(H) the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
House of Representatives. 
(2) FOREIGN ASSISTANCE.—The term ‘‘foreign 
assistance’’ means foreign assistance authorized 
under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
U.S.C. 2251 et seq.). 
(3) FOREIGN STATE.—The term ‘‘foreign state’’ 
has the meaning given such term in section 1603(a) 
of title 28, United States Code. 
(4) INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY.—The term 
‘‘intelligence community’’ has the meaning given 
such term in section 3(4) of the National Security 
Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003(4)). 
(5) PUBLIC
CORRUPTION.—The term ‘‘public 
corruption’’ includes the unlawful exercise of en-
trusted public power for private gain, such as 
through bribery, nepotism, fraud, extortion, or em-
bezzlement. 
(6) RULE OF LAW.—The term ‘‘rule of law’’ 
means the principle of governance in which all per-
sons, institutions, and entities, whether public or 
private, including the state, are accountable to laws 
that are— 
(A) publicly promulgated; 
(B) equally enforced; 
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(C) independently adjudicated; and 
(D) consistent with international human 
rights norms and standards. 
SEC. 4. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It is the policy of the United States— 
(1) to leverage United States diplomatic en-
gagement and foreign assistance to promote the rule 
of law; 
(2)(A) to promote international instruments to 
combat corruption, kleptocracy, and illicit finance, 
including instruments referred to in section 2(9), 
and other relevant international standards and best 
practices, as such standards and practices develop; 
and 
(B) to promote the adoption and implementa-
tion of such laws, standards, and practices by for-
eign states; 
(3) to support foreign states in promoting good 
governance and combating public corruption; 
(4) to encourage and assist foreign partner 
countries to identify and close loopholes in their 
legal and financial architecture, including the misuse 
of anonymous shell companies, free trade zones, and 
other legal structures, that are enabling illicit fi-
nance to penetrate their financial systems; 
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(5) to help foreign partner countries to inves-
tigate, prosecute, adjudicate, and more generally 
combat the use of corruption by malign actors, in-
cluding authoritarian governments, particularly the 
Government of the Russian Federation and the Gov-
ernment of the People’s Republic of China, as a tool 
of malign influence worldwide; 
(6) to assist in the recovery of kleptocracy-re-
lated stolen assets for victims, including through the 
use of appropriate bilateral arrangements and inter-
national agreements, such as the United Nations 
Convention against Corruption, done at New York 
October 31, 2003, and the United Nations Conven-
tion against Transnational Organized Crime, done at 
New York November 15, 2000; 
(7) to use sanctions authorities, such as the 
Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act 
(subtitle F of title XII of the National Defense Au-
thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 
114–328; 22 U.S.C. 2656 note)) and section 
7031(c) of the Department of State, Foreign Oper-
ations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 
2020 (division G of Public Law 116–94), to identify 
and take action against corrupt foreign actors; 
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(8) to ensure coordination between relevant 
Federal departments and agencies with jurisdiction 
over the advancement of good governance in foreign 
states; and 
(9) to lead the creation of a formal grouping of 
like-minded states— 
(A) to coordinate efforts to counter corrup-
tion, kleptocracy, and illicit finance; and 
(B) to strengthen collective financial de-
fense. 
SEC. 5. ANTI-CORRUPTION ACTION FUND. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established in the 
United States Treasury a fund, to be known as the ‘‘Anti- 
Corruption Action Fund’’, only for the purposes of— 
(1) strengthening the capacity of foreign states 
to prevent and fight public corruption; 
(2) assisting foreign states to develop rule of 
law-based governance structures, including account-
able civilian police, prosecutorial, and judicial insti-
tutions; 
(3) supporting foreign states to strengthen do-
mestic legal and regulatory frameworks to combat 
public corruption, including the adoption of best 
practices under international law; and 
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(4) supplementing existing foreign assistance 
and diplomacy with respect to efforts described in 
paragraphs (1), (2), and (3). 
(b) FUNDING.— 
(1) TRANSFERS.—Beginning on or after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, if total criminal 
fines and penalties in excess of $50,000,000 are im-
posed against a person under the Foreign Corrupt 
Practices Act of 1977 (Public Law 95–213) or sec-
tion 13, 30A, or 32 of the Securities Exchange Act 
of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78m, 78dd–1, and 78ff), wheth-
er pursuant to a criminal prosecution, enforcement 
proceeding, deferred prosecution agreement, non-
prosecution agreement, a declination to prosecute or 
enforce, or any other resolution, the court (in the 
case of a conviction) or the Attorney General shall 
impose an additional prevention payment equal to 
$5,000,000 against such person, which shall be de-
posited in the Anti-Corruption Action Fund estab-
lished under subsection (a). 
(2) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—Amounts depos-
ited into the Anti-Corruption Action Fund pursuant 
to paragraph (1) shall be available to the Secretary 
of State only for the purposes described in sub-
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