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Example Input: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``National High Performance Passenger 
Rail Transportation-Oriented Development Act of 2012''.

SEC. 2. TRANSPORTATION-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE.

    (a) Establishment.--The Secretary of Transportation (in this Act 
referred to as the ``Secretary'') shall establish an initiative to 
promote passenger rail operations and transportation-oriented 
development by creating incentives for communities to encourage 
dedicated revenue sources for urban and regional rail corridor 
development.
    (b) Implementation.--The Secretary shall appoint a Planning 
Developer to oversee implementation of this initiative. The Planning 
Developer shall report to the Secretary.
    (c) Coordinating Committee.--The Secretary shall harmonize planning 
requirements and direct coordination and administration of the 
initiative between the Federal Railroad Administration and the Federal 
Transit Administration. The Secretary shall appoint a Transportation-
Oriented Development Coordinating Committee composed of the Planning 
Developer as Chair, the Administrator of the Federal Railroad 
Administration, and the Administrator of the Federal Transit 
Administration.

SEC. 3. FEDERAL INCENTIVES.

    (a) Qualified Projects.--
            (1) Criteria.--The Secretary shall establish criteria for 
        the designation of projects qualified for Federal incentives 
        pursuant to this section and the amendments made by this 
        section.
            (2) Types of projects that may qualify.--Projects that may 
        qualify for Federal incentives pursuant to this section and the 
        amendments made by this section are those that contribute to 
        the generation of revenue by the capture of increasing value 
        from development around station areas, as defined by the 
        Secretary, which are likely to make long-term contributions to 
        rail corridor development funds or similar mechanisms that help 
        finance intercity and urban passenger rail infrastructure or 
        operating expenses. Such commercial development or other 
        projects designated as qualified by the Secretary may generate 
        revenue for transportation-oriented development and rail 
        operations in the region by increasing the tax base, promoting 
        job growth, promoting cost effectiveness, facilitating 
        intermodal connectivity, combining congestion relief with 
        station development, stimulating economic development, or any 
        other appropriate means. The capture of increased value shall 
        be through the establishment of special assessment districts or 
        similar mechanisms, and distribution of revenues shall be 
        through rail corridor development funds or similar mechanisms 
        established within the regions.
            (3) Designated coordinating authority.--The Secretary shall 
        designate a State authority, or regional commission in 
        appropriate regions of the country as defined by the Secretary, 
        that petitions the Secretary to participate in the initiative 
        established under section 2. Such designated entity shall 
        provide for coordination among stakeholders, local governments, 
        and private developers in the defined region, and shall endorse 
        each project of, and be the lead party in, an application for 
        Federal incentives pursuant to this section and the amendments 
        made by this section.
    (b) Railroad Rehabilitation Improvement Financing.--Section 502 of 
the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 (45 
U.S.C. 822) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph 
                (5);
                    (B) by striking the period at the end of paragraph 
                (6) and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following new 
                paragraph:
            ``(7) persons conducting a qualified project (as defined in 
        section 8 of the National High Performance Passenger Rail 
        Transportation-Oriented Development Act of 2012).''; and
            (2) in subsection (b)(1)--
                    (A) by striking ``and'' at the end of subparagraph 
                (B);
                    (B) by striking the period at the end of 
                subparagraph (C) and inserting ``; or''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following new 
                subparagraph:
                    ``(D) conduct a qualified project (as defined by 
                the Secretary under section 3 of the National High 
                Performance Passenger Rail Transportation-Oriented 
                Development Act of 2012.''.
    (c) Transportation Infrastructure Finance.--Section 601(a)(8) of 
title 23, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of subparagraph (C);
            (2) by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (D) 
        and inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
                    ``(E) a qualified project (as defined by the 
                Secretary under section 3 of the National High 
                Performance Passenger Rail Transportation-Oriented 
                Development Act of 2012).''.
    (d) Application Priority.--In general, Federal applications to the 
Federal Railroad Administration and Federal Transit Administration for 
railroad projects that participate in the transportation-oriented 
development program under this Act shall receive a priority for funding 
in the application decision process.
    (e) Administrative Costs.--For administrative costs to carry out 
this Act, including contracting with and support for the Planning 
Developer and transportation-oriented development initial 
administrative costs of the Federal Railroad Administration and Federal 
Transit Administration for the first 5 years, the Secretary may use 
such funds as necessary which are appropriated for carrying out chapter 
6 of title 23, United States Code.
    (f) Revenue Neutral Program Cost.--The Secretary may establish a 
mechanism whereby amounts used under subsection (e) will be repaid to 
the Secretary for use in carrying out chapter 6 of title 23, United 
States Code. Repayment shall be derived from a small fee to all 
recipients of funding provided under subsection (e). The repayment 
shall commence upon substantial completion of qualified projects.

SEC. 4. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.

    (a) National Technical Assistance.--The program established under 
this Act shall provide technical assistance to the States with respect 
to--
            (1) identification of transportation-oriented development 
        opportunities;
            (2) establishment of special assessment districts in 
        regions;
            (3) establishment of rail corridor development funds; and
            (4) expediting Federal, State, and local regulatory 
        approvals.
    (b) States and Regions Outside the Northeast Corridor.--The 
Secretary, through the initiative established by this Act, shall 
provide technical assistance to the States and regions outside the 
Northeast Corridor as identified by the Secretary, and shall provide--
            (1) technical assistance on the establishment of Regional 
        Advisory Committees appropriate to carrying out the purposes of 
        this Act at the regional level; and
            (2) technical assistance at the request of a State or 
        qualified entity provided by the Planning Developer that will 
        identify stations and potential stations within a given region, 
        and conduct a preliminary survey of property available and 
        potentially available, to maximize development and commercial 
        revenue generation to financially support the development of a 
        high performance rail passenger corridor.
    (c) Northeast Corridor.--The Secretary, through the initiative 
established under this Act, shall provide technical assistance to the 
States and entities along the Northeast Corridor as identified by the 
Secretary--
            (1) on the establishment, by the Northeast Corridor 
        Infrastructure and Operations Advisory Commission established 
        under section 24905 of title 49, United States Code, of a 
        Northeast Corridor Transportation-Oriented Development Working 
        Group, which shall--
                    (A) include outside members with expertise in 
                transportation-oriented development;
                    (B) be chaired by the Planning Developer; and
                    (C) advise the Secretary and the Northeast Corridor 
                Infrastructure and Operations Advisory Commission on 
                the ways and means for carrying out the purposes of 
                this Act at the regional level; and
            (2) technical assistance provided by the Planning Developer 
        to the Secretary and identified States and entities, not more 
        than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, that 
        will identify Northeast Corridor stations and potential 
        stations, and conduct a preliminary survey of property 
        available and potentially available, to maximize development 
        and commercial revenue generation to financially support the 
        creation of a true high-speed rail corridor in the Northeast 
        Corridor.
Example Output: National High Performance Passenger Rail Transportation-Oriented Development Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to establish an initiative to promote passenger rail operations and transportation-oriented development by creating rail projects qualified for federal incentives for communities to encourage dedicated revenue sources for urban and regional rail corridor development.

Amends the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 to direct the Secretary to provide direct loans and loan guarantees for qualified rail projects. Authorizes the Secretary to make secured loans, loan guarantees, or lines of credit for such projects.

Directs the Secretary to provide technical assistance to: (1) states to identify transportation-oriented development opportunities, (2) states and regions outside the Northeast Corridor to establish Regional Advisory Committees and identify stations and potential stations within the region to maximize development and commercial revenue generation to support financially the development of a high performance rail passenger corridor, and (3) states and entities along the Northeast Corridor to establish a Northeast Corridor Transportation-Oriented Development Working Group and identify Northeast Corridor stations and potential stations to maximize development and commercial revenue generation to support financially the creation of a true high-speed rail corridor in the Northeast Corridor.

Example Input: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Budget Surplus Dividend Act of 
1997''.

SEC. 2. 50 PERCENT OF FEDERAL BUDGET SURPLUS TO REIMBURSE EMPLOYERS AND 
              EMPLOYEES FOR A PORTION OF THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY TAXES.

    (a) In General.--Subpart C of part IV of subchapter A of chapter 1 
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to refundable credits) 
is amended by redesignating section 35 as section 36 and by inserting 
after section 34 the following new section:

``SEC. 35. CREDIT FOR PORTION OF SOCIAL SECURITY TAXES.

    ``(a) Allowance of Credit.--In the case of a taxable year to which 
this section applies, there shall be allowed as a credit against the 
tax imposed by this subtitle for the taxable year an amount equal to 
the applicable percentage of the taxpayer's social security taxes for 
the taxable year.
    ``(b) Taxable Years to Which Section Applies.--This section shall 
apply to any taxable year beginning in the first calendar year 
beginning after a fiscal year if there is a Federal budget surplus for 
such fiscal year of more than $1,000,000,000.
    ``(c) Applicable Percentage.--For purposes of this section--
            ``(1) In general.--The term `applicable percentage' means--
                    ``(A) the base percentage with respect to so much 
                of the taxpayer's social security taxes as does not 
                exceed $3,000, and
                    ``(B) the phasedown percentage with respect to so 
                much of the taxpayer's social security taxes as exceeds 
                $3,000.
            ``(2) Base percentage.--The term `base percentage' means, 
        for taxable years beginning in a calendar year, the percentage 
        which the Secretary estimates will result in a reduction of 
        revenues to the Treasury by reason of this section for such 
        taxable year equal to 50 percent of the Federal budget surplus 
        for the most recent fiscal year ending before such calendar 
        year. Proper adjustments shall be made in the percentage 
        determined under the preceding sentence with respect to any 
        subsequent fiscal year to the extent that prior estimates were 
        in excess of or less than the proper percentage.
            ``(3) Phasedown percentage.--The term `phasedown 
        percentage' means the base percentage reduced (but not below 
        zero) by the number of percentage points which bears the same 
        ratio to the base percentage as--
                    ``(A) the excess of the taxpayer's social security 
                taxes over $3,000 bears to
                    ``(B) the excess of the maximum social security 
                taxes over $3,000.
            ``(4) Maximum social security taxes.--The term `maximum 
        social security taxes' means the amount which would be the 
        social security taxes of the taxpayer if the amount on which 
        such taxes are determined were equal to the maximum amount of 
        remuneration which may be taken into account under section 
        3101(a).
            ``(5) Special rules.--
                    ``(A) Dollar limitations on per employee basis.--
                The dollar limitations in paragraphs (1) and (3) shall 
                be applied on a per employee basis.
                    ``(B) Self-employed individuals.--Paragraphs (1) 
                and (3) shall be applied by substituting `$6,000' for 
                `$3,000' each place it appears in the case of the taxes 
                referred to in subparagraph (C) or (D) of subsection 
                (d)(1).
    ``(d) Social Security Taxes.--For purposes of this section--
            ``(1) In general.--The term `social security taxes' means, 
        with respect to any taxpayer for any taxable year--
                    ``(A) the taxes imposed by sections 3101 and 
                3201(a) (relating to taxes on employees) on amounts 
                received by the taxpayer during the calendar year in 
                which the taxable year begins,
                    ``(B) the taxes imposed by sections 3111 and 
                3221(a) (relating to taxes on employers) on amounts 
                paid by the taxpayer during the calendar year in which 
                the taxable year begins,
                    ``(C) the taxes imposed by section 1401 on the 
                self-employment income of the taxpayer for the taxable 
                year, and
                    ``(D) the taxes imposed by section 3211(a)(1) on 
                amounts received by the taxpayer during the calendar 
                year in which the taxable year begins.
            ``(2) Coordination with special refund of social security 
        taxes.--The term `social security taxes' shall not include any 
        taxes to the extent the taxpayer is entitled to a special 
        refund of such taxes under section 6413(c).
            ``(3) Special rule.--Any amounts paid pursuant to an 
        agreement under section 3121(l) (relating to agreements entered 
        into by American employers with respect to foreign affiliates) 
        which are equivalent to the taxes referred to in paragraph 
        (1)(A) shall be treated as taxes referred to in such 
        paragraph.''
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections for subpart C of 
part IV of subchapter A of chapter 1 of such Code is amended by 
striking the item relating to section 35 and inserting the following:

                              ``Sec. 35. Credit for portion of social 
                                        security taxes.
                              ``Sec. 36. Overpayments of tax.''
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 1997.

SEC. 3. APPROPRIATION TO USE 25 PERCENT OF FEDERAL BUDGET SURPLUS TO 
              REDUCE OUTSTANDING PUBLIC DEBT.

    There is hereby appropriated for the first fiscal year following 
each fiscal year for which there is a Federal budget surplus an amount 
equal to 25 percent of such surplus for purpose of paying at maturity, 
or to redeem or buy before maturity, obligations of the Government 
included in the public debt. An obligation of the Government that is 
paid, redeemed, or bought with funds appropriated by the preceding 
sentence shall be canceled and retired and may not be reissued.

SEC. 4. USE 25 PERCENT OF FEDERAL BUDGET SURPLUS TO INCREASE NONDEFENSE 
              DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS.

    For the first fiscal year following each fiscal year for which 
there is a Federal budget surplus, the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget shall increase (on a pro rata basis between the 
applicable nondefense categories for that fiscal year) the 
discretionary spending limit for new budget authority under section 
251(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
by an amount equal to 25 percent of such surplus and shall adjust the 
outlays flowing from that budget authority accordingly.
Example Output: Budget Surplus Dividend Act of 1997 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allocate credits to taxpayers for social security taxes, during any year in which there is a Federal budget surplus of more than $1 billion, so as to utilize 50 percent of such surplus.  Requires that, during any such year, the remainder of such surplus shall be split and used to:  (1) reduce the outstanding public debt; and (2) increase nondefense discretionary spending limits.

Example Input: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Child Soldier Prevention Act of 
2007''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) According to the September 7, 2005, report to the 
        General Assembly of the United Nations by the Special 
        Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed 
        Conflict, ``In the last decade, two million children have been 
        killed in situations of armed conflict, while six million 
        children have been permanently disabled or injured. Over 
        250,000 children continue to be exploited as child soldiers and 
        tens of thousands of girls are being subjected to rape and 
        other forms of sexual violence.''.
            (2) According to the Center for Emerging Threats and 
        Opportunities (CETO), Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, 
        ``The Child Soldier Phenomenon has become a post-Cold War 
        epidemic that has proliferated to every continent with the 
        exception of Antarctica and Australia.''.
            (3) Many of the children currently serving in armed forces 
        or paramilitaries were forcibly conscripted through kidnapping 
        or coercion, a form of human trafficking, while others joined 
        military units due to economic necessity, to avenge the loss of 
        a family member, or for their own personal safety.
            (4) Some military and militia commanders force child 
        soldiers to commit gruesome acts of ritual killings or torture, 
        including acts of violence against other children.
            (5) Many female child soldiers face the additional 
        psychological and physical horrors of rape and sexual abuse, 
        enslavement for sexual purposes by militia commanders, and 
        severe social stigma should they return home.
            (6) Some military and militia commanders target children 
        for recruitment because of their psychological immaturity and 
        vulnerability to manipulation and indoctrination. Children are 
        often separated from their families in order to foster 
        dependence on military units and leaders. Consequently, many of 
        these children suffer from deep trauma and are in need of 
        psychological counseling and rehabilitation.
            (7) Child soldiers are exposed to hazardous conditions and 
        are at risk of physical injury and disability, psychological 
        trauma, sexually transmitted diseases, respiratory and skin 
        infections, and often death.
            (8) On May 25, 2000, the United Nations adopted and opened 
        for signature, ratification, and accession the Optional 
        Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the 
        Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (in this Act referred 
        to as the ``Optional Protocol''), which establishes 18 as the 
        minimum age for conscription or forced recruitment and requires 
        states party to ensure that members of their armed forces under 
        the age of 18 do not take a direct part in hostilities.
            (9) On June 18, 2002, the Senate unanimously approved the 
        resolution advising and consenting to the ratification of the 
        Optional Protocol.
            (10) On December 23, 2002, the United States presented the 
        ratified optional protocol to the United Nations.
            (11) More than 110 governments worldwide have ratified the 
        optional protocol, establishing a clear international norm 
        concerning the use of children in combat.
            (12) On December 2, 1999, the United States ratified 
        International Labour Convention 182, the Convention concerning 
        the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the 
        Worst Forms of Child Labour, which includes the use of child 
        soldiers among the worst forms of child labor.
            (13) On October 7, 2005, the Senate gave its advice and 
        consent to the ratification of the Protocol to Prevent, 
        Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women 
        and Children, Supplementing the United Nations Convention 
        Against Transnational Organized Crime.
            (14) It is in the national security interest of the United 
        States to reduce the chances that members of the United States 
        Armed Forces will be forced to encounter children in combat 
        situations.
            (15) Section 502B(a)(3) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
        1961 (22 U.S.C. 2304(a)(3)) provides that ``the President is 
        directed to formulate and conduct international security 
        assistance programs of the United States in a manner which will 
        promote and advance human rights and avoid identification of 
        the United States, through such programs, with governments 
        which deny to their people internationally recognized human 
        rights and fundamental freedoms, in violation of international 
        law or in contravention of the policy of the United States as 
        expressed in this section or otherwise''.

SEC. 3. CHILD SOLDIER DEFINED.

    In this Act, consistent with the provisions of the Optional 
Protocol, the term ``child soldier''--
            (1) means--
                    (A) any person under age 18 who takes a direct part 
                in hostilities as a member of governmental armed 
                forces;
                    (B) any person under age 18 who has been 
                compulsorily recruited into governmental armed forces;
                    (C) any person under age 16 voluntarily recruited 
                into governmental armed forces; and
                    (D) any person under age 18 recruited or used in 
                hostilities by armed forces distinct from the armed 
                forces of a state; and
            (2) includes any person described in subparagraphs (B), 
        (C), and (D) of paragraph (1) who is serving in any capacity, 
        including in a support role such as a cook, porter, messenger, 
        medic, guard, or sex slave.

SEC. 4. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of Congress--
            (1) to condemn the conscription, forced recruitment or use 
        of children by governments, paramilitaries, or other 
        organizations in hostilities;
            (2) that the United States Government should support and, 
        where practicable, lead efforts to establish and uphold 
        international standards designed to end this abuse of human 
        rights;
            (3) that the United States Government should expand ongoing 
        services to rehabilitate recovered child soldiers and to 
        reintegrate them back into their communities by--
                    (A) offering ongoing psychological services to help 
                victims recover from their trauma and relearn how to 
                deal with others in nonviolent ways such that they are 
                no longer a danger to their community;
                    (B) facilitating reconciliation with their 
                communities through negotiations with traditional 
                leaders and elders to enable recovered abductees to 
                resume normal lives in their communities; and
                    (C) providing educational and vocational 
                assistance;
            (4) that the United States should work with the 
        international community, including, where appropriate, third 
        country governments, nongovernmental organizations, faith-based 
        organizations, United Nations agencies, local governments, 
        labor unions, and private enterprise--
                    (A) on efforts to bring to justice rebel 
                organizations that kidnap children for use as child 
                soldiers, including the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in 
                Uganda, Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia 
                (FARC), and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), 
                including, where feasible, by arresting the leaders of 
                such groups; and
                    (B) on efforts to recover those children who have 
                been abducted and to assist them in their 
                rehabilitation and reintegration into communities;
            (5) that the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Labor, 
        and the Secretary of Defense should coordinate programs to 
        achieve the goals specified in paragraph (3), and in countries 
        where the use of child soldiers is an issue, whether or not it 
        is supported or sanctioned by the governments of such 
        countries, United States diplomatic missions should include in 
        their mission program plans a strategy to achieve the goals 
        specified in such paragraph;
            (6) that United States diplomatic missions in countries in 
        which governments use or tolerate child soldiers should 
        develop, as part of annual program planning, strategies to 
        promote efforts to end this abuse of human rights; and
            (7) that, in allocating or recommending the allocation of 
        funds or recommending candidates for programs and grants funded 
        by the United States Government, United States diplomatic 
        missions should give particular consideration to those programs 
        and candidates deemed to promote the end to this abuse of human 
        rights.

SEC. 5. PROHIBITION.

    (a) In General.--Subject to subsections (b), (c), and (d), none of 
the funds appropriated or otherwise made available for international 
military education and training, foreign military financing, foreign 
military sales, direct commercial sales, or excess defense articles by 
the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs 
Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-102) or any other Act making 
appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related 
programs may be obligated or otherwise made available to the government 
of a country that is clearly identified by the Department of State in 
the Department of State's most recent Country Reports on Human Rights 
Practices as having governmental armed forces or government supported 
armed groups, including paramilitaries, militias, or civil defense 
forces, that recruit or use child soldiers.
    (b) Notification to Countries in Violation of the Standards of This 
Act.--The Secretary of State shall formally notify any government 
identified pursuant to subsection (a).
    (c) National Interest Waiver.--
            (1) Waiver.--The President may waive the application to a 
        country of the prohibition in subsection (a) if the President 
        determines that such waiver is in the interest of the United 
        States.
            (2) Publication and notification.--The President shall 
        publish each waiver granted under paragraph (1) in the Federal 
        Register and shall notify the Committee on Foreign Relations 
        and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the 
        Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on 
        Appropriations of the House of Representatives of each such 
        waiver, including the justification for the waiver, in 
        accordance with the regular notification procedures of such 
        Committees.
    (d) Reinstatement of Assistance.--The President may provide to a 
country assistance otherwise prohibited under subsection (a) upon 
certifying to Congress that the government of such country--
            (1) has implemented effective measures to come into 
        compliance with the standards of this Act; and
            (2) has implemented effective policies and mechanisms to 
        prohibit and prevent future use of child soldiers and to ensure 
        that no children are recruited, conscripted, or otherwise 
        compelled to serve as child soldiers.
    (e) Exception for Programs Directly Related to Addressing the 
Problem of Child Soldiers or Professionalization of the Military.--
            (1) In general.--The President may provide to a country 
        assistance for international military education and training 
        otherwise prohibited under subsection (a) upon certifying to 
        Congress that--
                    (A) the government of such country is implementing 
                effective measures to demobilize child soldiers in its 
                forces or in government supported paramilitaries and to 
                provide demobilization, rehabilitation, and 
                reintegration assistance to those former child 
                soldiers; and
                    (B) the assistance provided by the United States 
                Government to the government of such country will go to 
                programs that will directly support professionalization 
                of the military.
            (2) Limitation.--The exception under paragraph (1) may not 
        remain in effect for more than 2 years following the date of 
        notification specified in subsection (b).

SEC. 6. REPORTS.

    (a) Preparation of Reports Regarding Child Soldiers.--United States 
missions abroad shall thoroughly investigate reports of the use of 
child soldiers.
    (b) Information for Annual Human Rights Reports.--In preparing 
those portions of the Human Rights Reports that relate to child 
soldiers, the Secretary of State shall ensure that such reports shall 
include a description of the use of child soldiers in each foreign 
country, including--
            (1) trends toward improvement in such country of the status 
        of child soldiers or the continued or increased tolerance of 
        such practices; and
            (2) the role of the government of such country in engaging 
        in or tolerating the use of child soldiers.
    (c) Inclusion of Information on Violations.--When the Secretary of 
State determines that a government has violated the standards of this 
Act, the Secretary shall clearly indicate that fact in the relevant 
Annual Human Rights Report.
    (d) Letter to Congress.--Not later than June 15 of each year for 10 
years following the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit 
to the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on 
Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs and 
the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives--
            (1) a list of the countries receiving notification that 
        they are in violation of the standards of this Act;
            (2) a list of any waivers or exceptions exercised under 
        this Act;
            (3) justification for those waivers and exceptions; and
            (4) a description of any assistance provided pursuant to 
        this Act.

SEC. 7. REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF ACT.

    Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, the President shall submit to the Committee on Foreign Relations 
and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives a report setting forth a strategy for achieving the 
policy objectives of this Act, including a description of an effective 
mechanism for coordination of United States Government efforts to 
implement this strategy.

SEC. 8. TRAINING FOR FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS.

    Section 708 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4028) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c) The Secretary of State, with the assistance of other relevant 
officials, shall establish as part of the standard training provided 
after January 1, 2008, for officers of the Service, including chiefs of 
mission, instruction on matters related to child soldiers and the 
substance of the Child Soldier Prevention Act of 2007.''.

SEC. 9. EFFECTIVE DATE; APPLICABILITY.

    This Act shall take effect 180 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act and shall apply to funds obligated after such effective 
date.
Example Output:
Child Soldier Prevention Act of 2007 - Defines "child soldier."

Prohibits, with a national interest waiver, funds appropriated or otherwise made available for specified military and related areas from being obligated or otherwise made available to the government of a country identified by the Department of State as having governmental armed forces or government supported armed groups, including paramilitaries, militias, or civil defense forces, that recruit or use child soldiers.

Directs the Secretary of State to notify any government so identified.

Authorizes the President to reinstate assistance upon certifying to Congress that a government is implementing: (1) compliance measures; and (2) mechanisms to prohibit future use of child soldiers and to ensure that no children are recruited, conscripted, or otherwise compelled to serve as child soldiers.

Authorizes the President to provide assistance to a country for international military education and training otherwise prohibited under this Act upon certifying to Congress that such assistance is for programs that implement measures to demobilize child soldiers and for programs to support professionalization of the military.