Torture Victims Relief Reauthorization Act of 1999

Summary: Torture Victims Relief Reauthorization Act of 1999 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 through 2003 to: (1) the President to provide assistance in the form of grants to treatment centers and programs in foreign countries that are carrying out projects or activities specifically designed to treat victims of torture for the physical and psychological effects of such torture; (2) the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide grants to programs in the United States to cover the costs of services provided by domestic treatment centers in the rehabilitation of victims of torture (including treatment of the physical and psychological effects of torture); and (3) the President for the U.S. contribution to the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture. 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President, through the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, should: (1) request the Fund to find new ways to support, and to encourage the development of new, treatment centers and programs that are carrying out rehabilitative services for victims of torture; (2) use the vote of the United States to support the work of the Special Rapporteur on Torture and the Committee Against Torture established under the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; and (3) use the U.S. vote to establish a country rapporteur or similar mechanism to investigate human rights violations in a country if either the Special Rapporteur or the Committee Against Torture indicates that a systematic practice of torture is prevalent there. 
Directs the Secretary of State to report to specified congressional committees on certain required specialized training with regard to victims of torture for Foreign Service officers. 
Makes technical amendments to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998.

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Torture Victims Relief 
Reauthorization Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. FOREIGN TREATMENT CENTERS FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE.

    (a) Authorization of Appropriations.--Of the amounts authorized to 
be appropriated for fiscal years 2001, 2002, and 2003 pursuant to 
chapter 1 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, there are 
authorized to be appropriated to the President $10,000,000 for fiscal 
year 2001, $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2002, and $10,000,000 for fiscal 
year 2003 to carry out section 130 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
1961.
    (b) Availability of Funds.--Amounts appropriated pursuant to this 
section shall remain available until expended.

SEC. 3. DOMESTIC TREATMENT CENTERS FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE.

    (a) Authorization of Appropriations.--Of the amounts authorized to 
be appropriated for the Department of Health and Human Services for 
fiscal years 2001, 2002, and 2003, there are authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out subsection (a) of section 5 of the Torture 
Victims Relief Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 2152) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 
2001, $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2002, and $10,000,000 for fiscal year 
2003.
    (b) Availability of Funds.--Amounts appropriated pursuant to this 
section shall remain available until expended.

SEC. 4. MULTILATERAL ASSISTANCE.

    (a) Funding.--Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated for 
fiscal years 2001, 2002, and 2003 for ``Voluntary Contributions to 
International Organizations'' pursuant to chapter 3 of part I of the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, there are authorized to be appropriated 
for a United States contribution to the United Nations Voluntary Fund 
for Victims of Torture (in this section referred to as the ``Fund'') 
the following amounts for the following fiscal years:
        (1) Fiscal year 2001.--For fiscal year 2001, $5,000,000.
        (2) Fiscal year 2002.--For fiscal year 2002, $5,000,000.
        (3) Fiscal year 2003.--For fiscal year 2003, $5,000,000.
    (b) Availability of Funds.--Amounts appropriated pursuant to 
subsection (a) shall remain available until expended.
    (c) Sense of the Congress.--It is the sense of the Congress that 
the President, acting through the United States Permanent 
Representative to the United Nations, should--
        (1) request the Fund--
            (A) to find new ways to support and protect treatment 
        centers and programs that are carrying out rehabilitative 
        services for victims of torture; and
            (B) to encourage the development of new such centers and 
        programs;
        (2) use the voice and vote of the United States to support the 
    work of the Special Rapporteur on Torture and the Committee Against 
    Torture established under the Convention Against Torture and Other 
    Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; and
        (3) use the voice and vote of the United States to establish a 
    country rapporteur or similar procedural mechanism to investigate 
    human rights violations in a country if either the Special 
    Rapporteur or the Committee Against Torture indicates that a 
    systematic practice of torture is prevalent in that country.

SEC. 5. REPORTING REQUIREMENT.

    Not later than 90 days after the enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of State shall submit a report to the Committee on Foreign 
Relations of the Senate and the Committee on International Relations of 
the House of Representatives on the specialized training for foreign 
service officers required by section 7 of the Torture Victims Relief 
Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-320). The report shall include detailed 
information regarding--
        (1) efforts by the Department of State to implement the 
    specialized training requirement;
        (2) the curriculum that is being used in the specialized 
    training;
        (3) the number of foreign service officers who have received 
    the specialized training as of the date of the report; and
        (4) the nongovernmental organizations that have been involved 
    in the development of the specialized training curriculum or in 
    providing the specialized training, and the nature and extent of 
    that involvement.

SEC. 6. TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS RELATING TO THE SECOND SECTION 129 OF THE 
              FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1961.

    (a) Amendment to Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.--The second 
section 129 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as added by section 
4(a) of the Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-320), is 
redesignated as section 130.
    (b) Amendment to Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998.--Section 
4(b)(1) of the Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998 is amended by 
striking ``section 129 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as added 
by subsection (a)'' and inserting ``section 130 of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961 (as redesignated by section 6(a) of the Torture 
Victims Relief Reauthorization Act of 1999)''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.