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sources, or a gross violation of human rights shall 
be ineligible for entry into the United States. 
(B) The Secretary may also publicly or pri-
vately designate or identify officials of foreign 
governments and their immediate family mem-
bers about whom the Secretary has such cred-
ible information without regard to whether the 
individual has applied for a visa. 
(2) Individuals shall not be ineligible if entry 
into the United States would further important 
United States law enforcement objectives or is nec-
essary to permit the United States to fulfill its obli-
gations under the United Nations Headquarters 
Agreement: Provided, That nothing in paragraph (1) 
shall be construed to derogate from United States 
Government obligations under applicable inter-
national agreements. 
(3) The Secretary may waive the application of 
paragraph (1) if the Secretary determines that the 
waiver would serve a compelling national interest or 
that the circumstances which caused the individual 
to be ineligible have changed sufficiently. 
(4) Not later than 6 months after enactment of 
this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit a re-
port, including a classified annex if necessary, to the 
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Committees on Appropriations and the Committees 
on the Judiciary describing the information related 
to corruption or violation of human rights con-
cerning each of the individuals found ineligible in the 
previous 12 months pursuant to paragraph (1)(A) as 
well as the individuals who the Secretary designated 
or identified pursuant to paragraph (1)(B), or who 
would be ineligible but for the application of para-
graph (2), a list of any waivers provided under para-
graph (3), and the justification for each waiver. 
(5) Any unclassified portion of the report re-
quired under paragraph (4) shall be posted on the 
Department of State’s Web site. 
(6) For purposes of paragraphs (1)(B), (4), 
and (5), the records of the Department of State and 
of diplomatic and consular offices of the United 
States pertaining to the issuance or refusal of visas 
or permits to enter the United States shall not be 
considered confidential. 
(7) The waiver authority contained in para-
graph (3) shall not apply with respect to officials 
and their immediate family members from Cuba: 
Provided, That the term ‘‘officials of foreign govern-
ments’’ in paragraph (1) shall be construed to in-
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clude members of the Cuban military and high level 
officials of the Cuban Communist Party. 
(d) FOREIGN ASSISTANCE WEB SITE.—Funds appro-
priated by this Act under titles I and II, and funds made 
available for any independent agency in title III, as appro-
priate, shall be made available to support the provision 
of additional information on United States Government 
foreign assistance on the Department of State’s foreign 
assistance Web site: Provided, That all Federal agencies 
funded under this Act shall provide such information on 
foreign assistance, upon request, to the Department of 
State. 
DEMOCRACY PROGRAMS 
SEC. 7032. (a) Of the funds appropriated by this Act, 
not less than $2,264,986,000 shall be made available for 
democracy programs, as defined in subsection (c), of which 
not less than $312,000,000 shall be made available to sup-
port such programs in Africa. 
(b) Funds made available by this Act for democracy 
programs may be made available notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, and with regard to the National 
Endowment for Democracy (NED), any regulation. 
(c) For purposes of funds appropriated by this Act, 
the term ‘‘democracy programs’’ means programs that 
support good governance, credible and competitive elec-
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tions, civil society, freedom of expression, association, as-
sembly, and religion, human rights, independent media, 
and the rule of law, and that otherwise strengthen the ca-
pacity of democratic political parties, governments, non-
governmental organizations and institutions, and citizens 
to support the development of democratic states, and insti-
tutions that are responsive and accountable to citizens. 
(d) Funds appropriated by this Act that are made 
available for governance programs shall be made available 
only to support institutions and individuals that dem-
onstrate a commitment to democracy. 
(e) With respect to the provision of assistance for de-
mocracy, human rights, and governance activities in this 
Act, the organizations implementing such assistance, the 
specific nature of that assistance, and the participants in 
such programs shall not be subject to the prior approval 
by the government of any foreign country: Provided, That 
the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Adminis-
trator of the United States Agency for International De-
velopment (USAID), shall report to the Committees on 
Appropriations, not later than 120 days after enactment 
of this Act, detailing steps taken by the Department of 
State and USAID to comply with the requirements of this 
subsection. 
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(f) Funds appropriated by this Act that are made 
available for democracy programs shall be made available 
to support freedom of religion, including in the Middle 
East and North Africa. 
(g) Funds appropriated by this Act in title III shall 
be allocated and administered according to the require-
ments under this subsection in the report accompanying 
this Act for Western Hemisphere democracy promotion. 
(h) The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and 
Labor, Department of State and the Bureau for Democ-
racy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, USAID, 
shall regularly communicate their planned programs to the 
NED. 
(i) The Secretary of State and the USAID Adminis-
trator shall notify the Committees on Appropriations with-
in 30 days of a decision to change the objectives or the 
content of a democracy and governance program or to 
close a program due to the increasingly repressive nature 
of the host country government: Provided, That the notifi-
cation shall also include a strategy for continuing support 
for democracy promotion if there are plans to close the 
program. 
MULTI-YEAR PLEDGES 
SEC. 7033. None of the funds appropriated by this 
Act may be used to make any pledge for future year fund-
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ing for any multilateral or bilateral program funded in ti-
tles III through VI of this Act unless such pledge was— 
(1) previously justified, including the projected 
future year costs, in a congressional budget justifica-
tion; 
(2) included in an Act making appropriations 
for the Department of State, foreign operations, and 
related programs or previously authorized by an Act 
of Congress; 
(3) notified in accordance with the regular noti-
fication procedures of the Committees on Appropria-
tions, including the projected future year costs; or 
(4) the subject of prior consultation with the 
Committees on Appropriations and such consultation 
was conducted at least 7 days in advance of the 
pledge. 
SPECIAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 7034. (a) VICTIMS OF WAR, DISPLACED CHIL-
DREN, AND DISPLACED BURMESE.—Funds appropriated 
in titles III and VI of this Act that are made available 
for victims of war, displaced children, displaced Burmese, 
and to combat trafficking in persons and assist victims 
of such trafficking, may be made available notwith-
standing any other provision of law. 
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(b) RECONSTITUTING CIVILIAN POLICE AUTHOR-
ITY.—In providing assistance with funds appropriated by 
this Act under section 660(b)(6) of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961, support for a nation emerging from insta-
bility may be deemed to mean support for regional, dis-
trict, municipal, or other sub-national entity emerging 
from instability, as well as a nation emerging from insta-
bility. 
(c) CONTRIBUTION.—Funds managed by the Bureau 
for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, 
United States Agency for International Development 
(USAID), from this or any other Act, may be made avail-
able as a general contribution to the World Food Program: 
Provided, That funds made available pursuant to the au-
thority of this subsection shall be subject to section 7048 
of this Act. 
(d) PUBLIC POSTING OF REPORTS.—(1) Any agency 
receiving funds made available by this Act shall, subject 
to paragraphs (2) and (3), post on the public Web site 
of such agency any report required by this Act to be sub-
mitted to the Committees on Appropriations, upon a de-
termination by the head of such agency that to do so is 
in the national interest. 
(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a report 
if— 
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(A) the public posting of such report would 
compromise national security, including the 
conduct of diplomacy; or 
(B) the report contains proprietary, privi-
leged, or sensitive information. 
(3) The head of the agency posting such report 
shall do so only after such report has been made 
available to the Committees on Appropriations for 
not less than 45 days. 
(e) DIRECTIVES AND AUTHORITIES.—(1) Funds ap-
propriated by this Act under the heading ‘‘Economic Sup-
port Fund’’ shall be made available to carry out the Pro-
gram for Research and Training on Eastern Europe and 
the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union as au-
thorized by the Soviet-Eastern European Research and 
Training Act of 1983 (22 U.S.C. 4501–4508). 
(2) Funds appropriated by this Act, and prior 
Acts making appropriations for the Department of 
State, foreign operations, and related programs, 
under the heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’ may 
be made available as a contribution to establish and 
maintain memorial sites of genocide, subject to the 
regular notification procedures of the Committees on 
Appropriations. 
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(f) PARTNER VETTING.—Funds appropriated by this 
Act or in titles I through IV of prior Acts making appro-
priations for the Department of State, foreign operations, 
and related programs shall be used by the Secretary of 
State and the USAID Administrator, as appropriate, to 
support the continued implementation of the Partner Vet-
ting System (PVS) pilot program: Provided, That the Sec-
retary of State and the USAID Administrator shall jointly 
submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations, not 
later than 30 days after completion of the pilot program, 
on the estimated timeline and criteria for evaluating the 
PVS for possible expansion: Provided further, That such 
report shall include the requirements under this subsection 
in the report accompanying this Act: Provided further, 
That such report may be delivered in classified form, if 
necessary. 
(g) CONTINGENCIES.—During fiscal year 2016, the 
President may use up to $100,000,000 under the author-
ity of section 451 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 
notwithstanding any other provision of law. 
(h) INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTIONS.—The Sec-
retary of State should withhold funds appropriated under 
title III of this Act for assistance for the central govern-
ment of any country that is not taking appropriate steps 
to comply with the Convention on the Civil Aspects of 
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International Child Abductions, done at the Hague on Oc-
tober 25, 1980: Provided, That the Secretary shall report 
to the Committees on Appropriations within 15 days of 
withholding funds under this subsection. 
(i) REPORTS REPEALED.—Section 616(c) of the De-
partments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, 
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (division 
A of Public Law 105–277) and section 570(d) of the For-
eign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs 
Appropriations Act, 1997 (division A of Public Law 104– 
208) are hereby repealed. 
(j) TRANSFERS
FOR
EXTRAORDINARY
PROTEC-
TION.—The Secretary of State may transfer to, and merge 
with, funds under the heading ‘‘Protection of Foreign Mis-
sions and Officials’’ unobligated balances of expired funds 
appropriated under the heading ‘‘Diplomatic and Consular 
Programs’’ for fiscal year 2016, except for funds des-
ignated for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War 
on Terrorism pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, 
at no later than the end of the fifth fiscal year after the 
last fiscal year for which such funds are available for the 
purposes for which appropriated: Provided, That not more 
than $50,000,000 may be transferred. 
(k) EXTENSION OF AUTHORITIES.— 
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(m) HIV/AIDS WORKING CAPITAL FUND.—Funds 
available in the HIV/AIDS Working Capital Fund estab-
lished pursuant to section 525(b)(1) of the Foreign Oper-
ations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appro-
priations Act, 2005 (Public Law 108–477) may be made 
available for pharmaceuticals and other products for child 
survival, malaria, and tuberculosis to the same extent as 
HIV/AIDS pharmaceuticals and other products, subject to 
the terms and conditions in such section: Provided, That 
the authority in section 525(b)(5) of the Foreign Oper-
ations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appro-
priations Act, 2005 (Public Law 108–477) shall be exer-
cised by the Assistant Administrator for Global Health, 
USAID, with respect to funds deposited for such non- 
HIV/AIDS pharmaceuticals and other products, and shall 
be subject to the regular notification procedures of the 
Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That the 
Secretary of State shall include in the congressional budg-
et justification an accounting of budgetary resources, dis-
bursements, balances, and reimbursements related to such 
fund. 
(n) PROTECTIONS AND REMEDIES FOR EMPLOYEES 
OF DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANI-
ZATIONS.—The Secretary of State shall implement section 
203(a)(2) of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims 
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Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (Public Law 110- 
457): Provided, That in determining whether to suspend 
the issuance of A-3 or G-5 visas under such section, the 
Secretary should consider the following as ‘‘credible evi-
dence’’: (1) a final court judgment (including a default 
judgment) issued against a current or former employee of 
such mission or organization (for which the time period 
for appeal has expired); (2) the issuance of a T-visa to 
the victim; or (3) a request by the Department of State 
to the sending state that immunity of individual diplomats 
or family members be waived to permit criminal prosecu-
tion: Provided further, That the Secretary should assist 
in obtaining payment of final court judgments awarded 
to A-3 and G-5 visa holders, including encouraging the 
sending states to provide compensation directly to victims: 
Provided further, That the Secretary shall include in the 
Trafficking in Persons annual report a concise summary 
of each trafficking case involving an A- 3 or G-5 visa hold-
er which meets one or more of the items in the first pro-
viso of this subsection. 
(o) DEFINITIONS.— 
(1) Unless otherwise defined in this Act, for 
purposes of this Act the term ‘‘appropriate congres-
sional committees’’ shall mean the Committees on 
Appropriations and Foreign Relations of the Senate 
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and the Committees on Appropriations and Foreign 
Affairs of the House of Representatives. 
(2) Unless otherwise defined in this Act, for 
purposes of this Act the term ‘‘funds appropriated 
in this Act and prior Acts making appropriations for 
the Department of State, foreign operations, and re-
lated programs’’ shall mean funds that remain avail-
able for obligation, and have not expired, and shall 
not include amounts that were designated by Con-
gress for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global 
War on Terrorism or as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the budget or 
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985. 
(3) Any reference to Southern Kordofan in this 
or any other Act making appropriations for the De-
partment of State, foreign operations, and related 
programs shall be deemed to include portions of 
Western Kordofan that were previously part of 
Southern Kordofan prior to the 2013 division of 
Southern Kordofan. 
ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL 
SEC. 7035. It is the sense of the Congress that— 
(1) the Arab League boycott of Israel, and the 
secondary boycott of American firms that have com-
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mercial ties with Israel, is an impediment to peace 
in the region and to United States investment and 
trade in the Middle East and North Africa; 
(2) the Arab League boycott, which was regret-
tably reinstated in 1997, should be immediately and 
publicly terminated, and the Central Office for the 
Boycott of Israel immediately disbanded; 
(3) all Arab League states should normalize re-
lations with their neighbor Israel; 
(4) the President and the Secretary of State 
should continue to vigorously oppose the Arab 
League boycott of Israel and find concrete steps to 
demonstrate that opposition by, for example, taking 
into consideration the participation of any recipient 
country in the boycott when determining to sell 
weapons to said country; and 
(5) the President should report to Congress an-
nually on specific steps being taken by the United 
States to encourage Arab League states to normalize 
their relations with Israel to bring about the termi-
nation of the Arab League boycott of Israel, includ-
ing those to encourage allies and trading partners of 
the United States to enact laws prohibiting busi-
nesses from complying with the boycott and penal-
izing businesses that do comply. 
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PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD 
SEC. 7036. (a) LIMITATION ON ASSISTANCE.—None 
of the funds appropriated under titles III through VI of 
this Act may be provided to support a Palestinian state 
unless the Secretary of State determines and certifies to 
the appropriate congressional committees that— 
(1) the governing entity of a new Palestinian 
state— 
(A) has demonstrated a firm commitment 
to peaceful co-existence with the State of Israel; 
(B) is taking appropriate measures to 
counter terrorism and terrorist financing in the 
West Bank and Gaza, including the dismantling 
of terrorist infrastructures, and is cooperating 
with appropriate Israeli and other appropriate 
security organizations; and 
(2) the Palestinian Authority (or the governing 
entity of a new Palestinian state) is working with 
other countries in the region to vigorously pursue ef-
forts to establish a just, lasting, and comprehensive 
peace in the Middle East that will enable Israel and 
an independent Palestinian state to exist within the 
context of full and normal relationships, which 
should include— 
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(A) termination of all claims or states of 
belligerency; 
(B) respect for and acknowledgment of the 
sovereignty, territorial integrity, and political 
independence of every state in the area through 
measures including the establishment of demili-
tarized zones; 
(C) their right to live in peace within se-
cure and recognized boundaries free from 
threats or acts of force; 
(D) freedom of navigation through inter-
national waterways in the area; and 
(E) a framework for achieving a just set-
tlement of the refugee problem. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that the governing entity should enact a constitution 
assuring the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and 
respect for human rights for its citizens, and should enact 
other laws and regulations assuring transparent and ac-
countable governance. 
(c) WAIVER.—The President may waive subsection 
(a) if the President determines that it is important to the 
national security interest of the United States to do so. 
(d) EXEMPTION.—The restriction in subsection (a) 
shall not apply to assistance intended to help reform the 
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Palestinian Authority and affiliated institutions, or the 
governing entity, in order to help meet the requirements 
of subsection (a), consistent with the provisions of section 
7040 of this Act (‘‘Limitation on Assistance for the Pales-
tinian Authority’’). 
RESTRICTIONS CONCERNING THE PALESTINIAN 
AUTHORITY 
SEC. 7037. None of the funds appropriated under ti-
tles II through VI of this Act may be obligated or ex-
pended to create in any part of Jerusalem a new office 
of any department or agency of the United States Govern-
ment for the purpose of conducting official United States 
Government business with the Palestinian Authority over 
Gaza and Jericho or any successor Palestinian governing 
entity provided for in the Israel-PLO Declaration of Prin-
ciples: Provided, That this restriction shall not apply to 
the acquisition of additional space for the existing Con-
sulate General in Jerusalem: Provided further, That meet-
ings between officers and employees of the United States 
and officials of the Palestinian Authority, or any successor 
Palestinian governing entity provided for in the Israel- 
PLO Declaration of Principles, for the purpose of con-
ducting official United States Government business with 
such authority should continue to take place in locations 
other than Jerusalem: Provided further, That as has been 
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true in the past, officers and employees of the United 
States Government may continue to meet in Jerusalem on 
other subjects with Palestinians (including those who now 
occupy positions in the Palestinian Authority), have social 
contacts, and have incidental discussions. 
PROHIBITION ON ASSISTANCE TO THE PALESTINIAN 
BROADCASTING CORPORATION 
SEC. 7038. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used to provide 
equipment, technical support, consulting services, or any 
other form of assistance to the Palestinian Broadcasting 
Corporation. 
ASSISTANCE FOR THE WEST BANK AND GAZA 
SEC. 7039. (a) OVERSIGHT.—For fiscal year 2016, 
30 days prior to the initial obligation of funds for the bi-
lateral West Bank and Gaza Program, the Secretary of 
State shall certify to the Committees on Appropriations 
that procedures have been established to assure the Comp-
troller General of the United States will have access to 
appropriate United States financial information in order 
to review the uses of United States assistance for the Pro-
gram funded under the heading ‘‘Economic Support 
Fund’’ for the West Bank and Gaza. 
(b) VETTING.—Prior to the obligation of funds ap-
propriated by this Act under the heading ‘‘Economic Sup-
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port Fund’’ for assistance for the West Bank and Gaza, 
the Secretary of State shall take all appropriate steps to 
ensure that such assistance is not provided to or through 
any individual, private or government entity, or edu-
cational institution that the Secretary knows or has reason 
to believe advocates, plans, sponsors, engages in, or has 
engaged in, terrorist activity nor, with respect to private 
entities or educational institutions, those that have as a 
principal officer of the entity’s governing board or gov-
erning board of trustees any individual that has been de-
termined to be involved in, or advocating terrorist activity 
or determined to be a member of a designated foreign ter-
rorist organization: Provided, That the Secretary of State 
shall, as appropriate, establish procedures specifying the 
steps to be taken in carrying out this subsection and shall 
terminate assistance to any individual, entity, or edu-
cational institution which the Secretary has determined to 
be involved in or advocating terrorist activity. 
(c) PROHIBITION.— 
(1) None of the funds appropriated under titles 
III through VI of this Act for assistance under the 
West Bank and Gaza Program may be made avail-
able for the purpose of recognizing or otherwise hon-
oring individuals who commit, or have committed 
acts of terrorism. 
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(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
none of the funds made available by this or prior ap-
propriations Acts, including funds made available by 
transfer, may be made available for obligation for se-
curity assistance for the West Bank and Gaza until 
the Secretary of State reports to the Committees on 
Appropriations on the benchmarks that have been 
established for security assistance for the West 
Bank and Gaza and reports on the extent of Pales-
tinian compliance with such benchmarks. 
(d) AUDITS.— 
(1) The Administrator of the United States 
Agency for International Development shall ensure 
that Federal or non-Federal audits of all contractors 
and grantees, and significant subcontractors and 
sub-grantees, under the West Bank and Gaza Pro-
gram, are conducted at least on an annual basis to 
ensure, among other things, compliance with this 
section. 
(2) Of the funds appropriated by this Act up to 
$500,000 may be used by the Office of Inspector 
General of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development for audits, inspections, and 
other activities in furtherance of the requirements of 
this subsection: Provided, That such funds are in ad-
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