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(A) promote coordination among the Fed-
eral departments and agencies implementing 
programs to promote good governance and com-
bat public corruption in foreign countries in 
order to improve effectiveness and efficiency; 
and 
(B) identify areas in which United States 
efforts to help other countries promote good 
governance and combat public corruption could 
be enhanced. 
SEC. 1702. ANNUAL ASSESSMENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—For each of fiscal years 2022 
through 2027, the Secretary of State shall assess the ca-
pacity and commitment of foreign governments to which 
the United States provides foreign assistance under the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.) 
or the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.) 
to combat public corruption. Each such assessment 
shall— 
(1) utilize independent, third party indicators 
that measure transparency, accountability, and cor-
ruption in the public sector in such countries, includ-
ing the extent to which public power is exercised for 
private gain, to identify those countries that are 
most vulnerable to public corruption; 
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(2) consider, to the extent reliable information 
is available, whether the government of a country 
identified under paragraph (1)— 
(A) has adopted measures to prevent pub-
lic corruption, such as measures to inform and 
educate the public, including potential victims, 
about the causes and consequences of public 
corruption; 
(B) has enacted laws and established gov-
ernment structures, policies, and practices that 
prohibit public corruption; 
(C) enforces such laws through a fair judi-
cial process; 
(D) vigorously investigates, prosecutes, 
convicts, and sentences public officials who par-
ticipate in or facilitate public corruption, includ-
ing nationals of such country who are deployed 
in foreign military assignments, trade delega-
tions abroad, or other similar missions who en-
gage in or facilitate public corruption; 
(E) prescribes appropriate punishment for 
serious and significant corruption that is com-
mensurate with the punishment prescribed for 
serious crimes; 
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(F) prescribes appropriate punishment for 
significant corruption that provides a suffi-
ciently stringent deterrent and adequately re-
flects the nature of the offense; 
(G) convicts and sentences persons respon-
sible for such acts that take place wholly or 
partly within the country of such government, 
including, as appropriate, requiring the incar-
ceration of individuals convicted of such acts; 
(H) holds private sector representatives ac-
countable for their role in public corruption; 
and 
(I) addresses threats for civil society to 
monitor anti-corruption efforts; 
(3) further consider— 
(A) verifiable measures taken by the gov-
ernment of a country identified under para-
graph (1) to prohibit government officials from 
participating in, facilitating, or condoning pub-
lic corruption, including the investigation, pros-
ecution, and conviction of such officials; 
(B) the extent to which such government 
provides access, or, as appropriate, makes ade-
quate resources available, to civil society organi-
zations and other institutions to combat public 
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corruption, including reporting, investigating, 
and monitoring; 
(C) the extent to which an independent ju-
diciary or judicial body in such country is re-
sponsible for, and effectively capable of, decid-
ing public corruption cases impartially, on the 
basis of facts and in accordance with law, with-
out any improper restrictions, influences, in-
ducements, pressures, threats, or interferences, 
whether direct or indirect, from any source or 
for any reason; 
(D) the extent to which such government 
cooperates meaningfully with the United States 
to strengthen government and judicial institu-
tions and the rule of law to prevent, prohibit, 
and punish public corruption; and 
(E) the extent to which such government— 
(i) is assisting in international inves-
tigations of transnational public corruption 
networks and in other cooperative efforts 
to combat serious, significant corruption, 
including cooperating with the govern-
ments of other countries to extradite cor-
rupt actors; 
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(ii) recognizes the rights of victims of 
public corruption, ensures their access to 
justice, and takes steps to prevent such 
victims from being further victimized or 
persecuted by corrupt actors, government 
officials, or others; and 
(iii) refrains from prosecuting legiti-
mate victims of public corruption or whis-
tleblowers due to such persons having as-
sisted in exposing public corruption, and 
refrains from other discriminatory treat-
ment of such persons; and 
(4) contain such other information relating to 
public corruption as the Secretary of State considers 
appropriate. 
(b) IDENTIFICATION.—After conducting each assess-
ment under subsection (a), the Secretary of State shall 
identify, of the countries described in subsection (a)(1)— 
(1) which countries are meeting minimum 
standards to combat public corruption; 
(2) which countries are not meeting such min-
imum standards but are making significant efforts 
to do so; and 
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(3) which countries are not meeting such min-
imum standards and are not making significant ef-
forts to do so. 
(c) REPORT.—Except as provided in subsection (d), 
not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act and annually thereafter through fiscal year 
2027, the Secretary of State shall submit to the appro-
priate congressional committees, the Committee on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives, and the Com-
mittee on Appropriations of the Senate a report, and make 
such report publicly available, that— 
(1) identifies the countries described in sub-
section (a)(1) and paragraphs (2) and (3) of sub-
section (b); 
(2) describes the methodology and data utilized 
in the assessments under subsection (a); and 
(3) identifies the reasons for the identifications 
referred to in paragraph (1). 
(d) BRIEFING IN LIEU OF REPORT.—The Secretary 
of State may waive the requirement to submit and make 
publicly available a written report under subsection (c) if 
the Secretary— 
(1) determines that publication of such report 
would— 
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(D) the establishment of mechanisms for 
investigating allegations of misappropriated re-
sources and equipment. 
SEC. 1704. DESIGNATION OF EMBASSY ANTI-CORRUPTION 
POINTS OF CONTACT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State shall an-
nually designate an anti-corruption point of contact at the 
United States diplomatic post to each country identified 
under paragraphs (2) and (3) of section 1702(b), or which 
the Secretary otherwise determines is in need of such a 
point of contact. The point of contact shall be the chief 
of mission or the chief of mission’s designee. 
(b) RESPONSIBILITIES.—Each anti-corruption point 
of contact designated under subsection (a) shall be respon-
sible for coordinating and overseeing the implementation 
of a whole-of-government approach among the relevant 
Federal departments and agencies operating programs 
that— 
(1) promote good governance in foreign coun-
tries; and 
(2) enhance the ability of such countries to— 
(A) combat public corruption; and 
(B) develop and implement corruption risk 
assessment tools and mitigation strategies. 
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(c) TRAINING.—The Secretary of State shall imple-
ment appropriate training for anti-corruption points of 
contact designated under subsection (a). 
TITLE VIII—OTHER MATTERS 
SEC. 1801. CASE-ZABLOCKI ACT REFORM. 
Section 112b of title 1, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in the first sentence, by striking 
‘‘sixty’’ and inserting ‘‘30’’; and 
(B) in the second sentence, by striking 
‘‘Committee on International Relations’’ and in-
serting ‘‘Committee on Foreign Affairs’’; and 
(2) by amending subsection (b) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(b) Each department or agency of the United States 
Government that enters into any international agreement 
described in subsection (a) on behalf of the United States, 
shall designate a Chief International Agreements Officer, 
who— 
‘‘(1) shall be a current employee of such depart-
ment or agency; 
‘‘(2) shall serve concurrently as Chief Inter-
national Agreements Officer; and 
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‘‘(3) subject to the authority of the head of 
such department or agency, shall have department 
or agency-wide responsibility for efficient and appro-
priate compliance with subsection (a) to transmit the 
text of any international agreement to the Depart-
ment of State expeditiously after such agreement 
has been signed.’’. 
SEC. 1802. LIMITATION ON ASSISTANCE TO COUNTRIES IN 
DEFAULT. 
Section 620(q) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
(22 U.S.C. 2370(q)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘No assistance’’ and inserting 
the following ‘‘(1) No assistance’’; 
(2) by inserting ‘‘the government of’’ before 
‘‘any country’’; 
(3) by inserting ‘‘the government of’’ before 
‘‘such country’’ each place it appears; 
(4) by striking ‘‘determines’’ and all that fol-
lows and inserting ‘‘determines, after consultation 
with the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the 
Committee on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate, that assistance for such country is in the na-
tional interest of the United States.’’; and 
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(5) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) No assistance shall be furnished under this Act, 
the Peace Corps Act, the Millennium Challenge Act of 
2003, the African Development Foundation Act, the 
BUILD Act of 2018, section 504 of the FREEDOM Sup-
port Act, or section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act 
to the government of any country which is in default dur-
ing a period in excess of 1 calendar year in payment to 
the United States of principal or interest or any loan made 
to the government of such country by the United States 
unless the President determines, following consultation 
with the congressional committees specified in paragraph 
(1), that assistance for such country is in the national in-
terest of the United States.’’. 
SEC. 1803. SEAN AND DAVID GOLDMAN CHILD ABDUCTION 
PREVENTION AND RETURN ACT OF 2014 
AMENDMENT. 
Subsection (b) of section 101 of the Sean and David 
Goldman International Child Abduction Prevention and 
Return Act of 2014 (22 U.S.C. 9111; Public Law 113– 
150) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (2)— 
(A) in subparagraph (A)— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘, respectively,’’ after 
‘‘access cases’’; and 
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(ii) by inserting ‘‘and the number of 
children involved’’ before the semicolon at 
the end; 
(B) in subparagraph (D), by inserting ‘‘re-
spectively, the number of children involved,’’ 
after ‘‘access cases,’’; 
(2) in paragraph (7), by inserting ‘‘, and num-
ber of children involved in such cases’’ before the 
semicolon at the end; 
(3) in paragraph (8), by striking ‘‘and’’ after 
the semicolon at the end; 
(4) in paragraph (9), by striking the period at 
the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(5) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(10) the total number of pending cases the 
Department of State has assigned to case officers 
and number of children involved for each country 
and as a total for all countries.’’. 
SEC. 1804. MODIFICATION OF AUTHORITIES OF COMMIS-
SION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF AMERICA’S 
HERITAGE ABROAD. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 3123 of title 54, United 
States Code, is amended as follows: 
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(1) In section 312302, by inserting ‘‘, and 
unimpeded access to those sites,’’ after ‘‘and historic 
buildings’’. 
(2) In section 312304(a)— 
(A) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘and historic build-
ings’’ and inserting ‘‘and historic buildings, 
and unimpeded access to those sites’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘and protected’’ and 
inserting ‘‘, protected, and made acces-
sible’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘and 
protecting’’ and inserting ‘‘, protecting, and 
making accessible’’. 
(3) In section 312305, by inserting ‘‘and to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions of the Senate’’ after ‘‘President’’. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 90 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Commission for the Pres-
ervation of America’s Heritage Abroad shall submit to the 
President and to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign 
Relations of the Senate a report that contains an evalua-
tion of the extent to which the Commission is prepared 
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