[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4388 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4388

   To amend the Robert Levinson Hostage Recovery and Hostage-Taking 
   Accountability Act to require the Secretary of State to submit to 
   Congress information relating to cases of United States nationals 
detained abroad in which the Secretary has not made a determination or 
    has determined that there is not credible information that the 
        individuals are being detained unlawfully or wrongfully.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 27, 2023

Mr. Reschenthaler (for himself, Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, Mr. Deluzio, 
Mr. Boyle of Pennsylvania, Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania, Mr. Evans, and 
  Mr. Zinke) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Robert Levinson Hostage Recovery and Hostage-Taking 
   Accountability Act to require the Secretary of State to submit to 
   Congress information relating to cases of United States nationals 
detained abroad in which the Secretary has not made a determination or 
    has determined that there is not credible information that the 
        individuals are being detained unlawfully or wrongfully.

    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 ``Marc Fogel Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO ROBERT LEVINSON HOSTAGE RECOVERY AND HOSTAGE-
              TAKING ACCOUNTABILITY ACT.

    Section 302 of the Robert Levinson Hostage Recovery and Hostage-
Taking Accountability Act (22 U.S.C. 1741) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections 
        (e) and (f), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
    ``(c) Submission to Congress of Information Relating to Cases 
Without Determinations or Determinations That There Is Not Credible 
Information That the Individuals Are Being Detained Unlawfully or 
Wrongfully.--
            ``(1) In general.--If, within 180 days of the initiation of 
        any review of a case of a United States national detained 
        abroad under subsection (a), the Secretary of State--
                    ``(A) has not made a determination with respect to 
                the detention of the individual, the Secretary shall 
                submit to the appropriate congressional committees 
                copies of all documents and communications described in 
                paragraph (2) relating to the review of the criteria 
                described in subsection (a) with respect to the 
                detention of the individual; or
                    ``(B) has made a determination that there is not 
                credible information that the individual is being 
                detained unlawfully or wrongfully, the Secretary shall 
                submit to the appropriate congressional committees--
                            ``(i) copies of all documents and 
                        communications described in paragraph (2) 
                        relating to the review of the criteria 
                        described in subsection (a) with respect to the 
                        detention of the individual; and
                            ``(ii) copies of all documents providing a 
                        justification for the determination.
            ``(2) Documents and communications described.--The 
        documents and communications described in this paragraph are 
        documents, memoranda, advisory legal opinions, audio recordings 
        (including telephone records), correspondence (including 
        electronic mail records), and other communications, or any 
        portion of any such communications.
            ``(3) Form.--The information required by paragraph (1) 
        shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a 
        classified annex.''.
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