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118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 4871 

To modify and expand the annual report required under the Elie Wiesel 

Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act of 2018 and require additional 

review of United States assistance provided to certain countries identified 

as being at risk of atrocities by such report, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 25, 2023 

Ms. JACOBS (for herself, Mr. CASTRO of Texas, and Ms. LEE of California) 

introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 

Foreign Affairs 

A BILL 

To modify and expand the annual report required under 

the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act 

of 2018 and require additional review of United States 

assistance provided to certain countries identified as 

being at risk of atrocities by such report, and for other 

purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Atrocity Prevention 

5 Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. EXTENSION AND MODIFICATION OF ANNUAL RE2 PORT REQUIREMENT. 

3 Section 5(a) of the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atroc4 ities Prevention Act of 2018 (22 U.S.C. 2656 note) is 

5 amended— 

6 (1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by 

7 striking ‘‘for the following six years’’; and 

8 (2) in paragraph (1)(E), by inserting ‘‘(ranked 

9 as high-, medium-, or low-risk)’’ after ‘‘countries 

10 and regions at risk of atrocities’’. 

11 SEC. 3. REVIEW OF SECURITY ASSISTANCE PROVIDED TO 

12 COUNTRIES. 

13 The Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention 

14 Act of 2018 (22 U.S.C. 2656 note) is amended by insert15 ing after section 5 the following: 

16 ‘‘SEC. 5A. SECURITY ASSISTANCE AND COOPERATION RE17 VIEW. 

18 ‘‘(a) REVIEW REQUIRED.—Not later than 60 days 

19 after the submission of each annual report required by sec20 tion 5, the Secretary of State (acting through the Depart21 ment of State officials listed in subsection (c)), in con22 sultation with the Secretary of Defense, shall submit to 

23 the appropriate congressional committees a report con24 sisting of the results of a review of the risks related to 

25 the provision of security assistance and cooperation in 

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1 cluding in the classified annex to such report) pursuant 

2 to such section 5 as being at high- or medium-risk for 

3 atrocities. Such report shall also include, for each such 

4 country, the following: 

5 ‘‘(1) With respect to a country newly identified 

6 as being at such risk, an assessment of the risks as7 sociated with providing security assistance and co8 operation to the governments of such countries, in9 cluding the risks of whether security assistance and 

10 cooperation— 

11 ‘‘(A) may be used for perpetrating atroc12 ities; or 

13 ‘‘(B) may exacerbate identified relevant 

14 risk factors for the commission of such atroc15 ities. 

16 ‘‘(2) With respect to a country identified as 

17 being at high- or medium-risk for atrocities for 

18 which an assessment described in paragraph (1) has 

19 previously been submitted pursuant to this section, 

20 an assessment of whether such risk factors, the cur21 rent or planned security assistance and cooperation 

22 provided by the United States, or other relevant con23 text have changed in the intervening period since the 

24 prior submission. 


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1 ‘‘(3) A determination, including a justification, 

2 on whether current or planned United States secu3 rity assistance and cooperation should be continued, 

4 terminated, paused, or otherwise delayed in light of 

5 the risks assessed pursuant to paragraph (1) or (2). 

6 ‘‘(b) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of the review re7 quired by subsection (a)— 

8 ‘‘(1) the term ‘appropriate congressional com9 mittees’ means— 

10 ‘‘(A) the Committee on Appropriations, the 

11 Committee on Armed Services, and the Com12 mittee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Rep13 resentatives; and 

14 ‘‘(B) the Committee on Appropriations, the 

15 Committee on Armed Services, and the Com16 mittee on Foreign Relations of the Senate; 

17 ‘‘(2) the term ‘security assistance and coopera18 tion’— 

19 ‘‘(A) means— 

20 ‘‘(i) assistance meeting the definition 

21 of ‘security assistance’ under section 502B 

22 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 

23 U.S.C. 2304(d)(2)); 

24 ‘‘(ii) programs and activities meeting 

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1 grams and activities of the Department of 

2 Defense’ under section 301 of title 10, 

3 United States Code; and 

4 ‘‘(iii) activities authorized pursuant 

5 to— 

6 ‘‘(I) 127(e) of title 10, United 

7 States Code; or 

8 ‘‘(II) section 1202 of the Na9 tional Defense Authorization Act for 

10 Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115– 

11 91; 131 Stat. 1639); and 

12 ‘‘(B) includes any use of amounts made 

13 available to the Department of Defense— 

14 ‘‘(i) to increase the capacity or capa15 bility of a unit of a foreign security force, 

16 a member of such a unit, or an irregular 

17 force, group, or individual; or 

18 ‘‘(ii) to support foreign security 

19 forces, irregular forces, groups, or individ20 uals to operate with United States forces 

21 in coalition, combined operations or other 

22 operations. 

23 ‘‘(c) DEPARTMENT OF STATE OFFICIALS.—The De24 partment of State officials listed in this subsection are the 

25 Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Democracy, Human 


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1 Rights, and Labor working jointly with the Assistant Sec2 retary for Conflict and Stabilization Operations, and in 

3 consultation with the Assistant Secretary of the Bureau 

4 of Political-Military Affairs Bureau. 

5 ‘‘(d) FORM.—The report required by subsection (a) 

6 shall be submitted in unclassified form and may include 

7 a classified annex.’’. 

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