create advocacy networks, strengthen legal rep-
resentation, train and educate new religious 
freedom defenders, and build the capacity of re-
ligious communities and rights defenders to 
protect against religious freedom violations, 
mitigate societal or sectarian violence, or mini-
mize legal or other restrictions of the right to 
the freedom of religion. 
‘‘(4) PREFERENCE.—In issuing grants under 
paragraph (3), the Ambassador at Large shall, as 
appropriate, give preference to projects targeting re-
ligious freedom violations in countries designated as 
countries of particular concern for religious freedom 
under section 402(b) and those included on the Spe-
cial Watch List. 
‘‘(e) CONSULTATION.—The Ambassador at Large 
should consult, in developing priorities and policies for dis-
bursing the funds referred to in subsection (c), including 
grant policies and the identification of potential grantees, 
with other Federal agencies, including the Commission, 
and the International Republican Institute, the National 
Democratic Institute, the National Endowment for De-
mocracy and, as appropriate, other nongovernmental orga-
nizations.’’. 
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TITLE VI—REFUGEE, ASYLUM, 
AND CONSULAR MATTERS 
SEC. 601. ACTIONS AGAINST PERSONS RESPONSIBLE FOR 
COMMITTING PARTICULARLY SEVERE VIOLA-
TIONS OF INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREE-
DOM. 
Title VI of the International Religious Freedom Act 
of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6471 et seq.) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating section 605 as section 606; 
and 
(2) by inserting after section 604 the following 
new section: 
‘‘SEC. 605. ACTIONS AGAINST PERSONS RESPONSIBLE FOR 
ENGAGING IN OR TOLERATING PARTICU-
LARLY 
SEVERE 
VIOLATIONS 
OF 
INTER-
NATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. 
‘‘(a) AUTHORITY TO SANCTION PERSONS RESPON-
SIBLE FOR ENGAGING IN OR TOLERATING PARTICULARLY 
SEVERE
VIOLATIONS
OF
INTERNATIONAL
RELIGIOUS 
FREEDOM.—Notwithstanding section 202 of the Inter-
national Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 
1701), the President may exercise the authority specified 
in section 203 of such Act with respect to— 
‘‘(1) any foreign person that the President de-
termines, based on credible evidence, plays a role in 
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committing, ordering, sponsoring, or materially sup-
porting systemic, egregious, and ongoing violations 
of religious freedom; or 
‘‘(2) any foreign person that the President de-
termines to be providing material or other assistance 
supporting violence or terrorist acts targeting mem-
bers of religious groups. 
‘‘(b) REPORT TO CONGRESS ON IDENTIFICATION AND 
SANCTION OF PERSONS ENGAGING IN OR TOLERATING 
PARTICULARLY SEVERE VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL 
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—Upon exercising the au-
thority described in subsection (a) with respect to a 
foreign person, the President shall submit to the ap-
propriate congressional committees a report— 
‘‘(A) identifying the foreign persons that 
the President determines to be subject to action 
under subsection (a) and the basis for such de-
termination; and 
‘‘(B) describing the actions carried out 
against such foreign persons pursuant to sub-
section (a). 
‘‘(2) REPORT ON REMOVAL OF SANCTIONS.— 
Upon suspending or terminating any action imposed 
on a person under the authority of subsection (a), 
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the President shall submit to the appropriate con-
gressional committees written notification of such 
suspension or termination. 
‘‘(3) SUBMISSION
OF
CLASSIFIED
INFORMA-
TION.—Reports submitted under this subsection 
shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may 
contain a classified annex. 
‘‘(4) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 
‘‘(A) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COM-
MITTEES.—The term ‘appropriate congressional 
committees’ means— 
‘‘(i) the Committee on Financial Serv-
ices and the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
of the House of Representatives; and 
‘‘(ii) the Committee on Banking, 
Housing, and Urban Affairs and the Com-
mittee on Foreign Relations of the Senate. 
‘‘(B) FOREIGN
PERSON.—The term ‘for-
eign person’ means a person that is not a 
United States person. 
‘‘(C) PERSON.—The term ‘person’ means 
an individual or entity. 
‘‘(D) UNITED STATES PERSON.—The term 
‘United States person’ means— 
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‘‘(i) a United States citizen or an 
alien lawfully admitted for permanent resi-
dence to the United States; or 
‘‘(ii) an entity organized under the 
laws of the United States or of any juris-
diction within the United States, including 
a foreign branch of such entity.’’. 
TITLE VII—MISCELLANEOUS 
PROVISIONS 
SEC. 701. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. 
Title VII of the International Religious Freedom Act 
of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6481 et seq.) is amended by adding 
at the end the following new sections: 
‘‘SEC. 702. CODES OF CONDUCT FOR UNITED STATES INSTI-
TUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION OUTSIDE 
THE UNITED STATES. 
‘‘(a) FINDING.—Congress recognizes the enduring 
importance of United States institutions of higher edu-
cation worldwide both for their potential for shaping posi-
tive leadership and new educational models in host coun-
tries and for their emphasis on teaching universally recog-
nized rights of free inquiry and academic freedom. 
‘‘(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that United States institutions of higher education 
operating campuses outside the United States or estab-
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