Title: Security Partner Modernization Act
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
Security Partner Modernization Act
This bill establishes allows the use of certain foreign assistance funds to provide training and support for foreign-government law-enforcement forces. However, such funds may not be used to (1) provide assistance otherwise prohibited, such as assistance for units that the Department of State believes have committed gross human-rights violations; (2) provide assistance that the State Department believes would aggravate or substantially contribute to corruption, human-rights violations, or suppression of dissent; or (3) support any foreign-government intelligence or surveillance program.
Currently, such funds may not be used for such training and assistance, with various exceptions such as where the recipient country has a longstanding democratic tradition and does not have standing armed forces or a history of committing gross human-rights violations.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2068 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2068

 To modify the authorization to provide assistance to certain foreign 
       police and law enforcement forces, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 3, 2019

  Mr. Guest introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To modify the authorization to provide assistance to certain foreign 
       police and law enforcement forces, 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 ``Security Partner Modernization 
Act''.

SEC. 2. MODIFICATION TO POLICE TRAINING UNDER THE FOREIGN ASSISTANCE 
              ACT OF 1961.

    Section 660 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2420) 
is amended to read as follows:

``SEC. 660. PROHIBITED POLICE TRAINING.

    ``Funds made available to carry out this Act, and local currencies 
generated under this Act, may be used to provide training, advice, or 
financial support for police, prisons, or other law enforcement forces 
of a foreign government, except that such funds or currencies may not 
be used--
            ``(1) to provide any type of assistance that is otherwise 
        prohibited by any provision of law, including to provide any 
        assistance to individuals or units described in section 620M;
            ``(2) to provide assistance that the Secretary of State 
        determines would likely aggravate or substantially contribute 
        to corruption, human rights violations, or political 
        suppression of dissent; or
            ``(3) to support any internal intelligence or surveillance 
        program on behalf of any foreign government within the United 
        States or elsewhere.''.
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