(3) use its voice, vote, and influence at the 
United Nations Human Rights Council to create and 
appoint a Special Rapporteur on the Protection and 
Promotion of Medical Neutrality. 
SEC. 5. DETERMINATION AND NOTIFICATION OF FOREIGN 
COUNTRY REQUIRED. 
(a) DETERMINATION.—Not later than 180 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
State shall compile and update at least annually a list of 
those foreign governments that the Secretary determines, 
after consultation with local and international nongovern-
mental organizations and the Assistant Secretary for De-
mocracy, Human Rights and Labor, have engaged in vio-
lations of medical neutrality. The Secretary shall publish 
such list on the website of the Department of State. 
(b) NOTIFICATION.—The Secretary of State shall 
provide a formal notification to a foreign government that 
is included on a list described in subsection (a). 
SEC. 6. PROHIBITIONS. 
(a) PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN ASSISTANCE.—Sub-
ject to subsection (c) of this section and section 8, and 
except as provided in section 7, the authorities specified 
in section 516 or 541 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
1961 (22 U.S.C. 2321j or 2347) or section 23 of the Arms 
Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2763) may not be used 
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to provide assistance, and no licenses for direct commer-
cial sales of military equipment may be issued, to the gov-
ernment of a country that the Secretary of State has, in 
accordance with section 5 of this Act, determined to have 
engaged in a violation of medical neutrality. 
(b) PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN VISAS.—Except as 
provided in section 7, upon receiving credible information, 
including information contained in the Annual Country 
Reports on Human Rights Practices, that an alien is or 
was engaged in or has organized any act that is a violation 
of medical neutrality, the Secretary of State shall deny 
the issuance of a visa to, and the Secretary of Homeland 
Security shall deny the entry into the United States of, 
such alien. 
(c) MINIMUM DURATION.—The prohibitions on as-
sistance described in subsection (a) shall remain in effect 
for a minimum of one fiscal year, after which the Presi-
dent may reinstate such assistance pursuant to section 8. 
SEC. 7. WAIVER. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The President may temporarily 
waive the prohibitions on assistance described in section 
6 if the President transmits to the appropriate congres-
sional committees a determination that— 
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(1) such waiver is in the national security inter-
est of the United States, including the reasons 
therefor; and 
(2) establishes a date, not later than two years 
after the issuance of such waiver, on which such 
waiver shall expire. 
(b) CONGRESSIONAL OVERRIDE.—If Congress enacts 
a joint resolution disapproving such waiver, such waiver 
shall have no force or effect. 
SEC. 8. REINSTATEMENT OF ASSISTANCE. 
The President may reinstate assistance to a country 
otherwise prohibited under section 6(a) upon written cer-
tification to the appropriate congressional committees that 
the government of such country has implemented— 
(1) measures that include the successful imple-
mentation of an action plan and actual steps to 
come into compliance with medical neutrality; and 
(2) policies and mechanisms to prohibit and 
prevent future government or government-sponsored 
acts that are a violation of medical neutrality and 
has the input and agreement of local and inter-
national nongovernmental organizations. 
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SEC. 9. INVESTIGATIONS OF VIOLATIONS OF MEDICAL NEU-
TRALITY. 
(a) INVESTIGATIONS OF ALLEGATIONS OF VIOLA-
TIONS OF MEDICAL NEUTRALITY.—The heads of United 
States diplomatic and consular missions shall investigate 
all reports of violations of medical neutrality in the coun-
tries or regions in which such missions are located for in-
clusion in the annual Country Reports on Human Rights 
Practices under sections 116(d) and 502B(b) of the For-
eign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151n and 2304). 
(b) INCLUSION IN ANNUAL COUNTRY REPORTS ON 
HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICES.—The Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961 is amended— 
(1) in section 116 (22 U.S.C. 2151n), by add-
ing at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(g) The report required under subsection (d) shall 
include a description of any violations of medical neu-
trality (as such term is defined in the Medical Neutrality 
Protection Act of 2011) and an identification of the indi-
viduals who have engaged in or organized such violations 
in each foreign country covered by such report.’’; and 
(2) in section 502B (22 U.S.C. 2304), by add-
ing at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(i) The report required by subsection (b) shall in-
clude a description of any violations of medical neutrality 
(as such term is defined in the Medical Neutrality Protec-
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tion Act of 2011) and an identification of the individuals 
who have engaged in or organized such violations in each 
foreign country covered by such report.’’. 
SEC. 10. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and 
the Committee on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives; and 
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations 
and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate. 
(2) VIOLATION OF MEDICAL NEUTRALITY.—The 
term ‘‘violation of medical neutrality’’ means— 
(A) militarized attacks on health care fa-
cilities, health care service providers, or individ-
uals in the course of receiving medical treat-
ment; 
(B) wanton destruction of medical sup-
plies, facilities, records, or transportation serv-
ices; 
(C) willful obstruction of medical ethics as 
specified in the World Medical Association’s 
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