 20

‘‘(ii) estimated for the fiscal year in 21

which the report is submitted; and 22

‘‘(iii) requested in the budget of the 23

President submitted to Congress under 24

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section 1105(a) of title 31, United States 1

Code, for the following fiscal year. 2

‘‘(B) CONTENT.—The description required 3

under subparagraph (A) shall, for each fiscal 4

year specified in clauses (i), (ii), and (iii) of 5

that subparagraph, include— 6

‘‘(i) the total amount or value of all 7

contributions described in that subpara-8

graph; 9

‘‘(ii) the approximate percentage of all 10

such contributions by the United States 11

compared to all contributions to the United 12

Nations and to each of its affiliated agen-13

cies and related bodies from any source; 14

and 15

‘‘(iii) for each such contribution de-16

scribed in subparagraph (A)— 17

‘‘(I) the amount or value of the 18

contribution; 19

‘‘(II) whether the contribution 20

was assessed by the United Nations 21

or voluntary; 22

‘‘(III) the purpose of the con-23

tribution; 24

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‘‘(IV) the department or agency 1

of the United States Government re-2

sponsible for the contribution; and 3

‘‘(V) whether the United Nations 4

or an affiliated agency or related body 5

received the contribution and, if an af-6

filiated agency or related body re-7

ceived the contribution, which such 8

agency or body. 9

‘‘(C) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF INFORMA-10

TION.—Not later than 14 days after submitting 11

a report required under this subsection to the 12

designated congressional committees, the Direc-13

tor of the Office of Management and Budget 14

shall post a text-based, searchable version of 15

the description required by subparagraph (A) 16

on a publicly available Internet website of that 17

Office.’’. 18

SEC. 302. ANNUAL REPORT ON FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS 19

TO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS. 20

Section 4(b) of the United Nations Participation Act 21

of 1945 (22 U.S.C. 287b(b)) is amended by striking ‘‘in 22

which the United States participates as a member’’ and 23

inserting ‘‘, including— 24

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‘‘(1) the amount of such contributions that 1

were assessed by an international organization and 2

the amount of such contributions that were vol-3

untary; and 4

‘‘(2) the ratio of United States contributions to 5

total contributions received for— 6

‘‘(A) the United Nations, specialized agen-7

cies of the United Nations, and other United 8

Nations funds, programs, and organizations; 9

‘‘(B) peacekeeping; 10

‘‘(C) inter-American organizations; 11

‘‘(D) regional organizations; and 12

‘‘(E) other international organizations.’’. 13

SEC. 303. REPORT ON PEACEKEEPING ARREARS, CREDITS, 14

AND CONTRIBUTIONS. 15

Section 4(c) of the United Nations Participation Act 16

(22 U.S.C. 287b(c)), as amended by section 301(b), is fur-17

ther amended by adding at the end the following: 18

‘‘(6) PEACEKEEPING CREDITS.— 19

‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—A complete and full 20

accounting of United States peacekeeping as-21

sessments and contributions for United Nations 22

peacekeeping operations, including the fol-23

lowing: 24

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‘‘(i) A tabulation of annual United 1

Nations peacekeeping assessment rates, 2

the peacekeeping contribution rate author-3

ized by the United States, and the United 4

States public law that authorized the con-5

tribution rate for the United Nations 6

peacekeeping budget for each fiscal year 7

beginning in fiscal year 1995 through the 8

fiscal year following the date of the report. 9

‘‘(ii) A tabulation of current United 10

States accrued shortfalls and arrears in 11

each respective ongoing or closed United 12

Nations peacekeeping mission. 13

‘‘(iii) A tabulation of all peacekeeping 14

credits, including— 15

‘‘(I) the total amount of peace-16

keeping credits determined by the 17

United Nations to be available to the 18

United States; 19

‘‘(II) the total amount of peace-20

keeping credits determined by the 21

United Nations to be unavailable to 22

the United States; 23

‘‘(III) the total amount of peace-24

keeping credits determined by the 25

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United Nations to be available to the 1

United States from each open and 2

closed peacekeeping mission; 3

‘‘(IV) the total amount of peace-4

keeping credits determined by the 5

United Nations to be unavailable to 6

the United States from each open and 7

closed peacekeeping mission; 8

‘‘(V) the total amount of peace-9

keeping credits applied by the United 10

Nations toward shortfalls from pre-11

vious years that are apportioned to 12

the United States; 13

‘‘(VI) the total amount of peace-14

keeping credits applied by the United 15

Nations toward offsetting future con-16

tributions of the United States; and 17

‘‘(VII) the total amount of peace-18

keeping credits determined by the 19

United Nations to be available to the 20

United States that could be applied 21

toward offsetting United States con-22

tributions in the following fiscal year. 23

‘‘(iv) An explanation of any claim of 24

unavailability by the United Nations of any 25

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peacekeeping credits described in clause 1

(iii)(IV). 2

‘‘(v) A description of any efforts by 3

the United States to obtain reimbursement 4

in accordance with the requirements of this 5

Act, including Department of Defense ma-6

teriel and services, and an explanation of 7

any failure to obtain any such reimburse-8

ment. 9

‘‘(B) PEACEKEEPING CREDITS DEFINED.— 10

In this paragraph, the term ‘peacekeeping cred-11

its’ means the amounts by which, during a 12

United Nations peacekeeping fiscal year, the 13

contributions of the United States to the 14

United Nations for peacekeeping operations ex-15

ceed the actual expenditures for peacekeeping 16

operations by the United Nations that are ap-17

portioned to the United States.’’. 18

SEC. 304. ASSESSMENT RATE TRANSPARENCY. 19

(a) REPORT.— 20

(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after 21

each time the United Nations General Assembly 22

modifies the assessment levels for peacekeeping op-23

erations, the Secretary shall submit a report, which 24

may include a classified annex, to the Committee on 25

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Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee 1

on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives. 2

(2) CONTENTS.—Each report submitted under 3

paragraph (1) shall describe— 4

(A) the change, by amount and percentage, 5

of the peacekeeping assessment charged to each 6

member state; and 7

(B) how the economic and strategic inter-8

ests of each of the permanent members of the 9

Security Council is being served by each peace-10

keeping mission currently in force. 11

(b) AVAILABILITY OF PEACEKEEPING ASSESSMENT 12

DATA.—The Secretary shall direct the United States Per-13

manent Representative to the United Nations to use the 14

voice, vote, and influence of the United States at the 15

United Nations to urge the United Nations— 16

(1) to share the raw data used to calculate 17

member state peacekeeping assessment rates; and 18

(2) to make available the formula for deter-19

mining peacekeeping assessments. 20

Subtitle B—Accountability at 21

International Organizations 22

SEC. 311. PREVENTING ABUSE IN PEACEKEEPING. 23

Not later than 15 days before the anticipated date 24

of a vote (or, in the case of exigent circumstances, as far 25

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in advance of the vote as is practicable) on a resolution 1

approving a new peacekeeping mission under the auspices 2

of the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organi-3

zation, or any other multilateral organization in which the 4

United States participates, or to reauthorize an existing 5

such mission, the Secretary shall submit to the appro-6

priate congressional committees a report on that mission 7

that includes the following: 8

(1) A description of the specific measures taken 9

and planned to be taken by the organization related 10

to the mission— 11

(A) to prevent individuals who are employ-12

ees or contractor personnel of the organization, 13

or members of the forces serving in the mission 14

from engaging in acts of trafficking in persons, 15

exploitation of victims of trafficking, or sexual 16

exploitation or abuse; and 17

(B) to hold accountable any such individ-18

uals who engage in any such acts while partici-19

pating in the mission. 20

(2) An assessment of the effectiveness of each 21

of the measures described in paragraph (1). 22

(3) An accounting and assessment of all cases 23

in which the organization has taken action to inves-24

tigate allegations that individuals described in para-25

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graph (1)(A) have engaged in acts described in that 1

paragraph, including a description of the status of 2

all such cases as of the date of the report. 3

SEC. 312. INCLUSION OF PEACEKEEPING ABUSES IN COUN-4

TRY REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICES. 5

Section 116(d) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 6

(22 U.S.C. 2151n(d)) is amended— 7

(1) in paragraph (11)(C), by striking ‘‘; and’’ 8

and inserting a semicolon; 9

(2) in paragraph (12)(C)(ii), by striking the pe-10

riod at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 11

(3) by adding at the end the following: 12

‘‘(13) for each country that contributes per-13

sonnel to United Nations peacekeeping missions, a 14

description of— 15

‘‘(A) any allegations of such personnel en-16

gaging in acts of trafficking in persons, exploi-17

tation of victims of trafficking, or sexual exploi-18

tation and abuse while participating in such a 19

peacekeeping mission; 20

‘‘(B) any repatriations of such personnel 21

resulting from an allegation described in sub-22

paragraph (A); 23

‘‘(C) any actions taken by such country 24

with respect to personnel repatriated as a result 25

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of allegations described in subparagraph (A), 1

including whether such personnel faced prosecu-2

tion related to such allegations; and 3

‘‘(D) the extent to which any actions taken 4

as described in subparagraph (C) have been 5

communicated by such country to the United 6

Nations.’’. 7

SEC. 313. EVALUATION OF UNITED NATIONS PEACE-8

KEEPING MISSIONS. 9

(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 10

date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall sub-11

mit a report to the appropriate congressional committees 12

that includes— 13

(1) a comprehensive evaluation of current 14

United Nations peacekeeping missions; 15

(2) a prioritization of the peacekeeping mis-16

sions; 17

(3) plans for phasing out and ending any mis-18

sion that— 19

(A) has substantially met its objectives and 20

goals; or 21

(B) will not be able to meet its objectives 22

and goals; and 23

(4) a plan for reviewing the status of open- 24

ended mandates for— 25

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(A) the United Nations Interim Adminis-1

tration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK); 2

(B) the United Nations Truce Supervision 3

Organization (UNTSO); and 4

(C) the United Nations Military Observer 5

Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP). 6

(b) APPROVAL OF FUTURE PEACEKEEPING MIS-7

SIONS.—The President shall direct the United States Per-8

manent Representative to the United Nations to use the 9

voice, vote, and influence of the United States at the 10

United Nations to ensure that no new United Nations 11

peacekeeping mission is approved without a periodic man-12

date renewal. 13

(c) FUNDING LIMITATION.—The United States shall 14

not provide funding for any United Nations peacekeeping 15

mission beginning after the date of the enactment of this 16

Act unless the mission has a periodic mandate renewal. 17

Subtitle C—Personnel Matters 18

SEC. 321. ENCOURAGING EMPLOYMENT OF UNITED STATES 19

CITIZENS AT THE UNITED NATIONS. 20

Section 181 of the Foreign Relations Authorization 21

Act, Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 (22 U.S.C. 276c–4) is 22

amended to read as follows: 23

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‘‘SEC. 181. EMPLOYMENT OF UNITED STATES CITIZENS BY 1

CERTAIN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS. 2

‘‘Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-3

ment of the Department of State Operations Authoriza-4

tion and Embassy Security Act, Fiscal Year 2016, and 5

annually thereafter, the Secretary of State shall submit 6

to Congress a report that provides— 7

‘‘(1) for each international organization that 8

had a geographic distribution formula in effect on 9

January 1, 1991, an assessment of whether that or-10

ganization— 11

‘‘(A) is taking good faith steps to increase 12

the staffing of United States citizens, including, 13

as appropriate, as assessment of any additional 14

steps the organization could be taking to in-15

crease such staffing; and 16

‘‘(B) has met the requirements of its geo-17

graphic distribution formula; and 18

‘‘(2) an assessment of United States represen-19

tation among professional and senior-level positions 20

at the United Nations, including— 21

‘‘(A) an assessment of the proportion of 22

United States citizens employed at the United 23

Nations Secretariat and at all United Nations 24

specialized agencies, funds, and programs rel-25

ative to the total employment at the United Na-26

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tions Secretariat and at all such agencies, 1

funds, and programs; 2

‘‘(B) as assessment of compliance by the 3

United Nations Secretariat and such agencies, 4

funds, and programs with any applicable geo-5

graphic distribution formula; and 6

‘‘(C) a description of any steps taken or 7

planned to be taken by the United States to in-8

crease the staffing of United States citizens at 9

the United Nations Secretariat and such agen-10

cies, funds and programs.’’. 11

SEC. 322. ENSURING APPROPRIATE UNITED NATIONS PER-12

SONNEL SALARIES. 13

(a) COMPENSATION OF UNITED NATIONS PER-14

SONNEL.—The President shall direct the United States 15

Permanent Representative to the United Nations to use 16

the voice, vote, and influence of the United States at the 17

United Nations— 18

(1) to establish appropriate policies, procedures, 19

and assumptions for— 20

(A) determining comparable positions be-21

tween officials in the professional and higher 22

categories of employment at the United Nations 23

headquarters in New York, New York, and in 24

the United States Federal civil service; 25

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(B) calculating the margin between the 1

compensation of such officials at the United 2

Nations headquarters and the civil service; and 3

(C) determining the appropriate margin 4

for adoption by the United Nations to govern 5

compensation for such officials; 6

(2) to make all policies, procedures, and as-7

sumptions described in paragraph (1) available to 8

the public; and 9

(3) to limit increases in the compensation of 10

United Nations officials to ensure that such officials 11

remain within the margin range established by 12

United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/ 13

RES/40/244, or any subsequent margin range 14

adopted by the United Nations to govern compensa-15

tion for United Nations officials. 16

(b) REPORT ON SALARY MARGINS.—The Secretary 17

shall submit an annual report to the appropriate congres-18

sional committees, at the time of the submission of the 19

budget of the President to Congress under section 1105(a) 20

of title 31, United States Code, that 21

(1) describes the policies, procedures, and as-22

sumptions established or used by the United Na-23

tions— 24

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(A) to determine comparable positions be-1

tween officials in the professional and higher 2

categories of employment at the United Nations 3

headquarters in New York, New York, and in 4

the United States Federal civil service; 5

(B) to calculate the percentage difference, 6

or margin, between the compensation of such 7

officials at the United Nations headquarters 8

and the civil service; and 9

(C) to determine the margin range estab-10

lished in United Nations General Assembly Res-11

olution A/RES/40/244, or any subsequent mar-12

gin range adopted by the United Nations to 13

govern compensation for United Nations offi-14

cials; 15

(2) assesses, in accordance with the policies, 16

procedures, and assumptions described in paragraph 17

(1), the margin between net salaries of officials in 18

the professional and higher categories of employ-19

ment at the United Nations in New York and those 20

of comparable positions in the United States Federal 21

civil service; 22

(3) assesses any changes in the margin de-23

scribed in paragraph (2) from the previous year; 24

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(4) assesses the extent to which any changes in 1

that margin resulted from modifications to the poli-2

cies, procedures, and assumptions described in para-3

graph (1); and 4

(5) provides the views of the Secretary on any 5

changes in that margin and any such modifications. 6

TITLE IV—CONSULAR 7

AUTHORITIES 8

SEC. 401. VISA INELIGIBILITY FOR INTERNATIONAL CHILD 9

ABDUCTORS. 10

Section 212(a)(10)(C)(iii) of the Immigration and 11

Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(10)(C)(iii)) is amend-12

ed— 13

(1) in subclause (I), by adding ‘‘or’’ at the end; 14

(2) in subclause (II), by striking ‘‘; or’’ at the 15

end and inserting a period; and 16

(3) by striking subclause (III). 17

SEC. 402. PRESUMPTION OF IMMIGRANT INTENT FOR H 18

AND L VISA CLASSIFICATIONS. 19

Section 214(b) of the Immigration and Nationality 20

Act (8 U.S.C. 1184(b)) is amended— 21

(1) by striking ‘‘(other than a nonimmigrant 22

described in subparagraph (L) or (V) of section 23

101(a)(15), and other than a nonimmigrant de-24

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scribed in any provision of section 101(a)(15)(H)(i) 1

except subclause (b1) of such section)’’; 2

(2) by striking ‘‘under section 101(a)(15).’’ and 3

inserting ‘‘under the immigration laws.’’; and 4

(3) by striking ‘‘he’’ each place such term ap-5

pears and inserting ‘‘the alien’’. 6

SEC. 403. VISA INFORMATION SHARING. 7

Section 222(f) of the Immigration and Nationality 8

Act (8 U.S.C. 1202(f)(2)) is amended— 9

(1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by 10

striking ‘‘issuance or refusal’’ and inserting 11

‘‘issuance, refusal, or revocation’’; and 12

(2) in paragraph (2)— 13

(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph 14

(A), by striking ‘‘and on the basis of reci-15

procity’’; 16

(B) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘il-17

licit weapons; or’’ and inserting ‘‘illicit weapons, 18

or in determining the removability or eligibility 19

for a visa, admission, or another immigration 20

benefit of persons who would be inadmissible to, 21

or removable from, the United States;’’; 22

(C) in subparagraph (B)— 23

(i) by striking ‘‘for the purposes’’ and 24

inserting ‘‘for 1 of the purposes’’; and 25

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(ii) by striking ‘‘or to deny visas to 1

persons who would be inadmissible to the 2

United States.’’ and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 3

(D) by adding at the end the following: 4

‘‘(C) with regard to any or all aliens in the 5

database, specified data elements from each 6

record, if the Secretary of State determines that 7

it is in the national interest to provide such in-8

formation to a foreign government.’’. 9

TITLE V—EMBASSY SECURITY 10

Subtitle A—Allocation of Author-11

ized Security Appropriations. 12

SEC. 501. WORLDWIDE SECURITY PROTECTION. 13

(a) IN GENERAL.—Funds made available in fiscal 14

year 2016 for worldwide security protection shall to the 15

extent practicable, before any such funds may be allocated 16

to any other authorized purpose, be allocated for— 17

(1) immediate threat mitigation support in ac-18

cordance with subsection (b) at facilities determined 19

to be high threat, high risk pursuant to section 531; 20

(2) immediate threat mitigation support in ac-21

cordance with subsection (b) at other facilities; and 22

(3) locations with high vulnerabilities. 23

(b) IMMEDIATE THREAT MITIGATION SUPPORT 24

PRIORITIZATION.—In allocating funding for immediate 25

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threat mitigation support pursuant to this section, the 1

Secretary shall prioritize funding for— 2

(1) the purchasing of additional security equip-3

ment, including additional defensive weaponry; 4

(2) the paying of expenses of additional security 5

forces; and 6

(3) any other purposes necessary to mitigate 7

immediate threats to United States personnel serv-8

ing overseas. 9

SEC. 502. EMBASSY SECURITY, CONSTRUCTION AND MAIN-10

TENANCE. 11

(a) IN GENERAL.—Funds made available in fiscal 12

year 2016 for Worldwide Security Upgrades within ‘‘em-13

bassy security, construction and maintenance’’ shall to the 14

extent practicable, before any funds may be allocated to 15

any other authorized purpose, be allocated in the 16

prioritized order of— 17

(1) immediate threat mitigation projects in ac-18

cordance with subsection (b) at facilities determined 19

to be high threat, high risk pursuant to section 531; 20

(2) other security upgrades to facilities deter-21

mined to be high threat, high risk pursuant to sec-22

tion 531; 23

(3) all other immediate threat mitigation 24

projects in accordance with subsection (b); and 25

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(4) security upgrades to all other facilities or 1

new construction for facilities determined to be high 2

threat, high risk pursuant to section 531. 3

(b) IMMEDIATE THREAT MITIGATION PROJECTS 4

PRIORITIZATION.—In allocating funding for immediate 5

threat mitigation projects pursuant to this section, the 6

Secretary shall prioritize funding for the construction of 7

safeguards that provide immediate security benefits and 8

any other purposes necessary to mitigate immediate 9

threats to United States personnel serving overseas. 10

(c) ADDITIONAL LIMITATION.—No funds authorized 11

to be appropriated shall be obligated for new embassy con-12

struction, other than for high threat, high risk facilities, 13

unless the Secretary certifies to the appropriate congres-14

sional committees that— 15

(1) the Department has fully complied with the 16

requirements of subsection (a); 17

(2) high threat, high risk facilities are being se-18

cured to the best of the United States Government’s 19

ability; and 20

(3) the Secretary will make funds available 21

from the Embassy Security, Construction and Main-22

tenance account or other sources to address any 23

changed security threats or new or emergent secu-24

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rity needs, including new immediate threat mitiga-1

tion projects. 2

(d) REPORT.—The Secretary shall report to the ap-3

propriate congressional committees not later than 180 4

days after the date of the enactment of this Act on— 5

(1) funding for the priorities described in sub-6

section (a); 7

(2) efforts to secure high threat, high risk fa-8

cilities as well as high vulnerability locations facili-9

ties; and 10

(3) plans to make funds available from the Em-11

bassy Security, Construction and Maintenance ac-12

count or other sources to address any changed secu-13

rity threats or new or emergent security needs, in-14

cluding new immediate threat mitigation projects. 15

Subtitle B—Contracting and Other 16

Matters. 17

SEC. 511. LOCAL GUARD CONTRACTS ABROAD UNDER DIP-18

LOMATIC SECURITY PROGRAM. 19

(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 136(c)(3) of the Foreign 20

Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 21

(22 U.S.C. 4864(c)(3)) is amended to read as follows: 22

‘‘(3) in evaluating proposals for such contracts, 23

award contracts to technically acceptable firms offer-24

ing the lowest evaluated price, except that— 25

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‘‘(A) the Secretary may award contracts on 1

the basis of best value (as determined by a cost- 2

technical tradeoff analysis), especially for posts 3

determined to be high threat, high risk pursu-4

ant to section 531 of the Department of State 5

Operations Authorization and Embassy Secu-6

rity Act, Fiscal Year 2016; and 7

‘‘(B) proposals received from United 8

States persons and qualified United States joint 9

venture persons shall be evaluated by reducing 10

the bid price by 10 percent;’’. 11

(b) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the date 12

of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit 13

a report to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 14

Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 15

House of Representatives that includes— 16

(1) an explanation of the implementation of sec-17

tion 136(c)(3) of the Foreign Relations Authoriza-18

tion Act, Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991, as amended 19

by subsection (a); and 20

(2) for each instance in which a contract is 21

awarded pursuant to subparagraph (A) of such sec-22

tion, a written justification and approval that de-23

scribes the basis for such award and an explanation 24

of the inability of the Secretary to satisfy the needs 25

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of the Department by awarding a contract to the 1

technically acceptable firm offering the lowest evalu-2

ated price. 3

SEC. 512. DISCIPLINARY ACTION RESULTING FROM UNSAT-4

ISFACTORY LEADERSHIP IN RELATION TO A 5

SECURITY INCIDENT. 6

Section 304(c) of the Diplomatic Security Act (22 7

U.S.C. 4834 (c)) is amended— 8

(1) by redesignating paragraphs (1), (2), and 9

(3) as subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C), respectively, 10

and moving such subparagraphs, as so redesignated, 11

2 ems to the right; 12

(2) by striking ‘‘Whenever’’ in the first sentence 13

immediately following the subsection heading and in-14

serting the following: 15

‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Whenever’’; and 16

(3) by inserting at the end the following: 17

‘‘(2) CERTAIN SECURITY INCIDENTS.— 18

‘‘(A) UNSATISFACTORY LEADERSHIP.—Un-19

satisfactory leadership by a senior official with 20

respect to a security incident involving loss of 21

life, serious injury, or significant destruction of 22

property at or related to a United States Gov-23

ernment mission abroad may be grounds for 24

disciplinary action. 25

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‘‘(B) DISCIPLINARY ACTION.—If a Board 1

finds reasonable cause to believe that a senior 2

official provided such unsatisfactory leadership, 3

the Board may recommend disciplinary action 4

subject to the procedures in paragraph (1).’’. 5

SEC. 513. MANAGEMENT AND STAFF ACCOUNTABILITY. 6

(a) AUTHORITY OF SECRETARY OF STATE.—Nothing 7

in this Act or in any other provision of law may be con-8

strued to prevent the Secretary from using all authorities 9

invested in the office of Secretary to take personnel action 10

against any employee or official of the Department that 11

the Secretary determines has breached the duty of that 12

individual or has engaged in misconduct or unsatis-13

factorily performed the duties of employment of that indi-14

vidual, and such misconduct or unsatisfactory perform-15

ance has significantly contributed to the serious injury, 16

loss of life, or significant destruction of property, or a seri-17

ous breach of security, even if such action is the subject 18

of an Accountability Review Board’s examination under 19

section 304(a) of the Diplomatic Security Act (22 U.S.C. 20

4834(a)). 21

(b) ACCOUNTABILITY.—Section 304 of the Diplo-22

matic Security Act (22 U.S.C. 4834) is amended— 23

(1) in subsection (c), by inserting ‘‘or has en-24

gaged in misconduct or unsatisfactorily performed 25

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the duties of employment of that individual, and 1

such misconduct or unsatisfactory performance has 2

significantly contributed to the serious injury, loss of 3

life, or significant destruction of property, or the se-4

rious breach of security that is the subject of the 5

Board’s examination as described in subsection (a),’’ 6

after ‘‘breached the duty of that individual’’; 7

(2) by redesignating subsection (d) as sub-8

section (e); and 9

(3) by inserting after subsection (c) the fol-10

lowing: 11

‘‘(d) MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTABILITY.—Whenever a 12

Board determines that an individual has engaged in any 13

conduct described in subsection (c), the Board shall evalu-14

ate the level and effectiveness of management and over-15

sight conducted by employees or officials in the manage-16

ment chain of such individual.’’. 17

SEC. 514. SECURITY ENHANCEMENTS FOR SOFT TARGETS. 18

Section 29 of the State Department Basic Authorities 19

Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2701) is amended, in the third 20

sentence, by inserting ‘‘physical security enhancements 21

and’’ after ‘‘Such assistance may include’’. 22

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Subtitle C—Marine Corps Security 1

Guard Program 2

SEC. 521. ADDITIONAL REPORTS ON EXPANSION AND EN-3

HANCEMENT OF MARINE CORPS SECURITY 4

GUARD PROGRAM. 5

Section 1269(a)(2) of the Carl Levin and Howard P. 6

‘‘Buck’’ McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for 7

Fiscal Year 2015 (Public Law 113–291; 10 U.S.C. 5983 8

note) is amended by inserting ‘‘and not less frequently 9

than once each year thereafter until the date that is three 10

years after such date’’ after ‘‘of this Act’’. 11

Subtitle D—Defending High 12

Threat, High Risk Posts 13

SEC. 531. DESIGNATION AND REPORTING FOR HIGH 14

THREAT, HIGH RISK POSTS. 15

(a) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than 90 days 16

after the date of the enactment of this Act and annually 17

thereafter, the Secretary, in consultation with the Director 18

of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense, 19

shall submit, to the Committee on Foreign Relations of 20

the Senate, the Select Committee on Intelligence of the 21

Senate, the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate, 22

the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Rep-23

resentatives, the Permanent Select Committee on Intel-24

ligence of the House of Representatives, and the Com-25

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mittee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives, 1

a classified report, with an unclassified summary, evalu-2

ating Department facilities that the Secretary determines 3

to be high threat, high risk in accordance with subsection 4

(c). 5

(b) CONTENTS.—For each facility determined to be 6

high threat, high risk pursuant to subsection (a), the re-7

port submitted under subsection (a) shall include— 8

(1) a narrative assessment describing the secu-9

rity threats and risks facing posts overseas and the 10

overall threat level to United States personnel under 11

chief of mission authority; 12

(2) the number of diplomatic security per-13

sonnel, Marine Corps security guards, and other De-14

partment personnel dedicated to providing security 15

for United States personnel, information, and facili-16

ties; 17

(3) an assessment of host nation willingness 18

and capability to provide protection in the event of 19

a security threat or incident, pursuant to the obliga-20

tions of the United States under the Vienna Conven-21

tion on Consular Relations, done at Vienna April 24, 22

1963, and the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplo-23

matic Relations, done at Vienna April 18, 1961; 24

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(4) an assessment of the quality and experience 1

level of the team of United States senior security 2

personnel assigned to the facility, considering collec-3

tively the assignment durations and lengths of gov-4

ernment experience; 5

(5) the number of Foreign Service Officers who 6

have received Foreign Affairs Counter Threat train-7

ing; 8

(6) a summary of the requests made during the 9

previous calendar year for additional resources, 10

equipment, or personnel related to the security of 11

the facility and the status of such requests; 12

(7) an assessment of the ability of United 13

States personnel to respond to and survive a fire at-14

tack, including— 15

(A) whether the facility has adequate fire 16

safety and security equipment for safe havens 17

and safe areas; and 18

(B) whether the employees working at the 19

facility have been adequately trained on the 20

equipment available; 21

(8) if it is a new facility, a detailed description 22

of the steps taken to provide security for the new fa-23

cility, including whether a dedicated support cell was 24

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established in the Department to ensure proper and 1

timely resourcing of security; and 2

(9) a listing of any high threat, high risk facili-3

ties where the facilities of the Department and other 4

government agencies are not collocated, including— 5

(A) a rationale for the lack of collocation; 6

and 7

(B) a description of what steps, if any, are 8

being taken to mitigate potential security 9

vulnerabilities associated with the lack of col-10

location. 11

(c) DETERMINATION OF HIGH THREAT, HIGH RISK 12

FACILITY.—In determining which facilities of the Depart-13

ment constitute high threat, high risk facilities under this 14

section, the Secretary shall take into account with respect 15

to each facility whether there are— 16

(1) high to critical levels of political violence or 17

terrorism; 18

(2) national or local governments with inad-19

equate capacity or political will to provide appro-20

priate protection; and 21

(3) in locations where there are high to critical 22

levels of political violence or terrorism or where na-23

tional or local governments lack the capacity or po-24

litical will to provide appropriate protection— 25

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(A) mission physical security platforms 1

that fall well below the Department’s estab-2

lished standards; or 3

(B) security personnel levels that are in-4

sufficient for the circumstances. 5

(d) INSPECTOR GENERAL REVIEW AND REPORT.— 6

The Inspector General for the Department of State and 7

the Broadcasting Board of Governors shall annually— 8

(1) review the determinations of the Secretary 9

with respect to high threat, high risk facilities, in-10

cluding the basis for making such determinations; 11

(2) review contingency planning for high threat, 12

high risk facilities and evaluate the measures in 13

place to respond to attacks on such facilities; 14

(3) review the risk mitigation measures in place 15

at high threat, high risk facilities to determine how 16

the Secretary evaluates risk and whether the meas-17

ures put in place sufficiently address the relevant 18

risks; 19

(4) review early warning systems in place at 20

high threat, high risk facilities and evaluate the 21

measures being taken to preempt and disrupt 22

threats to such facilities; and 23

(5) provide to the appropriate congressional 24

committees— 25

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(A) an assessment of the determinations of 1

the Secretary with respect to high threat, high 2

risk facilities, including recommendations for 3

additions or changes to the list of such facili-4

ties; and 5

(B) a report on the reviews and evalua-6

tions undertaken pursuant to paragraphs (1) 7

through (4). 8

SEC. 532. DESIGNATION AND REPORTING FOR HIGH-RISK 9

COUNTERINTELLIGENCE THREAT POSTS. 10

(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 11

(1) APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CON-12

GRESS.—The term ‘‘appropriate committees of Con-13

gress’’ means— 14

(A) the Committee on Foreign Relations of 15

the Senate; 16

(B) the Select Committee on Intelligence 17

of the Senate; 18

(C) the Committee on Armed Services of 19

the Senate; 20

(D) the Committee on Appropriations of 21

the Senate; 22

(E) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 23

the House of Representatives; 24

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(F) the Permanent Select Committee on 1

Intelligence of the House of Representatives; 2

(G) the Committee on Armed Services of 3

the House of Representatives; and 4

(H) the Committee on Appropriations of 5

the House of Representatives 6

(2) PRIORITY 1 COUNTERINTELLIGENCE 7

THREAT NATION.—The term ‘‘Priority 1 Counter-8

intelligence Threat Nation’’ means a country des-9

ignated as such by the October 2012 National Intel-10

ligence Priorities Framework (NIPF). 11

(b) REPORT REQUIRED.— 12

(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 13

after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-14

retary, in conjunction with appropriate officials in 15

the intelligence community and the Secretary of De-16

fense, shall submit a report to the appropriate com-17

mittees of Congress that assesses the counterintel-18

ligence threat to United States diplomatic facilities 19

in Priority 1 Counterintelligence Threat Nations. 20

(2) CONTENTS.—The report required under 21

paragraph (1) shall include— 22

(A) an assessment of the use of locally em-23

ployed staff and guard forces and a listing of 24

diplomatic facilities in Priority 1 Counterintel-25

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ligence Threat Nations without controlled ac-1

cess areas; and 2

(B) recommendations for mitigating any 3

counterintelligence threats and for any nec-4

essary facility upgrades, including costs assess-5

ment of any recommended mitigation or up-6

grades. 7

SEC. 533. ENHANCED QUALIFICATIONS FOR DEPUTY AS-8

SISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR HIGH 9

THREAT, HIGH RISK POSTS. 10

The Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism 11

Act of 1986 is amended by inserting after section 206 (22 12

U.S.C. 4824) the following new section: 13

‘‘SEC. 207. DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR 14

HIGH THREAT, HIGH RISK POSTS. 15

‘‘The individual serving as Deputy Assistant Sec-16

retary of State for High Threat, High Risk Posts shall 17

have 1 or more of the following qualifications: 18

‘‘(1) Service during the last 6 years at 1 or 19

more posts designated as high threat, high risk by 20

the Secretary of State at the time of service. 21

‘‘(2) Previous service as the office director or 22

deputy director of 1 or more of the following De-23

partment of State offices or successor entities car-24

rying out substantively equivalent functions: 25

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‘‘(A) The Office of Mobile Security Deploy-1

ments. 2

‘‘(B) The Office of Special Programs and 3

Coordination. 4

‘‘(C) The Office of Overseas Protective Op-5

erations. 6

‘‘(D) The Office of Physical Security Pro-7

grams. 8

‘‘(E) The Office of Intelligence and Threat 9

Analysis. 10

‘‘(3) Previous service as the Regional Security 11

Officer at two or more overseas posts. 12

‘‘(4) Other government or private sector experi-13

ence substantially equivalent to service in the posi-14

tions listed in paragraphs (1) through (3).’’. 15

SEC. 534. SECURITY ENVIRONMENT THREAT LIST BRIEF-16

INGS. 17

(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 18

date of the enactment of this Act and upon each subse-19

quent update of the Security Environment Threat List 20

(SETL), the Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic 21

Security shall provide classified briefings to the appro-22

priate congressional committees on the Security Environ-23

ment Threat List. 24

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(b) CONTENT.—The briefings required under sub-1

section (a) shall include— 2

(1) an overview of the Security Environment 3

Threat List; and 4

(2) a summary assessment of the security pos-5

ture of those facilities where the Security Environ-6

ment Threat List assesses the threat environment to 7

be most acute, including factors that informed such 8

assessment. 9

SEC. 535. COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED 10

STATES REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF 11

BENGHAZI ACCOUNTABILITY REVIEW BOARD 12

RECOMMENDATIONS. 13

(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 120 days after the 14

date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General 15

of the United States shall submit a report to the Com-16

mittee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Com-17

mittee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives 18

that describes the progress of the Secretary in imple-19

menting the recommendations of the Benghazi Account-20

ability Review Board. 21

(b) CONTENT.—The report required under subsection 22

(a) shall include— 23

(1) an assessment of the progress the Secretary 24

has made in implementing each specific rec-25

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ommendation of the Accountability Review Board; 1

and 2

(2) a description of any impediments to rec-3

ommended reforms, such as budget constraints, bu-4

reaucratic obstacles within the Department or in the 5

broader interagency community, or limitations under 6

current law. 7

(c) FORM.—The report required under subsection (a) 8

shall be submitted in unclassified form but may contain 9

a classified annex. 10

SEC. 536. FOREIGN AFFAIRS SECURITY TRAINING CENTER. 11

(a) OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET.—Not 12

later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this 13

Act, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 14

shall provide to the appropriate congressional committees 15

all documents and materials related to its consideration 16

and analysis concerning the Foreign Affairs Security 17

Training Center at Fort Picket, Virginia, and any alter-18

native facilities. 19

(b) DEPARTMENT OF STATE.—Not later than 60 20

days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-21

retary shall provide to the appropriate congressional com-22

mittees all documents and materials related to the deter-23

mination to construct a new Foreign Affairs Security 24

Training Center at Fort Picket, Virginia, including any 25

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that are related to the development and adoption of all 1

related training requirements, including any documents 2

and materials related to the consideration and analysis of 3

such facility performed by the Office of Management and 4

Budget. 5

SEC. 537. LANGUAGE TRAINING. 6

(a) IN GENERAL.—Title IV of the Diplomatic Secu-7

rity Act (22 U.S.C. 4851 et seq.) is amended by adding 8

at the end the following: 9

‘‘SEC. 416. LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS FOR DIPLOMATIC 10

SECURITY PERSONNEL ASSIGNED TO HIGH 11

THREAT, HIGH RISK POSTS. 12

‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Diplomatic security personnel 13

assigned permanently to, or who are serving in, long-term 14

temporary duty status as designated by the Secretary of 15

State at a high threat, high risk post should receive lan-16

guage training described in subsection (b) in order to pre-17

pare such personnel for duty requirements at such post. 18

‘‘(b) LANGUAGE TRAINING DESCRIBED.—Language 19

training referred to in subsection (a) should prepare per-20

sonnel described in such subsection— 21

‘‘(1) to speak the language at issue with suffi-22

cient structural accuracy and vocabulary to partici-23

pate effectively in most formal and informal con-24

versations on subjects germane to security; and 25

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‘‘(2) to read within an adequate range of speed 1

and with almost complete comprehension on subjects 2

germane to security. 3

‘‘(c) INSPECTOR GENERAL REVIEW.—Not later than 4

September 30, 2016, the Inspector General of the Depart-5

ment of State and Broadcasting Board of Governors 6

shall— 7

‘‘(1) review the language training conducted 8

pursuant to this section; and 9

‘‘(2) make the results of such review available 10

to the Secretary of State and the appropriate con-11

gressional committees.’’. 12

(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 13

of the Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism 14

Act of 1986 (Public Law 99–399) is amended by inserting 15

after the item relating the section 415 the following: 16

‘‘Sec. 416. Language requirements for diplomatic security personnel assigned to

high threat, high risk posts.’’.

Subtitle E—Accountability Review 17

Boards 18

SEC. 541. PROVISION OF COPIES OF ACCOUNTABILITY RE-19

VIEW BOARD REPORTS TO CONGRESS. 20

Not later than 2 days after an Accountability Review 21

Board provides its report to the Secretary of State in ac-22

cordance with title III of the Omnibus Diplomatic and 23

Antiterrorism Act of 1986 (22 U.S.C. 4831 et seq.), the 24

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Secretary shall provide copies of the report to the majority 1

leader of the Senate, the minority leader of the Senate, 2

the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the majority 3

leader of the House of Representatives, and the minority 4

leader of the House of Representatives, and to the appro-5

priate congressional committees for retention and review 6

by those committees. 7

SEC. 542. STAFFING. 8

Section 302(b)(2) of the Diplomatic Security Act (22 9

U.S.C. 4832(b)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the 10

following: ‘‘Such persons shall be drawn from bureaus or 11

other agency subunits that are not impacted by the inci-12

dent that is the subject of the Board’s review.’’. 13

TITLE VI—MANAGEMENT AND 14

ACCOUNTABILITY 15

SEC. 601. SHORT TITLE. 16

This title may be cited at the ‘‘Improving Depart-17

ment of State Oversight Act of 2015’’. 18

SEC. 602. COMPETITIVE HIRING STATUS FOR FORMER EM-19

PLOYEES OF THE SPECIAL INSPECTOR GEN-20

ERAL FOR IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION. 21

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any em-22

ployee of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Recon-23

struction who completes at least 12 months of service at 24

any time prior to the date of the termination of the Special 25

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Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (October 5, 1

2013), and was not terminated for cause shall acquire 2

competitive status for appointment to any position in the 3

competitive service for which the employee possesses the 4

required qualifications. 5

SEC. 603. ASSURANCE OF INDEPENDENCE OF IT SYSTEMS. 6

The Secretary, with the concurrence of the Inspector 7

General of the Department of State and Broadcasting 8

Board of Governors, shall certify to the appropriate con-9

gressional committees that the Department has made rea-10

sonable efforts to ensure the integrity and independence 11

of the Office of the Inspector General Information Tech-12

nology systems. 13

SEC. 604. PROTECTING THE INTEGRITY OF INTERNAL IN-14

VESTIGATIONS. 15

Section 209(c)(5) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 16

(22 U.S.C. 3929(c)(5)) is amended by inserting at the end 17

the following new subparagraph: 18

‘‘(C) REQUIRED REPORTING OF ALLEGA-19

TIONS AND INVESTIGATIONS AND INSPECTOR 20

GENERAL AUTHORITY.— 21

‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Each bureau, post 22

or other office (in this subparagraph, an 23

‘entity’) of the Department of State shall, 24

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within five business days, report to the In-1

spector General any allegations of— 2

‘‘(I) waste, fraud, or abuse in a 3

Department program or operation; 4

‘‘(II) criminal or serious mis-5

conduct on the part of a Department 6

employee at the FS–1, GS–15, GM– 7

15 level or higher; 8

‘‘(III) criminal misconduct on the 9

part of any Department employee; 10

and 11

‘‘(IV) serious, noncriminal mis-12

conduct on the part of any individual 13

who is authorized to carry a weapon, 14

make arrests, or conduct searches, 15

such as conduct that, if proved, would 16

constitute perjury or material dishon-17

esty, warrant suspension as discipline 18

for a first offense, or result in loss of 19

law enforcement authority. 20

‘‘(ii) INSPECTOR GENERAL AUTHOR-21

ITY.—The Inspector General may, pursu-22

ant to existing authority, investigate mat-23

ters covered by clause (i). 24

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‘‘(iii) LIMITATION ON INVESTIGATIONS 1

OUTSIDE OF OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GEN-2

ERAL.—No entity in the Department of 3

State with concurrent jurisdiction over 4

matters covered by clause (i), including the 5

Bureau of Diplomatic Security, may ini-6

tiate an investigation of such matter unless 7

it has first reported the allegations to the 8

Inspector General as required by clause (i), 9

except as provided in clause (v) and (vi). 10

‘‘(iv) COOPERATION.—If an entity in 11

the Department of State initiates an inves-12

tigation of a matter covered in clause (i) 13

the entity must, except as provided in 14

clause (v), fully cooperate with the Inspec-15

tor General, including— 16

‘‘(I) by providing to the Inspector 17

General all data and records obtained 18

in connection with its investigation 19

upon request of the Inspector General; 20

‘‘(II) by coordinating, at the re-21

quest of the Inspector General, such 22

entity’s investigation with the Inspec-23

tor General; and 24

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‘‘(III) by providing to the Inspec-1

tor General requested support in aid 2

of the Inspector General’s oversight 3

and investigative responsibilities. 4

‘‘(v) EXCEPTIONS.—The Inspector 5

General may prescribe general rules under 6

which any requirement of clause (iii) or 7

clause (iv) may be dispensed with. 8

‘‘(vi) EXIGENT CIRCUMSTANCES.— 9

Compliance with clauses (i), (iii), and (iv) 10

of this subparagraph may be dispensed 11

with by an entity of the Department of 12

State if complying with them in an exigent 13

circumstance would pose an imminent 14

threat to human life, health or safety, or 15

result in the irretrievable loss or destruc-16

tion of critical evidence or witness testi-17

mony, in which case a report of the allega-18

tion shall be made not later than 48 hours 19

after an entity begins an investigation 20

under the authority of this clause and co-21

operation required under clause (iv) shall 22

commence not later than 48 hours after 23

the relevant exigent circumstance has 24

ended. 25

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‘‘(vii) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.— 1

Nothing in this subparagraph may be in-2

terpreted to affect any duty or authority of 3

the Inspector General under any provision 4

of law, including the Inspector General’s 5

duties or authorities under the Inspector 6

General Act.’’. 7

SEC. 605. REPORT ON INSPECTOR GENERAL INSPECTION 8

AND AUDITING OF FOREIGN SERVICE POSTS 9

AND BUREAUS AND OPERATING UNITS DE-10

PARTMENT OF STATE. 11

(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 12

date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall sub-13

mit a report to Congress on the requirement under section 14

209(a)(1) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 15

3929(a)(1)) that the Inspector General of the Department 16

of State and Broadcasting Board of Governors inspect and 17

audit, at least every 5 years, the administration of activi-18

ties and operations of each Foreign Service post and each 19

bureau and other operating unit of the Department. 20

(b) CONSIDERATION OF MULTI-TIER SYSTEM.—The 21

report required under subsection (a) shall assess the advis-22

ability and feasibility of implementing a multi-tier system 23

for inspecting Foreign Service posts featuring more (or 24

less) frequent inspections and audits of posts based on 25

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risk, including security risk, as may be determined by the 1

Inspector General. 2

(c) COMPOSITION.—The report required under sub-3

section (a) shall include separate portions prepared by the 4

Inspector General of the Department of State and Broad-5

casting Board of Governors, and the Comptroller General 6

of the United States, respectively. 7

Passed the Senate April 28, 2016.

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Secretary.

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