[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8664 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8664

   To require the Secretary of Defense to review security assistance 
   provided to certain countries identified as being at risk for the 
           commission of atrocities, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 5, 2022

   Ms. Jacobs of California introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Secretary of Defense to review security assistance 
   provided to certain countries identified as being at risk for the 
           commission of atrocities, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Atrocity Accountability Act''.

SEC. 2. REVIEW OF SECURITY ASSISTANCE PROVIDED TO ELIE WIESEL 
              COUNTRIES.

    (a) Review Required.--Not later than 30 days after the transmission 
of the first report required after the date of the enactment of this 
Act under section 5 of the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities 
Prevention Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-441; 22 U.S.C. 2651 note), the 
Secretary of Defense shall conduct a review of risks related to the 
Department of Defense provision of security assistance to countries 
identified in the report as being at high or medium risk for 
atrocities. Such review shall include an assessment of risk associated 
with providing weapons and other forms of security cooperation programs 
and assistance, including special operations forces programs, to the 
governments of such countries, with respect to atrocities, conflict, 
violence, and other forms of instability.
    (b) Congressional Notification of Certain Changes.--If, as a result 
of the review required under subsection (a), the Secretary determines 
that the Department of Defense should stop or change the security 
assistance provided to a country, the Secretary shall submit notice of 
such determination to--
            (1) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
        Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives; and
            (2) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
        Foreign Relations of the Senate.
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