I 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7025 
To prohibit the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service 
from funding entities that commit, fund, or support gross violations 
of internationally recognized human rights, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 9, 2022 
Mr. GRIJALVA (for himself, Mr. WESTERMAN, Mr. HUFFMAN, and Mr. 
BENTZ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Natural Resources 
A BILL 
To prohibit the Director of the United States Fish and 
Wildlife Service from funding entities that commit, fund, 
or support gross violations of internationally recognized 
human rights, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Advancing Human 
Rights-Centered International Conservation Act of 2022’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
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(1) 
APPROPRIATE
COMMITTEES
OF
CON-
GRESS.—The term ‘‘appropriate committees of Con-
gress’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Natural Resources 
of the House of Representatives; 
(B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 
the House of Representatives; 
(C) the Committee of Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives; 
(D) the Committee on Environment and 
Public Works of the Senate; 
(E) the Committee on Foreign Relations of 
the Senate; and 
(F) the Committee on Appropriations of 
the Senate. 
(2) COVERED RECIPIENT.—The term ‘‘covered 
recipient’’ means any entity that receives financial 
assistance from the Director for the purpose of 
international activities or a subgrantee of such entity 
with respect to a grant issued by the Director. 
(3) CREDIBLE INFORMATION.—The term ‘‘cred-
ible information’’ means information that, consid-
ering the source of such information and the sur-
rounding circumstances, supports a reasonable belief 
that an event has occurred or will occur. 
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(4) DIRECTOR.—The term ‘‘Director’’ means 
the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife 
Service. 
(5) GROSS
VIOLATION
OF
INTERNATIONALLY 
RECOGNIZED HUMAN RIGHTS.—The term ‘‘gross vio-
lation of internationally recognized human rights’’ 
has the meaning given that term in section 
502B(d)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
(22 U.S.C. 2304(d)(1)). 
(6) INSPECTOR GENERAL.—The term ‘‘Inspec-
tor General’’ means the Inspector General for the 
Department of the Interior. 
(7) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘the Secretary’’ 
means the Secretary of State. 
(8) SERVICE.—The term ‘‘Service’’ means the 
United States Fish and Wildlife Service. 
(9) UNIT OF A FOREIGN SECURITY FORCE.— 
The term ‘‘unit of a foreign security force’’ means 
a unit of— 
(A) a foreign military; 
(B) a foreign police force; 
(C) a foreign paramilitary group; 
(D) any person providing security services 
to a foreign government; and 
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(E) such other organizations as the Sec-
retary of State determines appropriate. 
SEC. 3. INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION GRANT RESTRIC-
TIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Director shall ensure that no 
international financial assistance provided by the Director 
shall be furnished to any covered recipient or subgrantee 
for funding or supporting any unit of a foreign security 
force if the Director or the Secretary of State has credible 
information that such unit has committed a gross violation 
of internationally recognized human rights. 
(b) EXCEPTION.—The prohibition in subsection (a) 
shall not apply if the Director, in consultation with the 
Secretary, determines and reports to the appropriate Con-
gressional committees that the applicable national govern-
ment, and covered recipient or subgrantee as appropriate, 
is taking effective steps to bring the responsible members 
of the unit of a foreign security force to justice and to 
prevent gross violations of internationally recognized 
human rights by the unit in the future. 
(c) RISK ANALYSIS.—In performing a risk assess-
ment analysis for a grant to a covered recipient, the Direc-
tor shall include the occurrence of human rights violations 
by individuals employed, funded, or supported by the cov-
ered recipient or subgrantee as a factor in such analysis. 
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