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was the basis for the sanctions or has taken significant 
verifiable steps toward stopping the activity. 
(2) FORM.—The notice required by paragraph (1) shall be 
submitted in unclassified form but may include a classified 
annex. 
PART 3—AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIA-
TIONS FOR ASSISTANCE FOR BURMA 
SEC. 5575. GENERAL AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
During each of the fiscal years 2023 through 2027, following 
consultation with the appropriate congressional committees and 
subject to the limitations described in section 5576, funds authorized 
to be made available to carry out chapter 4 of part II of the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 may be made available, notwith-
standing any other provision of law, for— 
(1) programs to strengthen federalism in and among ethnic 
states in Burma, including for non-lethal assistance for Ethnic 
Armed Organizations in Burma; 
(2) the administrative operations and programs of entities 
in Burma, including the political entities and affiliates of Ethnic 
Armed Organizations and pro-democracy movement organiza-
tions, that support efforts to establish an inclusive and rep-
resentative democracy in Burma; 
(3) technical support and non-lethal assistance for Burma’s 
Ethnic Armed Organizations, People’s Defense Forces, and pro- 
democracy movement organizations to strengthen communica-
tions and command and control, and coordination of inter-
national relief and other operations between and among such 
entities; 
(4) programs and activities relating to former members 
of the Burmese military that have condemned the February 
1, 2022, coup d’etat and voiced support for the restoration 
of civilian rule; 
(5) programs to assist civil society organizations to inves-
tigate and document atrocities in Burma for the purposes of 
truth, justice, and accountability; 
(6) programs to assist civil society organizations in Burma 
that support individuals that who are unlawfully detained in 
Burma for exercising their fundamental freedoms; and 
(7) programs to assist civil society organizations and ethnic 
groups with reconciliation activities related to Burma. 
SEC. 5576. LIMITATIONS. 
Except as provided for by this part, none of the funds authorized 
to be appropriated for assistance for Burma by this part may 
be made available to— 
(1) the State Administrative Council or any organization 
or entity controlled by, or an affiliate of, the Burmese military, 
or to any individual or organization that has committed a 
gross violation of human rights or advocates violence against 
ethnic or religious groups or individuals in Burma, as deter-
mined by the Secretary of State for programs administered 
by the Department of State and the United States Agency 
for International Development, or President of the National 
Endowment for Democracy (NED) for programs administered 
by NED; and
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(2) the Burmese military. 
SEC. 5577. APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DEFINED. 
In this part, the term ‘‘appropriate congressional committees’’ 
means— 
(1) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee 
on Armed Services, and the Committee on Appropriations of 
the Senate; and 
(2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on 
Armed Services, and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives. 
PART 4—EFFORTS AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS 
ABUSES 
SEC. 5578. AUTHORIZATION TO PROVIDE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR 
EFFORTS AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State is authorized to pro-
vide assistance to support appropriate civilian or international enti-
ties that— 
(1) identify suspected perpetrators of war crimes, crimes 
against humanity, and genocide in Burma; 
(2) collect, document, and protect evidence of crimes in 
Burma and preserving the chain of custody for such evidence; 
(3) conduct criminal investigations of such crimes; and 
(4) support investigations related to Burma conducted by 
other countries, and by entities mandated by the United 
Nations, such as the Independent Investigative Mechanism for 
Myanmar. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION FOR TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE MECHANISMS.— 
The Secretary of State, taking into account any relevant findings 
in the report submitted under section 5941, is authorized to provide 
support for the establishment and operation of transitional justice 
mechanisms, including a hybrid tribunal, to prosecute individuals 
suspected of committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, or 
genocide in Burma. 
PART 5—SANCTIONS EXCEPTION RELATING 
TO IMPORTATION OF GOODS 
SEC. 5579. SANCTIONS EXCEPTION RELATING TO IMPORTATION OF 
GOODS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The authorities and requirements to impose 
sanctions under this subtitle shall not include the authority or 
requirement to impose sanctions on the importation of goods. 
(b) GOOD DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘good’’ means 
any article, natural or man-made substance, material, supply, or 
manufactured product, including inspection and test equipment, 
and excluding technical data.
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Subtitle F—Promotion of Freedom of Infor-
mation and Countering of Censorship 
and Surveillance in North Korea 
SEC. 5580. SHORT TITLE. 
This subtitle may be cited as the ‘‘Otto Warmbier Countering 
North Korean Censorship and Surveillance Act of 2022’’. 
SEC. 5581. FINDINGS; SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) The information landscape in North Korea is the most 
repressive in the world, consistently ranking last or near-last 
in the annual World Press Freedom Index. 
(2) Under the brutal rule of Kim Jung Un, the country’s 
leader since 2012, the North Korean regime has tightened 
controls on access to information, as well as enacted harsh 
punishments for consumers of outside media, including sen-
tencing to time in a concentration camp and a maximum pen-
alty of death. 
(3) Such repressive and unjust laws surrounding informa-
tion in North Korea resulted in the death of 22-year-old United 
States citizen and university student Otto Warmbier, who had 
traveled to North Korea in December 2015 as part of a guided 
tour. 
(4) Otto Warmbier was unjustly arrested, sentenced to 
15 years of hard labor, and severely mistreated at the hands 
of North Korean officials. While in captivity, Otto Warmbier 
suffered a serious medical emergency that placed him into 
a comatose state. Otto Warmbier was comatose upon his release 
in June 2017 and died 6 days later. 
(5) 
Despite 
increased 
penalties 
for 
possession 
and 
viewership of foreign media, the people of North Korean have 
increased their desire for foreign media content, according to 
a survey of 200 defectors concluding that 90 percent had 
watched South Korean or other foreign media before defecting. 
(6) On March 23, 2021, in an annual resolution, the United 
Nations General Assembly condemned ‘‘the long-standing and 
ongoing systematic, widespread and gross violations of human 
rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’’ and 
expressed grave concern at, among other things, ‘‘the denial 
of the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion 
. . . and of the rights to freedom of opinion, expression, and 
association, both online and offline, which is enforced through 
an absolute monopoly on information and total control over 
organized social life, and arbitrary and unlawful state surveil-
lance that permeates the private lives of all citizens’’. 
(7) In 2018, Typhoon Yutu caused extensive damage to 
15 broadcast antennas used by the United States Agency for 
Global Media in Asia, resulting in reduced programming to 
North Korea. The United States Agency for Global Media has 
rebuilt 5 of the 15 antenna systems as of June 2021. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) in the event of a crisis situation, particularly where 
information pertaining to the crisis is being actively censored 
or a false narrative is being put forward, the United States
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should be able to quickly increase its broadcasting capability 
to deliver fact-based information to audiences, including those 
in North Korea; and 
(2) the United States International Broadcasting Surge 
Capacity Fund is already authorized under section 316 of the 
United States International Broadcasting Act of 1994 (22 U.S.C. 
6216), and expanded authority to transfer unobligated balances 
from expired accounts of the United States Agency for Global 
Media would enable the Agency to more nimbly respond to 
crises. 
SEC. 5582. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It is the policy of the United States— 
(1) to provide the people of North Korea with access to 
a diverse range of fact-based information; 
(2) to develop and implement novel means of communica-
tion and information sharing that increase opportunities for 
audiences in North Korea to safely create, access, and share 
digital and non-digital news without fear of repressive censor-
ship, surveillance, or penalties under law; and 
(3) to foster and innovate new technologies to counter North 
Korea’s state-sponsored repressive surveillance and censorship 
by advancing internet freedom tools, technologies, and new 
approaches. 
SEC. 5583. UNITED STATES STRATEGY TO COMBAT NORTH KOREA’S 
REPRESSIVE INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the President shall develop and submit 
to Congress a strategy on combating North Korea’s repressive 
information environment. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The strategy required by subsection (a) shall 
include the following: 
(1) An assessment of the challenges to the free flow of 
information into North Korea created by the censorship and 
surveillance technology apparatus of the Government of North 
Korea. 
(2) A detailed description of the agencies and other govern-
ment entities, key officials, and security services responsible 
for the implementation of North Korea’s repressive laws 
regarding foreign media consumption. 
(3) A detailed description of the agencies and other govern-
ment entities and key officials of foreign governments that 
assist, facilitate, or aid North Korea’s repressive censorship 
and surveillance state. 
(4) A review of existing public-private partnerships that 
provide circumvention technology and an assessment of the 
feasibility and utility of new tools to increase free expression, 
circumvent censorship, and obstruct repressive surveillance in 
North Korea. 
(5) A description of and funding levels required for current 
United States Government programs and activities to provide 
access for the people of North Korea to a diverse range of 
fact-based information. 
(6) An update of the plan required by section 104(a)(7)(A) 
of the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 (22 U.S.C. 
7814(a)(7)(A)).
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(7) A description of Department of State programs and 
funding levels for programs that promote internet freedom in 
North Korea, including monitoring and evaluation efforts. 
(8) A description of grantee programs of the United States 
Agency for Global Media in North Korea that facilitate cir-
cumvention tools and broadcasting, including monitoring and 
evaluation efforts. 
(9) A detailed assessment of how the United States Inter-
national Broadcasting Surge Capacity Fund authorized under 
section 316 of the United States International Broadcasting 
Act of 1994 (22 U.S.C. 6216) has operated to respond to crisis 
situations in the past, and how authority to transfer unobli-
gated balances from expired accounts would help the United 
States Agency for Global Media in crisis situations in the 
future. 
(10) A detailed plan for how the authorization of appropria-
tions under section 5584 will operate alongside and augment 
existing programming from the relevant Federal agencies and 
facilitate the development of new tools to assist that program-
ming. 
(11) A detailed plan for engagement and coordination with 
the Republic of Korea, as appropriate, necessary for imple-
menting the objectives of the strategy required by subsection 
(a), including— 
(A) with regard to any new or expanded activities 
contemplated under paragraphs (9) and (10); and 
(B) any cooperation with or approval from the Govern-
ment of the Republic of Korea required to carry out such 
activities. 
(c) FORM OF STRATEGY.—The strategy required by subsection 
(a) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include the 
matters required by paragraphs (2) and (3) of subsection (b) in 
a classified annex. 
SEC. 5584. PROMOTING FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AND COUNTERING 
CENSORSHIP AND SURVEILLANCE IN NORTH KOREA. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are authorized 
to be appropriated to the United States Agency for Global Media 
an additional $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2024 through 
2027 to provide increased broadcasting and grants for the following 
purposes: 
(1) To promote the development of internet freedom tools, 
technologies, and new approaches, including both digital and 
non-digital means of information sharing related to North 
Korea. 
(2) To explore public-private partnerships to counter North 
Korea’s repressive censorship and surveillance state. 
(3) To develop new means to protect the privacy and 
identity of individuals receiving media from the United States 
Agency for Global Media and other outside media outlets from 
within North Korea. 
(4) To bolster existing programming from the United States 
Agency for Global Media by restoring the broadcasting capacity 
of damaged antennas caused by Typhoon Yutu in 2018. 
(b) ANNUAL REPORTS.—Section 104(a)(7)(B) of the North Korean 
Human Rights Act of 2004 (22 U.S.C. 7814(a)(7)(B)) is amended— 
(1) in the matter preceding clause (i)—
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(A) by striking ‘‘1 year after the date of the enactment 
of this paragraph’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2022’’; 
and 
(B) by striking ‘‘Broadcasting Board of Governors’’ and 
inserting ‘‘Chief Executive Officer of the United States 
Agency for Global Media’’; and 
(2) in clause (i), by inserting after ‘‘this section’’ the fol-
lowing: ‘‘and sections 5583 and 5584 of the Otto Warmbier 
Countering North Korean Censorship and Surveillance Act of 
2022’’. 
Subtitle G—Other Matters 
SEC. 5585. CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION FOR REWARDS PAID USING 
CRYPTOCURRENCIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 36(e)(6) of the State Department 
Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2708(e)(6)) is amended 
by adding at the end the following new sentence: ‘‘Not later than 
15 days before making a reward in a form that includes 
cryptocurrency, the Secretary of State shall notify the Committee 
on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Foreign Relations of the Senate of such form for the 
reward.’’. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and 
the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a report on 
the use of cryptocurrency as a part of the Department of State 
Rewards program established under section 36(a) of the State 
Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2708(a)) that— 
(1) justifies any determination of the Secretary to make 
rewards under such program in a form that includes 
cryptocurrency; 
(2) lists each cryptocurrency payment made under such 
program as of the date of the submission of the report; 
(3) provides evidence of the manner and extent to which 
cryptocurrency payments would be more likely to induce 
whistleblowers to come forward with information than rewards 
paid out in United States dollars or other forms of money 
or nonmonetary items; and 
(4) 
examines 
whether 
the 
Department’s 
use 
of 
cryptocurrency could provide bad actors with additional hard- 
to-trace funds that could be used for criminal or illicit purposes. 
SEC. 5586. SECURE ACCESS TO SANITATION FACILITIES FOR WOMEN 
AND GIRLS. 
Subsection (a) of section 501 of the Foreign Relations Authoriza-
tion Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (22 U.S.C. 2601 note) is 
amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (6) through (11) as para-
graphs (7) through (12), respectively; and 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (5) the following: 
‘‘(6) the provision of safe and secure access to sanitation 
facilities, with a special emphasis on women and children;’’.
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SEC. 5587. REAUTHORIZATION OF THE TROPICAL FOREST AND CORAL 
REEF CONSERVATION ACT OF 1998. 
Section 806(d) of the Tropical Forest and Coral Reef Conserva-
tion Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 2431d(d)) is amended by adding at 
the end the following new paragraphs: 
‘‘(9) $20,000,000 for fiscal year 2023. 
‘‘(10) $20,000,000 for fiscal year 2024. 
‘‘(11) $20,000,000 for fiscal year 2025. 
‘‘(12) $20,000,000 for fiscal year 2026. 
‘‘(13) $20,000,000 for fiscal year 2027.’’. 
SEC. 5588. GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2022. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Section 2 of the Global Food Security Act of 
2016 (22 U.S.C. 9301) is amended by striking ‘‘Congress makes’’ 
and all that follows through ‘‘(3) A comprehensive’’ and inserting 
‘‘Congress finds that a comprehensive’’. 
(b) STATEMENT OF POLICY OBJECTIVES; SENSE OF CONGRESS.— 
Section 3(a) of such Act (22 U.S.C. 9302(a)) is amended— 
(1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘pro-
grams, activities, and initiatives that’’ and inserting ‘‘com-
prehensive, multi-sectoral programs, activities, and initiatives 
that consider agriculture and food systems in their totality 
and that’’. 
(2) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘and economic freedom 
through the coordination’’ and inserting ‘‘, economic freedom, 
and security through the phasing, sequencing, and coordina-
tion’’; 
(3) by striking paragraphs (3) and (4) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(3) increase the productivity, incomes, and livelihoods of 
small-scale producers and artisanal fishing communities, espe-
cially women in these communities, by working across terres-
trial and aquatic food systems and agricultural value chains, 
including by— 
‘‘(A) enhancing local capacity to manage agricultural 
resources and food systems effectively and expanding pro-
ducer access to, and participation in, local, regional, and 
international markets; 
‘‘(B) increasing the availability and affordability of high 
quality nutritious and safe foods and clean water; 
‘‘(C) creating entrepreneurship opportunities and 
improving access to business development related to agri-
culture and food systems, including among youth popu-
lations, linked to local, regional, and international markets; 
and 
‘‘(D) enabling partnerships to facilitate the develop-
ment of and investment in new agricultural technologies 
to support more resilient and productive agricultural prac-
tices; 
‘‘(4) build resilience to agriculture and food systems shocks 
and stresses, including global food catastrophes in which 
conventional methods of agriculture are unable to provide suffi-
cient food and nutrition to sustain the global population, among 
vulnerable populations and households through inclusive 
growth, while reducing reliance upon emergency food and eco-
nomic assistance;’’; 
(4) by amending paragraph (6) to read as follows:
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‘‘(6) improve the nutritional status of women, adolescent 
girls, and children, with a focus on reducing child stunting 
and incidence of wasting, including through the promotion of 
highly nutritious foods, diet diversification, large-scale food for-
tification, and nutritional behaviors that improve maternal and 
child health and nutrition, especially during the first 1,000- 
day window until a child reaches 2 years of age;’’; and 
(5) in paragraph (7)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘science and technology,’’ and inserting 
‘‘combating fragility, resilience, science and technology, nat-
ural resource management’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘, including deworming,’’ after ‘‘nutri-
tion,’’. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—Section 4 of the Global Food Security Act 
of 2016 (22 U.S.C. 9303) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘, including in response 
to shocks and stresses to food and nutrition security’’ before 
the period at the end; 
(2) by redesignating paragraphs (4) through (12) as para-
graphs (5) through (13), respectively; 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following: 
‘‘(4) FOOD
SYSTEM.—The term ‘food system’ means the 
intact or whole unit made up of interrelated components of 
people, behaviors, relationships, and material goods that inter-
act in the production, processing, packaging, transporting, 
trade, marketing, consumption, and use of food, feed, and fiber 
through aquaculture, farming, wild fisheries, forestry, and pas-
toralism that operates within and is influenced by social, polit-
ical, economic, and environmental contexts.’’; 
(4) in paragraph (6), as redesignated, by amending subpara-
graph (H) to read as follows: 
‘‘(H) local agricultural producers, including farmer and 
fisher organizations, cooperatives, small-scale producers, 
youth, and women; and’’; 
(5) in paragraph (7), as redesignated, by inserting ‘‘the 
Inter-American Foundation,’’ after ‘‘United States African 
Development Foundation,’’; 
(6) in paragraph (9), as redesignated— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘agriculture and food’’ before ‘‘sys-
tems’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘, including global food catastrophes,’’ 
after ‘‘food security’’; 
(7) in paragraph (10), as redesignated, by striking ‘‘fishers’’ 
and inserting ‘‘artisanal fishing communities’’; 
(8) in paragraph (11), as redesignated, by amending sub-
paragraphs (D) and (E) to read as follows: 
‘‘(D) is a marker of an environment deficient in the 
various needs that allow for a child’s healthy growth, 
including nutrition; and 
‘‘(E) is associated with long-term poor health, delayed 
motor development, impaired cognitive function, and 
decreased immunity.’’; 
(9) in paragraph (13), as redesignated, by striking ‘‘agri-
culture and nutrition security’’ and inserting ‘‘food and nutrition 
security and agriculture-led economic growth’’; and 
(10) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(14) WASTING.—The term ‘wasting’ means—
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‘‘(A) a life-threatening condition attributable to poor 
nutrient intake or disease that is characterized by a rapid 
deterioration in nutritional status over a short period of 
time; and 
‘‘(B) in the case of children, is characterized by low 
weight for height and weakened immunity, increasing their 
risk of death due to greater frequency and severity of 
common infection, particularly when severe.’’. 
(d) COMPREHENSIVE GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY STRATEGY.—Sec-
tion 5(a) of the Global Food Security Act of 2016 (22 U.S.C. 9304) 
is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘country-owned agri-
culture, nutrition, and food security policy and investment 
plans’’ and inserting ‘‘partner country-led agriculture, nutrition, 
regulatory, food security, and water resources management 
policy and investment plans and governance systems’’; 
(2) by amending paragraph (5) to read as follows: 
‘‘(5) support the locally-led and inclusive development of 
agriculture and food systems, including by enhancing the extent 
to which small-scale food producers, especially women, have 
access to and control over the inputs, skills, resource manage-
ment capacity, networking, bargaining power, financing, market 
linkages, technology, and information needed to sustainably 
increase productivity and incomes, reduce poverty and mal-
nutrition, and promote long-term economic prosperity;’’; 
(3) in paragraph (6)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘, adolescent girls,’’ after ‘‘women’’; 
and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘and preventing incidence of wasting’’ 
after ‘‘reducing child stunting’’; 
(4) in paragraph (7), by inserting ‘‘poor water resource 
management and’’ after ‘‘including’’; 
(5) in paragraph (8)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘the long-term success of programs’’ 
and inserting ‘‘long-term impact’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘, including agricultural research 
capacity,’’ after ‘‘institutions’’; 
(6) in paragraph (9), by striking ‘‘integrate resilience and 
nutrition strategies into food security programs, such that 
chronically vulnerable populations are better able to’’ and 
inserting ‘‘coordinate with and complement relevant strategies 
to ensure that chronically vulnerable populations are better 
able to adapt,’’; 
(7) by redesignating paragraph (17) as paragraph (22); 
(8) by redesignating paragraphs (12) through (16) as para-
graphs (14) through (18), respectively; 
(9) by striking paragraphs (10) and (11) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(10) develop community and producer resilience and 
adaptation strategies to disasters, emergencies, and other 
shocks and stresses to food and nutrition security, including 
conflicts, droughts, flooding, pests, and diseases, that adversely 
impact agricultural yield and livelihoods; 
‘‘(11) harness science, technology, and innovation, including 
the research and extension activities supported by the private 
sector, relevant Federal departments and agencies, Feed the