SEC. 2. DISSEMINATION ABROAD OF INFORMATION ABOUT 
THE UNITED STATES. 
(a) UNITED
STATES
INFORMATION
AND
EDU-
CATIONAL EXCHANGE ACT OF 1948.—Section 501 of the 
United States Information and Educational Exchange Act 
of 1948 (22 U.S.C. 1461) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘GENERAL AUTHORIZATION 
‘‘SEC. 501. (a) The Secretary and the Broadcasting 
Board of Governors are authorized to use funds appro-
priated or otherwise made available for public diplomacy 
information programs to provide for the preparation, dis-
semination, and use of information intended for foreign 
audiences abroad about the United States, its people, and 
its policies, through press, publications, radio, motion pic-
tures, the Internet, and other information media, includ-
ing social media, and through information centers, in-
structors, and other direct or indirect means of commu-
nication. 
‘‘(b)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the Sec-
retary and the Broadcasting Board of Governors may, 
upon request and reimbursement of the reasonable costs 
incurred in fulfilling such a request, make available, in the 
United States, motion pictures, films, video, audio, and 
other materials prepared for dissemination abroad or dis-
seminated abroad pursuant to this Act, the United States 
International Broadcasting Act of 1994 (22 U.S.C. 6201 
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et seq.), the Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Act (22 U.S.C. 
1465 et seq.), or the Television Broadcasting to Cuba Act 
(22 U.S.C. 1465aa et seq.). The Secretary and the Broad-
casting Board of Governors shall issue necessary regula-
tions— 
‘‘(A) to establish procedures to maintain such 
material; 
‘‘(B) for reimbursement of the reasonable costs 
incurred in fulfilling requests for such material; and 
‘‘(C) to ensure that the persons seeking release 
of such material have secured and paid for necessary 
United States rights and licenses. 
‘‘(2) With respect to material prepared for dissemina-
tion abroad or disseminated abroad before the effective 
date of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012— 
‘‘(A) the Secretary and the Broadcasting Board 
of Governors shall make available to the Archivist of 
the United States, for domestic distribution, motion 
pictures, films, videotapes, and other material 12 
years after the initial dissemination of the material 
abroad; and 
‘‘(B) the Archivist shall be the official custodian 
of the material and shall issue necessary regulations 
to ensure that persons seeking its release in the 
United States have secured and paid for necessary 
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United States rights and licenses and that all costs 
associated with the provision of the material by the 
Archivist shall be paid by the persons seeking its re-
lease, in accordance with paragraph (3). 
‘‘(3) The Archivist may charge fees to recover the 
costs described in paragraph (2), in accordance with sec-
tion 2116(c) of title 44. Such fees shall be paid into, ad-
ministered, and expended as part of the National Archives 
Trust Fund. 
‘‘(c) Nothing in this section may be construed to re-
quire the Secretary or the Broadcasting Board of Gov-
ernors to make material disseminated abroad available in 
any format other than in the format disseminated 
abroad.’’. 
(b) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-
tion may be construed to affect the allocation of funds ap-
propriated or otherwise made specifically available for 
public diplomacy. 
(c) FOREIGN RELATIONS AUTHORIZATION ACT, FIS-
CAL YEARS 1986 AND 1987.—Section 208 of the Foreign 
Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987 
(22 U.S.C. 1461–1a) is amended to read as follows: 
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‘‘SEC. 208. CLARIFICATION ON DOMESTIC DISTRIBUTION OF 
PROGRAM MATERIAL. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—No funds authorized to be ap-
propriated to the Department of State or the Broad-
casting Board of Governors shall be used to influence pub-
lic opinion in the United States. This section shall apply 
only to programs carried out pursuant to the United 
States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 
1948 (22 U.S.C. 1431 et seq.), the United States Inter-
national Broadcasting Act of 1994 (22 U.S.C. 6201 et 
seq.), the Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Act (22 U.S.C. 
1465 et seq.), and the Television Broadcasting to Cuba 
Act (22 U.S.C. 1465aa et seq.). This section shall not pro-
hibit or delay the Department of State or the Broad-
casting Board of Governors from providing information 
about its operations, policies, programs, or program mate-
rial, or making such available, to the media, public, or 
Congress, in accordance with other applicable law. 
‘‘(b) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-
tion shall be construed to prohibit the Department of 
State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors from en-
gaging in any medium or form of communication, either 
directly or indirectly, because a United States domestic 
audience is or may be thereby exposed to program mate-
rial, or based on a presumption of such exposure. Such 
material may be made available within the United States 
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and disseminated, when appropriate, pursuant to sections 
502 and 1005 of the United States Information and Edu-
cational Exchange Act of 1948 (22 U.S.C. 1462 and 
1437), except that nothing in this section may be con-
strued to authorize the Department of State or the Broad-
casting Board of Governors to disseminate within the 
United States any program material prepared for dissemi-
nation abroad on or before the effective date of the Smith- 
Mundt Modernization Act of 2012. 
‘‘(c) APPLICATION.—The provisions of this section 
shall apply only to the Department of State and the 
Broadcasting Board of Governors and to no other depart-
ment or agency of the Federal Government.’’. 
(d) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENTS.—The 
United 
States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 
1948 is amended— 
(1) in section 502 (22 U.S.C. 1462)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘and the Broadcasting 
Board of Governors’’ after ‘‘Secretary’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘or the Broadcasting 
Board of Governors’’ after ‘‘Department’’; and 
(2) in section 1005 (22 U.S.C. 1437), by insert-
ing ‘‘and the Broadcasting Board of Governors’’ 
after ‘‘Secretary’’ each place it appears. 
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(e) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This Act shall take effect 
and apply on the date that is 180 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act. 
Æ 
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