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against humanity, including in Iraq, Guatemala, Colombia, 
El Salvador, Syria, and Sri Lanka, which shall be adminis-
tered by the Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human 
Rights, and Labor, Department of State. 
(B) Of the funds appropriated by this Act under the 
heading ‘‘International Narcotics Control and Law Enforce-
ment’’, not less than $6,000,000 shall be made available 
for DNA forensic technology programs to combat human 
trafficking in Central America and Mexico. 
(5) INTERNATIONAL PRISON CONDITIONS.—Section 7065 of 
the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Pro-
grams Appropriations Act, 2015 (division J of Public Law 113– 
235) shall continue in effect during fiscal year 2017. 
(6) RECONSTITUTING CIVILIAN POLICE AUTHORITY.—In pro-
viding 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 instability may be deemed to mean 
support for regional, district, municipal, or other sub-national 
entity emerging from instability, as well as a nation emerging 
from instability. 
(7) SECURITY ASSISTANCE REPORT.—Not later than 120 days 
after enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit 
to the Committees on Appropriations a report on funds obli-
gated and expended during fiscal year 2016, by country and 
purpose of assistance, under the headings ‘‘Peacekeeping Oper-
ations’’, ‘‘International Military Education and Training’’, and 
‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’. 
(8) FOREIGN
MILITARY
SALES
AND
FOREIGN
MILITARY 
FINANCING PROGRAM.— 
(A) AVAILABILITY.—Funds appropriated by this Act 
under the heading ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’ 
for the general costs of administering military assistance 
and sales shall be made available to increase the efficiency 
and effectiveness of programs authorized by Chapter 2 
of the Arms Export Control Act: Provided, That prior to 
the obligation of funds for such purposes, the Secretary 
of State shall consult with the Committees on Appropria-
tions. 
(B) REVIEW AND REPORT.—The Secretary of State, in 
coordination with the Secretary of Defense, shall review 
the resources, personnel, and practices of the Departments 
of State and Defense that are associated with administering 
military assistance and sales programs and, not later than 
120 days after enactment of this Act, submit to the appro-
priate congressional committees a report on steps taken 
or planned to be taken to increase the efficiency and 
effectiveness of such programs. 
(C) 
QUARTERLY
STATUS
REPORT.—Following 
the 
submission of the quarterly report required by section 36 
of Public Law 90–629 (22 U.S.C. 2776), the Secretary of 
State, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, shall 
submit to the Committees on Appropriations a status report 
that contains the information described under this heading 
in the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in 
the matter preceding division A of this Consolidated Act). 
(D) FOREIGN MILITARY FINANCING PROGRAM LOANS.— 
Not later than 60 days after enactment of this Act, the
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Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of 
Defense, shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations 
a report assessing the potential impact of transitioning 
assistance made available by this Act under the heading 
‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’ from grants to loans, 
including the budgetary and diplomatic impacts, and the 
extent to which such transition would affect the foreign 
policy interest of the United States: Provided, That such 
report shall also include an assessment of the impact of 
proposals included in the fiscal year 2018 congressional 
budget justification that would transition such assistance 
from grants to loans. 
(9) VETTING REPORT.— 
(A) Not later than 90 days after enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary of State shall submit a report to the 
appropriate congressional committees on foreign assistance 
cases submitted for vetting for purposes of section 620M 
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 during the preceding 
fiscal year, including— 
(i) the total number of cases submitted, approved, 
suspended, or rejected for human rights reasons; and 
(ii) for cases rejected, a description of the steps 
taken to assist the foreign government in taking effec-
tive measures to bring the responsible members of 
the security forces to justice, in accordance with section 
620M(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. 
(B) The report required by this paragraph shall be 
submitted in unclassified form, but may be accompanied 
by a classified annex. 
(10) ANNUAL FOREIGN MILITARY TRAINING REPORT.—For the 
purposes of implementing section 656 of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961, the term ‘‘military training provided to foreign 
military personnel by the Department of Defense and the 
Department of State’’ shall be deemed to include all military 
training provided by foreign governments with funds appro-
priated to the Department of Defense or the Department of 
State, except for training provided by the government of a 
country designated by section 517(b) of such Act as a major 
non-NATO ally. 
(11) PROLIFERATION
SECURITY
INITIATIVE.—Funds appro-
priated by this Act under the heading ‘‘Nonproliferation, Anti- 
terrorism, Demining and Related Programs’’ shall be made 
available for programs to increase international participation 
in the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) and endorsement 
of the PSI Statement of Interdiction Principles: Provided, That 
not later than 45 days after enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of State shall submit a report to the Committees on Appropria-
tions detailing steps to be taken to implement the requirements 
of this paragraph. 
(12) AUTHORITY
TO
COUNTER
EXTREMISM.—Funds made 
available by this Act under the heading ‘‘Economic Support 
Fund’’ to counter extremism may be made available notwith-
standing any other provision of law restricting assistance to 
foreign countries, except sections 502B and 620A of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961: Provided, That the Secretary of State, 
or the USAID Administrator, as appropriate, shall consult with
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the Committees on Appropriations prior to exercising the 
authority of this paragraph. 
(c) WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME.—Funds managed by the Bureau 
for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, United 
States Agency for International Development, from this or any 
other Act, may be made available as a general contribution to 
the World Food Programme, notwithstanding any other provision 
of law. 
(d) DIRECTIVES AND AUTHORITIES.— 
(1) RESEARCH AND TRAINING.—Funds appropriated by this 
Act under the heading ‘‘Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and 
Central Asia’’ shall be made available to carry out the Program 
for Research and Training on Eastern Europe and the Inde-
pendent States of the Former Soviet Union as authorized by 
the Soviet-Eastern European Research and Training Act of 
1983 (22 U.S.C. 4501 et seq.). 
(2) GENOCIDE VICTIMS MEMORIAL SITES AND TRIBUNALS.— 
(A) Funds appropriated by this Act and prior Acts 
making appropriations for the Department of State, foreign 
operations, and related programs under the headings ‘‘Eco-
nomic Support Fund’’ and ‘‘Assistance for Europe, Eurasia 
and Central Asia’’ may be made available as contributions 
to establish and maintain memorial sites of genocide, sub-
ject to the regular notification procedures of the Commit-
tees on Appropriations. 
(B) Of the funds appropriated by this Act under the 
heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, not less than $3,500,000 
shall be made available, on a competitive basis, for 
reimbursement of costs related to research and documenta-
tion in support of the activities of international tribunals 
established to try cases of war crimes, genocide, and crimes 
against humanity. 
(3) ADDITIONAL AUTHORITIES.—Of the amounts made avail-
able by title I of this Act under the heading ‘‘Diplomatic and 
Consular Programs’’, up to $500,000 may be made available 
for grants pursuant to section 504 of Public Law 95–426 (22 
U.S.C. 2656d), including to facilitate collaboration with indige-
nous communities, and up to $1,000,000 may be made available 
for grants to carry out the activities of the Cultural Antiquities 
Task Force. 
(4) AUTHORITY.—The USAID Administrator may use funds 
appropriated by this Act under title III to make innovation 
incentive awards: Provided, That each individual award may 
not exceed $100,000: Provided further, That no more than 10 
such awards may be made during fiscal year 2017: Provided 
further, That for purposes of this paragraph the term ‘‘innova-
tion incentive award’’ means the provision of funding on a 
competitive basis that— 
(A) encourages and rewards the development of solu-
tions for a particular, well-defined problem related to the 
alleviation of poverty; or 
(B) helps identify and promote a broad range of ideas 
and practices facilitating further development of an idea 
or practice by third parties. 
(e) PARTNER VETTING.— 
(1) In lieu of the requirements in the second and third 
provisos of section 7034(e) of the Department of State, Foreign
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Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2016 
(division K of Public Law 114–113), not later than 60 days 
after enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State and the 
USAID Administrator shall jointly submit a report to the 
Committees on Appropriations, in classified form if necessary, 
detailing the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of 
the evaluation of the Partner Vetting System pilot program 
and recommendations for any new partner vetting program: 
Provided, That prior to the submission of the report, the Sec-
retary and Administrator shall jointly consult with the Commit-
tees on Appropriations, and also consult with representatives 
of implementing organizations, on such findings, conclusions, 
and recommendations. 
(2) The Secretary of State and USAID Administrator may 
initiate a partner vetting program to mitigate the risk of diver-
sion of foreign assistance, or make significant modifications 
to any existing partner vetting program, only following con-
sultation with the Committees on Appropriations: Provided, 
That the Secretary and Administrator should provide a direct 
vetting option for prime awardees in any partner vetting pro-
gram initiated after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
(f) CONTINGENCIES.—During fiscal year 2017, the President 
may use up to $125,000,000 under the authority of section 451 
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, notwithstanding any other 
provision of law. 
(g) INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTIONS.—The Secretary of State 
should withhold funds appropriated under title III of this Act for 
assistance for the central government of any country that is not 
taking appropriate steps to comply with the Convention on the 
Civil Aspects of International Child Abductions, done at the Hague 
on October 25, 1980: Provided, That the Secretary shall report 
to the Committees on Appropriations within 15 days of withholding 
funds under this subsection. 
(h) CULTURAL PRESERVATION PROJECT DETERMINATION.—None 
of the funds appropriated in titles I and III of this Act may be 
used for the preservation of religious sites unless the Secretary 
of State or the USAID Administrator, as appropriate, determines 
and reports to the Committees on Appropriations that such sites 
are historically, artistically, or culturally significant, that the pur-
pose of the project is neither to advance nor to inhibit the free 
exercise of religion, and that the project is in the national interest 
of the United States. 
(i) TRANSFER OF FUNDS FOR EXTRAORDINARY PROTECTION.— 
The Secretary of State may transfer to, and merge with, funds 
under the heading ‘‘Protection of Foreign Missions and Officials’’ 
unobligated balances of expired funds appropriated under the 
heading ‘‘Diplomatic and Consular Programs’’ for fiscal year 2017, 
except for funds designated for Overseas Contingency Operations/ 
Global War on Terrorism pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of 
the Balanced 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. 
(j) PROTECTIONS AND REMEDIES FOR EMPLOYEES OF DIPLOMATIC 
MISSIONS AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS.—Section 7034(k) of 
the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs