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REQUESTS FOR DOCUMENTS 
SEC. 7064. None of the funds appropriated or made available 
pursuant to titles III through VI of this Act shall be available 
to a nongovernmental organization, including any contractor, which 
fails to provide upon timely request any document, file, or record 
necessary to the auditing requirements of the United States Agency 
for International Development. 
INTERNATIONAL PRISON CONDITIONS 
SEC. 7065. Funds appropriated under the headings ‘‘Develop-
ment Assistance’’, ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, and ‘‘International 
Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement’’ in this Act shall be made 
available, notwithstanding section 660 of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961, for assistance to eliminate inhumane conditions in 
foreign prisons and other detention facilities: Provided, That 
decisions regarding the uses of such funds shall be the responsibility 
of the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, 
and Labor (DRL), in consultation with the Assistant Secretary 
of State for International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement 
Affairs, and the Assistant Administrator for Democracy, Conflict, 
and Humanitarian Assistance, United States Agency for Inter-
national Development, as appropriate: Provided further, That the 
Assistant Secretary of State for DRL shall consult with the Commit-
tees on Appropriations prior to the obligation of funds. 
PROHIBITION ON USE OF TORTURE 
SEC. 7066. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act 
may be used to support or justify the use of torture, cruel, or 
inhumane treatment by any official or contract employee of the 
United States Government. 
(b) Funds appropriated under titles III and IV of this Act 
shall be made available, notwithstanding section 660 of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961 and following consultation with the Commit-
tees on Appropriations, for assistance to eliminate torture by foreign 
police, military or other security forces in countries receiving assist-
ance from funds appropriated by this Act. 
EXTRADITION 
SEC. 7067. (a) None of the funds appropriated in this Act 
may be used to provide assistance (other than funds provided under 
the headings ‘‘International Disaster Assistance’’, ‘‘Complex Crises 
Fund’’, ‘‘International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement’’, 
‘‘Migration and Refugee Assistance’’, ‘‘United States Emergency Ref-
ugee and Migration Assistance Fund’’, and ‘‘Nonproliferation, Anti- 
terrorism, Demining and Related Assistance’’) for the central 
government of a country which has notified the Department of 
State of its refusal to extradite to the United States any individual 
indicted for a criminal offense for which the maximum penalty 
is life imprisonment without the possibility of parole or for killing 
a law enforcement officer, as specified in a United States extradition 
request. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall only apply to the central government 
of a country with which the United States maintains diplomatic 
relations and with which the United States has an extradition
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treaty and the government of that country is in violation of the 
terms and conditions of the treaty. 
(c) The Secretary of State may waive the restriction in sub-
section (a) on a case-by-case basis if the Secretary certifies to 
the Committees on Appropriations that such waiver is important 
to the national interests of the United States. 
COMMERCIAL LEASING OF DEFENSE ARTICLES 
SEC. 7068. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and 
subject to the regular notification procedures of the Committees 
on Appropriations, the authority of section 23(a) of the Arms Export 
Control Act may be used to provide financing to Israel, Egypt, 
and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and major 
non-NATO allies for the procurement by leasing (including leasing 
with an option to purchase) of defense articles from United States 
commercial suppliers, not including Major Defense Equipment 
(other than helicopters and other types of aircraft having possible 
civilian application), if the President determines that there are 
compelling foreign policy or national security reasons for those 
defense articles being provided by commercial lease rather than 
by government-to-government sale under such Act. 
INDEPENDENT STATES OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION 
SEC. 7069. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
may be made available for assistance for a government of an Inde-
pendent State of the former Soviet Union if that government directs 
any action in violation of the territorial integrity or national sov-
ereignty of any other Independent State of the former Soviet Union, 
such as those violations included in the Helsinki Final Act: Pro-
vided, That except as otherwise provided in section 7070(a) of 
this Act, funds may be made available without regard to the restric-
tion in this subsection if the President determines that to do so 
is in the national security interest of the United States: Provided 
further, That prior to executing the authority contained in this 
subsection the Department of State shall consult with the Commit-
tees on Appropriations on how such assistance supports the national 
interest of the United States. 
(b) Funds appropriated by this Act under the heading ‘‘Eco-
nomic Support Fund’’ may be made available, notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, except for the limitation contained in section 
7070(a) of this Act, for assistance and related programs for the 
countries identified in section 3(c) of the Support for Eastern Euro-
pean Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989 (Public Law 101–179) and 
section 3 of the FREEDOM Support Act (Public Law 102–511) 
and may be used to carry out the provisions of those Acts: Provided, 
That such assistance and related programs from funds appropriated 
by this Act under the headings ‘‘Global Health Programs’’, ‘‘Eco-
nomic Support Fund’’, and ‘‘International Narcotics Control and 
Law Enforcement’’ shall be administered in accordance with the 
responsibilities of the coordinator designated pursuant to section 
601 of the Support for Eastern European Democracy (SEED) Act 
of 1989 (Public Law 101–179) and section 102 of the FREEDOM 
Support Act (Public Law 102–511). 
(c) Section 907 of the FREEDOM Support Act shall not apply 
to—
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(1) activities to support democracy or assistance under 
title V of the FREEDOM Support Act and section 1424 of 
Public Law 104–201 or non-proliferation assistance; 
(2) any assistance provided by the Trade and Development 
Agency under section 661 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
1961 (22 U.S.C. 2421); 
(3) any activity carried out by a member of the United 
States and Foreign Commercial Service while acting within 
his or her official capacity; 
(4) any insurance, reinsurance, guarantee, or other assist-
ance provided by the Overseas Private Investment Corporation 
under title IV of chapter 2 of part I of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2191 et seq.); 
(5) any financing provided under the Export-Import Bank 
Act of 1945; or 
(6) humanitarian assistance. 
RUSSIA 
SEC. 7070. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
may be made available for assistance for the central Government 
of the Russian Federation. 
(b)(1) None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be 
made available for assistance for the central government of a 
country that the Secretary of State determines and reports to the 
Committees on Appropriations has taken affirmative steps intended 
to support or be supportive of the Russian Federation annexation 
of Crimea: Provided, That except as otherwise provided in sub-
section (a), the Secretary may waive the restriction on assistance 
required by this paragraph if the Secretary certifies to such Commit-
tees that to do so is in the national interest of the United States, 
and includes a justification for such interest. 
(2) None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be made 
available for— 
(A) the implementation of any action or policy that recog-
nizes the sovereignty of the Russian Federation over Crimea; 
(B) the facilitation, financing, or guarantee of United States 
Government investments in Crimea, if such activity includes 
the participation of Russian Government officials, and Russian 
owned and controlled banks, or other Russian Government 
owned and controlled financial entities; or 
(C) assistance for Crimea, if such assistance includes the 
participation of Russian Government officials, and Russian 
owned and controlled banks, and other Russian Government 
owned and controlled financial entities. 
(3) The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United 
States executive directors of each international financial institution 
to vote against any assistance by such institution (including but 
not limited to any loan, credit, or guarantee) for any program 
that violates the sovereignty or territorial integrity of Ukraine. 
(4) The requirements of subsection (b) shall cease to be in 
effect if the Secretary of State certifies and reports to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations that the Government of Ukraine has reestab-
lished sovereignty over Crimea. 
(c) Funds appropriated by this Act under the heading ‘‘Economic 
Support Fund’’ in title III to counter Russian aggression and influ-
ence in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia may be
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transferred to, and merged with, funds appropriated under the 
headings ‘‘International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement’’ 
and ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’ in title IV: Provided, 
That such transfer authority is in addition to transfer authority 
otherwise available under any other provision of law: Provided 
further, That such transfer authority shall be subject to the regular 
notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations. 
(d) Funds appropriated by this Act for assistance for the 
Eastern Partnership countries shall be made available to advance 
the implementation of Association Agreements, trade agreements, 
and visa liberalization agreements with the European Union, and 
to reduce their vulnerability to external economic and political 
pressure from the Russian Federation. 
(e) Funds appropriated by this Act shall be made available 
to support the advancement of democracy and the rule of law 
in the Russian Federation, including to promote Internet freedom, 
and shall also be made available to support the democracy and 
rule of law strategy required by section 7071(d) of division K of 
Public Law 113–76. 
(f) Not later than 45 days after enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of State shall update the reports required by section 
7071(b)(2), (c), and (e) of division K of Public Law 113–76. 
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND 
SEC. 7071. (a) The terms and conditions of sections 7086(b) 
(1) and (2) and 7090(a) of division F of Public Law 111–117 shall 
apply to this Act. 
(b) The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United 
States Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) 
to seek to ensure that any loan will be repaid to the IMF before 
other private creditors. 
(c) The Secretary of the Treasury shall seek to require that 
the IMF implements and enforces policies and procedures which 
reflect best practices as defined in the explanatory statement 
described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this 
consolidated Act) for the protection of whistleblowers from retalia-
tion, including best practices for— 
(1) protection against retaliation for internal and lawful 
public disclosures; 
(2) legal burdens of proof; 
(3) statutes of limitation for reporting retaliation; 
(4) access to independent adjudicative bodies, including 
external arbitration; and 
(5) results that eliminate the effects of proven retaliation. 
PUBLIC POSTING OF REPORTS 
SEC. 7072. (a) Any agency receiving funds made available by 
this Act shall, subject to subsections (b) and (c), post on the public 
Web site of such agency any report required by this Act to be 
submitted to the Committees on Appropriations, upon a determina-
tion by the head of such agency that to do so is in the national 
interest. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to a report if— 
(1) the public posting of such report would compromise 
national security, including the conduct of diplomacy; or