<enum>I</enum><header>Peace Corps Volunteer Support</header> <section id="H2651BD25B8B44898A78AF45DACD81B58"><enum>101.</enum><header>Peace Corps volunteer medical care reform</header> <subsection id="HEFA7DF4B410D43C6BB7B508AC240FAE5"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Peace Corps Act is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HE426410D595D44C4BDF99DFF455FBB63"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in section 5 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/2504">22 U.S.C. 2504</external-xref>)—</text> <subparagraph id="H08D59D677CF742F78CAA5103D6213734"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subsection (e), in the first sentence, by striking <quote>receive such immunization and dental care preparatory to their service</quote> and inserting <quote>receive, preparatory to their service, such immunization, dental care, and information on prescription options and potential interactions, as necessary and appropriate and in accordance with subsection (f)</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3BCA13CA717749C4B1B328F5A85143A1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by re-designating subsections (f), (g), (h), (i), (j), (k), (l), (m), and (n) as subsections (g), (h), (i), (j), (k), (l), (m), (n), and (o);</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HEA3A30099EAB4A8D8F2FF2DFB965C806"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by inserting after subsection (e) the following new subsection—</text> <quoted-block id="HE7A694D4804A4D6C9C91C53F8D8DA4CF" style="OLC"> <subsection id="H430B62ACE4024FAA90E879D4B3BF7CF4"><enum>(f)</enum><text>The Director of the Peace Corps shall consult with health experts outside the Peace Corps, including experts licensed in the field of mental health, and follow guidance by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding the prescription of medications to a volunteer.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HFDBB769941694CD48AE9E6118A09F197"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in subsection (i), as so redesignated, by striking <quote>section, and</quote> and inserting <quote>section), and</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HA0B2FB502EB349369E01C663675DCE05"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting after section 5 the following new section:</text> <quoted-block id="HB57A9692710C41FBAE5419DAD4905E38" style="OLC"> <section id="HEC64D24793AD4A2292F32AF0178EB81E"><enum>5A.</enum><header>Health care for volunteers at Peace Corps posts</header> <subsection id="H38355F28ECC941FFB59F320A5371DC67"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The President shall ensure that each overseas post has the services of a medical office that is consistent in size and scope with the needs of the Peace Corps at such post, including, if necessary, by detailing to any such post the licensed medical staff of other United States departments, agencies, or establishments.</text> </subsection><subsection id="HB34B7ED836A7440581A6C0AD7FB3B812"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Hiring criteria</header><text>In selecting medical officers and support staff for overseas Peace Corps posts, the Director of the Peace Corps shall hire well-qualified and capable personnel to support the effectiveness of health care for Peace Corps volunteers by evaluating each candidate’s—</text> <paragraph id="HA8BB10D107DD43F4B362BBE4B81B174F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>medical training, experience, and accreditations or other qualifications;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H972E968C04EB4C53B26A7CBBC819AE15"><enum>(2)</enum><text>record of performance;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H42E4BEDFE9A040009C86F9E7EDF3D244"><enum>(3)</enum><text>administrative capabilities;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HDA40F9628E31481084C71F275EF0F88E"><enum>(4)</enum><text>understanding of the local language and culture;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H5F92BD3E040E43B4B05CF31217E53370"><enum>(5)</enum><text>ability to work in the English language;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H88230DDC44584491A32025831EA1B5CF"><enum>(6)</enum><text>interpersonal skills; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H80F9558DA74A4B219FEDC5C46E6189BC"><enum>(7)</enum><text>such other factors that the Director determines appropriate.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H3EDA713D9E9D47FFA713D8D6C08DDA3D"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Certain training</header><text>The Director of the Peace Corps shall ensure that each Peace Corps medical officer serving in a malaria-endemic country receives training in the recognition of the side effects of such medications.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H18E0F93328EF4267BF1DE3DE2D4FADAC"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Review and evaluation</header> <paragraph id="H61B4DE0D4517436CA40B2653533A9817"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Director of the Peace Corps, acting through the Associate Director of the Office of Health Services and the country directors, shall review and evaluate the performance and health care delivery of all Peace Corps medical staff, including medical officers, to—</text> <subparagraph id="HC022FF7D3B734E388C62B79D082B5301"><enum>(A)</enum><text>ensure compliance with all relevant Peace Corps policies, practices, and guidelines; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H342E862A00664D71872AA438E0377881"><enum>(B)</enum><text>ensure that medical staff complete the necessary continuing medical education to maintain their skills and satisfy licensing and credentialing standards, as designated by the Director.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H2D692F07271245C5AAA436B1786A32D7"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Report to Congress</header><text>The Director of the Peace Corps shall include, in the annual Peace Corps congressional budget justification, a confirmation that the review and evaluation of all Peace Corps medical staff required under paragraph (1) has been completed.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HEBAC522EBEA84D3AA913AC96F345DF24"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Antimalarial drugs</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director of the Peace Corps shall consult with experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding recommendations for prescribing malaria prophylaxis, in order to provide the best standard of care within the context of the Peace Corps environment.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H29CF1C490DD94893BDC9B5F649BA58A8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Implementation of recommendations by the Inspector General of the Peace Corps</header> <paragraph id="H60A623A16C4F4F30B69F46AA84251058"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Inspector general report</header><text>As promptly as practicable, the Director shall implement the actions outlined in the agency response for all open recommendations of the Inspector General of the Peace Corps set forth in the report entitled <quote>Final Program Evaluation Report: OIG Follow-up Evaluation of Issues Identified in the 2010 Peace Corps/Morocco Assessment of Medical Care</quote> (Report No. IG–16–01–E).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HE4D89FAD27E545D28564D5E662C193B8"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Semiannual reports</header> <subparagraph id="HCBABB7D881D54DE2834598994D8AC233"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Initial report</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees that describes the Director’s strategy for implementing the recommendations referred to in paragraph (1).</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7127AF40CB51495A857FD91AE0775882"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Subsequent reports</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the submission of the report required under subparagraph (A), and semiannually thereafter, the Director shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees that describes the progress in implementing the recommendations referred to in paragraph (1) until all such recommendations have been implemented in accordance with the agency’s response to the report referred to in such paragraph.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H2272B77E59DF4C6C920143295F32F55E"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Notification</header><text>After the submission of each report required under paragraph (2), the Inspector General of the Peace Corps may notify the appropriate congressional committees of any recommendations from the report referred to in paragraph (1) that the Inspector General determines remain unresolved.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H591D7E0C25FE497EB9D96BFFB5E4F6DB"><enum>102.</enum><header>Post-service peace corps volunteer medical care reform</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8142 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text> <quoted-block id="HB834634572A9475DAD192C8BF7212F71" style="OLC"> <subsection id="H7813C00215B84D5486E62E09E54D436A"><enum>(d)</enum> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H9AA99619EC3E48EA94D2616B0786E931"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The Secretary shall authorize the Director of the Peace Corps to furnish medical benefits to a volunteer, who is injured during the volunteer’s period of service, for a period of 120 days following the termination of such service if the Director certifies that the volunteer’s injury probably meets the requirements under subsection (c)(3). The Secretary may then certify vouchers for these expenses for such volunteer out of the Employees’ Compensation Fund.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HD68C38264AC04B249F8C13862301CB86" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The Secretary shall prescribe the form and content of the certification required under paragraph (1).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H6ACAC0E1A3784392B97A74124E81811A" indent="up1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>A certification under paragraph (1) will cease to be effective if the volunteer sustains compensable disability in connection with volunteer service.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H36B1E696409B4B63BFC6AA6F845BF5F6" indent="up1"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Nothing in this subsection may be construed to authorize the furnishing of any medical benefit that the Secretary of Labor is not otherwise authorized to reimburse for former Peace Corps volunteers who receive treatment for injury or disease proximately caused by their service in the Peace Corps in accordance with this chapter.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section><section id="H032F5C64847642109704D35FC1469ECD"><enum>103.</enum><header>Peace Corps impact survey</header> <subsection id="HF7CF50533C0B4030834CE4F4AF5BC6A5"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Beginning not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act and once every 2 years thereafter for the following 6 years, the Director shall conduct a survey of former Peace Corps volunteers.</text> </subsection><subsection id="HE509883B06664F1DAF2664DE9416BA28"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Scope of survey</header><text>The survey required under subsection (a) shall assess, with respect to each former Peace Corps volunteer completing the survey, the impact of the Peace Corps on the former volunteer, including the volunteer’s—</text> <paragraph id="H2EDCB46DC1744D47BDA5C9E7E97A89D1"><enum>(1)</enum><text>well-being;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HF0F78526150A4B1AA195DB3577E5E637"><enum>(2)</enum><text>career;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H1BEAE0BB9CC0481DB717E8C7CEDC9348"><enum>(3)</enum><text>civic engagement; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HF57D00E91A4940A59FD61F0516161D2D"><enum>(4)</enum><text>commitment to public service.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HA0583ABF49A244B89C6B6C48D7DCEF01"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Report</header><text>The Director shall submit a report containing the results of the survey conducted under subsection (a) to—</text> <paragraph id="HE05A8E0E4B124F3F81ACED3681761D14"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HCFB0DA1A62A8475B8820F489F6E97D1F"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HE49127329622423F953E2F7DBF27D900"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HF0D656E5EA01466699B433DBB07286BB"><enum>(4)</enum><text>the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H49D9C745AA2D49179105D783F4C7AB10"><enum>104.</enum><header>Extension of positions for Peace Corps employees</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 7(a) of the Peace Corps Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/2506">22 U.S.C. 2506(a)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block id="HD06C150DE3B640C389A9B776399763F9" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="HB4A733CF3E0C4C018C949EB3ED786F1B"><enum>(8)</enum> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HBDB064290CC5478FACD98DEDDC09B1A2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>The Director of the Peace Corps may designate Peace Corps positions as critical management or management support positions that require specialized technical or professional skills and knowledge of Peace Corps operations. Such positions may include positions in the following fields:</text> <clause id="H8AF61348279E47D2B4AA1091AD87C65D" indent="up1"><enum>(i)</enum><text>Volunteer health services.</text> </clause><clause id="HF19D5FA7075A48E495F812A49F60F6A1" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>Financial management.</text> </clause><clause id="HBF5BE81EAEBE4351897AD32A94A25EF9" indent="up1"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>Information technology.</text> </clause><clause id="HC557DEF315384185804F15503A72A489" indent="up1"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>Procurement.</text> </clause><clause id="H8AEA9EDC229B4DC79FFA173432BD7FAF" indent="up1"><enum>(v)</enum><text>Personnel.</text> </clause><clause id="H53009E5B788E4AC69FEE1D2E9B6A7A54" indent="up1"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>Legal services.</text> </clause><clause id="H59F2C79BDBA64E42A5241418C8514B21" indent="up1"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>Safety and security.</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H34AF7A44437E493C804C7C831D587799" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Subject to subparagraphs (C) and (D), with respect to positions designated pursuant to subparagraph (A), the Director may make or extend renewable appointments or assignments under paragraph (2) notwithstanding limitations under subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (2) and paragraph (5).</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB572FDEF4B5C4E5D83D200AE0F57C2DF" indent="up1"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In exercising authority under subparagraph (B), the Director shall ensure that all decisions regarding the appointment, assignment, or extension of employees to any position designated pursuant to subparagraph (A)—</text> <clause id="H65D71155583846EB844E0CE1A6337478"><enum>(i)</enum><text>are consistent with Federal law and Peace Corps policy; and</text> </clause><clause id="H440760B813E84192AD47CCEDF7B0CEEE"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>are based upon operational and programmatic factors.</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4C43366F43A84533B4E6ED211E2D0DB5" indent="up1"><enum>(D)</enum><text>The term of any appointment or assignment to any position designated pursuant to subparagraph (A) may not exceed 5 years.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section>

115 HR 2259 PCS: Sam Farr and Nick Castle Peace Corps Reform Act of 2018 U.S. House of Representatives text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

Short title; table of contents

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the

Sam Farr and Nick Castle Peace Corps Reform Act of 2018

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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—Peace Corps Volunteer Support

Sec. 101. Peace Corps volunteer medical care reform.

Sec. 102. Post-service peace corps volunteer medical care reform.

Sec. 103. Peace Corps impact survey.

Sec. 104. Extension of positions for Peace Corps employees.

Title II—Peace Corps Oversight and Accountability

Sec. 201. Peace Corps volunteer access to Inspector General.

Sec. 202. Publication requirement for volunteer surveys.

Sec. 203. Consultation with Congress required before opening or closing overseas offices and country programs.

Title III—Crime Risk Reduction Enhancements

Sec. 301. Independent review of volunteer death.

Sec. 302. Additional disclosures to applicants for enrollment as volunteers.

Sec. 303. Additional protections against sexual misconduct.

Sec. 304. Extension of the office of victim advocacy.

Sec. 305. Reform and extension of the Sexual Assault Advisory Council.

Sec. 306. Definitions.

Definitions

In this Act: (1)

Appropriate congressional committees

The term appropriate congressional committees means— (A)the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate; (B)the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; (C)the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives; and (D)the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives. (2)

Director

The term Director means the Director of the Peace Corps. (3)

Peace corps volunteer

The term Peace Corps volunteer means an individual described in section 5(a) of the Peace Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 2504(a)).

<enum>I</enum><header>Peace Corps Volunteer Support</header> <section id="H2651BD25B8B44898A78AF45DACD81B58"><enum>101.</enum><header>Peace Corps volunteer medical care reform</header> <subsection id="HEFA7DF4B410D43C6BB7B508AC240FAE5"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Peace Corps Act is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HE426410D595D44C4BDF99DFF455FBB63"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in section 5 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/2504">22 U.S.C. 2504</external-xref>)—</text> <subparagraph id="H08D59D677CF742F78CAA5103D6213734"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subsection (e), in the first sentence, by striking <quote>receive such immunization and dental care preparatory to their service</quote> and inserting <quote>receive, preparatory to their service, such immunization, dental care, and information on prescription options and potential interactions, as necessary and appropriate and in accordance with subsection (f)</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3BCA13CA717749C4B1B328F5A85143A1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by re-designating subsections (f), (g), (h), (i), (j), (k), (l), (m), and (n) as subsections (g), (h), (i), (j), (k), (l), (m), (n), and (o);</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HEA3A30099EAB4A8D8F2FF2DFB965C806"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by inserting after subsection (e) the following new subsection—</text> <quoted-block id="HE7A694D4804A4D6C9C91C53F8D8DA4CF" style="OLC"> <subsection id="H430B62ACE4024FAA90E879D4B3BF7CF4"><enum>(f)</enum><text>The Director of the Peace Corps shall consult with health experts outside the Peace Corps, including experts licensed in the field of mental health, and follow guidance by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding the prescription of medications to a volunteer.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HFDBB769941694CD48AE9E6118A09F197"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in subsection (i), as so redesignated, by striking <quote>section, and</quote> and inserting <quote>section), and</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HA0B2FB502EB349369E01C663675DCE05"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting after section 5 the following new section:</text> <quoted-block id="HB57A9692710C41FBAE5419DAD4905E38" style="OLC"> <section id="HEC64D24793AD4A2292F32AF0178EB81E"><enum>5A.</enum><header>Health care for volunteers at Peace Corps posts</header> <subsection id="H38355F28ECC941FFB59F320A5371DC67"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The President shall ensure that each overseas post has the services of a medical office that is consistent in size and scope with the needs of the Peace Corps at such post, including, if necessary, by detailing to any such post the licensed medical staff of other United States departments, agencies, or establishments.</text> </subsection><subsection id="HB34B7ED836A7440581A6C0AD7FB3B812"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Hiring criteria</header><text>In selecting medical officers and support staff for overseas Peace Corps posts, the Director of the Peace Corps shall hire well-qualified and capable personnel to support the effectiveness of health care for Peace Corps volunteers by evaluating each candidate’s—</text> <paragraph id="HA8BB10D107DD43F4B362BBE4B81B174F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>medical training, experience, and accreditations or other qualifications;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H972E968C04EB4C53B26A7CBBC819AE15"><enum>(2)</enum><text>record of performance;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H42E4BEDFE9A040009C86F9E7EDF3D244"><enum>(3)</enum><text>administrative capabilities;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HDA40F9628E31481084C71F275EF0F88E"><enum>(4)</enum><text>understanding of the local language and culture;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H5F92BD3E040E43B4B05CF31217E53370"><enum>(5)</enum><text>ability to work in the English language;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H88230DDC44584491A32025831EA1B5CF"><enum>(6)</enum><text>interpersonal skills; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H80F9558DA74A4B219FEDC5C46E6189BC"><enum>(7)</enum><text>such other factors that the Director determines appropriate.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H3EDA713D9E9D47FFA713D8D6C08DDA3D"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Certain training</header><text>The Director of the Peace Corps shall ensure that each Peace Corps medical officer serving in a malaria-endemic country receives training in the recognition of the side effects of such medications.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H18E0F93328EF4267BF1DE3DE2D4FADAC"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Review and evaluation</header> <paragraph id="H61B4DE0D4517436CA40B2653533A9817"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Director of the Peace Corps, acting through the Associate Director of the Office of Health Services and the country directors, shall review and evaluate the performance and health care delivery of all Peace Corps medical staff, including medical officers, to—</text> <subparagraph id="HC022FF7D3B734E388C62B79D082B5301"><enum>(A)</enum><text>ensure compliance with all relevant Peace Corps policies, practices, and guidelines; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H342E862A00664D71872AA438E0377881"><enum>(B)</enum><text>ensure that medical staff complete the necessary continuing medical education to maintain their skills and satisfy licensing and credentialing standards, as designated by the Director.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H2D692F07271245C5AAA436B1786A32D7"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Report to Congress</header><text>The Director of the Peace Corps shall include, in the annual Peace Corps congressional budget justification, a confirmation that the review and evaluation of all Peace Corps medical staff required under paragraph (1) has been completed.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HEBAC522EBEA84D3AA913AC96F345DF24"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Antimalarial drugs</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director of the Peace Corps shall consult with experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding recommendations for prescribing malaria prophylaxis, in order to provide the best standard of care within the context of the Peace Corps environment.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H29CF1C490DD94893BDC9B5F649BA58A8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Implementation of recommendations by the Inspector General of the Peace Corps</header> <paragraph id="H60A623A16C4F4F30B69F46AA84251058"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Inspector general report</header><text>As promptly as practicable, the Director shall implement the actions outlined in the agency response for all open recommendations of the Inspector General of the Peace Corps set forth in the report entitled <quote>Final Program Evaluation Report: OIG Follow-up Evaluation of Issues Identified in the 2010 Peace Corps/Morocco Assessment of Medical Care</quote> (Report No. IG–16–01–E).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HE4D89FAD27E545D28564D5E662C193B8"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Semiannual reports</header> <subparagraph id="HCBABB7D881D54DE2834598994D8AC233"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Initial report</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees that describes the Director’s strategy for implementing the recommendations referred to in paragraph (1).</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7127AF40CB51495A857FD91AE0775882"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Subsequent reports</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the submission of the report required under subparagraph (A), and semiannually thereafter, the Director shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees that describes the progress in implementing the recommendations referred to in paragraph (1) until all such recommendations have been implemented in accordance with the agency’s response to the report referred to in such paragraph.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H2272B77E59DF4C6C920143295F32F55E"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Notification</header><text>After the submission of each report required under paragraph (2), the Inspector General of the Peace Corps may notify the appropriate congressional committees of any recommendations from the report referred to in paragraph (1) that the Inspector General determines remain unresolved.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H591D7E0C25FE497EB9D96BFFB5E4F6DB"><enum>102.</enum><header>Post-service peace corps volunteer medical care reform</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8142 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text> <quoted-block id="HB834634572A9475DAD192C8BF7212F71" style="OLC"> <subsection id="H7813C00215B84D5486E62E09E54D436A"><enum>(d)</enum> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H9AA99619EC3E48EA94D2616B0786E931"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The Secretary shall authorize the Director of the Peace Corps to furnish medical benefits to a volunteer, who is injured during the volunteer’s period of service, for a period of 120 days following the termination of such service if the Director certifies that the volunteer’s injury probably meets the requirements under subsection (c)(3). The Secretary may then certify vouchers for these expenses for such volunteer out of the Employees’ Compensation Fund.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HD68C38264AC04B249F8C13862301CB86" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The Secretary shall prescribe the form and content of the certification required under paragraph (1).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H6ACAC0E1A3784392B97A74124E81811A" indent="up1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>A certification under paragraph (1) will cease to be effective if the volunteer sustains compensable disability in connection with volunteer service.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H36B1E696409B4B63BFC6AA6F845BF5F6" indent="up1"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Nothing in this subsection may be construed to authorize the furnishing of any medical benefit that the Secretary of Labor is not otherwise authorized to reimburse for former Peace Corps volunteers who receive treatment for injury or disease proximately caused by their service in the Peace Corps in accordance with this chapter.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section><section id="H032F5C64847642109704D35FC1469ECD"><enum>103.</enum><header>Peace Corps impact survey</header> <subsection id="HF7CF50533C0B4030834CE4F4AF5BC6A5"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Beginning not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act and once every 2 years thereafter for the following 6 years, the Director shall conduct a survey of former Peace Corps volunteers.</text> </subsection><subsection id="HE509883B06664F1DAF2664DE9416BA28"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Scope of survey</header><text>The survey required under subsection (a) shall assess, with respect to each former Peace Corps volunteer completing the survey, the impact of the Peace Corps on the former volunteer, including the volunteer’s—</text> <paragraph id="H2EDCB46DC1744D47BDA5C9E7E97A89D1"><enum>(1)</enum><text>well-being;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HF0F78526150A4B1AA195DB3577E5E637"><enum>(2)</enum><text>career;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H1BEAE0BB9CC0481DB717E8C7CEDC9348"><enum>(3)</enum><text>civic engagement; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HF57D00E91A4940A59FD61F0516161D2D"><enum>(4)</enum><text>commitment to public service.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HA0583ABF49A244B89C6B6C48D7DCEF01"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Report</header><text>The Director shall submit a report containing the results of the survey conducted under subsection (a) to—</text> <paragraph id="HE05A8E0E4B124F3F81ACED3681761D14"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HCFB0DA1A62A8475B8820F489F6E97D1F"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HE49127329622423F953E2F7DBF27D900"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HF0D656E5EA01466699B433DBB07286BB"><enum>(4)</enum><text>the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H49D9C745AA2D49179105D783F4C7AB10"><enum>104.</enum><header>Extension of positions for Peace Corps employees</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 7(a) of the Peace Corps Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/2506">22 U.S.C. 2506(a)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block id="HD06C150DE3B640C389A9B776399763F9" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="HB4A733CF3E0C4C018C949EB3ED786F1B"><enum>(8)</enum> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HBDB064290CC5478FACD98DEDDC09B1A2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>The Director of the Peace Corps may designate Peace Corps positions as critical management or management support positions that require specialized technical or professional skills and knowledge of Peace Corps operations. Such positions may include positions in the following fields:</text> <clause id="H8AF61348279E47D2B4AA1091AD87C65D" indent="up1"><enum>(i)</enum><text>Volunteer health services.</text> </clause><clause id="HF19D5FA7075A48E495F812A49F60F6A1" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>Financial management.</text> </clause><clause id="HBF5BE81EAEBE4351897AD32A94A25EF9" indent="up1"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>Information technology.</text> </clause><clause id="HC557DEF315384185804F15503A72A489" indent="up1"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>Procurement.</text> </clause><clause id="H8AEA9EDC229B4DC79FFA173432BD7FAF" indent="up1"><enum>(v)</enum><text>Personnel.</text> </clause><clause id="H53009E5B788E4AC69FEE1D2E9B6A7A54" indent="up1"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>Legal services.</text> </clause><clause id="H59F2C79BDBA64E42A5241418C8514B21" indent="up1"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>Safety and security.</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H34AF7A44437E493C804C7C831D587799" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Subject to subparagraphs (C) and (D), with respect to positions designated pursuant to subparagraph (A), the Director may make or extend renewable appointments or assignments under paragraph (2) notwithstanding limitations under subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (2) and paragraph (5).</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB572FDEF4B5C4E5D83D200AE0F57C2DF" indent="up1"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In exercising authority under subparagraph (B), the Director shall ensure that all decisions regarding the appointment, assignment, or extension of employees to any position designated pursuant to subparagraph (A)—</text> <clause id="H65D71155583846EB844E0CE1A6337478"><enum>(i)</enum><text>are consistent with Federal law and Peace Corps policy; and</text> </clause><clause id="H440760B813E84192AD47CCEDF7B0CEEE"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>are based upon operational and programmatic factors.</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4C43366F43A84533B4E6ED211E2D0DB5" indent="up1"><enum>(D)</enum><text>The term of any appointment or assignment to any position designated pursuant to subparagraph (A) may not exceed 5 years.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section><enum>II</enum><header>Peace Corps Oversight and Accountability</header> <section id="H0E3D73594C2D41138283AEF0E224A831"><enum>201.</enum><header>Peace Corps volunteer access to Inspector General</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8 of the Peace Corps Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/2507">22 U.S.C. 2507</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H096AAD43954E4AA5BB04C22675886FEA"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)—</text> <subparagraph id="H6B24DC19796F406397C3B330C15D2589"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>he</quote> and inserting <quote>the President</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD3EA403169994CBBB811F972A19F7F1D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new sentences: <quote>As part of the training provided to all volunteers under subsection (a), and in coordination with the Inspector General of the Peace Corps, the President shall provide all volunteers with information regarding the mandate of the Inspector General and the availability (including contact information) of the Inspector General and the Office of Victim Advocacy as a resource for volunteers. The President shall ensure that volunteers receive such information at least once during training that occurs prior to enrollment and at least once during each significant instance of training after enrollment.</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HC349BAD524DE479C8707D7A27F8DFC4D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text> <quoted-block id="H0B2BFDFBCDBE45E9A50F37D34FEBB2E7" style="OLC"> <subsection id="H4BD3F514E9B54C69B3EFB82CED05851E"><enum>(c)</enum><text>The President shall implement procedures to maintain a record verifying each individual completing training provided to meet each requirement in this section and sections 8A, 8B, 8F, and 8G(b).</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></section><section id="HFF29E418E8C148FC8C985FD7020D2957"><enum>202.</enum><header>Publication requirement for volunteer surveys</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8E of the Peace Corps Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/2507e">22 U.S.C. 2507e</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HC6EC60C0A53C42E7858B414B1F153EB7"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (b), in the first sentence—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" id="HD16B8D3CC3394183B582DC3009377DC7"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>, ensure that each such plan includes a consideration of the results, with respect to each such representative and the country of service of each such representative, of each survey conducted under subsection (c),</quote> after <quote>standards for Peace Corps representatives</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBCA5E0D449854914801C2D8C19CAAC30"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>and shall review</quote> and inserting <quote>, and review</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H918EA634D576475D9F3736359AD1D42E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (c)—</text> <subparagraph id="H7F7300E56F624CA4BB13E233BE38E34B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the first sentence, by striking <quote>2018</quote> and inserting <quote>2023</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD412035845134151AA58BCFC1F239661"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the third sentence, by striking <quote>subsection (a)</quote> and inserting <quote>subsection (b)</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H8FB1C9F435D14155B01D831A6864F048"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new sentences: <quote>The President shall publish, on a publicly available website of the Peace Corps, a report summarizing the results of each survey related to volunteer satisfaction in each country in which volunteers serve, and the early termination rate of volunteers serving in each such country. The information published shall be posted in an easily accessible place near the description of the appropriate country and shall be written in an easily understood manner.</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></section><section id="HC6C56B1BFCB340669494A36864534F14"><enum>203.</enum><header>Consultation with Congress required before opening or closing overseas offices and country programs</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 10 of the Peace Corps Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/2509">22 U.S.C. 2509</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text> <quoted-block id="H828884564C994D57B04DA7758703AC26" style="OLC"> <subsection id="H1FF2283D578D4952B91C5B68C665FB1B"><enum>(k)</enum> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H16B6F1A6757E418187315489AF2EDC5E"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided in paragraph (2), the Director of the Peace Corps may not open, close, significantly reduce, or suspend a domestic or overseas office or country program unless the Director has notified and consulted with the appropriate congressional committees at least 15 days in advance.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HDC606B9075F947668FA1EC7A6CA94919" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director of the Peace Corps may waive the application of paragraph (1) for a period of not more than 5 days after an action described in such paragraph if the Director determines such action is necessary to ameliorate a substantial security risk to Peace Corps volunteers or other Peace Corps personnel.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H7E04B6E7797047B089DF6ED8889D8399" indent="up1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>For the purposes of this subsection, the term <quote>appropriate congressional committees</quote> means—</text> <subparagraph id="HABED23C68D8C4217A75B1A870EB41E25"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H04731F20B88546EB9C01D1F80080A494"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section><enum>III</enum><header>Crime Risk Reduction Enhancements</header> <section id="H67095E58F0074E528C0D7238E563725E"><enum>301.</enum><header>Independent review of volunteer death</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 5 of the Peace Corps Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/2504">22 U.S.C. 2504</external-xref>), as amended by section 101 of this Act, is further amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text> <quoted-block id="H14C4221341784464B2C266C81E221564" style="OLC"> <subsection id="HD5FA2E5DC7D940418E93F25CD5637F5B"><enum>(p)</enum> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H44DE9E9824D242D29D9FFA39F0C67FDF"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Not later than 10 days after receiving notification of the death of a volunteer, the President shall provide a briefing to the Inspector General of the Peace Corps that includes—</text> <subparagraph id="H8AB866D19AF74CE59044AFA773FDCE46" indent="up1"><enum>(A)</enum> <clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HBD77F01E4D37410DA07FF6C28335534A"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the available facts and circumstances surrounding the death of the volunteer, including a preliminary timeline of the events immediately preceding the death of the volunteer, subsequent actions taken by the Peace Corps, and any information available to the Peace Corps reflecting on the cause or root cause of the death of the volunteer; and</text> </clause><clause id="HC803A29E58ED4D0EB022EAF2922CB1EA" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>a description of any steps the Peace Corps plans to take to inquire further into the cause or root cause of the death of the volunteer, including the anticipated date of the completion of such inquiry; or</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H62AD25CA59FC49819A5E8259D0CFADC1" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>an explanation of why the Peace Corps has determined that no further inquiry into the cause or root cause of the death of the volunteer is necessary, including—</text> <clause id="H8E8C3CBB007F4280A8C6B1AD2B5C4FB5"><enum>(i)</enum><text>a description of the steps the Peace Corps took to determine further inquiry was not necessary; and</text> </clause><clause id="H75F2EAAF0F4C43159E934A2F26D34672"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the basis for such determination.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H38FB3BFC830D463DB546D227756F6FA7" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>If the Peace Corps has performed or engaged another entity to perform a root cause analysis or similar report that describes the cause or root cause of a volunteer death, the President shall provide the Inspector General of the Peace Corps with—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" id="H9F2BFF25A774421BA334539928259A53"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a copy of all information provided to such entity at the time such information is provided to such entity or used by the Peace Corps to perform the analysis;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H0969DD40D40B4A80899B9BF8818BD483"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a copy of any report or study received from the entity or used by the Peace Corps to perform the analysis; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H847E851739DE4F2EA3EAE30ECDDFFD28"><enum>(C)</enum><text>any supporting documentation upon which the Peace Corps or such entity relied to make its determination, including the volunteer’s complete medical record, as soon as such information is available to the Peace Corps.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HF372CDDF99A143549402402FECD238A8" indent="up1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>If a volunteer dies, the Peace Corps shall take reasonable measures, in accordance with local laws, to preserve any information or material, in any medium or format, that may be relevant to determining the cause or root cause of the death of the volunteer, including personal effects, medication, and other tangible items belonging to the volunteer, as long as such measures do not interfere with the legal procedures of the host country if the government of the host country is exercising jurisdiction over the investigation of such death. The Inspector General of the Peace Corps shall be provided an opportunity to inspect such items before their final disposition.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HC9FCC8CD042D426C8D9CB473DA6E35B5" indent="up1"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Consistent with the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.), the Inspector General of the Peace Corps may independently review the facts and circumstances surrounding the death of a volunteer and the actions taken by the Peace Corps in responding to such incident.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HA67F7398C7BD46A99DD3385C623B98D2" indent="up1"><enum>(5)</enum><text>For the purposes of undertaking a review under this section, an officer or employee of the United States or a member of the Armed Forces may be detailed to the Inspector General of the Peace Corps from another department of the United States Government on a nonreimbursable basis, as jointly agreed to by the Inspector General and the detailing department, for a period not to exceed 1 year. This paragraph may not be construed to limit or modify any other source of authority for reimbursable or nonreimbursable details. A nonreimbursable detail made under this section may not be considered an augmentation of the appropriations of the Peace Corps.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HFAB32666855A4F80B48BF5DD0B3A53B0" indent="up1"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Upon request, the Peace Corps may make available necessary funds to the Inspector General of the Peace Corps for reviews conducted by the Inspector General under this section. The request shall be limited to costs relating to hiring, procuring, or otherwise obtaining medical-related experts or expert services, and associated travel.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H6ADED6E295B947C2809A52F28BD6DB00" indent="up1"><enum>(7)</enum><text>The undertaking of a review under this section may not be considered a transfer of program operating responsibilities to the Inspector General of the Peace Corps.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section><section id="H49867EA80E914355814E6FB4CD53D57A"><enum>302.</enum><header>Additional disclosures to applicants for enrollment as volunteers</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8A of the Peace Corps Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/2507a">22 U.S.C. 2507a(d)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H9696C6E361D44B5F8D5890D1868EDBF4"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by amending subsection (d) to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block id="H1AD370D3AB8C46A69499EB7EEE76D612" style="OLC"> <subsection id="H9488028B7E1B42C2A4A048724C67C909"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Information regarding crimes and risks</header> <paragraph id="HA6D645CE9A3243B98E013BE8618F1493"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Each applicant for enrollment as a volunteer shall be provided, with respect to each country in which the applicant may be invited to serve, with specific, aggregated, and easily accessible information regarding crimes against and risks to volunteers, including—</text> <subparagraph id="H73C9AB3FAE1747EEA082CF7B837F02BA"><enum>(A)</enum><text>an overview of past crimes against volunteers in such country, including statistics regarding unreported crime collected through anonymous surveys;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H41372EEC994149F0A663AD949523639A"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the current early termination rate of volunteers serving in such country;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC6ECCE43DB594F27AFDCA05D4E30B8CB"><enum>(C)</enum><text>health risks prevalent in such country;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBB5887D43AA6469F95478D8A5B6952DB"><enum>(D)</enum><text>the nature and frequency of sexual harassment reported by volunteers serving in such country;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HCA5FA871E3574FC48EB2FF3EF2BA018A"><enum>(E)</enum><text>the extent and types of services provided by the Peace Corps to volunteers serving in such country, including access to medical care, counseling services, and assistance from the Office of Victim Advocacy; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H41776CCC4AD143A88A81E46416190936"><enum>(F)</enum><text>the level of satisfaction reported by volunteers serving in such country.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HF9139FAFB13247B9B861E9C5C9F6D393"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Option to timely decline</header><text>Upon receiving information described in paragraph (1), the applicant shall have the option to change the country of consideration and identify a substitute country.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph id="H211CF9C731B34E3B9C990BF81E8402FA"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (f)(2)(B)(iii), by striking <quote>victim advocates</quote> and inserting <quote>Victim’s Advocates,</quote>.</text> </paragraph></section><section id="H161421BA631A49F4A6F71C46022C7FB9"><enum>303.</enum><header>Additional protections against sexual misconduct</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8B(a) of the Peace Corps Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/2507b">22 U.S.C. 2507b(a)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" id="HC51C791DA0DA46FF987799BC0F41135C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (3)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" id="H853CC06DE99E4FC5882D8576D702F963"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>SARLs</quote> and inserting <quote>any employee of the Peace Corps</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H2C548E3CE4764345ADD93EEFC683B3CA"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>Victim Advocate</quote> and inserting <quote>Victim’s Advocate</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H131089E8C4524DA48C3C7FDC82B4F999"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>and require the Peace Corps to designate the staff at each post who shall be responsible for providing the services described in subsection (c)</quote> before the semicolon at the end;</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H98188DB5EDE8440DB82BE3A00FC992CF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (5), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H18F7AA606795464BA4F7517E2C0084DA"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in paragraph (6), by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H4EDFF4844F8B40DD873953404ACC6A88"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:</text> <quoted-block id="H8EFBBB1F6E6A46DD8980C759FAA4D11F" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="H80A5B39CB41E48388E4B374FE0E59F80" indent="up1"><enum>(7)</enum><text>maintains a record documenting the resignation of any employee or volunteer of the Peace Corps who resigns before a determination has been made regarding an alleged violation of the sexual misconduct policy or other serious policy violations;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H3B055B3734634427A35CFC28E863D770" indent="up1"><enum>(8)</enum><text>takes into account the record maintained under paragraph (7) before such employee or volunteer is hired, enrolled, or otherwise invited to work with the Peace Corps;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HBDFD4D2AE1B7484EBBD2001DB80758C3" indent="up1"><enum>(9)</enum><text>provides orientation or information regarding the awareness and prevention of sexual assault and sexual harassment to—</text> <subparagraph id="H1F6A22ADE7DA41CD96A4A2CB075F27B1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Peace Corps-selected host families; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9DAD368DA21C436E8FC33B7EC91A87BF"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a designated person of authority at the volunteer’s initial workplace; and</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H15FD1C4491F84ED0BE6DB2FDA93E9299" indent="up1"><enum>(10)</enum><text>ensures, to the extent practicable and appropriate, that any assault on, or any harm or injury to, a volunteer that is committed by any member of a host family or any national of a host country that was assigned by the Peace Corps to facilitate volunteer work is—</text> <subparagraph id="H67E2B9B8C03F4B6D896EF17CEA68ADE1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>documented in an appropriate site history file and in the global tracking and recording system established pursuant to section 8H(c); and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H129E0FDDC6B142B19A270B2796255748"><enum>(B)</enum><text>taken into account with respect to determinations regarding placements of future volunteers at such post and the provision of any funds or other benefit by the Peace Corps.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></section><section id="HACE4DB1320F9499A912F88AC25D65DDE"><enum>304.</enum><header>Extension of the office of victim advocacy</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8C of the Peace Corps Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/2507c">22 U.S.C. 2507c</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H726761757F7642C792DEA7129C7A1BFF"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>victim advocate</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>Victim’s Advocate</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H487C9B96D9E74A93A6E2A22E19E18C0E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote>victim advocates</quote> each place it occurs and inserting <quote>Victim’s Advocates</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H414FBDEF2C584CCE8E356EF9A9A0C4F6"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by amending subsection (e) to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block id="H77262C7C0CB14138A0660E57727CC0E0" style="OLC"> <subsection commented="no" id="HD32E48BCE76949B89094AF09CFC38AE4"><enum>(e)</enum><text>The Director of the Peace Corps shall include the head of the Office of Victim Advocacy in agency-wide policymaking processes in the same manner and to the same extent as the directors or associate directors of other offices within the Peace Corps.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></section><section id="H8899DBA9072545549CC487D307FDDFF5"><enum>305.</enum><header>Reform and extension of the Sexual Assault Advisory Council</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8D of the Peace Corps Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/2507d">22 U.S.C. 2507d</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H73FE40304CA44EC0AFC306B457223B5A"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (b)—</text> <subparagraph id="H72B9AEE79AB448BA8109C88F022005A4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>not less than 8 individuals selected by the President, not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this section,</quote> and inserting <quote>not fewer than 8 and not more than 14 individuals selected by the President</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBFA8F3813ABA4A638DB563A45E5BA80A"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting after the first sentence the following new sentence: <quote>At least one member should be licensed in the field of mental health and have prior experience working as a counselor or therapist providing mental health care to survivors of sexual assault in a victim services agency or organization.</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H900C104119784AB48C18C22FA0D9C4BF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (c)—</text> <subparagraph id="HC1CF804AF53E4D1D8A46C823EA0F210F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>and implemented</quote> after <quote>sexual assault policy developed</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4A72FA0B8CB94FAFB25AD9C9AF4E3D89"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new sentence: <quote>To carry out this subsection, the Council may conduct case reviews and is authorized to have access, including through interviews, to current and former volunteers (to the extent that such volunteers provide the Peace Corps express consent to be interviewed by the Council), to volunteer surveys under section 8E, to all data collected from restricted reporting, and to any other information necessary to conduct case reviews, except that the Council may not have access to any personally identifying information associated with such surveys, data, or information.</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H6B74B8EEAF9B4F48958039EFBFB9976B"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (g), by striking <quote>2018</quote> and inserting <quote>2023</quote>.</text> </paragraph></section><section id="HA0B9E7A0D2784A2E856596DC7318BFD0"><enum>306.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 26 of the Peace Corps Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/2522">22 U.S.C. 2522</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HDB2A1DAEDDF849B7B06A48862F508A97"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating subsections (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), and (g) as paragraphs (1), (6), (2), (3), (8), (7), and (5), respectively, by arranging such redesignated paragraphs in numerical order, and by moving such paragraphs 2 ems to the right;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H182DA15EAF264EA093C10D0D39DECB2A"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), as redesignated, by striking <quote>(1)</quote> and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H8C0A9DF04F374F3D94626FC8B87C0961" style="OLC"> <text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this Act:</text> <paragraph id="H499CDF414FF7485ABA0A6F96B21E8DFF"><enum>(1)</enum></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph id="HC6EE4AEE028E4FAFA2134B317800B349"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (3), as redesignated, the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H866167CDC84A4728B10CA58F02B37700" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="H75A3ECB11B124B4DAF2E5A630567CE99"><enum>(4)</enum><text>The term <quote>medical officer</quote> means a physician, nurse practitioner, physician’s assistant, or registered nurse with the professional qualifications, expertise, and abilities consistent with the needs of the Peace Corps and the post to which he or she is assigned, as determined by the Director of the Peace Corps.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></section>

Passed the House of Representatives July 10, 2018.

Karen L. Haas,Clerk.

July 11, 2018

Received; read twice and placed on the calendar