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‘‘(3) the status of child labor practices in each
country, including—
‘‘(A) whether such country has adopted poli-
cies to protect children from exploitation in the
workplace, including a prohibition of forced and
bonded labor and policies regarding acceptable
working conditions; and
‘‘(B) the extent to which each country en-
forces such policies, including the adequacy of
the resources and oversight dedicated to such
policies;’’.
SEC. 2217. REPORTS AND POLICY CONCERNING DIPLO-
MATIC IMMUNITY.
Title I of the State Department Basic Authorities Act
of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2651a et seq.), as amended by this divi-
sion, is further amended by adding at the end the following
new section:
‘‘SEC. 56. CRIMES COMMITTED BY DIPLOMATS.
‘‘(a) ANNUAL REPORT CONCERNING DIPLOMATIC IM-
MUNITY.—
‘‘(1) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—The Secretary of
State shall prepare and submit to the Congress, annu-
ally, a report concerning diplomatic immunity enti-
tled ‘‘Report on Cases Involving Diplomatic Immu-
nity’’.
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‘‘(2) CONTENT OF REPORT.—In addition to such
other information as the Secretary of State may con-
sider appropriate, the report under paragraph (1)
shall include the following:
‘‘(A) The number of persons residing in the
United States who enjoy full immunity from the
criminal jurisdiction of the United States under
laws extending diplomatic privileges and immu-
nities.
‘‘(B) Each case involving an alien described
in subparagraph (A) in which an appropriate
authority of a State, a political subdivision of a
State, or the United States reported to the De-
partment of State that the authority had reason-
able cause to believe the alien committed a seri-
ous criminal offense within the United States,
and any additional information provided to the
Secretary relating to other serious criminal of-
fenses that any such authority had reasonable
cause to believe the alien committed before the
period covered by the report. The Secretary may
omit from such report any matter the provision
of which the Secretary reasonably believes would
compromise a criminal investigation or prosecu-
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tion or which would directly compromise law en-
forcement or intelligence sources or methods.
‘‘(C) Each case described in subparagraph
(B) in which the Secretary of State has certified
that a person enjoys full immunity from the
criminal jurisdiction of the United States under
laws extending diplomatic privileges and immu-
nities.
‘‘(D) The number of United States citizens
who are residing in a receiving state and who
enjoy full immunity from the criminal jurisdic-
tion of such state under laws extending diplo-
matic privileges and immunities.
‘‘(E) Each case involving a United States
citizen under subparagraph (D) in which the
United States has been requested by the govern-
ment of a receiving state to waive the immunity
from criminal jurisdiction of the United States
citizen.
‘‘(F) Whether the Secretary has made the
notifications referred to in subsection (c) during
the period covered by the report.
‘‘(3) SERIOUS CRIMINAL OFFENSE DEFINED.—
For the purposes of this section, the term ‘serious
criminal offense’ means—
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‘‘(A) any felony under Federal, State, or
local law;
‘‘(B) any Federal, State, or local offense
punishable by a term of imprisonment of more
than 1 year;
‘‘(C) any crime of violence as defined for
purposes of section 16 of title 18, United States
Code; or
‘‘(D)(i) driving under the influence of alco-
hol or drugs;
‘‘(ii) reckless driving; or
‘‘(iii) driving while intoxicated.
‘‘(b) UNITED STATES POLICY CONCERNING REFORM
OF DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY.—It is the sense of the Congress
that the Secretary of State should explore, in appropriate
fora, whether states should enter into agreements and adopt
legislation—
‘‘(1) to provide jurisdiction in the sending state
to prosecute crimes committed in the receiving state
by persons entitled to immunity from criminal juris-
diction under laws extending diplomatic privileges
and immunities; and
‘‘(2) to provide that where there is probable cause
to believe that an individual who is entitled to immu-
nity from the criminal jurisdiction of the receiving
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state under laws extending diplomatic privileges and
immunities committed a serious crime, the sending
state will waive such immunity or the sending state
will prosecute such individual.
‘‘(c) NOTIFICATION OF DIPLOMATIC CORPS.—The Sec-
retary should periodically notify each foreign mission of
United States policies relating to criminal offenses commit-
ted by individuals with immunity from the criminal juris-
diction of the United States under laws extending diplo-
matic privileges and immunities.’’.
SEC. 2218. REAFFIRMING UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL
TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY.
(a) PROCUREMENT POLICY.—It is the policy of the
United States to foster and support procurement of goods
and services from private, commercial companies.
(b) IMPLEMENTATION.—In order to achieve the policy
set forth in subsection (a), the Diplomatic Telecommuni-
cations Service Program Office (DTS-PO) shall—
(1) utilize full and open competition in the pro-
curement of telecommunications services, including
satellite space segment, for the Department of State
and each other Federal entity represented at United
States diplomatic missions and consular posts over-
seas;
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(2) make every effort to ensure and promote the
participation in the competition for such procurement
of commercial private sector providers of satellite
space segment who have no ownership or other con-
nection with an intergovernmental satellite organiza-
tion; and
(3) implement the competitive procedures re-
quired by paragraphs (1) and (2) at the prime con-
tracting level and, to the maximum extent prac-
ticable, the subcontracting level.
SEC. 2219. REDUCTION OF REPORTING.
(a) REPEALS.—The following provisions of law are re-
pealed:
(1) MODEL
FOREIGN
LANGUAGE
COMPETENCE
POSTS.—The second sentence of section 161(c) of the
Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year
1990 and 1991 (22 U.S.C. 4171 note).
(2) ACTIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF HAITI.—
Section 705(c) of the International Security and De-
velopment Cooperation Act of 1985 (Public Law 99–
83).
(3) TRAINING FACILITY FOR THE FOREIGN SERV-
ICE INSTITUTE.—Section 123(e)(2) of the Foreign Re-
lations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and
1987 (Public Law 99–93).
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(4) MILITARY ASSISTANCE FOR HAITI.—Section
203(c) of the Special Foreign Assistance Act of 1986
(Public Law 99–529).
(5) INTERNATIONAL SUGAR AGREEMENT, 1977.—
Section 5 of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act providing for
the implementation of the International Sugar Agree-
ment, 1977, and for other purposes’’ (Public Law 96–
236; 7 U.S.C. 3605 and 3606).
(6) AUDIENCE
SURVEY
OF
WORLDNET
PRO-
GRAM.—Section 209 (c) and (d) of the Foreign Rela-
tions Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989
(Public Law 100–204).
(7) RESEARCH
ON
THE
NEAR
AND
MIDDLE
EAST.—Section 228(b) of the Foreign Relations Au-
thorization Act, Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 (Public
Law 102–138; 22 U.S.C. 2452 note).
(b) PROGRESS TOWARD REGIONAL NONPROLIFERA-
TION.—Section 620F(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of
1961 (22 U.S.C. 2376(c); relating to periodic reports on
progress toward regional nonproliferation) is amended by
striking ‘‘Not later than April 1, 1993 and every six months
thereafter,’’ and inserting ‘‘Not later than April 1 of each
year,’’.
(c) REPORT ON PARTICIPATION BY UNITED STATES
MILITARY PERSONNEL ABROAD IN UNITED STATES ELEC-
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TIONS.—Section 101(b)(6) of the Uniformed and Overseas
Citizens Absentee Voting Act of 1986 (42 U.S.C.
1973ff(b)(6)) is amended by striking ‘‘of voter participa-
tion’’ and inserting ‘‘of uniformed services voter participa-
tion, a general assessment of overseas nonmilitary partici-
pation,’’.
CHAPTER 2—CONSULAR AUTHORITIES OF
THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE
SEC. 2221. USE OF CERTAIN PASSPORT PROCESSING FEES
FOR ENHANCED PASSPORT SERVICES.
For the fiscal year 1998, of the fees collected for expe-
dited passport processing and deposited to an offsetting col-
lection pursuant to title V of the Department of State and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1995
(Public Law 103–317; 22 U.S.C. 214 note), 30 percent shall
be available only for enhancing passport services for United
States citizens, improving the integrity and efficiency of the
passport issuance process, improving the secure nature of
the United States passport, investigating passport fraud,
and deterring entry into the United States by terrorists,
drug traffickers, or other criminals.
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SEC. 2222. SURCHARGE FOR PROCESSING CERTAIN MA-
CHINE READABLE VISAS.
Section 140(a) of the Foreign Relations Authorization
Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (Public Law 103–236) is
amended—
(1) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘providing
consular services’’ and inserting ‘‘the Department of
State’s border security program, including the costs of
the installation and operation of the machine read-
able visa and automated name-check process, improv-
ing the quality and security of the United States
passport, investigations of passport and visa fraud,
and the technological infrastructure to support the
programs referred to in this sentence’’;
(2) by striking the first sentence of paragraph
(3) and inserting ‘‘For the fiscal year 1998, any
amount collected under paragraph (1) that exceeds
$140,000,000 may be made available only if a notifi-
cation is submitted to Congress in accordance with
the procedures applicable to reprogramming notifica-
tions under section 34 of the State Department Basic
Authorities Act of 1956.’’; and
(3) by striking paragraphs (4) and (5).
SEC. 2223. CONSULAR OFFICERS.
(a) PERSONS AUTHORIZED TO ISSUE REPORTS OF
BIRTHS ABROAD.—Section 33 of the State Department
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Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2705) is amended
in paragraph (2) by adding at the end the following: ‘‘For
purposes of this paragraph, the term ‘consular officer’ in-
cludes any United States citizen employee of the Depart-
ment of State who is designated by the Secretary of State
to adjudicate nationality abroad pursuant to such regula-
tions as the Secretary may prescribe.’’.
(b) PROVISIONS APPLICABLE
TO CONSULAR OFFI-
CERS.—Section 1689 of the Revised Statutes (22 U.S.C.
4191) is amended by inserting ‘‘and to such other United
States citizen employees of the Department of State as may
be designated by the Secretary of State pursuant to such
regulations as the Secretary may prescribe’’ after ‘‘such offi-
cers’’.
(c) PERSONS AUTHORIZED TO AUTHENTICATE FOR-
EIGN DOCUMENTS.—
(1) DESIGNATED UNITED STATES CITIZENS PER-
FORMING NOTARIAL ACTS.—Section 1750 of the Re-
vised Statutes, as amended (22 U.S.C. 4221) is fur-
ther amended by inserting after the first sentence: ‘‘At
any post, port, or place where there is no consular of-
ficer, the Secretary of State may authorize any other
officer or employee of the United States Government
who is a United States citizen serving overseas, in-
cluding any contract employee of the United States
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Government, to perform such acts, and any such con-
tractor so authorized shall not be considered to be a
consular officer.’’.
(2) DEFINITION OF CONSULAR OFFICERS.—Sec-
tion 3492(c) of title 18, United States Code, is
amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘For
purposes of this section and sections 3493 through
3496 of this title, the term ‘consular officers’ includes
any United States citizen who is designated to per-
form notarial functions pursuant to section 1750 of
the Revised Statutes, as amended (22 U.S.C. 4221).’’.
(d) PERSONS AUTHORIZED TO ADMINISTER OATHS.—
Section 115 of title 35, United States Code, is amended by
adding at the end the following: ‘‘For purposes of this sec-
tion, a consular officer shall include any United States citi-
zen serving overseas, authorized to perform notarial func-
tions pursuant to section 1750 of the Revised Statutes, as
amended (22 U.S.C. 4221).’’.
(e) DEFINITION
OF CONSULAR OFFICER.—Section
101(a)(9) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8
U.S.C. 1101(a)(9)) is amended by—
(1) inserting ‘‘or employee’’ after ‘‘officer’’ the
second place it appears; and
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(2) inserting before the period at the end of the
sentence ‘‘or, when used in title III, for the purpose
of adjudicating nationality’’.
(f) TRAINING
FOR EMPLOYEES PERFORMING CON-
SULAR FUNCTIONS.—Section 704 of the Foreign Service Act
of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4024) is amended by adding at the end
the following new subsection:
‘‘(d)(1) Before a United States citizen employee (other
than a diplomatic or consular officer of the United States)
may be designated by the Secretary of State, pursuant to
regulation, to perform a consular function abroad, the Unit-
ed States citizen employee shall—
‘‘(A) be required to complete successfully a pro-
gram of training essentially equivalent to the train-
ing that a consular officer who is a member of the
Foreign Service would receive for purposes of per-
forming such function; and
‘‘(B) be certified by an appropriate official of the
Department of State to be qualified by knowledge and
experience to perform such function.
‘‘(2) As used in this subsection, the term ‘consular
function’ includes the issuance of visas, the performance of
notarial and other legalization functions, the adjudication
of passport applications, the adjudication of nationality,
and the issuance of citizenship documentation.’’.
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SEC. 2224. REPEAL OF OUTDATED CONSULAR RECEIPT RE-
QUIREMENTS.
Sections 1726, 1727, and 1728 of the Revised Statutes
of the United States (22 U.S.C. 4212, 4213, and 4214), as
amended (relating to accounting for consular fees) are re-
pealed.
SEC. 2225. ELIMINATION OF DUPLICATE FEDERAL REG-
ISTER 
PUBLICATION 
FOR 
TRAVEL
ADVISORIES.
(a) FOREIGN AIRPORTS.—Section 44908(a) of title 49,
United States Code, is amended—
(1) by inserting ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph
(1);
(2) by striking paragraph (2); and
(3) by redesignating paragraph (3) as para-
graph (2).
(b) FOREIGN PORTS.—Section 908(a) of the Inter-
national Maritime and Port Security Act of 1986 (46
U.S.C. App. 1804(a)) is amended by striking the second
sentence, relating to Federal Register publication by the
Secretary of State.
SEC. 2226. DENIAL OF VISAS TO CONFISCATORS OF AMER-
ICAN PROPERTY.
(a) DENIAL OF VISAS.—Except as otherwise provided
in section 401 of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Soli-
darity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–114),