IIB 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1150 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
MAY 17, 2016 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 
AN ACT 
To amend the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 
to improve the ability of the United States to advance 
religious freedom globally through enhanced diplomacy, 
training, counterterrorism, and foreign assistance efforts, 
and through stronger and more flexible political re-
sponses to religious freedom violations and violent extre-
mism worldwide, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title and table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Findings; Policy. 
Sec. 3. Definitions. 
TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF STATE ACTIVITIES 
Sec. 101. Office on International Religious Freedom; Ambassador at Large for 
International Religious Freedom. 
Sec. 102. Annual Report on International Religious Freedom. 
Sec. 103. Training for Foreign Service officers; report. 
Sec. 104. Prisoner lists and issue briefs on religious freedom concerns. 
TITLE II—NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL 
Sec. 201. Special Adviser for International Religious Freedom. 
TITLE III—PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS 
Sec. 301. Non-state actor designations. 
Sec. 302. Presidential actions in response to particularly severe violations of re-
ligious freedom. 
Sec. 303. Report to Congress. 
Sec. 304. Presidential waiver. 
Sec. 305. Publication in the Federal Register. 
TITLE IV—PROMOTION OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM 
Sec. 401. Assistance for promoting religious freedom. 
TITLE V—DESIGNATED PERSONS LIST FOR PARTICULARLY 
SEVERE VIOLATIONS OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM 
Sec. 501. Designated Persons List for Particularly Severe Violations of Reli-
gious Freedom. 
TITLE VI—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 
Sec. 601. Miscellaneous provisions. 
Sec. 602. Clerical amendments. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS; POLICY. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Section 2(a) of the International Re-
ligious Freedom Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6401(a)) is 
amended— 
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(1) in paragraph (3), by inserting immediately 
prior to the penultimate sentence the following new 
sentence: ‘‘The freedom of thought, conscience, and 
religion is understood to protect theistic and non- 
theistic beliefs as well as the right not to profess or 
practice any religion.’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (6)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘and the specific targeting 
of non-theists, humanists, and atheists because 
of their beliefs’’ after ‘‘religious persecution’’; 
and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘and in regions where 
non-state actors exercise significant political 
power and influence’’ after ‘‘religious majori-
ties’’. 
(b) POLICY.—Section 2(b) of the International Reli-
gious Freedom Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6401(b)) is amend-
ed by adding at the end the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(6) Because the promotion of international re-
ligious freedom protects human rights, advances de-
mocracy abroad, and advances United States inter-
ests in stability, security, and development globally, 
the promotion of international religious freedom re-
quires new and evolving policies, and diplomatic re-
sponses that are drawn from the expertise of the na-
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tional security agencies, the diplomatic services, and 
other governmental agencies and nongovernmental 
organizations, and are coordinated across and car-
ried out by the entire range of Federal agencies.’’. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
Section 3 of the International Religious Freedom Act 
of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6402) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (13)— 
(A) in subparagraph (A)— 
(i) by redesignating clauses (iv) and 
(v) as clauses (v) and (vi), respectively; 
and 
(ii) by inserting after clause (iii) the 
following: 
‘‘(iv) not professing a particular reli-
gion, or any religion;’’; and 
(B) in subparagraph (B)— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘conscience, non-the-
istic views, or’’ before ‘‘religious belief or 
practice’’; and 
(ii) by inserting after ‘‘forced religious 
conversion’’ the following: ‘‘, forcibly com-
pelling non-believers or non-theists to re-
cant their beliefs or to convert’’; and 
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(2) by adding at the end, the following new 
paragraphs: 
‘‘(14) SPECIAL WATCH LIST.—The term ‘Spe-
cial Watch List’ means the Special Watch List as 
contained in the Executive Summary to the Annual 
Report and described in section 102(b)(1)(F)(iii). 
‘‘(15) NON-STATE ACTOR.—The term ‘non-state 
actor’ means a nonsovereign entity that exercises 
significant political power and is able to exert influ-
ence at a national or international level but does not 
belong to or ally itself to any particular country and 
often employs illegal violence in pursuit of its objec-
tives. 
‘‘(16) INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION.— 
The term ‘institution of higher education’ has the 
meaning given that term in section 101 of the High-
er Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001)’’. 
TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF 
STATE ACTIVITIES 
SEC. 101. OFFICE ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREE-
DOM; AMBASSADOR AT LARGE FOR INTER-
NATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 101 of the International 
Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6411) is 
amended— 
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(1) in subsection (b), by adding at the end be-
fore the period the following: ‘‘, and shall report di-
rectly to the Secretary of State’’; 
(2) in subsection (c)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘responsibility’’ and in-
serting ‘‘responsibilities’’; 
(ii) by striking ‘‘shall be to advance’’ 
and inserting the following: ‘‘shall be to— 
‘‘(A) advance’’; 
(iii) in subparagraph (A) (as so 
added), by striking the period at the end 
and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(iv) by adding at the end the following 
new subparagraph: 
‘‘(B) integrate United States international 
religious freedom policies and strategies into 
the foreign policy efforts of the United States.’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘the 
principal adviser to’’ before ‘‘the Secretary of 
State’’; 
(C) in paragraph (3)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A), by striking 
‘‘and’’ at the end; 
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(ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
the period at the end and inserting ‘‘; 
and’’; and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new subparagraph: 
‘‘(C) contacts with nongovernmental orga-
nizations that have an impact on the state of 
religious freedom in their respective societies or 
regions, or internationally.’’; 
(D) by redesignating paragraph (4) as 
paragraph (5); and 
(E) by inserting after paragraph (3) the 
following new paragraph: 
‘‘(4) 
COORDINATION
RESPONSIBILITIES.—In 
order to promote religious freedom as an interest of 
United States foreign policy, the Ambassador at 
Large— 
‘‘(A) shall coordinate international reli-
gious freedom policies across all programs, 
projects, and activities of the United States; 
and 
‘‘(B) should participate in any interagency 
processes on issues in which the promotion of 
international religious freedom policy can ad-
vance United States national security interests, 
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including in democracy promotion, stability, se-
curity, and development globally.’’; and 
(3) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘staff for the 
Office’’ and all that follows through the period at 
the end and inserting ‘‘individuals to fill at least 25 
full-time equivalent staff positions, and any other 
temporary staff positions as needed to compile, edit, 
and manage the Annual Report under the direct su-
pervision of the Ambassador at Large, and for the 
conduct of investigations by the Office and for nec-
essary travel to carry out the provisions of this Act. 
The Secretary of State should also provide to the 
Ambassador at Large funds that are sufficient to 
carry out the duties described in this section, includ-
ing as necessary representation funds, in amounts 
comparable to those provided to other Ambassadors 
at Large in the Department of State.’’. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—Because international re-
ligious freedom is a vital foreign policy interest and one 
that needs coordination across many regional bureaus and 
among Special Envoys and Special Representatives with 
overlapping mandates, the Secretary of State should con-
sider elevating the office of International Religious Free-
dom and the position of the Ambassador at Large for 
International Religious Freedom to the Office of the Sec-
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retary, similar to other Ambassador at Large positions 
that now report directly to the Secretary. Providing the 
Office of International Religious Freedom with additional 
resources and status will demonstrate both the strategic 
importance of international religious freedom policy within 
the State Department bureaucracy and show persecuted 
religious groups globally that the United States gives pri-
ority to the protection and promotion of international reli-
gious freedom as mandated by the International Religious 
Freedom Act of 1998. 
SEC. 102. ANNUAL REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS 
FREEDOM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 102(b)(1) of the Inter-
national Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 
6412(b)(1)) is amended— 
(1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), 
by striking ‘‘September 1’’ and inserting ‘‘May 1’’; 
(2) in subparagraph (A)— 
(A) by redesignating clause (iv) as clause 
(vii); and 
(B) by inserting after clause (iii) the fol-
lowing new clauses: 
‘‘(iv) particularly severe violations of 
religious freedom in that country in the 
case of a foreign country with respect to 
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which a government does not exist or the 
government does not control its territory; 
‘‘(v) an identification of prisoners in 
that country pursuant to section 108; 
‘‘(vi) any action taken by the govern-
ment of that country to censor religious 
content, communications, or worship activi-
ties online, including descriptions of the 
targeted religious group, the content, com-
munication, or activities censored, and the 
means used.’’; 
(3) in subparagraph (B), in the matter pre-
ceding clause (i)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘persecution of lawyers, 
politicians, or other human rights advocates 
seeking to defend the rights of members of reli-
gious groups or highlight religious freedom vio-
lations, prohibitions on ritual animal slaughter 
or male infant circumcision,’’ after ‘‘entire reli-
gions,’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘policies that ban or re-
strict the public manifestation of religious belief 
and the peaceful involvement of religious groups 
or their members in the political life of each 
such foreign country,’’ after ‘‘such groups,’’; 
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(4) in subparagraph (C)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘A description’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘A comprehensive description’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘policies in support’’ and 
inserting ‘‘diplomatic and political coordination 
efforts, and other policies in support’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end before the period 
the following: ‘‘, and a comprehensive and coun-
try-specific analysis of the impact of actions by 
the United States on the status of religious 
freedom in each such country’’; and 
(5) in subparagraph (F)— 
(A) in clause (i)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘section 402(b)(1)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘section 402(b)(1)(B)(i)’’; 
and 
(ii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: ‘‘Any country in which a non-state 
actor designated as an entity of particular 
concern for religious freedom under section 
301 of the Frank R. Wolf International 
Religious Freedom Act is located shall be 
included in this section of the report.’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following new 
clause: 
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‘‘(iii) SPECIAL WATCH LIST.—A list, 
to be known as the ‘Special Watch List’, 
which shall identify each country that en-
gages in or tolerates severe violations of re-
ligious freedom during the previous year 
but which the President determines does 
not meet, at the time of the publication of 
the Annual Report, all of the criteria de-
scribed in section 3(11) for designation 
under section 402(b)(1).’’. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that— 
(1) the original intent of the International Reli-
gious Freedom Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6401 et seq.) 
was to require annual reports from both the Depart-
ment of State and the Commission on International 
Religious Freedom to be delivered each year, during 
the same calendar year, and with at least 5 months 
separating these reports, in order to provide updated 
information for policy-makers, Members of Congress, 
and nongovernmental organizations; and 
(2) given that the annual Country Reports on 
Human Rights Practices no longer contain updated 
information on religious freedom conditions globally, 
it is important that the Department of State and the 
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Commission work together to fulfill the original in-
tent of the International Religious Freedom Act of 
1998. 
SEC. 103. TRAINING FOR FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS; RE-
PORT. 
(a) AMENDMENT
TO FOREIGN SERVICE ACT
OF 
1980.—Section 708 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 
(22 U.S.C. 4028) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsections (b) and (c) as 
subsections (d) and (e), respectively; 
(2) in subsection (d), as redesignated, by strik-
ing ‘‘The Secretary of State’’ and inserting ‘‘REFU-
GEES.—The Secretary of State’’; 
(3) in subsection (e), as redesignated, by strik-
ing ‘‘The Secretary of State’’ and inserting ‘‘CHILD 
SOLDIERS.—The Secretary of State’’; 
(4) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(a) DEVELOPMENT OF CURRICULUM.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary of State 
shall develop a curriculum for training United States 
Foreign Service officers in the scope and strategic 
value of international religious freedom, how viola-
tions of international religious freedom harm funda-
mental United States interests, how the advance-
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ment of international religious freedom can advance 
such interests, how United States international reli-
gious freedom policy should be carried out in prac-
tice by United States diplomats and other Foreign 
Service officers, and the relevance and relationship 
of international religious freedom to United States 
defense, diplomacy, development, and public affairs 
efforts. The Secretary of State shall ensure the 
availability of sufficient resources to develop and im-
plement such curriculum. 
‘‘(2) ROLE
OF
OTHER
OFFICIALS.—The Sec-
retary of State shall carry out paragraph (1)— 
‘‘(A) with the assistance of the Ambas-
sador at Large for International Religious 
Freedom appointed under section 101(b) of the 
International Religious Freedom Act of 1998; 
‘‘(B) in coordination with the Director of 
the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs 
Training Center and other Federal officials as 
appropriate; and 
‘‘(C) in consultation with the United 
States Commission on International Religious 
Freedom established in section 201(a) of the 
International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 
and other relevant stakeholders. 
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‘‘(b) TRAINING PROGRAM.—Not later than the date 
that is 1 year after the date of the enactment of the Frank 
R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act, the Director 
of the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training 
Center shall begin mandatory training on religious free-
dom for all Foreign Service officers, including all entry 
level officers, all officers prior to departure for posting 
outside the United States, and all outgoing deputy chiefs 
of mission and ambassadors. Such training shall, at min-
imum, be a separate, independent, and required segment 
of each of the following: 
‘‘(1) The A–100 course attended by all Foreign 
Service officers. 
‘‘(2) The courses required of every Foreign 
Service officer prior to a posting outside the United 
States, with segments tailored to the particular reli-
gious demography, religious freedom conditions, and 
United States strategies for advancing religious free-
dom, in each receiving country. 
‘‘(3) The courses required of all outgoing dep-
uty chiefs of mission and ambassadors. 
‘‘(c) INFORMATION SHARING.—The curriculum and 
training materials developed pursuant to subsections (a) 
and (b) should be made available to all other Federal 
agencies.’’. 
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(b) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, with 
the assistance of the Ambassador at Large for Inter-
national Religious Freedom, and the Director of the 
George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Cen-
ter, shall submit to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 
the House of Representatives and the Committee on For-
eign Relations of the Senate a report containing a com-
prehensive plan for undertaking training for Foreign Serv-
ice officers as required under section 708 of the Foreign 
Services Act of 1980, as amended by subsection (a) of this 
section. 
SEC. 104. PRISONER LISTS AND ISSUE BRIEFS ON RELI-
GIOUS FREEDOM CONCERNS. 
Section 108 of the International Religious Freedom 
Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6417) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘faith’’ and 
inserting ‘‘activities, religious freedom advocacy, or 
efforts to protect and advance the universally recog-
nized right to the freedom of religion,’’; 
(2) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘, as appro-
priate, provide’’ and insert ‘‘make available’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
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‘‘(d) VICTIMS LIST MAINTAINED BY THE UNITED 
STATES COMMISSION
ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS 
FREEDOM.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Commission shall 
make publicly available online and in official publica-
tions lists of persons it determines are imprisoned, 
detained, disappeared, placed under house arrest, 
tortured, or subject to forced renunciations of faith 
for their religious activity or religious freedom advo-
cacy by the government of a foreign country that the 
Commission recommends for designation as a coun-
try of particular concern for religious freedom under 
section 402(b)(1) or by a non-state actor that the 
Commission recommends for designation as an enti-
ty of particular concern for religious freedom under 
section 301 of the Frank R. Wolf International Reli-
gious Freedom Act and include as much publicly 
available information as possible on the conditions 
and circumstances of such persons. 
‘‘(2) DISCRETION.—In compiling such lists, the 
Commission shall exercise all appropriate discretion, 
including consideration of the safety and security of, 
and benefit to, the persons who may be included on 
the lists and the families of such persons.’’. 
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TITLE II—NATIONAL SECURITY 
COUNCIL 
SEC. 201. SPECIAL ADVISER FOR INTERNATIONAL RELI-
GIOUS FREEDOM. 
Section 101 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 
U.S.C. 3021) is amended by striking subsection (k) and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘(k) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that there should be within the staff of the National 
Security Council a Special Adviser to the President on 
International Religious Freedom, whose position should be 
comparable to that of a director within the Executive Of-
fice of the President, with the primary responsibility to 
serve as a resource for executive branch officials on inter-
national religious freedom, compiling and maintaining in-
formation on the facts and circumstances of violations of 
religious freedom (as defined in section 3 of the Inter-
national Religious Freedom Act of 1998), and making rel-
evant policy recommendations to advance United States 
international religious freedom policy. The Special Advisor 
should also assist the Ambassador at Large to coordinate 
international religious freedom policies and strategies 
throughout the executive branch and within any inter-
agency policy committees where the Ambassador at Large 
participates.’’. 
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TITLE III—PRESIDENTIAL 
ACTIONS 
SEC. 301. NON-STATE ACTOR DESIGNATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The President shall, concurrent 
with the annual foreign country review required by section 
402(b)(1) of the International Religious Freedom Act of 
1998 (22 U.S.C. 6442(b)(1))— 
(1) review and identify any non-state actors op-
erating in any such reviewed country or surrounding 
region that have engaged in particularly severe viola-
tions of religious freedom; and 
(2) designate, in a manner consistent with such 
Act, each such non-state actor as an entity of par-
ticular concern for religious freedom. 
(b) REPORT.—Whenever the President designates a 
non-state actor under subsection (a) as an entity of par-
ticular concern for religious freedom, the President shall, 
as soon as practicable after the designation is made, sub-
mit to the appropriate congressional committees a report 
detailing the reasons for such designation. 
(c) ACTIONS.—The President should take specific ac-
tions to address severe violations of religious freedom of 
non-state actors that are designated under subsection (a), 
including taking actions commensurate to those actions 
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described in section 405 of the International Religious 
Freedom Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6445). 
(d) DEPARTMENT OF STATE ANNUAL REPORT.—The 
Secretary of State should include information detailing the 
reasons the President designated a non-state actor as an 
entity of particular concern for religious freedom under 
subsection (a) in the Annual Report required in section 
102(b)(1) of the International Religious Freedom Act of 
1998 (22 U.S.C. 6442(b)(1)). 
(e) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that the Secretary of State should work with Con-
gress to create new political, financial, and diplomatic 
tools to address severe violations of religious freedom by 
non-state actors and to update the actions the President 
can take in section 405 of the International Religious 
Freedom Act of 1998. 
(f) DETERMINATIONS OF RESPONSIBLE PARTIES.— 
In order to appropriately target Presidential actions under 
the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 in re-
sponse, the President shall with respect to each non-state 
actor designated as an entity of particular concern for reli-
gious freedom under subsection (a), seek to determine the 
specific officials or members thereof that are responsible 
for the particularly severe violations of religious freedom 
engaged in or tolerated by that entity. 
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