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115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6262 
To require a report on the efforts and options to mitigate the acoustic 
attacks on Foreign Service officers and their families and the physical 
protection capabilities to protect United States embassies, consulates, 
and residences, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 28, 2018 
Mr. WILSON of South Carolina introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To require a report on the efforts and options to mitigate 
the acoustic attacks on Foreign Service officers and their 
families and the physical protection capabilities to protect 
United States embassies, consulates, and residences, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Mitigating Attacks on 
Diplomats Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. ACOUSTIC ATTACK STUDY. 
(a) STUDY REQUIRED.—The Secretary of State, in 
coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services, the Secretary of Commerce, the Attorney Gen-
eral, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of En-
ergy, and in consultation with the Director of National 
Intelligence, shall carry out a study to determine the ap-
propriate standards and procedures that— 
(1) can be used to counter hypersonic acoustic 
attacks on Foreign Service officers and their fami-
lies; and 
(2) include methods to support physical protec-
tion practices and procedures applicable to United 
States embassies, consulates, and embassy resi-
dences. 
(b) REPORTS TO CONGRESS.— 
(1) PRELIMINARY FINDINGS.—Not later than 
180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary of State shall provide to the appro-
priate congressional committees the initial findings 
of the study required under subsection (a). 
(2) REPORT.—Not later than 360 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of State shall submit to the appropriate congres-
sional committees a report containing the complete 
findings of the study required under subsection (a). 
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(3) FORM OF REPORT.—The findings required 
under paragraph (1) and the report required under 
paragraph (2) shall be provided and submitted, re-
spectively, in unclassified form, but may contain 
classified annexes. 
(c) DEFINITION.—In this section: 
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) in the House of Representatives— 
(i) the Committee on Foreign Affairs; 
(ii) the Committee on Armed Services; 
(iii) the Committee on Homeland Se-
curity; and 
(iv) the Permanent Select Committee 
on Intelligence; and 
(B) in the Senate— 
(i) the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions; 
(ii) the Committee on Armed Services; 
(iii) the Committee on Homeland Se-
curity and Governmental Affairs; and 
(iv) the Select Committee on Intel-
ligence. 
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(2) FOREIGN
SERVICE
OFFICER.—The term 
‘‘Foreign Service officer’’ has the meaning given 
such term in section 103 of the Foreign Service Act 
of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3903). 
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