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Union Calendar No. 18 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1157 
[Report No. 117–33] 
To provide for certain authorities of the Department of State, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 18, 2021 
Mr. MEEKS (for himself and Mr. MCCAUL) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
MAY 13, 2021 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on February 18, 2021] 
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A BILL 
To provide for certain authorities of the Department of 
State, and for other purposes. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘De-
partment of State Authorization Act of 2021’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Definitions. 
TITLE I—ORGANIZATION AND OPERATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT 
OF STATE 
Sec. 1001. Diplomatic Programs. 
Sec. 1002. Sense of Congress on importance of Department of State’s work. 
Sec. 1003. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. 
Sec. 1004. Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement 
Affairs. 
Sec. 1005. Bureau of Consular Affairs; Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Mi-
gration. 
Sec. 1006. Office of International Disability Rights. 
Sec. 1007. Anti-piracy information sharing. 
Sec. 1008. Importance of foreign affairs training to national security. 
Sec. 1009. Classification and assignment of Foreign Service officers. 
Sec. 1010. Energy diplomacy and security within the Department of State. 
Sec. 1011. National Museum of American Diplomacy. 
Sec. 1012. Extension of period for reimbursement of fishermen for costs incurred 
from the illegal seizure and detention of U.S.-flag fishing vessels 
by foreign governments. 
Sec. 1013. Art in embassies. 
Sec. 1014. Amendment or repeal of reporting requirements. 
Sec. 1015. Reporting on implementation of GAO recommendations. 
Sec. 1016. Office of Global Criminal Justice. 
TITLE II—EMBASSY CONSTRUCTION 
Sec. 1201. Embassy security, construction, and maintenance. 
Sec. 1202. Standard design in capital construction. 
Sec. 1203. Capital construction transparency. 
Sec. 1204. Contractor performance information. 
Sec. 1205. Growth projections for new embassies and consulates. 
Sec. 1206. Long-range planning process. 
Sec. 1207. Value engineering and risk assessment. 
Sec. 1208. Business volume. 
Sec. 1209. Embassy security requests and deficiencies. 
Sec. 1210. Overseas security briefings. 
Sec. 1211. Contracting methods in capital construction. 
Sec. 1212. Competition in embassy construction. 
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Sec. 1213. Statement of policy. 
Sec. 1214. Definitions. 
TITLE III—PERSONNEL ISSUES 
Sec. 1301. Defense Base Act insurance waivers. 
Sec. 1302. Study on Foreign Service allowances. 
Sec. 1303. Science and technology fellowships. 
Sec. 1304. Travel for separated families. 
Sec. 1305. Home leave travel for separated families. 
Sec. 1306. Sense of Congress regarding certain fellowship programs. 
Sec. 1307. Technical correction. 
Sec. 1308. Foreign Service awards. 
Sec. 1309. Workforce actions. 
Sec. 1310. Sense of Congress regarding veterans employment at the Department 
of State. 
Sec. 1311. Employee assignment restrictions and preclusions. 
Sec. 1312. Recall and reemployment of career members. 
Sec. 1313. Strategic staffing plan for the Department of State. 
Sec. 1314. Consulting services. 
Sec. 1315. Incentives for critical posts. 
Sec. 1316. Extension of authority for certain accountability review boards. 
Sec. 1317. Foreign Service suspension without pay. 
Sec. 1318. Foreign Affairs Manual and Foreign Affairs Handbook changes. 
Sec. 1319. Waiver authority for individual occupational requirements of certain 
positions. 
Sec. 1320. Appointment of employees to the Global Engagement Center. 
Sec. 1321. Rest and recuperation and overseas operations leave for Federal em-
ployees. 
Sec. 1322. Emergency medical services authority. 
Sec. 1323. Department of State Student Internship Program. 
Sec. 1324. Competitive status for certain employees hired by Inspectors General 
to support the lead IG mission. 
Sec. 1325. Cooperation with Office of the Inspector General. 
Sec. 1326. Information on educational opportunities for children with special 
educational needs consistent with the Individuals With Disabil-
ities Education Act. 
Sec. 1327. Implementation of gap memorandum in selection board process. 
TITLE IV—A DIVERSE WORKFORCE: RECRUITMENT, RETENTION, 
AND PROMOTION 
Sec. 1401. Definitions. 
Sec. 1402. Collection, analysis, and dissemination of workforce data. 
Sec. 1403. Exit interviews for workforce. 
Sec. 1404. Recruitment and retention. 
Sec. 1405. Promoting diversity and inclusion in the national security workforce. 
Sec. 1406. Leadership engagement and accountability. 
Sec. 1407. Professional development opportunities and tools. 
Sec. 1408. Examination and oral assessment for the Foreign Service. 
Sec. 1409. Payne fellowship authorization. 
Sec. 1410. Voluntary participation. 
TITLE V—INFORMATION SECURITY 
Sec. 1501. Definitions. 
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Sec. 1502. List of certain telecommunications providers. 
Sec. 1503. Preserving records of electronic communications conducted related to 
official duties of positions in the public trust of the American 
people. 
Sec. 1504. Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series and declassifica-
tion. 
Sec. 1505. Vulnerability Disclosure Policy and Bug Bounty Pilot Program. 
TITLE VI—PUBLIC DIPLOMACY 
Sec. 1601. Short title. 
Sec. 1602. Avoiding duplication of programs and efforts. 
Sec. 1603. Improving research and evaluation of public diplomacy. 
Sec. 1604. Permanent reauthorization of the United States Advisory Commission 
on Public Diplomacy. 
Sec. 1605. Streamlining of support functions. 
Sec. 1606. Guidance for closure of public diplomacy facilities. 
Sec. 1607. Definitions. 
TITLE VII—COMBATING PUBLIC CORRUPTION 
Sec. 1701. Sense of congress. 
Sec. 1702. Annual assessment. 
Sec. 1703. Transparency and accountability. 
Sec. 1704. Designation of embassy anti-corruption points of contact. 
TITLE VIII—OTHER MATTERS 
Sec. 1801. Case-Zablocki Act Reform. 
Sec. 1802. Limitation on assistance to countries in default. 
Sec. 1803. Sean and David Goldman Child Abduction Prevention and Return 
Act of 2014 amendment. 
Sec. 1804. Modification of authorities of Commission for the Preservation of 
America’s Heritage Abroad. 
Sec. 1805. Chief of mission concurrence. 
Sec. 1806. Report on efforts of the Coronavirus Repatriation Task Force. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) 
APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional commit-
tees’’ means the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on For-
eign Relations of the Senate. 
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(2) DEPARTMENT.—If not otherwise specified, 
the term ‘‘Department’’ means the Department of 
State. 
(3) SECRETARY.—If not otherwise specified, the 
term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary of State. 
TITLE 
I—ORGANIZATION 
AND 
OPERATIONS 
OF 
THE 
DE-
PARTMENT OF STATE 
SEC. 1001. DIPLOMATIC PROGRAMS. 
For ‘‘Diplomatic Programs’’, there is authorized to be 
appropriated $9,170,013,000 for fiscal year 2022. 
SEC. 1002. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON IMPORTANCE OF DE-
PARTMENT OF STATE’S WORK. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) United States global engagement is key to a 
stable and prosperous world; 
(2) United States leadership is indispensable in 
light of the many complex and interconnected threats 
facing the United States and the world; 
(3) diplomacy and development are critical tools 
of national power, and full deployment of these tools 
is vital to United States national security; 
(4) challenges such as the global refugee and mi-
gration crises, terrorism, historic famine and food in-
security, and fragile or repressive societies cannot be 
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addressed without sustained and robust United States 
diplomatic and development leadership; 
(5) the United States Government must use all 
of the instruments of national security and foreign 
policy at its disposal to protect United States citi-
zens, promote United States interests and values, and 
support global stability and prosperity; 
(6) United States security and prosperity depend 
on having partners and allies that share our interests 
and values, and these partnerships are nurtured and 
our shared interests and values are promoted through 
United States diplomatic engagement, security co-
operation, economic statecraft, and assistance that 
helps further economic development, good governance, 
including the rule of law and democratic institutions, 
and the development of shared responses to natural 
and humanitarian disasters; 
(7) as the United States Government agencies 
primarily charged with conducting diplomacy and 
development, the Department and the United States 
Agency for International Development (USAID) re-
quire sustained and robust funding to carry out this 
important work, which is essential to our ability to 
project United States leadership and values and to 
advance United States interests around the world; 
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(8) the work of the Department and USAID 
makes the United States and the world safer and 
more prosperous by alleviating global poverty and 
hunger, fighting HIV/AIDS and other infectious dis-
eases, strengthening alliances, expanding educational 
opportunities for women and girls, promoting good 
governance and democracy, supporting anti-corrup-
tion efforts, driving economic development and trade, 
preventing armed conflicts and humanitarian crises, 
and creating American jobs and export opportunities; 
(9) the Department and USAID are vital na-
tional security agencies, whose work is critical to the 
projection of United States power and leadership 
worldwide, and without which Americans would be 
less safe, United States economic power would be di-
minished, and global stability and prosperity would 
suffer; 
(10) investing in diplomacy and development be-
fore conflicts break out saves American lives while 
also being cost-effective; and 
(11) the contributions of personnel working at 
the Department and USAID are extraordinarily val-
uable and allow the United States to maintain its 
leadership around the world. 
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and inserting ‘‘BIANNUAL REPORT ON OVERSEAS 
CAPITAL CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS’’; and 
(2) by striking subsections (a) and (b) and in-
serting the following new subsections: 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this subsection and every 180 days 
thereafter until the date that is four years after such date 
of enactment, the Secretary of State shall submit to the ap-
propriate congressional committees a comprehensive report 
regarding all ongoing overseas capital construction projects 
and major embassy security upgrade projects. 
‘‘(b) CONTENTS.—Each report required under sub-
section (a) shall include the following with respect to each 
ongoing overseas capital construction project and major em-
bassy security upgrade project: 
‘‘(1) The initial cost estimate as specified in the 
proposed allocation of capital construction and main-
tenance funds required by the Committees on Appro-
priations for Acts making appropriations for the De-
partment of State, foreign operations, and related 
programs. 
‘‘(2) The current cost estimate. 
‘‘(3) The value of each request for equitable ad-
justment received by the Department to date. 
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