Title: A bill to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require the annual human rights reports to include information on the institutionalization of children and the subjection of children to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment, unnecessary detention, and denial of the right to life, liberty, and the security of persons.
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
This bill amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require annual country reports on human rights practices to include information on: (1) the institutionalization of children in orphanages and group homes when such institutionalization can be avoided by reunifying children with parents of origin or placing them in adoptive homes; and (2) the subjection of children to cruel or degrading treatment, unnecessary detention, and denial of the right to life, liberty, and the security of persons.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1177 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1177

To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require the annual human 
 rights reports to include information on the institutionalization of 
children and the subjection of children to cruel, inhuman, or degrading 
  treatment, unnecessary detention, and denial of the right to life, 
                 liberty, and the security of persons.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 18, 2017

   Mr. Blunt introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require the annual human 
 rights reports to include information on the institutionalization of 
children and the subjection of children to cruel, inhuman, or degrading 
  treatment, unnecessary detention, and denial of the right to life, 
                 liberty, and the security of persons.

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

SECTION 1. INCLUSION IN ANNUAL COUNTRY REPORTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS 
              PRACTICES OF INFORMATION ON CHILDREN LIVING WITHOUT 
              FAMILIES.

    Section 116(d) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 
2151n(d)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (11)(C), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (12)(C)(ii), by striking the period at the 
        end and inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(13)(A) the institutionalization of children in 
        orphanages and large and small group homes, when such 
        institutionalization can be avoided by promptly--
                    ``(i) reunifying children with nurturing parents of 
                origin; or
                    ``(ii) placing them in adoptive homes in the 
                country of origin or abroad; and
            ``(B) the related subjection of children to--
                    ``(i) cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment;
                    ``(ii) unnecessary detention; or
                    ``(iii) the denial of the right to life, liberty, 
                and the security of persons.''.

SEC. 2. DELAYED EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act shall take effect on the date that is one year after the 
date of the enactment of this Act.
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