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(b) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED.—The report re-
quired by subsection (a) shall include— 
(1) an assessment of the effect of sanctions im-
posed on the government of each foreign country 
and each non-state actor that exercises significant de 
facto governmental control over a foreign civilian 
population described in subsection (a) on— 
(A) the ability of civilian population of the 
country to access water, food, sanitation, and 
public health services, including all humani-
tarian aid and supplies related to the preven-
tion, diagnosis, and treatment of COVID–19; 
(B) the changes to the general mortality 
rate, maternal mortality rate, life expectancy, 
and literacy; 
(C) the extent to which there is an increase 
in refugees or migration to or from the country 
or an increase in internally displaced people in 
the country; 
(D) the degree of international compliance 
and non-compliance of the country; and 
(E) the licensing of transactions to allow 
access to essential goods and services to vulner-
able populations, including the number of li-
censes applied for, approved, or denied and rea-
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sons why such licenses were denied, and aver-
age time to receive a decision; and 
(2) a description of the purpose of sanctions 
imposed on the government of each foreign country 
and each non-state actor that exercises significant de 
facto governmental control over a foreign civilian 
population described in subsection (a) and the re-
quired legal or political authority, including— 
(A) an assessment of United States na-
tional security; 
(B) an assessment of whether the stated 
foreign policy goals of the sanctions are being 
met; 
(C) the degree of international support or 
opposition to the sanctions; and 
(D) an assessment of such sanctions on 
United States businesses, consumers, and fi-
nancial institutions. 
(c) FORM.—The report required by subsection (a) 
shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may contain 
a classified annex. The unclassified portion of the report 
shall be published on a publicly-available website of the 
Government of the United States.
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(d) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEES 
DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate con-
gressional committees’’ means— 
(1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 
Committee on Financial Services, and the Com-
mittee on Ways and Means of the House of Rep-
resentatives; and 
(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the 
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Af-
fairs, and the Committee on Finance of the Senate. 
SEC. 6449. COMPTROLLER GENERAL REPORT ON EQUIP-
MENT IN AFGHANISTAN. 
The Comptroller General of the United States shall 
submit to Congress a report accounting for any equipment 
provided by the United States Coast Guard or the Army 
Corps of Engineers to any regime in Afghanistan and that 
has been left behind in Afghanistan. 
SEC. 6450. CHINA ECONOMIC DATA COORDINATION CEN-
TER. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Com-
merce, in coordination with the Secretary of the Treasury, 
shall establish within the Bureau of Economic Analysis of 
the Department of Commerce a China Economic Data Co-
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ordination Center (in this section referred to as the ‘‘Cen-
ter’’). 
(b) DUTIES.—The Center, in coordination with the 
heads of other relevant Federal agencies and the private 
sector, shall collect and synthesize official and unofficial 
Chinese economic data on developments in China’s finan-
cial markets and United States exposure to risks and 
vulnerabilities in China’s financial system, including— 
(1) data on baseline economic statistics such as 
gross domestic product (GDP) and other indicators 
of economic health; 
(2) data on national and local government debt; 
(3) data on nonperforming loan amounts; 
(4) data on the composition of shadow banking 
assets; 
(5) data on the composition of China’s foreign 
exchange reserves; 
(6) data on bank loan interest rates; 
(7) data on United States retirement accounts 
tied to Chinese investments; 
(8) data on China’s exposure to foreign bor-
rowers and flows of official financing for China’s 
Belt and Road Initiatve and other trade-related ini-
tiatives, including data from the Export-Import 
Bank of China, the China Export and Credit Insur-
2920 
ance Corporation (Sinosure), and the China Devel-
opment Bank; 
(9) data on sovereign or near-sovereign loans 
made by China to other countries or guaranteed by 
sovereign entities; and 
(10) data on Chinese domestic retirement ac-
counts and investments. 
(c) BRIEFINGS.—The Center shall provide to the ap-
propriate congressional committees and the private sector 
on a biannual basis briefings on implementation of the du-
ties of the Center. 
(d) REPORTS AND PUBLIC UPDATES.— 
(1) INITIAL REPORT.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Bu-
reau of Economic Analysis of the Department of 
Commerce shall submit to the appropriate congres-
sional committees a report that— 
(A) describes the current capabilities of the 
Center; and 
(B) describes the estimated resources, 
staffing, and funding needed for the Center to 
operate, including the estimated resources, 
staffing, and funding needed for the Center to 
operate at increased capacity. 
(2) ONGOING REPORTS.—
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(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days 
after the date of the establishment of the Cen-
ter under subsection (a), and on a quarterly 
basis thereafter, the Center shall submit to the 
appropriate congressional committees a report 
in writing on implementation of the duties of 
the Center. 
(B) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED.—The re-
port required by this subsection shall include— 
(i) key findings, data, the research 
and development activities of the affiliates 
of United States multinational enterprises 
operating in China, and a description of 
the implications of such activities for 
United States production, employment, 
and the economy; and 
(ii) a description of United States in-
dustry interactions with Chinese state- 
owned enterprises and other state-affiliated 
entities and inbound Chinese investments. 
(3) PUBLIC UPDATES.—The Center shall pro-
vide to the public on a monthly basis updates on im-
plementation of the duties of the Center. 
(e) RECOMMENDATIONS
AND
STRATEGIES.—The 
Secretary of the Treasury, using data collected and syn-
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thesized by the Center under subsection (b) and in con-
sultation with the Center, shall— 
(1) develop recommendations and strategies for 
ways in which the United States can respond to po-
tential risks and exposures within China’s financial 
system; and 
(2) not later than 90 days after the date of the 
establishment of the Center under subsection (a), 
submit to the appropriate congressional committees 
a report that contains such recommendations and 
strategies. 
(f) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate congres-
sional committees’’ means— 
(1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 
Committee on Financial Services, and the Com-
mittee on Energy and Commerce of the House of 
Representatives; and 
(2) Committee on Foreign Relations, the Com-
mittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, 
and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
Transportation of the Senate. 
SEC. 6451. FLIGHT INSTRUCTION OR TESTING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—An authorized flight instructor 
providing student instruction, flight instruction, or flight
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training shall not be deemed to be operating an aircraft 
carrying persons or property for compensation or hire. 
(b) AUTHORIZED ADDITIONAL PILOTS.—An indi-
vidual acting as an authorized additional pilot during 
Phase I flight testing of aircraft holding an experimental 
airworthiness certificate, in accordance with section 
21.191 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, and meet-
ing the requirements set forth in Federal Aviation Admin-
istration regulations and policy in effect as of the date 
of enactment of this section, shall not be deemed to be 
operating an aircraft carrying persons or property for 
compensation or hire. 
(c) USE
OF AIRCRAFT.—An individual who uses, 
causes to use, or authorizes to use aircraft for flights con-
ducted under subsection (a) or (b) shall not be deemed 
to be operating an aircraft carrying persons or property 
for compensation or hire. 
(d) REVISION OF RULES.—The requirements of this 
section shall become effective upon the date of enactment. 
The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration 
shall issue, revise, or repeal the rules, regulations, guid-
ance, or procedures of the Federal Aviation Administra-
tion to conform to the requirements of this section.
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SEC. 6452. REQUIRED NOTIFICATION AND REPORTS RE-
LATED TO PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS AC-
COUNT. 
(a) CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION.—Not later than 
15 days prior to the obligation of amounts made available 
to provide assistance pursuant to section 551 of the For-
eign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2348), the Sec-
retary of State shall submit to the appropriate congres-
sional committees a notification, in accordance with the 
applicable procedures under section 634A of such Act (22 
U.S.C. 2394–1), that includes, with respect to such assist-
ance, the following: 
(1) An itemized identification of each foreign 
country or entity the capabilities of which the assist-
ance is intended to support. 
(2) An identification of the amount, type, and 
purpose of assistance to be provided to each such 
country or entity. 
(3) An assessment of the capacity of each such 
country or entity to effectively implement, benefit 
from, or use the assistance to be provided for the in-
tended purpose identified under paragraph (2). 
(4) A description of plans to encourage and 
monitor adherence to international human rights 
and humanitarian law by the foreign country or enti-
ty receiving the assistance.
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(5) An identification of any implementers, in-
cluding third party contractors or other such enti-
ties, and the anticipated timeline for implementing 
any activities to carry out the assistance. 
(6) As applicable, a description of plans to sus-
tain and account for any military or security equip-
ment and subsistence funds provided as an element 
of the assistance beyond the date of completion of 
such activities, including the estimated cost and 
source of funds to support such sustainment. 
(7) An assessment of how such activities pro-
mote the following: 
(A) The diplomatic and national security 
objectives of the United States. 
(B) The objectives and regional strategy of 
the country or entity receiving the assistance. 
(C) The priorities of the United States re-
garding the promotion of good governance, rule 
of law, the protection of civilians, and human 
rights. 
(D) The peacekeeping capabilities of part-
ner countries of the country or entity receiving 
the assistance, including an explanation if such 
activities do not support peacekeeping.
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(8) An assessment of the possible impact of 
such activities on local political and social dynamics, 
including a description of any consultations with 
local civil society. 
(b) REPORTS ON PROGRAMS UNDER PEACEKEEPING 
OPERATIONS ACCOUNT.— 
(1) ANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than 90 days 
after the enactment of this Act, and annually there-
after for 5 years, the Secretary of State shall submit 
to the appropriate congressional committees a report 
on any security assistance made available, during 
the three fiscal years preceding the date on which 
the report is submitted, to foreign countries that re-
ceived assistance authorized under section 551 of the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2348) 
for any of the following purposes: 
(A) Building the capacity of the foreign 
military, border security, or law enforcement 
entities, of the country. 
(B) Strengthening the rule of law of the 
country. 
(C) Countering violent extremist ideology 
or recruitment within the country. 
(2) MATTERS.—Each report under paragraph 
(1) shall include, with respect to each foreign coun-
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try that has received assistance as specified in such 
paragraph, the following: 
(A) An identification of the authority used 
to provide such assistance and a detailed de-
scription of the purpose of assistance provided. 
(B) An identification of the amount of 
such assistance and the program under which 
such assistance was provided. 
(C) A description of the arrangements to 
sustain any equipment provided to the country 
as an element of such assistance beyond the 
date of completion of the assistance, including 
the estimated cost and source of funds to sup-
port such sustainment. 
(D) An assessment of the impact of such 
assistance on the peacekeeping capabilities and 
security situation of the country, including with 
respect to the levels of conflict and violence, the 
local, political, and social dynamics, and the 
human rights record, of the country. 
(c) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate congres-
sional committees’’ means—
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(1) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 
House of Representatives; and 
(2) the Committees on Appropriations of the 
Senate and of the House of Representatives. 
SEC. 6453. NATIONAL BIODEFENSE SCIENCE AND TECH-
NOLOGY STRATEGY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services, in coordination with the Secretary of Ag-
riculture, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of 
Homeland Security, shall develop an annex to the National 
Biodefense Strategy under section 1086 of the National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (6. 
U.S.C. 104) for a national biodefense science and tech-
nology strategy and implementation plan. 
(b) REQUIREMENTS.—The annex required by sub-
section (a) shall— 
(1) include a mission, goals, and objectives for 
public and private sector development, procurement, 
acquisition, and deployment of innovative tech-
nologies to address and eliminate biological threats; 
(2) be informed by an evaluation of science and 
technology successes and failures in addressing the 
2019 novel coronavirus (COVID–19) pandemic;
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(3) address coordination of Federal efforts; 
(4) address contributions from academia, indus-
try, and nongovernmental organizations; and 
(5) be accompanied by an implementation plan 
that clearly defines Federal department and agency 
roles and responsibilities, and includes timeframes 
for execution. 
(c) CLASSIFIED APPENDIX.—The annex required by 
subsection (a) may include a classified appendix. 
(d) SUBMISSION.—Upon completion of the annex re-
quired by subsection (a), the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services shall submit the annex to— 
(1) the Committee on Armed Services, the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce, the Com-
mittee on Agriculture, the Committee on Homeland 
Security, the Committee on Science, Space, and 
Technology, and the Committee on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives; and 
(2) the Committee on Armed Services, the 
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pen-
sions, the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and 
Forestry, the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs, the Committee on Commerce, 
Science, and Transportation, and the Committee on 
Appropriations of the Senate.
2930 
SEC. 6454. TICK IDENTIFICATION PILOT PROGRAM. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of Health and 
Human Services, acting through the Director of the Cen-
ters for Disease Control and Prevention, may award 
grants to States to implement a tick identification pro-
gram. 
(b) PRIORITY.—In awarding grants under this sec-
tion, the Secretary shall give priority to States that— 
(1) have more reported cases of Lyme disease; 
and 
(2) submit an effective plan for implementation 
and maintenance of a tick identification program. 
(c) PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.—Any program fund-
ed under this section shall— 
(1) allow individuals to submit electronically 
photo images of ticks encountered; 
(2) require images of ticks to be submitted with 
the likely geographic location where the ticks were 
encountered, the date on which the ticks were en-
countered, and the likely physical location where the 
ticks were found (for example, on a pet, on a 
human, or loose); 
(3) after review by a qualified professional, re-
spond to the individual directly within 72 hours of 
the image being received with—
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(A) if possible, identification of the species 
and life stage of the tick; 
(B) if possible, an estimate of the risk that 
the tick carried a tick-borne disease; 
(C) a recommendation of the best practices 
for the individual who encountered the tick, in-
cluding with respect to seeking medical evalua-
tion and submitting the tick for testing; and 
(D) additional education on best methods 
to avoid ticks and prevent contagion of tick- 
borne illnesses; and 
(4) maintain a database of reported tick inci-
dents, including— 
(A) the date, geographic location, and envi-
ronment of the encounter; 
(B) any identifying information about the 
tick that was determined; and 
(C) best practices that were disseminated 
to each reporting individual. 
(d) APPLICATION.—To seek a grant under this sec-
tion, a State shall submit an application at such time, in 
such form, and containing such information as the Sec-
retary may prescribe. 
(e) DATA COLLECTION; REPORT.—
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(1) DATA
COLLECTION.—The Secretary shall 
collect, with respect to each State program funded 
under this section and each fiscal year, the following 
data: 
(A) The number of tick incidents reported. 
(B) For each incident reported— 
(i) the date, geographic location, and 
environment of the encounter; 
(ii) any identifying information about 
the tick that was determined; and 
(iii) best practices that were dissemi-
nated to each reporting individual. 
(2) REPORT.—Not later than 90 days after the 
first day of each of fiscal years 2022 through 2025, 
the Secretary shall prepare and submit to the Con-
gress a report on the data collected under paragraph 
(1). 
(f) DEFINITION.—In this Act: 
(1) The term ‘‘qualified professional’’ means a 
biologist with a background in vector biology. 
(2) The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary 
of Health and Human Services, acting through the 
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-
vention.
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SEC. 6455. PREVENTING SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN PUBLIC 
HOUSING. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be cited as the 
‘‘Preventing Sexual Harassment in Public Housing Act of 
2021’’. 
(b) REQUIREMENT
TO ANNUALLY REPORT COM-
PLAINTS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT.— 
(1) ANNUAL REPORT.—Section 808(e)(2) of the 
Fair Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 3608(e)(2)) is amend-
ed— 
(A) in subparagraph (A) by striking ‘‘and’’ 
at the end; 
(B) in subparagraph (B)(iii) by striking 
the semicolon and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by inserting after subparagraph (B) 
the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(C) containing tabulations of the number 
of instances in the preceding year in which 
complaints of discriminatory housing practices 
were filed with the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development or a fair housing assistance 
program, including identification of whether 
each complaint was filed with respect to dis-
crimination based on race, color, religion, na-
tional origin, sex, handicap, or familial status.’’.
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(2) SEXUAL HARASSMENT.—Section 808 of the 
Fair Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 3608) is amended by 
adding at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(g) In carrying out the reporting obligations under 
this section, the Secretary shall— 
‘‘(1) consider a complaint filed with respect to 
discrimination based on sex to include any complaint 
filed with respect to sexual harassment; and 
‘‘(2) in reporting the instances of a complaint 
filed with respect to discrimination based on sex 
under subsection (e)(2)(C), include a disaggregated 
tabulation of the total number of such complaints 
filed with respect to sexual harassment.’’. 
(3) INITIATIVE TO COMBAT SEXUAL HARASS-
MENT IN HOUSING.—Title IX of the Fair Housing 
Act (42 U.S.C. 3631) is amended by adding at the 
end the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 902. INITIATIVE TO COMBAT SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN 
HOUSING. 
‘‘The Attorney General shall establish an initiative to 
investigate and prosecute an allegation of a violation 
under this Act with respect to sexual harassment.’’.
2935 
SEC. 6456. SEMICONDUCTOR PRODUCTION INCENTIVE EX-
PANSION. 
(a) 
ADDITIONAL
COVERED
ENTITIES.—Section 
9901(2) of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National De-
fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 
116-283) is amended by striking ‘‘relating to fabrication’’ 
and all that follows and inserting the following: ‘‘relating 
to— 
‘‘(1) fabrication, assembly, testing, ad-
vanced packaging, or research and development 
of semiconductors; or 
‘‘(2) manufacturing, production, or re-
search and development of semiconductor man-
ufacturing equipment and materials.’’. 
(b) 
PROGRAM
SCOPE
EXPANSION.—Section 
9902(a)(1) of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public 
Law 116-283) is amended by striking ‘‘the United States 
for’’ and all that follows and inserting the following: ‘‘the 
United States for— 
‘‘(1) semiconductor fabrication, assembly, 
testing, advanced packaging, or research and 
development; and 
‘‘(2) the manufacturing, production, or re-
search and development of semiconductor man-
ufacturing equipment and materials.’’.
2936 
SEC. 6457. SEMICONDUCTOR PRODUCTION INCENTIVE EX-
PANSION. 
Section 9902(a)(1) of the William M. (Mac) Thorn-
berry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2021 (Public Law 116-283) is amended by striking ‘‘the 
United States for’’ and all that follows and inserting the 
following: ‘‘the United States for— 
‘‘(1) semiconductor fabrication, assembly, 
testing, advanced packaging, or research and 
development; and 
‘‘(2) the manufacturing, production, or re-
search and development of semiconductor man-
ufacturing equipment and materials.’’. 
SEC. 6458. AUTHORITY FOR SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND 
HUMAN 
SERVICES 
TO 
ACCEPT 
UNUSED 
COVID–19 VACCINES FOR POTENTIAL REDIS-
TRIBUTION. 
The Secretary of Health and Human Services may 
accept, as the Secretary determines appropriate and prac-
ticable, the return of an unused COVID–19 vaccine from 
a Federal agency, State, or other entity, for potential re-
distribution, including distribution to a foreign ally or 
partner.
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SEC. 6459. PILOT PROGRAM TO EMPLOY VETERANS IN PO-
SITIONS RELATING TO CONSERVATION AND 
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs and the Secretaries concerned shall jointly estab-
lish a pilot program under which veterans are employed 
by the Federal Government in positions that relate to the 
conservation and resource management activities of the 
Department of the Interior and the Department of Agri-
culture. 
(b) ADMINISTRATION.—The Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs shall administer the pilot program under sub-
section (a). 
(c) POSITIONS.—The Secretaries concerned shall— 
(1) identify vacant positions in the respective 
Departments of the Secretaries that are appropriate 
to fill using the pilot program under subsection (a); 
and 
(2) to the extent practicable, fill such positions 
using the pilot program. 
(d) APPLICATION OF CIVIL SERVICE LAWS.—A vet-
eran employed under the pilot program under subsection 
(a) shall be treated as an employee as defined by section 
2105 of title 5, United States Code. 
(e) BEST PRACTICES FOR OTHER DEPARTMENTS.— 
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall establish guide-
2938 
lines containing best practices for departments and agen-
cies of the Federal Government that carry out programs 
to employ veterans who are transitioning from service in 
the Armed Forces. Such guidelines shall include— 
(1) lessons learned under the Warrior Training 
Advancement Course of the Department of Veterans 
Affairs; and 
(2) methods to realize cost savings based on 
such lessons learned. 
(f) PARTNERSHIP.—The Secretary of Veterans Af-
fairs, the Secretaries concerned, and the Secretary of De-
fense may enter into a partnership to include the pilot pro-
gram under subsection (a) as part of the Skillbridge pro-
gram under section 1143 of title 10, United States Code. 
(g) REPORTS.— 
(1) INITIAL REPORT.—Not later than 60 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of Veterans Affairs and the Secretaries con-
cerned shall jointly submit to the appropriate con-
gressional committees a report on the pilot program 
under subsection (a), including— 
(A) a description of how the pilot program 
will be carried out in a manner to reduce the 
unemployment of veterans; and
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(B) any recommendations for legislative 
actions to improve the pilot program. 
(2) IMPLEMENTATION.—Not later than one 
year after the date on which the pilot program under 
subsection (a) commences, the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs and the Secretaries concerned shall jointly 
submit to the appropriate congressional committees 
a report on the implementation of the pilot program. 
(3) FINAL REPORT.—Not later than 30 days 
after the date on which the pilot program under sub-
section (a) is completed, the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs and the Secretaries concerned shall jointly 
submit to the appropriate congressional committees 
a report on the pilot program that includes the fol-
lowing: 
(A) The number of veterans who applied to 
participate in the pilot program. 
(B) The number of such veterans employed 
under the pilot program. 
(C) The number of veterans identified in 
subparagraph (B) who transitioned to full-time 
positions with the Federal Government after 
participating in the pilot program.
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(D) Any other information the Secretaries 
determine appropriate with respect to meas-
uring the effectiveness of the pilot program. 
(h) DURATION.—The authority to carry out the pilot 
program under subsection (a) shall terminate on the date 
that is two years after the date on which the pilot program 
commences. 
(i) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, 
the Committee on Agriculture, and the Com-
mittee on Natural Resources of the House of 
Representatives; and 
(B) the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, 
the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and 
Forestry, and the Committee on Energy and 
Natural Resources of the Senate. 
(2) The term ‘‘Secretary concerned’’ means— 
(A) the Secretary of Agriculture with re-
spect to matters regarding the National Forest 
System and the Department of Agriculture; and 
(B) the Secretary of the Interior with re-
spect to matters regarding the National Park 
System and the Department of the Interior.
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SEC. 6460. USE OF VETERANS WITH MEDICAL OCCUPA-
TIONS IN RESPONSE TO NATIONAL EMER-
GENCIES. 
(a) UPDATE OF WEB PORTAL TO IDENTIFY VET-
ERANS WHO HAD MEDICAL OCCUPATIONS AS MEMBERS 
OF THE ARMED FORCES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall update 
existing web portals of the Department to allow the 
identification of veterans who had a medical occupa-
tion as a member of the Armed Forces. 
(2) INFORMATION IN PORTAL.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—An update to a portal 
under paragraph (1) shall allow a veteran to 
elect to provide the following information: 
(i) Contact information for the vet-
eran. 
(ii) A history of the medical experi-
ence and trained competencies of the vet-
eran. 
(B) INCLUSIONS IN HISTORY.—To the ex-
tent practicable, histories provided under sub-
paragraph (A)(ii) shall include individual crit-
ical task lists specific to military occupational 
specialties that align with existing standard oc-
cupational codes maintained by the Bureau of 
Labor Statistics.
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(b) PROGRAM ON PROVISION TO STATES OF INFOR-
MATION ON VETERANS WITH MEDICAL SKILLS OBTAINED 
DURING SERVICE IN THE ARMED FORCES.—For purposes 
of facilitating civilian medical credentialing and hiring op-
portunities for veterans seeking to respond to a national 
emergency, including a public health emergency declared 
by the Secretary of Health and Human Services under 
section 319 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
247d), the Secretary, in coordination with the Secretary 
of Defense and the Secretary of Labor, shall establish a 
program to share information specified in section 3(b) 
with the following: 
(1) State departments of veterans affairs. 
(2) Veterans service organizations. 
(3) State credentialing bodies. 
(4) State homes. 
(5) Other stakeholders involved in State-level 
credentialing, as determined appropriate by the Sec-
retary. 
(c) PROGRAM ON TRAINING OF INTERMEDIATE CARE 
TECHNICIANS
OF
DEPARTMENT
OF
VETERANS
AF-
FAIRS.— 
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall im-
plement a program to train covered veterans to work 
as intermediate care technicians of the Department.
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(2) LOCATIONS.—The Secretary may place an 
intermediate care technician trained under the pro-
gram under paragraph (1) at any medical center of 
the Department, giving priority to a location with a 
significant staffing shortage. 
(3) INCLUSION
OF
INFORMATION
IN
TRANSI-
TION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.—As part of the Transi-
tion Assistance Program under sections 1142 and 
1144 of title 10, United States Code, the Secretary 
shall prepare a communications campaign to convey 
opportunities for training, certification, and employ-
ment under the program under paragraph (1) to ap-
propriate members of the Armed Forces separating 
from active duty. 
(4) REPORT ON EXPANSION OF PROGRAM.—Not 
later than 180 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to Congress 
a report on whether the program under this section 
could be replicated for other medical positions within 
the Department. 
(5) COVERED VETERAN DEFINED.—In this sub-
section, the term ‘‘covered veteran’’ means a veteran 
whom the Secretary determines served as a basic 
health care technician while serving in the Armed 
Forces.
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(d) NOTIFICATION
OF OPPORTUNITIES
FOR VET-
ERANS.—The Secretary shall notify veterans service orga-
nizations and, in coordination with the Secretary of De-
fense, members of the reserve components of the Armed 
Forces of opportunities for veterans under this section. 
(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) DEPARTMENT; SECRETARY; VETERAN.—The 
terms ‘‘Department’’, ‘‘Secretary’’, ‘‘State home’’, 
and ‘‘veteran’’ have the meanings given those terms 
in section 101 of title 38, United States Code. 
(2) VETERANS
SERVICE
ORGANIZATION.—The 
term ‘‘veterans service organization’’ means an orga-
nization that provides services to veterans, including 
organizations recognized by the Secretary of Vet-
erans Affairs under section 5902 of title 38, United 
States Code. 
SEC. 6461. CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY SECURITY CENTERS. 
(a) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY SECURITY CENTERS.— 
Title III of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 
181 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following 
new section: 
‘‘SEC. 322. CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY SECURITY CENTERS. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this section, the Sec-
retary, acting through the Under Secretary for Science
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and Technology, and in coordination with the Director of 
the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, 
shall award grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements 
to covered entities for the establishment of not fewer than 
four cybersecurity-focused Critical Technology Security 
Centers to evaluate and test the security of devices and 
technologies that underpin national critical functions. 
‘‘(b) INITIAL CENTERS.—With respect to the critical 
technology security centers referred to in subsection (a), 
four of such centers shall be as follows: 
‘‘(1) The Center for Network Technology Secu-
rity, to study the security of information and com-
munications technology that underpins national crit-
ical functions related to communications. 
‘‘(2) The Center for Connected Industrial Con-
trol System Security, to study the security of con-
nected programmable data logic controllers, super-
visory control and data acquisition servers, and 
other networked industrial equipment. 
‘‘(3) The Center for Open Source Software Se-
curity, to study vulnerabilities in open source soft-
ware used to support national critical functions. 
‘‘(4) The Center for Federal Critical Software 
Security, to study the security of software used by 
the Federal Government that performs functions
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critical to trust (such as affording or requiring ele-
vated system privileges or direct access to net-
working and computing resources). 
‘‘(c) ADDITIONAL CENTERS.—The Under Secretary 
may, in coordination with the Director, award grants con-
tracts, or cooperative agreements to covered entities for 
the establishment of additional critical technology security 
centers to address technologies vital to national critical 
functions. 
‘‘(d) SELECTION OF CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES.—Be-
fore awarding a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement 
to a covered entity to establish a critical technology secu-
rity center, the Under Secretary shall consult with the Di-
rector, who shall provide the Under Secretary with a list 
of technologies within the remit of the center that support 
national critical functions. 
‘‘(e) RESPONSIBILITIES.—In studying the security of 
technologies within its remit, each center shall have the 
following responsibilities: 
‘‘(1) Conducting rigorous security testing to 
identify vulnerabilities in such technologies. 
‘‘(2) Reporting new vulnerabilities found and 
the tools, techniques, and practices used to uncover 
them to the developers of such technologies in ques-
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tion and to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Se-
curity Agency. 
‘‘(3) With respect to such technologies, devel-
oping new capabilities for vulnerability discovery, 
management, and mitigation. 
‘‘(4) Assessing the security of software essential 
to national critical functions. 
‘‘(5) Supporting existing communities of inter-
est, including by granting funds, in remediating 
vulnerabilities discovered within such technologies. 
‘‘(6) Utilizing findings to inform and support 
the future work of the Cybersecurity and Infrastruc-
ture Security Agency. 
‘‘(f) APPLICATION.—To be eligible to be designed as 
a critical technology security center pursuant to subsection 
(a), a covered entity shall submit to the Secretary an ap-
plication at such time, in such manner, and including such 
information as the Secretary may require. 
‘‘(g) BIANNUAL REPORTS.—Not later than one year 
after the date of the enactment of this section and every 
two years thereafter, the Under Secretary shall submit to 
the appropriate congressional committees a report that in-
cludes, with respect to each critical technology security 
center—
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‘‘(1) a summary of the work performed by each 
such center; 
‘‘(2) information relating to the allocation of 
Federal funds at each such center; 
‘‘(3) a description of each vulnerability identi-
fied, including information relating to the cor-
responding software weakness; 
‘‘(4) an assessment of the criticality of each 
vulnerability identified pursuant to paragraph (3); 
‘‘(5) a list of critical technologies studied by 
each center, including an explanation by the Under 
Secretary for any deviations from the list of tech-
nologies provided by the Director before the distribu-
tion of funding to the center; and 
‘‘(6) a list of tools, techniques, and procedures 
used by each such center. 
‘‘(h) CONSULTATION WITH RELEVANT AGENCIES.— 
In carrying out this section, the Under Secretary shall 
consult with the heads of other Federal agencies con-
ducting cybersecurity research, to include the following: 
‘‘(1) The National Institute of Standards and 
Technology. 
‘‘(2) The National Science Foundation. 
‘‘(3) Relevant agencies within the Department 
of Energy.
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‘‘(4) Relevant agencies within the Department 
of Defense. 
‘‘(i) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this sec-
tion— 
‘‘(1) $40,000,000 for fiscal year 2022; 
‘‘(2) $42,000,000 for fiscal year 2023; 
‘‘(3) $44,000,000 for fiscal year 2024; 
‘‘(4) $46,000,000 for fiscal year 2025; and 
‘‘(5) $49,000,000 for fiscal year 2026. 
‘‘(j) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) The term ‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’ means— 
‘‘(A) the Committee on Homeland Security 
of the House of Representatives; and 
‘‘(B) the Committee on Homeland Security 
and Governmental Affairs of the Senate. 
‘‘(2) The term ‘covered entity’ means a univer-
sity, federally funded research and development cen-
ter, including national laboratories, or consortia 
thereof. 
‘‘(3) The term ‘critical technology’ means tech-
nology relating to a national critical function. 
‘‘(4) The term ‘‘open source software’’ means 
software for which the human-readable source code
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is freely available for use, study, re-use, modifica-
tion, enhancement, and redistribution by the users 
of such software.’’. 
(b) IDENTIFICATION OF CERTAIN TECHNOLOGY.— 
Paragraph (1) of section 2202(e) of the Homeland Secu-
rity Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 603(e)) is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(S) To identify the technologies within 
the remits of the Critical Technology Security 
centers as described in section 322 that are 
vital to national critical functions.’’. 
(c) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
in section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is 
amended by inserting after the item relating to section 
321 the following new item: 
‘‘Sec. 322. Critical Technology Security Centers.’’. 
SEC. 6462. PILOT PROGRAM ON DOULA SUPPORT FOR VET-
ERANS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) There are approximately 2,300,000 women 
within the veteran population in the United States. 
(2) The number of women veterans using serv-
ices from the Veterans Health Administration has 
increased by 28.8 percent from 423,642 in 2014 to 
545,670 in 2019.
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(3) During the period of 2010 through 2015, 
the use of maternity services from the Veterans 
Health Administration increased by 44 percent. 
(4) Although prenatal care and delivery is not 
provided in facilities of the Department of Veterans 
Affairs, pregnant women seek care from the Depart-
ment for other conditions may also need emergency 
care and require coordination of services through the 
Veterans Community Care Program under section 
1703 of title 38, United States Code. 
(5) The number of unique women veteran pa-
tients with an obstetric delivery paid for by the De-
partment increased by 1,778 percent from 200 deliv-
eries in 2000 to 3,756 deliveries in 2015. 
(6) The number of women age 35 years or older 
with an obstetric delivery paid for by the Depart-
ment increased 16-fold from fiscal year 2000 to fis-
cal year 2015. 
(7) A study in 2010 found that veterans return-
ing from Operation Enduring Freedom and Oper-
ation Iraqi Freedom who experienced pregnancy 
were twice as likely to have a diagnosis of depres-
sion, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, bipolar 
disorder, or schizophrenia as those who had not ex-
perienced a pregnancy.
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(8) The number of women veterans of reproduc-
tive age seeking care from the Veterans Health Ad-
ministration continues to grow (more than 185,000 
as of fiscal year 2015). 
(b) PROGRAM.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than one year 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of Veterans Affairs shall establish a pilot pro-
gram to furnish doula services to covered veterans 
through eligible entities by expanding the Whole 
Health model of the Department of Veterans Af-
fairs, or successor model, to measure the impact 
that doula support services have on birth and mental 
health outcomes of pregnant veterans (in this section 
referred to as the ‘‘pilot program’’). 
(2) CONSIDERATION.—In carrying out the pilot 
program, the Secretary shall consider all types of 
doulas, including traditional and community-based 
doulas. 
(3) CONSULTATION.—In designing and imple-
menting the pilot program the Secretary shall con-
sult with stakeholders, including— 
(A) organizations representing veterans, 
including veterans that are disproportionately 
impacted by poor maternal health outcomes;
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(B) community-based health care profes-
sionals, including doulas, and other stake-
holders; and 
(C) experts in promoting health equity and 
combating racial bias in health care settings. 
(4) GOALS.—The goals of the pilot program are 
the following: 
(A) To improve— 
(i) maternal, mental health, and in-
fant care outcomes; 
(ii) integration of doula support serv-
ices into the Whole Health model of the 
Department, or successor model; and 
(iii) the experience of women receiving 
maternity care from the Department, in-
cluding by increasing the ability of a 
woman to develop and follow her own 
birthing plan. 
(B) To reengage veterans with the Depart-
ment after giving birth. 
(c) LOCATIONS.—The Secretary shall carry out the 
pilot program in— 
(1) the three Veterans Integrated Service Net-
works of the Department that have the highest per-
centage of female veterans enrolled in the patient
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enrollment system of the Department established 
and operated under section 1705(a) of title 38, 
United States Code, compared to the total number 
of enrolled veterans in such Network; and 
(2) the three Veterans Integrated Service Net-
works that have the lowest percentage of female vet-
erans enrolled in the patient enrollment system com-
pared to the total number of enrolled veterans in 
such Network. 
(d) OPEN
PARTICIPATION.—The Secretary shall 
allow any eligible entity or covered veteran interested in 
participating in the pilot program to participate in the 
pilot program. 
(e) SERVICES PROVIDED.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Under the pilot program, a 
covered veteran shall receive not more than 10 ses-
sions of care from a doula under the Whole Health 
model of the Department, or successor model, under 
which a doula works as an advocate for the veteran 
alongside the medical team for the veteran. 
(2) SESSIONS.—Sessions covered under para-
graph (1) shall be as follows: 
(A) Three or four sessions before labor and 
delivery. 
(B) One session during labor and delivery.
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(C) Three or four sessions after post- 
partum, which may be conducted via the mobile 
application for VA Video Connect. 
(f) ADMINISTRATION OF PILOT PROGRAM.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Office of Women’s 
Health of the Department of Veterans Affairs, or 
successor office, shall— 
(A) coordinate services and activities under 
the pilot program; 
(B) oversee the administration of the pilot 
program; and 
(C) conduct onsite assessments of medical 
facilities of the Department that are partici-
pating in the pilot program. 
(2) 
GUIDELINES
FOR
VETERAN-SPECIFIC 
CARE.—The Office shall establish guidelines under 
the pilot program for training doulas on military 
sexual trauma and post traumatic stress disorder. 
(3) AMOUNTS FOR CARE.—The Office may rec-
ommend to the Secretary appropriate payment 
amounts for care and services provided under the 
pilot program, which shall not exceed $3,500 per 
doula per veteran. 
(g) DOULA SERVICE COORDINATOR.—
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(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, in consulta-
tion with the Office of Women’s Health, or successor 
office, shall establish a Doula Service Coordinator 
within the functions of the Maternity Care Coordi-
nator at each medical facility of the Department 
that is participating in the pilot program. 
(2) DUTIES.—A Doula Service Coordinator es-
tablished under paragraph (1) at a medical facility 
shall be responsible for— 
(A) working with eligible entities, doulas, 
and covered veterans participating in the pilot 
program; and 
(B) managing payment between eligible en-
tities and the Department under the pilot pro-
gram. 
(3) TRACKING OF INFORMATION.—A doula pro-
viding services under the pilot program shall report 
to the applicable Doula Service Coordinator after 
each session conducted under the pilot program. 
(4) COORDINATION
WITH
WOMEN’S
PROGRAM 
MANAGER.—A Doula Service Coordinator for a med-
ical facility of the Department shall coordinate with 
the women’s program manager for that facility in 
carrying out the duties of the Doula Service Coordi-
nator under the pilot program.
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(h) TERM OF PILOT PROGRAM.—The Secretary shall 
conduct the pilot program for a period of 5 years. 
(i) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary shall 
establish a process to provide technical assistance to eligi-
ble entities and doulas participating in the pilot program. 
(j) REPORT.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than one year 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, and an-
nually thereafter for each year in which the pilot 
program is carried out, the Secretary shall submit to 
the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate 
and the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the 
House of Representatives a report on the pilot pro-
gram. 
(2) FINAL REPORT.—As part of the final report 
submitted under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall 
include recommendations on whether the model 
studied in the pilot program should be continued or 
more widely adopted by the Department. 
(k) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary, for 
each of fiscal years 2022 through 2027, such sums as may 
be necessary to carry out this section. 
(l) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
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(1) The term ‘‘covered veteran’’ means a preg-
nant veteran or a formerly pregnant veteran (with 
respect to sessions post-partum) who is enrolled in 
the patient enrollment system of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs under section 1705 of title 38, 
United States Code. 
(2) The term ‘‘eligible entity’’ means an entity 
that provides medically accurate, comprehensive ma-
ternity services to covered veterans under the laws 
administered by the Secretary, including under the 
Veterans Community Care Program under section 
1703 of title 38, United States Code. 
(3) The term ‘‘VA Video Connect’’ means the 
program of the Department of Veterans Affairs to 
connect veterans with their health care team from 
anywhere, using encryption to ensure a secure and 
private session. 
SEC. 6463. ESTABLISHMENT OF AFGHAN THREAT FINANCE 
CELL. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 90 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall 
establish an interagency organization to be known as the 
‘‘Afghan Threat Finance Cell’’. 
(b) MISSION.—The mission of the Afghan Threat Fi-
nance Cell shall be to identify, disrupt, and eliminate illicit
2959 
financial networks in Afghanistan, particularly such net-
works involved in narcotics trafficking, illicit financial 
transactions, official corruption, and terrorist networks. 
(c) ORGANIZATION.— 
(1) MEMBERSHIP.—The Afghan Threat Fi-
nance Cell shall consist of representatives from ele-
ments of the United States Government as follows: 
(A) The Department of the Treasury. 
(B) The Drug Enforcement Administra-
tion. 
(C) The Department of State. 
(D) The Department of Defense. 
(E) The Federal Bureau of Investigation. 
(F) The Internal Revenue Service. 
(G) The Department of Homeland Secu-
rity. 
(H) The Defense Intelligence Agency. 
(I) The Office of Foreign Assets Control of 
the Department of the Treasury. 
(J) The Central Intelligence Agency. 
(K) Any other law enforcement agency or 
element of the intelligence community that the 
Secretary of the Treasury, the Administrator of 
the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the
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Secretary of Defense jointly determine appro-
priate. 
(2) LEAD AGENCIES.—The Department of the 
Treasury shall serve as the lead agency of the Af-
ghan Threat Finance Cell. The Drug Enforcement 
Administration and the Department of Defense shall 
serve as the co-deputy lead agencies of the Afghan 
Threat Finance Cell. 
(d) COORDINATION.—The Afghan Threat Finance 
Cell shall regularly coordinate and consult with regional 
Financial Intelligence Units, the international Financial 
Action Task Force, and the Special Inspector General for 
Afghanistan Reconstruction. 
(e) BRIEFINGS.— 
(1) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than one year 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, and an-
nually thereafter, the Afghan Threat Finance Cell 
shall provide to the appropriate congressional com-
mittees a briefing on the activities of the Afghan 
Threat Finance Cell. 
(2) MATTERS INCLUDED.—Each briefing under 
paragraph (1) shall include the following: 
(A) An assessment of the activities under-
taken by, and the effectiveness of, the Afghan 
Threat Finance Cell in identifying, disrupting,
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eliminating illicit financial networks in Afghani-
stan, particularly such networks involved in 
narcotics trafficking, illicit financial trans-
actions, official corruption, and terrorist net-
works. 
(B) Any recommendations to Congress re-
garding legislative or regulatory improvements 
necessary to support the identification, disrup-
tion, and elimination of illicit financial networks 
in Afghanistan. 
(3) FORM.—A briefing under paragraph (1) 
may be provided in a classified form. 
(4) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES DEFINED.—In this subsection, the term ‘‘ap-
propriate congressional committees’’ means— 
(A) The Committee on Financial Services, 
the Committee on Reform, the Committee on 
the Judiciary, and the Committee on Armed 
Services of the House of Representatives. 
(B) The Committee on Banking, Housing, 
and Urban Affairs, the Committee on Home-
land Security and Governmental Affairs, the 
Committee on the Judiciary, and the Com-
mittee on Armed Services of the Senate. 
(f) TERMINATION.—
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided by para-
graph (2), the Afghan Threat Finance Cell shall ter-
minate on the date that is three years after the date 
of the enactment of this Act. 
(2) EXTENSION.—The President may extend 
the date under paragraph (1) by an additional two 
years. 
SEC. 6464. DETERMINATION OF POTENTIAL GENOCIDE OR 
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY IN ETHIOPIA. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 60 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, 
after consultation with the heads of other Federal depart-
ments and agencies represented on the Atrocity Early 
Warning Task Force and with representatives of human 
rights organizations, shall submit to the appropriate con-
gressional committees a determination whether actions in 
the Tigray region of Ethiopia by the Ethiopian and Eri-
trean armed forces constitute genocide as defined in sec-
tion 1091 of title 18, United States Code, or crimes 
against humanity. 
(b) FORM.—The determination required under sub-
section (a) shall be submitted in unclassified form and 
published on a publicly available website of the Depart-
ment of State, but may include a classified annex if such
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annex is provided separately from the unclassified deter-
mination. 
(c) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES.— 
For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘appropriate con-
gressional committees’’ means— 
(1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 
Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives; 
and 
(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the 
Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee 
on Appropriations of the Senate. 
SEC. 6465. ATTORNEY GENERAL REPORT ON WAR CRIMES 
AND TORTURE BY UNITED STATES CITIZENS 
IN LIBYA. 
(a) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after receiv-
ing a credible allegation of the commission of a covered 
offense, including from a nongovernmental organization 
that monitors violations of human rights, the Secretary 
of State, in consultation with the Attorney General, shall 
submit to the appropriate congressional committees a re-
port on such allegations, including a determination as to 
whether the Attorney General will review or consider re-
viewing such allegation for potential criminal investiga-
tion, and a description of any challenges to prosecution.
2964 
(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means the Committees on the Judiciary of 
the House of Representatives and of the Senate, the 
Committees on Armed Services of the House of Rep-
resentatives and of the Senate, the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, 
and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Sen-
ate. 
(2) The term ‘‘covered offense’’ means an of-
fense under section 2441, 2442, or 2340A of title 
18, United States Code, committed in Libya by or 
at the order of a United States citizen. 
SEC. 6466. REVIEW OF IMPLEMENTATION OF UNITED 
STATES SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO VIO-
LATORS OF THE ARMS EMBARGO ON LIBYA. 
(a) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit 
to the appropriate congressional committees an unclassi-
fied report that describes whether the President has deter-
mined the persons described in subsection (b) meet the 
criteria for the imposition of sanctions under section 1(a) 
of Executive Order 13726 (81 Fed. Reg. 23559; relating 
to blocking property and suspending entry into the United 
States of persons contributing to the situation in Libya).
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(b) PERSONS.—For purposes of the determination re-
quired under subsection (a), the President shall consider 
all private companies listed for facilitating violations of the 
United Nations arms embargo on Libya in the report of 
the United Nations Panel of Experts entitled ‘‘Letter 
dated 8 March 2021 from the Panel of Experts on Libya 
established pursuant to resolution 1973 (2011) addressed 
to the President of the Security Council’’, including the 
following: 
(1) Maritime vessels, including MV Pray, MV 
Bana, MV Cirkin, MV Gulf Petroleum 4, MV Single 
Eagle, and MV Sunrise Ace. 
(2) Corporate facilitators of arms embargo vio-
lations, including Lancaster 6 DMCC, L-6 FZE, 
and Opus Capital Asset Limited FZE. 
(3) Aircraft operators, including Sovereign 
Charterers Limited, Zet Avia LLC, Sky Avia Trans 
LLC, Panzer Logistics Limited, Deek Aviation FZE, 
Jenis Air LLC, and Space Cargo Incorporated. 
(4) Mercenary recruiters and facilitators, in-
cluding Black Shield Security Services. 
(c) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate congres-
sional committees’’ means—
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(1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the 
Committee on Financial Services of the House of 
Representatives; and 
(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations and 
the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Af-
fairs of the Senate. 
SEC. 6467. PROHIBITION OF FEDERAL FUNDING FOR IN-
DUCED OR REQUIRED UNDERMINING OF SE-
CURITY OF CONSUMER COMMUNICATIONS 
GOODS. 
(a) PROHIBITION.—None of the funds made available 
in this or any other Act may be used by any Federal agen-
cy to require, support, pay, or otherwise induce any pri-
vate sector provider of consumer software and hardware 
to— 
(1) intentionally add any security vulnerability 
or weaken or omit any safeguard in the standards, 
items, or services of the provider; 
(2) remove or omit any information security 
function, mechanism, service, or solution from the 
items or services of the provider; or 
(3) take any action that— 
(A) undermines, circumvents, defeats, by-
passes, or otherwise counteracts the end-to-end
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encryption of the item or service of the pro-
vider; 
(B) prevents an item or service from 
adopting end-to-end encryption; or 
(C) otherwise makes an unencrypted 
version of the end-to-end encrypted content of 
any communication, file, or data of the item or 
service of the provider available to any person 
or entity other than the intended recipients. 
(b) FEDERAL AGENCY DEFINED.—In this section, 
the term ‘‘Federal agency’’ means any executive depart-
ment, military department, Government corporation, Gov-
ernment controlled corporation, or other establishment in 
the executive branch of the Government (including the Ex-
ecutive Office of the President), or any independent regu-
latory agency. 
SEC. 6468. ANNUAL REPORT ON SURVEILLANCE SALES TO 
REPRESSIVE GOVERNMENTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter 
until 2040, the Secretary of State, in coordination with 
the Director of National Intelligence, shall submit to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs and Permanent Select 
Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives 
and the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Select
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Committee on Intelligence of the Senate a report with re-
spect to foreign persons that the Secretary determines— 
(1) have operated, sold, leased, or otherwise 
provided, directly or indirectly, items or services re-
lated to targeted digital surveillance to— 
(A) a foreign government or entity located 
primarily inside a foreign country where a rea-
sonable person would assess that such transfer 
could result in a use of the items or services in 
a manner contrary to human rights; or 
(B) a country including any governmental 
unit thereof, entity, or other person determined 
by the Secretary of State in a notice published 
in the Federal Register to have used items or 
services for targeted digital surveillance in a 
manner contrary to human rights; or 
(2) have materially assisted, sponsored, or pro-
vided financial, material, or technological support 
for, or items or services to or in support of, the ac-
tivities described in paragraph (1). 
(b) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED.—The report re-
quired by subsection (a) shall include the following: 
(1) The name of each foreign person that the 
Secretary determines meets the requirements of sub-
section (a)(1) or (a)(2).
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(2) The name of each intended and actual re-
cipient of items or services described in subsection 
(a). 
(3) A detailed description of such items or serv-
ices. 
(4) An analysis of the appropriateness of in-
cluding the persons listed in (b)(1) on the entity list 
maintained by the Bureau of Industry and Security. 
(c) CONSULTATION.—In compiling data and making 
assessments for the purposes of preparing the report re-
quired by subsection (a), the Secretary of State shall con-
sult with a wide range of organizations, including with re-
spect to— 
(1) classified and unclassified information pro-
vided by the Director of National Intelligence; 
(2) information provided by the Bureau of De-
mocracy, Human Rights, and Labor’s Internet Free-
dom, Business and Human Rights section; 
(3) information provided by the Department of 
Commerce, including the Bureau of Industry and 
Security; 
(4) information provided by the advisory com-
mittees established by the Secretary to advise the 
Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Se-
curity on controls under the Export Administration
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Regulations, including the Emerging Technology and 
Research Advisory Committee; and 
(5) information on human rights and tech-
nology matters, as solicited from civil society and 
human rights organizations through regular consult-
ative processes; and 
(6) information contained in the Country Re-
ports on Human Rights Practices published annually 
by the Department of State. 
(d) FORM AND PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF REPORT.— 
The report required by subsection (a) shall be submitted 
in unclassified form. The report shall be posted by the 
President not later than 14 days after being submitted 
to Congress on a text-based, searchable, and publicly avail-
able internet website. 
(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) TARGETED DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE.—The 
term ‘‘targeted digital surveillance’’ means the use 
of items or services that enable an individual or enti-
ty to detect, monitor, intercept, collect, exploit, pre-
serve, protect, transmit, retain, or otherwise gain ac-
cess to the communications, protected information, 
work product, browsing data, research, identifying 
information, location history, or online and offline 
activities of other individuals, organizations, or enti-
2971 
ties, with or without the explicit authorization of 
such individuals, organizations, or entities. 
(2) FOREIGN PERSON.—The term ‘‘foreign per-
son’’ means an individual or entity that is not a 
United States person. 
(3) IN
A
MANNER
CONTRARY
TO
HUMAN 
RIGHTS.—The term ‘‘in a manner contrary to 
human rights’’, with respect to targeted digital sur-
veillance, means engaging in targeted digital surveil-
lance— 
(A) in violation of basic human rights, in-
cluding to silence dissent, sanction criticism, 
punish independent reporting (and sources for 
that reporting), manipulate or interfere with 
democratic or electoral processes, persecute mi-
norities or vulnerable groups, or target advo-
cates or practitioners of human rights and 
democratic rights (including activists, journal-
ists, artists, minority communities, or opposi-
tion politicians); or 
(B) in a country in which there is lacking 
a minimum legal framework governing its use, 
including established—
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(i) authorization under laws that are 
accessible, precise, and available to the 
public; 
(ii) constraints limiting its use under 
principles of necessity, proportionality, and 
legitimacy; 
(iii) oversight by bodies independent 
of the government’s executive agencies; 
(iv) involvement of an independent 
and impartial judiciary branch in author-
izing its use; or 
(v) legal remedies in case of abuse. 
SEC. 6469. REVIEW OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO RUS-
SIAN KLEPTOCRATS AND HUMAN RIGHTS 
ABUSERS. 
(a) DETERMINATION WITH RESPECT TO IMPOSITION 
OF SANCTIONS.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit 
to the appropriate congressional committees a determina-
tion, including a detailed justification, of whether any per-
son listed in subsection (b) meets the criteria for the impo-
sition of sanctions pursuant to section 1263(b) of the 
Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (sub-
title F of title XII of Public Law 114–328; 22 U.S.C. 
2656).
2973 
(b) PERSONS LISTED.—The persons listed in this 
subsection, which include Russian persons and current 
and former Russian government officials, are the fol-
lowing: 
(1) Roman Abramovich, businessman. 
(2) Denis Bortnikov, Deputy President and 
Chairman of the Management Board of VTB Bank. 
(3) Andrey Kostin, President and Chairman of 
the Management Board of VTB Bank. 
(4) Dmitry Patrushev, Minister of Agriculture. 
(5) Igor Shuvalov, Chairman of the State De-
velopment Corporation VEB. 
(6) Alisher Usmanov, businessman. 
(7) Oleg Deripaska, businessman. 
(8) Alexei Miller, Chairman of the Management 
Committee of Gazprom. 
(9) Igor Sechin, Chairman of the Management 
Board of Rosneft. 
(10) Gennady Timchenko, businessman. 
(11) Nikolai Tokarev, Chairman of Transneft. 
(12) Andrey Vorobyev, Governor of the Moscow 
Region XIII. 
(13) Mikhail Murashko, Minister of Health. 
(14) Vladimir Solovyev, media personality.
2974 
(15) Alexander Bastrykin, Head of the Inves-
tigative Committee. 
(16) Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the Fed-
eral Security Service (FSB). 
(17) Konstantin Ernst, Chief Executive Officer 
of Channel One TV station. 
(18) Victor Gavrilov, Head of the Department 
of Transport of the Economic Security Service. 
(19) Dmitry Ivanov, Head of Chelyabinsk FSB. 
(20) Alexander Kalashnikov, Director of the 
Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN). 
(21) Sergei Kirienko, First Deputy Head of the 
Presidential Administration. 
(22) Elena Morozova, Judge of Khimki District 
Court. 
(23) Denis Popov, Chief Prosecutor of Moscow. 
(24) Margarita Simonyan, Editor-in-Chief of 
RT. 
(25) Igor Yanchuk, Head of the Khimki Police 
Department. 
(26) Victor Zolotov, Director of the National 
Guard. 
(27) Alexander Beglov, Governor of St. Peters-
burg. 
(28) Yuri Chaika, former Prosecutor General.
2975 
(29) Andrei Kartapolov, Deputy Defense Min-
ister. 
(30) Pavel Krasheninnikov, Parliamentarian 
and former Justice Minister. 
(31) Mikhail Mishustin, Prime Minister of Rus-
sia. 
(32) Ella Pamfilova, Head of Central Electoral 
Commission. 
(33) Dmitry Peskov, Presidential Press Sec-
retary. 
(34) Sergei Sobyanin, Mayor of Moscow. 
(35) Anton Vaino, Head of the Presidential Ad-
ministration. 
(c) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate congres-
sional committees’’ means— 
(1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the 
Committee on Financial Services of the House of 
Representatives; and 
(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations and 
the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Af-
fairs of the Senate.
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SEC. 6470. MODIFICATIONS TO AND REAUTHORIZATION OF 
SANCTIONS 
WITH 
RESPECT 
TO 
HUMAN 
RIGHTS VIOLATIONS. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—Section 1262 of the Global 
Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (Subtitle F 
of title XII of Public Law 114–328; 22 U.S.C. 2656 note) 
is amended by striking paragraph (2). 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—The Global Magnitsky 
Human Rights Accountability Act (Subtitle F of title XII 
of Public Law 114–328; 22 U.S.C. 2656 note) is amended 
by inserting after section 1262 the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 1262A. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
‘‘It is the sense of Congress that the President should 
establish and regularize information sharing and sanc-
tions-related decision making with like-minded govern-
ments possessing human rights and anti-corruption sanc-
tions programs similar in nature to those authorized under 
this subtitle.’’. 
(c) IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Subsection (a) of section 
1263 of the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Ac-
countability Act (Subtitle F of title XII of Public 
Law 114–328; 22 U.S.C. 2656 note) is amended to 
read as follows: 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The President may impose the 
sanctions described in subsection (b) with respect to—
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‘‘(1) any foreign person that the President de-
termines, based on credible information— 
‘‘(A) is responsible for or complicit in, or 
has directly or indirectly engaged in, serious 
human rights abuse or any violation of inter-
nationally recognized human rights; 
‘‘(B) is a current or former government of-
ficial, or a person acting for or on behalf of 
such an official, who is responsible for or 
complicit in, or has directly or indirectly en-
gaged in— 
‘‘(i) corruption; or 
‘‘(ii) the transfer or facilitation of the 
transfer of the proceeds of corruption; 
‘‘(C) is or has been a leader or official of— 
‘‘(i) an entity, including a government 
entity, that has engaged in, or whose mem-
bers have engaged in, any of the activities 
described in subparagraph (A) or (B) re-
lated to the tenure of the leader or official; 
or 
‘‘(ii) an entity whose property and in-
terests in property are blocked pursuant to 
this section as a result of activities related 
to the tenure of the leader or official;
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‘‘(D) has materially assisted, sponsored, or 
provided financial, material, or technological 
support for, or goods or services to or in sup-
port of— 
‘‘(i) an activity described in subpara-
graph (A) or (B) that is conducted by a 
foreign person; 
‘‘(ii) a person whose property and in-
terests in property are blocked pursuant to 
this section; or 
‘‘(iii) an entity, including a govern-
ment entity, that has engaged in, or whose 
members have engaged in, an activity de-
scribed in subparagraph (A) or (B) con-
ducted by a foreign person; or 
‘‘(E) is owned or controlled by, or acts or 
is purported to act for or on behalf of, directly 
or indirectly, a person whose property and in-
terests in property are blocked pursuant to this 
section.’’. 
(2) CONSIDERATION
OF
CERTAIN
INFORMA-
TION.—Subsection (c)(2) of such section is amended 
by inserting ‘‘corruption and’’ after ‘‘monitor’’. 
(3) REQUESTS BY CONGRESS.—Subsection (d) 
of such section is amended—
2979 
(A) in paragraph (1), in the matter pre-
ceding subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘sub-
section (a)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (a)(1)’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A)— 
(I) in the subparagraph heading, 
by striking ‘‘HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLA-
TIONS’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘SERIOUS 
HUMAN
RIGHTS
ABUSE
OR
VIOLA-
TIONS OF INTERNATIONALLY RECOG-
NIZED HUMAN RIGHTS’’; and 
(II) by striking ‘‘described in 
paragraph (1) or (2) of subsection 
(a)’’ and inserting ‘‘described in sub-
section (a)(1) relating to serious 
human rights abuse or any violation 
of internationally recognized human 
rights’’; and 
(ii) in subparagraph (B)— 
(I) in the matter preceding clause 
(i), by striking ‘‘described in para-
graph (3) or (4) of subsection (a)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘described in subsection 
(a)(1) relating to corruption or the
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transfer or facilitation of the transfer 
of the proceeds of corruption’’; and 
(II) by striking ‘‘ranking member 
of’’ and all that follows through the 
period at the end and inserting ‘‘rank-
ing member of one of the appropriate 
congressional committees’’. 
(d) REPORTS TO CONGRESS.—Section 1264(a) of the 
Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (Sub-
title F of title XII of Public Law 114–328; 22 U.S.C. 
2656 note) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘; and’’ and 
inserting a semicolon; 
(2) in paragraph (6), by striking the period at 
the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(7) a description of additional steps taken by 
the President through diplomacy, international en-
gagement, and assistance to foreign or security sec-
tors to address persistent underlying causes of seri-
ous human rights abuse, violations of internationally 
recognized human rights, and corruption in each 
country in which foreign persons with respect to 
which sanctions have been imposed under section 
1263 are located; and
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‘‘(8) a description of additional steps taken by 
the President to ensure the pursuit of judicial ac-
countability in appropriate jurisdictions with respect 
to those foreign persons subject to sanctions under 
section 1263 for serious human rights abuse, viola-
tions of internationally recognized human rights, 
and corruption.’’. 
(e) REPEAL OF SUNSET.—Section 1265 of the Global 
Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (Subtitle F 
of title XII of Public Law 114–328; 22 U.S.C. 2656 note) 
is repealed. 
SEC. 6471. SENSE OF CONGRESS WITH RESPECT TO THE 
PRODUCTION OF BASELOAD POWER IN THE 
UNITED STATES. 
It is the sense of Congress that having access to a 
secure and reliable supply of firm, baseload power pro-
duced in the United States, including power generated 
from coal, natural gas, oil, and nuclear sources, is critical 
to United States national security interests. 
SEC. 6472. STRATEGY AND REPORTING RELATED TO 
UNITED STATES ENGAGEMENT IN SOMALIA. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State 
and the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Ad-
ministrator of the United States Agency for International
2982 
Development and other relevant Federal department and 
agencies, shall develop and submit a strategy for advanc-
ing United States diplomatic, humanitarian, development, 
counterterrorism, and regional security priorities in Soma-
lia that includes a detailed outline of United States na-
tional security interests and policy objectives in Somalia. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The strategy required by subsection 
(a) shall include the following: 
(1) An assessment of the United States diplo-
matic and defense footprint in Somalia and a related 
plan to continue diplomatic, humanitarian, develop-
ment, counterterrorism and security cooperation 
with the federal Government of Somalia, and re-
gional security cooperation with partners and allies 
in the region, including consideration of the impact 
of reducing the presence of the United States Armed 
Forces, 
African 
Union 
Mission 
in 
Somalia 
(AMISOM) forces, and other foreign forces contrib-
uting to security in Somalia. 
(2) A comprehensive assessment of the terrorist 
threat in Somalia posed by al-Shabaab and the So-
malia-based Islamic State affiliate ISIS-Somalia, in-
cluding each group’s: 
(A) capacity to strike the United States 
homeland and United States persons and inter-
2983 
ests in the region or elsewhere, and the threat 
posed to other countries in the East Africa re-
gion and beyond; 
(B) major sources of revenue and capacity 
to raise funds and recruit from the United 
States and elsewhere, including illicit and licit 
activities used to fund operations and financial 
flows originating from outside of Somalia; and 
(C) connectivity to and relationship with 
other terrorist affiliates, including linkages to 
Al Qaida and the Islamic State, and their re-
spective senior leaders. 
(3) An overview of ongoing and planned efforts, 
including a detailed breakdown of United States for-
eign assistance, to— 
(A) build the capacity of the federal Gov-
ernment of Somalia, federal members states, 
and their respective civilian security, defense, 
criminal justice and law enforcement, financial, 
and other institutions, including through sup-
port for completing the constitutional review 
process; 
(B) degrade Al-Shabaab and ISIS in So-
malia, counter terrorist financing and recruit-
ment, rehabilitate and reintegrate terrorist
2984 
fighters, improve border security, judicial capac-
ity, and anti-corruption efforts, and political, 
economic, and social reforms in Somalia, includ-
ing an evaluation of the effectiveness of these 
activities to date; and 
(C) provide emergency and non-emergency 
humanitarian 
and 
development 
assistance 
throughout Somalia, including an overview of 
the United States’s use of third party moni-
toring, partner vetting, and other risk mitiga-
tion measures for the provision of assistance in 
security restrictive environments, as appro-
priate. 
(4) A plan to enhance diplomatic engagement 
and other initiatives in Somalia to address pro-
tracted political crises and tensions between the fed-
eral Government of Somalia and its member states, 
delayed electoral processes, and increasing govern-
ance challenges, including an assessment of Soma-
lia’s internal and regional political dynamics and the 
role of United States and other foreign partner en-
gagement on these dynamics. 
(5) An analysis of foreign influence over the 
federal Government of Somalia and federal member 
states, including external actor objectives and an as-
2985 
sessment of non-United States financial assistance 
and financial contributions to Somali officials and 
institutions. 
(6) An analysis of the economic situation in So-
malia, including ongoing debt relief efforts, remain-
ing external debt, efforts to improve revenue sharing 
among the central government and member states 
and advance other economic reforms, and measures 
such as domestic and international sanctions de-
signed to hold accountable those involved in corrup-
tion, human rights abuses, and other activities to 
undermine state and international institutions. 
(7) A plan to address state fragility and drivers 
of terrorist recruitment, including efforts to promote 
economic growth and human development, improve 
conflict resolution and governance capacity, counter 
foreign propaganda and disinformation, combat cor-
ruption and support development needs of local com-
munities, including through rehabilitation, reintegra-
tion, and reconciliation. 
(8) A detailed breakdown of United States as-
sistance to support the training, equipping, advising, 
assisting, and accompanying of Somali forces and 
those forces aligned with the troop contributing 
countries of AMISOM during last five fiscal years.
2986 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 120 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense and 
the Secretary of State, in coordination with other relevant 
Federal department and agencies as deemed necessary, 
shall submit to appropriate congressional committees a re-
port related to recent events in Somalia, that includes the 
following: 
(1) A detailed account of the January 2020 ter-
rorist attack, including an assessment of the role 
United-States-trained-and-equipped Kenyan forces 
had in countering the attack and if and how this at-
tack and others shaped United States decisions sur-
rounding the United States strategy in Somalia and 
elsewhere in East Africa. 
(2) An assessment of how the January 2021 
United States military retrograde from or repo-
sitioning in Somalia affected United States capacity 
to achieve policy objectives, including those sur-
rounding diplomatic security and the implementation 
of a range of United States-funded programs and 
activities that have commenced or were planned, 
such as humanitarian assistance, good governance 
initiatives, and human rights promotion.
2987 
(3) An assessment of the legal authorities justi-
fying unilateral direct action against terrorist tar-
gets in Somalia. 
(d) ANNUAL UPDATE.—Not later than 1 year after 
the submission of the strategy required under subsection 
(a), and annually thereafter for 3 years, the Secretary of 
State and Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the 
Administrator of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development, shall jointly submit to the appro-
priate congressional committees an update on implementa-
tion of the strategy and an evaluation of progress toward 
achieving United States national security interests and 
policy objectives in Somalia. 
(e) FORM.—Each report required by this section shall 
be submitted in unclassified form but may include a classi-
fied annex. 
(f) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES.— 
In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 
Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives; 
and
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(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the 
Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee 
on Appropriations of the Senate. 
SEC. 6473. PROHIBITION ON CONTRIBUTIONS TO SUPPORT 
THE G5 SAHEL JOINT FORCE. 
No Federal funds may be authorized to be appro-
priated or otherwise made available for assessed contribu-
tions to the United Nations that support the Joint Force 
of the Group of Five for the Sahel, also known as the G5 
Sahel Joint Force, as comprised on the date of the enact-
ment of this Act or any future iterations thereof, to pro-
tect the integrity of Chapter VII of the United Nations 
Charter (Action with Respect to Threats to the Peace, 
Breaches of the Peace, and Acts of Aggression). 
SEC. 6474. MENSTRUAL PRODUCTS IN PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—Each appropriate authority 
shall ensure that menstrual products are stocked in, and 
available free of charge in, each covered restroom in each 
covered public building under the jurisdiction of such au-
thority. 
(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) APPROPRIATE AUTHORITY.—The term ‘‘ap-
propriate authority’’ means the head of a Federal 
agency, the Architect of the Capitol, or other official
2989 
authority responsible for the operation of a covered 
public building. 
(2) COVERED
PUBLIC
BUILDING.—The term 
‘‘covered public building’’ means a public building, 
as defined in section 3301 of title 40, United States 
Code, that is open to the public and contains a pub-
lic restroom, and includes a building listed in section 
6301 or 5101 of such title. 
(3) COVERED RESTROOM.—The term ‘‘covered 
restroom’’ means a restroom in a covered public 
building, except for a restroom designated solely for 
use by men. 
(4) MENSTRUAL PRODUCTS.—The term ‘‘men-
strual products’’ means sanitary napkins and tam-
pons that conform to applicable industry standards. 
SEC. 6475. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AWARE-
NESS CAMPAIGN ON FERTILITY SERVICES. 
(a) AWARENESS CAMPAIGN.—The Secretary of Vet-
erans Affairs shall conduct an awareness campaign re-
garding the types of fertility treatments, procedures, and 
services covered under the medical benefits package of the 
Department of Veterans Affairs that are available to vet-
erans experiencing issues with fertility. 
(b) MODES OF OUTREACH.—In carrying out sub-
section (a), the Secretary shall ensure that a variety of
2990 
modes of outreach are incorporated into the awareness 
campaign under such subsection, taking into consideration 
the age range of the veteran population. 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit 
to the appropriate congressional committees a report that 
includes a summary of the actions that have been taken 
to implement the awareness campaign under subsection 
(a) and how the Secretary plans to better engage women 
veterans, to ensure awareness of such veterans regarding 
covered fertility services available. 
(d) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEES 
DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate con-
gressional committees’’ means— 
(1) the Committees on Armed Services of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate; and 
(2) the Committees on Veterans’ Affairs of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate. 
SEC. 6476. MEMORIAL FOR THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES 
IN THE ATTACK ON HAMID KARZAI INTER-
NATIONAL AIRPORT ON AUGUST 26, 2021. 
The Secretary of Defense may establish a commemo-
rative work on Federal land owned by the Department of 
Defense in the District of Columbia and its environs to 
commemorate the 13 members of the Armed Forces who
2991 
died in the bombing attack on Hamid Karzai International 
Airport on August 26, 2021. 
SEC. 6477. COREY ADAMS GREEN ALERT SYSTEMS TECH-
NICAL ASSISTANCE. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) MISSING
VETERAN.—The term ‘‘missing 
veteran’’ means an individual who— 
(A) is reported to, or identified by, a law 
enforcement agency as a missing person; 
(B) is a veteran; and 
(C) meets the requirements to be des-
ignated as a missing veteran, as determined by 
the State in which the individual is reported or 
identified as a missing person. 
(2) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means each of 
the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Com-
monwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin 
Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Common-
wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. 
(3) GREEN ALERT.—The term ‘‘Green Alert’’ 
means an alert issued through the Green Alert com-
munications network, related to a missing veteran. 
(4) VETERAN.—The term ‘‘veteran’’ means an 
individual who is currently serving or a former mem-
ber who served in the United States Armed Forces,
2992 
including National Guard, or a Reserve or auxiliary 
unit from any branch of the Armed Forces. 
(b) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary of De-
fense, in consultation with the Secretary of Veterans Af-
fairs, shall provide financial and technical assistance to 
a State that has established or has under consideration 
legislation to establish a Green Alert or other system spe-
cifically dedicated to locating missing veterans or active 
duty members of the Armed Forces (or both), to help en-
sure the effective use of those systems to successfully find 
and recover current or former members of the Armed 
Forces. 
(c) CONTENT OF ASSISTANCE.—Such assistance shall 
include— 
(1) helping the State develop, revise, or update 
criteria for issuing such alerts, including on when to 
issue such alerts, training to provide to law enforce-
ment on interacting with veterans or service mem-
bers, and provide recommendations on how best to 
protect the privacy, dignity, and independence of 
veterans or service members who are the subject of 
such alerts; 
(2) providing assistance to the State on pro-
tecting 
the 
privacy 
of 
veterans 
and 
service
2993 
memebers, including sensitive medical information, 
as such alerts are issued; 
(3) designating officials to serve or participate 
on any advisory committees established by the State 
or local governments to provide oversight of Green 
Alert systems dedicated to finding missing veterans; 
(4) for those veterans recovered by such sys-
tems, helping ensure such veterans are connected to 
any services provided by the Department of Veterans 
Affairs or the Department of Defense to which they 
are entitled as a result of their service, including 
housing and healthcare; 
(5) providing public education on these systems 
to military or veteran communities in such States, 
including on facilities of the Department of Veterans 
Affairs or the Department of Defense located in 
such States; 
(6) supporting efforts to train State and local 
law enforcement who issue such alerts and search 
for such individuals on the unique needs of veterans 
and service members; and 
(7) ensuring officials of the Department of Vet-
erans Affairs or the Department of Defense in such 
States are aware of Green Alerts, understand how 
they work, and integrate them with any plan for lo-
2994 
cating missing veterans at a base or facility of the 
Department of Veterans Affairs or the Department 
of Defense. 
(d) USE OF EXISTING MECHANISMS.—To the max-
imum extent possible, the Secretaries shall use, existing 
mechanisms, including advisory committees and programs, 
to meet the requirements of this section. 
(e) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated $2,000,000 for fiscal 
year 2022 to carry out this section. 
(f) OFFSET.—Notwithstanding the amounts set forth 
in the funding tables in division D, the amount authorized 
to be appropriated in section 301 for Operation and Main-
tenance, Defense-wide, as specified in the corresponding 
funding table in section 4301, for Office of Secretary of 
Defense, Line 540, is hereby reduced by $2,000,000. 
SEC. 6478. HOUSING ALLOWANCE FOR FEDERAL WILDLAND 
FIREFIGHTERS. 
The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 
Agriculture shall provide a housing allowance to any Fed-
eral wildland firefighter hired at a location more than 50 
miles from their primary residence. Such allowance shall 
be in an amount determined appropriate by the Secre-
taries and adjusted based on the cost of housing in the 
area of deployment.
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SEC. 6479. MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM FOR FEDERAL 
WILDLAND FIREFIGHTERS. 
(a) MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM.—Not later than 
180 days after the date of enactment of this act, the Sec-
retaries of the Interior and Agriculture shall establish and 
carry out a program for Federal wildland firefighters for 
mental health awareness and support. Such program shall 
include— 
(1) a mental health awareness campaign; 
(2) a mental health education and training pro-
gram that includes an on-boarding curriculum; 
(3) an extensive peer-to-peer mental health sup-
port network for Federal wildland firefighters and 
their immediate family; 
(4) expanding the Critical Incident Stress Man-
agement Program through training, developing, and 
retaining a larger pool of qualified mental health 
professionals who are familiar with the experiences 
of the wildland firefighting workforce, and moni-
toring and tracking mental health in the profession 
to better understand the scope of the issue and de-
velop strategies to assist; and 
(5) establish and carry out a new and distinct 
mental health support service specific to Federal 
wildland firefighters and their immediate family, 
with culturally relevant and trauma-informed mental
2996 
health professionals who are readily available and 
not subject to any limit on the number of sessions 
or service provided. 
(b) 
MENTAL
HEALTH
LEAVE.—Each 
Federal 
wildland firefighter shall be entitled to 7 consecutive days 
of leave, without loss or reduction in pay, during each cal-
endar year for the purposes of maintaining mental health. 
Such leave may only be taken during the period beginning 
on June 1 and ending on October 31 of any such year. 
If leave is not taken under this section it expires after 
October 31 of the calendar year. 
SEC. 6480. REPORTS ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN THE ARMED 
FORCES. 
(a) INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 
DEFENSE.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Army, the Sec-
retary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Air Force, and 
the Commandant of the Marine Corp shall each submit 
to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and 
of the House of Representatives a report on substance 
abuse disorder treatment concerns related to service mem-
bers and their dependents. 
(b) COMPTROLLER
GENERAL
OF
THE
UNITED 
STATES.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Army, the Sec-
2997 
retary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Air Force, and 
the Commandant of the Marine Corp shall submit to Con-
gress a report regarding the use of substance abuse dis-
order treatment programs located at or around each in-
stallation. The report shall detail the number of service 
members and dependents that are referred to treatment 
programs, either residential or outpatient, and either in-
ternal or contracted, the absence of treatment capabilities 
within an installation or grouping of military installations, 
and the costs associated with sending service members or 
their dependents away from the immediate area for sub-
stance use disorder treatment. The report shall also set 
forth how the individual branches of the Armed Forces 
are incorporating substance abuse disorder treatment into 
mental health services both internal and contracted. 
SEC. 6481. PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF FUNDS FOR AER-
IAL FUMIGATION IN COLOMBIA. 
None of the amounts authorized to be appropriated 
or otherwise made available by this Act may be made 
available to directly conduct aerial fumigation in Colombia 
unless there are demonstrated actions by the Government 
of Colombia to adhere to national and local laws and regu-
lations.
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SEC. 6482. ANNUAL REPORT ON UNITED STATES POLICY 
TOWARD SOUTH SUDAN. 
(a) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than 90 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, and for five 
years thereafter, the Secretary of State, in consultation 
with the Administrator of the United States Agency for 
International Development and the heads of other Federal 
department and agencies as necessary, shall submit to the 
appropriate congressional committees a report on United 
States policy toward South Sudan, including the most re-
cent approved interagency strategy developed to address 
political, security, and humanitarian issues prevalent in 
the country since it gained independence from Sudan in 
July 2011. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The report required by subsection 
(a) shall include the following: 
(1) An assessment of the situation in South 
Sudan, including the role of South Sudanese govern-
ment officials in intercommunal violence, corruption, 
and obstruction of peace processes, including the 
credibility of internationally-supported peace proc-
esses in the face of escalating violence and armed 
conflict in South Sudan. 
(2) An assessment of the 2018 the Revitalized 
Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the
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Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS) and the ongo-
ing peace processes. 
(3) A detailed outline and assessment of United 
States assistance and other efforts to support peace 
processes in South Sudan, including the efficacy of 
stakeholder engagement and United States assist-
ance to advance peacebuilding, conflict mitigation, 
and other related activities. 
(4) An assessment of the United Nations Mis-
sion in South Sudan (UNMISS) over the last three 
fiscal years. 
(5) An analysis of the chronic food insecurity 
issues in South Sudan, including identification of 
root causes and ongoing or planned remediation ef-
forts. 
(6) A detailed account of United States foreign 
assistance to provide emergency and non-emergency 
humanitarian and development assistance, improve 
anti-corruption efforts, and create fiscal trans-
parency in South Sudan over the last five fiscal 
years. 
(7) A breakdown of United States efforts, in-
cluding assistance provided by the Department of 
the Treasury and United States law enforcement 
and intelligence communities, to detect and deter
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money laundering and counter illicit financial flows, 
trafficking in persons, weapons, and other illicit 
goods, and the financing of terrorists and armed 
groups. 
(8) A summary of United States efforts to pro-
mote accountability for serious human rights abuses 
and an assessment of efforts by the Government of 
South Sudan and the African Union, respectively, to 
hold responsible parties accountable. 
(9) Analysis of the impact of domestic and 
international sanctions on improving governance, 
mitigating and reducing conflict, combating corrup-
tion, and holding accountable those responsible for 
human rights abuses. 
(10) An assessment of the prospects for, and 
impediments to, holding credible general elections. 
(c) FORM.—The report required by subsection (a) 
shall be submitted in unclassified form but may include 
a classified annex. 
(d) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEES 
DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate con-
gressional committees’’ means— 
(1) the Committee on Foreign Relations and 
the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and
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(2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the 
Committee on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives. 
SEC. 6483. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE USE OF THE DE-
FENSE PRODUCTION ACT OF 1950 FOR GLOB-
AL VACCINE PRODUCTION. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds the following: 
(1) As President Biden has stated, ‘‘We know 
America will never be fully safe until the pandemic 
that is raging globally is under control. No ocean is 
wide enough, no wall is high enough to keep us 
safe.’’. 
(2) More than 600,000 Americans have already 
died from COVID–19. Already, more Americans 
have died from COVID–19 than from World War I, 
World War II, the Vietnam War, and 9/11 com-
bined. The continued replication of SARS-CoV-2 
abroad increases the likelihood of a harmful muta-
tion that renders current vaccines ineffective. A new 
variant could be more transmissible and cause more 
severe disease, posing a higher risk to the millions 
of Americans who have not been vaccinated, like the 
Delta variant. 
(3) Approximately 11 billion doses are needed 
to vaccinate the world’s population, but to date, the
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US government has donated just 40 million doses. 
More recent promises by the G7 would only deliver 
an additional one billion doses by the end of 2022. 
(4) Sharing manufacturing know-how and ex-
pertise is critical to quickly ramping up production. 
Expanding the world’s manufacturing capacity is 
critical because donations and bilateral agreements 
to increase vaccine doses in low- and middle-income 
countries cannot quickly meet the global demand. 
(5) The U.S. Government, as the largest 
coronavirus research and development funder in the 
world, is uniquely positioned to push companies to 
share the knowledge required to end the pandemic. 
(6) Manufacturers around the world have af-
firmed that they can help ramp up production if 
they have access to technology. According to the 
World Health Organization, 19 manufacturers from 
more than a dozen countries in Africa, Asia, and 
Latin America have expressed interest in ramping 
up mRNA vaccine production. The Biden adminis-
tration has also urged companies to share tech-
nology. But vaccine originator corporations have 
been reluctant to share technology. 
(7) The Defense Production Act of 1950 pro-
vides the President with broad authority to support
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the nation’s defense. The Defense Production Act of 
1950’s definition of ‘‘national defense’’ includes 
‘‘military or critical infrastructure assistance to any 
foreign nation’’. 
(8) The Defense Production Act of 1950 em-
powers the President to directly ‘‘allocate materials, 
services, and facilities’’ to promote national defense 
needs. The Act defines ‘‘materials’’ to include ‘‘any 
technical information or services ancillary to the use 
of any such materials’’. 
(9) The Defense Production Act of 1950 has 
been used repeatedly to prioritize contracts and or-
ders from U.S. companies to foreign nations. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that the President should make full use of the Presi-
dent’s authority under the Defense Production Act of 
1950 to scale vaccine production and deployment globally, 
which will save millions of lives and protect Americans 
from the risk of emerging viral threats. 
SEC. 6484. NATIONAL ACADEMIES SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, 
AND SECURITY ROUNDTABLE. 
Section 1746(b) of the National Defense Authoriza-
tion Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (Public Law 116–92; 42 
U.S.C. 6601 note) is amended—
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(1) in paragraph (3)(B), by striking ‘‘involving 
federally funded research and development’’ and in-
serting ‘‘facing the United States research enter-
prise’’; 
(2) by redesignating paragraph (5) as para-
graph (6); 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (4) the fol-
lowing new paragraph: 
‘‘(5) AD-HOC COMMITTEE.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The roundtable shall 
convene an ad-hoc committee to study and 
make recommendations on research security 
issues consistent with paragraph (3). 
‘‘(B) STUDY AND REPORT.—Not later than 
180 days after the first meeting of the ad-hoc 
committee convened under subparagraph (A), 
such committee shall— 
‘‘(i) complete a fast-track consensus 
study on the feasibility of establishing an 
independent, non-profit entity (referred to 
in this paragraph as the ‘entity’) to further 
protect the United States research enter-
prise against foreign interference, theft, 
and espionage; and
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‘‘(ii) submit to the relevant commit-
tees a report on the results of the study. 
‘‘(C) ELEMENTS.—The report required 
under subparagraph (B)(ii) shall include anal-
ysis and recommendations with respect to each 
of the following: 
‘‘(i) The organizational structure of 
the entity. 
‘‘(ii) The appropriate relationship be-
tween the entity and the Federal Govern-
ment, including the interagency working 
group established under subsection (a). 
‘‘(iii) The appropriate level of finan-
cial resources needed to establish the enti-
ty. 
‘‘(iv) A self-sustaining funding model 
for the entity. 
‘‘(v) Whether and how the entity 
can— 
‘‘(I) enable informed, proactive, 
and unbiased risk assessment for and 
by the United States research enter-
prise; 
‘‘(II) in coordination with the 
interagency working group established
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under subsection (a), the Federal 
agencies that comprise the working 
group, and the roundtable under this 
subsection, promote actionable and 
timely information sharing among the 
United States research enterprise 
about foreign interference, theft, and 
espionage of research and develop-
ment; 
‘‘(III) provide non-punitive, non- 
legally binding advice to the United 
States research enterprise, including 
frontline researchers, about foreign in-
ference, theft, and espionage including 
advice with respect to risks associated 
with international partnerships and 
foreign talent recruitment programs; 
‘‘(IV) secure the trust and active 
participation of the United States re-
search enterprise; 
‘‘(V) regularly conduct open- 
source intelligence analysis to provide 
actionable and timely unclassified in-
formation to the United States re-
search enterprise about foreign inter-
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ference, theft, and espionage, includ-
ing analysis to be tailored specifically 
for the purpose of assisting frontline 
researchers in making security-in-
formed decisions; and 
‘‘(VI) offer products and services 
to the United States research enter-
prise to help inform research security 
efforts such as analyses of global re-
search and development trends, advice 
regarding intellectual property pro-
duction and protection, market anal-
yses, and risk assessment for day-to- 
day activities such as collaboration, 
travel, and hiring. 
‘‘(vi) Such other information and rec-
ommendations as the committee considers 
necessary to ensure that the entity oper-
ates effectively.’’; and 
(4) in paragraph (6), as so redesignated, by 
striking ‘‘2024’’ and inserting ‘‘2025’’. 
SEC. 
6485. 
PROHIBITION 
ON 
FEDERAL 
FUNDING 
TO 
ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE, INC. 
No funds authorized under this Act may be made 
available for any purpose to EcoHealth Alliance, Inc.
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SEC. 6486. BLOCKING DEADLY FENTANYL IMPORTS. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—Section 481(e)(2) of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2291(e)(2)) is amend-
ed— 
(1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), 
by striking ‘‘in which’’; 
(2) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ‘‘in 
which’’ before ‘‘1,000’’; 
(3) in subparagraph (B)— 
(A) 
by 
inserting 
‘‘in 
which’’ 
before 
‘‘1,000’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘or’’ at the end; 
(4) in subparagraph (C)— 
(A) 
by 
inserting 
‘‘in 
which’’ 
before 
‘‘5,000’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘or’’ after the semicolon; 
and 
(5) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(D) that is a significant source of illicit 
synthetic opioids significantly affecting the 
United States;’’. 
(b) INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRAT-
EGY REPORT.—Section 489(a) of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2291h(a)) is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
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‘‘(10) A separate section that contains the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(A) An identification of the countries, to 
the extent feasible, that are the most significant 
sources of illicit fentanyl and fentanyl analogues 
significantly affecting the United States during 
the preceding calendar year. 
‘‘(B) A description of the extent to which 
each country identified pursuant to subpara-
graph (A) has cooperated with the United 
States to prevent the articles or chemicals de-
scribed in subparagraph (A) from being ex-
ported from such country to the United States. 
‘‘(C) A description of whether each country 
identified pursuant to subparagraph (A) has 
adopted and utilizes scheduling or other proce-
dures for illicit drugs that are similar in effect 
to the procedures authorized under title II of 
the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 811 
et seq.) for adding drugs and other substances 
to the controlled substances schedules; 
‘‘(D) A description of whether each coun-
try identified pursuant to subparagraph (A) is 
following steps to prosecute individuals involved 
in the illicit manufacture or distribution of con-
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trolled substance analogues (as defined in sec-
tion 102(32) of the Controlled Substances Act 
(21 U.S.C. 802(32)); and 
‘‘(E) A description of whether each coun-
try identified pursuant to subparagraph (A) re-
quires the registration of tableting machines 
and encapsulating machines or other measures 
similar in effect to the registration require-
ments set forth in part 1310 of title 21, Code 
of Federal Regulations, and has not made good 
faith efforts, in the opinion of the Secretary, to 
improve regulation of tableting machines and 
encapsulating machines.’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall take effect on the date that is 90 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 6487. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS REPORT 
ON SUPPORTIVE SERVICES AND HOUSING IN-
SECURITY. 
Not later than one year after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in co-
ordination with the Secretary of Housing and Urban De-
velopment and the Secretary of Labor, shall submit to 
Congress a report on how often and what type of sup-
portive services (including career transition and mental
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health services and services for elderly veterans) are being 
offered to and used by veterans, and any correlation be-
tween a lack of supportive services programs and the like-
lihood of veterans falling back into housing insecurity. The 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall ensure that any med-
ical information included in the report is de-identified. 
SEC. 6488. REPORT ON OBSTACLES TO VETERAN PARTICI-
PATION IN FEDERAL HOUSING PROGRAMS. 
Not later than one year after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in co-
ordination with the Secretary of Housing and Urban De-
velopment, shall submit to Congress a report on the obsta-
cles veterans experience related to receiving benefits under 
Federal housing programs, including obstacles relating to 
women 
veterans, 
LGBTQ+ 
veterans, 
and 
multi- 
generational family types and obstacles relating to eligi-
bility requirements (including local Area Median Income 
limits, chronicity and disability requirements, and required 
documentation). 
SEC. 6489. INCLUSION ON THE VIETNAM VETERANS MEMO-
RIAL WALL OF THE NAMES OF THE LOST 
CREW MEMBERS OF THE U.S.S. FRANK E. 
EVANS KILLED ON JUNE 3, 1969. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than one year after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense
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shall authorize the inclusion on the Vietnam Veterans Me-
morial Wall in the District of Columbia of the names of 
the 74 crew members of the U.S.S. Frank E. Evans killed 
on June 3, 1969. 
(b) REQUIRED CONSULTATION.—The Secretary of 
Defense shall consult with the Secretary of the Interior, 
the American Battlefield Monuments Commission, and 
other applicable authorities with respect to any adjust-
ments to the nomenclature and placement of names pursu-
ant to subsection (a) to address any space limitations on 
the placement of additional names on the Vietnam Vet-
erans Memorial Wall. 
(c) NONAPPLICABILITY OF COMMEMORATIVE WORKS 
ACT.—Chapter 89 of title 40, United States Code (com-
monly known as the ‘‘Commemorative Works Act’’), shall 
not apply to any activities carried out under subsection 
(a) or (b). 
SEC. 6490. JAMAL KHASHOGGI PRESS FREEDOM ACCOUNT-
ABILITY ACT OF 2021. 
(a) EXPANDING SCOPE OF HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTS 
WITH RESPECT TO VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF 
JOURNALISTS.—The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
U.S.C. 2151 et seq.) is amended as follows: 
(1) In paragraph (12) of section 116(d)— 
(A) in subparagraph (B)—
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(i) by inserting ‘‘or online harass-
ment’’ after ‘‘direct physical attacks’’; and 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘or surveillance’’ 
after ‘‘sources of pressure’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (C)(ii), by striking 
‘‘ensure the prosecution’’ and all that follows to 
the end of the clause and inserting ‘‘ensure the 
investigation, prosecution, and conviction of 
government officials or private individuals who 
engage in or facilitate digital or physical at-
tacks, including hacking, censorship, surveil-
lance, harassment, unlawful imprisonment, or 
bodily harm, against journalists and others who 
perform, or provide administrative support to, 
the dissemination of print, broadcast, internet- 
based, or social media intended to communicate 
facts or opinion.’’; 
(C) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) 
and (C) (as amended by subparagraph (A) of 
this section) as subparagraphs (C) and (D), re-
spectively; and 
(D) by inserting after subparagraph (A) 
the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(B) an identification of countries in which 
there were gross violations of internationally
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recognized human rights (as such term is de-
fined for purposes of section 502B) committed 
against journalists;’’. 
(2) By redesignating the second subsection (i) 
of section 502B as subsection (j). 
(3) In the first subsection (i) of section 502B— 
(A) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘or online harass-
ment’’ after ‘‘direct physical attacks’’; and 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘or surveillance’’ 
after ‘‘sources of pressure’’; 
(B) by redesignating paragraph (2) (as 
amended by subparagraph (A) of this section) 
and paragraph (3) as paragraphs (3) and (4), 
respectively; and 
(C) by inserting after paragraph (1) the 
following new paragraph: 
‘‘(2) an identification of countries in which 
there were gross violations of internationally recog-
nized human rights committed against journalists;’’. 
(b) IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS ON PERSONS RE-
SPONSIBLE FOR THE COMMISSION OF GROSS VIOLATIONS 
OF
INTERNATIONALLY
RECOGNIZED
HUMAN
RIGHTS 
AGAINST JOURNALISTS.—
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(1) LISTING
OF
PERSONS
WHO
HAVE
COM-
MITTED GROSS VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONALLY 
RECOGNIZED HUMAN RIGHTS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—On or after the date on 
which a person is listed pursuant to subpara-
graph (B), the President shall impose the sanc-
tions described in paragraph (2) on each for-
eign person the President determines, based on 
credible information, has perpetrated, ordered, 
or otherwise directed the extrajudicial killing of 
or other gross violation of internationally recog-
nized human rights committed against a jour-
nalist or other person who performs, or provides 
administrative support to, the dissemination of 
print, broadcast, internet-based, or social media 
intended to report newsworthy activities or in-
formation, or communicate facts or fact-based 
opinions. 
(B) PUBLICATION
OF
LIST.—The Sec-
retary of State shall publish on a publicly avail-
able website of the Department of State a list 
of the names of each foreign person determined 
pursuant to subparagraph (A) to have per-
petrated, ordered, or directed an act described
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in such paragraph. Such list shall be updated at 
least annually. 
(C) 
EXCEPTION.—The 
President 
may 
waive the imposition of sanctions under sub-
paragraph (A) (and omit a foreign person from 
the list published in accordance with subpara-
graph (B)) or terminate such sanctions and re-
move a foreign person from such list, if the 
President certifies to the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Foreign Relations of the Sen-
ate— 
(i) that public identification of the in-
dividual is not in the national interest of 
the United States, including an unclassi-
fied description of the factual basis sup-
porting such certification, which may con-
tain a classified annex; or 
(ii) that appropriate foreign govern-
ment authorities have credibly— 
(I) investigated the foreign per-
son and, as appropriate, held such 
person accountable for perpetrating, 
ordering, or directing the acts de-
scribed in subparagraph (A);
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(II) publicly condemned viola-
tions of the freedom of the press and 
the acts described in subparagraph 
(A); 
(III) complied with any requests 
for information from international or 
regional human rights organizations 
with respect to the acts described in 
subparagraph (A); and 
(IV) complied with any United 
States Government requests for infor-
mation with respect to the acts de-
scribed in subparagraph (A). 
(2) SANCTIONS DESCRIBED.—The sanctions de-
scribed in this paragraph are the following: 
(A) ASSET
BLOCKING.—The President 
shall exercise all of the powers granted to the 
President under the International Emergency 
Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) 
to the extent necessary to block and prohibit all 
transactions in property and interests in prop-
erty of a foreign person identified in the report 
required under paragraph (1)(A) if such prop-
erty and interests in property are in the United 
States, come within the United States, or come
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within the possession or control of a United 
States person. 
(B) INELIGIBILITY FOR VISAS, ADMISSION, 
OR PAROLE.— 
(i) VISAS, ADMISSION, OR PAROLE.— 
An alien described in paragraph (1)(A) 
is— 
(I) inadmissible to the United 
States; 
(II) ineligible to receive a visa or 
other documentation to enter the 
United States; and 
(III) otherwise ineligible to be 
admitted or paroled into the United 
States or to receive any other benefit 
under the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.). 
(ii) CURRENT VISAS REVOKED.— 
(I) IN GENERAL.—An alien de-
scribed in paragraph (1)(A) is subject 
to revocation of any visa or other 
entry documentation regardless of 
when the visa or other entry docu-
mentation is or was issued.
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(II) IMMEDIATE EFFECT.—A rev-
ocation under subclause (I) shall take 
effect immediately, and automatically 
cancel any other valid visa or entry 
documentation that is in the alien’s 
possession. 
(C) EXCEPTIONS.— 
(i) EXCEPTION
FOR
INTELLIGENCE 
ACTIVITIES.—The sanctions described in 
this paragraph shall not apply to any activ-
ity subject to the reporting requirements 
under title V of the National Security Act 
of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3091 et seq.) or any 
authorized intelligence activities of the 
United States. 
(ii) EXCEPTION
TO
COMPLY
WITH 
INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS.—The sanc-
tions described in this paragraph shall not 
apply with respect to an alien if admitting 
or paroling the alien into the United States 
is necessary to permit the United States to 
comply with the Agreement regarding the 
Headquarters of the United Nations, 
signed at Lake Success June 26, 1947, 
and entered into force November 21, 1947,
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between the United Nations and the 
United States, or other applicable inter-
national obligations. 
(3) IMPLEMENTATION; PENALTIES.— 
(A) 
IMPLEMENTATION.—The 
President 
may exercise all authorities provided under sec-
tions 203 and 205 of the International Emer-
gency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702 
and 1704) to carry out this subsection. 
(B) PENALTIES.—The penalties provided 
for in subsections (b) and (c) of section 206 of 
the International Emergency Economic Powers 
Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) shall apply to a foreign 
person that violates, attempts to violate, con-
spires to violate, or causes a violation of this 
subsection to the same extent that such pen-
alties apply to a person that commits an unlaw-
ful act described in subsection (a) of such sec-
tion 206. 
(4) EXCEPTION RELATING TO THE IMPORTA-
TION OF GOODS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The authorities and re-
quirements to impose sanctions under this sec-
tion shall not include any authority or require-
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ment to impose sanctions on the importation of 
goods. 
(B) GOOD DEFINED.—For purposes of this 
section, the term ‘‘good’’ means any article, 
natural or man-made substance, material, sup-
ply, or manufactured product, including inspec-
tion and test equipment and excluding technical 
data. 
(5) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 
(A) ADMITTED; ALIEN.—The terms ‘‘ad-
mitted’’ and ‘‘alien’’ have the meanings given 
those terms in section 101 of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1001). 
(B) FOREIGN PERSON.—The term ‘‘foreign 
person’’ means an individual who is not— 
(i) a United States citizen or national; 
or 
(ii) an alien lawfully admitted for per-
manent residence to the United States. 
(C) UNITED STATES PERSON.—The term 
‘‘United States person’’ means— 
(i) a United States citizen, an alien 
lawfully admitted for permanent residence 
to the United States, or any other indi-
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vidual subject to the jurisdiction of the 
United States; 
(ii) an entity organized under the laws 
of the United States or of any jurisdiction 
within the United States, including a for-
eign branch of such entity; or 
(iii) any person in the United States. 
(c) PROHIBITION ON FOREIGN ASSISTANCE.— 
(1) 
PROHIBITION.—Assistance 
authorized 
under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
U.S.C. 2151 et seq.) or the Arms Export Control 
Act (22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.) may not be made avail-
able to any governmental entity of a country if the 
Secretary of State or the Director of National Intel-
ligence has credible information that one or more of-
ficials associated with, leading, or otherwise acting 
under the authority of such entity has committed a 
gross violation of internationally recognized human 
rights against a journalist or other person who per-
forms, or provides administrative support to, the dis-
semination of print, broadcast, internet-based, or so-
cial media intended to report newsworthy activities 
or information, or communicate facts or fact-based 
opinions. To the maximum extent practicable, a list 
of such governmental entities shall be published on
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publicly available websites of the Department of 
State and of the Office of the Director of National 
Intelligence and shall be updated on a regular basis. 
(2) PROMPT INFORMATION.—The Secretary of 
State shall promptly inform appropriate officials of 
the government of a country from which assistance 
is withheld in accordance with the prohibition under 
paragraph (1). 
(3) EXCEPTION.—The prohibition under para-
graph (1) shall not apply with respect to the fol-
lowing: 
(A) Humanitarian assistance or disaster 
relief assistance authorized under the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961. 
(B) Assistance the Secretary determines to 
be essential to assist the government of a coun-
try to bring the responsible members of the rel-
evant governmental entity to justice for the acts 
described in paragraph (1). 
(4) WAIVER.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State, 
may waive the prohibition under paragraph (1) 
with respect to a governmental entity of a coun-
try if—
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(i) the President, acting through the 
Secretary of State and the Director of Na-
tional Intelligence, determines that such a 
waiver is in the national security interest 
of the United States; or 
(ii) the Secretary of State has re-
ceived credible information that the gov-
ernment of that country has— 
(I) performed a thorough inves-
tigation of the acts described in para-
graph (1) and is taking effective steps 
to bring responsible members of the 
relevant governmental entity to jus-
tice; 
(II) condemned violations of the 
freedom of the press and the acts de-
scribed in paragraph (1); 
(III) complied with any requests 
for information from international or 
regional human rights organizations 
with respect to the acts described in 
paragraph (1), in accordance with 
international legal obligations to pro-
tect the freedom of expression; and
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(IV) complied with United States 
Government requests for information 
with respect to the acts described in 
paragraph (1). 
(B) CERTIFICATION.—A waiver described 
in subparagraph (A) may only take effect if— 
(i) the Secretary of State certifies, not 
later than 30 days before the effective date 
of the waiver, to the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs and the Committee on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and 
the Committee on Foreign Relations and 
the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate that such waiver is warranted and 
includes an unclassified description of the 
factual basis supporting the certification, 
which may contain a classified annex; and 
(ii) the Director of National Intel-
ligence, not later than 30 days before the 
effective date of the waiver, submits to the 
Permanent Select Committee on Intel-
ligence of the House of Representatives 
and the Select Committee on Intelligence 
of the Senate a report detailing any under-
lying information that the intelligence com-
3026 
munity (as such term is defined in section 
3 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 
U.S.C. 3003)) has regarding the perpetra-
tors of the acts described in paragraph (1), 
which shall be submitted in unclassified 
form but may contain a classified annex. 
SEC. 6491. INTERAGENCY ONE HEALTH PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 
Human Services, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the 
Secretary of Interior (referred to in this subtitle as the 
‘‘Secretaries’’), in coordination with the United States 
Agency for International Development, the Environmental 
Protection Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, 
the Department of Defense, the Department of Com-
merce, and other departments and agencies as appro-
priate, shall develop, publish, and submit to Congress a 
national One Health Framework (referred to in this Act 
as the ‘‘framework’’) for coordinated Federal Activities 
under the One Health Program. 
(b) NATIONAL ONE HEALTH FRAMEWORK.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than one year 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retaries, in cooperation with the United States Agen-
cy for International Development, the Environmental 
Protection Agency, the Department of Homeland Se-
3027 
curity, the Department of Defense, the Department 
of Commerce, and other departments and agencies 
as appropriate, shall develop, publish, and submit to 
Congress a One Health Framework (referred to in 
this section as the ‘‘framework’’) for coordinated 
Federal activities under the One Health Program. 
(2) CONTENTS OF FRAMEWORK.—The frame-
work described in paragraph (1) shall describe exist-
ing efforts and contain recommendations for build-
ing upon and complementing the activities of the 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the 
Food and Drug Administration, the Office of the As-
sistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, 
the Public Health Service Corps, the Department of 
Agriculture, the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development, the Environmental Protection 
Agency, the National Institutes of Health, the De-
partment of Homeland Security, the Department of 
the Interior, and other departments and agencies, as 
appropriate, and shall— 
(A) assess, identify, and describe, as ap-
propriate, existing activities of Federal agencies 
and departments under the One Health Pro-
gram and consider whether all relevant agencies 
are adequately represented;
3028 
(B) for the 10-year period beginning in the 
year the framework is submitted, establish spe-
cific Federal goals and priorities that most ef-
fectively advance— 
(i) scientific understanding of the con-
nections between human, animal, and envi-
ronmental health; 
(ii) coordination and collaboration be-
tween agencies involved in the framework 
including sharing data and information, 
engaging in joint fieldwork, and engaging 
in joint laboratory studies related to One 
Health; 
(iii) identification of priority zoonotic 
diseases and priority areas of study; 
(iv) surveillance of priority zoonotic 
diseases and their transmission between 
animals and humans; 
(v) prevention of priority zoonotic dis-
eases and their transmission between ani-
mals and humans; 
(vi) protocol development to improve 
joint outbreak response to and recovery 
from zoonotic disease outbreaks in animals 
and humans; and
3029 
(vii) workforce development to prevent 
and respond to zoonotic disease outbreaks 
in animals and humans; 
(C) describe specific activities required to 
achieve the goals and priorities described in 
subparagraph (B), and propose a timeline for 
achieving these goals; 
(D) identify and expand partnerships, as 
appropriate, among Federal agencies, States, 
Indian tribes, academic institutions, nongovern-
mental organizations, and private entities in 
order to develop new approaches for reducing 
hazards to human and animal health and to 
strengthen understanding of the value of an in-
tegrated approach under the One Health Pro-
gram to addressing public health threats in a 
manner that prevents duplication; 
(E) identify best practices related to State 
and local-level research coordination, field ac-
tivities, and disease outbreak preparedness, re-
sponse, and recovery related to One Health; and 
(F) provide recommendations to Congress 
regarding additional action or legislation that 
may be required to assist in establishing the 
One Health Program.
3030 
(3) ADDENDUM.—Not later than three years 
after the creation of the framework, the Secretary, 
in coordination with the agencies described in para-
graph (1), shall submit to Congress an addendum to 
the framework that describes the progress made in 
advancing the activities described in the framework. 
(c) GAO REPORT.—Not later than two years after 
the date of the submission of the addendum under section 
(b)(3), the Comptroller General of the United States shall 
submit to Congress a report that— 
(1) details existing collaborative efforts between 
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the 
Food and Drug Administration, the Department of 
Agriculture, the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development, the Environmental Protection 
Agency, the National Institutes of Health, the De-
partment of Homeland Security, the Department of 
the Interior, and other departments and agencies to 
prevent and respond to zoonotic disease outbreaks in 
animals and humans; and 
(2) contains an evaluation of the framework 
and the specific activities requested to achieve the 
framework.
3031 
SEC. 6492. SUPPORT FOR AFGHAN SPECIAL IMMIGRANT 
VISA AND REFUGEE APPLICANTS. 
(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that the United States should increase support for 
nationals of Afghanistan who aided the United States mis-
sion in Afghanistan during the past twenty years and are 
now under threat from the Taliban, specifically special im-
migrant visa applicants who are nationals of Afghanistan 
and referrals of nationals of Afghanistan to the United 
States Refugee Admissions Program, including through 
the Priority 2 Designation for nationals of Afghanistan, 
who remain in Afghanistan or are in third countries. 
(b) REQUIREMENTS.—The Secretary of State, in co-
ordination with the Secretary of Homeland Security and 
the heads of other relevant Federal departments and agen-
cies, shall— 
(1) prioritize for evacuation from Afghanistan 
bona fide special immigrant visa applicants who are 
nationals of Afghanistan and referrals of nationals 
of Afghanistan to the United States Refugee Admis-
sions Program, including through the Priority 2 
Designation for nationals of Afghanistan; 
(2) facilitate the rapid departure of such indi-
viduals from Afghanistan by air charter and land 
passage;
3032 
(3) provide letters of support, diplomatic notes 
and other documentation, as appropriate, to ease 
transit of such individuals; 
(4) engage governments of relevant countries to 
better facilitate evacuation; 
(5) disseminate frequent updates to such indi-
viduals and relevant nongovernmental organizations; 
(6) identify or establish sufficient locations out-
side of Afghanistan that will accept such individuals 
during application processing; and 
(7) further surge capacity to better support 
such individuals and reduce their application proc-
essing times, while ensuring strict and necessary se-
curity vetting, including, to the extent practicable, 
enabling refugee referrals to initiate application 
processes while still in Afghanistan. 
(c) STRATEGY AND REPORTING.—The Secretary of 
State, in coordination with the Secretary of Homeland Se-
curity and the heads of other relevant Federal depart-
ments and agencies, shall submit to the committees on 
Foreign Affairs, Judiciary, Homeland Security, and 
Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the 
committees on Foreign Relations, Judiciary, Homeland 
Security and Governmental Affairs, and Armed Services 
of the Senate the following:
3033 
(1) Not later than 60 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, a strategy, with a classified 
annex if necessary, to safely process nationals of Af-
ghanistan abroad who have pending special immi-
grant visa applications and refugee referrals, which 
strategy shall include steps by the United States 
Government to carry out each of paragraphs (1) 
through (7) of subsection (b). 
(2) Not later than 60 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, and every month thereafter 
until December 31, 2022, a report, with a classified 
annex if necessary, that includes the following: 
(A) The number of nationals of Afghani-
stan— 
(i) referred to the United States Ref-
ugee Admissions Program through Priority 
1 and Priority 2 referrals, including wheth-
er such individuals remain in Afghanistan 
or outside Afghanistan, and the number of 
refugee applications for such individuals 
that are approved, denied, and pending; 
and 
(ii) who have pending special immi-
grant visa applications who remain in Af-
ghanistan 
or 
in 
a 
third 
country,
3034 
disaggregated by the special immigrant 
visa processing steps completed with re-
spect to such individuals. 
(B) Steps taken to implement each element 
of the strategy described in paragraph (1). 
SEC. 6493. REVIEW AND REPORT OF EXPERIMENTATION 
WITH TICKS AND INSECTS. 
(a) REVIEW.—The Comptroller General of the United 
States shall conduct a review of whether the Department 
of Defense experimented with ticks, other insects, airborne 
releases of tick-borne bacteria, viruses, pathogens, or any 
other tick-borne agents regarding use as a biological weap-
on between the years of 1950 and 1977. 
(b) REPORT.—If the Comptroller General of the 
United States finds that any experiment described under 
subsection (a) occurred, the Comptroller General shall 
submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate a report on— 
(1) the scope of such experiment; and 
(2) whether any ticks, insects, or other vector- 
borne agents used in such experiment were released 
outside of any laboratory by accident or experiment 
design.
3035 
SEC. 6494. INCREASE IN LENGTH OF POST-EMPLOYMENT 
BAN ON LOBBYING BY CERTAIN FORMER 
SENIOR EXECUTIVE BRANCH PERSONNEL. 
(a) INCREASE IN LENGTH OF BAN.—Section 207(c) 
of title 18, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in the heading, by striking ‘‘ONE-YEAR’’ 
and inserting ‘‘TWO-YEAR’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘within 1 year 
after the termination’’ and inserting ‘‘within 2 years 
after the termination’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply with respect to any individual who, 
on or after the date of the enactment of this Act, leaves 
a position to which subsection (c) of section 207 of title 
18, United States Code, applies. 
SEC. 6495. AFGHAN REFUGEES OF SPECIAL HUMANITARIAN 
CONCERN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State, in con-
sultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall 
designate as Priority 2 refugees of special humanitarian 
concern the following individuals: 
(1) Individuals who— 
(A) are or were habitual residents of Af-
ghanistan; 
(B) are nationals of Afghanistan or state-
less persons;
3036 
(C) have suffered persecution or have a 
well-founded fear of persecution; and 
(D) share common occupational character-
istics that identify them as targets of persecu-
tion in Afghanistan on account of race, religion, 
nationality, membership in a particular social 
group, or political opinion, as determined by the 
Secretary of State, including the following: 
(i) Civil servants. 
(ii) Public officials and government 
personnel, including members of the peace 
negotiation team. 
(iii) Democracy and human rights de-
fenders. 
(iv) Women’s rights defenders. 
(v) Journalists and media personnel. 
(vi) Legal professionals. 
(2) Individuals who— 
(A) are or were habitual residents of Af-
ghanistan; 
(B) are nationals of Afghanistan or state-
less persons; and 
(C) were employed in Afghanistan for an 
aggregate period of not less than 1 year by—
3037 
(i) a media or nongovernmental orga-
nization based in the United States; or 
(ii) an organization or entity that has 
received a grant from, or entered into a co-
operative agreement or contract with, the 
United States Government. 
(3) Individuals who— 
(A) are or were habitual residents of Af-
ghanistan; 
(B) are nationals of Afghanistan or state-
less persons; and 
(C) are beneficiaries of an approved I–130 
Petition for Alien Relative. 
(b) PROCESSING OF AFGHAN REFUGEES.—The proc-
essing of individuals who are or were habitual residents 
of Afghanistan, are nationals of Afghanistan or stateless 
persons, and have suffered persecution, or have a well- 
founded fear of persecution, for classification as refugees 
may occur in Afghanistan or in a third country. 
(c) ELIGIBILITY FOR ADMISSION AS A REFUGEE.— 
An alien may not be denied the opportunity to apply for 
admission as a refugee under this section solely because 
such alien qualifies as an immediate relative of a national 
of the United States or is eligible for admission to the 
United States under any other immigrant classification.
3038 
(d) 
IDENTIFICATION
OF
OTHER
PERSECUTED 
GROUPS.—The Secretary of State, or the designee of the 
Secretary, is authorized to classify other groups of individ-
uals who are or were nationals and residents of Afghani-
stan as Priority 2 refugees of special humanitarian con-
cern. 
(e) SATISFACTION
OF OTHER REQUIREMENTS.— 
Aliens designated as Priority 2 refugees of special humani-
tarian concern under this section shall be deemed to sat-
isfy the requirements under section 207 of the Immigra-
tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1157) for admission 
to the United States. 
(f) TIMELINE FOR PROCESSING APPLICATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State and 
the Secretary of Homeland Security shall ensure 
that all steps under the control of the United States 
Government incidental to the approval of such appli-
cations, including required screenings and back-
ground checks, are completed not later than 6 
months after the date on which an eligible applicant 
submits an application under subsection (a). 
(2) EXCEPTION.—Notwithstanding paragraph 
(1), the United States Refugee Admission Program 
may take additional time to process applications de-
scribed in paragraph (1) if satisfaction of national
3039 
security concerns requires such additional time, if 
the Secretary of Homeland Security, or the designee 
of the Secretary, has determined that the applicant 
meets the requirements for status as a refugee of 
special humanitarian concern under this section and 
has so notified the applicant. 
(g) ADDITIONAL FORMS OF IMMIGRATION RELIEF.— 
The Secretary of State shall consider additional forms of 
immigration relief available to Afghans and coordinate 
with embassies, nongovernmental organizations, and the 
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to re-
ceive referrals for individuals who— 
(1) are or were habitual residents of Afghani-
stan; 
(2) are nationals of Afghanistan or stateless 
persons; and 
(3) are described in subsection (a) or otherwise 
face humanitarian concerns. 
(h) ISSUANCE OF TRAVEL DOCUMENTS.—Each offi-
cer or employee of the Federal Government whose official 
duties include issuing travel documentation, diplomatic 
notes, letters of support, or other relevant materials for 
individuals described in subsection (a) or for nationals of 
Afghanistan who are applying for special immigrant visas 
or any other humanitarian relief under the immigration
3040 
laws, shall carry out such duties as expeditiously as pos-
sible, and shall prioritize facilitating the evacuation of 
such individuals. 
(i) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that— 
(1) the Secretary of State, in coordination with 
the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of 
Homeland Security, should establish a special hu-
manitarian parole program that— 
(A) is for individuals described in sub-
section (a) and for nationals of Afghanistan 
who are applying for special immigrant visas or 
any other humanitarian relief under the immi-
gration laws, who are human rights defenders, 
democracy workers, women’s rights activists, 
women politicians, journalists, or other highly 
visible women leaders; and 
(B) prioritizes providing assistance for 
women; and 
(2) women’s organizations in Afghanistan 
should be included as recipients of any Federal 
funding for assistance in Afghanistan, such as for 
food, water, and shelter, as such organizations serve 
as trusted resources for vulnerable Afghan women
3041 
seeking such assistance, most often as they are flee-
ing direct violence and threats on their lives. 
SEC. 6496. ESTABLISHMENT OF SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE 
ECONOMIC AND SECURITY IMPLICATIONS OF 
QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Title I of the National Quan-
tum Initiative Act (15 U.S.C. 8811 note et al.) is amend-
ed— 
(1) by redesignating section 105 as section 106; 
and 
(2) by inserting after section 104 the following 
new section: 
‘‘SEC. 105. SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE ECONOMIC AND SECU-
RITY IMPLICATIONS OF QUANTUM INFORMA-
TION SCIENCE. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The President shall estab-
lish, through the National Science and Technology Coun-
cil, the Subcommittee on the Economic and Security Im-
plications of Quantum Information Science. 
‘‘(b) MEMBERSHIP.—The Subcommittee shall include 
a representative of— 
‘‘(1) the Department of Energy; 
‘‘(2) the Department of Defense; 
‘‘(3) the Department of Commerce; 
‘‘(4) the Department of Homeland Security;
3042 
‘‘(5) the Office of the Director of National In-
telligence; 
‘‘(6) the Office of Management and Budget; 
‘‘(7) the Office of Science and Technology Pol-
icy; 
‘‘(8) the Federal Bureau of Investigation; 
‘‘(9) the National Science Foundation; and 
‘‘(10) such other Federal department or agency 
as the President considers appropriate. 
‘‘(c) CHAIRPERSONS.—The Subcommittee shall be 
jointly chaired by the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary 
of Energy, the Director of National Intelligence, and the 
Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. 
‘‘(d) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Subcommittee shall— 
‘‘(1) in coordination with the Director of the 
Office and Management and Budget and the Direc-
tor of the National Quantum Coordination Office, 
track investments of the Federal Government in 
quantum information science research and develop-
ment; 
‘‘(2) review and assess any economic or security 
implications of such investments; 
‘‘(3) review and assess any counterintelligence 
risks or other foreign threats to such investments;
3043 
‘‘(4) establish goals and priorities of the Fed-
eral Government and make recommendations to 
Federal departments and agencies and the Director 
of the National Quantum Coordination Office to ad-
dress any counterintelligence risks or other foreign 
threats identified as a result of an assessment under 
paragraph (3); 
‘‘(5) assess the export of technology associated 
with quantum information science and recommend 
to the Secretaries of Commerce, Defense, and State 
export controls necessary to protect the economic 
and security interests of the United States as a re-
sult of such assessment; 
‘‘(6) recommend to Federal departments and 
agencies investment strategies in quantum informa-
tion science that advance the economic and security 
interest of the United States; 
‘‘(7) recommend to the Director of National In-
telligence, the Secretary of Defense, and the Sec-
retary of Energy, appropriate protections to address 
counterintelligence risks or other foreign threats 
identified as a result of the assessment under para-
graph (3); and 
‘‘(8) in coordination with the Subcommittee on 
Quantum Information Science, ensure the approach
3044 
of the United States to investments of the Federal 
Government in quantum information science re-
search and development reflects a balance between 
scientific progress and the potential economic and 
security implications of such progress. 
‘‘(e) TECHNICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense, 
the Secretary of Energy, the Director of National 
Intelligence, and the Director of the National Quan-
tum Coordination Office may provide to the Sub-
committee personnel, equipment, facilities, and such 
other technical and administrative support as may 
be necessary for the Subcommittee to carry out the 
responsibilities of the Subcommittee under this sec-
tion. 
‘‘(2) SUPPORT RELATED TO CLASSIFIED INFOR-
MATION.—The Director of the Office of Science and 
Technology Policy, and (to the extent practicable) 
the Secretary of Defense and the Director of Na-
tional Intelligence, shall provide to the Sub-
committee technical and administrative support re-
lated to the responsibilities of the Subcommittee that 
involve classified information, including support re-
lated to sensitive compartmented information facili-
ties and the storage of classified information.’’.
3045 
(b) SUNSET FOR SUBCOMMITTEE.— 
(1) INCLUSION IN SUNSET PROVISION.—Such 
title is further amended in section 106, as redesig-
nated by subsection (a), by striking ‘‘103, and 104’’ 
and inserting ‘‘103, 104, and 105’’. 
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made 
by subsection (a) shall take effect as if included in 
the enactment of the National Quantum Initiative 
Act (15 U.S.C. 8801 note et al.). 
(c) CONFORMING
AMENDMENTS.—The National 
Quantum Initiative Act (15 U.S.C. 8801 note et al.) is 
further amended— 
(1) in section 2, by striking paragraph (7) and 
inserting the following new paragraphs: 
‘‘(7) SUBCOMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC AND SECU-
RITY IMPLICATIONS.—The term ‘Subcommittee on 
Economic and Security Implications’ means the Sub-
committee on the Economic and Security Implica-
tions of Quantum Information Science established 
under section 105(a). 
‘‘(8) SUBCOMMITTEE ON QUANTUM INFORMA-
TION SCIENCE.—The term ‘Subcommittee on Quan-
tum Information Science’ means the Subcommittee 
on Quantum Information Science of the National
3046 
Science and Technology Council established under 
section 103(a).’’; 
(2) in section 102(b)(1)— 
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘; 
and’’ and inserting ‘‘on Quantum Information 
Science;’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (B), by inserting 
‘‘and’’ after the semicolon; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph: 
‘‘(C) the Subcommittee on Economic and 
Security Implications;’’; and 
(3) in section 104(d)(1), by striking ‘‘ and the 
Subcommittee’’ and inserting ‘‘, the Subcommittee 
on Quantum Information Science, and the Sub-
committee on Economic and Security Implications’’ 
(d) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of the National Quantum Initiative Act 
(15 U.S.C. 8801 note et al.) is amended by striking the 
item relating to section 105 and inserting the following 
new items: 
‘‘105. Subcommittee on the Economic and Security Implications of Quantum In-
formation Science. 
‘‘106. Sunset.’’.
3047 
SEC. 6497. REPORT ON EFFECTIVENESS OF TALIBAN SANC-
TIONS. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall sub-
mit to Congress a report on the status of United States 
and United Nations sanctions imposed with respect to the 
Taliban that includes— 
(1) a description of any gaps in current sanc-
tions authorities to block the Taliban’s sources of fi-
nance given the current situation in Afghanistan and 
the Taliban’s takeover; 
(2) recommendations for ways current sanctions 
can be enhanced to block the Taliban’s profit from 
the drug trade and the trade of rare earth minerals, 
as well as from economic relations between the 
Taliban and China; and 
(3) a list of current waivers and licenses grant-
ed with respect to sanctions imposed with respect to 
Afghanistan, the reasons behind them, and how such 
waivers and licenses affect the Taliban’s financing. 
SEC. 6498. REPORT ON NET WORTH OF SYRIAN PRESIDENT 
BASHAR AL-ASSAD. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 120 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
3048 
Relations of the Senate a report on the estimated net 
worth and known sources of income of Syrian President 
Bashar al-Assad and his family members (including 
spouse, children, siblings, and paternal and maternal cous-
ins), including income from corrupt or illicit activities and 
including assets, investments, other business interests, 
and relevant beneficial ownership information. 
(b) FORM.—The report required by subsection (a) 
shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may contain 
a classified annex if necessary. The unclassified portion 
of such report shall be made available on a publicly avail-
able internet website of the Federal Government. 
SEC. 6499. REPORT ON ASSISTANCE TO TURKMENISTAN. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in coordination 
with the Administrator of the United States Agency for 
International Development, shall submit to the Committee 
on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and 
the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a re-
port on the impact of assistance provided to Turkmenistan 
that includes the following: 
(1) A description of assistance provided or in-
tended to be provided to Turkmenistan. 
(2) A description of the objectives, and progress 
meeting such objectives, of such assistance, includ-
3049 
ing as it relates to a strategy on United States en-
gagement with Turkmenistan. 
(3) An assessment of the impact on public 
health 
outcomes 
related 
to 
COVID–19 
in 
Turkmenistan. 
(4) A description of metrics and evidence used 
to measure such outcomes. 
SEC. 6499A. REPORT ON SPACE DEBRIS AND LOW EARTH 
ORBIT SATELLITES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the National Space 
Council shall submit to the appropriate congressional com-
mittees a report that includes— 
(1) an assessment of the risks space debris or-
biting the Earth imposes on night sky luminance, 
collision risk, radio interference, astronomical data 
loss by satellite streaks, and other potential factors 
relevant to space exploration, research, and national 
security; and 
(2) the current and future impact of low Earth 
orbit satellites on night sky luminance and how such 
satellites may impact space exploration, research, 
and national security.
3050 
(b) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEES 
DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate con-
gressional committees’’ means— 
(1) the Committee on Armed Services, the 
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and 
the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the 
House of Representatives; and 
(2) the Committee on Armed Services and Com-
mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of 
the Senate. 
SEC. 6499B. STUDY ON SUPPLY CHAINS CRITICAL TO NA-
TIONAL SECURITY. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence and 
the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency shall joint-
ly— 
(1) complete a study— 
(A) to identify— 
(i) supply chains that are critical to 
the national security, economic security, or 
public health or safety of the United 
States; and 
(ii) important vulnerabilities in such 
supply chains; and
3051 
(B) to develop recommendations for legis-
lative or administrative action to secure the 
supply chains identified under subparagraph 
(A)(i); and 
(2) submit to the congressional intelligence 
committees (as that term is defined in section 3 of 
the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 
3003)) the findings of the directors with respect to 
the study conducted under paragraph (1). 
SEC. 6499C. STRATEGY FOR ENGAGEMENT WITH SOUTH-
EAST ASIA AND ASEAN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, 
in consultation with the heads of other Federal depart-
ments and agencies as appropriate, shall develop and sub-
mit to the appropriate congressional committees a com-
prehensive strategy for engagement with Southeast Asia 
and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations 
(ASEAN). 
(b) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED.—The strategy re-
quired by subsection (a) shall include the following: 
(1) A statement of enduring United States in-
terests in Southeast Asia and a description of efforts 
to bolster the effectiveness of ASEAN. 
(2) A description of efforts to—
3052 
(A) deepen and expand Southeast Asian al-
liances, partnerships, and multilateral engage-
ments, including efforts to expand broad based 
and inclusive economic growth, security ties, se-
curity cooperation and interoperability, eco-
nomic connectivity, and expand opportunities 
for ASEAN to work with other like-minded 
partners in the region; and 
(B) encourage like-minded partners outside 
of the Indo-Pacific region to engage with 
ASEAN. 
(3) A summary of initiatives across the whole 
of the United States Government to strengthen the 
United States partnership with Southeast Asian na-
tions and ASEAN, including to promote broad based 
and inclusive economic growth, trade, investment, 
energy innovation and sustainability, public-private 
partnerships, physical and digital infrastructure de-
velopment, education, disaster management, public 
health and global health security, and economic, po-
litical, and public diplomacy in Southeast Asia. 
(4) A summary of initiatives across the whole 
of the United States Government to enhance the ca-
pacity of Southeast Asian nations with respect to en-
forcing international law and multilateral sanctions,
3053 
and initiatives to cooperate with ASEAN as an insti-
tution in these areas. 
(5) A summary of initiatives across the whole 
of the United States Government to promote human 
rights and democracy, to strengthen the rule of law, 
civil society, and transparent governance, to combat 
disinformation and to protect the integrity of elec-
tions from outside influence. 
(6) A summary of initiatives to promote secu-
rity cooperation and security assistance within 
Southeast Asian nations, including— 
(A) maritime security and maritime do-
main awareness initiatives for protecting the 
maritime commons and supporting international 
law and freedom of navigation in the South 
China Sea; and 
(B) efforts to combat terrorism, human 
trafficking, piracy, and illegal fishing, and pro-
mote more open, reliable routes for sea lines of 
communication. 
(c) DISTRIBUTION OF STRATEGY.—For the purposes 
of assuring allies and partners in Southeast Asia and 
deepening United States engagement with ASEAN, the 
Secretary of State shall direct each United States chief 
of mission to ASEAN and its member states to distribute
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the strategy required by subsection (a) to host govern-
ments. 
(d) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEES 
DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate con-
gressional committees’’ means— 
(1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the 
Committee on Armed Services of the House of Rep-
resentatives; and 
(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations and 
the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate. 
SEC. 
6499D. 
REPRESENTATION 
AND 
LEADERSHIP 
OF 
UNITED 
STATES 
IN 
COMMUNICATIONS 
STANDARDS-SETTING BODIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—In order to enhance the represen-
tation of the United States and promote United States 
leadership in standards-setting bodies that set standards 
for 5G networks and for future generations of wireless 
communications networks, the Assistant Secretary shall, 
in consultation with the National Institute of Standards 
and Technology— 
(1) equitably encourage participation by compa-
nies and a wide variety of relevant stakeholders, but 
not including any company or relevant stakeholder 
that the Assistant Secretary has determined to be 
not trusted, (to the extent such standards-setting
3055 
bodies allow such stakeholders to participate) in 
such standards-setting bodies; and 
(2) equitably offer technical expertise to compa-
nies and a wide variety of relevant stakeholders, but 
not including any company or relevant stakeholder 
that the Assistant Secretary has determined to be 
not trusted, (to the extent such standards-setting 
bodies allow such stakeholders to participate) to fa-
cilitate such participation. 
(b) STANDARDS-SETTING BODIES.—The standards- 
setting bodies referred to in subsection (a) include— 
(1) the International Organization for Stand-
ardization; 
(2) the voluntary standards-setting bodies that 
develop protocols for wireless devices and other 
equipment, such as the 3GPP and the Institute of 
Electrical and Electronics Engineers; and 
(3) any standards-setting body accredited by 
the American National Standards Institute or Alli-
ance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions. 
(c) BRIEFING.—Not later than 60 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary shall 
brief the Committees on Energy and Commerce and For-
eign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittees on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and
3056 
Foreign Relations of the Senate on a strategy to carry 
out subsection (a). 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) 3GPP.—The term ‘‘3GPP’’ means the 3rd 
Generation Partnership Project. 
(2) 5G NETWORK.—The term ‘‘5G network’’ 
means a fifth-generation mobile network as de-
scribed by 3GPP Release 15 or higher. 
(3) ASSISTANT SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Assist-
ant Secretary’’ means the Assistant Secretary of 
Commerce for Communications and Information. 
(4) CLOUD
COMPUTING.—The term ‘‘cloud 
computing’’ has the meaning given the term in Spe-
cial Publication 800–145 of the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, entitled ‘‘The NIST Def-
inition of Cloud Computing’’, published in Sep-
tember 2011, or any successor publication. 
(5) COMMUNICATIONS
NETWORK.—The term 
‘‘communications network’’ means any of the fol-
lowing: 
(A) A system enabling the transmission, 
between or among points specified by the user, 
of information of the user’s choosing. 
(B) Cloud computing resources.
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(C) A network or system used to access 
cloud computing resources. 
(6) NOT TRUSTED.—The term ‘‘not trusted’’ 
means, with respect to a company or stakeholder, 
that the company or stakeholder is determined by 
the Assistant Secretary to pose a threat to the na-
tional security of the United States. In making such 
a determination, the Assistant Secretary shall rely 
solely on one or more of the following determina-
tions: 
(A) A specific determination made by any 
executive branch interagency body with appro-
priate national security expertise, including the 
Federal Acquisition Security Council estab-
lished under section 1322(a) of title 41, United 
States Code. 
(B) A specific determination made by the 
Department of Commerce pursuant to Execu-
tive Order No. 13873 (84 Fed. Reg. 22689; re-
lating to securing the information and commu-
nications technology and services supply chain). 
(C) Whether a company or stakeholder 
produces or provides covered telecommuni-
cations equipment or services, as defined in sec-
tion 889(f)(3) of the John S. McCain National
3058 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 
(Public Law 115–232; 132 Stat. 1918). 
SEC. 6499E. MALIGN FOREIGN TALENT RECRUITMENT PRO-
GRAM PROHIBITION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 18 months after 
the date of enactment of this Act, each Federal research 
agency shall establish a requirement that, as part of a pro-
posal for a research and development award from the 
agency— 
(1) each covered individual listed in the pro-
posal for a research and development award certify 
that they are not a party to a malign foreign talent 
recruitment program from a foreign country of con-
cern in their proposal submission and annually 
thereafter for the duration of the award; and 
(2) each institution of higher education or other 
organization applying for such an award certify that 
each covered individual who is employed by the insti-
tution of higher education or other organization has 
been made aware of the requirement under this sec-
tion. 
(b) INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION.—Each policy 
developed under subsection (a) shall not prohibit—
3059 
(1) making scholarly presentations and pub-
lishing written materials regarding scientific infor-
mation not otherwise controlled under current law; 
(2) participation in international conferences or 
other international exchanges, research projects or 
programs that involve open and reciprocal exchange 
of scientific information, and which are aimed at ad-
vancing international scientific understanding; 
(3) advising a foreign student enrolled at the 
covered individual’s institution of higher education 
or writing a recommendation for such a student, at 
the student’s request; and 
(4) other international activities deemed appro-
priate by the Federal research agency head or their 
designee. 
(c) LIMITATION.—The certifications required under 
subsection (a) shall not apply retroactively to research and 
development awards made prior to the establishment of 
the policy by the Federal research agency. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘covered individual’’ means an in-
dividual who— 
(A) contributes in a substantive, meaning-
ful way to the scientific development or execu-
tion of a research and development project pro-
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posed to be carried out with a research and de-
velopment award from a Federal research agen-
cy; and 
(B) is designated as a covered individual 
by the Federal research agency concerned. 
(2) The term ‘‘Federal research agency’’ means 
any Federal agency with an annual extramural re-
search expenditure of over $100,000,000. 
(3) The term ‘‘foreign country of concern’’ 
means the People’s Republic of China, the Demo-
cratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Russian Fed-
eration, the Islamic Republic of Iran, or any other 
country deemed to be a country of concern as deter-
mined by the Department of State. 
(4) The term ‘‘Malign foreign talent program’’ 
means any program, position, or activity that in-
cludes compensation, including cash, research fund-
ing, promised future compensation, or things of 
value, directly provided by the foreign state at any 
level (national, provincial or local) or other foreign 
entity, whether or not directly sponsored by the for-
eign state, to the targeted individual in exchange for 
the individual— 
(A) transferring intellectual property, ma-
terials, or data products owned by a U.S. entity
3061 
or developed with a federal research and devel-
opment award exclusively to the foreign coun-
try’s government or other foreign entity regard-
less of whether that government or entity pro-
vided support for the development of the intel-
lectual property, materials, or data products; 
(B) being required to recruit students or 
researchers to enroll in malign foreign talent 
programs sponsored by the foreign state or en-
tity; or 
(C) establishing a laboratory, accepting a 
faculty position, or undertaking any other em-
ployment or appointment in the foreign state or 
entity contrary to the standard terms and con-
ditions of a federal research and development 
award. 
(5) The term ‘‘research and development 
award’’ means support provided to an individual or 
entity by a Federal research agency to carry out re-
search and development activities, which may include 
support in the form of a grant, contract, cooperative 
agreement, or other such transaction. The term does 
not include a grant, contract, agreement or other 
transaction for the procurement of goods or services
3062 
to meet the administrative needs of a Federal re-
search agency. 
SEC. 6499F. NATIONAL EQUAL PAY ENFORCEMENT TASK 
FORCE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—There is established the National 
Equal Pay Enforcement Task Force, consisting of rep-
resentatives from the Equal Employment Opportunity 
Commission, the Department of Justice, the Department 
of Labor, and the Office of Personnel Management. 
(b) MISSION.—In order to improve compliance, public 
education, and enforcement of equal pay laws, the Na-
tional Equal Pay Enforcement Task Force will ensure that 
the agencies in subsection (a) are coordinating efforts and 
limiting potential gaps in enforcement. 
(c) DUTIES.—The National Equal Pay Enforcement 
Task Force shall investigate challenges related to pay in-
equity pursuant to its mission in subsection (b), advance 
recommendations to address those challenges, and create 
action plans to implement the recommendations. 
SEC. 6499G. ENSURING THAT CONTRACTOR EMPLOYEES ON 
ARMY CORPS PROJECTS ARE PAID PRE-
VAILING WAGES AS REQUIRED BY LAW. 
The Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works 
shall provide to each Army Corps district clarifying, uni-
form guidance with respect to prevailing wage require-
3063 
ments for contractors and subcontractors of the Army 
Corps that— 
(1) conforms with the Department of Labor’s 
regulations, policies, and guidance with respect to 
the proper implementation and enforcement of sub-
chapter IV of chapter 31 of title 40, United States 
Code (commonly known as the ″Davis-Bacon Act″) 
and other related Acts, including the proper classi-
fication of all crafts by Federal construction contrac-
tors and subcontractors; 
(2) directs Army Corps districts to investigate 
worker complaints and third-party complaints within 
30 days of the date of filing; and 
(3) instructs Army Corps districts that certified 
payroll reports submitted by contractors and sub-
contractors and the information contained therein 
shall be publicly available and are not exempt from 
disclosure under section 552(b) of title 5, United 
States Code. 
SEC. 6499H. DEFINITION OF LAND USE REVENUE UNDER 
WEST LOS ANGELES LEASING ACT OF 2016. 
Section 2(d)(2) of the West Los Angeles Leasing Act 
of 2016 (Public Law 114–226) is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘; and’’ 
and inserting a semicolon;
3064 
(2) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as sub-
paragraph (C); and 
(3) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the fol-
lowing new subparagraph: 
‘‘(B) to the extent specified in advance in 
an appropriations Act for a fiscal year, any 
funds received as compensation for an easement 
described in subsection (e); and’’. 
SEC. 6499I. AMENDMENT TO RADIATION EXPOSURE COM-
PENSATION ACT. 
Section 2(a)(1) of the Radiation Exposure Com-
pensation Act (Public Law 101–426; 42 U.S.C. 2210 
note) is amended by inserting ‘‘, including individuals in 
New Mexico, Idaho, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, Texas, Wyo-
ming, Oregon, Washington, South Dakota, North Dakota, 
Nevada, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands,’’ after 
‘‘tests exposed individuals’’.
3065 
SEC. 6499J. LIMITATION ON LICENSES AND OTHER AU-
THORIZATIONS FOR EXPORT OF CERTAIN 
ITEMS REMOVED FROM THE JURISDICTION 
OF THE UNITED STATES MUNITIONS LIST 
AND MADE SUBJECT TO THE JURISDICTION 
OF THE EXPORT ADMINISTRATION REGULA-
TIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Commerce may 
not grant a license or other authorization for the export 
of covered items unless before granting the license or other 
authorization the Secretary submits to the chairman and 
ranking member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 
the House of Representatives and the chairman and rank-
ing member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 
Senate a written certification with respect to such pro-
posed export license or other authorization containing— 
(1) the name of the person applying for the li-
cense or other authorization; 
(2) the name of the person who is the proposed 
recipient of the export; 
(3) the name of the country or international or-
ganization to which the export will be made; 
(4) a description of the items proposed to be ex-
ported; and 
(5) the value of the items proposed to be ex-
ported.
3066 
(b) FORM.—A certification required under subsection 
(a) shall be submitted in unclassified form, except that 
information regarding the dollar value and number of 
items proposed to be exported may be restricted from pub-
lic disclosure if such disclosure would be detrimental to 
the security of the United States. 
(c) DEADLINES; WAIVER.—A certification required 
under subsection (a) shall be submitted— 
(1) at least 15 calendar days before a proposed 
export license or other authorization is granted in 
the case of a transfer of items to a country which 
is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza-
tion or Australia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, 
Israel, or New Zealand, and 
(2) at least 30 calendar days before a proposed 
export license or other authorization is issued in the 
case of a transfer of items to any other country. 
(d) 
CONGRESSIONAL
RESOLUTION
OF
DIS-
APPROVAL.—A proposed export license or other authoriza-
tion described in paragraph (1) of subsection (c) shall be-
come effective after the end of the 15-day period described 
in such paragraph, and a proposed export license or other 
authorization described in paragraph (2) of subsection (c) 
shall become effective after the end of the 30-day period 
specified in such paragraph, only if the Congress does not
3067 
enact, within the applicable time period, a joint resolution 
prohibiting the export of items with respect to the pro-
posed export license. 
(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) COVERED
ITEMS.—The term ‘‘covered 
items’’ means items that— 
(A) were included in category I of the 
United States Munitions List (as in effect on 
January 1, 2020); 
(B) were removed from the United States 
Munitions List and made subject to the juris-
diction of the Export Administration Regula-
tions through publication in the Federal Reg-
ister on January 23, 2020; and 
(C) are valued at $1,000,000 or more. 
(2) EXPORT ADMINISTRATION REGULATIONS.— 
The term ‘‘Export Administration Regulations’’ 
means the regulations set forth in subchapter C of 
chapter VII of title 15, Code of Federal Regulations, 
or successor regulations. 
(3) UNITED
STATES
MUNITIONS
LIST.—The 
term ‘‘United States Munitions List’’ means the list 
maintained pursuant to part 121 of title 22, Code 
of Federal Regulations.
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SEC. 6499K. STUDY ON FACTORS AFFECTING EMPLOYMENT 
OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMMIGRANTS AND REF-
UGEES WITH PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS 
OBTAINED IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
(a) STUDY REQUIRED.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Labor shall 
conduct a study on the factors affecting employment 
opportunities in the United States for applicable im-
migrants and refugees with professional credentials 
obtained in countries other than the United States. 
(2) COORDINATION.—The Department of Labor 
shall conduct this study in coordination with the 
Secretary of State, the Secretary of Education, the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Sec-
retary of Commerce, the Secretary of Homeland Se-
curity, the Administrator of the Internal Revenue 
Service, and the Commissioner of the Social Security 
Administration. 
(3) WORK WITH OTHER ENTITIES.—The Sec-
retary of Labor shall seek to work with relevant non- 
profit organizations and State agencies to use the 
existing data and resources of such entities to con-
duct the study in paragraph (1). 
(4) LIMITATIONS ON DISCLOSURE.—Any infor-
mation provided to the Secretary of Labor under 
this subsection shall be used only for the purposes
3069 
of, and to the extent necessary to ensure the effi-
cient operation of, the study described in paragraph 
(1). No such information shall be disclosed to any 
other person or entity except as provided in this sub-
section. 
(b) INCLUSIONS.—The study under subsection (a)(1) 
shall include the following: 
(1) An analysis of the employment history of 
applicable immigrants and refugees admitted to the 
United States in the last 5 years. This analysis shall 
include, to the extent practicable, a comparison of 
the employment applicable immigrants and refugees 
held prior to immigrating to the United States with 
the employment obtained in the United States, if 
any, since the arrival of such applicable immigrants 
and refugees. This analysis shall also note the occu-
pational and professional credentials and academic 
degrees held by applicable immigrants and refugees 
prior to immigrating to the United States. 
(2) An assessment of any barriers that prevent 
applicable immigrants and refugees from using occu-
pational experience obtained outside the United 
States to obtain employment opportunities in the 
United States.
3070 
(3) An analysis of existing public and private 
resources assisting applicable immigrants and refu-
gees who have professional experience and qualifica-
tions obtained outside the United States with using 
such professional experience and qualifications to ob-
tain skill-appropriate employment opportunities in 
the United States. 
(4) Policy recommendations for better enabling 
applicable immigrants and refugees who have profes-
sional experience and qualifications obtained outside 
the United States to use such professional experi-
ence and qualifications to obtain skill-appropriate 
employment opportunities in the United States. 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 18 months after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Labor 
shall submit to Congress and make publically available on 
the website of the Department of Labor a report that de-
scribes the results of the study conducted under subsection 
(a)(1). 
(d) DEFINITIONS.— 
(1) APPLICABLE
IMMIGRANTS
AND
REFU-
GEES.—For the purposes of this section, the term 
‘‘applicable immigrants and refugees’’— 
(A) means individuals who are—
3071 
(i) not citizens or nationals of the 
United States but who are lawfully present 
and authorized to be employed; or 
(ii) naturalized citizens born outside 
of the United States and its outlying pos-
sessions; and 
(B) includes individuals described in sec-
tion 602(b)(2) of the Afghan Allies Protection 
Act of 2009 (8 U.S.C. 1101 note). 
(2) OTHER TERMS.—Except as otherwise de-
fined in this subsection, terms used in this section 
have the definitions given such terms under section 
101(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1101(a)). 
TITLE LXV—SECURING AND ENA-
BLING COMMERCE USING RE-
MOTE AND ELECTRONIC NO-
TARIZATION 
SEC. 6501. DEFINITIONS. 
In this title: 
(1) COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY.—The term 
‘‘communication technology’’, with respect to a nota-
rization, means an electronic device or process that 
allows the notary public performing the notarization 
and a remotely located individual to communicate
3072 
with each other simultaneously by sight and sound 
during the notarization. 
(2) ELECTRONIC; ELECTRONIC RECORD; ELEC-
TRONIC
SIGNATURE; 
INFORMATION; 
PERSON; 
RECORD.—The 
terms 
‘‘electronic’’, 
‘‘electronic 
record’’, ‘‘electronic signature’’, ‘‘information’’, ‘‘per-
son’’, and ‘‘record’’ have the meanings given those 
terms in section 106 of the Electronic Signatures in 
Global and National Commerce Act (15 U.S.C. 
7006). 
(3) LAW.—The term ‘‘law’’ includes any stat-
ute, regulation, rule, or rule of law. 
(4) NOTARIAL OFFICER.—The term ‘‘notarial 
officer’’ means— 
(A) a notary public; or 
(B) any other individual authorized to per-
form a notarization under the laws of a State 
without a commission or appointment as a no-
tary public. 
(5) NOTARIAL OFFICER’S STATE; NOTARY PUB-
LIC’S STATE.—The term ‘‘notarial officer’s State’’ or 
‘‘notary public’s State’’ means the State in which a 
notarial officer, or a notary public, as applicable, is 
authorized to perform a notarization.
3073 
(6) 
NOTARIZATION.—The 
term 
‘‘notariza-
tion’’— 
(A) means any act that a notarial officer 
may perform under— 
(i) Federal law, including this title; or 
(ii) the laws of the notarial officer’s 
State; and 
(B) includes any act described in subpara-
graph (A) and performed by a notarial officer— 
(i) with respect to— 
(I) a tangible record; or 
(II) an electronic record; and 
(ii) for— 
(I) an individual in the physical 
presence of the notarial officer; or 
(II) a remotely located individual. 
(7) NOTARY PUBLIC.—The term ‘‘notary pub-
lic’’ means an individual commissioned or appointed 
as a notary public to perform a notarization under 
the laws of a State. 
(8) PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE.—The term ‘‘per-
sonal knowledge’’, with respect to the identity of an 
individual, means knowledge of the identity of the 
individual through dealings sufficient to provide rea-
3074 
sonable certainty that the individual has the identity 
claimed. 
(9) REMOTELY
LOCATED
INDIVIDUAL.—The 
term ‘‘remotely located individual’’, with respect to 
a notarization, means an individual who is not in the 
physical presence of the notarial officer performing 
the notarization. 
(10) REQUIREMENT.—The term ‘‘requirement’’ 
includes a duty, a standard of care, and a prohibi-
tion. 
(11) 
SIGNATURE.—The 
term 
‘‘signature’’ 
means— 
(A) an electronic signature; or 
(B) a tangible symbol executed or adopted 
by a person and evidencing the present intent 
to authenticate or adopt a record. 
(12) SIMULTANEOUSLY.—The term ‘‘simulta-
neously’’, with respect to a communication between 
parties— 
(A) means that each party communicates 
substantially simultaneously and without unrea-
sonable interruption or disconnection; and 
(B) includes any reasonably short delay 
that is inherent in, or common with respect to, 
the method used for the communication.
3075 
(13) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’— 
(A) means— 
(i) any State of the United States; 
(ii) the District of Columbia; 
(iii) the Commonwealth of Puerto 
Rico; 
(iv) any territory or possession of the 
United States; and 
(v) any federally recognized Indian 
Tribe; and 
(B) includes any executive, legislative, or 
judicial agency, court, department, board, of-
fice, clerk, recorder, register, registrar, commis-
sion, authority, institution, instrumentality, 
county, municipality, or other political subdivi-
sion of an entity described in any of clauses (i) 
through (v) of subparagraph (A). 
SEC. 6502. AUTHORIZATION TO PERFORM AND MINIMUM 
STANDARDS FOR ELECTRONIC NOTARIZA-
TION. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION.—Unless prohibited under sec-
tion 6109, and subject to subsection (b), a notary public 
may perform a notarization that occurs in or affects inter-
state commerce with respect to an electronic record.
3076 
(b) REQUIREMENTS
OF ELECTRONIC NOTARIZA-
TION.—If a notary public performs a notarization under 
subsection (a), the following requirements shall apply with 
respect to the notarization: 
(1) The electronic signature of the notary pub-
lic, and all other information required to be included 
under other applicable law, shall be attached to or 
logically associated with the electronic record. 
(2) The electronic signature and other informa-
tion described in paragraph (1) shall be bound to 
the electronic record in a manner that renders any 
subsequent change or modification to the electronic 
record evident. 
SEC. 6503. AUTHORIZATION TO PERFORM AND MINIMUM 
STANDARDS FOR REMOTE NOTARIZATION. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION.—Unless prohibited under sec-
tion 6109, and subject to subsection (b), a notary public 
may perform a notarization that occurs in or affects inter-
state commerce for a remotely located individual. 
(b) REQUIREMENTS OF REMOTE NOTARIZATION.—If 
a notary public performs a notarization under subsection 
(a), the following requirements shall apply with respect to 
the notarization:
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(1) The remotely located individual shall appear 
personally before the notary public at the time of the 
notarization by using communication technology. 
(2) The notary public shall— 
(A) reasonably identify the remotely lo-
cated individual— 
(i) through personal knowledge of the 
identity of the remotely located individual; 
or 
(ii) by obtaining satisfactory evidence 
of the identity of the remotely located indi-
vidual by— 
(I) using not fewer than 2 dis-
tinct types of processes or services 
through which a third person provides 
a means to verify the identity of the 
remotely located individual through a 
review of public or private data 
sources; or 
(II) oath or affirmation of a 
credible witness who— 
(aa)(AA) is in the physical 
presence of the notary public or 
the remotely located individual; 
or
3078 
(BB) appears personally be-
fore the notary public and the re-
motely 
located 
individual 
by 
using communication technology; 
(bb) has personal knowledge 
of the identity of the remotely lo-
cated individual; and 
(cc) has been identified by 
the notary public under clause (i) 
or subclause (I) of this clause; 
(B) either directly or through an agent— 
(i) create an audio and visual record-
ing of the performance of the notarization; 
and 
(ii) notwithstanding any resignation 
from, or revocation, suspension, or termi-
nation of, the notary public’s commission 
or appointment, retain the recording cre-
ated under clause (i) as a notarial 
record— 
(I) for a period of not less 
than— 
(aa) if an applicable law of 
the notary public’s State specifies
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a period of retention, the greater 
of— 
(AA) that specified pe-
riod; or 
(BB) 5 years after the 
date on which the recording 
is created; or 
(bb) if no applicable law of 
the notary public’s State specifies 
a period of retention, 10 years 
after the date on which the re-
cording is created; and 
(II) if any applicable law of the 
notary public’s State govern the con-
tent, manner or place of retention, se-
curity, use, effect, or disclosure of 
such recording or any information 
contained in the recording, in accord-
ance with those laws; and 
(C) if the notarization is performed with 
respect to a tangible or electronic record, take 
reasonable steps to confirm that the record be-
fore the notary public is the same record with 
respect to which the remotely located individual
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made a statement or on which the individual ex-
ecuted a signature. 
(3) If a guardian, conservator, executor, per-
sonal representative, administrator, or similar fidu-
ciary or successor is appointed for or on behalf of 
a notary public or a deceased notary public under 
applicable law, that person shall retain the recording 
under paragraph (2)(B)(ii), unless— 
(A) another person is obligated to retain 
the recording under applicable law of the notary 
public’s State; or 
(B)(i) under applicable law of the notary 
public’s State, that person may transmit the re-
cording to an office, archive, or repository ap-
proved or designated by the State; and 
(ii) that person transmits the recording to 
the office, archive, or repository described in 
clause (i) in accordance with applicable law of 
the notary public’s State. 
(4) If the remotely located individual is phys-
ically located outside the geographic boundaries of a 
State, or is otherwise physically located in a location 
that is not subject to the jurisdiction of the United 
States, at the time of the notarization— 
(A) the record shall—
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(i) be intended for filing with, or re-
late to a matter before, a court, govern-
mental entity, public official, or other enti-
ty that is subject to the jurisdiction of the 
United States; or 
(ii) involve property located in the ter-
ritorial jurisdiction of the United States or 
a transaction substantially connected to 
the United States; and 
(B) the act of making the statement or 
signing the record may not be prohibited by a 
law of the jurisdiction in which the individual is 
physically located. 
(c) PERSONAL APPEARANCE SATISFIED.—If a State 
or Federal law requires an individual to appear personally 
before or be in the physical presence of a notary public 
at the time of a notarization, that requirement shall be 
considered to be satisfied if— 
(1) the individual— 
(A) is a remotely located individual; and 
(B) appears personally before the notary 
public at the time of the notarization by using 
communication technology; and
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(2)(A) the notarization was performed under or 
relates to a public act, record, or judicial proceeding 
of the notary public’s State; or 
(B) the notarization occurs in or affects inter-
state commerce. 
SEC. 6504. RECOGNITION OF NOTARIZATIONS IN FEDERAL 
COURT. 
(a) RECOGNITION OF VALIDITY.—Each court of the 
United States shall recognize as valid under the State or 
Federal law applicable in a judicial proceeding before the 
court any notarization performed by a notarial officer of 
any State if the notarization is valid under the laws of 
the notarial officer’s State or under this title. 
(b) LEGAL EFFECT
OF RECOGNIZED NOTARIZA-
TION.—A notarization recognized under subsection (a) 
shall have the same effect under the State or Federal law 
applicable in the applicable judicial proceeding as if that 
notarization was validly performed— 
(1)(A) by a notarial officer of the State, the law 
of which is applicable in the proceeding; or 
(B) under this title or other Federal law; and 
(2) without regard to whether the notarization 
was performed— 
(A) with respect to— 
(i) a tangible record; or
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(ii) an electronic record; or 
(B) for— 
(i) an individual in the physical pres-
ence of the notarial officer; or 
(ii) a remotely located individual. 
(c) PRESUMPTION OF GENUINENESS.—In a deter-
mination of the validity of a notarization for the purposes 
of subsection (a), the signature and title of an individual 
performing the notarization shall be prima facie evidence 
in any court of the United States that the signature of 
the individual is genuine and that the individual holds the 
designated title. 
(d) CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE OF AUTHORITY.—In a 
determination of the validity of a notarization for the pur-
poses of subsection (a), the signature and title of the fol-
lowing notarial officers of a State shall conclusively estab-
lish the authority of the officer to perform the notariza-
tion: 
(1) A notary public of that State. 
(2) A judge, clerk, or deputy clerk of a court 
of that State.
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SEC. 6505. RECOGNITION BY STATE OF NOTARIZATIONS 
PERFORMED 
UNDER 
AUTHORITY 
OF 
AN-
OTHER STATE. 
(a) RECOGNITION OF VALIDITY.—Each State shall 
recognize as valid under the laws of that State any notari-
zation performed by a notarial officer of any other State 
if— 
(1) the notarization is valid under the laws of 
the notarial officer’s State or under this title; and 
(2)(A) the notarization was performed under or 
relates to a public act, record, or judicial proceeding 
of the notarial officer’s State; or 
(B) the notarization occurs in or affects inter-
state commerce. 
(b) LEGAL EFFECT
OF RECOGNIZED NOTARIZA-
TION.—A notarization recognized under subsection (a) 
shall have the same effect under the laws of the recog-
nizing State as if that notarization was validly performed 
by a notarial officer of the recognizing State, without re-
gard to whether the notarization was performed— 
(1) with respect to— 
(A) a tangible record; or 
(B) an electronic record; or 
(2) for— 
(A) an individual in the physical presence 
of the notarial officer; or
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(B) a remotely located individual. 
(c) PRESUMPTION OF GENUINENESS.—In a deter-
mination of the validity of a notarization for the purposes 
of subsection (a), the signature and title of an individual 
performing a notarization shall be prima facie evidence in 
any State court or judicial proceeding that the signature 
is genuine and that the individual holds the designated 
title. 
(d) CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE OF AUTHORITY.—In a 
determination of the validity of a notarization for the pur-
poses of subsection (a), the signature and title of the fol-
lowing notarial officers of a State conclusively establish 
the authority of the officer to perform the notarization: 
(1) A notary public of that State. 
(2) A judge, clerk, or deputy clerk of a court 
of that State. 
SEC. 6506. ELECTRONIC AND REMOTE NOTARIZATION NOT 
REQUIRED. 
Nothing in this title may be construed to require a 
notary public to perform a notarization— 
(1) with respect to an electronic record; 
(2) for a remotely located individual; or 
(3) using a technology that the notary public 
has not selected.
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SEC. 6507. VALIDITY OF NOTARIZATIONS; RIGHTS OF AG-
GRIEVED PERSONS NOT AFFECTED; STATE 
LAWS ON THE PRACTICE OF LAW NOT AF-
FECTED. 
(a) VALIDITY NOT AFFECTED.—The failure of a no-
tary public to meet a requirement under section 6102 or 
6103 in the performance of a notarization, or the failure 
of a notarization to conform to a requirement under sec-
tion 6102 or 6103, shall not invalidate or impair the rec-
ognition of the notarization. 
(b) RIGHTS OF AGGRIEVED PERSONS.—The validity 
and recognition of a notarization under this title may not 
be construed to prevent an aggrieved person from seeking 
to invalidate a record or transaction that is the subject 
of a notarization or from seeking other remedies based on 
State or Federal law other than this title for any reason 
not specified in this title, including on the basis— 
(1) that a person did not, with present intent 
to authenticate or adopt a record, execute a signa-
ture on the record; 
(2) that an individual was incompetent, lacked 
authority or capacity to authenticate or adopt a 
record, or did not knowingly and voluntarily authen-
ticate or adopt a record; or
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(3) of fraud, forgery, mistake, misrepresenta-
tion, impersonation, duress, undue influence, or 
other invalidating cause. 
(c) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this title 
may be construed to affect a State law governing, author-
izing, or prohibiting the practice of law. 
SEC. 6508. EXCEPTION TO PREEMPTION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—A State law may modify, limit, or 
supersede the provisions of section 6102, or subsections 
(a) or (b) of section 6103, with respect to State law only 
if that State law— 
(1) either— 
(A) constitutes an enactment or adoption 
of the Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts, 
as approved and recommended for enactment in 
all the States by the National Conference of 
Commissioners on Uniform State Laws in 2018 
or 2021, except that a modification to such 
Law enacted or adopted by a State shall be pre-
empted to the extent such modification— 
(i) is inconsistent with a provision of 
section 6102 or subsections (a) or (b) of 
section 6103, as applicable; or 
(ii) would not be permitted under sub-
paragraph (B); or
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(B) specifies additional or alternative pro-
cedures or requirements for the performance of 
notarizations with respect to electronic records 
or for remotely located individuals, if those ad-
ditional or alternative procedures or require-
ments— 
(i) are consistent with section 6102 
and subsections (a) and (b) of section 
6103; and 
(ii) do not accord greater legal effect 
to the implementation or application of a 
specific technology or technical specifica-
tion for performing those notarizations; 
and 
(2) requires the retention of an audio and vis-
ual recording of the performance of a notarization 
for a remotely located individual for a period of not 
less than 5 years after the recording is created. 
(b) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in section 
6104 or 6105 may be construed to preclude the recogni-
tion of a notarization under applicable State law, regard-
less of whether such State law is consistent with section 
6104 or 6105.
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SEC. 6509. STANDARD OF CARE; SPECIAL NOTARIAL COM-
MISSIONS. 
(a) STATE STANDARDS OF CARE; AUTHORITY OF 
STATE REGULATORY OFFICIALS.—Nothing in this title 
may be construed to prevent a State, or a notarial regu-
latory official of a State, from— 
(1) adopting a requirement in this title as a 
duty or standard of care under the laws of that 
State or sanctioning a notary public for breach of 
such a duty or standard of care; 
(2) establishing requirements and qualifications 
for, or denying, refusing to renew, revoking, sus-
pending, or imposing a condition on, a commission 
or appointment as a notary public; 
(3) creating or designating a class or type of 
commission or appointment, or requiring an endorse-
ment or other authorization to be received by a no-
tary public, as a condition on the authority to per-
form notarizations with respect to electronic records 
or for remotely located individuals; or 
(4) prohibiting a notary public from performing 
a notarization under section 6102 or 6103 as a 
sanction for a breach of duty or standard of care or 
for official misconduct. 
(b) SPECIAL COMMISSIONS
OR AUTHORIZATIONS 
CREATED BY A STATE; SANCTION FOR BREACH OR OFFI-
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CIAL MISCONDUCT.—A notary public may not perform a 
notarization under section 6102 or 6103 if— 
(1)(A) the notary public’s State has enacted a 
law that creates or designates a class or type of 
commission or appointment, or requires an endorse-
ment or other authorization to be received by a no-
tary public, as a condition on the authority to per-
form notarizations with respect to electronic records 
or for remotely located individuals; and 
(B) the commission or appointment of the no-
tary public is not of the class or type or the notary 
public has not received the endorsement or other au-
thorization; or 
(2) the notarial regulatory official of the notary 
public’s State has prohibited the notary public from 
performing the notarization as a sanction for a 
breach of duty or standard of care or for official 
misconduct. 
SEC. 6510. SEVERABILITY. 
If any provision of this title or the application of such 
provision to any person or circumstance is held to be in-
valid or unconstitutional, the remainder of this title and 
the application of the provisions thereof to other persons 
or circumstances shall not be affected by that holding.
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DIVISION F—DEPARTMENT OF 
STATE AUTHORITIES 
TITLE LXX—DEPARTMENT OF 
STATE AUTHORITIES 
SEC. 7001. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of State 
Authorization Act of 2021’’. 
SEC. 7002. DEFINITIONS. 
In this division: 
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 
the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Foreign Relations of the Senate. 
(2) DEPARTMENT.—If not otherwise specified, 
the term ‘‘Department’’ means the Department of 
State. 
(3) SECRETARY.—If not otherwise specified, the 
term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary of State. 
Subtitle A—Organization and Oper-
ations of the Department of 
State 
SEC. 7101. DIPLOMATIC PROGRAMS. 
For ‘‘Diplomatic Programs’’, there is authorized to 
be appropriated $9,476,977,000 for fiscal year 2022.
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SEC. 7102. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON IMPORTANCE OF DE-
PARTMENT OF STATE’S WORK. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) United States global engagement is key to 
a stable and prosperous world; 
(2) United States leadership is indispensable in 
light of the many complex and interconnected 
threats facing the United States and the world; 
(3) diplomacy and development are critical tools 
of national power, and full deployment of these tools 
is vital to United States national security; 
(4) challenges such as the global refugee and 
migration crises, terrorism, historic famine and food 
insecurity, and fragile or repressive societies cannot 
be addressed without sustained and robust United 
States diplomatic and development leadership; 
(5) the United States Government must use all 
of the instruments of national security and foreign 
policy at its disposal to protect United States citi-
zens, promote United States interests and values, 
and support global stability and prosperity; 
(6) United States security and prosperity de-
pend on having partners and allies that share our in-
terests and values, and these partnerships are nur-
tured and our shared interests and values are pro-
moted through United States diplomatic engage-
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ment, security cooperation, economic statecraft, and 
assistance that helps further economic development, 
good governance, including the rule of law and 
democratic institutions, and the development of 
shared responses to natural and humanitarian disas-
ters; 
(7) as the United States Government agencies 
primarily charged with conducting diplomacy and 
development, the Department and the United States 
Agency for International Development (USAID) re-
quire sustained and robust funding to carry out this 
important work, which is essential to our ability to 
project United States leadership and values and to 
advance United States interests around the world; 
(8) the work of the Department and USAID 
makes the United States and the world safer and 
more prosperous by alleviating global poverty and 
hunger, fighting HIV/AIDS and other infectious dis-
eases, strengthening alliances, expanding educational 
opportunities for women and girls, promoting good 
governance and democracy, supporting anti-corrup-
tion efforts, driving economic development and 
trade, preventing armed conflicts and humanitarian 
crises, and creating American jobs and export oppor-
tunities;
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(9) the Department and USAID are vital na-
tional security agencies, whose work is critical to the 
projection of United States power and leadership 
worldwide, and without which Americans would be 
less safe, United States economic power would be di-
minished, and global stability and prosperity would 
suffer; 
(10) investing in diplomacy and development 
before conflicts break out saves American lives while 
also being cost-effective; and 
(11) the contributions of personnel working at 
the Department and USAID are extraordinarily val-
uable and allow the United States to maintain its 
leadership around the world. 
SEC. 7103. BUREAU OF DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND 
LABOR. 
Paragraph (2) of section 1(c) of the State Depart-
ment Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2651a) 
is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (A), by adding at the end 
the following new sentence: ‘‘All special envoys, am-
bassadors, and coordinators located within the Bu-
reau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor shall 
report directly to the Assistant Secretary unless oth-
erwise provided by law.’’;
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(2) in subparagraph (B)(ii)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘section’’ and inserting 
‘‘sections 116 and’’; and 
(B) by inserting before the period at the 
end the following: ‘‘(commonly referred to as 
the annual ‘Country Reports on Human Rights 
Practices’)’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new sub-
paragraphs: 
‘‘(C) AUTHORITIES.—In addition to the 
duties, functions, and responsibilities specified 
in this paragraph, the Assistant Secretary of 
State for Democracy, Human Rights, and 
Labor is authorized to— 
‘‘(i) promote democracy and actively 
support human rights throughout the 
world; 
‘‘(ii) promote the rule of law and good 
governance throughout the world; 
‘‘(iii) strengthen, empower, and pro-
tect civil society representatives, programs, 
and organizations, and facilitate their abil-
ity to engage in dialogue with governments 
and other civil society entities;
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‘‘(iv) work with regional bureaus to 
ensure adequate personnel at diplomatic 
posts are assigned responsibilities relating 
to advancing democracy, human rights, 
labor rights, women’s equal participation 
in society, and the rule of law, with par-
ticular attention paid to adequate oversight 
and engagement on such issues by senior 
officials at such posts; 
‘‘(v) review and, as appropriate, make 
recommendations to the Secretary of State 
regarding the proposed transfer of— 
‘‘(I) defense articles and defense 
services authorized under the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 
2151 et seq.) or the Arms Export 
Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.); 
and 
‘‘(II) military items listed on the 
‘600 series’ of the Commerce Control 
List contained in Supplement No. 1 to 
part 774 of subtitle B of title 15, 
Code of Federal Regulations; 
‘‘(vi) coordinate programs and activi-
ties that protect and advance the exercise
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of human rights and internet freedom in 
cyberspace; and 
‘‘(vii) implement other relevant poli-
cies and provisions of law. 
‘‘(D) LOCAL
OVERSIGHT.—United States 
missions, when executing DRL programming, 
to the extent practicable, should assist in exer-
cising oversight authority and coordinate with 
the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and 
Labor to ensure that funds are appropriately 
used and comply with anti-corruption prac-
tices.’’. 
SEC. 7104. ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL 
NARCOTICS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AF-
FAIRS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1(c) of the State Depart-
ment Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2651a(c)) 
is amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as 
paragraphs (4) and (5), respectively; and 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol-
lowing new paragraph: 
‘‘(3) 
ASSISTANT
SECRETARY
FOR
INTER-
NATIONAL NARCOTICS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AF-
FAIRS.—
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‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to 
be in the Department of State an Assistant 
Secretary for International Narcotics and Law 
Enforcement Affairs, who shall be responsible 
to the Secretary of State for all matters, pro-
grams, and related activities pertaining to inter-
national narcotics, anti-crime, and law enforce-
ment affairs in the conduct of foreign policy by 
the Department, including, as appropriate, lead-
ing the coordination of programs carried out by 
United States Government agencies abroad, and 
such other related duties as the Secretary may 
from time to time designate. 
‘‘(B) AREAS
OF
RESPONSIBILITY.—The 
Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics 
and Law Enforcement Affairs shall maintain 
continuous observation and coordination of all 
matters pertaining to international narcotics, 
anti-crime, and law enforcement affairs in the 
conduct of foreign policy, including programs 
carried out by other United States Government 
agencies when such programs pertain to the fol-
lowing matters: 
‘‘(i) Combating international narcotics 
production and trafficking.
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‘‘(ii) Strengthening foreign justice sys-
tems, including judicial and prosecutorial 
capacity, appeals systems, law enforcement 
agencies, prison systems, and the sharing 
of recovered assets. 
‘‘(iii) Training and equipping foreign 
police, border control, other government of-
ficials, and other civilian law enforcement 
authorities for anti-crime purposes, includ-
ing ensuring that no foreign security unit 
or member of such unit shall receive such 
assistance from the United States Govern-
ment absent appropriate vetting. 
‘‘(iv) Ensuring the inclusion of human 
rights and women’s participation issues in 
law enforcement programs, in consultation 
with the Assistant Secretary for Democ-
racy, Human Rights, and Labor, and other 
senior officials in regional and thematic 
bureaus and offices. 
‘‘(v) Combating, in conjunction with 
other relevant bureaus of the Department 
of State and other United States Govern-
ment agencies, all forms of transnational 
organized crime, including human traf-
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ficking, illicit trafficking in arms, wildlife, 
and cultural property, migrant smuggling, 
corruption, money laundering, the illicit 
smuggling of bulk cash, the licit use of fi-
nancial systems for malign purposes, and 
other new and emerging forms of crime. 
‘‘(vi) Identifying and responding to 
global corruption, including strengthening 
the capacity of foreign government institu-
tions responsible for addressing financial 
crimes and engaging with multilateral or-
ganizations responsible for monitoring and 
supporting foreign governments’ anti-cor-
ruption efforts. 
‘‘(C) ADDITIONAL DUTIES.—In addition to 
the responsibilities specified in subparagraph 
(B), the Assistant Secretary for International 
Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs shall 
also— 
‘‘(i) carry out timely and substantive 
consultation with chiefs of mission and, as 
appropriate, the heads of other United 
States Government agencies to ensure ef-
fective coordination of all international 
narcotics and law enforcement programs
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carried out overseas by the Department 
and such other agencies; 
‘‘(ii) coordinate with the Office of Na-
tional Drug Control Policy to ensure les-
sons learned from other United States 
Government agencies are available to the 
Bureau of International Narcotics and 
Law Enforcement Affairs of the Depart-
ment; 
‘‘(iii) develop standard requirements 
for monitoring and evaluation of Bureau 
programs, including metrics for success 
that do not rely solely on the amounts of 
illegal drugs that are produced or seized; 
‘‘(iv) in coordination with the Sec-
retary of State, annually certify in writing 
to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 
House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Foreign Relations of the Senate 
that United States law enforcement per-
sonnel posted abroad whose activities are 
funded to any extent by the Bureau of 
International Narcotics and Law Enforce-
ment Affairs are complying with section