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                                                       Calendar No. 144
116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1309

 To identify and combat corruption in countries, to establish a tiered 
   system of countries with respect to levels of corruption by their 
governments and their efforts to combat such corruption, and to assess 
 United States assistance to designated countries in order to advance 
  anti-corruption efforts in those countries and better serve United 
                           States taxpayers.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 2, 2019

     Mr. Cardin (for himself, Mr. Young, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Rubio, Mr. 
Blumenthal, Mr. Merkley, and Mr. Coons) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

                             July 11, 2019

                Reported by Mr. Risch, with an amendment
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]

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                                 A BILL


 
 To identify and combat corruption in countries, to establish a tiered 
   system of countries with respect to levels of corruption by their 
governments and their efforts to combat such corruption, and to assess 
 United States assistance to designated countries in order to advance 
  anti-corruption efforts in those countries and better serve United 
                           States taxpayers.

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

<DELETED>SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    This Act may be cited as the ``Combating Global Corruption 
Act of 2019''.</DELETED>

<DELETED>SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    In this Act:</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The 
        term ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (A) the Committee on Foreign Relations of 
                the Senate;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (B) the Committee on Armed Services of the 
                Senate;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (C) the Committee on Appropriations of the 
                Senate;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (D) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 
                the House of Representatives;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (E) the Committee on Armed Services of the 
                House of Representatives; and</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (F) the Committee on Appropriations of the 
                House of Representatives.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) Corrupt actor.--The term ``corrupt actor'' 
        means--</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (A) any foreign person or entity that is a 
                government official or government entity responsible 
                for, or complicit in, an act of corruption; 
                and</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (B) any company, in which a person or 
                entity described in subparagraph (A) has a significant 
                stake, which is responsible for, or complicit in, an 
                act of corruption.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (3) Corruption.--The term ``corruption'' means the 
        exercise of public power for private gain, including by 
        bribery, nepotism, fraud, or embezzlement.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (4) Foreign assistance.--The term ``foreign 
        assistance'' means assistance made available under--</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (A) the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
                U.S.C. 2151 et seq.);</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (B) the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 
                2751 et seq.); or</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (C) title 10, United States 
                Code.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (5) Grand corruption.--The term ``grand 
        corruption'' means corruption committed at a high level of 
        government that--</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (A) distorts policies or the central 
                functioning of the country; and</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (B) enables leaders to benefit at the 
                expense of the public good.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (6) Petty corruption.--The term ``petty 
        corruption'' means the abuse of entrusted power by low- or mid-
        level public officials in their interactions with ordinary 
        citizens.</DELETED>

<DELETED>SEC. 3. PUBLICATION OF TIERED RANKING LIST.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    (a) In General.--The Secretary of State shall annually 
publish, on a publicly accessible website, a tiered ranking of all 
foreign countries.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (b) Tier 1 Countries.--A country shall be ranked as a tier 
1 country in the ranking published under subsection (a) if the 
government of such country is complying with the minimum standards set 
forth in section 4.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (c) Tier 2 Countries.--A country shall be ranked as a tier 
2 country in the ranking published under subsection (a) if the 
government of such country is making efforts to comply with the minimum 
standards set forth in section 4, but is not achieving the requisite 
level of compliance to be ranked as a tier 1 country.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (d) Tier 3 Countries.--A country shall be ranked as a tier 
3 country in the ranking published under subsection (a) if the 
government of such country is making de minimis or no efforts to comply 
with the minimum standards set forth in section 4.</DELETED>

<DELETED>SEC. 4. MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR THE ELIMINATION OF CORRUPTION 
              AND ASSESSMENT OF EFFORTS TO COMBAT CORRUPTION.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    (a) In General.--The government of a country is complying 
with the minimum standards for the elimination of corruption if the 
government--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) has enacted laws and established government 
        structures, policies, and practices that prohibit corruption, 
        including grand corruption and petty corruption;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) enforces the laws described in paragraph (1) 
        by punishing any person who is found, through a fair judicial 
        process, to have violated such laws;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (3) prescribes punishment for grand corruption 
        that is commensurate with the punishment prescribed for serious 
        crimes;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (4) prescribes punishment for petty corruption 
        that--</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (A) provides a sufficiently stringent 
                deterrent; and</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (B) adequately reflects the nature of the 
                offense; and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (5) is making serious and sustained efforts to 
        eliminate corruption.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (b) Factors for Assessing Government Efforts To Combat 
Corruption.--In determining whether a government is making serious and 
sustained efforts to eliminate corruption, the Secretary of State shall 
consider--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) whether the government of the country 
        vigorously investigates and prosecutes acts of corruption and 
        convicts and sentences persons responsible for such acts that 
        take place wholly or partly within such country, including, as 
        appropriate, requiring incarceration of individuals convicted 
        of such acts;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) whether the government of the country 
        vigorously investigates, prosecutes, convicts, and sentences 
        public officials who participate in or facilitate corruption, 
        including nationals of the country who are deployed in foreign 
        military assignments, trade delegations abroad, or other 
        similar missions, who engage in or facilitate severe forms of 
        corruption;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (3) whether the government of the country has 
        adopted measures to prevent corruption, such as measures to 
        inform and educate the public, including potential victims, 
        about the causes and consequences of corruption;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (4) what steps the government of the country has 
        taken to prohibit government officials from participating in, 
        facilitating, or condoning corruption, including the 
        investigation, prosecution, and conviction of such 
        officials;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (5) the extent to which the country provides 
        access, or, as appropriate, makes adequate resources available, 
        to civil society organizations and other institutions to combat 
        corruption, including reporting, investigating, and 
        monitoring;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (6) whether an independent judiciary or judicial 
        body in the country responsible for, and effectively capable 
        of, deciding corruption cases impartially, on the basis of 
        facts and in accordance with the law, without any restrictions, 
        improper influences, inducements, pressures, threats, or 
        interferences (direct or indirect) from any quarter or for any 
        reason;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (7) whether the government of the country is 
        assisting in international investigations of transnational 
        corruption networks and in other cooperative efforts to combat 
        grand corruption, including cooperating with the governments of 
        other countries to extradite corrupt actors;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (8) whether the government of the country 
        recognizes the rights of victims of corruption, ensures their 
        access to justice, and takes steps to prevent victims from 
        being further victimized or persecuted by corrupt actors, 
        government officials, or others;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (9) whether the government of the country refrains 
        from prosecuting victims of corruption or whistleblowers due to 
        such persons having assisted in exposing corruption, and 
        refrains from other discriminatory treatment of such persons; 
        and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (10) such other information relating to corruption 
        as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.</DELETED>

<DELETED>SEC. 5. TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    (a) In General.--Not later than 60 days after publishing 
the report required under section 3(a), and prior to obligation by any 
United States agency of foreign assistance to the government of a 
country ranked as a tier 3 country under section 3(d), the Secretary of 
State, in coordination with the Administrator of the United States 
Agency for International Development (referred to in this Act as the 
``USAID Administrator'') and the Secretary of Defense, as appropriate, 
shall--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) conduct a corruption risk assessment and 
        create a corruption mitigation strategy for all United States 
        foreign assistance programs to that country;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) require the inclusion of anti-corruption 
        clauses for all foreign assistance contracts, grants, and 
        cooperative agreements, which allow for the termination of the 
        contract, grant, or cooperative agreement without penalty if 
        credible indicators of corruption are discovered;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (3) require the inclusion of appropriate clawback 
        clauses for all foreign assistance contracts, grants, and 
        cooperative agreements to recover United States taxpayer funds 
        that have been misappropriated from the prime contractor, 
        grantee, or cooperative agreement participant through 
        corruption;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (4) require the disclosure of the beneficial 
        ownership of all contractors, subcontractors, grantees, 
        cooperative agreement participants, and other organizations 
        receiving funding from the United States Government for foreign 
        assistance programs; and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (5) establish a mechanism for investigating 
        allegations of misappropriated foreign assistance funds or 
        equipment.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (b) Exceptions and Waiver.--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) Exceptions.--Subsection (a) shall not apply to 
        humanitarian assistance, disaster assistance, or assistance to 
        combat corruption.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) Waiver.--The Secretary of State, on a program-
        by-program basis, may waive the requirement to delay foreign 
        assistance under subsection (a) if the Secretary of State 
        certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that such 
        waiver is important to the national security interests of the 
        United States.</DELETED>

<DELETED>SEC. 6. RESOURCES AND REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    (a) Annual Report.--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) In general.--The Secretary of State shall 
        submit an annual report to the appropriate congressional 
        committees that outlines the resources needed to meet the 
        objectives and reports under sections 3 through 5, including--
        </DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (A) intelligence data collection 
                needs;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (B) personnel needs;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (C) information technology requirements; 
                and</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (D) a description of the bureaucratic 
                structure of the offices within the Department of State 
                and the United States Agency for International 
                Development (``USAID'') that are engaged in anti-
                corruption activities.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) Form.--The report submitted under paragraph 
        (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a 
        classified annex.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (b) Online Platform.--The Secretary of State and the USAID 
Administrator shall consolidate existing reports with anti-corruption 
components into one online, public platform, which shall--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) include--</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (A) the Human Rights Report;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (B) the Fiscal Transparency 
                Report;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (C) the Investment Climate Statement 
                reports;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (D) the International Narcotics Control 
                Strategy Report; and</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (E) any other relevant public reports; 
                and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) link to third-party indicators used by the 
        United States Government to inform policy and programming, such 
        as--</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (A) the World Bank's Control of Corruption 
                Indicator;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (B) the World Bank's Actionable Governance 
                Index Data Portal;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (C) the International Finance 
                Corporation's Doing Business surveys;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (D) the International Budget Partnership's 
                Open Budget Index;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (E) the Global Integrity Index; 
                and</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (F) multilateral peer review anti-
                corruption compliance mechanisms, such as the 
                Organisation for Economic Co-operation and 
                Development's Working Group on Bribery in International 
                Business Transactions and the United Nations Convention 
                Against Corruption, done at New York October 31, 2003, 
                to further highlight expert international views on 
                country challenges and country efforts.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (c) Training.--To increase the ability of Department of 
State and USAID personnel to support anti-corruption as a foreign 
policy and development priority, and strengthen their ability to 
design, implement, and evaluate more effective anti-corruption 
programming around the world, including enhancing skills to better 
evaluate and mitigate corruption risks in assistance programs, the 
Secretary of State and the USAID Administrator shall incorporate anti-
corruption components into existing Foreign Service and Civil Service 
training courses.</DELETED>

SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Corrupt actor.--The term ``corrupt actor'' means--
                    (A) any foreign person or entity that is a 
                government official or government entity responsible 
                for, or complicit in, an act of public corruption; and
                    (B) any company, in which a person or entity 
                described in subparagraph (A) has a significant stake, 
                which is responsible for, or complicit in, an act of 
                public corruption.
            (2) Foreign assistance.--The term ``foreign assistance'' 
        means assistance made available under--
                    (A) the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 
                2151 et seq.); or
                    (B) the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2751 et 
                seq.).
            (3) Grand corruption.--The term ``grand corruption'' means 
        public corruption committed at a high level of government 
        that--
                    (A) distorts policies or the central functioning of 
                the country; and
                    (B) enables leaders to benefit at the expense of 
                the public good.
            (4) Petty corruption.--The term ``petty corruption'' means 
        the unlawful exercise of entrusted public power for private 
        gain by low- or mid-level public officials in their 
        interactions with ordinary citizens, including by bribery, 
        nepotism, fraud, or embezzlement.
            (5) Public corruption.--The term ``public corruption'' 
        means the unlawful exercise of entrusted public power for 
        private gain, including by bribery, nepotism, fraud, or 
        embezzlement.

SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) it is in the foreign policy interest of the United 
        States to help other countries promote good governance and 
        combat public corruption, particularly grand corruption;
            (2) multiple departments and agencies across the United 
        States Government operate programs that promote good governance 
        in foreign countries and enhance foreign countries' ability to 
        combat public corruption;
            (3) the Department of State should promote coordination 
        among programs described in paragraph (2) to improve their 
        effectiveness and efficiency; and
            (4) the Department of State should identify areas in which 
        United States efforts to help other countries promote good 
        governance and combat public corruption could be enhanced.

SEC. 3. ANNUAL REPORT.

    The Secretary shall annually submit to the appropriate 
congressional committees and publish, on a publicly accessible website, 
a report that--
            (1) groups foreign countries, by quintile, based on--
                    (A) the World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicator 
                on Control of Corruption; and
                    (B) the World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicator 
                on Voice and Accountability;
            (2) adds context and commentary, as appropriate, to the 
        World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicator on Control of 
        Corruption and the World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicator on 
        Voice and Accountability groupings under paragraph (1), as 
        appropriate, based on the factors outlined in section 4;
            (3) describes, based on the World Bank Worldwide Governance 
        Indicators and the factors outlined in section 4, the status of 
        foreign governments' efforts to combat public corruption; and
            (4) describes the status of each foreign country's active 
        membership in voluntary multi-sectoral global governance 
        initiatives as evidence of the country's government-led efforts 
        to combat public corruption.

SEC. 4. ADDITIONAL FACTORS FOR ASSESSING GOVERNMENT EFFORTS TO COMBAT 
              PUBLIC CORRUPTION.

    (a) Factors for Assessing Government Efforts To Combat Public 
Corruption.--In assessing a government's efforts to combat public 
corruption, the Secretary of State should consider, to the extent 
reliable information is available--
            (1) whether the country--
                    (A) has enacted laws and established government 
                structures, policies, and practices that prohibit 
                public corruption, including grand corruption and petty 
                corruption; and
                    (B) enforces such laws through a fair judicial 
                process;
            (2) whether the country prescribes appropriate punishment 
        for grand corruption that is commensurate with the punishment 
        prescribed for serious crimes;
            (3) whether the country prescribes appropriate punishment 
        for petty corruption that provides a sufficiently stringent 
        deterrent and adequately reflects the nature of the offense;
            (4) the extent to which the government of the country--
                    (A) vigorously investigates and prosecutes acts of 
                public corruption; and
                    (B) convicts and sentences persons responsible for 
                such acts that take place wholly or partly within such 
                country, including, as appropriate, requiring the 
                incarceration of individuals convicted of such acts;
            (5) the extent to which the government of the country 
        vigorously investigates, prosecutes, convicts, and sentences 
        public officials who participate in or facilitate public 
        corruption, including nationals of the country who are deployed 
        in foreign military assignments, trade delegations abroad, or 
        other similar missions who engage in or facilitate severe forms 
        of public corruption;
            (6) the extent to which the government of the country has 
        adopted measures to prevent public corruption, such as measures 
        to inform and educate the public, including potential victims, 
        about the causes and consequences of public corruption;
            (7) steps taken by the government of the country to 
        prohibit government officials from participating in, 
        facilitating, or condoning public corruption, including the 
        investigation, prosecution, and conviction of such officials;
            (8) the extent to which the country government provides 
        access, or, as appropriate, makes adequate resources available, 
        to civil society organizations and other institutions to combat 
        public corruption, including reporting, investigating, and 
        monitoring;
            (9) the extent to which an independent judiciary or 
        judicial body in the country is responsible for, and 
        effectively capable of, deciding public corruption cases 
        impartially, on the basis of facts and in accordance with the 
        law, without any improper restrictions, influences, 
        inducements, pressures, threats, or interferences (direct or 
        indirect) from any source or for any reason;
            (10) the extent to which the government of the country is 
        assisting in international investigations of transnational 
        public corruption networks and in other cooperative efforts to 
        combat grand corruption, including cooperating with the 
        governments of other countries to extradite corrupt actors;
            (11) the extent to which the government of the country 
        recognizes the rights of victims of public corruption, ensures 
        their access to justice, and takes steps to prevent victims 
        from being further victimized or persecuted by corrupt actors, 
        government officials, or others;
            (12) the extent to which the government of the country 
        refrains from prosecuting legitimate victims of public 
        corruption or whistleblowers due to such persons having 
        assisted in exposing public corruption, and refrains from other 
        discriminatory treatment of such persons; and
            (13) such other information relating to public corruption 
        as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.

SEC. 5. DESIGNATION OF EMBASSY ANTI-CORRUPTION POINTS OF CONTACT.

    (a) Designated Countries.--The Secretary of State shall annually 
designate an anti-corruption point of contact at the United States 
Mission to each country that he or she determines is in need of such a 
point of contact.
    (b) Points of Contact Duties.--Each designated anti-corruption 
point of contact shall be responsible for coordinating a whole-of-
government approach to combating public corruption in his or her posted 
country among relevant United States Government departments or agencies 
with a presence in that country, including, as applicable, the 
Department of State, the Department of Justice, the Department of the 
Treasury, the Department of Homeland Security, and the United States 
Agency for International Development.
    (c) Training.--The Secretary of State shall develop and implement 
appropriate training for designated anti-corruption points of contact.
    (d) Internal Reporting.--Each anti-corruption point of contact 
shall submit an annual report to the Secretary regarding anti-
corruption activities within his or her posted country that--
            (1) evaluates the effectiveness of current programs that 
        promote good governance and have an effect of combating public 
        corruption; and
            (2) identifies areas in which the United States 
        Government's approach could be enhanced, including specific 
        programs that could be used to enhance the whole-of-government 
        approach.

SEC. 6. INTERAGENCY WORKING GROUP.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of State shall have primary 
responsibility for managing a whole-of-government effort to improve 
coordination among United States Government departments and agencies 
that have a role in promoting good governance in foreign countries and 
enhancing foreign countries' ability to combat public corruption.
    (b) Task Force.--
            (1) Initial meeting.--Not later than 180 days after the 
        date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall 
        establish and convene an initial meeting of an interagency task 
        force, which shall be composed of--
                    (A) representatives appointed by the President from 
                the departments and agency listed in section 5(b); and
                    (B) representatives from any other United States 
                Government departments or agencies, as determined by 
                the Secretary.
            (2) Additional meetings.--The task force described in 
        paragraph (1) shall meet not less frequently than twice per 
        year.
    (c) Task Force Duties.--The task force established pursuant to 
subsection (b) shall--
            (1) assist the Secretary of State in managing the whole-of-
        government effort described in subsection (a);
            (2) evaluate, on a general basis, the effectiveness of 
        current programs that have an effect of combating public 
        corruption;
            (3) identify general areas in which the United States 
        Government's approach could be enhanced; and
            (4) identify specific programs for specific countries that 
        could be used to enhance the whole-of-government approach.

SEC. 7. TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 60 days after publishing the report 
required under section 3, and prior to obligation by any United States 
agency of foreign assistance to the government of a country ranked in 
the lowest 2 quintiles in the World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicator 
on Control of Corruption grouping described in section 3(1), the 
Secretary, in coordination with the Administrator of USAID, as 
appropriate, shall--
            (1) conduct a corruption risk assessment and create a 
        corruption mitigation strategy for all United States foreign 
        assistance programs in that country;
            (2) require the inclusion of anti-corruption clauses for 
        all foreign assistance contracts, grants, and cooperative 
        agreements, which allow for the termination of the contract, 
        grant, or cooperative agreement without penalty if credible 
        indicators of public corruption are discovered;
            (3) require the inclusion of appropriate clawback clauses 
        for all foreign assistance that has been misappropriated 
        through corruption;
            (4) require the appropriate disclosure to the United States 
        Government, in confidential form, if necessary, of the 
        beneficial ownership of contractors, subcontractors, grantees, 
        cooperative agreement participants, and other organizations 
        receiving funding from the United States Government for foreign 
        assistance programs; and
            (5) establish a mechanism for investigating allegations of 
        misappropriated foreign assistance funds or equipment.
    (b) Exceptions and Waiver.--
            (1) Exceptions.--Subsection (a) shall not apply to 
        humanitarian assistance, disaster assistance, or assistance to 
        combat corruption.
            (2) Waiver.--The Secretary of State may waive the 
        requirement to delay foreign assistance under subsection (a) if 
        the Secretary certifies to the appropriate congressional 
        committees that such waiver is important to the national 
        security interests of the United States.

SEC. 8. RESOURCES AND REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.

    (a) Annual Report.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than one year after the date of 
        the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the 
        Secretary of State shall submit a report to the appropriate 
        congressional committees that outlines the resources needed to 
        meet the objectives of this Act, including--
                    (A) personnel needs; and
                    (B) a description of the bureaucratic structure of 
                the offices within the Department of State and USAID 
                that are engaged in anti-corruption activities.
    (b) Annual Briefing.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than one year after the date of 
        the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the 
        Secretary shall brief the appropriate congressional committees 
        on the implementation of this Act, including--
                    (A) the designation of anti-corruption points of 
                contact for countries under section 5(a);
                    (B) the training implemented under section 5(c);
                    (C) the reports received from anti-corruption 
                points of contact under section 5(d);
                    (D) the management of the whole-of-government 
                effort to improve coordination under section 6(a);
                    (E) the establishment of the task force under 
                section 6(b); and
                    (F) the activities of the task force under section 
                6(c).
            (2) Form of briefing.--The briefings under subsection (b) 
        shall be conducted on an in-person basis to members or staff of 
        the appropriate congressional committees. Portions of the 
        briefings may be conducted in a classified setting, as needed.
    (c) Online Platform.--The Secretary of State and the USAID 
Administrator shall consolidate existing reports with anti-corruption 
components into one online, public platform, which shall--
            (1) include--
                    (A) the Human Rights Report;
                    (B) the Fiscal Transparency Report;
                    (C) the Investment Climate Statement reports;
                    (D) the International Narcotics Control Strategy 
                Report; and
                    (E) any other relevant public reports;
            (2) link to third-party indicators and compliance 
        mechanisms used by the United States Government to inform 
        policy and programming, such as--
                    (A) the International Finance Corporation's Doing 
                Business surveys;
                    (B) the International Budget Partnership's Open 
                Budget Index; and
                    (C) multilateral peer review anti-corruption 
                compliance mechanisms, such as the Organisation for 
                Economic Co-operation and Development's Working Group 
                on Bribery in International Business Transactions and 
                the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, done 
                at New York October 31, 2003, to further highlight 
                expert international views on country challenges and 
                country efforts.
    (d) Training.--The Secretary of State and the USAID Administrator 
shall incorporate anti-corruption components into existing Foreign 
Service and Civil Service training courses--
            (1) to increase the ability of Department of State and 
        USAID personnel to support anti-corruption as a foreign policy 
        and development priority; and
            (2) to strengthen their ability to design, implement, and 
        evaluate more effective anti-corruption programming around the 
        world, including enhancing skills to better evaluate and 
        mitigate public corruption risks in assistance programs.
                                                       Calendar No. 144

116th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                                S. 1309

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 To identify and combat corruption in countries, to establish a tiered 
   system of countries with respect to levels of corruption by their 
governments and their efforts to combat such corruption, and to assess 
 United States assistance to designated countries in order to advance 
  anti-corruption efforts in those countries and better serve United 
                           States taxpayers.

_______________________________________________________________________

                             July 11, 2019

                       Reported with an amendment