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(4) Transfer or maintenance of Special Court 
records to a permanent recordkeeping authority in 
Sierra Leone. 
(5) Ongoing needs or programs for community 
outreach, for the purpose of reconciliation and heal-
ing, regarding the Special Court’s legal proceedings 
and decisions. 
(6) Plans for the Special Court’s facilities in Si-
erra Leone and plans to use the Special Court, and 
expertise of its personnel, for further development of 
the legal profession and an independent and effective 
judiciary in Sierra Leone. 
(7) Unresolved cases, or cases that were not 
prosecuted. 
SEC. 1002. REPORT ON UNITED STATES CAPACITIES TO 
PREVENT GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) The lack of an effective government-wide 
strategy and adequate capacities for preventing 
genocide and mass atrocities against civilians under-
mines the ability of the United States to contribute 
to the maintenance of global peace and security and 
protect vital United States interests. 
(2) The December 2008 Report of the Genocide 
Prevention Task Force, co-chaired by former Sec-
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retary of State Madeleine Albright and former Sec-
retary of Defense William Cohen offers a valuable 
blueprint for strengthening United States capacities 
to help prevent genocide and mass atrocities. 
(3) Specific training and staffing will enhance 
the diplomatic capacities of the Department of State 
to help prevent and respond to threats of genocide 
and mass atrocities. 
(b) REPORT.— 
(1) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than 180 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate 
congressional committees a report outlining specific 
plans for the development of a government-wide 
strategy and the strengthening of United States ci-
vilian capacities for preventing genocide and mass 
atrocities against civilians. 
(2) CONTENT.—The report required under 
paragraph (1) shall include the following: 
(A) An evaluation of current mechanisms 
for government-wide early warning, informa-
tion-sharing, contingency planning, and coordi-
nation of effort to prevent and respond to situa-
tions of genocide, mass atrocities, and other 
mass violence. 
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(B) An assessment of current capacities 
within the Department of State, including spe-
cific staffing and training, for early warning, 
preventive diplomacy, and crisis response to 
help avert genocide and mass atrocities. 
(C) An evaluation of United States foreign 
assistance programs and mechanisms directed 
toward the prevention of genocide and mass 
atrocities, including costs, challenges to imple-
mentation, and successes of such programs and 
mechanisms. 
(D) An assessment of the feasibility, effec-
tiveness, and potential costs of implementing 
key recommendations made by the Genocide 
Prevention Task Force, including the establish-
ment of an Atrocities Prevention Committee 
within the National Security Council and in-
creased annual and contingency funding for the 
prevention of genocide and mass atrocities. 
(E) Recommendations to further strength-
en United States capacities to help prevent 
genocide, mass atrocities, and other mass vio-
lence, including enhanced early warning mecha-
nisms, strengthened diplomatic capacities of the 
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Department of State, and improved use of 
United States foreign assistance. 
SEC. 1003. REPORTS RELATING TO PROGRAMS TO ENCOUR-
AGE GOOD GOVERNANCE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subparagraph (C) of section 
133(d)(2) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
U.S.C. 2152c(d)(2)) is amended by inserting before the 
period at the end the following: ‘‘, including, with respect 
to a country that produces or exports large amounts of 
natural resources such as petroleum or natural resources, 
the degree to which citizens of the country have access 
to information about government revenue from the extrac-
tion of such resources and credible reports of human 
rights abuses against individuals from civil society or the 
media seeking to monitor such extraction’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
subsection (a) shall apply with respect to reports required 
to be transmitted under section 133(d)(2) of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961, as so amended, on or after the 
date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 1004. REPORTS ON HONG KONG. 
Section 301 of the United States-Hong Kong Policy 
Act of 1992 (Public Law 102–383; 22 U.S.C. 5731) is 
amended, in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by strik-
ing ‘‘and March 31, 2006’’ and inserting ‘‘March 31, 
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2006, and March 31, 2010, and March 31 of every subse-
quent year through 2020,’’. 
SEC. 1005. DEMOCRACY IN GEORGIA. 
(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that the development and consolidation of effective 
democratic governance in Georgia, including free and fair 
electoral processes, respect for human rights and the rule 
of law, an independent media, an independent judiciary, 
a vibrant civil society, as well as transparency and ac-
countability of the executive branch and legislative proc-
ess, is critically important to Georgia’s integration into 
Euro-Atlantic institutions, stability in the Caucasus re-
gion, and United States national security. The United 
States should urge the European Union, its member 
states, and the international community to call for an im-
mediate and complete withdrawal of Russian troops de-
ployed within Georgia in accordance with the August and 
September 2008 ceasefire agreements and for Russia to 
rescind its recognition of the independence of Abkhazia 
and South Ossetia. 
(b) REPORT ON DEMOCRACY IN GEORGIA.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, and not 
later than December 31 of each of the two fiscal 
years thereafter, the Secretary of State shall submit 
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