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118THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 2043
To provide for certain authorities of the Department of State, and for other
purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JUNE15, 2023
Mr. M
ENENDEZ(for himself and Mr. RISCH) introduced the following bill;
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations
A BILL
To provide for certain authorities of the Department of
State, 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
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 3
(a) S
HORTTITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 4
‘‘Department of State Authorization Act of 2023’’. 5
(b) T
ABLE OFCONTENTS.—The table of contents for 6
this Act is as follows: 7
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Definitions.
TITLE I—DIPLOMATIC SECURITY AND CONSULAR AFFAIRS
Sec. 101. Passport fee expenditure authority extension.
Sec. 102. Special hiring authority for passport services.
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Sec. 103. Quarterly report on passport wait times.
Sec. 104. Passport travel advisories.
Sec. 105. Increased accountability in assignment restrictions and reviews.
Sec. 106. Suitability reviews for Foreign Service Institute instructors.
Sec. 107. Diplomatic security fellowship programs.
TITLE II—PERSONNEL MATTERS
Subtitle A—Hiring, Promotion, and Development
Sec. 201. Adjustment to promotion precepts.
Sec. 202. Hiring authorities.
Sec. 203. Extending paths to service for paid student interns.
Sec. 204. Lateral Entry Program.
Sec. 205. Mid-Career Mentoring Program.
Sec. 206. Consideration of career civil servants as chiefs of missions.
Sec. 207. Civil service rotational program.
Sec. 208. Reporting requirement on chiefs of mission.
Sec. 209. Report on chiefs of mission and deputy chiefs of mission.
Sec. 210. Protection of retirement annuity for reemployment by Department.
Sec. 211. Enhanced vetting for senior diplomatic posts.
Sec. 212. Efforts to improve retention and prevent retaliation.
Subtitle B—Pay, Benefits, and Workforce Matters
Sec. 221. Education allowance.
Sec. 222. Per diem allowance for newly hired members of the Foreign Service.
Sec. 223. Improving mental health services for foreign and civil servants.
Sec. 224. Emergency back-up care.
Sec. 225. Authority to provide services to non-chief of mission personnel.
Sec. 226. Exception for government-financed air transportation.
Sec. 227. Enhanced authorities to protect locally employed staff during emer-
gencies.
Sec. 228. Internet at hardship posts.
Sec. 229. Competitive local compensation plan.
Sec. 230. Supporting tandem couples in the Foreign Service.
Sec. 231. Accessibility at diplomatic missions.
TITLE III—INFORMATION SECURITY AND CYBER DIPLOMACY
Sec. 301. Data-informed diplomacy.
Sec. 302. Establishment and expansion of the Bureau Chief Data Officer Pro-
gram.
Sec. 303. Task force to address artificial intelligence-enabled influence oper-
ations.
Sec. 304. Establishment of the Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer of the De-
partment of State.
Sec. 305. Strengthening the Chief Information Officer of the Department of
State.
Sec. 306. Sense of Congress on strengthening enterprise governance.
Sec. 307. Digital connectivity and cybersecurity partnership.
Sec. 308. Establishment of a cyberspace, digital connectivity, and related tech-
nologies (CDT) fund.
TITLE IV—ORGANIZATION AND OPERATIONS
Sec. 401. Personal services contractors.
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Sec. 402. Hard-to-fill posts.
Sec. 403. Enhanced oversight of the Office of Civil Rights.
Sec. 404. Crisis response operations.
TITLE V—ECONOMIC DIPLOMACY
Sec. 501. Duties of officers performing economic functions.
Sec. 502. Report on recruitment, retention, and promotion of Foreign Service
economic officers.
Sec. 503. Mandate to revise Department of State metrics for successful eco-
nomic and commercial diplomacy.
Sec. 504. Chief of mission economic responsibilities.
Sec. 505. Direction to embassy deal teams.
Sec. 506. Establishment of a ‘‘Deal Team of the Year’’ award.
TITLE VI—PUBLIC DIPLOMACY
Sec. 601. National advertising campaign.
Sec. 602. Public diplomacy outreach.
Sec. 603. Modification on use of funds for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Sec. 604. International broadcasting.
Sec. 605. John Lewis Civil Rights Fellowship program.
Sec. 606. Domestic engagement and public diplomacy.
Sec. 607. Extension of Global Engagement Center.
Sec. 608. Paperwork Reduction Act.
Sec. 609. Expansion of Diplomats in Residence Programs.
TITLE VII—OTHER MATTERS
Sec. 701. Expanding the use of DDTC licensing fees.
Sec. 702. Waiver authority related to prohibition on certain semiconductor
products and services.
Sec. 703. Prohibition on entry of officials of foreign governments involved in
significant corruption or gross violations of human rights.
Sec. 704. Protection of cultural heritage during crises.
Sec. 705. National Museum of American Diplomacy.
Sec. 706. Extraterritorial offenses committed by United States nationals serv-
ing with international organizations.
Sec. 707. Extension of certain privileges and immunities to the international
energy forum.
Sec. 708. Extension of certain privileges and immunities to the Conseil
Europe´en pour la recherche nucle´aire (CERN; the European
Organization for Nuclear Research).
Sec. 709. Internships of United States nationals at international organizations.
Sec. 710. Training for international organizations.
Sec. 711. Modification to transparency on international agreements and non-
binding instruments.
Sec. 712. Congressional oversight, quarterly review, and authority relating to
concurrence provided by chiefs of mission for support of certain
Government operations.
Sec. 713. Modification and repeal of reports.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
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In this Act: 2
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(1) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT -1
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-2
mittees’’ means the Committee on Foreign Relations 3
of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs 4
of the House of Representatives. 5
(2) D
EPARTMENT.—The term ‘‘Department’’ 6
means the Department of State. 7
(3) S
ECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 8
the Secretary of State. 9
TITLE I—DIPLOMATIC SECURITY 10
AND CONSULAR AFFAIRS 11
SEC. 101. PASSPORT FEE EXPENDITURE AUTHORITY EX-12
TENSION. 13
(a) W
ESTERNHEMISPHERETRAVELINITIATIVE 14
F
EE.—To make permanent the Western Hemisphere 15
Travel Initiative fee, section 1(b) of the Passport Act of 16
June 4, 1920 (22 U.S.C. 214(b)(1)) is amended— 17
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘(1)’’; and 18
(2) by striking paragraphs (2) and (3). 19
(b) P
ASSPORTFEES.—Section 1(b) of the Passport 20
Act of June 4, 1920, as amended by subsection (a), shall 21
be applied through fiscal year 2028 by striking ‘‘such 22
costs’’ and inserting ‘‘the costs of providing consular serv-23
ices’’. 24
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(c) MODERNIZATION OFPASSPORTPROCESSING.—A 1
portion of the expanded expenditure authorities provided 2
in subsections (a) and (b) shall be used to modernize con-3
sular systems, with an emphasis on passport and citizen-4
ship services. 5
SEC. 102. SPECIAL HIRING AUTHORITY FOR PASSPORT 6
SERVICES. 7
During the 3-year period beginning on the date of 8
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, without 9
regard to the provisions under sections 3309 through 10
3318 of title 5, United States Code, may directly appoint 11
candidates to positions in the competitive service (as de-12
fined in section 2102 of such title) at the Department in 13
the Passport and Visa Examining Series 0967. 14
SEC. 103. QUARTERLY REPORT ON PASSPORT WAIT TIMES. 15
Not later than 30 days after the date of the enact-16
ment of this Act, and quarterly thereafter for the following 17
3 years, the Secretary shall submit a report to the appro-18
priate congressional committees that describes— 19
(1) the current estimated wait times for pass-20
port processing; 21
(2) the steps that have been taken by the De-22
partment to reduce wait times to a reasonable time; 23
(3) efforts to improve the rollout of the online 24
passport renewal processing program, including how 25
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much of passport revenues the Department is spend-1
ing on consular systems modernization; and 2
(4) how the Department details its staff and re-3
sources to passport services programs. 4
SEC. 104. PASSPORT TRAVEL ADVISORIES. 5
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-6
ment of this Act, the Department shall make prominently 7
available in United States passports, on the first two 8
pages of the passport, the following information: 9
(1) A prominent, clear advisory for all travelers 10
to check travel.state.gov for updated travel warnings 11
and advisories. 12
(2) A prominent, clear notice urging all trav-13
elers to register with the Department prior to over-14
seas travel. 15
SEC. 105. INCREASED ACCOUNTABILITY IN ASSIGNMENT 16
RESTRICTIONS AND REVIEWS. 17
(a) S
ENSE OFCONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-18
gress that— 19
(1) the use of policies to restrict personnel from 20
serving in certain assignments may undermine the 21
Department’s ability to deploy relevant cultural and 22
linguistic skills at diplomatic posts abroad if not ap-23
plied judiciously; and 24
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(2) the Department should continuously evalu-1
ate all processes relating to assignment restrictions, 2
assignment reviews, and preclusions at the Depart-3
ment. 4
(b) N
OTIFICATION OFSTATUS.—Beginning not later 5
than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 6
the Secretary shall— 7
(1) provide a status update for all Department 8
personnel who, prior to such date of enactment, were 9
subject to a prior assignment restriction, assignment 10
review, or preclusion for whom a review or decision 11
related to assignment is pending; and 12
(2) on an ongoing basis, provide a status up-13
date for any Department personnel who has been 14
the subject of a pending assignment restriction or 15
pending assignment review for more than 30 days. 16
(c) N
OTIFICATIONCONTENT.—The notification re-17
quired under subsection (b) shall inform relevant per-18
sonnel, as of the date of the notification— 19
(1) whether any prior assignment restriction 20
has been lifted; 21
(2) if their assignment status is subject to on-22
going review, and an estimated date for completion; 23
and 24
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(3) if they are subject to any other restrictions 1
on their ability to serve at posts abroad. 2
(d) A
DJUDICATION OF ONGOINGASSIGNMENTRE-3
VIEWS.—The Department shall establish a reasonable 4
time limit for the Department to complete an assignment 5
review, and establish a deadline by which it must inform 6
personnel of a decision related to such a review. For any 7
personnel the Department determines are ineligible to 8
serve in an assignment due to an assignment restriction 9
or assignment review, a Security Appeal Panel shall con-10
vene not later than 60 days of an appeal being filed. 11
(e) S
ECURITYREVIEWPANEL.—Not later than 90 12
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secu-13
rity Appeal Panel shall be comprised of— 14
(1) the head of an office responsible for human 15
resources or discrimination who reports directly to 16
the Secretary; 17
(2) the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary 18
for the Bureau of Global Talent Management; 19
(3) the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary 20
for the Bureau of Intelligence and Research; 21
(4) an Assistant Secretary or Deputy, or equiv-22
alent, from a third bureau as designated by the 23
Under Secretary for Management; 24
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(5) a representative from the geographic bureau 1
to which the restriction applies; and 2
(6) a representative from the Office of the 3
Legal Adviser and a representative from the Bureau 4
of Diplomatic Security, who shall serve as non-vot-5
ing advisors. 6
(f) A
PPEALRIGHTS.—Section 414(a) of the Depart-7
ment of State Authorities Act, Fiscal Year 2017 (22 8
U.S.C. 2734c(a)) is amended by striking the first two sen-9
tences and inserting ‘‘The Secretary shall establish and 10
maintain a right and process for employees to appeal a 11
decision related to an assignment, based on a restriction, 12
review, or preclusion. Such right and process shall ensure 13
that any such employee shall have the same appeal rights 14
as provided by the Department regarding denial or revoca-15
tion of a security clearance.’’. 16
(g) FAM U
PDATE.—Not later than 120 days after 17
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall 18
amend all relevant provisions of the Foreign Service Man-19
ual, and any associated or related policies of the Depart-20
ment, to comply with this section. 21
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SEC. 106. SUITABILITY REVIEWS FOR FOREIGN SERVICE IN-1
STITUTE INSTRUCTORS. 2
The Secretary shall ensure that all instructors at the 3
Foreign Service Institute, including direct hires and con-4
tractors, who provide language instruction are— 5
(1) subject to suitability reviews and back-6
ground investigations; and 7
(2) subject to continuous vetting or reinvestiga-8
tions to the extend consistent with Department and 9
Executive policy for other Department personnel. 10
SEC. 107. DIPLOMATIC SECURITY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS. 11
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Section 47 of the State Depart-12
ment Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2719) is 13
amended— 14
(1) by striking ‘‘The Secretary’’ and inserting 15
the following: 16
‘‘(a) I
NGENERAL.—The Secretary’’; and 17
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-18
section: 19
‘‘(b) D
IPLOMATICSECURITYFELLOWSHIP PRO-20
GRAMS.— 21
‘‘(1) E
STABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of 22
State, working through the Assistant Secretary for 23
Diplomatic Security, shall establish Diplomatic Secu-24
rity fellowship programs to provide grants to United 25
States nationals pursuing undergraduate studies 26
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who commit to pursuing a career as a special agent, 1
security engineering officer, or in the civil service in 2
the Bureau of Diplomatic Security. 3
‘‘(2) R
ULEMAKING.—The Secretary shall pro-4
mulgate regulations for the administration of Diplo-5
matic Security fellowship programs that set forth— 6
‘‘(A) the eligibility requirements for receiv-7
ing a grant under this subsection; 8
‘‘(B) the process by which eligible appli-9
cants may request such a grant; 10
‘‘(C) the maximum amount of such a 11
grant; and 12
‘‘(D) the educational progress to which all 13
grant recipients are obligated.’’. 14
(b) A
UTHORIZATION OFAPPROPRIATIONS.—There is 15
authorized to be appropriated $2,000,000 for each of fis-16
cal years 2024 through 2028 to carry out this section. 17
TITLE II—PERSONNEL MATTERS 18
Subtitle A—Hiring, Promotion, and 19
Development 20
SEC. 201. ADJUSTMENT TO PROMOTION PRECEPTS. 21
Section 603(b) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 22
(22 U.S.C. 4003(b)) is amended— 23
(1) by redesignating paragraph (2), (3), and (4) 24
as paragraphs (5), (6), and (7), respectively; and 25
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(2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the fol-1
lowing new paragraphs: 2
‘‘(2) experience serving at an international or-3
ganization, multilateral institution, or engaging in 4
multinational negotiations; 5
‘‘(3) willingness to serve in hardship posts over-6
seas or across geographically distinct regions; 7
‘‘(4) experience advancing policies or developing 8
expertise that enhance the United States’ competi-9
tiveness with regard to critical and emerging tech-10
nologies.’’. 11
SEC. 202. HIRING AUTHORITIES. 12
(a) S
ENSE OFCONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-13
gress that— 14
(1) the Department should possess hiring au-15
thorities to enable recruitment of individuals rep-16
resentative of the nation with special skills needed to 17
address 21st century diplomacy challenges; and 18
(2) the Secretary shall conduct a survey of hir-19
ing authorities held by the Department to identify— 20
(A) hiring authorities already authorized 21
by Congress; 22
(B) others authorities granted through 23
Presidential decree or executive order; and 24
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(C) any authorities needed to enable re-1
cruitment of individuals with the special skills 2
described in paragraph (1). 3
(b) R
EPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 4
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit 5
a report to the appropriate congressional committees that 6
includes a description of all existing hiring authorities and 7
legislative proposals on any new needed authorities. 8
(c) S
PECIALHIRINGAUTHORITY.—For an initial pe-9
riod of not more than 3 years after the date of the enact-10
ment of this Act, the Secretary may appoint, without re-11
gard to the provisions of sections 3309 through 3318 of 12
title 5, United States Code, candidates directly to posi-13
tions in the competitive service at the Department, as de-14
fined in section 2102 of that title, in the following occupa-15
tional series: 1560 Data Science, 2210 Information Tech-16
nology Management, and 0201 Human Resources Man-17
agement. 18
SEC. 203. EXTENDING PATHS TO SERVICE FOR PAID STU-19
DENT INTERNS. 20
For up to 2 years following the end of a compensated 21
internship at the Department or the United States Agency 22
for International Development, the Department or USAID 23
may offer employment to up to 25 such interns and ap-24
point them directly to positions in the competitive service, 25
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as defined in section 2102 of title 5, United States Code, 1
without regard to the provisions of sections 3309 through 2
3318 of such title. 3
SEC. 204. LATERAL ENTRY PROGRAM. 4
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Section 404 of the Department of 5
State Authorities Act, Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114– 6
323; 130 Stat. 1928) is amended— 7
(1) in subsection (b)— 8
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 9
by striking ‘‘3-year’’ and inserting ‘‘5-year’’; 10
(B) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘; and’’; 11
(C) in paragraph (6), by striking the pe-12
riod at the end and inserting a semicolon; and 13
(D) by adding at the end the following new 14
paragraphs: 15
‘‘(7) does not include the use of Foreign Serv-16
ice-Limited or other noncareer Foreign Service hir-17
ing authorities; and 18
‘‘(8) includes not fewer than 30 participants for 19
each year of the pilot program.’’; and 20
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-21
section: 22
‘‘(e) C
ERTIFICATION.—If the Secretary does not com-23
mence the lateral entry program within 180 days after the 24
date of the enactment of this subsection, the Secretary 25
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shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional 1
committees— 2
‘‘(1) certifying that progress is being made on 3
implementation of the pilot program and describing 4
such progress, including the date on which appli-5
cants will be able to apply; 6
‘‘(2) estimating the date by which the pilot pro-7
gram will be fully implemented; 8
‘‘(3) outlining how the Department will use the 9
Lateral Entry Program to fill needed skill sets in 10
key areas such as cyberspace, emerging technologies, 11
economic statecraft, multilateral diplomacy, and 12
data and other sciences.’’. 13
SEC. 205. MID-CAREER MENTORING PROGRAM. 14
(a) A
UTHORIZATION.—The Secretary, in collabora-15
tion with the Director of the Foreign Service Institute, 16
is authorized to establish a Mid-Career Mentoring Pro-17
gram (referred to in this section as the ‘‘Program’’) for 18
employees who have demonstrated outstanding service and 19
leadership. 20
(b) S
ELECTION.— 21
(1) N
OMINATIONS.—The head of each bureau 22
shall semiannually nominate participants for the 23
Program from a pool of applicants in the positions 24
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described in paragraph (2)(B), including from posts 1
both domestically and abroad. 2
(2) S
UBMISSION OF SLATE OF NOMINEES TO 3
SECRETARY.—The Director of the Foreign Service 4
Institute, in consultation with the Director General 5
of the Foreign Service, shall semiannually— 6
(A) vet the nominees most recently nomi-7
nated pursuant to paragraph (1); and 8
(B) submit to the Secretary a slate of ap-9
plicants to participate in the Program, who 10
shall consist of at least— 11
(i) 10 Foreign Service Officers and 12
specialists classified at the FS-03 or FS-04 13
level of the Foreign Service Salary Sched-14
ule; 15
(ii) 10 Civil Service employees classi-16
fied at GS-12 or GS-13 of the General 17
Schedule; and 18
(iii) 5 Foreign Service Officers from 19
the United States Agency for International 20
Development. 21
(3) F
INAL SELECTION.—The Secretary shall se-22
lect the applicants who will be invited to participate 23
in the Program from the slate received pursuant to 24
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paragraph (2)(B) and extend such an invitation to 1
each selected applicant. 2
(c) P
ROGRAMSESSIONS.— 3
(1) F
REQUENCY; DURATION.—All of the partici-4
pants who accept invitations extended pursuant to 5
subsection (b)(3) shall meet 3 to 4 times per year 6
for training sessions with high-level leaders of the 7
Department and USAID, including private group 8
meetings with the Secretary and the Administrator 9
of the United States Agency for International Devel-10
opment. 11
(2) T
HEMES.—Each session referred to in para-12
graph (1) shall focus on specific themes developed 13
jointly by the Foreign Service Institute and the Ex-14
ecutive Secretariat focused on substantive policy 15
issues and leadership practices. 16
(d) M
ENTORINGPROGRAM.—The Secretary and the 17
Administrator each shall establish a mentoring and coach-18
ing program that pairs a senior leader of the Department 19
or USAID with each of the program participants who 20
complete the Program during the 1-year period imme-21
diately following their participation in the Program. 22
(e) A
NNUALREPORT.—Not later than one year after 23
the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually there-24
after for three years, the Secretary shall submit a report 25
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to the appropriate congressional committees that describes 1
the activities of the Program during the most recent year. 2
SEC. 206. CONSIDERATION OF CAREER CIVIL SERVANTS AS 3
CHIEFS OF MISSIONS. 4
Section 304(b) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 5
(22 U.S.C. 3944) is amended— 6
(1) by redesignating paragraph (2) as para-7
graph (3); and 8
(2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the fol-9
lowing new paragraph: 10
‘‘(2) The Secretary shall also furnish to the Presi-11
dent, on an annual basis and to assist the President in 12
selecting qualified candidates for appointments or assign-13
ments as chief of mission, the names of between 5 and 14
10 career civil servants serving at the Department of State 15
or the United States Agency for International Develop-16
ment who are qualified to serve as chiefs of mission, to-17
gether with pertinent information about such individ-18
uals.’’. 19
SEC. 207. CIVIL SERVICE ROTATIONAL PROGRAM. 20
(a) E
STABLISHMENT OF PILOTROTATIONALPRO-21
GRAM FORCIVILSERVICE.—Not later than 180 days after 22
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall 23
establish a program to provide qualified civil servants serv-24
ing at the Department an opportunity to serve at a United 25
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States embassy, including identifying criteria and an ap-1
plication process for such program. 2
(b) P
ROGRAM.—The program established under this 3
section shall— 4
(1) provide at least 20 career civil servants the 5
opportunity to serve for 2 to 3 years at a United 6
States embassy to gain additional skills and experi-7
ence; 8
(2) offer such civil servants the opportunity to 9
serve in a political or economic section at a United 10
States embassy; and 11
(3) include clear and transparent criteria for 12
eligibility and selection, which shall include a min-13
imum of 5 years of service at the Department. 14
(c) S
UBSEQUENTPOSITION ANDPROMOTION.—Fol-15
lowing a rotation at a United States embassy pursuant 16
to the program established by this section, participants in 17
the program must be afforded, at minimum, a position 18
equivalent in seniority, compensation, and responsibility to 19
the position occupied prior serving in the program. Suc-20
cessful completion of a rotation at a United States em-21
bassy shall be considered favorably with regard to applica-22
tions for promotion in civil service jobs at the Department. 23
(d) I
MPLEMENTATION.—Not later than 2 years after 24
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall 25
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identify not less than 20 positions in United States embas-1
sies for the program established under this section and 2
offered at least 20 civil servants the opportunity to serve 3
in a rotation at a United States embassy pursuant to this 4
section. 5
SEC. 208. REPORTING REQUIREMENT ON CHIEFS OF MIS-6
SION. 7
Not later than 30 days following the end of each cal-8
endar quarter, the Secretary shall submit to the appro-9
priate congressional committees— 10
(1) a list of every chief of mission or United 11
States representative overseas with the rank of Am-12
bassador who, during the prior quarter, was outside 13
a country of assignment for more than 14 cumu-14
lative days for purposes other than official travel or 15
temporary duty orders; 16
(2) the number of days each such chief of mis-17
sion or United States representative overseas with 18
the rank of Ambassador was outside a country of as-19
signment during the previous quarter for purposes 20
other than official travel or temporary duty orders; 21
and 22
(3) a list of any country other than the country 23
of assignment in which a chief of mission or United 24
States representative overseas with the rank of Am-25
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bassador has spent more than 14 days during the 1
previous quarter. 2
SEC. 209. REPORT ON CHIEFS OF MISSION AND DEPUTY 3
CHIEFS OF MISSION. 4
Not later than April 1, 2024, and annually thereafter 5
for the next 4 years, the Secretary shall submit to the 6
appropriate congressional committees a report that in-7
cludes— 8
(1) the Foreign Service cone of each current 9
chief of mission and deputy chief of mission (or who-10
ever is acting in the capacity of chief or deputy chief 11
if neither is present) for each United States embassy 12
at which there is a Foreign Service office filling ei-13
ther of those positions; and 14
(2) aggregated data for all chiefs of mission 15
and deputy chiefs of mission described in paragraph 16
(1), disaggregated by cone. 17
SEC. 210. PROTECTION OF RETIREMENT ANNUITY FOR RE-18
EMPLOYMENT BY DEPARTMENT. 19
(a) N
OTERMINATION OR REDUCTION OFRETIRE-20
MENTANNUITY ORPAY FORREEMPLOYMENT.—Notwith-21
standing section 824 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 22
(22 U.S.C. 4064), if a covered annuitant becomes em-23
ployed by the Department— 24
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(1) the payment of any retirement annuity, re-1
tired pay, or retainer pay otherwise payable to the 2
covered annuitant shall not terminate; and 3
(2) the amount of the retirement annuity, re-4
tired pay, or retainer pay otherwise payable to the 5
covered annuitant shall not be reduced. 6
(b) C
OVEREDANNUITANTDEFINED.—In this sec-7
tion, the term ‘‘covered annuitant’’ means any individual 8
who is receiving a retirement annuity under— 9
(1) the Foreign Service Retirement and Dis-10
ability System under subchapter I of chapter 8 of 11
title I of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 12
4041 et seq.); or 13
(2) the Foreign Service Pension System under 14
subchapter II of such chapter (22 U.S.C. 4071 et 15
seq.). 16
SEC. 211. ENHANCED VETTING FOR SENIOR DIPLOMATIC 17
POSTS. 18
(a) C
OMPREHENSIVE POLICY ONVETTING AND 19
T
RANSPARENCY.—Not later than one year after the date 20
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall develop 21
a consistent and enhanced vetting process to ensure that 22
individuals with substantiated claims of discrimination, 23
harassment, or bullying are not considered for promotions 24
to senior positions. 25
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(b) ELEMENTS OFCOMPREHENSIVE VETTINGPOL-1
ICY.—Following the conclusion of any investigation into 2
an allegation of discrimination, harassment, or bullying, 3
the Office of Civil Rights, Office of Global Talent Manage-4
ment, and other offices with responsibilities related to the 5
investigation shall jointly or individually submit a written 6
summary of any findings of any substantiated allegations, 7
along with a summary of findings to the Committee re-8
sponsible for promotions (the ‘‘D Committee’’) prior to 9
such Committee rendering a recommendation for pro-10
motion. 11
(c) R
ESPONSE.—The Secretary shall develop a proc-12
ess for candidates to respond to any allegations that are 13
substantiated and presented to the D Committee. 14
(d) A
NNUALREPORTS.—Not later than one year 15
after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually 16
thereafter for five years, the Secretary shall submit to the 17
Department workforce and the appropriate congressional 18
committees a report on the number of candidates con-19
firmed for senior diplomatic posts against whom there 20
were found to have been substantiated allegations. 21
SEC. 212. EFFORTS TO IMPROVE RETENTION AND PREVENT 22
RETALIATION. 23
(a) S
TREAMLINEDREPORTING.—Not later than one 24
year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-25
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retary shall establish a single point of initial reporting for 1
allegations of discrimination, bullying, and harassment 2
that provides an initial review of the allegations and, if 3
necessary, the ability to file multiple claims based on a 4
single complaint. 5
(b) E
NSURINGIMPLEMENTATION OF CORRECTIVE 6
A
CTION ANDMANAGEMENT RECOMMENDATIONS .—The 7
Secretary shall ensure follow up with each complainant 8
who makes an allegation of discrimination, harassment, or 9
bullying pursuant to subsection (a) and the head of the 10
respective bureau not later than 180 days after the conclu-11
sion of any investigation where an allegation is substan-12
tiated, and again one year after the conclusion of any such 13
investigation, to ensure that any recommendations for cor-14
rective action related to the complainant have been acted 15
on where appropriate. If such recommendations have not 16
be implemented, a written statement shall be provided to 17
the head of the bureau and complainant and affected em-18
ployees explaining why the recommendations have not 19
been implemented. 20
(c) C
LIMATESURVEYS OFEMPLOYEES OF THE DE-21
PARTMENT.— 22
(1) R
EQUIRED BIENNIAL SURVEYS .—Not later 23
than 180 days after the date of the enactment of 24
this Act and every 2 years thereafter, the Secretary 25
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shall conduct a Department-wide survey of all De-1
partment personnel regarding harassment, discrimi-2
nation, bullying, and related retaliation that includes 3
workforce perspectives on the accessibility and effec-4
tiveness of the Bureau of Global Talent Management 5
and Office of Civil Rights in the efforts and proc-6
esses to address these issues. 7
(2) P
ILOT SURVEYS.—Not later than 180 days 8
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-9
retary shall conduct a Department-wide survey for 10
Locally Employed Staff regarding retention, train-11
ing, promotion, and other matters, including harass-12
ment, discrimination, bullying, and related retalia-13
tion, that includes workforce perspectives on the ac-14
cessibility and effectiveness of complaint measures. 15
(3) R
EPORT.—Not later than 60 days after the 16
conclusion of each survey conducted pursuant to this 17
subsection, the Secretary shall make the key find-18
ings available to the Department workforce and shall 19
submit them to the appropriate congressional com-20
mittees. 21
(d) R
ETALIATIONPREVENTIONEFFORTS.— 22
(1) E
MPLOYEE EVALUATION .— 23
(A) I
N GENERAL.—If there is a pending 24
investigation of discrimination, bullying, or har-25
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assment against a superior who is responsible 1
for rating or reviewing the complainant em-2
ployee, the complainant shall be reviewed by the 3
superior’s supervisor. 4
(B) E
FFECTIVE DATE.—This paragraph 5
shall take effect 90 days after the date of the 6
enactment of this Act. 7
(2) R
ETALIATION PREVENTION GUIDANCE .— 8
Any Department employee against whom an allega-9
tion of discrimination, bullying, or harassment has 10
been made shall receive written guidance (a ‘‘retalia-11
tion hold’’) on the types of actions that can be con-12
sidered retaliation against the complainant em-13
ployee. The employee’s immediate supervisor shall 14
also receive the retaliation hold guidance. 15
Subtitle B—Pay, Benefits, and 16
Workforce Matters 17
SEC. 221. EDUCATION ALLOWANCE. 18
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Chapter 9 of title I of the Foreign 19
Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4081 et seq.) is amended 20
by adding at the end the following new section: 21
‘‘SEC. 908. EDUCATION ALLOWANCE. 22
‘‘A Department employee who is on leave to perform 23
service in the uniformed services (as defined in section 24
4303(13) of title 38, United States Code) may receive an 25
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education allowance if the employee would, if not for such 1
service, be eligible to receive the education allowance.’’. 2
(b) C
LERICALAMENDMENT.—The table of contents 3
in section 2 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4
3901 note) is amended by inserting after the item relating 5
to section 907 the following: 6
‘‘Sec. 908. Education allowance’’.
SEC. 222. PER DIEM ALLOWANCE FOR NEWLY HIRED MEM-
7
BERS OF THE FOREIGN SERVICE. 8
(a) P
ERDIEMALLOWANCE.— 9
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-10
graph (2), any newly hired Foreign Service employee 11
who is in initial orientation training, or any other 12
training expected to last less than 6 months before 13
transferring to the employee’s first assignment, in 14
the Washington, D.C., area shall, for the duration of 15
such training, receive a per diem allowance at the 16
levels prescribed under subchapter I of chapter 57 of 17
title 5, United States Code. 18
(2) L
IMITATION ON LODGING EXPENSES .—A 19
newly hired Foreign Service employee may not re-20
ceive any lodging expenses under the applicable per 21
diem allowance pursuant to paragraph (1) if that 22
employee— 23
(A) has a permanent residence in the 24
Washington, D.C., area (not including Govern-25
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ment-supplied housing during such orientation 1
training or other training); and 2
(B) does not vacate such residence during 3
such orientation training or other training. 4
(b) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section— 5
(1) the term ‘‘per diem allowance’’ has the 6
meaning given that term under section 5701 of title 7
5, United States Code; and 8
(2) the term ‘‘Washington, D.C., area’’ means 9
the geographic area within a 50 mile radius of the 10
Washington Monument. 11
SEC. 223. IMPROVING MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR 12
FOREIGN AND CIVIL SERVANTS. 13
(a) A
DDITIONALPERSONNEL TOADDRESSMENTAL 14
H
EALTH.— 15
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The Secretary shall seek to 16
increase the number of personnel within the Bureau 17
of Medical Services to address mental health needs 18
for both foreign and civil servants. 19
(2) E
MPLOYMENT TARGETS .—Not later than 20
180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 21
the Secretary shall seek to employ not fewer than 15 22
additional personnel in the Bureau of Medical Serv-23
ices, compared to the number of personnel employed 24
as of the date of the enactment of this Act. 25
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(b) STUDY.—The Secretary shall conduct a study on 1
the accessibility of mental health care providers and serv-2
ices available to Department personnel, including an as-3
sessment of— 4
(1) the accessibility of mental health care pro-5
viders at diplomatic posts and in the United States; 6
(2) the accessibility of inpatient services for 7
mental health care for Department personnel; 8
(3) steps that may be taken to improve such ac-9
cessibility; 10
(4) the impact of the COVID–19 pandemic on 11
the mental health of Department personnel, particu-12
larly those who served abroad between March 1, 13
2020, and December 31, 2022, and Locally Em-14
ployed Staff, where information is available; 15
(5) recommended steps to improve the manner 16
in which the Department advertises mental health 17
services to the workforce; and 18
(6) additional authorities and resources needed 19
to better meet the mental health needs of Depart-20
ment personnel. 21
(c) R
EPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 22
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit 23
to appropriate congressional committees a report con-24
taining the findings of the study under subsection (b). 25
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SEC. 224. EMERGENCY BACK-UP CARE. 1
(a) I
NGENERAL.—The Secretary and the Adminis-2
trator for the United States Agency for International De-3
velopment are authorized to provide for unanticipated 4
non-medical care, including childcare, eldercare, and es-5
sential services directly related to caring for an acute in-6
jury or illness, for USAID and Department employees and 7
their family members, including through the provision of 8
such non-medical services, referrals to care providers, and 9
reimbursement of reasonable expenses for such services. 10
(b) L
IMITATION.—Services provided pursuant to this 11
section shall not exceed $2,000,000 per fiscal year. 12
SEC. 225. AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE SERVICES TO NON- 13
CHIEF OF MISSION PERSONNEL. 14
Section 904 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 15
U.S.C. 4084) is amended— 16
(1) in subsection (g), by striking ‘‘abroad for 17
employees and eligible family members’’ and insert-18
ing ‘‘under this section’’; and 19
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-20
section: 21
‘‘(a) P
HYSICAL ANDMENTALHEALTHCARESERV-22
ICES INSPECIALCIRCUMSTANCES.— 23
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—The Secretary is authorized 24
to direct health care providers employed under sub-25
section (c) of this section to furnish physical and 26
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mental health care services to an individual other-1
wise ineligible for services under this section if nec-2
essary to preserve life or limb or if intended to facili-3
tate an overseas evacuation, recovery, or return. 4
Such services may be provided incidental to the fol-5
lowing activities: 6
‘‘(A) Activities undertaken abroad pursu-7
ant to section 3 and section 4 of the State De-8
partment Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 9
U.S.C. 2670, 2671). 10
‘‘(B) Recovery of hostages or of wrongfully 11
or unlawfully detained individuals abroad, in-12
cluding pursuant to section 302 of the Robert 13
Levinson Hostage Recovery and Hostage-Tak-14
ing Accountability Act (22 U.S.C. 1741). 15
‘‘(C) Secretarial dispatches to international 16
disaster sites deployed pursuant to section 207 17
of the Aviation Security Improvement Act of 18
1990 (22 U.S.C. 5506). 19
‘‘(D) Deployments undertaken pursuant to 20
section 606(a)(6)(A)(iii) of the Secure Embassy 21
Construction and Counterterrorism Act of 1999 22
(22 U.S.C. 4865(a)(6)(A)(iii)). 23
‘‘(2) P
RIORITIZATION OF OTHER FUNCTIONS .— 24
The Secretary shall prioritize the allocation of De-25
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partment resources to the health care program de-1
scribed in subsections (a) through (g) above the 2
functions described in paragraph (1). 3
‘‘(3) R
EGULATIONS.—The Secretary should 4
prescribe applicable regulations to implement this 5
section, taking into account the prioritization in 6
paragraph (2) and the activities described in para-7
graph (1). 8
‘‘(4) R
EIMBURSABLE BASIS.—Services rendered 9
under this subsection shall be provided on a reim-10
bursable basis to the extent practicable.’’. 11
SEC. 226. EXCEPTION FOR GOVERNMENT-FINANCED AIR 12
TRANSPORTATION. 13
(a) R
EDUCINGHARDSHIP FORTRANSPORTATION OF 14
D
OMESTICANIMALS.— 15
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Notwithstanding subsections 16
(a) and (c) of section 40118 of title 49, United 17
States Code, the Department is authorized to pay 18
for the transportation by a foreign air carrier of De-19
partment personnel and any in-cabin or accom-20
panying checked baggage or cargo if— 21
(A) no air carrier holding a certificate 22
under section 41102 of such title is willing and 23
able to transport up to 3 domestic animals ac-24
companying such Federal personnel; and 25
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(B) the transportation is from a place— 1
(i) outside the United States to a 2
place in the United States; 3
(ii) in the United States to a place 4
outside the United States; or 5
(iii) outside the United States to an-6
other place outside the United States. 7
(2) L
IMITATION.—An amount paid pursuant to 8
paragraph (1) for transportation by a foreign carrier 9
may not be greater than the amount that would oth-10
erwise have been paid had the transportation been 11
on an air carrier holding a certificate under section 12
41102 had that carrier been willing and able to pro-13
vide such transportation. If the amount that would 14
otherwise have been paid to such an air carrier is 15
less than the cost of transportation on the applicable 16
foreign carrier, the Department personnel may pay 17
the difference of such amount. 18
(3) D
OMESTIC ANIMAL DEFINED .—In this sub-19
section, the term ‘‘domestic animal’’ means a dog or 20
a cat. 21
SEC. 227. ENHANCED AUTHORITIES TO PROTECT LOCALLY 22
EMPLOYED STAFF DURING EMERGENCIES. 23
(a) S
ENSE OFCONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-24
gress that— 25
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(1) locally employed staff provide essential con-1
tributions at United States diplomatic and consular 2
posts around the world, including by providing— 3
(A) security to United States government 4
personnel serving in the country; 5
(B) advice, expertise, and other services for 6
the promotion of political, economic, public af-7
fairs, commercial, security, and other interests 8
of critical importance to the United States; 9
(C) a wide range of logistical and adminis-10
trative support to every office in each mission 11
working to advance United States interests 12
around the world, including services and sup-13
port vital to the upkeep and maintenance of 14
United States missions; 15
(D) consular services to support the wel-16
fare and well-being of United States citizens 17
and to provide for the expeditious processing of 18
visa applications; 19
(E) institutional memory on a wide range 20
of embassy engagements on bilateral issues; and 21
(F) enduring connections to host country 22
contacts, both inside and outside the host gov-23
ernment, including within media, civil society, 24
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the business community, academia, the armed 1
forces, and elsewhere; and 2
(2) locally employed staff make important con-3
tributions that should warrant the United States 4
Government to give due consideration for their secu-5
rity and safety when diplomatic missions face emer-6
gency situations. 7
(b) A
UTHORIZATION TO PROVIDEEMERGENCYSUP-8
PORT.—In emergency situations, in addition to other au-9
thorities that may be available in emergencies or other exi-10
gent circumstances, the Secretary is authorized to use 11
funds made available to the Department to provide sup-12
port to ensure the safety and security of locally employed 13
staff and their immediate family members, including for— 14
(1) providing transport or relocating locally em-15
ployed staff and their immediate family members to 16
a safe and secure environment; 17
(2) providing short-term housing or lodging for 18
up to six months for locally employed staff and their 19
immediate family members; 20
(3) procuring or providing other essential items 21
and services to support the safety and security of lo-22
cally employed staff and their immediate family 23
members. 24
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(c) TEMPORARYHOUSING.—To ensure the safety 1
and security of locally employed staff and their immediate 2
family members consistent with this section, Chiefs of Mis-3
sions are authorized to allow locally employed staff and 4
their immediate family members to reside temporarily in 5
the residences of United States direct hire employees, ei-6
ther in the host country or other countries, provided that 7
such stays are offered voluntarily by United States direct 8
hire employees. 9
(d) F
OREIGNAFFAIRSMANUAL.—Not later than 180 10
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-11
retary shall amend the Foreign Affairs Manual to reflect 12
the authorizations and requirements of this section. 13
(e) E
MERGENCYSITUATIONDEFINED.—In this sec-14
tion, the term ‘‘emergency situation’’ means armed con-15
flict, civil unrest, natural disaster, or other types of insta-16
bility that pose a threat to the safety and security of lo-17
cally employed staff, particularly when and if a United 18
States diplomatic or consular post must suspend oper-19
ations. 20
(f) R
EPORT.— 21
(1) I
N GENERAL.—No later than 180 days after 22
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 23
shall submit a report to the appropriate congres-24
sional committees describing prior actions the De-25
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partment has taken with regard to locally employed 1
staff and their immediate family members following 2
suspensions or closures of United States diplomatic 3
posts over the prior 4 years, including Kyiv, Kabul, 4
Minsk, and Khartoum. 5
(2) E
LEMENTS.—The report required under 6
paragraph (1) shall— 7
(A) describe any actions the Department 8
took to assist locally employed staff and their 9
immediate family members; 10
(B) identify any obstacles that made pro-11
viding support or assistance to locally employed 12
staff and their immediate family members dif-13
ficult; 14
(C) examine lessons learned and propose 15
recommendations to better protect the safety 16
and security of locally employed staff and their 17
family members, including any additional au-18
thorities that may be required; and 19
(D) provide an analysis of and offer rec-20
ommendations on any other steps that could 21
improve efforts to protect the safety and secu-22
rity of locally employed staff and their imme-23
diate family members. 24
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SEC. 228. INTERNET AT HARDSHIP POSTS. 1
Section 3 of the State Department Basic Authorities 2
Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2670) is amended— 3
(1) in subsection (l), by striking ‘‘; and’’ and in-4
serting a semicolon; 5
(2) in subsection (m) by striking the period at 6
the end and by inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 7
(3) by adding at the end the following new sub-8
section: 9
‘‘(n) pay expenses to provide internet services in resi-10
dences owned or leased by the United States Government 11
in foreign countries for the use of Department personnel 12
where Department personnel receive a post hardship dif-13
ferential equivalent to 30 percent or more above basic 14
compensation.’’. 15
SEC. 229. COMPETITIVE LOCAL COMPENSATION PLAN. 16
(a) E
STABLISHMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF 17
P
REVAILINGWAGERATESGOAL.—Section 401(a) of the 18
Department of State Authorities Act, fiscal year 2017 (22 19
U.S.C. 3968a(a)) is amended in the matter preceding 20
paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘periodically’’ and inserting 21
‘‘every 3 years’’. 22
(b) R
EPORT.—Not later than one year after the date 23
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit 24
a report to the appropriate congressional committees that 25
includes— 26
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(1) compensation (including position classifica-1
tion) plans for locally employed staff based upon 2
prevailing wage rates and compensation practices for 3
corresponding types of positions in the locality of 4
employment; and 5
(2) an assessment of the feasibility and impact 6
of changing the prevailing wage rate goal for posi-7
tions in the local compensation plan from the 50th 8
percentile to the 75th percentile. 9
SEC. 230. SUPPORTING TANDEM COUPLES IN THE FOREIGN 10
SERVICE. 11
(a) S
ENSE OFCONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-12
gress that— 13
(1) challenges finding and maintaining spousal 14
employment and family dissatisfaction are one of the 15
leading reasons employees cite for leaving the De-16
partment; 17
(2) tandem Foreign Service personnel represent 18
important members of the Foreign Service commu-19
nity, who act as force multipliers for our diplomacy; 20
(3) the Department can and should do more to 21
keep tandem couples posted together and consider 22
family member employment needs when assigning 23
tandem officers; and 24
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(4) common sense steps providing more flexi-1
bility in the assignments process would improve out-2
comes for tandem officers without disadvantaging 3
other Foreign Service officers. 4
(b) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 5
(1) F
AMILY TOGETHERNESS .—The term ‘‘fam-6
ily togetherness’’ means facilitating the placement of 7
Foreign Service personnel at the same United States 8
diplomatic post when both spouses are members of 9
a tandem couple of Foreign Service Officers. 10
(2) T
ANDEM FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICER ; TAN-11
DEM.—The terms ‘‘tandem Foreign Service per-12
sonnel’’ and ‘‘tandem’’ mean a member of a couple 13
of which one spouse is a career or career candidate 14
employee of the Foreign Service and the other 15
spouse is a career or career candidate employee of 16
the Foreign Service or an employee of one of the 17
agencies authorized to use the Foreign Service Per-18
sonnel System under section 202 of the Foreign 19
Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3922). 20
(c) F
AMILYTOGETHERNESS IN ASSIGNMENTS.—Not 21
later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 22
the Department shall amend and update its policies to fur-23
ther promote the principle of family togetherness in the 24
Foreign Service, which shall include the following: 25
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(1) ENTRY-LEVEL FOREIGN SERVICE PER -1
SONNEL.—The Secretary shall adopt policies and 2
procedures to facilitate the assignment of entry-level 3
tandem Foreign Service personnel on directed as-4
signments to the same diplomatic post or country as 5
their tandem spouse if they request to be assigned 6
to the same post or country. The Secretary shall 7
also provide a written justification to the requesting 8
personnel explaining any denial of a request that 9
would result in a tandem couple not serving together 10
at the same post or country. 11
(2) T
ENURED FOREIGN SERVICE PERSONNEL .— 12
The Secretary shall add family togetherness to the 13
criteria when making a needs of the Service deter-14
mination, as defined by the Foreign Affairs Manual, 15
for the placement of tenured tandem Foreign Service 16
personnel at United States diplomatic posts. 17
(3) U
PDATES TO ANTINEPOTISM POLICY .—The 18
Secretary shall update antinepotism policies so that 19
nepotism rules only apply when an employee and a 20
relative are placed into positions wherein they jointly 21
and exclusively control government resources, prop-22
erty, or money or establish government policy. 23
(4) T
EMPORARY SUPERVISION OF TANDEM 24
SPOUSE.—The Secretary shall update policies to 25
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allow for a tandem spouse to temporarily supervise 1
another tandem spouse for up to 90 days in a cal-2
endar year, including at a United States diplomatic 3
mission. 4
(d) R
EPORT.—Not later than 90 days after the date 5
of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to 6
the appropriate congressional committees a report that in-7
cludes— 8
(1) the number of Foreign Service tandem cou-9
ples currently serving; and 10
(2) an estimate of the cost savings that would 11
result if all Foreign Service tandem couples were 12
placed at a single post. 13
SEC. 231. ACCESSIBILITY AT DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS. 14
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-15
ment of this Act, the Department shall submit a report 16
to the appropriate congressional committees that in-17
cludes— 18
(1) a list of the overseas United States diplo-19
matic missions that, as of the date of the enactment 20
of this Act, are not readily accessible to and usable 21
by individuals with disabilities; 22
(2) any efforts in progress to make such mis-23
sions readily accessible to and usable by individuals 24
with disabilities; and 25
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(3) an estimate of the cost to make all such 1
missions readily accessible to and usable by individ-2
uals with disabilities. 3
TITLE III—INFORMATION SECU-4
RITY AND CYBER DIPLOMACY 5
SEC. 301. DATA-INFORMED DIPLOMACY. 6
(a) F
INDINGS.—Congress makes the following find-7
ings: 8
(1) In a rapidly evolving and digitally inter-9
connected global landscape, access to and mainte-10
nance of reliable, readily available data is key to in-11
formed decisionmaking and diplomacy and therefore 12
should be considered a strategic asset. 13
(2) In order to achieve its mission in the 21st 14
century, the Department must adapt to these trends 15
by maintaining and providing timely access to high- 16
quality data at the time and place needed, while si-17
multaneously cultivating a data-savvy workforce. 18
(3) Leveraging data science and data analytics 19
has the potential to improve the performance of the 20
Department’s workforce by providing otherwise un-21
known insights into program deficiencies, short-22
comings, or other gaps in analysis. 23
(4) While innovative technologies such as artifi-24
cial intelligence and machine learning have the po-25
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tential to empower the Department to analyze and 1
act upon data at scale, systematized, sustainable 2
data management and information synthesis remain 3
a core competency necessary for data-driven deci-4
sionmaking. 5
(5) The goals set out by the Department’s En-6
terprise Data Council (EDC) as the areas of most 7
critical need for the Department, including Culti-8
vating a Data Culture, Accelerating Decisions 9
through Analytics, Establishing Mission-Driven Data 10
Management, and Enhancing Enterprise Data Gov-11
ernance, are laudable and will remain critical as the 12
Department develops into a data-driven agency. 13
(b) S
ENSE OFCONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-14
gress that— 15
(1) the Department should prioritize the re-16
cruitment and retainment of top data science talent 17
in support of its data-informed diplomacy efforts as 18
well as its broader modernization agenda; and 19
(2) the Department should strengthen data flu-20
ency among its workforce, promote data collabora-21
tion across and within its bureaus, and enhance its 22
enterprise data oversight. 23
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SEC. 302. ESTABLISHMENT AND EXPANSION OF THE BU-1
REAU CHIEF DATA OFFICER PROGRAM. 2
(a) B
UREAUCHIEFDATAOFFICERPROGRAM.— 3
(1) E
STABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall es-4
tablish a program, which shall be known as the ‘‘Bu-5
reau Chief Data Officer Program’’ (referred to in 6
this section as the ‘‘Program’’), overseen by the De-7
partment’s Chief Data Officer. The Bureau Chief 8
Data Officers hired under this program shall report 9
to the Department’s Chief Data Officer. 10
(2) G
OALS.—The goals of the Program shall in-11
clude the following: 12
(A) Cultivating a data culture by pro-13
moting data fluency and data collaboration 14
across the Department. 15
(B) Promoting increased data analytics use 16
in critical decisionmaking areas. 17
(C) Promoting data integration and stand-18
ardization. 19
(D) Increasing efficiencies across the De-20
partment by incentivizing acquisition of enter-21
prise data solutions and subscription data serv-22
ices to be shared across bureaus and offices and 23
within bureaus. 24
(b) I
MPLEMENTATION PLAN.—Not later than 180 25
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-26
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retary shall submit to the appropriate congressional com-1
mittees an implementation plan that outlines strategies 2
for— 3
(1) advancing the goals described in subsection 4
(a)(2); 5
(2) hiring Bureau Chief Data Officers at the 6
GS-14 or GS-15 grade or a similar rank; 7
(3) assigning at least one Bureau Chief Data 8
Officer to— 9
(A) each regional bureau of the Depart-10
ment; 11
(B) the Bureau of International Organiza-12
tion Affairs; 13
(C) the Office of the Chief Economist; 14
(D) the Office of the Science and Tech-15
nology Advisor; 16
(E) the Bureau of Cyber and Digital Pol-17
icy; 18
(F) the Bureau of Diplomatic Security; 19
(G) the Bureau for Global Talent Manage-20
ment; and 21
(H) the Bureau of Consular Affairs; and 22
(4) allocation of necessary resources to sustain 23
the Program. 24
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(c) ASSIGNMENT.—In implementing the Bureau 1
Chief Data Officer Program, Bureaus may not dual-hat 2
currently employed personnel as Bureau Chief Data Offi-3
cers. 4
(d) A
NNUALREPORTINGREQUIREMENT.—Not later 5
than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 6
and annually thereafter for the following 3 years, the Sec-7
retary shall submit a report to the appropriate congres-8
sional committees regarding the status of the implementa-9
tion plan required under subsection (b). 10
SEC. 303. TASK FORCE TO ADDRESS ARTIFICIAL INTEL-11
LIGENCE-ENABLED INFLUENCE OPERATIONS. 12
(a) S
ENSE OFCONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-13
gress that— 14
(1) the rapid development of publicly available, 15
affordable generative artificial intelligence (AI) tech-16
nology, including the use of large language models 17
(LLM) to fuel natural language processing applica-18
tions, has the potential to fundamentally alter the 19
nature of disinformation and propaganda campaigns 20
by enabling finely tailored, auto-generated 21
disinformation swiftly, in any language, at scale, and 22
at low-costs; 23
(2) academia and private industry, including so-24
cial media platforms, play a critical role in estab-25
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lishing safeguards for powerful, publicly available 1
tools for producing AI-generated content, and it is 2
in the United States national security interest to en-3
sure that these technologies are not misused by for-4
eign malign actors to enhance influence operations 5
abroad; 6
(3) the ability to identify, track, and label origi-7
nal text, audio, and visual content is becoming in-8
creasingly vital to United States national interests 9
as sophisticated AI-generated content creation be-10
comes increasingly available to the public at low 11
costs; 12
(4) coalitions such as the Content Authenticity 13
Initiative (CAI) and the Coalition for Content Prove-14
nance and Authority (C2PA) play important roles in 15
establishing open industry standards for content au-16
thenticity and digital content provenance, which will 17
become increasingly vulnerable to manipulation and 18
distortion through AI-powered tools; and 19
(5) the Department, as the lead agency for 20
United States public diplomacy, should work within 21
the interagency process to develop a common ap-22
proach to United States international engagement 23
on issues related to AI-enabled disinformation. 24
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(b) STATEMENT OF POLICY.—It shall be the policy 1
of the United States— 2
(1) to share knowledge with allies and partners 3
of instances when foreign state actors have leveraged 4
generative AI to augment disinformation campaigns 5
or propaganda; 6
(2) to work with private industry and academia 7
to mitigate the risks associated with public research 8
on generative AI technologies; and 9
(3) to support efforts in developing digital con-10
tent provenance detection techniques and tech-11
nologies in line with United States national security 12
interests. 13
(c) E
STABLISHMENT OF COUNTERINGAI-ENABLED 14
D
ISINFORMATIONTASKFORCE.— 15
(1) E
STABLISHMENT.—Not later than 180 days 16
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-17
retary shall establish within the Department a Coun-18
tering AI-Enabled Disinformation Task Force (re-19
ferred to in this section as the ‘‘Task Force’’) to— 20
(A) identify potential responses to the 21
growing threat of AI-enabled disinformation 22
and its use by foreign state actors to augment 23
influence operations and disinformation cam-24
paigns; 25
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(B) work closely with private industry and 1
academia to identify and coordinate efforts in 2
developing digital content provenance detection 3
techniques and technologies; 4
(C) develop the Department’s internal co-5
ordination across regional and functional bu-6
reaus on the issue of AI-enabled disinformation; 7
(D) develop a unified approach to inter-8
national coordination on— 9
(i) establishing standards around dig-10
ital content provenance techniques and 11
technologies, specifically as it relates to 12
countering AI-enabled disinformation cam-13
paign; and 14
(ii) assessing the potential for estab-15
lishing frameworks around the prolifera-16
tion of tools that facilitate AI-enabled 17
disinformation; and 18
(E) identify any additional tools or re-19
sources necessary to enhance the Department’s 20
ability to— 21
(i) detect AI-enabled foreign 22
disinformation and propaganda; 23
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(ii) rapidly produce original counter- 1
messaging to address AI-enabled 2
disinformation campaigns; 3
(iii) expand digital literacy program-4
ming abroad to include education on how 5
media consumers in recipient countries can 6
identify and inoculate themselves from syn-7
thetically produced media; and 8
(iv) coordinate and collaborate with 9
other governments, international organiza-10
tions, civil society, the private sector, and 11
others, as necessary. 12
(2) M
EMBERSHIP.—The Task Force shall be 13
comprised of a representative from relevant offices, 14
as determined by the Secretary, including— 15
(A) the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital 16
Policy; 17
(B) the Under Secretary for Public Diplo-18
macy and Public Affairs; 19
(C) the Global Engagement Center; 20
(D) the Office of the Science and Tech-21
nology Advisor to the Secretary; 22
(E) the Bureau of Oceans and Inter-23
national Environmental and Scientific Affairs; 24
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(F) the Bureau for Intelligence and Re-1
search; 2
(G) the Center for Analytics of the Office 3
of Management Strategy and Solutions; 4
(H) the Foreign Service Institute School of 5
Applied Information Technology; and 6
(I) any others the Secretary determines 7
appropriate. 8
(d) T
ASKFORCEREPORT.—Not later than one year 9
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 10
shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional 11
committees on the establishment and progress of the Task 12
Force’s work, including in pursuit of the objectives de-13
scribed in subsection(c)(1). 14
(e) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 15
(1) A
RTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.—The term ‘‘ar-16
tificial intelligence’’ has the meaning given that term 17
in section 238(g) of the John S. McCain National 18
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 19
(Public Law 115–232; 10 U.S.C. 4001 note). 20
(2) D
IGITAL CONTENT PROVENANCE .—The 21
term ‘‘digital content provenance’’ means the 22
verifiable chronology of the origin and history of a 23
piece of digital content, such as an image, video, 24
audio recording, or electronic document. 25
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SEC. 304. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CHIEF ARTIFICIAL IN-1
TELLIGENCE OFFICER OF THE DEPARTMENT 2
OF STATE. 3
Section 1 of the State Department Basic Authorities 4
Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2651a) is amended by adding at 5
the end the following new subsection: 6
‘‘(n) C
HIEFARTIFICIALINTELLIGENCEOFFICER.— 7
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—There shall be within the 8
Department of State a Chief Artificial Intelligence 9
Officer, which may be dual-hatted as the Depart-10
ment’s Chief Data Officer, who shall be a member 11
of the Senior Executive Service. 12
‘‘(2) D
UTIES DESCRIBED.—The principal duties 13
and responsibilities of the Chief Artificial Intel-14
ligence Officer shall be— 15
‘‘(A) to evaluate, oversee, and, if appro-16
priate, facilitate the responsible adoption of ar-17
tificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning 18
applications to improve policy, programs, and 19
management operations of the Department of 20
State; and 21
‘‘(B) to act as the principal advisor to the 22
Secretary of State on the ethical use of AI and 23
advanced analytics in conducting data-informed 24
diplomacy. 25
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‘‘(3) QUALIFICATIONS.—The Chief Artificial In-1
telligence Officer should be an individual with dem-2
onstrated skill and competency in— 3
‘‘(A) the use and application of data ana-4
lytics, AI, and machine learning; and 5
‘‘(B) transformational leadership and orga-6
nizational change management, particularly 7
within large, complex organizations. 8
‘‘(4) P
ARTNER WITH THE CHIEF INFORMATION 9
OFFICER ON SCALING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 10
USE CASES.—To ensure alignment between the Chief 11
Artificial Intelligence Officer and the Chief Informa-12
tion Officer, the Chief Information Officer will con-13
sult with the Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer on 14
best practices for rolling out and scaling AI capabili-15
ties across the Bureau of Information and Resource 16
Management’s broader portfolio of software applica-17
tions. 18
‘‘(5) A
RTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEFINED .—In 19
this subsection, the term ‘artificial intelligence’ has 20
the meaning given the term in section 238(g) of the 21
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 22
2019 (Public Law 115–232; 10 U.S.C. 4001 note).’’. 23
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SEC. 305. STRENGTHENING THE CHIEF INFORMATION OFFI-1
CER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. 2
(a) I
NGENERAL.—The Chief Information Officer of 3
the Department shall be consulted on all decisions to ap-4
prove or disapprove, significant new unclassified informa-5
tion technology expenditures, including software, of the 6
Department, including expenditures related to information 7
technology acquired, managed, and maintained by other 8
bureaus and offices within the Department, in order to— 9
(1) encourage the use of enterprise software 10
and information technology solutions where such so-11
lutions exist or can be developed in a timeframe and 12
manner consistent with maintaining and enhancing 13
the continuity and improvement of Department op-14
erations; 15
(2) increase the bargaining power of the De-16
partment in acquiring information technology solu-17
tions across the Department; 18
(3) reduce the number of redundant Authorities 19
to Operate (ATO), which, instead of using one ATO- 20
approved platform across bureaus, requires multiple 21
ATOs for software use cases across different bu-22
reaus; 23
(4) enhance the efficiency, reduce redundancy, 24
and increase interoperability of the use of informa-25
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tion technology across the enterprise of the Depart-1
ment; 2
(5) enhance training and alignment of informa-3
tion technology personnel with the skills required to 4
maintain systems across the Department; 5
(6) reduce costs related to the maintenance of, 6
or effectuate the retirement of, legacy systems; 7
(7) ensure the development and maintenance of 8
security protocols regarding the use of information 9
technology solutions and software across the Depart-10
ment; and 11
(8) improve end-user training on the operation 12
of information technology solutions and to enhance 13
end-user cybersecurity practices. 14
(b) S
TRATEGY AND IMPLEMENTATION PLANRE-15
QUIRED.— 16
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 17
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 18
Chief Information Officer of the Department shall 19
develop, in consultation with relevant bureaus and 20
offices as appropriate, a strategy and a 5-year im-21
plementation plan to advance the objectives de-22
scribed in subsection (a). 23
(2) C
ONSULTATION.—No later than one year 24
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 25
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Chief Information Officer shall submit the strategy 1
required by this subsection to the appropriate con-2
gressional committees and shall consult with the ap-3
propriate congressional committees, not less than on 4
an annual basis for 5 years, regarding the progress 5
related to the implementation plan required by this 6
subjection. 7
(c) I
MPROVEMENT PLAN FOR THEBUREAU FORIN-8
FORMATIONRESOURCESMANAGEMENT.— 9
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 10
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 11
Chief Information Officer shall develop policies and 12
protocols to improve the customer service orienta-13
tion, quality and timely delivery of information tech-14
nology solutions, and training and support for bu-15
reau and office-level information technology officers. 16
(2) S
URVEY.—Not later than one year after the 17
date of the enactment of this Act, and annually 18
thereafter for five years, the Chief Information Offi-19
cer shall undertake a client satisfaction survey of bu-20
reau information technology officers to obtain feed-21
back on metrics related to— 22
(A) customer service orientation of the Bu-23
reau of Information Resources Management; 24
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(B) quality and timelines of capabilities de-1
livered; 2
(C) maintenance and upkeep of informa-3
tion technology solutions; 4
(D) training and support for senior bureau 5
and office-level information technology officers; 6
and 7
(E) other matters which the Chief Infor-8
mation Officer, in consultation with client bu-9
reaus and offices, determine appropriate. 10
(3) S
UBMISSION OF FINDINGS .—Not later than 11
60 days after completing each survey required under 12
paragraph (2), the Chief Information Officer shall 13
submit a summary of the findings to the appropriate 14
congressional committees. 15
(d) S
IGNIFICANTEXPENDITURE DEFINED.—For 16
purposes of this section, the term ‘‘significant expendi-17
ture’’ means any cumulative expenditure in excess of 18
$250,000 total in a single fiscal year for a new unclassified 19
software or information technology capability. 20
SEC. 306. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON STRENGTHENING EN-21
TERPRISE GOVERNANCE. 22
It is the sense of Congress that in order to modernize 23
the Department, enterprise-wide governance regarding 24
budget and finance, information technology, and the cre-25
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ation, analysis, and use of data across the Department is 1
necessary to better align resources to strategy, including 2
evaluating trade-offs, and to enhance efficiency and secu-3
rity in using data and technology as tools to inform and 4
evaluate the conduct of United States foreign policy. 5
SEC. 307. DIGITAL CONNECTIVITY AND CYBERSECURITY 6
PARTNERSHIP. 7
(a) D
IGITALCONNECTIVITY AND CYBERSECURITY 8
P
ARTNERSHIP.—The Secretary is authorized to establish 9
a program, which may be known as the ‘‘Digital 10
Connectivity and Cybersecurity Partnership’’, to help for-11
eign countries— 12
(1) expand and increase secure internet access 13
and digital infrastructure in emerging markets, in-14
cluding demand for and availability of high-quality 15
information and communications technology (ICT) 16
equipment, software, and services; 17
(2) protect technological assets, including data; 18
(3) adopt policies and regulatory positions that 19
foster and encourage open, interoperable, reliable, 20
and secure internet, the free flow of data, multi- 21
stakeholder models of internet governance, and pro- 22
competitive and secure ICT policies and regulations; 23
(4) access United States exports of ICT goods 24
and services; 25
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(5) expand interoperability and promote the di-1
versification of ICT goods and supply chain services 2
to be less reliant on PRC imports; 3
(6) promote best practices and common stand-4
ards for a national approach to cybersecurity; and 5
(7) advance other priorities consistent with 6
paragraphs (1) through (6), as determined by the 7
Secretary. 8
(b) U
SE OFFUNDS.—Funds made available to carry 9
out this section, including unexpended funds from fiscal 10
years 2018 through 2022, may be used to strengthen civil-11
ian cybersecurity and information and communications 12
technology capacity, including participation of foreign law 13
enforcement and military personnel in non-military activi-14
ties, notwithstanding any other provision of law, provided 15
that such support is essential to enabling civilian and law 16
enforcement of cybersecurity and information and commu-17
nication technology related activities in their respective 18
countries. 19
(c) I
MPLEMENTATION PLAN.—Not later than 180 20
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-21
retary shall submit to the appropriate congressional com-22
mittees an implementation plan for the coming year to ad-23
vance the goals identified in subsection (a). 24
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(d) CONSULTATION.—In developing and 1
operationalizing the implementation plan required under 2
subsection (c), the Secretary shall consult with— 3
(1) the appropriate congressional committees; 4
(2) United States industry leaders; 5
(3) other relevant technology experts, including 6
the Open Technology Fund; 7
(4) representatives from relevant United States 8
Government agencies; and 9
(5) representatives from like-minded allies and 10
partners. 11
(e) A
UTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 12
authorized to be appropriated $100,000,000 for each of 13
fiscal years 2024 through 2028 to carry out this section. 14
Such funds, including funds authorized to be appropriated 15
under the heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, may be 16
made available, notwithstanding any other provision of law 17
to strengthen civilian cybersecurity and information and 18
communications technology capacity, including for partici-19
pation of foreign law enforcement and military personnel 20
in non-military activities, and for contributions. Such 21
funds shall remain available until expended. 22
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SEC. 308. ESTABLISHMENT OF A CYBERSPACE, DIGITAL 1
CONNECTIVITY, AND RELATED TECH-2
NOLOGIES (CDT) FUND. 3
Part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 4
U.S.C. 2301 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end 5
the following new chapter: 6
‘‘CHAPTER 10—CYBERSPACE, DIGITAL 7
CONNECTIVITY, AND RELATED TECH-8
NOLOGIES (CDT) FUND 9
‘‘SEC. 591. FINDINGS. 10
‘‘Congress makes the following findings: 11
‘‘(1) Increasingly digitized and interconnected 12
social, political, and economic systems have intro-13
duced new vulnerabilities for malicious actors to ex-14
ploit, which threatens economic and national secu-15
rity. 16
‘‘(2) The rapid development, deployment, and 17
integration of information and communication tech-18
nologies into all aspects of modern life bring mount-19
ing risks of accidents and malicious activity involv-20
ing such technologies, and their potential con-21
sequences. 22
‘‘(3) Because information and communication 23
technologies are globally manufactured, traded, and 24
networked, the economic and national security of the 25
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United State depends greatly on cybersecurity prac-1
tices of other actors, including other countries. 2
‘‘(4) United States assistance to countries and 3
international organizations to bolster civilian capac-4
ity to address national cybersecurity and deterrence 5
in cyberspace can help— 6
‘‘(A) reduce vulnerability in the informa-7
tion and communication technologies ecosystem; 8
and 9
‘‘(B) advance national and economic secu-10
rity objectives. 11
‘‘SEC. 592. AUTHORIZATION OF ASSISTANCE AND FUNDING 12
FOR CYBERSPACE, DIGITAL CONNECTIVITY, 13
AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES (CDT) CAPAC-14
ITY BUILDING ACTIVITIES. 15
‘‘(a) A
UTHORIZATION.—The Secretary of State is au-16
thorized to provide assistance to foreign governments and 17
organizations, including national, regional, and inter-18
national institutions, on such terms and conditions as the 19
Secretary may determine, in order to— 20
‘‘(1) advance a secure and stable cyberspace; 21
‘‘(2) protect and expand trusted digital eco-22
systems and connectivity; 23
‘‘(3) build the cybersecurity capacity of partner 24
countries and organizations; and 25
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‘‘(4) ensure that the development of standards 1
and the deployment and use of technology supports 2
and reinforces human rights and democratic values, 3
including through the Digital Connectivity and Cy-4
bersecurity Partnership. 5
‘‘(b) S
COPE OFUSES.—Assistance under this section 6
may include programs to— 7
‘‘(1) advance the adoption and deployment of 8
secure and trustworthy information and communica-9
tions technology (ICT) infrastructure and services, 10
including efforts to grow global markets for secure 11
ICT goods and services and promote a more diverse 12
and resilient ICT supply chain; 13
‘‘(2) provide technical and capacity building as-14
sistance to— 15
‘‘(A) promote policy and regulatory frame-16
works that create an enabling environment for 17
digital connectivity and a vibrant digital econ-18
omy; 19
‘‘(B) ensure technologies, including related 20
new and emerging technologies, are developed, 21
deployed, and used in ways that support and re-22
inforce democratic values and human rights; 23
‘‘(C) promote innovation and competition; 24
and 25
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‘‘(D) support digital governance with the 1
development of rights-respecting international 2
norms and standards; 3
‘‘(3) help countries prepare for, defend against, 4
and respond to malicious cyber activities, including 5
through— 6
‘‘(A) the adoption of cybersecurity best 7
practices; 8
‘‘(B) the development of national strategies 9
to enhance cybersecurity; 10
‘‘(C) the deployment of cybersecurity tools 11
and services to increase the security, strength, 12
and resilience of networks and infrastructure; 13
‘‘(D) support for the development of cyber-14
security watch, warning, response, and recovery 15
capabilities, including through the development 16
of cybersecurity incident response teams; 17
‘‘(E) support for collaboration with the Cy-18
bersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency 19
(CISA) and other relevant Federal agencies to 20
enhance cybersecurity; 21
‘‘(F) programs to strengthen allied and 22
partner governments’ capacity to detect, inves-23
tigate, deter, and prosecute cybercrimes; 24
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‘‘(G) programs to provide information and 1
resources to diplomats engaging in discussions 2
and negotiations around international law and 3
capacity building measures related to cybersecu-4
rity; 5
‘‘(H) capacity building for cybersecurity 6
partners, including law enforcement and mili-7
tary entities as described in subsection (f); 8
‘‘(I) programs that enhance the ability of 9
relevant stakeholders to act collectively against 10
shared cybersecurity threats; 11
‘‘(J) the advancement of programs in sup-12
port of the Framework of Responsible State Be-13
havior in Cyberspace; and 14
‘‘(K) the fortification of deterrence instru-15
ments in cyberspace; and 16
‘‘(4) such other purpose and functions as the 17
Secretary of State may designate. 18
‘‘(c) R
ESPONSIBILITY FOR POLICYDECISIONS AND 19
J
USTIFICATION.—The Secretary of State shall be respon-20
sible for policy decisions regarding programs under this 21
chapter, with respect to— 22
‘‘(1) whether there will be cybersecurity and 23
digital capacity building programs for a foreign 24
country or entity operating in that country; 25
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‘‘(2) the amount of funds for each foreign coun-1
try or entity; and 2
‘‘(3) the scope and nature of such uses of fund-3
ing. 4
‘‘(d) D
ETAILEDJUSTIFICATION FORUSES ANDPUR-5
POSES OFFUNDS.—The Secretary of State shall provide, 6
on an annual basis, a detailed justification for the uses 7
and purposes of the amounts provided under this chapter, 8
including information concerning— 9
‘‘(1) the amounts and kinds of grants; 10
‘‘(2) the amounts and kinds of budgetary sup-11
port provided, if any; and 12
‘‘(3) the amounts and kinds of project assist-13
ance provided for what purpose and with such 14
amounts. 15
‘‘(e) A
SSISTANCE ANDFUNDINGUNDEROTHERAU-16
THORITIES.—The authority granted under this section to 17
provide assistance or funding for countries and organiza-18
tions does not preclude the use of funds provided to carry 19
out other authorities also available for such purpose. 20
‘‘(f) A
VAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—Amounts appro-21
priated to carry out this chapter may be used, notwith-22
standing any other provision of law, to strengthen civilian 23
cybersecurity and information and communications tech-24
nology capacity, including participation of foreign law en-25
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forcement and military personnel in non-military activi-1
ties, provided that such support is essential to enabling 2
civilian and law enforcement of cybersecurity and informa-3
tion and communication technology related activities in 4
their respective countries. 5
‘‘(g) N
OTIFICATIONREQUIREMENTS.—Funds made 6
available under this section shall be obligated in accord-7
ance with the procedures applicable to reprogramming no-8
tifications pursuant to section 634A of this Act. 9
‘‘SEC. 593. REVIEW OF EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE CAPACITY. 10
‘‘(a) I
NGENERAL.—The Secretary of State, in con-11
sultation as appropriate with other relevant Federal de-12
partments and agencies is authorized to conduct a review 13
that— 14
‘‘(1) analyzes the United States Government’s 15
capacity to promptly and effectively deliver emer-16
gency support to countries experiencing major cyber-17
security and ICT incidents; 18
‘‘(2) identifies relevant factors constraining the 19
support referred to in paragraph (1); and 20
‘‘(3) develops a strategy to improve coordina-21
tion among relevant Federal agencies and to resolve 22
such constraints. 23
‘‘(b) R
EPORT.—Not later than one year after the 24
date of the enactment of this chapter, the Secretary of 25
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State shall submit a report to the Committee on Foreign 1
Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign 2
Affairs of the House of Representatives that contains the 3
results of the review conducted pursuant to subsection (a). 4
‘‘SEC. 594. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 5
‘‘There is authorized to be appropriated 6
$150,000,000 during the 5-year period beginning on Octo-7
ber 1, 2023, to carry out the purposes of this chapter.’’. 8
TITLE IV—ORGANIZATION AND 9
OPERATIONS 10
SEC. 401. PERSONAL SERVICES CONTRACTORS. 11
(a) E
XIGENTCIRCUMSTANCES AND CRISISRE-12
SPONSE.—To assist the Department in addressing and re-13
sponding to exigent circumstances and urgent crises 14
abroad, the Department is authorized to employ a limited 15
number of personal services contractors in order to meet 16
exigent needs, subject to the requirements of this section. 17
(b) A
UTHORITY.—The authority to employ personal 18
services contractors is in addition to any existing authori-19
ties to enter into personal services contracts. 20
(c) E
MPLOYING ANDALLOCATION OFPERSONNEL.— 21
To meet the needs described in subsection (a) and subject 22
to the requirements in subsection (d), the Department 23
may— 24
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(1) enter into contracts to employ a total of up 1
to 100 personal services contractors at any given 2
time for each of fiscal years 2024, 2025, and 2026; 3
and 4
(2) allocate up to 20 personal services contrac-5
tors to a given bureau, without regard to the sources 6
of funding such office relies on to compensate indi-7
viduals. 8
(d) L
IMITATION.—Employment authorized by this 9
section shall not exceed two calendar years. 10
(e) N
OTIFICATION ANDREPORTING TOCONGRESS.— 11
(1) N
OTIFICATION.—Not later than 15 days 12
after the use of authority under this section, the 13
Secretary shall notify the appropriate congressional 14
committees of the number of personal services con-15
tractors being employed, the expected length of em-16
ployment, the relevant bureau, the purpose for using 17
personal services contractors, and the justification, 18
including the exigent circumstances requiring such 19
use. 20
(2) A
NNUAL REPORTING .—Not later than 60 21
days after the end of each fiscal year, the Depart-22
ment shall submit to the appropriate congressional 23
committees a report describing the number of per-24
sonal services contractors employed pursuant to this 25
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section for the prior fiscal year, the length of em-1
ployment, the relevant bureau by which they were 2
employed pursuant to this section, the purpose for 3
using personal services contractors, disaggregated 4
demographic data of such contractors, and the jus-5
tification for the employment, including the exigent 6
circumstances. 7
SEC. 402. HARD-TO-FILL POSTS. 8
(a) S
ENSE OFCONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-9
gress that— 10
(1) the number of hard-to-fill vacancies at 11
United States diplomatic missions are far too high 12
and present a national security risk to the United 13
States; and 14
(2) if the Department is unable to incentivize 15
officers to accept hard-to-fill positions, the Depart-16
ment should consider directed assignments to more 17
effectively advance the national interests of the 18
United States. 19
(b) R
EPORT ONDEVELOPMENT OF INCENTIVES FOR 20
H
ARD-TO-FILLPOSTS.—Not later than 180 days after the 21
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit 22
a report to the appropriate congressional committees on 23
efforts to develop new incentives for hard-to-fill positions 24
at United States diplomatic missions. The report shall in-25
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clude a description of the incentives developed to date and 1
proposals to try to more effectively fill hard-to-fill posts. 2
SEC. 403. ENHANCED OVERSIGHT OF THE OFFICE OF CIVIL 3
RIGHTS. 4
(a) R
EPORTWITHRECOMMENDATIONS AND MAN-5
AGEMENTSTRUCTURE.—Not later than 270 days after 6
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary 7
of Management shall submit to the appropriate congres-8
sional committees a report with any recommendations for 9
the long-term structure and management of the Office of 10
Civil Rights, including— 11
(1) whether OCR should report directly to 12
someone other than the Secretary, such as the 13
Under Secretary of Management; 14
(2) any changes made within OCR to its inves-15
tigative processes to improve the integrity and thor-16
oughness of its investigations; and 17
(3) any recommendations to improve the man-18
agement structure, investigative process, and over-19
sight of the Office. 20
SEC. 404. CRISIS RESPONSE OPERATIONS. 21
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Not later than 120 days after the 22
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall insti-23
tute the following changes and ensure that the following 24
elements have been integrated into the ongoing crisis re-25
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sponse management and response by the Crisis Manage-1
ment and Strategy Office: 2
(1) The Department’s crisis response planning 3
and operations shall conduct, maintain, and update 4
on a regular basis contingency plans for posts and 5
regions experiencing or vulnerable to conflict or 6
emergency conditions, including armed conflict, na-7
tional disasters, significant political or military up-8
heaval, and emergency evacuations. 9
(2) The Department’s crisis response efforts 10
shall be led by an individual with significant experi-11
ence responding to prior crises, who shall be so des-12
ignated by the Secretary. 13
(3) The Department’s crisis response efforts 14
shall provide at least quarterly updates to the Sec-15
retary and other relevant senior officials, including a 16
plan and schedule to develop contingency planning 17
for identified posts and regions consistent with para-18
graph (1). 19
(4) The decision to develop contingency plan-20
ning for any particular post or region shall be made 21
independent of any regional bureau. 22
(5) The crisis response team shall develop and 23
maintain best practices for evacuations, closures, 24
and emergency conditions. 25
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(b) UPDATE.—Not later than 180 days after the date 1
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit 2
an update to the appropriate congressional committees 3
outlining the steps taken to implement this section, along 4
with any other recommendations to improve the Depart-5
ment’s crisis management and response operations. 6
TITLE V—ECONOMIC 7
DIPLOMACY 8
SEC. 501. DUTIES OF OFFICERS PERFORMING ECONOMIC 9
FUNCTIONS. 10
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Chapter 5 of title I of the Foreign 11
Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3981 et seq.) is amended 12
by adding at the end the following new section: 13
‘‘SEC. 506. DUTIES OF OFFICERS PERFORMING ECONOMIC 14
FUNCTIONS. 15
‘‘(a) D
EFINEDTERM.—In this section, the term 16
‘United States person’ means— 17
‘‘(1) a United States citizen or an alien lawfully 18
admitted for permanent residence to the United 19
States; or 20
‘‘(2) an entity organized under the laws of the 21
United States or any jurisdiction within the United 22
States, including a foreign branch of such an entity. 23
‘‘(b) I
NGENERAL.—The Secretary is authorized to 24
direct the economic officers of the Foreign Service as ap-25
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propriate to carry out the full spectrum of economic 1
statecraft and commercial diplomacy work that advances 2
United States foreign policy priorities in the host country 3
or domestic posting to which they are assigned, includ-4
ing— 5
‘‘(1) to negotiate economic and other related 6
agreements with foreign governments and inter-7
national organizations; 8
‘‘(2) to inform the Department, and when ap-9
propriate, the Washington, D.C., headquarters of-10
fices of Federal agencies, with respect to the posi-11
tions of foreign governments and international orga-12
nizations in negotiations on such matters as eco-13
nomic, energy, environment, science and health; 14
‘‘(3) to advance— 15
‘‘(A) the routine implementation and main-16
tenance of economic, environment, science, and 17
health agreements; and 18
‘‘(B) other initiatives in the countries to 19
which such officers are assigned related to im-20
proving economic or commercial relations for 21
the benefit of United States persons, including 22
businesses; 23
‘‘(4) to identify, and help design and execute, 24
and advance in consultation with other Federal 25
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agencies, United States policies, programs, and ini-1
tiatives, including capacity-building efforts, to ad-2
vance policies of foreign governments that improve 3
local economic governance, market-based business 4
environments, and market access, increase trade and 5
investment opportunities, or provide a more level 6
playing field for United States persons, including 7
with respect to— 8
‘‘(A) improving revenue collection; 9
‘‘(B) streamlining customs processes and 10
improving customs transparency and efficiency; 11
‘‘(C) improving regulatory management; 12
‘‘(D) improving procurement processes, in-13
cluding facilitating transparency in tendering, 14
bidding, and contact negotiation; 15
‘‘(E) advancing intellectual property pro-16
tections; 17
‘‘(F) eliminating anticompetitive subsidies 18
and improving the transparency of remaining 19
subsidies; 20
‘‘(G) improving budget management and 21
oversight; and 22
‘‘(H) strengthening management of impor-23
tant economic sectors; 24
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‘‘(5) to prioritize active support of economic 1
and commercial goals of the United States, and as 2
appropriate, United States persons abroad, in con-3
junction with the United States and Foreign Com-4
mercial Service established by section 2301 of the 5
Export Enhancement Act of 1988 (15 U.S.C. 4721); 6
‘‘(6) to provide United States persons with in-7
formation on all United States Government support 8
with respect to international economic matters; 9
‘‘(7) to receive feedback from United States 10
persons with respect to support described in para-11
graphs (5) and (6), and report that feedback to the 12
chief of mission and to the headquarters of the De-13
partment; 14
‘‘(8) to consult closely and regularly with the 15
private sector in accordance with section 709 of the 16
Championing American Business through Diplomacy 17
Act of 2019 (22 U.S.C. 9905); 18
‘‘(9) to identify and execute opportunities for 19
the United States to counter policies, initiatives, or 20
activities by authoritarian governments or enter-21
prises affiliated with such governments that are 22
anticompetitive or undermine the sovereignty or 23
prosperity of the United States or a partner country; 24
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‘‘(10) to identify and execute opportunities for 1
the United States in new and emerging areas of 2
trade and investment, such as digital trade, critical 3
minerals extraction, refining, and processing, energy, 4
and innovation; 5
‘‘(11) to monitor the development and imple-6
mentation of bilateral and multilateral economic and 7
other related agreements and provide recommenda-8
tions to the Secretary and the heads of other rel-9
evant Federal agencies with respect to United States 10
actions and initiatives relating to those agreements; 11
‘‘(12) to maintain complete and accurate 12
records of the performance measurements of the De-13
partment for economic and commercial diplomacy 14
activities, as directed by the chief of mission and 15
other senior officials of the Department; 16
‘‘(13) to report on issues and developments re-17
lated to economic, commercial, trade, and investment 18
matters with direct relevance to United States eco-19
nomic and national security interests, especially 20
when accurate, reliable, timely, and cost-effective in-21
formation is unavailable from non-United States 22
Government sources; and 23
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‘‘(14) to coordinate all activities, as necessary 1
and appropriate, with counterparts in other agen-2
cies. 3
‘‘(c) R
EGULATORYUPDATES.—The Secretary shall 4
update guidance in the Foreign Affairs Manual and other 5
regulations and guidance as necessary to implement this 6
section.’’. 7
(b) C
LERICALAMENDMENT.—The table of contents 8
for the Foreign Service Act of 1980 is amended by insert-9
ing after the item relating to section 505 the following: 10
‘‘Sec. 506. Duties of economic officers.’’.
SEC. 502. REPORT ON RECRUITMENT, RETENTION, AND
11
PROMOTION OF FOREIGN SERVICE ECO-12
NOMIC OFFICERS. 13
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 14
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall sub-15
mit a report to the appropriate congressional committees 16
regarding the recruitment, retention, and promotion of 17
economic officers in the Foreign Service. 18
(b) E
LEMENTS.—The report required under sub-19
section (b) shall include— 20
(1) an overview of the key challenges the De-21
partment faces in— 22
(A) recruiting individuals to serve as eco-23
nomic officers in the Foreign Service; and 24
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(B) retaining individuals serving as eco-1
nomic officers in the Foreign Service, particu-2
larly at the level of GS–14 of the General 3
Schedule and higher; 4
(2) an overview of the key challenges in recruit-5
ing and retaining qualified individuals to serve in 6
economic positions in the Civil Service; 7
(3) a comparison of promotion rates for eco-8
nomic officers in the Foreign Service relative to 9
other officers in the Foreign Service; 10
(4) the identification, disaggregated by region, 11
of hard-to-fill posts and proposed incentives to im-12
prove staffing of economic officers in the Foreign 13
Service at such posts; and 14
(5) a summary and analysis of the factors that 15
lead to the promotion of— 16
(A) economic officers in the Foreign Serv-17
ice; and 18
(B) individuals serving in economic posi-19
tions in the Civil Service. 20
SEC. 503. MANDATE TO REVISE DEPARTMENT OF STATE 21
METRICS FOR SUCCESSFUL ECONOMIC AND 22
COMMERCIAL DIPLOMACY. 23
(a) M
ANDATE TOREVISEDEPARTMENT OF STATE 24
P
ERFORMANCEMEASURES FORECONOMIC ANDCOMMER-25
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CIALDIPLOMACY.—The Secretary shall, as part of the De-1
partment’s next regularly scheduled review on metrics and 2
performance measures, include revisions of Department 3
performance measures for economic and commercial diplo-4
macy, by identifying outcome-oriented, and not process- 5
oriented, performance metrics, including metrics that— 6
(1) measure how Department efforts advanced 7
specific economic and commercial objectives and led 8
to successes for the United States or other private 9
sector actors overseas; and 10
(2) focus on customer satisfaction with Depart-11
ment services and assistance. 12
(b) P
LAN FORENSURINGCOMPLETEDATA FOR 13
P
ERFORMANCE MEASURES.—As part of the review re-14
quired under subsection (a), the Secretary shall include 15
a plan for ensuring that— 16
(1) the Department, both at its main head-17
quarters and at domestic and overseas posts, main-18
tains and fully updates data on performance meas-19
ures; and 20
(2) Department leadership and the appropriate 21
congressional committees can evaluate the extent to 22
which the Department is advancing United States 23
economic and commercial interests abroad through 24
meeting performance targets. 25
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(c) REPORT ONPRIVATESECTORSURVEYS.—The 1
Secretary shall prepare a report that lists and describes 2
all the methods through which the Department conducts 3
surveys of the private sector to measure private sector sat-4
isfaction with assistance and services provided by the De-5
partment to advance private sector economic and commer-6
cial goals in foreign markets. 7
(d) R
EPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 8
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit 9
to the appropriate congressional committees— 10
(1) the revised performance metrics required 11
under subsection (a); and 12
(2) the report required under subsection (c). 13
SEC. 504. CHIEF OF MISSION ECONOMIC RESPONSIBIL-14
ITIES. 15
Section 207 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 16
U.S.C. 3927) is amended by adding at the end the fol-17
lowing: 18
‘‘(e) E
MBASSYECONOMICTEAM.— 19
‘‘(1) C
OORDINATION AND SUPERVISION .—Each 20
chief of mission shall coordinate and supervise the 21
implementation of all United States economic policy 22
interests within the host country in which the diplo-23
matic mission is located, among all United States 24
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Government departments and agencies present in 1
such country. 2
‘‘(2) A
CCOUNTABILITY.—The chief of mission is 3
responsible for the performance of the diplomatic 4
mission in advancing United States economic policy 5
interests within the host country. 6
‘‘(3) M
ISSION ECONOMIC TEAM .—The chief of 7
mission shall designate appropriate embassy staff to 8
form a mission economic team that— 9
‘‘(A) monitors notable economic, commer-10
cial, and investment-related developments in the 11
host country; and 12
‘‘(B) develops plans and strategies for ad-13
vancing United States economic and commercial 14
interests in the host country, including— 15
‘‘(i) tracking legislative, regulatory, 16
judicial, and policy developments that 17
could affect United States economic, com-18
mercial, and investment interests; 19
‘‘(ii) advocating for best practices with 20
respect to policy and regulatory develop-21
ments; 22
‘‘(iii) conducting regular analyses of 23
market systems, trends, prospects, and op-24
portunities for value-addition, including 25
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risk assessments and constraints analyses 1
of key sectors and of United States stra-2
tegic competitiveness, and other reporting 3
on commercial opportunities and invest-4
ment climate; and 5
‘‘(iv) providing recommendations for 6
responding to developments that may ad-7
versely affect United States economic and 8
commercial interests.’’. 9
SEC. 505. DIRECTION TO EMBASSY DEAL TEAMS. 10
(a) P
URPOSES.—The purposes of deal teams at 11
United States embassies and consulates are— 12
(1) to promote a private sector-led approach— 13
(A) to advance economic growth and job 14
creation that is tailored, as appropriate, to spe-15
cific economic sectors; and 16
(B) to advance strategic partnerships; 17
(2) to prioritize efforts— 18
(A) to identify commercial and investment 19
opportunities; 20
(B) to advocate for improvements in the 21
business and investment climate; 22
(C) to engage and consult with private sec-23
tor partners; and 24
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(D) to report on the activities described in 1
subparagraphs (A) through (C), in accordance 2
with the applicable requirements under sections 3
706 and 707 of the Championing American 4
Business Through Diplomacy Act of 2019 (22 5
U.S.C. 9902 and 9903); 6
(3)(A)(i) to identify trade and investment op-7
portunities for United States companies in foreign 8
markets; or 9
(ii) to assist with existing trade and invest-10
ment opportunities already identified by United 11
States companies; and 12
(B) to deploy United States Government eco-13
nomic and other tools to help such United States 14
companies to secure their objectives; 15
(4) to identify and facilitate opportunities for 16
entities in a host country to increase exports to, or 17
investment in, the United States in order to grow 18
two-way trade and investment; 19
(5) to modernize, streamline, and improve ac-20
cess to resources and services designed to promote 21
increased trade and investment opportunities; 22
(6) to identify and secure United States or al-23
lied government support of strategic projects, includ-24
ing projects vulnerable to predatory investment by 25
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an authoritarian country or entity in such country, 1
where support or investment serves an important 2
United States interest; 3
(7) to coordinate across the Unites States Gov-4
ernment to ensure the appropriate and most effec-5
tive use of United States Government tools to sup-6
port United States economic, commercial, and in-7
vestment objectives; and 8
(8) to coordinate with the multi-agency DC 9
Central Deal Team, established in February 2020, 10
on the matters described in paragraphs (1) through 11
(7) and other relevant matters. 12
(b) C
LARIFICATION.—A deal team may be composed 13
of the personnel comprising the mission economic team 14
formed pursuant to section 207(e)(3) of the Foreign Serv-15
ice Act of 1980, as added by section 504. 16
(c) R
ESTRICTIONS.—A deal team may not provide 17
support for, or assist a United States person with a trans-18
action involving, a government, or an entity owned or con-19
trolled by a government, if the Secretary determines that 20
such government— 21
(1) has repeatedly provided support for acts of 22
international terrorism, as described in— 23
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(A) section 1754(c)(1)(A)(i) of the Export 1
Control Reform Act of 2018 (subtitle B of title 2
XVII of Public Law 115–232); 3
(B) section 620A(a) of the Foreign Assist-4
ance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2371(a)); 5
(C) section 40(d) of the Arms Export Con-6
trol Act (22 U.S.C. 2780(d)); or 7
(D) any other relevant provision of law; or 8
(2) has engaged in an activity that would trig-9
ger a restriction under section 116(a) or 502B(a)(2) 10
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 11
2151n(a) and 2304(a)(2)) or any other relevant pro-12
vision of law. 13
(d) F
URTHERRESTRICTIONS.— 14
(1) P
ROHIBITION ON SUPPORT OF SANCTIONED 15
PERSONS.—Deal teams may not carry out activities 16
prohibited under United States sanctions laws or 17
regulations, including dealings with persons on the 18
list of specially designated persons and blocked per-19
sons maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets 20
Control of the Department of the Treasury, except 21
to the extent otherwise authorized by the Secretary 22
of the Treasury or the Secretary. 23
(2) P
ROHIBITION ON SUPPORT OF ACTIVITIES 24
SUBJECT TO SANCTIONS .—Any person receiving sup-25
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port from a deal team must be in compliance with 1
all United States sanctions laws and regulations as 2
a condition for receiving such assistance. 3
(e) C
HIEF OFMISSIONAUTHORITY AND ACCOUNT-4
ABILITY.—The chief of mission to a foreign country— 5
(1) is the designated leader of a deal team in 6
such country; and 7
(2) shall be held accountable for the perform-8
ance and effectiveness of United States deal teams 9
in such country. 10
(f) G
UIDANCECABLE.—The Department shall send 11
out regular guidance on Deal Team efforts by an All Dip-12
lomatic and Consular Posts (referred to in this section as 13
‘‘ALDAC’’) that— 14
(1) describes the role of deal teams; and 15
(2) includes relevant and up-to-date information 16
to enhance the effectiveness of deal teams in a coun-17
try. 18
(g) C
ONFIDENTIALITY OFINFORMATION.— 19
(1) I
N GENERAL.—In preparing the cable re-20
quired under subsection (f), the Secretary shall pro-21
tect from disclosure any proprietary information of 22
a United States person marked as business confiden-23
tial information unless the person submitting such 24
information— 25
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(A) had notice, at the time of submission, 1
that such information would be released by; or 2
(B) subsequently consents to the release of 3
such information. 4
(2) T
REATMENT AS TRADE SECRETS .—Propri-5
etary information obtained by the United States 6
Government from a United States person pursuant 7
to the activities of deal teams shall be— 8
(A) considered to be trade secrets and 9
commercial or financial information (as such 10
terms are used under section 552b(c)(4) of title 11
5, United States Code); and 12
(B) exempt from disclosure without the ex-13
press approval of the person. 14
(h) S
UNSET.—The requirements under subsections 15
(f) through (h) shall terminate on the date that is 5 years 16
after the date of the enactment of this Act. 17
SEC. 506. ESTABLISHMENT OF A ‘‘DEAL TEAM OF THE 18
YEAR’’ AWARD. 19
(a) E
STABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall annually 20
present a new award, to be known as the ‘‘Deal Team 21
of the Year Award’’ to the deal team at one United States 22
mission in each region of the Department to recognize out-23
standing achievements in supporting a United States com-24
pany or companies pursuing commercial deals abroad or 25
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in identifying new deal prospects for United States compa-1
nies. 2
(b) A
WARDCONTENT.— 3
(1) D
EPARTMENT OF STATE .—Each member of 4
a deal team receiving an award pursuant to sub-5
section (a) shall receive a certificate that— 6
(A) is signed by the Secretary; and 7
(B)(i) in the case of a member of the For-8
eign Service, is included in the next employee 9
evaluation report; or 10
(ii) in the case of a Civil Service employee, 11
is included in the next annual performance re-12
view. 13
(2) O
THER FEDERAL AGENCIES .—If an award 14
is presented pursuant to subsection (a) to a Federal 15
Government employee who is not employed by the 16
Department, the employing agency may determine 17
whether to provide such employee any recognition or 18
benefits in addition to the recognition or benefits 19
provided by the Department. 20
(c) E
LIGIBILITY.—Any interagency economics team 21
at a United States overseas mission under chief of mission 22
authority that assists United States companies with iden-23
tifying, navigating, and securing trade and investment op-24
portunities in a foreign country or that facilitates bene-25
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ficial foreign investment into the United States is eligible 1
for an award under this section. 2
(d) R
EPORT.—Not later than the last day of the fis-3
cal year in which awards are presented pursuant to sub-4
section (a), the Secretary shall submit a report to the ap-5
propriate congressional committees that includes— 6
(1) each mission receiving a Deal Team of the 7
Year Award. 8
(2) the names and agencies of each awardee 9
within the recipient deal teams; and 10
(3) a detailed description of the reason such 11
deal teams received such award. 12
TITLE VI—PUBLIC DIPLOMACY 13
SEC. 601. NATIONAL ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN. 14
Not later than 270 days after the date of the enact-15
ment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a strategy 16
to the appropriate congressional committees that assesses 17
the potential benefits and costs of a national advertising 18
campaign to improve the recruitment in the Civil Service 19
and the Foreign Service by raising public awareness of 20
the important accomplishments of the Department. 21
SEC. 602. PUBLIC DIPLOMACY OUTREACH. 22
(a) C
OORDINATION OF RESOURCES.—The Adminis-23
trator of the United States Agency for International De-24
velopment and the Secretary shall direct public affairs sec-25
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tions at United States embassies and USAID Mission Pro-1
gram Officers at USAID missions to coordinate, enhance 2
and prioritize resources for public diplomacy and aware-3
ness campaigns around United States diplomatic and de-4
velopment efforts, including through— 5
(1) the utilization of new media technology for 6
maximum public engagement; and 7
(2) enact coordinated comprehensive community 8
outreach to increase public awareness and under-9
standing and appreciation of United States diplo-10
matic and development efforts. 11
(b) D
EVELOPMENT OUTREACH AND COORDINATION 12
O
FFICERS.—USAID should prioritize hiring of additional 13
Development Outreach and Coordination officers in 14
USAID missions to support the purposes of subsection 15
(a). 16
(c) B
ESTPRACTICES.—The Secretary and the Ad-17
ministrator of USAID shall identify 10 countries in which 18
Embassies and USAID missions have successfully exe-19
cuted efforts, including monitoring and evaluation of such 20
efforts, described in (a) and develop best practices to be 21
turned into Department and USAID guidance. 22
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SEC. 603. MODIFICATION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR RADIO 1
FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY. 2
In section 308(h) of the United States International 3
Broadcasting Act of 1994 (22 U.S.C. 6207(h)) is amend-4
ed— 5
(1) by striking subparagraphs (1), (3), and (5); 6
and 7
(2) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (4) as 8
paragraphs (1) and (2), respectively. 9
SEC. 604. INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING. 10
(a) V
OICE OFAMERICA.—Section 303 of the United 11
States International Broadcasting Act of 1994 (22 U.S.C. 12
6202) is amended by adding at the end the following: 13
‘‘(d) V
OICE OFAMERICAOPERATIONS AND STRUC-14
TURE.— 15
‘‘(1) O
PERATIONS.—The Director of the Voice 16
of America (VOA)— 17
‘‘(A) shall direct and supervise the oper-18
ations of VOA, including making all major deci-19
sions relating its staffing; and 20
‘‘(B) may utilize any authorities made 21
available to the United States Agency for Glob-22
al Media or to its Chief Executive Officer under 23
this Act or under any other Act to carry out its 24
operations in an effective manner. 25
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‘‘(2) PLAN.—Not later than 180 days after the 1
date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of 2
VOA shall submit a plan to the Committee on For-3
eign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on 4
Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives to 5
ensure that the personnel structure of VOA is suffi-6
cient to effectively carry out the principles described 7
in subsection (c).’’. 8
(b) A
PPOINTMENT OF CHIEFEXECUTIVEOFFI-9
CER.—Section 304 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 6203) is 10
amended— 11
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘as an entity 12
described in section 104 of title 5, United States 13
Code’’ and inserting ‘‘under the direction of the 14
International Broadcasting Advisory Board’’; and 15
(2) in subsection (b)(1), by striking the second 16
sentence and inserting the following: ‘‘Notwith-17
standing any other provision of law, when a vacancy 18
arises, until such time as a Chief Executive Officer, 19
to whom sections 3345 through 3349b of title 5, 20
United States Code, shall not apply, is appointed 21
and confirmed by the Senate, an acting Chief Execu-22
tive Officer shall be appointed by the International 23
Broadcasting Advisory Board and shall continue to 24
serve and exercise the authorities and powers under 25
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this title as the sole means of filling such vacancy, 1
for the duration of the vacancy. In the absence of 2
a quorum on the International Broadcasting Advi-3
sory Board, the first principal deputy of the United 4
States Agency for Global Media shall serve as acting 5
Chief Executive Officer.’’. 6
(c) C
HIEFEXECUTIVEOFFICERAUTHORITIES.— 7
Section 305(a)(1) of such Act (22 U.S.C. 6204(a)(1)) is 8
amended by striking ‘‘To supervise all’’ and inserting ‘‘To 9
oversee, coordinate, and provide strategic direction for’’. 10
(d) I
NTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING ADVISORY 11
B
OARD.—Section 306(a) of such Act (22 U.S.C. 6205(a)) 12
is amended by striking ‘‘advise the Chief Executive Officer 13
of’’ and inserting ‘‘oversee and advise the Chief Executive 14
Officer and’’. 15
(e) R
ADIOFREEAFRICA; RADIOFREEAMERICAS.— 16
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment 17
of this Act, the Chief Executive Officer of the United 18
States Agency for Global Media shall submit a report to 19
the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, the 20
Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, the Com-21
mittee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, 22
and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 23
Representatives that details the financial and other re-24
sources that would be required to establish and operate 25
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2 nonprofit organizations, modeled after Radio Free Eu-1
rope/Radio Liberty and Radio Free Asia, for the purposes 2
of providing accurate, uncensored, and reliable news and 3
information to— 4
(1) the region of Africa, with respect to Radio 5
Free Africa; and 6
(2) the region of Latin America and the Carib-7
bean, with respect to Radio Free Americas. 8
SEC. 605. JOHN LEWIS CIVIL RIGHTS FELLOWSHIP PRO-9
GRAM. 10
(a) I
NGENERAL.—The Mutual Educational and Cul-11
tural Exchange Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2451 et seq.) is 12
amended by adding at the end the following: 13
‘‘SEC. 115. JOHN LEWIS CIVIL RIGHTS FELLOWSHIP PRO-14
GRAM. 15
‘‘(a) E
STABLISHMENT.—There is established the 16
John Lewis Civil Rights Fellowship Program (referred to 17
in this section as the ‘Fellowship Program’) within the J. 18
William Fulbright Educational Exchange Program. 19
‘‘(b) P
URPOSES.—The purposes of the Fellowship 20
Program are— 21
‘‘(1) to honor the legacy of Representative John 22
Lewis by promoting a greater understanding of the 23
history and tenets of nonviolent civil rights move-24
ments; and 25
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‘‘(2) to advance foreign policy priorities of the 1
United States by promoting studies, research, and 2
international exchange in the subject of nonviolent 3
movements that established and protected civil 4
rights around the world. 5
‘‘(c) A
DMINISTRATION.—The Bureau of Educational 6
and Cultural Affairs (referred to in this section as the ‘Bu-7
reau’) shall administer the Fellowship Program in accord-8
ance with policy guidelines established by the Board, in 9
consultation with the binational Fulbright Commissions 10
and United States Embassies. 11
‘‘(d) S
ELECTION OFFELLOWS.— 12
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—The Board shall annually 13
select qualified individuals to participate in the Fel-14
lowship Program. The Bureau may determine the 15
number of fellows selected each year, which, when-16
ever feasible, shall be not fewer than 25. 17
‘‘(2) O
UTREACH.— 18
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—To the extent prac-19
ticable, the Bureau shall conduct outreach at 20
institutions, including— 21
‘‘(i) minority serving institutions, in-22
cluding historically Black colleges and uni-23
versities; and 24
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‘‘(ii) other appropriate institutions, as 1
determined by the Bureau. 2
‘‘(B) D
EFINITIONS.—In this paragraph: 3
‘‘(i) H
ISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE 4
AND UNIVERSITY.—The term ‘historically 5
Black college and university’ has the mean-6
ing given the term ‘part B institution’ in 7
section 322 of the Higher Education Act 8
of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1061). 9
‘‘(ii) M
INORITY SERVING INSTITU -10
TION.—The term ‘minority-serving institu-11
tion’ means an eligible institution under 12
section 371(a) of the Higher Education 13
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1067q(a)). 14
‘‘(e) F
ELLOWSHIPORIENTATION.—Annually, the Bu-15
reau shall organize and administer a fellowship orienta-16
tion, which shall— 17
‘‘(1) be held in Washington, D.C., or at another 18
location selected by the Bureau; and 19
‘‘(2) include programming to honor the legacy 20
of Representative John Lewis. 21
‘‘(f) S
TRUCTURE.— 22
‘‘(1) W
ORK PLAN.—To carry out the purposes 23
described in subsection (b)— 24
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‘‘(A) each fellow selected pursuant to sub-1
section (d) shall arrange an internship or re-2
search placement— 3
‘‘(i) with a nongovernmental organiza-4
tion, academic institution, or other organi-5
zation approved by the Bureau; and 6
‘‘(ii) in a country with an operational 7
Fulbright U.S. Student Program; and 8
‘‘(B) the Bureau shall, for each fellow, ap-9
prove a work plan that identifies the target ob-10
jectives for the fellow, including specific duties 11
and responsibilities relating to those objectives. 12
‘‘(2) C
ONFERENCES; PRESENTATIONS.—Each 13
fellow shall— 14
‘‘(A) attend a fellowship orientation orga-15
nized and administered by the Bureau under 16
subsection (e); 17
‘‘(B) not later than the date that is 1 year 18
after the end of the fellowship period, attend a 19
fellowship summit organized and administered 20
by the Bureau, which— 21
‘‘(i) whenever feasible, shall be held in 22
Atlanta, Georgia, or another location of 23
importance to the civil rights movement in 24
the United States; and 25
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‘‘(ii) may coincide with other events 1
facilitated by the Bureau; and 2
‘‘(C) at such summit, give a presentation 3
on lessons learned during the period of fellow-4
ship. 5
‘‘(3) F
ELLOWSHIP PERIOD .—Each fellowship 6
under this section shall continue for a period deter-7
mined by the Bureau, which, whenever feasible, shall 8
be not fewer than 10 months. 9
‘‘(g) F
ELLOWSHIPAWARD.—The Bureau shall pro-10
vide each fellow under this section with an allowance that 11
is equal to the amount needed for— 12
‘‘(1) the reasonable costs of the fellow during 13
the fellowship period; and 14
‘‘(2) travel and lodging expenses related to at-15
tending the orientation and summit required under 16
subsection (e)(2). 17
‘‘(h) A
NNUALREPORT.—Not later than 1 year after 18
the date of the completion of the Fellowship Program by 19
the initial cohort of fellows selected under subsection (d), 20
and annually thereafter, the Secretary of State shall sub-21
mit to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate 22
and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 23
Representatives a report on the implementation of the Fel-24
lowship Program, including— 25
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‘‘(1) a description of the demographics of the 1
cohort of fellows who completed a fellowship during 2
the preceding 1-year period; 3
‘‘(2) a description of internship and research 4
placements, and research projects selected by such 5
cohort, under the Fellowship Program, including 6
feedback from— 7
‘‘(A) such cohort on implementation of the 8
Fellowship Program; and 9
‘‘(B) the Secretary on lessons learned; and 10
‘‘(3) an analysis of trends relating to the diver-11
sity of each cohort of fellows and the topics of 12
projects completed since the establishment of the 13
Fellowship Program.’’. 14
(b) T
ECHNICAL ANDCONFORMINGAMENDMENTS TO 15
THEMUTUALEDUCATIONAL AND CULTURALEXCHANGE 16
A
CT OF1961.—Section 112(a) of the Mutual Educational 17
and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 ( 22 U.S.C. 2460(a)) 18
is amended— 19
(1) in paragraph (8), by striking ‘‘; and’’ and 20
inserting a semicolon; 21
(2) in paragraph (9), by striking the period and 22
inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 23
(3) by adding at the end the following new 24
paragraph: 25
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‘‘(10) the John Lewis Civil Rights Fellowship 1
Program established under section 115, which pro-2
vides funding for international internships and re-3
search placements for early- to mid-career individ-4
uals from the United States to study nonviolent civil 5
rights movements in self-arranged placements with 6
universities or nongovernmental organizations in for-7
eign countries.’’. 8
SEC. 606. DOMESTIC ENGAGEMENT AND PUBLIC DIPLO-9
MACY. 10
(a) S
TRATEGYREQUIRED.—Not later than 180 days 11
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 12
shall develop a strategy to explain to the American people 13
the value of the work of the Department and United 14
States foreign policy to advancing the national security of 15
the United States. The strategy shall include— 16
(1) tools to inform the American people about 17
the non-partisan importance of United States diplo-18
macy and foreign relations and to utilize public di-19
plomacy to meet the United States’ national security 20
priorities; 21
(2) efforts to reach the widest possible audience 22
of Americans, including those who historically have 23
not had exposure to United States foreign policy ef-24
forts and priorities; 25
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(3) additional staffing and resource needs in-1
cluding— 2
(A) domestic positions within the Bureau 3
of Global Public Affairs to focus on engagement 4
with the American people as outlined in para-5
graph (1); 6
(B) positions within the Bureau of Edu-7
cational and Cultural Affairs to enhance pro-8
gram and reach the widest possible audience; 9
(C) increasing the number of fellowship 10
and detail programs that place Foreign Service 11
and civil service employees outside the Depart-12
ment for a limited time, including Pearson Fel-13
lows, Reta Joe Lewis Local Diplomats, Brook-14
ings Fellows, and Georgetown Fellows; and 15
(D) recommendations for increasing par-16
ticipation in the Hometown Diplomats program 17
and evaluating this program as well as other 18
opportunities for Department officers to engage 19
with American audiences while traveling within 20
the United States. 21
SEC. 607. EXTENSION OF GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER. 22
Section 1287 of the National Defense Authorization 23
Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (22 U.S.C. 2656 note) is amend-24
ed by striking subsection (j). 25
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SEC. 608. PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT. 1
Section 5603(d) of the National Defense Authoriza-2
tion Act for Fiscal Year 2022 (Public Law 117–81) is 3
amended by adding at the end the following new para-4
graph: 5
‘‘(4) United States Information and Edu-6
cational Exchange Act of 1948 (Public Law 80– 7
402).’’. 8
SEC. 609. EXPANSION OF DIPLOMATS IN RESIDENCE PRO-9
GRAMS. 10
(a) Not later than two year after the date of the en-11
actment of this Act— 12
(1) the Secretary shall increase the number of 13
diplomats in the Diplomats in Residence Program 14
from seventeen to at least twenty; and 15
(2) the Administrator of the United States 16
Agency for International Development shall increase 17
the number of development diplomats in the Dip-18
lomats in Residence Program from one to at least 19
three. 20
TITLE VII—OTHER MATTERS 21
SEC. 701. EXPANDING THE USE OF DDTC LICENSING FEES. 22
Section 45 of the State Department Basic Authorities 23
Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2717) is amended— 24
(1) by striking ‘‘100 percent of the registration 25
fees collected by the Office of Trade Controls of the 26
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Department of State’’ and inserting ‘‘100 percent of 1
the defense trade control registration fees collected 2
by the Department of State’’; 3
(2) by inserting ‘‘management, licensing, com-4
pliance, and policy activities in the defense trade 5
controls function, including’’ after ‘‘expenses in-6
curred for’’; 7
(3) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘contract per-8
sonnel to assist in’’; 9
(4) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘; and’’ and 10
inserting a semicolon; 11
(5) in paragraph (3), by striking the period at 12
the end and inserting a semicolon; and 13
(6) by adding at the end the following new 14
paragraphs: 15
‘‘(4) the facilitation of defense trade policy de-16
velopment and implementation, review of commodity 17
jurisdiction determinations, public outreach to indus-18
try and foreign parties, and analysis of scientific and 19
technological developments as they relate to the ex-20
ercise of defense trade control authorities; and 21
‘‘(5) contract personnel to assist in such activi-22
ties.’’. 23
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SEC. 702. WAIVER AUTHORITY RELATED TO PROHIBITION 1
ON CERTAIN SEMICONDUCTOR PRODUCTS 2
AND SERVICES. 3
Section 5949(b) of the James M. Inhofe National De-4
fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (Public Law 5
117–263) is amended— 6
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (3) through 7
(7) as paragraphs (4) through (8), respectively; and 8
(2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol-9
lowing new paragraph: 10
‘‘(3) S
ECRETARY OF STATE .—The Secretary of 11
State may provide a waiver on a date later than the 12
effective date described in subsection (c) if the Sec-13
retary determines the waiver is in the critical na-14
tional security interests of the United States.’’. 15
SEC. 703. PROHIBITION ON ENTRY OF OFFICIALS OF FOR-16
EIGN GOVERNMENTS INVOLVED IN SIGNIFI-17
CANT CORRUPTION OR GROSS VIOLATIONS 18
OF HUMAN RIGHTS. 19
(a) I
NELIGIBILITY.— 20
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Officials of foreign govern-21
ments, and their immediate family members, about 22
whom the Secretary has credible information have 23
been involved, directly or indirectly, in significant 24
corruption, including corruption related to the ex-25
traction of natural resources, or a gross violation of 26
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human rights, including the wrongful detention of 1
locally employed staff of a United States diplomatic 2
mission or a United States citizen or national, shall 3
be ineligible for entry into the United States. 4
(2) A
DDITIONAL SANCTIONS.—Concurrent with 5
the application of paragraph (1), the Secretary shall, 6
as appropriate, refer the matter to the Office of For-7
eign Assets Control of the Department of the Treas-8
ury to determine whether to apply sanctions authori-9
ties in accordance with United States law to block 10
the transfer of property and interests in property, 11
and all financial transactions, in the United States 12
involving any person described in such paragraph. 13
(3) D
ESIGNATION.—The Secretary shall also 14
publicly or privately designate or identify the offi-15
cials of foreign governments about whom the Sec-16
retary has such credible information, and their im-17
mediate family members, without regard to whether 18
the individual has applied for a visa. 19
(b) E
XCEPTIONS.— 20
(1) S
PECIFIC PURPOSES.—Individuals shall not 21
be ineligible for entry into the United States pursu-22
ant to subsection (a) if such entry would further im-23
portant United States law enforcement objectives or 24
is necessary to permit the United States to fulfill its 25
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obligations under the United Nations Headquarters 1
Agreement. 2
(2) R
ULE OF CONSTRUCTION REGARDING 3
INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS .—Nothing in sub-4
section (a) shall be construed to derogate from 5
United States obligations under applicable inter-6
national agreements. 7
(c) W
AIVER.—The Secretary may waive the applica-8
tion of subsection (a) if the Secretary determines that the 9
waiver would serve a compelling national interest or that 10
the circumstances that caused the individual to be ineli-11
gible have changed sufficiently. 12
(d) R
EPORT.— 13
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after 14
the date of the enactment of this Act, and every 90 15
days thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to the 16
appropriate congressional committees, the Com-17
mittee on Appropriations of the Senate, and the 18
Committee on Appropriations of the House of Rep-19
resentatives a report, including a classified annex if 20
necessary, that includes— 21
(A) a description of information related to 22
corruption or violation of human rights con-23
cerning each of the individuals found ineligible 24
in the previous 12 months pursuant to sub-25
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section (a)(1) as well as the individuals who the 1
Secretary designated or identified pursuant to 2
subsection (a)(3), or who would be ineligible but 3
for the application of subsection (b); and 4
(B) a list of any waivers provided under 5
subsection (c), together with a justification for 6
each waiver. 7
(2) F
ORM AND PUBLICATION .— 8
(A) F
ORM.—Each report required under 9
paragraph (1) shall be submitted in unclassified 10
form but may include a classified annex. 11
(B) P
UBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The Secretary 12
shall make available to the public on a publicly 13
accessible internet website of the Department 14
the unclassified portion of each report required 15
under paragraph (1). 16
(e) C
LARIFICATION.—For purposes of subsections (a) 17
and (d), the records of the Department and of diplomatic 18
and consular offices of the United States pertaining to the 19
issuance or refusal of visas or permits to enter the United 20
States shall not be considered confidential. 21
SEC. 704. PROTECTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE DURING 22
CRISES. 23
Notwithstanding the limitations specified in section 24
304(c) of the Convention on Cultural Property Implemen-25
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tation Act (19 U.S.C. 2603(c)) and without regard to 1
whether a country is a State Party to the Convention (as 2
defined in sections 302 of such Act (19 U.S.C. 2601)), 3
the Secretary may exercise the authority under section 4
304 of such Act (19 U.S.C. 2603) to impose import re-5
strictions set forth in section 307 of such Act (19 U.S.C. 6
2606) if the Secretary determines that— 7
(1) imposition of such restrictions is in the na-8
tional interest of the United States; and 9
(2) an emergency condition (as defined in sec-10
tion 304 of such Act (19 U.S.C. 2603)) applies. 11
SEC. 705. NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN DIPLOMACY. 12
Title I of the State Department Basic Authorities Act 13
of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2651a et seq.) is amended by adding 14
at the end the following new section: 15
‘‘SEC. 64. NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN DIPLOMACY. 16
‘‘(a) A
CTIVITIES.— 17
‘‘(1) S
UPPORT AUTHORIZED .—The Secretary of 18
State is authorized to provide, by contract, grant, or 19
otherwise, for the performance of appropriate mu-20
seum visitor and educational outreach services and 21
related events, including organizing programs and 22
conference activities, creating, designing, and install-23
ing exhibits, and conducting museum shop services 24
and food services in the public exhibition and related 25
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physical and virtual space utilized by the National 1
Museum of American Diplomacy. 2
‘‘(2) R
ECOVERY OF COSTS .—The Secretary of 3
State is authorized to recover any revenues gen-4
erated under the authority of paragraph (1) for vis-5
itor and educational outreach services and related 6
events referred to in such paragraph, including fees 7
for use of facilities at the National Museum for 8
American Diplomacy. Any such revenues may be re-9
tained as a recovery of the costs of operating the 10
museum, credited to any Department of State ap-11
propriation, and shall remain available until ex-12
pended. 13
‘‘(b) D
ISPOSITION OFDOCUMENTS, ARTIFACTS, AND 14
O
THERARTICLES.— 15
‘‘(1) P
ROPERTY.—All historic documents, arti-16
facts, or other articles permanently acquired by the 17
Department of State and determined by the Sec-18
retary of State to be suitable for display by the Na-19
tional Museum of American Diplomacy shall be con-20
sidered to be the property of the United States Gov-21
ernment and shall be subject to disposition solely in 22
accordance with this subsection. 23
‘‘(2) S
ALE, TRADE, OR TRANSFER.—Whenever 24
the Secretary of State makes a determination de-25
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scribed in paragraph (3) with respect to a document, 1
artifact, or other article under paragraph (1), taking 2
into account considerations such as the museum’s 3
collections management policy and best professional 4
museum practices, the Secretary may sell at fair 5
market value, trade, or transfer such document, arti-6
fact, or other article without regard to the require-7
ments of subtitle I of title 40, United States Code. 8
The proceeds of any such sale may be used solely for 9
the advancement of the mission of the National Mu-10
seum of American Diplomacy and may not be used 11
for any purpose other than the acquisition and di-12
rect care of the collections of the Museum. 13
‘‘(3) D
ETERMINATIONS PRIOR TO SALE , TRADE, 14
OR TRANSFER.—The determination described in this 15
paragraph with respect to a document, artifact, or 16
other article under paragraph (1) is a determination 17
that— 18
‘‘(A) the document, artifact, or other arti-19
cle no longer serves to further the purposes of 20
the National Museum of American Diplomacy 21
as set forth in the collections management pol-22
icy of the Museum; 23
‘‘(B) the sale, trade, or transfer of the doc-24
ument, artifact, or other article would serve to 25
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maintain the standards of the collection of the 1
Museum; or 2
‘‘(C) the sale, trade, or transfer of the doc-3
ument, artifact, or other article would be in the 4
best interests of the United States. 5
‘‘(4) L
OANS.—In addition to the authorization 6
under paragraph (2) relating to the sale, trade, or 7
transfer of documents, artifacts, or other articles 8
under paragraph (1), the Secretary of State may 9
loan the documents, artifacts, or other articles, when 10
not needed for use or display by the National Mu-11
seum of American Diplomacy, to the Smithsonian 12
Institution or a similar institution for repair, study, 13
or exhibition.’’. 14
SEC. 706. EXTRATERRITORIAL OFFENSES COMMITTED BY 15
UNITED STATES NATIONALS SERVING WITH 16
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS. 17
(a) J
URISDICTION.—Whoever, while a United States 18
national or lawful permanent resident serving with the 19
United Nations, its specialized agencies, or other inter-20
national organization the Secretary has designated for 21
purposes of this section and published in the Federal Reg-22
ister, or while accompanying such an individual, engages 23
in conduct, or conspires or attempts to engage in conduct, 24
outside the United States that would constitute an offense 25
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punishable by imprisonment for more than one year if the 1
conduct had been engaged in within the special maritime 2
and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, shall be 3
subject to United States jurisdiction in order to be tried 4
for that offense. 5
(b) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 6
(1) A
CCOMPANYING SUCH INDIVIDUAL .—The 7
term ‘‘accompanying such individual’’ means— 8
(A) being a dependent, or family member 9
of a United States national or lawful permanent 10
resident serving with the United Nations, its 11
specialized agencies, or other international or-12
ganization designated under subsection (a); 13
(B) residing with such United States na-14
tional or lawful permanent resident serving with 15
the United Nations, its specialized agencies, or 16
other international organization designated 17
under subsection (a); and 18
(C) not being a national of or ordinarily 19
resident in the country where the offense is 20
committed. 21
(2) S
ERVING WITH THE UNITED NATIONS , ITS 22
SPECIALIZED AGENCIES, OR OTHER INTERNATIONAL 23
ORGANIZATION AS THE SECRETARY OF STATE MAY 24
DESIGNATE.—The term ‘‘serving with the United 25
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Nations, its specialized agencies, or other inter-1
national organization as the Secretary of State may 2
designate’’ under subsection (a) means— 3
(A) being a United States national or law-4
ful permanent resident employed as an em-5
ployee, a contractor (including a subcontractor 6
at any tier), an employee of a contractor (or a 7
subcontractor at any tier), an expert on mis-8
sion, or an unpaid intern or volunteer of the 9
United Nations, including any of its funds, pro-10
grams or subsidiary bodies, or any of the 11
United Nations specialized agencies, or of any 12
international organization designated under 13
subsection (a)(1); and 14
(B) being present or residing outside the 15
United States in connection with such employ-16
ment. 17
(3) U
NITED STATES NATIONAL .—The term 18
‘‘United States national’’ has the meaning given the 19
term ‘‘national of the United States’’ in section 20
101(a)(22) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 21
(8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(22)). 22
(c) R
ULES OFCONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-23
tion shall be construed to limit or affect the application 24
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of extraterritorial jurisdiction related to any other Federal 1
law. 2
SEC. 707. EXTENSION OF CERTAIN PRIVILEGES AND IMMU-3
NITIES TO THE INTERNATIONAL ENERGY 4
FORUM. 5
The International Organizations Immunities Act (22 6
U.S.C. 288 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the 7
following new section: 8
‘‘S
EC. 20. Under such terms and conditions as the 9
President shall determine, the President is authorized to 10
extend the provisions of this subchapter to the Inter-11
national Energy Forum Secretariat in the same manner, 12
to the same extent, and subject to the same conditions, 13
as they may be extended to a public international organi-14
zation in which the United States participates pursuant 15
to any treaty or under the authority of any Act of Con-16
gress authorizing such participation or making an appro-17
priation for such participation.’’. 18
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SEC. 708. EXTENSION OF CERTAIN PRIVILEGES AND IMMU-1
NITIES TO THE CONSEIL EUROPE
´
EN POUR LA 2
RECHERCHE NUCLE
´
AIRE (CERN; THE EURO-3
PEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RE-4
SEARCH). 5
The International Organizations Immunities Act (22 6
U.S.C. 288 et seq.), as amended by section 707 is further 7
amended by adding at the end the following new section: 8
‘‘S
EC. 21. Under such terms and conditions as the 9
President shall determine, the President is authorized to 10
extend the provisions of this title to the European Organi-11
zation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in the same manner, 12
to the same extent, and subject to the same conditions, 13
as it may be extended to a public international organiza-14
tion in which the United States participates pursuant to 15
any treaty or under the authority of any Act of Congress 16
authorizing such participation or making an appropriation 17
for such participation.’’. 18
SEC. 709. INTERNSHIPS OF UNITED STATES NATIONALS AT 19
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS. 20
(a) I
NGENERAL.—The Secretary of State is author-21
ized to bolster efforts to increase the number of United 22
States citizens representative of the American people occu-23
pying positions in the United Nations system, agencies, 24
and commissions, and in other international organizations, 25
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including by awarding grants to educational institutions 1
and students. 2
(b) R
EPORT.—Not later than 90 days after the date 3
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall 4
submit a report to the appropriate congressional commit-5
tees that identifies— 6
(1) the number of United States citizens who 7
are involved in internship programs at international 8
organizations; 9
(2) the distribution of the individuals described 10
in paragraph (1) among various international orga-11
nizations; and 12
(3) grants, programs, and other activities that 13
are being utilized to recruit and fund United States 14
citizens to participate in internship programs at 15
international organizations. 16
(c) E
LIGIBILITY.—An individual referred to in sub-17
section (a) is an individual who— 18
(1) is enrolled at or received their degree 19
withvin two years from— 20
(A) an institution of higher education; or 21
(B) an institution of higher education 22
based outside the United States, as determined 23
by the Secretary of State; and 24
(2) is a citizen of the United States. 25
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(d) AUTHORIZATION OFAPPROPRIATIONS.—There is 1
authorized to be appropriated $1,500,000 for the Depart-2
ment of State for fiscal year 2024 to carry out the grant 3
program authorized under subsection (a). 4
SEC. 710. TRAINING FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS. 5
(a) T
RAININGPROGRAMS.—Section 708 of the For-6
eign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4028) is amended 7
by adding at the end of the following new subsection: 8
‘‘(e) T
RAINING INMULTILATERALDIPLOMACY.— 9
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—The Secretary, in consulta-10
tion with other senior officials as appropriate, shall 11
establish training courses on— 12
‘‘(A) the conduct of diplomacy at inter-13
national organizations and other multilateral in-14
stitutions; and 15
‘‘(B) broad-based multilateral negotiations 16
of international instruments. 17
‘‘(2) R
EQUIRED TRAINING .—Members of the 18
Service, including appropriate chiefs of mission and 19
other officers who are assigned to United States 20
missions representing the United States to inter-21
national organizations and other multilateral institu-22
tions or who are assigned in other positions that 23
have as their primary responsibility formulation of 24
policy related to such organizations and institutions, 25
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or participation in negotiations of international in-1
struments, shall receive specialized training in the 2
areas described in paragraph (1) prior to the begin-3
ning of service for such assignment or, if receiving 4
such training at that time is not practical, within 5
the first year of beginning such assignment.’’. 6
(b) T
RAINING FORDEPARTMENTEMPLOYEES.—The 7
Secretary of State shall ensure that employees of the De-8
partment of State who are assigned to positions described 9
in paragraph (2) of subsection (e) of section 708 of the 10
Foreign Service Act of 1980 (as added by subsection (a) 11
of this section), including members of the civil service or 12
general service, or who are seconded to international orga-13
nizations for a period of at least one year, receive training 14
described in such subsection and participate in other such 15
courses as the Secretary may recommend to build or aug-16
ment identifiable skills that would be useful for such De-17
partment officials representing United States interests at 18
these institutions and organizations. 19
SEC. 711. MODIFICATION TO TRANSPARENCY ON INTER-20
NATIONAL AGREEMENTS AND NON-BINDING 21
INSTRUMENTS. 22
Section 112b of title 1, United States Code, as most 23
recently amended by section 5947 of the James M. Inhofe 24
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 25
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(Public Law 117–263; 136 Stat. 3476), is further amend-1
ed— 2
(1) by redesignating subsections (h) through (l) 3
as subsections (i) through (m), respectively; and 4
(2) by inserting after subsection (g) the fol-5
lowing: 6
‘‘(h)(1) If the Secretary is aware or has reason to 7
believe that the requirements of subsection (a), (b), or (c) 8
have not been fulfilled with respect to an international 9
agreement or qualifying non-binding instrument, the Sec-10
retary shall— 11
‘‘(A) immediately bring the matter to the atten-12
tion of the office or agency responsible for the agree-13
ment or qualifying non-binding instrument; and 14
‘‘(B) request the office or agency to provide 15
within 7 days the text or other information nec-16
essary to fulfill the requirements of the relevant sub-17
section. 18
‘‘(2) Upon receiving the text or other information re-19
quested pursuant to paragraph (1), the Secretary shall— 20
‘‘(A) fulfill the requirements of subsection (a), 21
(b), or (c), as the case may be, with respect to the 22
agreement or qualifying non-binding instrument con-23
cerned— 24
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‘‘(i) by including such text or other infor-1
mation in the next submission required by sub-2
section (a)(1); 3
‘‘(ii) by providing such information in writ-4
ing to the Majority Leader of the Senate, the 5
Minority Leader of the Senate, the Speaker of 6
the House of Representatives, the Minority 7
Leader of the House of Representatives, and 8
the appropriate congressional committees before 9
provision of the submission described in clause 10
(i); or 11
‘‘(iii) in relation to subsection (b), by mak-12
ing the text of the agreement or qualifying non- 13
binding instrument and the information de-14
scribed in subparagraphs (A)(iii) and (B)(iii) of 15
subsection (a)(1) relating to the agreement or 16
instrument available to the public on the 17
website of the Department of State within 15 18
days of receiving the text or other information 19
requested pursuant to paragraph (1); and 20
‘‘(B) provide to the Majority Leader of the Sen-21
ate, the Minority Leader of the Senate, the Speaker 22
of the House of Representatives, the Minority Lead-23
er of the House of Representatives, and the appro-24
priate congressional committees, either in the next 25
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submission required by subsection (a)(1) or before 1
such submission, a written statement explaining the 2
reason for the delay in fulfilling the requirements of 3
subsection (a), (b), or (c), as the case may be.’’. 4
SEC. 712. CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT, QUARTERLY RE-5
VIEW, AND AUTHORITY RELATING TO CON-6
CURRENCE PROVIDED BY CHIEFS OF MIS-7
SION FOR SUPPORT OF CERTAIN GOVERN-8
MENT OPERATIONS. 9
(a) N
OTIFICATIONREQUIRED.—Not later than 30 10
days after the date on which a chief of mission concurs 11
with providing United States Government support to enti-12
ties or individuals engaged in facilitating or supporting 13
United States Government military- or security-related op-14
erations within the area of responsibility of the chief of 15
mission, the Secretary shall notify the appropriate con-16
gressional committees of such concurrence. 17
(b) S
EMIANNUALREVIEW, DETERMINATION, AND 18
B
RIEFINGREQUIRED.—Not less frequently than semi-19
annually, the Secretary, in order to ensure that the sup-20
port described in subsection (a) continues to align with 21
United States foreign policy objectives and the objectives 22
of the Department, shall— 23
(1) conduct a review of any concurrence de-24
scribed in subsection (a) that is in effect; 25
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(2) determine, based on such review, whether to 1
revoke any such concurrence pending further study 2
and review; and 3
(3) brief the appropriate congressional commit-4
tees regarding the results of such review. 5
(c) R
EVOCATION OF CONCURRENCE.—If the Sec-6
retary determines, pursuant to a review conducted under 7
subsection (b), that any concurrence described in sub-8
section (a) should be revoked, the Secretary may revoke 9
such concurrence. 10
(d) A
NNUALREPORTREQUIRED.—Not later than 11
January 31 of each year, the Secretary shall submit a re-12
port to the appropriate congressional committees that in-13
cludes— 14
(1) a description of any support described in 15
subsection (a) that was provided with the concur-16
rence of a chief of mission during the calendar year 17
preceding the calendar year in which the report is 18
submitted; and 19
(2) an analysis of the effects of such support on 20
diplomatic lines of effort, including with respect to— 21
(A) nonproliferation, anti-terrorism, 22
demining, and related Programs and associated 23
anti-terrorism assistance programs; 24
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(B) international narcotics control and law 1
enforcement programs; and 2
(C) foreign military sales, foreign military 3
financing, and associated training programs. 4
SEC. 713. MODIFICATION AND REPEAL OF REPORTS. 5
(a) C
OUNTRYREPORTS ONHUMANRIGHTSPRAC-6
TICES.—The Secretary shall examine the production of the 7
2023 and subsequent annual Country Reports on Human 8
Rights Practices by the Assistant Secretary for Democ-9
racy, Human Rights, and Labor as required under sec-10
tions 116(d) and 502B(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act 11
of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151n(d), 2304(b)) to maximize— 12
(1) cost and personnel efficiencies; 13
(2) the potential use of data and analytic tools 14
and visualization; and 15
(3) advancement of the modernization agenda 16
for the Department announced by the Secretary on 17
October 27, 2021. 18
(b) E
LIMINATION OFOBSOLETEREPORTS.— 19
(1) R
EPORTS RELATING TO AFGHANISTAN AND 20
THE TALIBAN.— 21
(A) Q
UARTERLY REPORTS .—Notwith-22
standing sections 7019(e) of the Department of 23
State, Foreign Operations, and Related Pro-24
grams Appropriations Act of 2021 (division K 25
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of Public Law 116–260), the following reports 1
are not required to be submitted after the date 2
of the enactment of this Act: 3
(i) Quarterly report detailing the 4
number of personnel present in Afghani-5
stan under Chief of Mission authority 6
under section (22 U.S.C. 2927), as de-7
scribed in House Report 116–444. 8
(ii) Quarterly report detailing the sta-9
tus of intra-Afghan peace negotiations. 10
(B) B
IMONTHLY REPORT DETAILING THE 11
ACTIVITIES OF THE TALIBAN .—Section 12
7044(a)(4) of the Department of State, Foreign 13
Operations, and Related Programs Appropria-14
tions Act of 2021 (division K of Public Law 15
116–260) is amended by striking ‘‘the following 16
purposes’’ and all that follows through ‘‘(B)’’. 17
(2) A
NNUAL REPORTS RELATING TO FUNDING 18
MECHANISMS FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECURITY 19
AND SEMICONDUCTORS .—Division H of the William 20
M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authoriza-21
tion Act fo Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 116–283) 22
is amended— 23
(A) in section 9202(a)(2) (47 U.S.C. 24
906(a)(2))— 25
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(i) by striking subparagraph (C); and 1
(ii) by redesignating subparagraph 2
(D) as subparagraph (C); and 3
(B) in section 9905 (15 U.S.C. 4655)— 4
(i) by striking subsection (c); and 5
(ii) by redesignating subsection (d) as 6
subsection (c). 7
(3) R
EPORTS RELATING TO FOREIGN ASSIST -8
ANCE TO COUNTER RUSSIAN INFLUENCE AND MEDIA 9
ORGANIZATIONS CONTROLLED BY RUSSIA .—The 10
Countering Russian Influence in Europe and Eur-11
asia Act of 2017 (title II of Public Law 115–44) is 12
amended— 13
(A) in section 254(e)— 14
(i) in paragraph (1)— 15
(I) by striking ‘‘I
N GENERAL.—’’; 16
(II) by redesignating subpara-17
graphs (A), (B), and (C) as para-18
graphs (1), (2), and (3), respectively, 19
and moving such paragraphs 2 ems to 20
the left; and 21
(ii) by striking paragraph (2); and 22
(B) by striking section 255. 23
(4) A
NNUAL REPORT ON PROMOTING THE RULE 24
OF LAW IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION .—Section 25
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202 of the Russia and Moldova Jackson-Vanik Re-1
peal and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Account-2
ability Act of 2012 (Public Law 112–208) is amend-3
ed by striking subsection (a). 4
(5) A
NNUAL REPORT ON ADVANCING FREEDOM 5
AND DEMOCRACY .—Section 2121 of the Advance 6
Democratic Values, Address Nondemocratic Coun-7
tries, and Enhance Democracy Act of 2007 (title 8
XXI of Public Law 110–53) is amended by striking 9
subsection (c). 10
(6) A
NNUAL REPORTS ON UNITED STATES - 11
VIETNAM HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE MEETINGS .— 12
Section 702 of the Foreign Relations Authorization 13
Act, Fiscal Year 2003 (22 U.S.C. 2151n note) is re-14
pealed. 15
(c) M
ODIFICATION OF REPORTING REQUIRE-16
MENTS.— 17
(1) C
HANGING THE FREQUENCY OF THE RE -18
PORT ON THE USE OF PAKISTAN COUNTERINSUR -19
GENCY CAPABILITY FUND .—Notwithstanding section 20
7010 of House of Representatives Report 112–331, 21
the Secretary of State shall provide to the Com-22
mittee on Appropriations of the Senate and the 23
Committee on Appropriations of the House of Rep-24
resentatives a written report on the use of funds 25
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made available under the heading ‘‘Pakistan Coun-1
terinsurgency Capability Fund’’ on an annual basis. 2
(2) R
EPORT ON DEMOCRATIZATION IN 3
BURMA.—Section 570(d) of the Foreign Operations, 4
Export Financing, and Related Programs Appro-5
priations Act, 1997 (titles I through V of Public 6
Law 104–208) is amended by striking ‘‘Every six 7
months following the enactment of this Act, the 8
President shall report to’’ and inserting ‘‘The Presi-9
dent shall submit an annual report to’’. 10
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