‘‘(a) ADDITIONAL TRAINING.—Not later than the one 
year after the date of the enactment of the Frank R. Wolf 
International Religious Freedom Act, the Director of the 
George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center 
shall begin mandatory training on religious freedom for all 
Foreign Service officers, including all entry level officers, 
all officers prior to departure for posting outside the United 
States, and all outgoing deputy chiefs of mission and am-
bassadors. Such training shall be a separate, independent, 
and required segment of each of— 
‘‘(1) the A–100 course attended by all Foreign 
Service officers; 
‘‘(2) the courses required of every Foreign Serv-
ice officer prior to a posting outside the United 
States, with segments tailored to the particular reli-
gious demography, religious freedom conditions, and 
United States strategies for advancing religious free-
dom, in each receiving country; and 
‘‘(3) the courses required of all outgoing deputy 
chiefs of mission and ambassadors. 
‘‘(b) DEVELOPMENT OF CURRICULUM.—In developing 
curriculum for the training under subsection (b)(2), the 
Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, 
on behalf of the Secretary of State and in consultation with 
the United States Commission on International Religious 
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Freedom established under section 201(a) of the Inter-
national Religious Freedom Act of 1998, shall develop a 
curriculum for training United States Foreign Service offi-
cers in the scope and strategic value of international reli-
gious freedom, how violations of international religious free-
dom harm fundamental United States interests, how the ad-
vancement of international religious freedom can advance 
such interests, how United States international religious 
freedom policy should be carried out in practice by United 
States diplomats and other Foreign Service officers, and the 
relevance and relationship of international religious free-
dom to United States defense, diplomacy, development, and 
public affairs efforts. The Secretary of State shall ensure 
the availability of sufficient resources to develop and imple-
ment such curriculum. 
‘‘(c) INFORMATION SHARING.—The curriculum and 
training materials developed pursuant to subsections (b) 
and (c) should be made available to all other Federal agen-
cies.’’; 
(4) in subsection (e), as redesignated, by striking 
‘‘The Secretary of State’’ and inserting ‘‘REFU-
GEES.—The Secretary of State’’; and 
(5) in subsection (f), as redesignated, by striking 
‘‘The Secretary of State’’ and inserting ‘‘CHILD SOL-
DIERS.—The Secretary of State’’. 
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(b) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, with 
the assistance of the Ambassador at Large for International 
Religious Freedom, and the Director of the Foreign Service 
Institute, located at the George P. Shultz National Foreign 
Affairs Training Center, shall submit a report to the Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives 
and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate that 
contains a comprehensive plan for undertaking training for 
Foreign Service officers under section 708 of the Foreign 
Services Act of 1980, as amended by subsection (a). 
SEC. 104. PRISONER LISTS AND ISSUE BRIEFS ON RELI-
GIOUS FREEDOM CONCERNS. 
Section 108 of the International Religious Freedom 
Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6417) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘faith,’’ and in-
serting ‘‘activities, religious freedom advocacy, or ef-
forts to protect and advance the universally recog-
nized right to the freedom of religion,’’; 
(2) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘, as appro-
priate, provide’’ and insert ‘‘make available’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(d) VICTIMS LIST MAINTAINED
BY
THE UNITED 
STATES
COMMISSION
ON
INTERNATIONAL
RELIGIOUS 
FREEDOM.— 
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‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Commission shall make 
publicly available, to the extent possible, online and 
in official publications, lists of persons it determines 
are imprisoned or detained, have disappeared, been 
placed under house arrest, been tortured, or subjected 
to forced renunciations of faith for their religious ac-
tivity or religious freedom advocacy by the govern-
ment of a foreign country that the Commission rec-
ommends for designation as a country of particular 
concern 
for 
religious 
freedom 
under 
section 
402(b)(1)(A)(ii) or by a non-state actor that the Com-
mission recommends for designation as an entity of 
particular concern for religious freedom under section 
301 of the Frank R. Wolf International Religious 
Freedom Act and include as much publicly available 
information as possible on the conditions and cir-
cumstances of such persons. 
‘‘(2) DISCRETION.—In compiling lists under 
paragraph (1), the Commission shall exercise all ap-
propriate discretion, including consideration of the 
safety and security of, and benefit to, the persons who 
may be included on the lists and the families of such 
persons.’’. 
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TITLE II—NATIONAL SECURITY 
COUNCIL 
SEC. 201. SPECIAL ADVISER FOR INTERNATIONAL RELI-
GIOUS FREEDOM. 
The position described in section 101(k) of the Na-
tional Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 2031(k) should assist 
the Ambassador at Large for International Religious Free-
dom to coordinate international religious freedom policies 
and strategies throughout the executive branch and within 
any interagency policy committee of which the Ambassador 
at Large is a member. 
TITLE III—PRESIDENTIAL 
ACTIONS 
SEC. 301. NON-STATE ACTOR DESIGNATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The President, concurrent with the 
annual foreign country review required under section 
402(b)(1)(A) of the International Religious Freedom Act of 
1998 (22 U.S.C. 6442(b)(1)(A)), shall— 
(1) review and identify any non-state actors op-
erating in any such reviewed country or surrounding 
region that have engaged in particularly severe viola-
tions of religious freedom; and 
(2) designate, in a manner consistent with such 
Act, each such non-state actor as an entity of par-
ticular concern for religious freedom. 
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(b) REPORT.—Whenever the President designates a 
non-state actor under subsection (a) as an entity of par-
ticular concern for religious freedom, the President, as soon 
as practicable after the designation is made, shall submit 
a report to the appropriate congressional committees that 
describes the reasons for such designation. 
(c) ACTIONS.—The President should take specific ac-
tions, when practicable, to address severe violations of reli-
gious freedom of non-state actors that are designated under 
subsection (a)(2). 
(d) DEPARTMENT OF STATE ANNUAL REPORT.—The 
Secretary of State should include information detailing the 
reasons the President designated a non-state actor as an 
entity of particular concern for religious freedom under sub-
section (a) in the Annual Report required under section 
102(b)(1) of the International Religious Freedom Act of 
1998 (22 U.S.C. 6412(b)(1)). 
(e) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress 
that— 
(1) the Secretary of State should work with Con-
gress and the U.S. Commission on International Reli-
gious Freedom— 
(A) to create new political, financial, and 
diplomatic tools to address severe violations of 
religious freedom by non-state actors; and 
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(B) to update the actions the President can 
take under section 405 of the International Reli-
gious Freedom Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6445); 
(2) governments must ultimately be held ac-
countable for the abuses that occur in their territories; 
and 
(3) any actions the President takes after desig-
nating a non-state actor as an entity of particular 
concern should also involve high-level diplomacy with 
the government of the country in which the non-state 
actor is operating. 
(f) DETERMINATIONS OF RESPONSIBLE PARTIES.—In 
order to appropriately target Presidential actions under the 
International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 
6401 et seq.), the President, with respect to each non-state 
actor designated as an entity of particular concern for reli-
gious freedom under subsection (a), shall seek to determine 
the specific officials or members that are responsible for the 
particularly severe violations of religious freedom engaged 
in or tolerated by such non-state actor. 
(g) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the terms ‘‘appro-
priate congressional committees’’, ‘‘non-state actor’’, and 
‘‘particularly severe violations of religious freedom’’ have 
the meanings given such terms in section 3 of the Inter-
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national Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6402), 
as amended by section 3 of this Act. 
SEC. 302. PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS IN RESPONSE TO PAR-
TICULARLY SEVERE VIOLATIONS OF RELI-
GIOUS FREEDOM. 
Section 402 of the International Religious Freedom 
Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6442) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) by amending subparagraph (A) to 
read as follows: 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days 
after the date on which each Annual Report is 
submitted under section 102(b), the President 
shall— 
‘‘(i) review the status of religious free-
dom in each foreign country to determine 
whether the government of that country has 
engaged in or tolerated particularly severe 
violations of religious freedom in each such 
country during the preceding 12 months or 
longer; 
‘‘(ii) designate each country the gov-
ernment of which has engaged in or toler-
ated violations described in clause (i) as a 
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country of particular concern for religious 
freedom; and 
‘‘(iii) designate each country that en-
gaged in or tolerated severe violations of re-
ligious freedom during the previous year, 
but does not meet, in the opinion of the 
President at the time of publication of the 
Annual Report, all of the criteria described 
in section 3(15) for designation under 
clause (ii) as being placed on a ‘Special 
Watch List’.’’; and 
(ii) in subparagraph (C), by striking 
‘‘prior to September 1 of the respective 
year’’ and inserting ‘‘before the date on 
which each Annual Report is submitted 
under section 102(b)’’; 
(B) by amending paragraph (3) to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(3) CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Whenever the President 
designates a country as a country of particular 
concern for religious freedom under paragraph 
(1)(A)(ii), the President, not later than 90 days 
after such designation, shall submit to the appro-
priate congressional committees— 
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‘‘(i) the designation of the country, 
signed by the President; 
‘‘(ii) the identification, if any, of re-
sponsible parties determined under para-
graph (2); and 
‘‘(iii) a description of the actions taken 
under subsection (c), the purposes of the ac-
tions taken, and the effectiveness of the ac-
tions taken. 
‘‘(B) REMOVAL OF DESIGNATION.—A coun-
try that is designated as a country of particular 
concern for religious freedom under paragraph 
(1)(A)(ii) shall retain such designation until the 
President determines and reports to the appro-
priate congressional committees that the country 
should no longer be so designated.’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(4) EFFECT ON DESIGNATION AS COUNTRY OF 
PARTICULAR CONCERN.—The presence or absence of a 
country from the Special Watch List in any given 
year shall not preclude the designation of such coun-
try as a country of particular concern for religious 
freedom under paragraph (1)(A)(ii) in any such 
year.’’; and 
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(2) in subsection (c)(5), by striking ‘‘the Presi-
dent must designate the specific sanction or sanctions 
which he determines satisfy the requirements of this 
subsection.’’ and inserting ‘‘the President shall des-
ignate the specific sanction or sanctions that the 
President determines satisfy the requirements under 
this subsection and include a description of the im-
pact of such sanction or sanctions on each country.’’. 
SEC. 303. REPORT TO CONGRESS. 
Section 404(a)(4)(A) of the International Religious 
Freedom Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6444(a)(4)(A)) is amend-
ed— 
(1) in clause (ii), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(2) in clause (iii), by striking the period at the 
end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(iv) the impact on the advancement of 
United States interests in democracy, 
human rights, and security, and a descrip-
tion of policy tools being applied in the 
country, including programs that target 
democratic stability, economic growth, and 
counterterrorism.’’. 
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SEC. 304. PRESIDENTIAL WAIVER. 
Section 407 of the International Religious Freedom 
Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6447) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘subsection (b)’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘subsection (c)’’; 
(B) by inserting ‘‘, for a single, 180-day pe-
riod,’’ after ‘‘may waive’’; 
(C) by striking paragraph (1); and 
(D) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and 
(3) as paragraphs (1) and (2), respectively; 
(2) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection 
(c); 
(3) by inserting after subsection (a) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(b) ADDITIONAL AUTHORITY.—Subject to subsection 
(c), the President may waive, for any additional specified 
period of time after the 180-day period described in sub-
section (a), the application of any of the actions described 
in paragraphs (9) through (15) of section 405(a) (or a com-
mensurate substitute action) with respect to a country, if 
the President determines and reports to the appropriate 
congressional committees that— 
‘‘(1) the respective foreign government has ceased 
the violations giving rise to the Presidential action; or 
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