[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 178 (Friday, December 9, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7058-S7059]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5176. Mr. PORTMAN (for Mr. Corker) proposed an amendment to 
amendment SA 5175 proposed by Mr. Portman (for Mr. Corker) to the bill 
H.R. 1150, to amend the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to 
improve the ability of the United States to advance religious freedom 
globally through enhanced diplomacy, training, counterterrorism, and 
foreign assistance efforts, and through stronger and more flexible 
political responses to religious freedom violations and violent 
extremism worldwide, and for other purposes; as follows:

       Beginning on page 13, strike line 12 and all that follows 
     through page 16, line 20, and insert the following:

[[Page S7059]]

       (a) Amendments to Foreign Service Act of 1980.--Section 708 
     of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4028) is 
     amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)--
       (A) by redesignating paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) as 
     subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C), respectively;
       (B) by striking ``(a) The Secretary of State'' and 
     inserting the following:
       ``(a) Human Rights, Religious Freedom, and Human 
     Trafficking Training.--
       ``(1) In general.--The Secretary of State''; and
       (C) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(2) Religious freedom training.--
       ``(A) In general.--In carrying out the training required 
     under paragraph (1)(B), the Director of the George P. Shultz 
     National Foreign Affairs Training Center shall, not later 
     than the one year after the date of the enactment of the 
     Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act, conduct 
     training on religious freedom for all Foreign Service 
     officers, including all entry level officers, all officers 
     prior to departure for posting outside the United States, and 
     all outgoing deputy chiefs of mission and ambassadors. Such 
     training shall be included in--
       ``(i) the A-100 course attended by all Foreign Service 
     officers;
       ``(ii) the courses required of every Foreign Service 
     officer prior to a posting outside the United States, with 
     segments tailored to the particular religious demography, 
     religious freedom conditions, and United States strategies 
     for advancing religious freedom, in each receiving country; 
     and
       ``(iii) the courses required of all outgoing deputy chiefs 
     of mission and ambassadors.
       ``(B) Development of curriculum.--In carrying out the 
     training required under paragraph (1)(B), the Ambassador at 
     Large for International Religious Freedom, in coordination 
     with the Director of the George P. Shultz National Foreign 
     Affairs Training Center and other Federal officials, as 
     appropriate, and in consultation with the United States 
     Commission on International Religious Freedom established 
     under section 201(a) of the International Religious Freedom 
     Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6431(a)), shall make recommendations 
     to the Secretary of State regarding a curriculum for the 
     training of United States Foreign Service officers under 
     paragraph (1)(B) on the scope and strategic value of 
     international religious freedom, how violations of 
     international religious freedom harm fundamental United 
     States interests, how the advancement of international 
     religious freedom can advance such interests, how United 
     States international religious freedom policy should be 
     carried out in practice by United States diplomats and other 
     Foreign Service officers, and the relevance and relationship 
     of international religious freedom to United States defense, 
     diplomacy, development, and public affairs efforts. The 
     Secretary of State should ensure the availability of 
     sufficient resources to develop and implement such 
     curriculum.
       ``(C) Information sharing.--The curriculum and training 
     materials developed under this paragraph shall be shared with 
     the United States Armed Forces and other Federal departments 
     and agencies with personnel who are stationed overseas, as 
     appropriate, to provide training on--
       ``(i) United States religious freedom policies;
       ``(ii) religious traditions;
       ``(iii) religious engagement strategies;
       ``(iv) religious and cultural issues; and
       ``(v) efforts to counter violent religious extremism.'';
       (2) in subsection (b), by striking ``The Secretary of 
     State'' and inserting ``Refugees.--The Secretary of State''; 
     and
       (3) in subsection (c), by striking ``The Secretary of 
     State'' and inserting ``Child Soldiers.--The Secretary of 
     State''.
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