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Union Calendar No. 140 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3352 
[Report No. 116–181] 
To provide for certain authorities of the Department of State, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 19, 2019 
Mr. ENGEL (for himself and Mr. MCCAUL) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
JULY 24, 2019 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on June 19, 2019] 
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A BILL 
To provide for certain authorities of the Department of 
State, and for other purposes. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘De-
partment of State Authorization Act of 2019’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Definitions. 
TITLE I—ORGANIZATION AND OPERATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT 
OF STATE 
Sec. 101. Sense of Congress on importance of Department of State’s work. 
Sec. 102. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. 
Sec. 103. Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement 
Affairs. 
Sec. 104. Bureau of Consular Affairs; Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Mi-
gration. 
Sec. 105. Office of International Disability Rights. 
Sec. 106. Office of Global Women’s Issues. 
Sec. 107. Special appointments. 
Sec. 108. Anti-piracy information sharing. 
Sec. 109. Importance of foreign affairs training to national security. 
Sec. 110. Authorization for receipt of private funding for diplomatic studies and 
training. 
Sec. 111. Classification and assignment of Foreign Service officers. 
Sec. 112. Energy diplomacy and security within the Department of State. 
Sec. 113. Passport fees. 
Sec. 114. United States diplomacy center. 
Sec. 115. Extension of period for reimbursement of fishermen for costs incurred 
from the illegal seizure and detention of U.S.-flag fishing vessels 
by foreign governments. 
Sec. 116. Art in embassies. 
Sec. 117. Amendment or repeal of reporting requirements. 
Sec. 118. Reporting on implementation of GAO recommendations. 
Sec. 119. Office of Global Criminal Justice. 
TITLE II—EMBASSY CONSTRUCTION 
Sec. 201. Embassy security, construction, and maintenance. 
Sec. 202. Standard design in capital construction. 
Sec. 203. Capital construction transparency. 
Sec. 204. Contractor performance information. 
Sec. 205. Growth projections for new embassies and consulates. 
Sec. 206. Long-range planning process. 
Sec. 207. Value engineering and risk assessment. 
Sec. 208. Business volume. 
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Sec. 209. Embassy security requests and deficiencies. 
Sec. 210. Overseas security briefings. 
Sec. 211. Contracting methods in capital construction. 
Sec. 212. Competition in embassy construction. 
Sec. 213. Statement of policy. 
Sec. 214. Definitions. 
TITLE III—PERSONNEL ISSUES 
Sec. 301. Defense Base Act insurance waivers. 
Sec. 302. Study on Foreign Service allowances. 
Sec. 303. Science and technology fellowships. 
Sec. 304. Travel for separated families. 
Sec. 305. Home leave travel for separated families. 
Sec. 306. Sense of Congress regarding certain fellowship programs. 
Sec. 307. Technical correction. 
Sec. 308. Foreign Service awards. 
Sec. 309. Diplomatic programs. 
Sec. 310. Sense of Congress regarding veterans employment at the Department of 
State. 
Sec. 311. Employee assignment restrictions and preclusions. 
Sec. 312. Recall and reemployment of career members. 
Sec. 313. Strategic staffing plan for the Department. 
Sec. 314. Consulting services. 
Sec. 315. Incentives for critical posts. 
Sec. 316. Extension of authority for certain accountability review boards. 
Sec. 317. Foreign service suspension without pay. 
Sec. 318. Foreign Affairs Manual and Foreign Affairs Handbook changes. 
Sec. 319. Waiver authority for individual occupational requirements of certain 
positions. 
Sec. 320. Standardizing Department parental leave policies. 
Sec. 321. Appointment of employees to the Global Engagement Center. 
Sec. 322. Rest and recuperation and overseas operations leave for Federal em-
ployees. 
TITLE IV—A DIVERSE WORKFORCE: RECRUITMENT, RETENTION, 
AND PROMOTION 
Sec. 401. Definitions. 
Sec. 402. Collection, analysis, and dissemination of workforce data. 
Sec. 403. Exit interviews for workforce. 
Sec. 404. Recruitment and retention. 
Sec. 405. Leadership engagement and accountability. 
Sec. 406. Professional development opportunities and tools. 
Sec. 407. Examination and oral assessment for the Foreign Service. 
Sec. 408. Payne fellowship authorization. 
Sec. 409. Voluntary participation. 
TITLE V—INFORMATION SECURITY 
Sec. 501. Definitions. 
Sec. 502. Information system security. 
Sec. 503. Prohibition on contracting with certain telecommunications providers. 
Sec. 504. Preserving records of electronic communications conducted related to of-
ficial duties of positions in the public trust of the American peo-
ple. 
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Sec. 505. Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series and declassifica-
tion. 
Sec. 506. Vulnerability Disclosure Policy and Bug Bounty Pilot Program. 
TITLE VI—PUBLIC DIPLOMACY 
Sec. 601. Short title. 
Sec. 602. Avoiding duplication of programs and efforts. 
Sec. 603. Improving research and evaluation of public diplomacy. 
Sec. 604. Permanent reauthorization of the United States Advisory Commission 
on Public Diplomacy. 
Sec. 605. Streamlining of support functions. 
Sec. 606. Guidance for closure of public diplomacy facilities. 
Sec. 607. Definitions. 
TITLE VII—COMBATING PUBLIC CORRUPTION 
Sec. 701. Sense of Congress. 
Sec. 702. Annual assessment. 
Sec. 703. Transparency and accountability. 
Sec. 704. Designation of embassy anti-corruption points of contact. 
Sec. 705. Reporting requirements. 
Sec. 706. Foreign investments and national security. 
TITLE VIII—MATTERS RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL SECURITY 
Sec. 801. Short title. 
Sec. 802. Security assistance defined. 
Subtitle A—Reform Relating to Security Assistance 
Sec. 811. Organizational reform. 
Sec. 812. Workforce development. 
Sec. 813. Security assistance planning. 
Sec. 814. Interagency coordination of security assistance, transfers, and security 
cooperation. 
Sec. 815. Rule of construction. 
Subtitle B—Foreign Military Assistance 
Sec. 821. Strategic allocation of excess defense articles. 
Sec. 822. Modification of purposes for which military sales by the United States 
are authorized. 
Sec. 823. Return of defense articles. 
Sec. 824. Requirements relating to exemptions for licensing of defense items. 
Sec. 825. Amendment to general provisions. 
Sec. 826. Technical amendments to Arms Export Control Act. 
Sec. 827. Sense of Congress on licensing under United States arms export control 
programs. 
Sec. 828. Extension of war reserve stockpile authority. 
Sec. 829. Peacekeeping operations and other national security programs. 
Sec. 830. Other amendments to military assistance authorities. 
Sec. 831. Repeal of reports. 
Sec. 832. Defense trade controls registration fees. 
Sec. 833. Withholding of assistance to units of foreign security forces that engaged 
in sexual exploitation or abuse in peacekeeping operations. 
Sec. 834. Modification to limitations on assistance relating to human rights. 
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Subtitle C—Studies on Authorities and Programs 
Sec. 841. Requirement for study by Bureau of International Narcotics and Law 
Enforcement Affairs. 
Sec. 842. Requirement for independent study of existing security assistance au-
thorities. 
TITLE IX—MISCELLANEOUS 
Sec. 901. Case-Zablocki Act reform. 
Sec. 902. Limitation on assistance to countries in default. 
Sec. 903. Prohibition on assistance to governments supporting international ter-
rorism. 
Sec. 904. Establishing a coordinator for ISIS detainee issues. 
Sec. 905. Sean and David Goldman Child Abduction Prevention and Return Act 
of 2014 amendment. 
Sec. 906. Modification of authorities of Commission for the Preservation of Amer-
ica’s Heritage Abroad. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) 
APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—Unless otherwise specified, the term ‘‘appro-
priate congressional committees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Foreign Relations of 
the Senate; 
(B) the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate; 
(C) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 
House of Representatives; and 
(D) the Committee on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives. 
(2) DEPARTMENT.—Unless otherwise specified, 
the term ‘‘Department’’ means the Department of 
State. 
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(3) SECRETARY.—Unless otherwise specified, the 
term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary of State. 
TITLE 
I—ORGANIZATION 
AND 
OPERATIONS 
OF 
THE 
DE-
PARTMENT OF STATE 
SEC. 101. 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 mi-
gration crises, terrorism, historic famine and food in-
security, 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-
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zens, promote United States interests and values, and 
support global stability and prosperity; 
(6) United States security and prosperity depend 
on having partners and allies that share our interests 
and values, and these partnerships are nurtured and 
our shared interests and values are promoted through 
United States diplomatic engagement, security co-
operation, 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 disasters; 
(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 the 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 
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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 opportunities; 
(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, our economic power would be diminished, 
and global stability and prosperity would suffer; 
(10) investing in diplomacy and development be-
fore 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. 102. BUREAU OF DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND 
LABOR. 
Paragraph (2) of section 1(c) of the State Department 
Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2651a) is amend-
ed— 
(1) in subparagraph (A), by adding at the end 
the following new sentence: ‘‘All special envoys, am-
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bassadors, and coordinators located within the Bu-
reau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor shall 
report directly to the Assistant Secretary.’’; 
(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 an-
nual ‘Country Reports on Human Rights Prac-
tices’)’’; 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 para-
graph, the Assistant Secretary of State for Democ-
racy, Human Rights, and Labor is authorized to— 
‘‘(i) promote democracy and actively sup-
port human rights throughout the world; 
‘‘(ii) promote the rule of law and good gov-
ernance throughout the world; 
‘‘(iii) strengthen, empower, and protect civil 
society representatives, programs, and organiza-
tions, and facilitate their ability to engage in 
dialogue with governments and other civil society 
entities; 
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