Title: Mitigating Attacks on Diplomats Act
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
Mitigating Attacks on Diplomats Act
This bill directs the Department of State to study the means of countering hypersonic acoustic attacks on Foreign Service officers and their families, including methods to support the physical protection of U.S. embassies, consulates, and embassy residences.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6262 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6262

To require a report on the efforts and options to mitigate the acoustic 
attacks on Foreign Service officers and their families and the physical 
protection capabilities to protect United States embassies, consulates, 
                and residences, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 28, 2018

 Mr. Wilson of South Carolina introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To require a report on the efforts and options to mitigate the acoustic 
attacks on Foreign Service officers and their families and the physical 
protection capabilities to protect United States embassies, consulates, 
                and residences, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Mitigating Attacks on Diplomats 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ACOUSTIC ATTACK STUDY.

    (a) Study Required.--The Secretary of State, in coordination with 
the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Commerce, 
the Attorney General, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of 
Energy, and in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, 
shall carry out a study to determine the appropriate standards and 
procedures that--
            (1) can be used to counter hypersonic acoustic attacks on 
        Foreign Service officers and their families; and
            (2) include methods to support physical protection 
        practices and procedures applicable to United States embassies, 
        consulates, and embassy residences.
    (b) Reports to Congress.--
            (1) Preliminary findings.--Not later than 180 days after 
        the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State 
        shall provide to the appropriate congressional committees the 
        initial findings of the study required under subsection (a).
            (2) Report.--Not later than 360 days after the date of the 
        enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit to 
        the appropriate congressional committees a report containing 
        the complete findings of the study required under subsection 
        (a).
            (3) Form of report.--The findings required under paragraph 
        (1) and the report required under paragraph (2) shall be 
        provided and submitted, respectively, in unclassified form, but 
        may contain classified annexes.
    (c)  Definition.--In this section:
            (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
        ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
                    (A) in the House of Representatives--
                            (i) the Committee on Foreign Affairs;
                            (ii) the Committee on Armed Services;
                            (iii) the Committee on Homeland Security; 
                        and
                            (iv) the Permanent Select Committee on 
                        Intelligence; and
                    (B) in the Senate--
                            (i) the Committee on Foreign Relations;
                            (ii) the Committee on Armed Services;
                            (iii) the Committee on Homeland Security 
                        and Governmental Affairs; and
                            (iv) the Select Committee on Intelligence.
            (2) Foreign service officer.--The term ``Foreign Service 
        officer'' has the meaning given such term in section 103 of the 
        Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3903).
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