[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4871 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4871

 To modify and expand the annual report required under the Elie Wiesel 
 Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act of 2018 and require additional 
   review of United States assistance provided to certain countries 
identified as being at risk of atrocities by such report, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 25, 2023

     Ms. Jacobs (for herself, Mr. Castro of Texas, and Ms. Lee of 
 California) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To modify and expand the annual report required under the Elie Wiesel 
 Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act of 2018 and require additional 
   review of United States assistance provided to certain countries 
identified as being at risk of atrocities by such report, 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 Prevention Act''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION AND MODIFICATION OF ANNUAL REPORT REQUIREMENT.

    Section 5(a) of the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention 
Act of 2018 (22 U.S.C. 2656 note) is amended--
            (1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking 
        ``for the following six years''; and
            (2) in paragraph (1)(E), by inserting ``(ranked as high-, 
        medium-, or low-risk)'' after ``countries and regions at risk 
        of atrocities''.

SEC. 3. REVIEW OF SECURITY ASSISTANCE PROVIDED TO COUNTRIES.

    The Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act of 2018 (22 
U.S.C. 2656 note) is amended by inserting after section 5 the 
following:

``SEC. 5A. SECURITY ASSISTANCE AND COOPERATION REVIEW.

    ``(a) Review Required.--Not later than 60 days after the submission 
of each annual report required by section 5, the Secretary of State 
(acting through the Department of State officials listed in subsection 
(c)), in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, shall submit to 
the appropriate congressional committees a report consisting of the 
results of a review of the risks related to the provision of security 
assistance and cooperation in countries identified in the most recent 
annual report (including in the classified annex to such report) 
pursuant to such section 5 as being at high- or medium-risk for 
atrocities. Such report shall also include, for each such country, the 
following:
            ``(1) With respect to a country newly identified as being 
        at such risk, an assessment of the risks associated with 
        providing security assistance and cooperation to the 
        governments of such countries, including the risks of whether 
        security assistance and cooperation--
                    ``(A) may be used for perpetrating atrocities; or
                    ``(B) may exacerbate identified relevant risk 
                factors for the commission of such atrocities.
            ``(2) With respect to a country identified as being at 
        high- or medium-risk for atrocities for which an assessment 
        described in paragraph (1) has previously been submitted 
        pursuant to this section, an assessment of whether such risk 
        factors, the current or planned security assistance and 
        cooperation provided by the United States, or other relevant 
        context have changed in the intervening period since the prior 
        submission.
            ``(3) A determination, including a justification, on 
        whether current or planned United States security assistance 
        and cooperation should be continued, terminated, paused, or 
        otherwise delayed in light of the risks assessed pursuant to 
        paragraph (1) or (2).
    ``(b) Definitions.--For purposes of the review required by 
subsection (a)--
            ``(1) the term `appropriate congressional committees' 
        means--
                    ``(A) the Committee on Appropriations, the 
                Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee on 
                Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives; and
                    ``(B) the Committee on Appropriations, the 
                Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee on 
                Foreign Relations of the Senate;
            ``(2) the term `security assistance and cooperation'--
                    ``(A) means--
                            ``(i) assistance meeting the definition of 
                        `security assistance' under section 502B of the 
                        Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 
                        2304(d)(2));
                            ``(ii) programs and activities meeting the 
                        definition of `security cooperation programs 
                        and activities of the Department of Defense' 
                        under section 301 of title 10, United States 
                        Code; and
                            ``(iii) activities authorized pursuant to--
                                    ``(I) 127(e) of title 10, United 
                                States Code; or
                                    ``(II) section 1202 of the National 
                                Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
                                Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91; 131 Stat. 
                                1639); and
                    ``(B) includes any use of amounts made available to 
                the Department of Defense--
                            ``(i) to increase the capacity or 
                        capability of a unit of a foreign security 
                        force, a member of such a unit, or an irregular 
                        force, group, or individual; or
                            ``(ii) to support foreign security forces, 
                        irregular forces, groups, or individuals to 
                        operate with United States forces in coalition, 
                        combined operations or other operations.
    ``(c) Department of State Officials.--The Department of State 
officials listed in this subsection are the Assistant Secretary of the 
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor working jointly with the 
Assistant Secretary for Conflict and Stabilization Operations, and in 
consultation with the Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Political-
Military Affairs Bureau.
    ``(d) Form.--The report required by subsection (a) shall be 
submitted in unclassified form and may include a classified annex.''.
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