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foreign countries and enhance such countries’ ability 
to combat public corruption; 
(3) the Department should promote coordina-
tion among the Federal departments and agencies 
implementing programs to promote good governance 
and combat public corruption in foreign countries in 
order to improve effectiveness and efficiency; and 
(4) the Department should identify areas in 
which United States efforts to help other countries 
promote good governance and combat public corrup-
tion could be enhanced. 
SEC. 702. ANNUAL ASSESSMENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—For each of fiscal years 2020 
through 2026, the Secretary shall assess the capacity and 
commitment of foreign countries to combat public corrup-
tion. 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; 
(2) consider, to the extent reliable information 
is available, whether the government of a country 
identified under paragraph (1)— 
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(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, significant corruption that is commen-
surate with the punishment prescribed for seri-
ous crimes; 
(F) prescribes appropriate punishment for 
significant corruption that provides a suffi-
ciently stringent deterrent and adequately re-
flects the nature of the offense; 
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(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; and 
(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 
corruption, including reporting, investigating, 
and monitoring; 
(C) the extent to which an independent ju-
diciary or judicial body in such country is re-
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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; 
(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; 
(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 
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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 
(F) contain such other information relating 
to public corruption as the Secretary considers 
appropriate. 
(b) IDENTIFICATION.—After conducting each assess-
ment under subsection (a), the Secretary shall identify the 
countries described in paragraph (1) of such subsection 
that are— 
(1) meeting minimum standards to combat pub-
lic corruption; 
(2) not meeting such minimum standards but 
making significant efforts to do so; and 
(3) neither meeting such minimum standards 
nor making significant efforts to do so. 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act and annually thereafter 
through fiscal year 2026, the Secretary shall submit to 
the appropriate congressional committees and make pub-
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licly available a report that identifies the countries de-
scribed in subsection (a)(1) and paragraphs (2) and (3) 
of subsection (b), including a description of the method-
ology and data utilized in the assessments under sub-
section (a) and the reasons for such identifications. 
(d) BRIEFING IN LIEU OF REPORT.—The Secretary 
may waive the requirement to submit and make publicly 
available a written report under subsection (c) if the Sec-
retary— 
(1) determines that publication of such report 
would— 
(A) undermine existing United States anti- 
corruption efforts in one or more countries; or 
(B) threaten the national interests of the 
United States; and 
(2) provides a briefing to the appropriate con-
gressional committees that identifies the countries 
described in subsection (a)(1) and paragraphs (2) 
and (3) of subsection (b), including a description of 
the methodology and data utilized in the assessment 
under subsection (a) and the reasons for such identi-
fications. 
SEC. 703. TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY. 
For each country identified under paragraphs (2) and 
(3) of section 702(b), the Secretary, in coordination with 
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the Administrator of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development, as appropriate, shall— 
(1) ensure that a corruption risk assessment 
and mitigation strategy is included in the integrated 
country strategy for such country; and 
(2) utilize appropriate mechanisms to combat 
corruption in such countries, including by ensur-
ing— 
(A) the inclusion of anti-corruption clauses 
in contracts, grants, and cooperative agree-
ments entered into by the Department or the 
Agency for or in such countries, which allow for 
the termination of such contracts, grants, or co-
operative agreements, as the case may be, with-
out penalty if credible indicators of public cor-
ruption are discovered; 
(B) the inclusion of appropriate clawback 
or flowdown clauses within the procurement in-
struments of the Department and the Agency 
that provide for the recovery of funds misappro-
priated through corruption; 
(C) the appropriate disclosure to the 
United States Government, in confidential 
form, if necessary, of the beneficial ownership 
of contractors, subcontractors, grantees, cooper-
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ative agreement participants, and other organi-
zations implementing programs on behalf of the 
Department or Agency; and 
(D) the establishment of mechanisms for 
investigating allegations of misappropriated re-
sources and equipment. 
SEC. 704. DESIGNATION OF EMBASSY ANTI-CORRUPTION 
POINTS OF CONTACT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall annually des-
ignate an anti-corruption point of contact at the United 
States diplomatic post to each country identified under 
paragraphs (2) and (3) of section 702(b), or which the 
Secretary otherwise determines is in need of such a point 
of contact. 
(b) RESPONSIBILITIES.—Each designated anti-cor-
ruption point of contact under subsection (a) shall be re-
sponsible for coordinating and overseeing implementation 
of a whole-of-government approach among the relevant 
Federal departments and agencies that operate programs 
that promote good governance in foreign countries and en-
hance such countries’ ability to combat public corruption 
in order to accomplish such objectives in the country to 
which such point of contact is posted, including through 
the development and implementation of corruption risk as-
sessment tools and mitigation strategies. 
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(c) TRAINING.—The Secretary shall implement ap-
propriate training for designated anti-corruption points of 
contact under subsection (a). 
SEC. 705. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. 
(a) ANNUAL REPORT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall, for each 
of fiscal years 2020 through 2026, submit to the ap-
propriate congressional committees a report on im-
plementation of this title, including a description of 
the following: 
(A) The offices within the Department and 
the United States Agency for International De-
velopment that are engaging in significant anti- 
corruption activities. 
(B) The findings and actions of designated 
anti-corruption points of contact to develop and 
implement risk mitigation strategies and ensure 
compliance with section 703. 
(C) The training implemented under sec-
tion 704(c). 
(D) Management of the whole-of-govern-
ment effort referred to in section 704(b) to 
combat corruption within the countries identi-
fied in section 702 and efforts to improve co-
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ordination across Federal departments and 
agencies. 
(E) The risk assessment tools and mitiga-
tion strategies utilized by the Department and 
the Agency. 
(F) Other information determined by the 
Secretary to be necessary and appropriate. 
(2) FORM OF REPORT.—Each report under this 
subsection shall be submitted in an unclassified for-
mat but may include a classified annex. 
(b) ONLINE PLATFORM.—The Secretary shall con-
solidate existing reports with anti-corruption components 
into one online, public platform, which should— 
(1) include— 
(A) the annual Country Reports on 
Human Rights Practices; 
(B) the annual Fiscal Transparency Re-
port; 
(C) the annual Investment Climate State-
ments; 
(D) the annual International Narcotics 
Control Strategy Report; 
(E) the Country Scorecards of the Millen-
nium Challenge Corporation; and 
(F) any other relevant public reports; and 
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(2) link to third-party indicators and compli-
ance mechanisms used by the United States Govern-
ment to inform policy and programming, such as— 
(A) the International Finance Corpora-
tion’s Doing Business surveys; 
(B) the International Budget Partnership’s 
Open Budget Index; and 
(C) multilateral peer review anti-corruption 
compliance mechanisms, such as the Organiza-
tion for Economic Co-operation and Develop-
ment’s Working Group on Bribery in Inter-
national Business Transactions and the United 
Nations Convention Against Corruption, done 
at New York October 31, 2003, to further high-
light expert international views on country chal-
lenges and country efforts. 
(c) TRAINING.—The Secretary and the Administrator 
of the United States Agency for International Develop-
ment shall incorporate anti-corruption components into 
existing Foreign Service and Civil Service training courses 
to— 
(1) increase the ability of Department and 
Agency personnel to support anti-corruption as a 
foreign policy priority; and 
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