[House Report 104-478]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



104th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 2d Session                                                     104-478
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    FOREIGN RELATIONS AUTHORIZATION ACT, FISCAL YEARS 1996 AND 1997

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                 March 8, 1996.--Ordered to be printed

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 Mr. Gilman, from the committee of conference, submitted the following

                           CONFERENCE REPORT

                        [To accompany H.R. 1561]

      The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of 
the two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 
1561), to consolidate the foreign affairs agencies of the 
United States; to authorize appropriations for the Department 
of State and related agencies for fiscal years 1996 and 1997; 
to responsibly reduce the authorizations of appropriations for 
United States foreign assistance programs for fiscal years 1996 
and 1997, and for other purposes, having met, after full and 
free conference, have agreed to recommend and do recommend to 
their respective Houses as follows:
      That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
amendment of the Senate and agree to the same with an amendment 
as follows:
      In lieu of the matter proposed to be inserted by the 
Senate amendment, insert the following:

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

    (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Foreign 
Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1996 and 1997''.
    (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents of this Act 
is as follows:

          DIVISION A--CONSOLIDATION OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AGENCIES

                       TITLE I--GENERAL PROVISIONS

Sec. 101. Short title.
Sec. 102. Congressional findings.
Sec. 103. Purposes.
Sec. 104. Definitions.

       TITLE II--UNITED STATES ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT AGENCY

                      Chapter 1--General Provisions

Sec. 201. Effective date.

   Chapter 2--Abolition of United States Arms Control and Disarmament 
                    Agency and Transfer of Functions

Sec. 211. Abolition of United States Arms Control and Disarmament 
          Agency.
Sec. 212. Transfer of functions to Secretary of State.
Sec. 213. Coordinator for Arms Control and Disarmament.

                    Chapter 3--Conforming Amendments

Sec. 221. References.
Sec. 222. Repeal of establishment of ACDA.
Sec. 223. Repeal of positions and offices.
Sec. 224. Authorities of Secretary of State.
Sec. 225. Conforming amendments.

               TITLE III--UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY

                      Chapter 1--General Provisions

Sec. 301. Effective date.

Chapter 2--Abolition of United States Information Agency and Transfer of 
                                Functions

Sec. 311. Abolition of United States Information Agency.
Sec. 312. Transfer of functions.
Sec. 313. Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy.

                    Chapter 3--Conforming Amendments

Sec. 321. References in law.
Sec. 322. Amendments to title 5, United States Code.
Sec. 323. Amendments to United States Information and Educational 
          Exchange Act of 1948.
Sec. 324. Amendments to Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 
          1961 (Fulbright-Hays Act).
Sec. 325. International broadcasting activities.
Sec. 326. Television broadcasting to Cuba.
Sec. 327. Radio broadcasting to Cuba.
Sec. 328. National Endowment for Democracy.
Sec. 329. United States scholarship program for developing countries.
Sec. 330. Fascell Fellowship Board.
Sec. 331. National Security Education Board.
Sec. 332. Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between North 
          and South.
Sec. 333. Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and 
          West.
Sec. 334. Mission of Department of State.
Sec. 335. Consolidation of administrative services.
Sec. 336. Grants.
Sec. 337. Ban on domestic activities.
Sec. 338. Conforming repeal to Arms Control and Disarmament Act.
Sec. 339. Repeal relating to procurement of legal services.
Sec. 340. Repeal relating to payment of subsistence expenses.
Sec. 341. Conforming amendment to SEED Act.
Sec. 342. International Cultural and Trade Center Commission.
Sec. 343. Other laws referenced in Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1977.
Sec. 344. Exchange program with countries in transition from 
          totalitarianism to democracy.
Sec. 345. Edmund S. Muskie Fellowship Program.
Sec. 346. Implementation of Convention on Cultural Property.
Sec. 347. Mike Mansfield Fellowships.
Sec. 348. United States Advisory Committee for Public Diplomacy.

             TITLE IV--AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

                      Chapter 1--General Provisions

Sec. 401. Effective date.

    Chapter 2--Abolition of Agency for International Development and 
                          Transfer of Functions

Sec. 411. Abolition of Agency for International Development and United 
          States International Development Cooperation Agency.
Sec. 412. Transfer of functions.
Sec. 413. Under Secretary of State for Development and for Economic and 
          Commercial Affairs.
Sec. 414. Abolition of Office of Inspector General of Agency for 
          International Development and transfer of functions.
Sec. 415. Abolition of Office of Chief Financial Officer of Agency for 
          International Development and transfer of functions.

                    Chapter 3--Conforming Amendments

Sec. 421. References.
Sec. 422. Exercise of functions by Secretary of State.
Sec. 423. Repeal of positions; employment and contracting authorities.
Sec. 424. Development Loan Committee.
Sec. 425. Development Coordination Committee.
Sec. 426. Public Law 83-480 program.
Sec. 427. Conforming amendments to title 5, United States Code.
Sec. 428. Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee.
Sec. 429. Additional conforming amendments.

                 TITLE V--OFFICES OF INSPECTORS GENERAL

Sec. 501. Repeal relating to Inspector General for United States Arms 
          Control and Disarmament Agency.
Sec. 502. Abolition of Office of Inspector General of United States 
          Information Agency and transfer of functions.

                          TITLE VI--TRANSITION

                Chapter 1--Reorganization Plan and Waiver

Sec. 601. Reorganization plan.
Sec. 602. Waiver.

                   Chapter 2--Reorganization Authority

Sec. 611. Reorganization authority.
Sec. 612. Transfer and allocation of appropriations and personnel.
Sec. 613. Incidental transfers.
Sec. 614. Effect on personnel.
Sec. 615. Transition fund.
Sec. 616. Savings provisions.
Sec. 617. Property and facilities.
Sec. 618. Authority of Secretary of State to facilitate transition.
Sec. 619. Recommendations for additional conforming amendments.
Sec. 620. Final report.
Sec. 621. Transfer of function.
Sec. 622. Severability.

              DIVISION B--FOREIGN RELATIONS AUTHORIZATIONS

                       TITLE X--GENERAL PROVISIONS

Sec. 1001. Short title.
Sec. 1002. Definitions.

 TITLE XI--AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND 
         CERTAIN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS FUNCTIONS AND ACTIVITIES

Sec. 1101. Administration of foreign affairs.
Sec. 1102. International organizations, programs, and conferences.
Sec. 1103. International commissions.
Sec. 1104. Migration and refugee assistance.
Sec. 1105. Asia Foundation.
Sec. 1106. United States informational, educational, and cultural 
          programs.
Sec. 1107. United States arms control and disarmament.
Sec. 1108. Administration of foreign assistance.
Sec. 1109. Narcotics control assistance.
Sec. 1110. Peace Corps.
Sec. 1111. Housing guarantee program.

        TITLE XII--DEPARTMENT OF STATE AUTHORITIES AND ACTIVITIES

                  Chapter 1--Authorities and Activities

Sec. 1201. Revision of Department of State rewards program.
Sec. 1202. Buying power maintenance account.
Sec. 1203. Expenses relating to certain international claims and 
          proceedings.
Sec. 1204. Denial of passports to noncustodial parents subject to State 
          arrest warrants in cases of nonpayment of child support.
Sec. 1205. Training.
Sec. 1206. Capital Investment Fund.
Sec. 1207. Lease-purchase of overseas property.
Sec. 1208. Fees for commercial services.
Sec. 1209. Reduction of reporting requirements.
Sec. 1210. Fee for use of diplomatic reception rooms.
Sec. 1211. International Center reserve funds.
Sec. 1212. Joint funds under agreements for cooperation in 
          environmental, scientific, cultural, and related areas.
Sec. 1213. Efficiency in procurement.
Sec. 1214. Concerning the use of funds to further normalize relations 
          with Vietnam.
Sec. 1215. Diplomatic Telecommunications Service.

       Chapter 2--Consular Authorities of the Department of State

Sec. 1231. Fees for machine readable visas.
Sec. 1232. Fingerprint check requirement.
Sec. 1233. Use of certain passport processing fees for enhanced passport 
          services.
Sec. 1234. Consular officers.
Sec. 1235. Fee for diversity immigrant lottery.
Sec. 1236. Fee for execution of passport applications.
Sec. 1237. Exclusion from the United States for membership in a 
          terrorist organization.
Sec. 1238. Terrorist Lookout Committees.
Sec. 1239. Incitement as a basis for exclusion from the United States.

                    Chapter 3--Refugees and Migration

Sec. 1251. Report to Congress concerning Cuban emigration policies.
Sec. 1252. Extension of certain adjudication provisions.
Sec. 1253. United States policy regarding the involuntary return of 
          refugees.
Sec. 1254. Report on Iraqi refugees.
Sec. 1255. Persecution for resistance to coercive population control 
          methods.
Sec. 1256. United States policy with respect to the involuntary return 
          of persons in danger of subjection to torture.

TITLE XIII--ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE; DEPARTMENT OF STATE 
                     PERSONNEL; THE FOREIGN SERVICE

           Chapter 1--Organization of the Department of State

Sec. 1301. Coordinator for Counterterrorism.
Sec. 1302. Authority of United States Permanent Representative to the 
          United Nations.
Sec. 1303. Special Envoy for Tibet.
Sec. 1304. Responsibilities of bureau charged with migration and refugee 
          assistance.
Sec. 1305. Elimination of statutory establishment of certain positions 
          of the Department of State.
Sec. 1306. Management of the human resources of the Department of State.

  Chapter 2--Personnel of the Department of State; the Foreign Service

Sec. 1351. Authorized strength of the Foreign Service.
Sec. 1352. Restriction on lobbying activities of former United States 
          chiefs of mission.
Sec. 1353. Limitations on management assignments.
Sec. 1354. Nonovertime differential pay.
Sec. 1355. Recovery of costs of health care services.
Sec. 1356. Report on promotion and retention of personnel.
Sec. 1357. Foreign Service reform.

 TITLE XIV--UNITED STATES PUBLIC DIPLOMACY: AUTHORITIES AND ACTIVITIES 
   FOR UNITED STATES INFORMATIONAL, EDUCATIONAL, AND CULTURAL PROGRAMS

Sec. 1401. Availability of Voice of America and Radio Marti multilingual 
          computer readable text and voice recordings.
Sec. 1402. Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between North 
          and South.
Sec. 1403. Expansion of Muskie Fellowship Program.
Sec. 1404. Mansfield Fellowship Program requirements.
Sec. 1405. Pilot program on advertising on USIA television and radio 
          broadcasts.
Sec. 1406. Changes in administrative authorities.
Sec. 1407. Retention of interest.
Sec. 1408. Conduct of certain educational and cultural exchange 
          programs.
Sec. 1409. Extension of Au Pair programs.
Sec. 1410. Educational and cultural exchanges and scholarships for 
          Tibetans and Burmese.
Sec. 1411. Initiation of broadcasts by Radio Free Asia.
Sec. 1412. Distribution within the United States of the United States 
          Information Agency film entitled ``The Fragile Ring of Life''.

          TITLE XV--INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMISSIONS

                      Chapter 1--General Provisions

Sec. 1501. Termination of United States participation in certain 
          international organizations.
Sec. 1502. International Boundary and Water Commission.
Sec. 1503. Prohibition on assistance to international organizations 
          espousing world government.
Sec. 1504. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Sec. 1505. United States participation in single commodity international 
          organizations.

   Chapter 2--United Nations and Affiliated Agencies and Organizations

Sec. 1521. Reform in budget decisionmaking procedures of the United 
          Nations and its specialized agencies.
Sec. 1522. Report on UNICEF.
Sec. 1523. United Nations budgetary and management reform.
Sec. 1524. Limitation on assessment percentage for peacekeeping 
          activities.
Sec. 1525. Annual report on United States contributions to United 
          Nations peacekeeping activities.
Sec. 1526. Prior congressional notification of Security Council votes on 
          United Nations peacekeeping activities.
Sec. 1527. Codification of required notice to Congress of proposed 
          United Nations peacekeeping activities.
Sec. 1528. Restrictions on intelligence sharing with the United Nations.

                  TITLE XVI--FOREIGN POLICY PROVISIONS

Sec. 1601. Applicability of Taiwan Relations Act.
Sec. 1602. Report on occupied Tibet.
Sec. 1603. Taipei Representative Office.
Sec. 1604. Efforts against emerging infectious diseases.
Sec. 1605. Statutory construction.
Sec. 1606. Reports regarding Hong Kong.
Sec. 1607. The United States-North Korea Agreed Framework of October 21, 
          1994, and the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization 
          (KEDO).
Sec. 1608. International criminal court participation.
Sec. 1609. Prohibition on the transfer of arms to Indonesia.
Sec. 1610. Bosnia and Herzegovina Self-Defense Fund.
Sec. 1611. Reports to Congress on aspects of implementation of the 
          General Framework Agreement.
Sec. 1612. Verification of Missile Technology Control Regime.
Sec. 1613. Repeal of termination of provisions of the Nuclear 
          Proliferation Prevention Act of 1994.
Sec. 1614. Payment of Iraqi claims.
Sec. 1615. International Fund for Ireland.
Sec. 1616. Deobligation of certain unexpended economic assistance funds.
Sec. 1617. Limitation on assistance to countries that restrict the 
          transport or delivery of United States humanitarian 
          assistance.

                  TITLE XVII--CONGRESSIONAL STATEMENTS

Sec. 1701. The Laogai system of political prisons.
Sec. 1702. Declaration of Congress regarding United States Government 
          human rights policy toward China.
Sec. 1703. United States relations with the Former Yugoslav Republic of 
          Macedonia (FYROM).
Sec. 1704. Displaced persons.
Sec. 1705. Sense of Congress on border crossing fees.
Sec. 1706. Inter-American organizations.
Sec. 1707. Escalating costs for international peacekeeping activities.
Sec. 1708. Visit of the President of the Republic of China on Taiwan.
Sec. 1709. Republic of China on Taiwan's participation in GATT and WTO.
Sec. 1710. Industrial park for Gaza or the West Bank.

         DIVISION A--CONSOLIDATION OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AGENCIES

                      TITLE I--GENERAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 101. SHORT TITLE.

    This division may be cited as the ``Foreign Affairs 
Agencies Consolidation Act of 1996''.

SEC. 102. CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS.

    Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) With the end of the Cold War, the international 
        challenges facing the United States have changed, but 
        the fundamental national interests of the United States 
        have not. The security, economic, and humanitarian 
        interests of the United States require continued United 
        States engagement in international affairs. The leading 
        role of the United States in world affairs will be as 
        important in the twenty-first century as it has been in 
        the twentieth.
            (2) The United States budget deficit requires that 
        the foreign as well as the domestic programs and 
        activities of the United States be carefully reviewed 
        for potential savings. Wherever possible, foreign 
        programs and activities must be streamlined, managed 
        more efficiently, and adapted to the requirements of 
        the post-Cold War era.
            (3) In order to downsize the foreign programs and 
        activities of the United States without jeopardizing 
        United States interests, strong and effective 
        leadership will be required. As the official 
        principally responsible for the conduct of foreign 
        policy, the Secretary of State must have the authority 
        to allocate efficiently the resources within the 
        international affairs budget. As a first step in the 
        downsizing process, the proliferation of foreign 
        affairs agencies that occurred during the Cold War must 
        be reversed, and the functions of these agencies must 
        be restored to the Secretary of State.
            (4) A streamlined and reorganized foreign affairs 
        structure under the strengthened leadership of the 
        Secretary of State can more effectively promote the 
        international interests of the 
        United States in the next century than the existing 
        structure.

SEC. 103. PURPOSES.

    The purposes of this division are--
            (1) to consolidate and reinvent the foreign affairs 
        agencies of the United States within the Department of 
        State;
            (2) to assist congressional efforts to balance the 
        Federal budget and reduce the Federal debt;
            (3) to provide for the reorganization of the 
        Department of State to maximize the efficient use of 
        resources, eliminate redundancy in functions, effect 
        budget savings, and improve the management of the 
        Department of State;
            (4) to ensure that the United States maintains 
        adequate representation abroad within budgetary 
        restraints;
            (5) to ensure that programs critical to the 
        promotion of United States national interests be 
        maintained;
            (6) to encourage United States foreign affairs 
        agencies to maintain a high percentage of the best 
        qualified, most competent United States citizens 
        serving in the United States Government while 
        downsizing significantly the total number of people 
        employed by such agencies;
            (7) to strengthen--
                    (A) the coordination of United States 
                foreign policy; and
                    (B) the leading role of the Secretary of 
                State in the formulation and articulation of 
                United States foreign policy; and
            (8) to abolish, not later than March 1, 1997, the 
        United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the 
        United States Information Agency, the United States 
        International Development Cooperation Agency, and the 
        Agency for International Development.

SEC. 104. DEFINITIONS.

    The following terms have the following meanings for the 
purposes of this division:
            (1) The term ``ACDA'' means the United States Arms 
        Control and Disarmament Agency.
            (2) The term ``AID'' means the Agency for 
        International Development.
            (3) The term ``appropriate congressional 
        committees'' means the Committee on International 
        Relations of the House of Representatives and the 
        Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
        Senate.
            (4) The term ``Department'' means the Department of 
        State.
            (5) The term ``Federal agency'' has the meaning 
        given to the term ``agency'' by section 551(1) of title 
        5, United States Code.
            (6) The term ``function'' means any duty, 
        obligation, power, authority, responsibility, right, 
        privilege, activity, or program.
            (7) The term ``office'' includes any office, 
        administration, agency, institute, unit, organizational 
        entity, or component thereof.
            (8) The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of 
        State.
            (9) The term ``USIA'' means the United States 
        Information Agency.

      TITLE II--UNITED STATES ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT AGENCY

                     CHAPTER 1--GENERAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 201. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    (a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), this 
title, and the amendments made by this title, shall take effect 
on the earlier of--
            (1) March 1, 1997; or
            (2) the date of abolition of the United States Arms 
        Control and Disarmament Agency pursuant to the 
        reorganization plan described in section 601.
    (b) Exception.--This title shall not take effect if the 
President waives the applicability of this title pursuant to 
section 602.

  CHAPTER 2--ABOLITION OF UNITED STATES ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT 
                    AGENCY AND TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

SEC. 211. ABOLITION OF UNITED STATES ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT 
                    AGENCY.

    The United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency is 
abolished.

SEC. 212. TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS TO SECRETARY OF STATE.

    There are transferred to the Secretary of State all 
functions of the Director of the United States Arms Control and 
Disarmament Agency and all functions of the United States Arms 
Control and Disarmament Agency and any office or component of 
such agency under any statute, reorganization plan, Executive 
order, or other provision of law as of the day before the 
effective date of this title, except as otherwise provided in 
this division.

SEC. 213. COORDINATOR FOR ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT.

    (a) Establishment of Coordinator for Arms Control and 
Disarmament.--Section 1 of the State Department Basic 
Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2651a) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (e) as subsection 
        (f); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (d) the following 
        new subsection (e):
    ``(e) Coordinator for Arms Control and Disarmament.--(1) 
There shall be within the office of the Secretary of State a 
Coordinator for Arms Control and Disarmament (hereafter in this 
subsection referred to as the `Coordinator)' who shall be 
appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent 
of the Senate. The Coordinator shall report directly to the 
Secretary of State.
    ``(2)(A) The Coordinator shall perform such duties and 
exercise such power as the Secretary of State shall prescribe.
    ``(B) The Coordinator shall be responsible for arms control 
and disarmament matters. The Coordinator shall head the Bureau 
of Arms Control and Disarmament.
    ``(3) The Coordinator shall have the rank and status of 
Ambassador-at-Large. The Coordinator shall be compensated at 
the annual rate of basic pay in effect for a position at level 
IV of the Executive Schedule under section 5314 of title 5, 
United States Code, or, if the Coordinator is appointed from 
the Foreign Service, the annual rate of pay which the 
individual last received under the Foreign Service Schedule, 
whichever is greater.''.
    (b) Participation in Meetings of National Security 
Council.--Section 101 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 
U.S.C. 402) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsection:
    ``(i) The Coordinator for Arms Control and Disarmament may, 
in the role of advisor to the National Security Council on arms 
control and disarmament matters, and subject to the direction 
of the President, attend and participate in meetings of the 
National Security Council.''.

                    CHAPTER 3--CONFORMING AMENDMENTS

SEC. 221. REFERENCES.

    Any reference in any statute, reorganization plan, 
Executive order, regulation, agreement, determination, or other 
official document or proceeding to--
            (1) the Director of the United States Arms Control 
        and Disarmament Agency, or any other officer or 
        employee of the United States Arms Control and 
        Disarmament Agency, shall be deemed to refer to the 
        Secretary of State; and
            (2) the United States Arms Control and Disarmament 
        Agency shall be deemed to refer to the Department of 
        State.

SEC. 222. REPEAL OF ESTABLISHMENT OF ACDA.

    Section 21 of the Arms Control and Disarmament Act (22 
U.S.C. 2561; relating to the establishment of ACDA) is 
repealed.

SEC. 223. REPEAL OF POSITIONS AND OFFICES.

    The following sections of the Arms Control and Disarmament 
Act are repealed:
            (1) Section 22 (22 U.S.C. 2562; relating to the 
        Director).
            (2) Section 23 (22 U.S.C. 2563; relating to the 
        Deputy Director).
            (3) Section 24 (22 U.S.C. 2564; relating to 
        Assistant Directors).
            (4) Section 25 (22 U.S.C. 2565; relating to 
        bureaus, offices, and divisions).

SEC. 224. AUTHORITIES OF SECRETARY OF STATE.

    (a) In General.--(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), 
the Arms Control and Disarmament Act (22 U.S.C. 2551 et seq.) 
is amended by striking ``Agency'' and ``Director'' each place 
it appears and inserting ``Department'' and ``Secretary'', 
respectively.
    (2) No amendment shall be made under paragraph (1) to 
references to the On-Site Inspection Agency or to the Director 
of Central Intelligence.
    (b) Purpose.--Section 2 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 2551) is 
amended--
            (1) by striking the second, fourth, fifth, and 
        sixth sentences; and
            (2) in the seventh sentence--
                    (A) by striking ``It'' and all that follows 
                through ``State,'' and inserting ``The 
                Department of State shall have the authority''; 
                and
                    (B) by striking ``primary''.
    (c) Definitions.--Section 3 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 2552) is 
amended by striking paragraph (c) and inserting the following:
            ``(c) The term `Department' means the Department of 
        State.
            ``(d) The term `Secretary' means the Secretary of 
        State.''.
    (d) Scientific and Policy Advisory Committee.--Section 
26(b) of such Act (22 U.S.C. 2566(b)) is amended by striking 
``, the Secretary of State, and the Director'' and inserting 
``and the Secretary of State''.
    (e) Presidential Special Representatives.--Section 27 of 
such Act (22 U.S.C. 2567) is amended by striking ``, acting 
through the Director''.
    (f) Program for Visiting Scholars.--Section 28 of such Act 
(22 U.S.C. 2568) is amended--
            (1) in the second sentence, by striking ``Agency's 
        activities'' and inserting ``Department's arms control, 
        nonproliferation, and disarmament activities''; and
            (2) in the fourth sentence, by striking ``, and all 
        former Directors of the Agency''.
    (g) Policy Formulation.--Section 33(a) of such Act (22 
U.S.C. 2573(a)) is amended by striking ``shall prepare for the 
President, the Secretary of State,'' and inserting ``shall 
prepare for the President''.
    (h) Negotiation Management.--Section 34 of such Act (22 
U.S.C. 2574) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``the President 
        and the Secretary of State'' and inserting ``the 
        President''; and
            (2) by striking subsection (b).
    (i) Verification of Compliance.--Section 37(d) of such Act 
(22 U.S.C. 2577(d)) is amended by striking ``Director's 
designee'' and inserting ``Secretary's designee''.
    (j) General Authority.--Section 41 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 
2581) is repealed.
    (k) Security Requirements.--Section 45 of such Act (22 
U.S.C. 2585) is amended--
            (1) by striking subsections (a), (b), and (d); and
            (2) by striking ``(c)'' before ``The Atomic Energy 
        Commission''.
    (l) Use of Funds.--Section 48 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 2588) 
is repealed.
    (m) Annual Report.--Section 51(a) of such Act (22 U.S.C. 
2593a(a)) is amended by striking ``the Secretary of State,''.
    (n) Requirement for Authorization of Appropriations.--
Section 53 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 2593c) is repealed.
    (o) On-Site Inspection Agency.--Section 61 of such Act (22 
U.S.C. 2595) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``United States 
        Arms Control and Disarmament Agency is'' and inserting 
        ``Department of State and the Department of Defense are 
        respectively''; and
            (2) in paragraph (7), by striking ``the United 
        States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and''.

SEC. 225. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.

    (a) Arms Export Control Act.--The Arms Export Control Act 
is amended--
            (1) in section 36(b)(1)(D) (22 U.S.C. 
        2776(b)(1)(D)), by striking ``Director of the Arms 
        Control and Disarmament Agency in consultation with the 
        Secretary of State and'' and inserting ``Secretary of 
        State in consultation with'';
            (2) in section 38(a)(2) (22 U.S.C. 2778(a)(2))--
                    (A) in the first sentence, by striking 
                ``Director of the United States Arms Control 
                and Disarmament Agency, taking into account the 
                Director's'' and inserting ``Secretary of 
                State, taking into account the Secretary's''; 
                and
                    (B) in the second sentence, by striking 
                ``The Director of the Arms Control and 
                Disarmament Agency is authorized, whenever the 
                Director'' and inserting ``The Secretary of 
                State is authorized, whenever the Secretary'';
            (3) in section 42(a) (22 U.S.C. 2791(a))--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)(C), by striking 
                ``Director of the United States Arms Control 
                and Disarmament Agency'' and inserting 
                ``Secretary of State''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (2)--
                            (i) in the first sentence, by 
                        striking ``Director of the United 
                        States Arms Control and Disarmament 
                        Agency'' and inserting ``Secretary of 
                        State''; and
                            (ii) in the second sentence, by 
                        striking ``Director of the Arms Control 
                        and Disarmament Agency is authorized, 
                        whenever the Director'' and inserting 
                        ``Secretary of State is authorized, 
                        whenever the Secretary'';
            (4) in section 71(a) (22 U.S.C. 2797(a)), by 
        striking ``, the Director of the Arms Control and 
        Disarmament Agency,'' and inserting ``Secretary of 
        State'';
            (5) in section 71(b)(1) (22 U.S.C. 2797(b)(1)), by 
        striking ``Director of the United States Arms Control 
        and Disarmament Agency'' and inserting ``Secretary of 
        State'';
            (6) in section 71(b)(2) (22 U.S.C. 2797(b)(2))--
                    (A) by striking ``Director of the United 
                States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency'' 
                and inserting ``Secretary of State''; and
                    (B) by striking ``or the Director'';
            (7) in section 71(c) (22 U.S.C. 2797(c)), by 
        striking ``Director of the United States Arms Control 
        and Disarmament Agency,'' and inserting ``Secretary of 
        State''; and
            (8) in section 73(d) (22 U.S.C. 2797b(d)), by 
        striking ``, the Secretary of Commerce, and the 
        Director of the United States Arms Control and 
        Disarmament Agency'' and inserting ``and the Secretary 
        of Commerce''.
    (b) United States Institute of Peace Act.--Section 1706(b) 
of the United States Institute of Peace Act (22 U.S.C. 4605(b)) 
is amended--
            (1) by striking out paragraph (3);
            (2) by redesignating paragraphs (4) and (5) as 
        paragraphs (3) and (4), respectively; and
            (3) in paragraph (4) (as redesignated by paragraph 
        (2)), by striking ``Eleven'' and inserting ``Twelve''.
    (c) Atomic Energy Act of 1954.--The Atomic Energy Act of 
1954 is amended--
            (1) in section 57 b. (42 U.S.C. 2077(b))--
                    (A) in the first sentence, by striking 
                ``the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency,''; 
                and
                    (B) in the second sentence, by striking 
                ``the Director of the Arms Control and 
                Disarmament Agency,''; and
            (2) in section 123 (42 U.S.C. 2153)--
                    (A) in subsection a. (in the text below 
                paragraph (9)--
                            (i) by striking ``and in 
                        consultation with the Director of the 
                        Arms Control and Disarmament Agency 
                        (`the Director')''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``and the 
                        Director'' and inserting ``and the 
                        Secretary of Defense'';
                    (B) in subsection d., in the first proviso, 
                by striking ``Director of the Arms Control and 
                Disarmament Agency'' and inserting ``Secretary 
                of Defense''; and
                    (C) in the first undesignated paragraph 
                following subsection d., by striking ``the Arms 
                Control and Disarmament Agency,''.
    (d) Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978.--The Nuclear 
Non-Proliferation Act of 1978 is amended--
            (1) in section 4, by striking paragraph (2);
            (2) in section 102, by striking ``the Secretary of 
        State, and the Director of the Arms Control and 
        Disarmament Agency'' and inserting ``and the Secretary 
        of State''; and
            (3) in section 602(c), by striking ``the Arms 
        Control and Disarmament Agency,''.
    (e) Title 5, United States Code.--Title 5, United States 
Code, is amended--
            (1) in section 5313, by striking ``Director of the 
        United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.'';
            (2) in section 5314, by striking ``Deputy Director 
        of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament 
        Agency.'';
            (3) in section 5315--
                    (A) by striking ``Assistant Directors, 
                United States Arms Control and Disarmament 
                Agency (4).''; and
                    (B) by striking ``Special Representatives 
                of the President for arms control, 
                nonproliferation, and disarmament matters, 
                United States Arms Control and Disarmament 
                Agency'', and inserting ``Special 
                Representatives of the President for arms 
                control, nonproliferation, and disarmament 
                matters, Department of State''; and
            (4) in section 5316, by striking ``General Counsel 
        of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament 
        Agency.''.

              TITLE III--UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY

                     CHAPTER 1--GENERAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 301. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    (a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), this 
title, and the amendments made by this title, shall take effect 
on the earlier of--
            (1) March 1, 1997; or
            (2) the date of abolition of the United States 
        Information Agency pursuant to the reorganization plan 
        described in section 601.
    (b) Exception.--This title shall not take effect if the 
President waives the applicability of this title pursuant to 
section 602.

 CHAPTER 2--ABOLITION OF UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY AND TRANSFER 
                              OF FUNCTIONS

SEC. 311. ABOLITION OF UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY.

    The United States Information Agency is abolished.

SEC. 312. TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS.

    (a) Transfer to Secretary of State.--There are transferred 
to the Secretary of State all functions of the Director of the 
United States Information Agency and all functions of the 
United States Information Agency and any office or component of 
such agency under any statute, reorganization plan, Executive 
order, or other provision of law as of the day before the 
effective date of this title, except as otherwise provided in 
this division.
    (b) Transfer to Broadcasting Board of Governors.--There are 
transferred to the Broadcasting Board of Governors of the 
Department of State under title III of the Foreign Relations 
Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (Public Law 103-
236), as amended by this Act, all functions of the Broadcasting 
Board of Governors of the United States Information Agency as 
of the day before the effective date of this title.

SEC. 313. UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY.

    Section 1(b) of the State Department Basic Authorities Act 
of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2651a(b) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``There'' and inserting the 
        following:
            ``(1) In general.--There''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Under secretary for public diplomacy.--There 
        shall be in the Department of State, among the Under 
        Secretaries authorized by paragraph (1), an Under 
        Secretary for Public Diplomacy who shall have 
        responsibility to assist the Secretary and the Deputy 
        Secretary in the formation and implementation of United 
        States public diplomacy policies and activities, 
        including international educational and cultural 
        exchange programs, information, and international 
        broadcasting.''.

                    CHAPTER 3--CONFORMING AMENDMENTS

SEC. 321. REFERENCES IN LAW.

    Any reference in any statute, reorganization plan, 
Executive order, regulation, agreement, determination, or other 
official document or proceeding to--
            (1) the Director of the United States Information 
        Agency or the Director of the International 
        Communication Agency shall be deemed to refer to the 
        Secretary of State; and
            (2) the United States Information Agency, USIA, or 
        the International Communication Agency shall be deemed 
        to refer to the Department of State.

SEC. 322. AMENDMENTS TO TITLE 5, UNITED STATES CODE.

    Title 5, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in section 5313, by striking ``Director of the 
        United States Information Agency.'';
            (2) in section 5315, by striking ``Deputy Director 
        of the United States Information Agency.''; and
            (3) in section 5316, by striking ``Deputy Director, 
        Policy and Plans, United States Information Agency.'' 
        and striking ``Associate Director (Policy and Plans), 
        United States Information Agency.''.

SEC. 323. AMENDMENTS TO UNITED STATES INFORMATION AND EDUCATIONAL 
                    EXCHANGE ACT OF 1948.

    (a) References in Section.--Except as specifically provided 
in this section, whenever in this section an amendment or 
repeal is expressed as an amendment or repeal of a provision, 
the reference shall be deemed to be made to the United States 
Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (22 U.S.C. 
1431 et seq.).
    (b) In General.--Except as otherwise provided in this 
section, the Act (other than section 604 and subsections (a) 
and (c) of section 701) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``United States Information 
        Agency'' each place it appears and inserting 
        ``Department of State'';
            (2) by striking ``Director of the United States 
        Information Agency'' each place it appears and 
        inserting ``Secretary of State'';
            (3) by striking ``Director'' each place it appears 
        and inserting ``Secretary of State'';
            (4) by striking ``USIA'' each place it appears and 
        inserting ``Department of State''; and
            (5) by striking ``Agency'' each place it appears 
        and inserting ``Department of State''.
    (c) Satellite and Television Broadcasts.--Section 505 (22 
U.S.C. 1464a) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Director of the United States 
        Information Agency'' each of the three places it 
        appears and inserting ``Secretary of State'';
            (2) in subsection (b), by striking ``To be 
        effective, the United States Information Agency'' and 
        inserting ``To be effective in carrying out this 
        subsection, the Department of State'';
            (3) by striking ``USIA-TV'' each place it appears 
        and inserting ``DEPARTMENT OF STATE-TV''; and
            (4) by striking subsection (e).
    (d) Nondiscretionary Personnel Costs and Currency 
Fluctuations.--Section 704 (22 U.S.C. 1477b) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b), by inserting after 
        ``authorized by law'' the following: ``in connection 
        with carrying out the informational and educational 
        exchange functions of the Department''; and
            (2) in subsection (c), by striking ``United States 
        Information Agency'' each place it appears and 
        inserting ``Department of State in carrying out the 
        informational and educational exchange functions of the 
        Department''.
    (e) Reprogramming Notifications.--Section 705 (22 U.S.C. 
1477c) is amended by striking ``United States Information 
Agency'' each place it appears and inserting ``Department of 
State in carrying out its informational and educational 
exchange functions''.
    (f) Authorities of the Secretary.--Section 801(3) (22 
U.S.C. 1471(3)) is amended by striking all ``if the 
sufficiency'' and all that follows and inserting ``if the 
Secretary determines that title to such real property or 
interests is sufficient;''.
    (g) Repeal of the USIA Seal.--Section 807 (22 U.S.C. 1475b) 
is repealed.
    (h) Acting Associate Directors.--Section 808 (22 U.S.C. 
1475c) is repealed.
    (i) Debt Collection.--Section 811 (22 U.S.C. 1475f) is 
amended by inserting ``informational and educational exchange'' 
before ``activities'' each place it appears.
    (j) Overseas Posts.--Section 812 (22 U.S.C. 1475g) is 
amended by striking ``United States Information Agency post'' 
each place it appears and inserting ``informational and 
educational exchange post of the Department of State''.
    (k) Definition.--Section 4 (22 U.S.C. 1433) is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
            ``(4) `informational and educational exchange 
        functions', with respect to the Department of State, 
        refers to functions exercised by the United States 
        Information Agency before the effective date of title 
        III of the Foreign Affairs Agencies Consolidation Act 
        of 1996.''.

SEC. 324. AMENDMENTS TO MUTUAL EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE ACT OF 
                    1961 (FULBRIGHT-HAYS ACT).

    (a) References in Section.--Except as specifically provided 
in this section, whenever in this section an amendment or 
repeal is expressed as an amendment or repeal of a provision, 
the reference shall be deemed to be made to the Mutual 
Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2451 
et seq.).
    (b) In General.--The Act (22 U.S.C. 2451 et seq.) is 
amended by striking ``Director of the International 
Communication Agency'' each place it appears and inserting 
``Secretary of State''.
    (c) Program Authorities.--(1) Section 102(a) (22 U.S.C. 
2452(a)) is amended by striking ``President'' each place it 
appears and inserting ``Secretary of State''.
    (2) Section 102(b) (22 U.S.C. 2452(b)) is amended by 
striking ``President'' and inserting ``Secretary of State 
(except, in the case of paragraphs (6) and (10), the 
President)''.
    (d) International Agreements.--Section 103 (22 U.S.C. 2453) 
is amended by striking ``President'' each place it appears and 
inserting ``Secretary of State''.
    (e) Personnel Benefits.--Section 104(d) (22 U.S.C. 2454(d)) 
is amended by striking ``President'' each place it appears and 
inserting ``Secretary of State''.
    (f) Foreign Student Counseling.--Section 104(e)(3) (22 
U.S.C. 2454(e)(3)) is amended by striking ``President'' and 
inserting ``Secretary of State''.
    (g) Publicity and Promotion Overseas.--Section 104(e)(4) 
(22 U.S.C. 2454(e)(4)) is amended by striking ``President'' and 
inserting ``Secretary of State''.
    (h) Use of Funds.--Section 105(e) (22 U.S.C. 2455(e)) is 
amended by striking ``President'' each place it appears and 
inserting ``Secretary of State''.
    (i) Repeal of Authority for Abolished Advisory Committee.--
Section 106(c) of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange 
Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2456(c)) is repealed.
    (j) Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.--
            (1) In general.--Section 112(a) (22 U.S.C. 2460(a)) 
        is amended by striking the first sentence and inserting 
        the following: ``In order to carry out the purposes of 
        this Act, there is established in the Department of 
        State a Bureau for International Exchange Activities 
        (in this section referred to as the `Bureau').''.
            (2) Implementation of programs.--Section 112(c) (22 
        U.S.C. 2460(c)) is amended by striking ``President'' 
        each place it appears and inserting ``Secretary of 
        State''.

SEC. 325. INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING ACTIVITIES.

    (a) In General.--(1) Except as otherwise provided in 
paragraph (2), title III of the Foreign Relations Authorization 
Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (Public Law 103-236) is 
amended--
            (A) by striking ``Director of the United States 
        Information Agency'' or ``Director'' each place it 
        appears and inserting ``Under Secretary of State for 
        Public Diplomacy'';
            (B) by striking all references to ``United States 
        Information Agency'' that were not stricken in 
        subparagraph (A) and inserting ``Department of State'';
            (C) in section 305(a)(1), by inserting ``(including 
        activities of the Voice of America previously carried 
        out by the United States Information Agency)'' after 
        ``this title'';
            (D) in section 305(b), by striking ``Agency's'' 
        each place it appears and inserting ``Department's''; 
        and
            (E) by striking ``Bureau'' each place it appears 
        and inserting ``Office''.
    (2) Title III of such Act is amended--
            (A) in section 304(c)--
                    (i) by striking ``Director's'' and 
                inserting ``Under Secretary's''; and
                    (ii) in the fifth sentence, by striking 
                ``Director of the United States Information 
                Agency, the acting Director of the agency'' and 
                inserting ``Under Secretary of State for Public 
                Diplomacy, the acting Under Secretary'';
            (B) in sections 305(b) and 307(b)(1), by striking 
        ``Director of the Bureau'' each place it appears and 
        inserting ``Director of the Office''; and
            (C) in section 310(d), by striking ``Director on 
        the date of enactment of this Act, to the extent that 
        the Director'' and inserting ``Under Secretary on the 
        effective date of title III of the Foreign Affairs 
        Agencies Consolidation Act of 1996, to the extent that 
        the Under Secretary''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment to Title 5.--Section 5315 of title 
5, United States Code, is amended by striking ``Director of the 
International Broadcasting Bureau, the United States 
Information Agency'' and inserting ``Director of the 
International Broadcasting Office, the Department of State''.

SEC. 326. TELEVISION BROADCASTING TO CUBA.

    (a) Authority.--Section 243(a) of the Television 
Broadcasting to Cuba Act (as contained in part D of title II of 
Public Law 101-246) (22 U.S.C. 1465bb(a)) is amended by 
striking ``United States Information Agency (hereafter in this 
part referred to as the `Agency')'' and inserting ``Department 
of State (hereafter in this title referred to as the 
`Department')''.
    (b) Television Marti Service.--Section 244 of such Act (22 
U.S.C. 1465cc) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by amending the first sentence to read 
                as follows: ``The Secretary of State shall 
                administer within the Voice of America the 
                Television Marti Service.''; and
                    (B) in the third sentence, by striking 
                ``Director of the United States Information 
                Agency'' and inserting ``Secretary of State'';
            (2) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in the subsection heading, by striking 
                ``USIA'' and inserting ``Department of State'';
                    (B) by striking ``Agency facilities'' and 
                inserting ``Department facilities''; and
                    (C) by striking ``United States Information 
                Agency Television Service'' and inserting 
                ``Department of State Television Service''; and
            (3) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) by striking ``USIA Authority.--The 
                Agency'' and inserting ``Secretary of State 
                Authority.--The Secretary of State''; and
                    (B) by striking ``Agency'' the second place 
                it appears and inserting ``Secretary of 
                State''.
    (c) Assistance From Other Government Agencies.--Section 246 
of such Act (22 U.S.C. 1465dd) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``United States Information 
        Agency'' and inserting ``Department of State''; and
            (2) by striking ``the Agency'' and inserting ``the 
        Department''.
    (d) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 247(a) of 
such Act (22 U.S.C. 1465ee(a)) is repealed.

SEC. 327. RADIO BROADCASTING TO CUBA.

    (a) Functions of the Department of State.--Section 3 of the 
Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Act (22 U.S.C. 1465a) is amended--
            (1) in the section heading, by striking ``United 
        States Information Agency'' and inserting ``Department 
        of State'';
            (2) in subsection (a), by striking ``United States 
        Information Agency (hereafter in this Act referred to 
        as the `Agency')'' and inserting ``Department of State 
        (hereafter in this Act referred to as the 
        `Department')'';
            (3) by striking subsection (d); and
            (4) in subsection (f), by striking ``Director of 
        the United States Information Agency'' and inserting 
        ``Secretary of State''.
    (b) Cuba Service.--Section 4 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 1465b) 
is amended--
            (1) by amending the first sentence to read as 
        follows: ``The Secretary of State shall administer 
        within the Voice of America the Cuba Service (hereafter 
        in this section referred to as the `Service').''; and
            (2) in the third sentence, by striking ``Director 
        of the United States Information Agency'' and inserting 
        ``Secretary of State''.
    (c) Assistance From Other Government Agencies.--Section 6 
of such Act (22 U.S.C. 1465d) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking ``United States Information 
                Agency'' and inserting ``Department of State''; 
                and
                    (B) by striking ``the Agency'' and 
                inserting ``the Department''; and
            (2) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) by striking ``The Agency'' and 
                inserting ``The Department''; and
                    (B) by striking ``the Agency'' and 
                inserting ``the Secretary of State''.
    (d) Facility Compensation.--Section 7 of such Act (22 
U.S.C. 1465e) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b), by striking ``the Agency'' 
        and inserting ``the Department''; and
            (2) in subsection (d), by striking ``Agency'' and 
        inserting ``Department''.
    (e) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 8 of such Act 
(22 U.S.C. 1465f) is amended--
            (1) by striking subsections (a) and (b) and 
        inserting the following:
    ``(a) The amount obligated by the Department of State each 
fiscal year to carry out this Act shall be sufficient to 
maintain broadcasts to Cuba under this Act at rates no less 
than the fiscal year 1985 level of obligations by the former 
United States Information Agency for such broadcasts.''; and
            (2) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection 
        (b).

SEC. 328. NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY.

    (a) Grants.--Section 503 of Public Law 98-164, as amended 
(22 U.S.C. 4412) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking ``Director of the United 
                States Information Agency'' and inserting 
                ``Secretary of State'';
                    (B) by striking ``the Agency'' and 
                inserting ``the Department of State''; and
                    (C) by striking ``the Director'' and 
                inserting ``the Secretary of State''; and
            (2) in subsection (b), by striking ``United States 
        Information Agency'' and inserting ``Department of 
        State''.
    (b) Audits.--Section 504(g) of such Act (22 U.S.C. 4413(g)) 
is amended by striking ``United States Information Agency'' and 
inserting ``Department of State''.
    (c) Freedom of Information.--Section 506 of such Act (22 
U.S.C. 4415) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) by striking ``Director'' each of the 
                three places it appears and inserting 
                ``Secretary''; and
                    (B) by striking ``of the United States 
                Information Agency'' and inserting ``of 
                State''; and
            (2) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) in the subsection heading by striking 
                ``USIA'' and inserting ``Department of State'';
                    (B) by striking ``Director'' each of the 
                three places it appears and inserting 
                ``Secretary'';
                    (C) by striking ``of the United States 
                Information Agency'' and inserting ``of 
                State''; and
                    (D) by striking ``United States Information 
                Agency'' and inserting ``Department of State''.

SEC. 329. UNITED STATES SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.

    (a) Program Authority.--Section 603 of the Foreign 
Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987 (22 
U.S.C. 4703) is amended by striking ``United States Information 
Agency'' and inserting ``Department of State''.
    (b) Guidelines.--Section 604(11) of such Act (22 U.S.C. 
4704(11)) is amended by striking ``United States Information 
Agency'' and inserting ``Department of State''.
    (c) Policy Regarding Other International Educational 
Programs.--Section 606(b) of such Act (22 U.S.C. 4706(b)) is 
amended--
            (1) in the subsection heading, by striking ``USIA'' 
        and inserting ``State Department''; and
            (2) by striking ``Director of the United States 
        Information Agency'' and inserting ``Secretary of 
        State''.
    (d) General Authorities.--Section 609(e) of such Act (22 
U.S.C. 4709(e)) is amended by striking ``United States 
Information Agency'' and inserting ``Department of State''.

SEC. 330. FASCELL FELLOWSHIP BOARD.

    Section 1003(b) of the Fascell Fellowship Act (22 U.S.C. 
4902(b)) is amended--
            (1) in the text above paragraph (1), by striking 
        ``9 members'' and inserting ``8 members'';
            (2) by striking paragraph (3); and
            (3) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph 
        (3).

SEC. 331. NATIONAL SECURITY EDUCATION BOARD.

    Section 803 of the Intelligence Authorization Act, Fiscal 
Year 1992 (50 U.S.C. 1903(b)) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) by striking paragraph (6); and
                    (B) by redesignating paragraph (7) as 
                paragraph (6); and
            (2) in subsection (c), by striking ``subsection 
        (b)(7)'' and inserting ``subsection (b)(6)''.

SEC. 332. CENTER FOR CULTURAL AND TECHNICAL INTERCHANGE BETWEEN NORTH 
                    AND SOUTH.

    Section 208 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, 
Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 (22 U.S.C. 2075) is amended by 
striking ``Director of the United States Information Agency'' 
each place it appears and inserting ``Secretary of State''.

SEC. 333. CENTER FOR CULTURAL AND TECHNICAL INTERCHANGE BETWEEN EAST 
                    AND WEST.

    (a) Duties.--Section 703 of the Mutual Security Act of 1960 
(22 U.S.C. 2055) is amended--
            (1) in the text above paragraph (1), by striking 
        ``Director of the United States Information Agency'' 
        (hereinafter referred to as the `Director')'' and 
        inserting ``Secretary of State (hereinafter referred to 
        as the `Secretary')''; and
            (2) in paragraph (1), by striking ``establishment 
        and''.
    (b) Administration.--Section 704 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 
2056) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Director of the United States 
        Information Agency'' and inserting ``Secretary of 
        State''; and
            (2) by striking ``Director'' each place it appears 
        and inserting ``Secretary''.

SEC. 334. MISSION OF DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

    Section 202 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, 
Fiscal Year 1979 (22 U.S.C. 1461-1) is amended--
            (1) in the first sentence, by striking ``mission of 
        the United States Information Agency'' and inserting 
        ``mission of the Department of State in carrying out 
        its information, educational, and cultural functions'';
            (2) in the second sentence, in the text above 
        paragraph (1), by striking ``United States Information 
        Agency'' and inserting ``Department of State'';
            (3) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ``Agency'' and 
        inserting ``Department''; and
            (4) in paragraph (5), by striking ``mission of the 
        Agency'' and inserting ``mission described in this 
        section''.

SEC. 335. CONSOLIDATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES.

    Section 23(a) of the State Department Basic Authorities Act 
of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2695(a)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``(including'' and all that follows 
        through ``Agency)''; and
            (2) by striking ``other such agencies'' and 
        inserting ``other Federal agencies''.

SEC. 336. GRANTS.

    Section 212 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, 
Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 (22 U.S.C. 1475h) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``United States 
        Information Agency'' and inserting ``Department of 
        State, in carrying out its international information, 
        educational, and cultural functions,'';
            (2) in subsection (b), by striking ``United States 
        Information Agency'' and inserting ``Department of 
        State'';
            (3) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``United 
                States Information Agency shall substantially 
                comply with United States Information Agency'' 
                and inserting ``Department of State, in 
                carrying out its international information, 
                educational, and cultural functions, shall 
                substantially comply with Department of 
                State''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``United 
                States Information Agency'' and inserting 
                ``Department of State''; and
                    (C) in paragraphs (2) and (3), by striking 
                ``Agency'' each of the two places it appears 
                and inserting ``Department''; and
            (4) by striking subsection (d).

SEC. 337. BAN ON DOMESTIC ACTIVITIES.

    Section 208 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, 
Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987 (22 U.S.C. 1461-1a) is amended--
            (1) by striking out ``United States Information 
        Agency'' each of the two places it appears and 
        inserting ``Department of State''; and
            (2) by inserting ``in carrying out international 
        information, educational, and cultural activities 
        comparable to those previously administered by the 
        United States Information Agency'' before ``shall be 
        distributed''.

SEC. 338. CONFORMING REPEAL TO ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT ACT.

    Section 34(b) of the Arms Control and Disarmament Act (22 
U.S.C. 2574(b)) is repealed.

SEC. 339. REPEAL RELATING TO PROCUREMENT OF LEGAL SERVICES.

    Section 26(b) of the State Department Basic Authorities Act 
of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2698(b)) is repealed.

SEC. 340. REPEAL RELATING TO PAYMENT OF SUBSISTENCE EXPENSES.

    Section 32 of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 
1956 (22 U.S.C. 2704) is amended by striking the second 
sentence.

SEC. 341. CONFORMING AMENDMENT TO SEED ACT.

    Section 2(c) of the Support for East European Democracy 
(SEED) Act of 1989 (22 U.S.C. 5401(c)) is amended in paragraph 
(17) by striking ``United States Information Agency'' and 
inserting ``Department of State''.

SEC. 342. INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL AND TRADE CENTER COMMISSION.

    Section 7(c)(1) of the Federal Triangle Development Act (40 
U.S.C. 1106(c)(1)) is amended--
            (1) in the text above subparagraph (A), by striking 
        ``15 members'' and inserting ``14 members'';
            (2) by striking subparagraph (F); and
            (3) by redesignating subparagraphs (G) through (J) 
        as subparagraphs (F) through (I), respectively.

SEC. 343. OTHER LAWS REFERENCED IN REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 2 OF 1977.

    (a) Immigration and Nationality Act.--(1) Section 
101(a)(15)(J) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1101(a)(15)(J)) is amended by striking ``Director of the United 
States Information Agency'' and inserting ``Secretary of 
State''.
    (2) Section 212(e) of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(e)) is 
amended--
            (A) by striking ``Director of the United States 
        Information Agency'' and inserting ``Secretary of 
        State''; and
            (B) by striking ``Director'' each place it appears 
        and inserting ``Secretary''.
    (b) Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act.--Section 3(a) of the 
Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act (20 U.S.C. 972(a)) is amended 
by striking out ``Director of the United States Information 
Agency'' and inserting in lieu thereof ``Secretary of State''.
    (c) National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act 
of 1965.--Section 9(b) of the National Foundation on the Arts 
and the Humanities Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 958(b)) is amended by 
striking out ``a member designated by the Director of the 
United States Information Agency,'' and inserting in lieu 
thereof ``a member designated by the Secretary of State,''.
    (d) Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968.--Section 3(b) of 
the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 (20 U.S.C. 80f(b)) is 
amended--
            (1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by 
        striking out ``19 members'' and inserting in lieu 
        thereof ``18 members'';
            (2) by striking out paragraph (7); and
            (3) by redesignating paragraphs (8), (9), and (10) 
        as paragraphs (7), (8), and (9), respectively.
    (e) Public Law 95-86.--Title V of the Departments of State, 
Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 1978 (Public Law 95-86) is amended in the 
third proviso of the paragraph ``salaries and expenses'' under 
the heading ``United States Information Agency'' (22 U.S.C. 
1461b) by striking out ``the United States Information Agency 
is authorized,'' and inserting in lieu thereof ``the Secretary 
of State may,''.
    (f) Act of July 9, 1949.--The Act of July 9, 1949 (63 Stat. 
408; chapter 301; 22 U.S.C. 2681 et seq.) is repealed.

SEC. 344. EXCHANGE PROGRAM WITH COUNTRIES IN TRANSITION FROM 
                    TOTALITARIANISM TO DEMOCRACY.

    Section 602 of the National and Community Service Act of 
1990 (22 U.S.C. 2452a) is amended--
            (1) in the second sentence of subsection (a), by 
        striking ``United States Information Agency'' and 
        inserting ``Department of State''; and
            (2) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) by striking ``appropriations account of 
                the United States Information Agency'' and 
                inserting ``appropriate appropriations account 
                of the Department of State''; and
                    (B) by striking ``and the United States 
                Information Agency''.

SEC. 345. EDMUND S. MUSKIE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM.

    Section 227 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, 
Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 (22 U.S.C. 2452 note) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b), by striking ``United States 
        Information Agency'' and inserting ``Department of 
        State''; and
            (2) by striking subsection (d).

SEC. 346. IMPLEMENTATION OF CONVENTION ON CULTURAL PROPERTY.

    Title III of the Convention on Cultural Property 
Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.) is amended by 
striking ``Director of the United States Information Agency'' 
each place it appears and inserting ``Secretary of State''.

SEC. 347. MIKE MANSFIELD FELLOWSHIPS.

    Part C of title II of the Foreign Relations Authorization 
Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (22 U.S.C. 6101 et seq.) is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``Director of the United States 
        Information Agency'' each place it appears and 
        inserting ``Secretary of State''; and
            (2) by striking ``United States Information 
        Agency'' each place it appears and inserting 
        ``Department of State''.

SEC. 348. UNITED STATES ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY.

    Section 604 of the United States Information and 
Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (22 U.S.C. 1469) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (c)(1)--
                    (A) by striking ``the Director of the 
                United States Information Agency,''; and
                    (B) by striking ``Director or the Agency, 
                and shall appraise the effectiveness of 
                policies and programs of the Agency'' and 
                inserting ``Secretary of State or the 
                Department of State, and shall appraise the 
                effectiveness of the information, educational, 
                and cultural policies and programs of the 
                Department'';
            (2) in subsection (c)(2), in the first sentence--
                    (A) by striking ``the Secretary of State, 
                and the Director of the United States 
                Information Agency'' and inserting ``, and the 
                Secretary of State'';
                    (B) by striking ``Agency'' the first place 
                it appears and inserting ``Department of 
                State''; and
                    (C) by striking ``Director for effectuating 
                the purposes of the Agency'' and inserting 
                ``Secretary for effectuating the information, 
                educational, and cultural functions of the 
                Department'';
            (3) in subsection (c)(3), by striking ``programs 
        conducted by the Agency'' and inserting ``information, 
        educational, and cultural programs conducted by the 
        Department of State''; and
            (4) in subsection (c)(4), by striking ``Director of 
        the United States Information Agency'' and inserting 
        ``Secretary of State''.

             TITLE IV--AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

                     CHAPTER 1--GENERAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 401. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    (a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), this 
title, and the amendments made by this title, shall take effect 
on the earlier of--
            (1) March 1, 1997; or
            (2) the date of abolition of the Agency for 
        International Development and the United States 
        International Development Cooperation Agency pursuant 
        to the reorganization plan described in section 601.
    (b) Exception.--This title shall not take effect if the 
President waives the applicability of this title pursuant to 
section 602.

   CHAPTER 2--ABOLITION OF AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND 
                         TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

SEC. 411. ABOLITION OF AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND UNITED 
                    STATES INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION 
                    AGENCY.

    (a) In General.--The Agency for International Development 
and the United States International Development Cooperation 
Agency are abolished.
    (b) OPIC.--Subsection (a) shall not be interpreted to apply 
to the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.

SEC. 412. TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS.

    There are transferred to the Secretary of State all 
functions of the Administrator of the Agency for International 
Development and the Director of the United States International 
Development Cooperation Agency and all functions of the Agency 
for International Development and the United States 
International Development Cooperation Agency (other than the 
functions with respect to the Overseas Private Investment 
Corporation) and any office or component of such agencies under 
any statute, reorganization plan, Executive order, or other 
provision of law before the effective date of this title, 
except as otherwise provided in this division.

SEC. 413. UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND FOR ECONOMIC AND 
                    COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS.

    Section 1(b) of the State Department Basic Authorities Act 
of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2651a(b)) is amended by adding after 
paragraph (2), as added by section 313 of this Act, the 
following new paragraph:
            ``(3) Under secretary for development and for 
        economic and commercial affairs.--There shall be in the 
        Department of State, among the Under Secretaries 
        authorized by paragraph (1), an Under Secretary for 
        Development and for Economic and Commercial Affairs who 
        shall assist the Secretary and the Deputy Secretary in 
        the formation and implementation of United States 
        policies and activities concerning international 
        development and economic and commercial affairs.''.

SEC. 414. ABOLITION OF OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL OF AGENCY FOR 
                    INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSFER OF 
                    FUNCTIONS.

    (a) Abolition of Office.--The Office of Inspector General 
of the Agency for International Development is abolished.
    (b) Amendments to the Inspector General Act of 1978.--The 
Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is amended as 
follows:
            (1) Section 8A is repealed.
            (2) Section 11(1) is amended by striking ``the 
        Administrator of the Agency for International 
        Development,''.
            (3) Section 11(2) is amended by striking ``the 
        Agency for International Development,''.
    (c) Executive Schedule.--Section 5315 of title 5, United 
States Code, is amended by striking the following: ``Inspector 
General, Agency for International Development.''.
    (d) Conforming Amendments.--(1) Section 239(e) of the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2199(e)) is amended 
by striking ``Inspector General of the Agency for International 
Development'' and inserting ``Inspector General of the 
Department of State''.
    (2) Sections 805, 806, and 812 of the Foreign Service Act 
of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4045, 4046, 4052) are amended by striking 
``Office of the Inspector General, Agency for International 
Development'' each place it appears and inserting ``Office of 
the Inspector General, Department of State''.
    (3) Section 205(b)(3) of the Agricultural Trade Development 
and Assistance Act of 1954 (7 U.S.C. 1725(b)(3)) is amended by 
striking ``Inspector General of the Agency for International 
Development'' and inserting ``Inspector General of the 
Department of State''.
    (e) Transfer of Functions.--
            (1) Transfer to inspector general of department of 
        state.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), there are 
        transferred to the Office of Inspector General of the 
        Department of State the functions that the Office of 
        Inspector General of the Agency for International 
        Development exercised before the effective date of this 
        title (including all related functions of the Inspector 
        General of the Agency for International Development).
            (2) Transfer to secretary of state.--There are 
        transferred to the Secretary of State all security 
        functions exercised by the Office of Inspector General 
        of the Agency for International Development exercised 
        before the effective date of this title (including all 
        related functions of the Inspector General of the 
        Agency for International Development).
    (f) Transfer and Allocations of Appropriations and 
Personnel.--The Secretary and the Inspector General of the 
Department of State, are authorized to make such incidental 
dispositions of personnel, assets, liabilities, grants, 
contracts, property, records, and unexpended balances of 
appropriations, authorizations, allocations, and other funds 
held, used, arising from, available to, or to be made available 
in connection with such functions, as may be necessary to carry 
out the provisions of this section.

SEC. 415. ABOLITION OF OFFICE OF CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER OF AGENCY FOR 
                    INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSFER OF 
                    FUNCTIONS.

    (a) Abolition of Office.--The Office of Chief Financial 
Officer of the Agency for International Development is 
abolished.
    (b) Amendment to Title 31, United States Code.--Section 
901(b)(2) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by 
striking subparagraph (A).
    (c) Transfer of Functions.--There are transferred to the 
Office of Chief Financial Officer of the Department of State 
the functions that the Office of Chief Financial Officer of the 
Agency for International Development exercised before the 
effective date of this title (including all related functions 
of the Chief Financial Officer of the Agency for International 
Development).
    (d) Transfer and Allocations of Appropriations and 
Personnel.--The Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget, in consultation with the Secretary of State, is 
authorized to make such incidental dispositions of personnel, 
assets, liabilities, grants, contracts, property, records, and 
unexpended balances of appropriations, authorizations, 
allocations, and other funds held, used, arising from, 
available to, or to be made available in connection with such 
functions, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of 
this section.

                    CHAPTER 3--CONFORMING AMENDMENTS

SEC. 421. REFERENCES.

    Any reference in any statute, reorganization plan, 
Executive order, regulation, agreement, determination, or other 
official document or proceeding to--
            (1) the administrator of the agency primarily 
        responsible for administering part I of the Foreign 
        Assistance Act of 1961, the Administrator of the Agency 
        for International Development, or any other officer or 
        employee of the Agency for International Development, 
        shall be deemed to refer to the Secretary of State;
            (2) the Director or any other officer or employee 
        of the 
        United States International Development Cooperation 
        Agency (IDCA) shall be deemed to refer to the Secretary 
        of State; or
            (3) the Agency for International Development, AID, 
        the agency primarily responsible for administering part 
        I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, or the United 
        States International Development Cooperation Agency 
        (IDCA) shall be deemed to refer to the Department of 
        State.

SEC. 422. EXERCISE OF FUNCTIONS BY SECRETARY OF STATE.

    Section 621(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
U.S.C. 2381(a)) is amended--
            (1) in the first sentence, by inserting before the 
        period the following: ``, except that functions 
        conferred upon the President in part I of this Act may 
        be exercised by the Secretary of State''; and
            (2) in the second and third sentences, by striking 
        ``head of any such agency'' each place it appears and 
        inserting ``Secretary of State and any other head of 
        any such agency''.

SEC. 423. REPEAL OF POSITIONS; EMPLOYMENT AND CONTRACTING AUTHORITIES.

    The following sections of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
1961 are repealed:
            (1) Section 624 (a), (b), (c), and (e) (22 U.S.C. 
        2384 (a), (b), (c), and (e); relating to statutory 
        officers).
            (2) Section 626 (a) and (b) (22 U.S.C. 2386 (a) and 
        (b); relating to experts and consultants).

SEC. 424. DEVELOPMENT LOAN COMMITTEE.

    Section 122(e) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
U.S.C. 2151t(e)) is amended by inserting after the first 
sentence the following new sentence: ``The Secretary of State 
shall serve as Chairman of the Committee.''.

SEC. 425. DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION COMMITTEE.

    (a) Annual Report.--Section 634(a) of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2394(a)) is amended in the 
text above paragraph (1)(A) by striking ``Chairman of the 
Development Coordination Committee'' and inserting ``Secretary 
of State''.
    (b) Coordination.--Section 640B(a) of such Act (22 U.S.C. 
2399(a)) is amended by striking ``head of the agency primarily 
responsible for administering part I, Chairman, and 
representatives of the Departments of State,'' and inserting 
``Secretary of State,''.

SEC. 426. PUBLIC LAW 83-480 PROGRAM.

    The Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 
1954 (Public Law 83-480; 7 U.S.C. 1691 et seq.) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Administrator'' each place it 
        appears and inserting ``Secretary of State''; and
            (2) in section 402 (7 U.S.C. 1732)--
                    (A) by striking paragraph (1); and
                    (B) by redesignating paragraphs (2) through 
                (8) as paragraphs (1) through (7), 
                respectively.

SEC. 427. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS TO TITLE 5, UNITED STATES CODE.

    (a) Administrator.--Section 5313 of title 5, United States 
Code, is amended by striking ``Administrator, Agency for 
International Development.''.
    (b) Deputy Administrator.--Section 5314 of title 5, United 
States Code, is amended by striking ``Deputy Administrator, 
Agency for International Development.''.
    (c) Assistant Administrators.--Section 5315 of title 5, 
United States Code, is amended by striking ``Assistant 
Administrators, Agency for International Development (6).''.
    (d) Regional Assistant Administrators.--Section 5315 of 
title 5, United States Code, is amended by striking ``Regional 
Assistant Administrators, Agency for International Development 
(4).''.
    (e) General Counsel.--Section 5316 of title 5, United 
States Code, is amended by striking ``General Counsel of the 
Agency for International Development.''.

SEC. 428. TRADE PROMOTION COORDINATING COMMITTEE.

    Section 2312 of the Export Enhancement Act of 1988 (15 
U.S.C. 4727) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (d)(1)--
                    (A) by striking subparagraph (I); and
                    (B) by redesignating subparagraphs (J) 
                through (M) as subparagraphs (I) through (L), 
                respectively; and
            (2) in subsection (f)--
                    (A) by inserting ``the Committee on Foreign 
                Relations and'' after ``submit to''; and
                    (B) by striking ``Foreign Affairs'' and 
                inserting ``International Relations''.

SEC. 429. ADDITIONAL CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.

    (a) FAA Authorities.--The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 is 
amended--
            (1) in section 118 (22 U.S.C. 2151p-1)--
                    (A) by striking ``Agency for International 
                Development'' each place it appears and 
                inserting ``Department of State''; and
                    (B) by striking ``Agency'' each place it 
                appears and inserting ``Department'';
            (2) in section 119 (22 U.S.C. 2151q)--
                    (A) by striking ``Agency for International 
                Development'' each place it appears and 
                inserting ``Department of State'';
                    (B) by striking ``Agency'' each place it 
                appears and inserting ``Department''; and
                    (C) in subsection (g)--
                            (i) by striking ``Actions by AID'' 
                        and inserting ``Actions by the 
                        Department of State''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``Agency's'' and 
                        inserting ``Department's'';
            (3) in section 123(b) (22 U.S.C. 2151u), by 
        striking ``Agency for International Development'' and 
        inserting ``Department of State'';
            (4) in section 225 (22 U.S.C. 2185)--
                    (A) by striking ``Administrator'' each 
                place it appears (other than in subsection 
                (m)(2)) and inserting ``Secretary''; and
                    (B) in subsection (m)--
                            (i) by striking ``Agency for 
                        International Development'' and 
                        inserting ``Department of State''; and
                            (ii) by striking `` `Administrator' 
                        means the Administrator of the Agency 
                        for International Development'' and 
                        inserting `` `Secretary' means the 
                        Secretary of State'';
            (5) in section 233(b), by striking ``Administrator 
        of the Agency for International Development'' and 
        inserting ``Secretary of State'';
            (6) in section 239 (22 U.S.C. 2199) in subsection 
        (h), by striking ``Agency for International 
        Development'' and inserting ``Department of State'';
            (7) in section 296 (22 U.S.C. 2220a), by striking 
        subsection (e);
            (8) in sections 462 through 466 (22 U.S.C. 2282-
        2286), by striking ``Administrator of the Agency for 
        International Development'' each place it appears and 
        inserting ``Secretary of State'';
            (9) in section 495K(b)(3), by striking `` 
        `Operating Expenses of the Agency for International 
        Development' account'' and inserting ``appropriate 
        administrative account of the Department of State'';
            (10) in section 496, by striking ``Agency for 
        International Development'' each place it appears and 
        inserting ``Department of State'';
            (11) in section 498C(b)(1), by striking `` 
        `Operating Expenses of the Agency for International 
        Development' '' and inserting ``the appropriate 
        administrative account of the Department of State'';
            (12) in section 601--
                    (A) except as provided in subparagraph (B), 
                by striking ``Administrator'' each place it 
                appears and inserting ``Secretary of State'';
                    (B) in subsection (c)(1), by striking 
                ``Administrator of the Agency for International 
                Development'' and inserting ``Secretary of 
                State''; and
                    (C) by striking ``Agency for International 
                Development'' and inserting ``Secretary of 
                State'';
            (13) in section 607(a), by striking ``Agency for 
        International Development'' and inserting ``Department 
        of State'';
            (14) in section 634(a)(2)(F), by striking ``Agency 
        for International Development'' and inserting 
        ``Department of State''; and
            (15) in section 635(c), by striking ``Agency for 
        International Development'' and inserting ``Department 
        of State''.
    (b) Additional FAA References.--(1) Except as provided in 
paragraphs (2) and (3), the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 is 
amended by striking ``agency primarily responsible for 
administering this part'', ``agency primarily responsible for 
administering part I'', ``agency primarily responsible for 
administering part I of this Act'' each place such phrase 
appears and inserting ``Department of State''.
    (2) The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 is amended by 
striking ``administrator of the agency primarily responsible 
for administering part I of this Act'', ``Administrator of the 
agency primarily responsible for administering this part'', and 
the ``Administrator of the agency primarily responsible for 
administering part I of this Act'' each place it appears and 
inserting ``Secretary of State''.
    (3) The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 is amended--
            (A) in section 101(b), by striking ``Under the 
        policy guidance of the Secretary of State, the agency 
        primarily responsible for administering this part'' and 
        inserting ``The Department of State'';
            (B) in section 116(b), by striking ``Administrator 
        primarily responsible for administering part I of this 
        Act'' and inserting ``Secretary of State'';
            (C) in section 224(a), by striking ``Agency'' each 
        place it appears and inserting ``Department'';
            (D) in section 464(d), as added by section 701 of 
        Public Law 99-83, is amended by striking ``, under the 
        supervision and direction of the Secretary of State,'';
            (E) in section 604(f), by striking ``agency 
        primarily responsible for administering such part I'' 
        and inserting ``Department of State'';
            (F) in section 611(e), by striking ``head of the 
        agency primarily responsible for administering part I 
        of the Act'' and inserting ``Secretary of State''; and
            (G) in paragraphs (5) and (6) of section 636(a), by 
        striking ``head of the agency primarily responsible for 
        administering part I'' each place it appears and 
        inserting ``Secretary of State''.
    (c) SEED Act.--(1) Section 201(e) of the Support for East 
European Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989 (22 U.S.C. 5421(e)) is 
amended by striking ``Agency for International Development'' 
and inserting ``Department of State''.
    (2) Section 203 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 5423) is amended by 
striking ``Agency for International Development'' each place it 
appears and inserting ``Department of State''.
    (3)(A) Section 402(a) of such Act (22 U.S.C. 5442(a)) is 
amended by striking ``Administrator of the Agency for 
International Development'' and inserting ``Secretary of 
State''.
    (B) Except as provided in subparagraph (A), section 402 is 
further amended by striking ``Administrator'' each place it 
appears and inserting ``Secretary''.
    (4) Section 803 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 5493) is amended--
            (A) by striking ``Agency for International 
        Development'' each place it appears and inserting 
        ``Department of State''; and
            (B) by striking ``to the Agency'' and inserting 
        ``to the Department''.
    (d) Cooperation Threat Reduction With States of Former 
Soviet Union.--Section 1204(h) of the Cooperation Threat 
Reduction Act of 1993 (22 U.S.C. 5953(h)) is amended by 
striking ``and the Administrator of the Agency for 
International Development''.
    (e) Peace Corps National Advisory Council.--Section 
12(c)(3) of Peace Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 2511(c)(3)) is amended 
in subsection (c)(3) by striking ``and the Administrator of the 
Agency for International Development, or their designees,'' and 
inserting ``or his designee''.
    (f) Democracy Corps.--Section 401 of the FREEDOM Support 
Act (22 U.S.C. 5841) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Administrator'' each place it 
        appears and inserting ``Secretary'';
            (2) in subsection (h)(3)--
                    (A) by striking ``aid review'' and 
                inserting ``state department review''; and
                    (B) by striking ``Agency for International 
                Development'' and inserting ``Department of 
                State''; and
            (3) by striking subsection (l)(1).
    (g) Environmental Performance of Multilateral Development 
Banks.--(1) Section 1302 of the International Financial 
Institutions Act (22 U.S.C. 262m-1) is amended by striking ``, 
in cooperation with the Administrator of the Agency for 
International Development,''.
    (2) Section 1303 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 262m-2) is 
amended--
            (A) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ``missions of 
        the Agency for International Development'' and 
        inserting ``economic assistance missions of the 
        Department of State''; and
            (B) by striking ``Administrator of the Agency for 
        International Development, in consultation with the 
        Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of State,'' 
        each place it appears and inserting ``Secretary of 
        State, in consultation with the Secretary of the 
        Treasury,''.
    (h) Cooperative Information Exchange System.--Section 1304 
of the International Financial Institutions Act (22 U.S.C. 
262m-3) is amended by striking ``and the Administrator of the 
Agency for International Development''.
    (i) Environmental Impact of Proposed Multilateral 
Development Bank Actions.--Section 1307(e) of the International 
Financial Institutions Act (22 U.S.C. 262m-7(e)) is amended by 
striking ``the Administrator of the Agency for International 
Development,''.
    (j) Annual Report by Chairman of National Advisory Council 
on International Monetary and Financial Policies.--Section 
1701(b)(10) of the International Financial Institutions Act (22 
U.S.C. 262r(b)(10)) is amended by striking ``and the 
Administrator of the Agency for International Development''.
    (k) Combined Report.--Section 1703 of the International 
Financial Institutions Act (22 U.S.C. 262r-2) is amended by 
striking ``Administrator of the Agency for International 
Development, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury 
and the Secretary of State'' and inserting ``Secretary of 
State, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury,''.
    (l) Property Management Fund.--Section 585 of Public Law 
101-513 (22 U.S.C. 2369a) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Agency for International 
        Development'' each place it appears and inserting 
        ``Department of State''; and
            (2) by striking ``Administrator of the Agency for 
        International Development'' and inserting ``Secretary 
        of State''.
    (m) Capital Projects.--(1) Section 302 of the Aid, Trade, 
and Competitiveness Act of 1992 (22 U.S.C. 2421a) is amended--
            (A) by striking ``Administrator of AID'' each place 
        it appears and inserting ``Secretary of State''; and
            (B) in all references not covered by subparagraph 
        (A), by striking ``AID'' and inserting ``Department of 
        State''.
    (2) Section 303 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 2421b) is amended--
            (A) by striking ``Administrator of AID'' each place 
        it appears and inserting ``Secretary of State''; and
            (B) by striking ``AID'' each place it appears 
        (except as provided in subparagraph (A)) and inserting 
        ``Department of State''.
    (3) Section 308(1) of such Act is repealed.
    (n) Foreign Contracts.--Section 121 of the Foreign 
Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1977 (22 U.S.C. 2661a) 
is amended by striking ``(including the Agency for 
International Development)''.
    (o) Administrative Services.--Section 23 of the State 
Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2695) is 
amended by striking ``the Agency for International 
Development,''.
    (p) Energy Development Programs.--Section 502(c) of the 
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978 (22 U.S.C. 3262(c)) is 
amended by striking ``Agency for International Development 
and''.
    (q) Agricultural Commodities.--Section 416(b)(8)(C)(i) of 
the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1431(b)(8)(C)(i)) is 
amended by striking ``Agency for International Development 
office'' and inserting ``Department of State''.
    (r) Local Currency Proceeds.--Section 305(c) of the 
Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (7 
U.S.C. 1727d(c)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Administrator'' and inserting 
        ``Secretary''; and
            (2) by striking ``Agency for International 
        Development'' and inserting ``Department of State''.
    (s) Special Assistant for Agricultural Trade and Food 
Assistance.--Section 1113(c)(3) of the Food Security Act of 
1985 (7 U.S.C. 1736-1(c)(3)) is amended by striking ``Agency 
for International Development'' and inserting ``Department of 
State''.
    (t) Avoidance of Conflict of Interest.--Section 407(d)(3) 
of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 
1954 (7 U.S.C. 1736a(d)(3)) is amended by striking ``Agency for 
International Development'' and inserting ``Department of 
State''.
    (u) International Agricultural Research and Extension.--
Section 1458 of the National Agricultural Extension and Policy 
Act (7 U.S.C. 3291) is amended by striking ``Agency for 
International Development'' each place it appears and inserting 
``Department of State''.
    (v) Tied Aid Credit Program.--(1) Section 645(d) of the 
Trade and Development Enhancement Act of 1983 (12 U.S.C. 
635r(d)) is amended by striking ``in cooperation with the 
Administrator of the Agency for International Development''.
    (2) Section 647(2) of such Act (12 U.S.C. 635t(2)) is 
amended by striking ``Agency for International Development'' 
and inserting ``Department of State''.
    (w) Research and Development.--Section 9(e)(1) of the Small 
Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(e)(1)) is amended by striking 
``Agency for International Development'' and inserting 
``Department of State (insofar as it carries out functions 
previously administered by the Agency for International 
Development)''.
    (x) Central European Small Business Development 
Commission.--Section 25(b)(1) of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 652(b)(1)) is amended by striking ``Agency for 
International Development'' and inserting ``Department of State 
(insofar as it carries out functions previously administered by 
the Agency for International Development)''.
    (y) Interagency Aquaculture Coordinating Group.--Section 
6(a)(9) of the National Aquaculture Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 6601 
note) is amended by striking ``Administrator of the Agency for 
International Development'' and inserting ``Secretary of 
State''.
    (z) Forestry and Related Natural Resource Assistance.--
Section 602(c) of the International Forestry Cooperation Act of 
1990 (16 U.S.C. 4501(c)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Administrator of the Agency for 
        International Development'' and inserting ``Secretary 
        of State''; and
            (2) by striking ``Agency for International 
        Development'' and inserting ``Department of State''.
    (aa) Caribbean and Central American Scholarship Program.--
Section 231 of the Customs and Trade Act of 1990 (20 U.S.C. 
226) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b), by striking ``Administrator 
        of the Agency for International Development'' and 
        inserting ``Secretary of State''; and
            (2) in subsections (c) and (d), by striking 
        ``Administrator'' each place it appears and inserting 
        ``Secretary of State''.
    (bb) Use of Renewable Resources for Energy Production.--
Section 602(a)(7) of Public Law 96-259 (22 U.S.C. 262j(a)(7)) 
is amended by striking ``Agency for International Development'' 
and inserting ``Department of State''.
    (cc) Public Health Activities.--(1) Section 2102 of the Act 
of July 1, 1944, chapter 373, as amended, is amended by 
striking ``Agency for International Development'' each place it 
appears and inserting ``Department of State''.
    (2) Section 2315(b) of such Act is amended by striking 
``Administrator of the Agency for International Development'' 
and inserting ``Secretary of State''.
    (dd) Energy Authorities.--Section 256 of Public Law 94-163, 
as amended (42 U.S.C. 6276), is amended in subsection (d)(1)(C) 
by striking ``Administrator of the Agency for International 
Development'' and inserting ``Secretary of State''.
    (ee) Transportation Expenses.--Section 706 of the Foreign 
Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1979 (49 U.S.C. 1518) 
is amended by striking ``Agency for International 
Development''.

                 TITLE V--OFFICES OF INSPECTORS GENERAL

SEC. 501. REPEAL RELATING TO INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR UNITED STATES ARMS 
                    CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT AGENCY.

    Section 50 of the Arms Control and Disarmament Act (22 
U.S.C. 2593a), relating to the ACDA Inspector General, is 
repealed.

SEC. 502. ABOLITION OF OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL OF UNITED STATES 
                    INFORMATION AGENCY AND TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS.

    (a) Abolition of Office.--The Office of Inspector General 
of the United States Information Agency is abolished.
    (b) Amendments to Inspector General Act of 1978.--Section 
11 of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``, the Office of 
        Personnel Management or the United States Information 
        Agency'' and inserting ``or the Office of Personnel 
        Management''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ``the United 
        States Information Agency,''.
    (c) Executive Schedule.--Section 5315 of title 5, United 
States Code, is amended by striking the following:
            ``Inspector General, United States Information 
        Agency.''.
    (d) Amendments to Public Law 103-236.--Subsections (i) and 
(j) of section 308 of Public Law 103-236 are amended by 
striking ``Inspector General of the United States Information 
Agency'' each place it appears and inserting ``Inspector 
General for the Department of State''.
    (e) Transfer of Functions.--There are transferred to the 
Office of the Inspector General of the Department of State the 
functions that the Office of Inspector General of the United 
States Information Agency exercised before the effective date 
of this title (including all related functions of the Inspector 
General of the United States Information Agency).
    (f) Transfer and Allocations of Appropriations and 
Personnel.--The Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget, in consultation with the Secretary of State, is 
authorized to make such incidental dispositions of personnel, 
assets, liabilities, grants, contracts, property, records, and 
unexpended balances of appropriations, authorizations, 
allocations, and other funds held, used, arising from, 
available to, or to be made available in connection with such 
functions, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of 
this section.
    (g) Effective Date.--This section, and the amendments made 
by this section, shall take effect on the earlier of--
            (1) March 1, 1997; or
            (2) the date of the abolition of the United States 
        Information Agency pursuant to the reorganization plan 
        described in section 601.

                          TITLE VI--TRANSITION

               CHAPTER 1--REORGANIZATION PLAN AND WAIVER

SEC. 601. REORGANIZATION PLAN.

    (a) Submission of Plan.--Not later than October 1, 1996, 
the President shall, in consultation with the Secretary and the 
heads of the agencies covered under subsection (b), transmit to 
the appropriate congressional committees a reorganization plan 
providing for--
            (1) the abolition of each such agency in accordance 
        with this division not later than March 1, 1997;
            (2) the termination of functions of each such 
        agency that would be redundant if transferred to the 
        Department, and the separation from service of 
        employees of each such agency not otherwise provided 
        for in the plan;
            (3) the transfer to the Department of the functions 
        and personnel of each such agency consistent with the 
        provisions of this division; and
            (4) the consolidation, reorganization, and 
        streamlining of the Department upon the transfer of 
        such functions and personnel in order to carry out such 
        functions.
    (b) Covered Agencies.--
            (1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph 
        (2), the agencies covered under this subsection are the 
        following:
                    (A) The United States Arms Control and 
                Disarmament Agency.
                    (B) The United States Information Agency.
                    (C) The Agency for International 
                Development (including the United States 
                International Development Cooperation Agency).
            (2) Exception.--The President may exclude up to two 
        of the agencies set forth in paragraph (1) from 
        consideration as agencies covered under this 
        subsection. The President shall exclude such agency or 
        agencies by submitting a waiver with respect to such 
        agencies in accordance with section 602.
    (c) Plan Elements.--The plan transmitted under subsection 
(a) shall--
            (1) identify the functions of each covered agency 
        that will be transferred to the Department under the 
        plan;
            (2) identify the personnel and positions of each 
        such agency (including civil service personnel, Foreign 
        Service personnel, and detailees) that will be 
        transferred to the Department, separated from service 
        with such agency, or eliminated under the plan, and set 
        forth a schedule for such transfers, separations, and 
        terminations;
            (3) identify the personnel and positions of the 
        Department (including civil service personnel, Foreign 
        Service personnel, and detailees) that will be 
        transferred within the Department, separated from 
        service with the Department, or eliminated under the 
        plan, and set forth a schedule for such transfers, 
        separations, and terminations;
            (4) specify the consolidations and reorganization 
        of functions of the Department that will be required 
        under the plan in order to permit the Department to 
        carry out the functions transferred to the Department 
        under the plan;
            (5) specify the funds available to each such agency 
        that will be transferred to the Department as a result 
        of the transfer of functions of such agency to the 
        Department;
            (6) specify the proposed allocations within the 
        Department of unexpended funds transferred in 
        connection with the transfer of functions under the 
        plan; and
            (7) specify the proposed disposition of the 
        property, facilities, contracts, records, and other 
        assets and liabilities of each such agency in 
        connection with the transfer of the functions of the 
        agency to the Department.
    (d) Modification of Plan.--The President may, on the basis 
of consultations with the appropriate congressional committees, 
modify or revise the plan transmitted under subsection (a).
    (e) Effective Date.--(1) The reorganization plan described 
in this section, including any modifications or revisions of 
the plan under subsection (d), shall become effective on the 
earlier of March 1, 1997, or such date as the President shall 
determine to be appropriate and announce by notice published in 
the Federal Register, which date may be not earlier than 60 
calendar days (excluding any day on which either House of 
Congress is not in session because of an adjournment sine die 
or because of an adjournment of more than 3 days to a day 
certain) after the President has transmitted the reorganization 
plan to the appropriate congressional committees pursuant to 
subsection (a).
    (2) Paragraph (1) shall apply notwithstanding section 
905(b) of title 5, United States Code.

SEC. 602. WAIVER.

    (a) In General.--(1) The President may waive the 
applicability of title II, III, or IV of this division to the 
agency otherwise covered by such title only if--
            (A) the President includes in the reorganization 
        plan transmitted under section 601 the certification 
        described in subsection (b); and
            (B) the certification is transmitted with the 
        reorganization plan not later than October 1, 1996.
    (2) The President may exercise such waiver authority with 
respect to not more than two such titles.
    (b) Certification.--In order to waive the applicability of 
a title referred to in subsection (a), the President shall 
certify that--
            (1) the reorganization plan submitted under section 
        601--
                    (A) will achieve savings of $1,700,000,000 
                in budget authority during fiscal years 1996 
                through 1999 (not more than 30 percent of which 
                may be realized from reductions in program 
                levels); and
                    (B) will conform to the authorizations of 
                appropriations during such fiscal years in 
                division B; and
            (2) the preservation of the agency that would 
        otherwise be abolished pursuant to the title is 
        important to the national interest of the United 
        States.
    (c) Reorganization of Agency Covered by Waiver.--
            (1) In general.--Notwithstanding the waiver of the 
        applicability of a title of this division, the 
        President, in consultation with the Secretary and the 
        head of the agency otherwise abolished pursuant to the 
        title--
                    (A) shall provide in the reorganization 
                plan transmitted under section 601 for the 
                transfer to and consolidation within the 
                Department of the functions of the agency set 
                forth in paragraph (2); and
                    (B) may provide in the reorganization plan 
                for additional consolidation, reorganization, 
                and streamlining of the agency, including--
                            (i) the termination of functions 
                        and reductions in personnel of the 
                        agency;
                            (ii) the transfer of functions of 
                        the agency (including personnel 
                        operations other than personnel 
                        management, financial operations, 
                        public affairs aimed primarily at 
                        domestic audiences, legislative 
                        affairs, and legal affairs), and the 
                        personnel associated with such 
                        functions, to the Department; and
                            (iii) the consolidation, 
                        reorganization, and streamlining of the 
                        Department upon the transfer of such 
                        functions and personnel in order to 
                        carry out the functions transferred.
            (2) Functions to be transferred.--The functions to 
        be transferred under paragraph (1) are the functions 
        relating to the following:
                    (A) Non-specialized procurement.
                    (B) Travel and transportation.
                    (C) Facilities management.
                    (D) Security operations.

                  CHAPTER 2--REORGANIZATION AUTHORITY

SEC. 611. REORGANIZATION AUTHORITY.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary is authorized, subject to 
the requirements of this division, to allocate or reallocate 
any function transferred to the Department under any title of 
this division among the officers of the Department, and to 
establish, consolidate, alter, or discontinue such 
organizational entities within the Department as may be 
necessary or appropriate to carry out any reorganization under 
this division, but the authority of the Secretary under this 
section does not extend to--
            (1) the abolition of organizational entities or 
        officers established by this Act or any other Act; or
            (2) the alteration of the delegation of functions 
        to any specific organizational entity or officer 
        required by this Act or any other Act.
    (b) Requirements and Limitations on Reorganization Plan.--
The reorganization plan under section 601 may not have the 
effect of--
            (1) creating a new executive department;
            (2) continuing a function beyond the period 
        authorized by law for its exercise or beyond the time 
        when it would have terminated if the reorganization had 
        not been made;
            (3) authorizing an agency to exercise a function 
        which is not authorized by law at the time the plan is 
        transmitted to Congress;
            (4) creating a new agency which is not a component 
        or part of an existing executive department or 
        independent agency; or
            (5) increasing the term of an office beyond that 
        provided by law for the office.

SEC. 612. TRANSFER AND ALLOCATION OF APPROPRIATIONS AND PERSONNEL.

    (a) In General.--Except as otherwise provided in this Act, 
the personnel employed in connection with, and the assets, 
liabilities, contracts, property, records, and unexpended 
balance of appropriations, authorizations, allocations, and 
other funds employed, held, used, arising from, available to, 
or to be made available in connection with the functions and 
offices, or portions thereof transferred by any title of this 
division, subject to section 1531 of title 31, United States 
Code, shall be transferred to the Secretary for appropriate 
allocation.
    (b) Limitation on Use of Transferred Funds.--Unexpended and 
unobligated funds transferred pursuant to any title of this 
division shall be used only for the purposes for which the 
funds were originally authorized and appropriated.
    (c) Authorized Strength of the Foreign Service.--When an 
agency is abolished under this division, the limitations for 
fiscal years 1996 and 1997 under section 1351 of this Act on 
the members of the Foreign Service authorized to be employed by 
such agency shall be added to the limitations under such 
section which apply to the Department.

SEC. 613. INCIDENTAL TRANSFERS.

    The Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in 
consultation with the Secretary, is authorized to make such 
incidental dispositions of personnel, assets, liabilities, 
grants, contracts, property, records, and unexpended balances 
of appropriations, authorizations, allocations, and other funds 
held, used, arising from, available to, or to be made available 
in connection with such functions, as may be necessary to carry 
out the provisions of any title of this division. The Director 
of the Office of Management and Budget, in consultation with 
the Secretary, shall provide for the termination of the affairs 
of all entities terminated by this division and for such 
further measures and dispositions as may be necessary to 
effectuate the purposes of any title of this division.

SEC. 614. EFFECT ON PERSONNEL.

    (a) Executive Schedule Positions.--Except as otherwise 
provided in this division, any person who, on the day preceding 
the date of the abolition of an agency the functions of which 
are transferred under any title of this division, held a 
position compensated in accordance with the Executive Schedule 
prescribed in chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code, and 
who, without a break in service, is appointed in the Department 
to a position having duties comparable to the duties performed 
immediately preceding such appointment shall continue to be 
compensated in such new position at not less than the rate 
provided for such previous position, for the duration of the 
service of such person in such new position.
    (b) Treatment of Appointed Positions.--(1) Positions whose 
incumbents are appointed by the President, by and with the 
advice and consent of the Senate, the functions of which are 
transferred by any title of this division, shall terminate on 
the effective date of that title.
    (2) An individual holding an office immediately prior to 
the abolition or transfer of the office by a title of this 
division--
            (A) who was appointed to the office by the 
        President, by and with the advice and consent of the 
        Senate; and
            (B) who performs duties substantially similar to 
        the duties of an office proposed to be created under 
        the reorganization plan submitted under section 601,

may, in the discretion of the Secretary, assume the duties of 
such new office, and shall not be required to be reappointed by 
reason of the abolition or transfer of the individual's 
previous office.
    (c) Excepted Service.--(1) Subject to paragraph (2), in the 
case of employees occupying positions in the excepted service 
or the Senior Executive Service, any appointment authority 
established pursuant to law or regulations of the Office of 
Personnel Management for filling such positions shall be 
transferred.
    (2) The Department may decline a transfer of authority 
under paragraph (1) (and the employees appointed pursuant 
thereto) to the extent that such authority relates to positions 
excepted from the competitive service because of their 
confidential, policy-making, policy-determining, or policy-
advocating character, and noncareer positions in the Senior 
Executive Service (within the meaning of section 3132(a)(7) of 
title 5, United States Code).
    (d) Employee Benefit Programs.--(1) Any employee accepting 
employment with the Department as a result of a transfer 
pursuant to any title of this division may retain for 1 year 
after the date such transfer occurs membership in any employee 
benefit program of the former agency, including insurance, to 
which such employee belongs on the date of the enactment of 
this Act if--
            (A) the employee does not elect to give up the 
        benefit or membership in the program; and
            (B) the benefit or program is continued by the 
        Secretary.
    (2) The difference in the costs between the benefits which 
would have been provided by such agency or entity and those 
provided by this section shall be paid by the Secretary. If any 
employee elects to give up membership in a health insurance 
program or the health insurance program is not continued by the 
Secretary, the employee shall be permitted to select an 
alternate Federal health insurance program within 30 days of 
such election or notice, without regard to any other regularly 
scheduled open season.
    (e) Senior Executive Service.--Any employee in the career 
Senior Executive Service who is transferred pursuant to any 
title of this division shall be placed in a position at the 
Department which is comparable to the position the employee 
held in the agency.
    (f) Assignments.--(1) Transferring employees shall be 
provided reasonable notice of new positions and assignments 
prior to their transfer pursuant to any title of this division.
    (2) Foreign Service personnel transferred to the Department 
pursuant to any title of this division shall be eligible for 
any assignment open to Foreign Service personnel within the 
Department for which such transferred personnel are qualified.
    (g) Treatment of Personnel Employed in Terminated 
Functions.--The provisions of this subsection shall apply with 
respect to officers and employees in the competitive service, 
or employed under an established merit system in the excepted 
service, whose employment is terminated as a result of the 
abolition of the agency or the reorganization and consolidation 
of functions of the Department under any title of this 
division:
            (1) Under such regulations as the Office of 
        Personnel Management may prescribe, the head of any 
        agency in the executive branch may appoint in the 
        competitive service any person who is certified by the 
        head of the former agency as having served 
        satisfactorily in the competitive service in the former 
        agency and who passes such examination as the Office of 
        Personnel Management may prescribe. Any person so 
        appointed shall, upon completion of the prescribed 
        probationary period, acquire a competitive status.
            (2) The head of any agency in the executive branch 
        having an established merit system in the excepted 
        service may appoint in such service any person who is 
        certified by the head of the former agency as having 
        served satisfactorily in the former agency and who 
        passes such examination as the head of such agency in 
        the executive branch may prescribe.
            (3) Any appointment under this subsection shall be 
        made within a period of one year after completion of 
        the appointee's service.
            (4) Any law, Executive order, or regulation which 
        would disqualify an applicant for appointment in the 
        competitive service or in the excepted service 
        concerned shall also disqualify an applicant for 
        appointment under this subsection.
            (5) Any rights or benefits created by this 
        subsection are in addition to rights and benefits 
        otherwise provided by law.

SEC. 615. TRANSITION FUND.

    (a) Establishment.--There is hereby established on the 
books of the Treasury an account to be known as the ``Foreign 
Affairs Reorganization Transition Fund''.
    (b) Purpose.--The purpose of the account is to provide 
funds for the orderly transfer of functions and personnel to 
the Department as a result of the implementation of this 
division and for payment of other costs associated with the 
consolidation of foreign affairs agencies under this division.
    (c) Deposits.--
            (1) In general.--Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), 
        there shall be deposited into the account the 
        following:
                    (A) Funds appropriated to the account.
                    (B) Funds transferred to the account by the 
                Secretary from funds that are transferred to 
                the Secretary by the head of an agency under 
                subsection (d).
                    (C) Funds transferred to the account by the 
                Secretary from funds that are transferred to 
                the Department together with the transfer of 
                functions to the Department under this division 
                and that are not required by the Secretary in 
                order to carry out the functions.
                    (D) Funds transferred to the account by the 
                Secretary from any unobligated funds that are 
                appropriated or otherwise made available to the 
                Department.
            (2) Limitation on transfer of certain department 
        funds.--The Secretary may transfer funds to the account 
        under subparagraph (C) of paragraph (1) only if the 
        Secretary determines that the amount of funds deposited 
        in the account pursuant to subparagraphs (A) and (B) of 
        that paragraph is inadequate to pay the costs of 
        carrying out this division.
            (3) Limitation on transfer of unobligated funds of 
        department.--The Secretary may transfer funds to the 
        account under subparagraph (D) of paragraph (1) only if 
        the Secretary determines that the amount of funds 
        deposited in the account pursuant to subparagraphs (A), 
        (B), and (C) of that paragraph is inadequate to pay the 
        costs of carrying out this division.
    (d) Transfer of Funds to Secretary.--The head of an agency 
abolished under this division shall transfer to the Secretary 
the amount, if any, of the unobligated funds appropriated or 
otherwise made available to the agency for functions of the 
agency that are abolished under this division which funds are 
not required to carry out the functions of the agency as a 
result of the abolishment of the functions under this division.
    (e) Use of Funds.--
            (1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other 
        provision of law and subject to paragraph (2), the 
        Secretary shall use sums in the account for payment of 
        the costs of carrying out this division, including 
        costs relating to the consolidation of functions of the 
        Department and the termination of employees of the 
        Department.
            (2) Limitation on use of funds.--
                    (A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), 
                the Secretary may not use sums in the account 
                for payment of the costs described in paragraph 
                (1) unless the appropriate congressional 
                committees are notified 15 days in advance of 
                such use in accordance with procedures 
                applicable to reprogramming notifications under 
                section 34 of the State Department Basic 
                Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2706).
                    (B) Exception.--Subparagraph (A) does not 
                apply to the following uses of sums in the 
                account:
                            (i) For payment of the cost of any 
                        severance payments required to be paid 
                        by the Secretary to employees of the 
                        Department, but only if the cost of 
                        such payments is less than $10,000,000.
                            (ii) For transfer to the head of an 
                        agency to be abolished under this 
                        division for payment of the cost of any 
                        severance payments required to be paid 
                        to employees of the agency, but only if 
                        the total amount transferred with 
                        respect to the agency is less than 
                        $40,000,000.
                            (iii) For payment of the cost of 
                        any improvements of the information 
                        management systems of the Department 
                        that are carried out as a result of the 
                        abolishment of agencies under this 
                        division, but only if the cost of such 
                        improvements is less than $15,000,000.
                            (iv) For payment of the cost of the 
                        physical relocation of fixtures, 
                        materials, and other resources from an 
                        agency to be abolished under this 
                        division to the Department or of such 
                        relocation within the Department, but 
                        only if the cost of such relocation is 
                        less than $10,000,000.
            (3) Availability without fiscal year limitation.--
        Funds in the account shall be available for the payment 
        of costs under paragraph (1) without fiscal year 
        limitation.
    (f) Treatment of Unobligated Balances.--
            (1) In general.--Subject to paragraph (2), 
        unobligated funds, if any, which remain in the account 
        after the payment of the costs described in subsection 
        (e)(1) shall be transferred to the Department and shall 
        be available to the Secretary for purposes of carrying 
        out the functions of the Department.
            (2) Notification.--The Secretary may not transfer 
        funds in the account to the Department under paragraph 
        (1) unless the appropriate congressional committees are 
        notified in advance of such transfer in accordance with 
        the procedures applicable to reprogramming 
        notifications under section 34 of the State Department 
        Basic Authorities Act of 1956.
    (g) Report on Account.--Not later than October 1, 1998, the 
Secretary shall transmit to the appropriate congressional 
committees a report containing an accounting of--
            (1) the expenditures from the account established 
        under this section; and
            (2) in the event of any transfer of funds to the 
        Department under subsection (f), the functions for 
        which the funds so transferred were expended.
    (h) Termination of Authority To Use Account.--The Secretary 
may not obligate funds in the account after September 30, 1999.

SEC. 616. SAVINGS PROVISIONS.

    (a) Continuing Legal Force and Effect.--All orders, 
determinations, rules, regulations, permits, agreements, 
grants, contracts, certificates, licenses, registrations, 
privileges, and other administrative actions--
            (1) that have been issued, made, granted, or 
        allowed to become effective by the President, any 
        Federal agency or official thereof, or by a court of 
        competent jurisdiction, in the performance of functions 
        that are transferred under any title of this division; 
        and
            (2) that are in effect at the time such title takes 
        effect, or were final before the effective date of such 
        title and are to become effective on or after the 
        effective date of such title,
shall continue in effect according to their terms until 
modified, terminated, superseded, set aside, or revoked in 
accordance with law by the President, the Secretary, or other 
authorized official, a court of competent jurisdiction, or by 
operation of law.
    (b) Pending Proceedings.--(1) The provisions of any title 
of this division shall not affect any proceedings, including 
notices of proposed rulemaking, or any application for any 
license, permit, certificate, or financial assistance pending 
on the effective date of any title of this division before any 
department, agency, commission, or component thereof, functions 
of which are transferred by any title of this division. Such 
proceedings and applications, to the extent that they relate to 
functions so transferred, shall be continued.
    (2) Orders shall be issued in such proceedings, appeals 
shall be taken therefrom, and payments shall be made pursuant 
to such orders, as if this division had not been enacted. 
Orders issued in any such proceedings shall continue in effect 
until modified, terminated, superseded, or revoked by the 
Secretary, by a court of competent jurisdiction, or by 
operation of law.
    (3) Nothing in this division shall be deemed to prohibit 
the discontinuance or modification of any such proceeding under 
the same terms and conditions and to the same extent that such 
proceeding could have been discontinued or modified if this 
division had not been enacted.
    (4) The Secretary is authorized to promulgate regulations 
providing for the orderly transfer of proceedings continued 
under this subsection to the Department.
    (c) No Effect on Judicial Proceedings.--Except as provided 
in subsection (e)--
            (1) the provisions of this division shall not 
        affect suits commenced prior to the effective date of 
        this Act, and
            (2) in all such suits, proceedings shall be had, 
        appeals taken, and judgments rendered in the same 
        manner and effect as if this division had not been 
        enacted.
    (d) Non-Abatement of Proceedings.--No suit, action, or 
other proceeding commenced by or against any officer in the 
official capacity of such individual as an officer of any 
department or agency, functions of which are transferred by any 
title of this division, shall abate by reason of the enactment 
of this division. No cause of action by or against any 
department or agency, functions of which are transferred by any 
title of this division, or by or against any officer thereof in 
the official capacity of such officer shall abate by reason of 
the enactment of this division.
    (e) Continuation of Proceeding With Substitution of 
Parties.--If, before the date on which any title of this 
division takes effect, any department or agency, or officer 
thereof in the official capacity of such officer, is a party to 
a suit, and under this division any function of such 
department, agency, or officer is transferred to the Secretary 
or any other official of the Department, then such suit shall 
be continued with the Secretary or other appropriate official 
of the Department substituted or added as a party.
    (f) Reviewability of Orders and Actions Under Transferred 
Functions.--Orders and actions of the Secretary in the exercise 
of functions transferred under any title of this division shall 
be subject to judicial review to the same extent and in the 
same manner as if such orders and actions had been by the 
agency or office, or part thereof, exercising such functions 
immediately preceding their transfer. Any statutory 
requirements relating to notice, hearings, action upon the 
record, or administrative review that apply to any function 
transferred by any title of this division shall apply to the 
exercise of such function by the Secretary.

SEC. 617. PROPERTY AND FACILITIES.

    The Secretary shall review the property and facilities 
transferred to the Department under this division to determine 
whether such property and facilities are required by the 
Department.

SEC. 618. AUTHORITY OF SECRETARY OF STATE TO FACILITATE TRANSITION.

    Prior to, or after, any transfer of a function under any 
title of this division, the Secretary is authorized to 
utilize--
            (1) the services of such officers, employees, and 
        other personnel of an agency with respect to functions 
        that will be or have been transferred to the Department 
        by any title of this division; and
            (2) funds appropriated to such functions for such 
        period of time as may reasonably be needed to 
        facilitate the orderly implementation of any title of 
        this division.

SEC. 619. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.

    Congress urges the President, in consultation with the 
Secretary and the heads of other appropriate agencies, to 
develop and submit to Congress recommendations for such 
additional technical and conforming amendments to the laws of 
the United States as may be appropriate to reflect the changes 
made by this division.

SEC. 620. FINAL REPORT.

    Not later than October 1, 1998, the President, in 
consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and the 
Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall submit to 
the appropriate congressional committees a report which 
provides a final accounting of the finances and operations of 
the agencies abolished under this division.

SEC. 621. TRANSFER OF FUNCTION.

    Any determination as to whether a transfer of function, 
carried out under this Act, constitutes a transfer of function 
for purposes of subchapter I of chapter 35 of title 5, United 
States Code, shall be made without regard to whether or not the 
function involved is identical to functions already being 
performed by the receiving agency.

SEC. 622. SEVERABILITY.

    If a provision of this division or its application to any 
person or circumstance is held invalid, neither the remainder 
of this division nor the application of the provision to other 
persons or circumstances shall be affected.

              DIVISION B--FOREIGN RELATIONS AUTHORIZATIONS

                      TITLE X--GENERAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 1001. SHORT TITLE.

    This division may be cited as the ``Department of State and 
Related Agencies Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1996 and 
1997''.

SEC. 1002. DEFINITIONS.

    The following terms have the following meaning for the 
purposes of this division:
            (1) The term ``AID'' means the Agency for 
        International Development.
            (2) The term ``ACDA'' means the United States Arms 
        Control and Disarmament Agency.
            (3) The term ``appropriate congressional 
        committees'' means the Committee on International 
        Relations of the House of Representatives and the 
        Committee of Foreign Relations of the Senate.
            (4) The term ``Department'' means the Department of 
        State.
            (5) The term ``Federal agency'' has the meaning 
        given to the term ``agency'' by section 551(1) of title 
        5, United States Code.
            (6) The term ``function'' means any duty, 
        obligation, power, authority, responsibility, right, 
        privilege, activity, or program.
            (7) The term ``office'' includes any office, 
        administration, agency, institute, unit, organizational 
        entity, or component thereof.
            (8) The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of 
        State.
            (9) The term ``USIA'' means the United States 
        Information Agency.

 TITLE XI--AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND 
         CERTAIN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS FUNCTIONS AND ACTIVITIES

SEC. 1101. ADMINISTRATION OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

    The following amounts are authorized to be appropriated for 
the Department of State under ``Administration of Foreign 
Affairs'' to carry out the authorities, functions, duties, and 
responsibilities in the conduct of the foreign affairs of the 
United States and for other purposes authorized by law, 
including the diplomatic security program:
            (1) Diplomatic and consular programs.--For 
        ``Diplomatic and Consular Programs'' of the Department 
        of State, $1,719,220,000 for the fiscal year 1996, 
        $1,710,000,000 for the fiscal year 1997, $1,708,800,000 
        for the fiscal year 1998, and $1,700,000,000 for the 
        fiscal year 1999.
            (2) Salaries and expenses.--
                    (A) Authorization of appropriations.--For 
                ``Salaries and Expenses'' of the Department of 
                State, $365,146,000 for the fiscal year 1996, 
                $357,000,000 for the fiscal year 1997, 
                $355,000,000 for the fiscal year 1998, and 
                $355,000,000 for the fiscal year 1999.
                    (B) Limitation.--Of the amount authorized 
                to be appropriated by subparagraph (A), 
                $11,900,000 for fiscal year 1997 is authorized 
                to be appropriated for salaries and expenses of 
                the Bureau of Refugee and Migration Assistance.
            (3) Capital investment fund.--For ``Capital 
        Investment Fund'' of the Department of State, 
        $16,400,000 for the fiscal year 1996 and $16,400,000 
        for the fiscal year 1997.
            (4) Security and maintenance of united states 
        missions.--For ``Security and Maintenance of United 
        States Missions'', $385,760,000 for the fiscal year 
        1996 and $380,000,000 for the fiscal year 1997.
            (5) Representation allowances.--For 
        ``Representation Allowances'', $4,500,000 for the 
        fiscal year 1996 and $4,500,000 for the fiscal year 
        1997.
            (6) Emergencies in the diplomatic and consular 
        service.--For ``Emergencies in the Diplomatic and 
        Consular Service'', $6,000,000 for the fiscal year 1996 
        and $6,000,000 for the fiscal year 1997.
            (7) Office of the inspector general.--For ``Office 
        of the Inspector General'', $27,369,000 for the fiscal 
        year 1996, $27,000,000 for the fiscal year 1997, 
        $27,000,000 for the fiscal year 1998, and $27,000,000 
        for the fiscal year 1999.
            (8) Payment to the american institute in taiwan.--
        For ``Payment to the American Institute in Taiwan'', 
        $15,165,000 for the fiscal year 1996 and $14,165,000 
        for the fiscal year 1997.
            (9) Protection of foreign missions and officials.--
        For ``Protection of Foreign Missions and Officials'', 
        $8,579,000 for the fiscal year 1996 and $10,000,000 for 
        the fiscal year 1997.
            (10) Repatriation loans.--For ``Repatriation 
        Loans'', $776,000 for the fiscal year 1996 and $776,000 
        for the fiscal year 1997, for administrative expenses.

SEC. 1102. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, PROGRAMS, AND CONFERENCES.

    (a) Assessed Contributions to International 
Organizations.--There are authorized to be appropriated for 
``Contributions to International Organizations'', $850,000,000 
for the fiscal year 1996 and $840,000,000 for the fiscal year 
1997 for the Department of State to carry out the authorities, 
functions, duties, and responsibilities in the conduct of the 
foreign affairs of the United States with respect to 
international organizations and to carry out other authorities 
in law consistent with such purposes.
    (b) Assessed Contributions for International Peacekeeping 
Activities.--There are authorized to be appropriated for 
``Contributions for International Peacekeeping Activities'', 
$445,000,000 for the fiscal year 1996 and $375,000,000 for the 
fiscal year 1997 for the Department of State to carry out the 
authorities, functions, duties, and responsibilities in the 
conduct of the foreign affairs of the United States with 
respect to international peacekeeping activities and to carry 
out other authorities in law consistent with such purposes.
    (c) International Conferences and Contingencies.--There are 
authorized to be appropriated for ``International Conferences 
and Contingencies'', $3,000,000 for the fiscal year 1996 and 
$3,000,000 for the fiscal year 1997 for the Department of State 
to carry out the authorities, functions, duties, and 
responsibilities in the conduct of the foreign affairs of the 
United States with respect to international conferences and 
contingencies and to carry out other authorities in law 
consistent with such purposes.
    (d) Foreign Currency Exchange Rates.--In addition to 
amounts otherwise authorized to be appropriated by subsections 
(a) and (b), there are authorized to be appropriated such sums 
as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1996 and 1997 
to offset adverse fluctuations in foreign currency exchange 
rates. Amounts appropriated under this subsection shall be 
available for obligation and expenditure only to the extent 
that the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
determines and certifies to Congress that such amounts are 
necessary due to such fluctuations.
    (e) Limitation on United States Voluntary Contributions to 
United Nations Development Program.--
            (1) Of the amounts made available for fiscal years 
        1996 and 1997 for United States voluntary contributions 
        to the United Nations Development Program--
                    (A) not more than $51,800,000 shall be made 
                available for fiscal year 1996 unless, during 
                fiscal year 1996, the President submits to the 
                appropriate committees of Congress the 
                certification described in paragraph (2), and
                    (B) not more than $51,800,000 shall be 
                available for fiscal year 1997 unless, during 
                fiscal year 1997, the President submits to the 
                appropriate committees of Congress the 
                certification described in paragraph (2).
            (2) The certification referred to in paragraph (1) 
        is a certification by the President that all programs 
        and activities of the United Nations Development 
        Program (including United Nations Development Program--
        Administered Funds) in Burma--
                    (A) are focused on eliminating human 
                suffering and addressing the needs of the poor;
                    (B) are undertaken only through 
                international or private voluntary 
                organizations that have been deemed independent 
                of the State Law and Order Restoration Council 
                (SLORC) by the leadership of the National 
                League for Democracy and the leadership of the 
                National Coalition Government of the Union of 
                Burma;
                    (C) provide no financial, political, or 
                military benefit to the SLORC; and
                    (D) are supported by the leadership of the 
                National League for Democracy and the 
                leadership of the National Coalition Government 
                of the Union of Burma.

SEC. 1103. INTERNATIONAL COMMISSIONS.

    The following amounts are authorized to be appropriated 
under ``International Commissions'' for the Department of State 
to carry out the authorities, functions, duties, and 
responsibilities in the conduct of the foreign affairs of the 
United States and for other purposes authorized by law:
            (1) International boundary and water commission, 
        united states and mexico.--For ``International Boundary 
        and Water Commission, United States and Mexico''--
                    (A) for ``Salaries and Expenses'' 
                $12,058,000 for the fiscal year 1996 and 
                $19,372,000 for the fiscal year 1997; and
                    (B) for ``Construction'' $6,644,000 for the 
                fiscal year 1996 and $9,000,000 for the fiscal 
                year 1997.
            (2) International boundary commission, united 
        states and canada.--For ``International Boundary 
        Commission, United States and Canada'', $640,000 for 
        the fiscal year 1996 and $666,000 for the fiscal year 
        1997.
            (3) International joint commission.--For 
        ``International Joint Commission'', $3,360,000 for the 
        fiscal year 1996 and $3,195,000 for the fiscal year 
        1997.
            (4) International fisheries commissions.--For 
        ``International Fisheries Commissions'', $14,669,000 
        for the fiscal year 1996 and $13,202,000 for the fiscal 
        year 1997.

SEC. 1104. MIGRATION AND REFUGEE ASSISTANCE.

    (a) Authorization of Appropriations.--
            (1) Migration and refugee assistance.--
                    (A) Authorization of appropriations.--There 
                are authorized to be appropriated for 
                ``Migration and Refugee Assistance'' for 
                authorized activities, $590,000,000 for the 
                fiscal year 1996 and $590,000,000 for the 
                fiscal year 1997.
                    (B) Limitation.--None of the funds 
                authorized to be appropriated by this section 
                for fiscal year 1997 are authorized to be 
                appropriated for salaries and administrative 
                expenses of the Bureau of Migration and Refugee 
                Assistance.
            (2) Refugees resettling in israel.--There are 
        authorized to be appropriated $80,000,000 for the 
        fiscal year 1996 and $80,000,000 for the fiscal year 
        1997 for assistance for refugees resettling in Israel 
        from other countries.
            (3) Humanitarian assistance for displaced 
        burmese.--There are authorized to be appropriated 
        $1,500,000 for the fiscal year 1996 and $1,500,000 for 
        the fiscal year 1997 for humanitarian assistance, 
        including but not limited to food, medicine, clothing, 
        and medical and vocational training to persons 
        displaced as a result of civil conflict in Burma, 
        including persons still within Burma.
            (4) Resettlement of vietnamese, laotians, and 
        cambodians.--Of the amounts authorized to be 
        appropriated for fiscal year 1996 under paragraph (1), 
        there are authorized to be appropriated such amounts as 
        are necessary for the admission and resettlement, 
        within numerical limitations provided by law for 
        refugee admissions, of persons who--
                    (A) are or were nationals and residents of 
                Vietnam, Laos, or Cambodia and are or were at 
                any time after July 1, 1995, residents of 
                refugee camps in Hong Kong, the Philippines, 
                Indonesia, Malaysia, or Thailand; and
                    (B)(i) are determined by a United States 
                immigration officer to be within a category of 
                aliens referred to in section 599D(b)(2)(C) of 
                the Foreign Operations Export Financing and 
                Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1990 
                (Public Law 101-167); or
                    (ii) are otherwise determined by a United 
                States immigration officer to be refugees 
                within the meaning of section 101(a)(42) of the 
                Immigration and Nationality Act.
    (b) General Limitations.--None of the funds authorized to 
be appropriated by subsection (a) are authorized to be 
available for any program or activity that provides for, 
promotes, or assists in the repatriation of any person to 
Vietnam, Laos, or Cambodia, unless the President has certified 
to the appropriate congressional committees that--
            (1) all persons described in subsection (a)(4)(A) 
        have been or will be offered an interview by a United 
        States immigration officer in a refugee camp or 
        elsewhere in the host country in which such a camp is 
        located (or, if the government of such a country has 
        declined a request by the United States to permit such 
        interviews to take place within such country, in their 
        country of origin) for the purpose of determining 
        whether they are persons described in subsection 
        (a)(4)(B); and
            (2) all persons described in subsection (a)(4)(B) 
        have been or will be offered resettlement outside their 
        countries of nationality.
    (c) Availability of Funds.--Funds appropriated pursuant to 
subsection (a) are authorized to be available until expended.
    (d) Refugee Camp Defined.--For the purposes of this 
section, the term ``refugee camp'' means any place in which 
people who left Vietnam, Cambodia, or Laos are housed or held 
by a government or international organization, regardless of 
the designation of such place by such government or 
organization.
    (e) Statutory Construction.--Nothing in this section may be 
construed to require or permit an increase in the number of 
refugee admissions for fiscal year 1996 from the numerical 
limitation for refugee admissions for fiscal year 1995.

SEC. 1105. ASIA FOUNDATION.

    There are authorized to be appropriated for the Department 
of State $5,000,000 for the fiscal year 1996 and $10,000,000 
for the fiscal year 1997 for ``Asia Foundation''.

SEC. 1106. UNITED STATES INFORMATIONAL, EDUCATIONAL, AND CULTURAL 
                    PROGRAMS.

    The following amounts are authorized to be appropriated to 
carry out international information activities and educational 
and cultural exchange programs under the United States 
Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, the Mutual 
Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961, Reorganization 
Plan Number 2 of 1977, the United States International 
Broadcasting Act of 1994, the Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Act, 
the Television Broadcasting to Cuba Act, the Board for 
International Broadcasting Act, the Inspector General Act of 
1978, the North/South Center Act of 1991, the National 
Endowment for Democracy Act, and to carry out other authorities 
in law consistent with such purposes:
            (1) Salaries and expenses.--For ``Salaries and 
        Expenses'', $445,645,000 for the fiscal year 1996, 
        $440,000,000 for the fiscal year 1997, $410,000,000 for 
        the fiscal year 1998, and $399,000,000 for the fiscal 
        year 1999.
            (2) Technology fund.--For ``Technology Fund'' for 
        the United States Information Agency, $5,050,000 for 
        the fiscal year 1996 and $5,050,000 for the fiscal year 
        1997.
            (3) Educational and cultural exchange programs.--
                    (A) Fulbright academic exchange programs.--
                For the ``Fulbright Academic Exchange 
                Programs'', $102,500,000 for the fiscal year 
                1996 and $98,000,000 for the fiscal year 1997.
                    (B) Other programs.--For ``Hubert H. 
                Humphrey Fellowship Program'', ``Edmund S. 
                Muskie Fellowship Program'', ``International 
                Visitors Program'', ``Mike Mansfield Fellowship 
                Program'', ``Claude and Mildred Pepper 
                Scholarship Program of the Washington Workshops 
                Foundation'', ``Citizen Exchange Programs'', 
                ``Congress-Bundestag Exchange Program'', 
                ``Newly Independent States and Eastern Europe 
                Training'', ``Institute for Representative 
                Government'', ``Arts America'', ``South Pacific 
                Exchanges'', ``East Timorese Scholarships'', 
                ``Cambodian Scholarships'', and ``Educational 
                and Cultural Exchanges with Tibet'', 
                $97,500,000 for the fiscal year 1996 and 
                $85,000,000 for the fiscal year 1997.
            (4) International broadcasting activities.--
                    (A) Authorization of appropriations.--For 
                ``International Broadcasting Activities'', 
                $325,191,000 for the fiscal year 1996, 
                $330,000,000 for the fiscal year 1997, 
                $320,000,000 for the fiscal year 1998, and 
                $315,000,000 for the fiscal year 1999.
                    (B) Allocation.--Of the amounts authorized 
                to be appropriated under subparagraph (A), the 
                Director of the United States Information 
                Agency and the Board of Broadcasting Governors 
                shall seek to ensure that the amounts made 
                available for broadcasting to nations whose 
                people do not fully enjoy freedom of expression 
                do not decline in proportion to the amounts 
                made available for broadcasting to other 
                nations.
            (5) Radio construction.--For ``Radio 
        Construction'', $40,000,000 for the fiscal year 1996, 
        and $35,000,000 for the fiscal year 1997.
            (6) Radio free asia.--For ``Radio Free Asia'', 
        $10,000,000 for the fiscal year 1996 and $10,000,000 
        for the fiscal year 1997.
            (7) Broadcasting to cuba.--For ``Broadcasting to 
        Cuba'', $24,809,000 for the fiscal year 1996 and 
        $24,809,000 for the fiscal year 1997.
            (8) Center for cultural and technical interchange 
        between east and west.--For ``Center for Cultural and 
        Technical Interchange between East and West'', 
        $11,750,000 for the fiscal year 1996 and $11,750,000 
        for the fiscal year 1997.
            (9) National endowment for democracy.--
                    (A) Authorization of appropriations.--For 
                ``National Endowment for Democracy'', 
                $32,000,000 for the fiscal year 1996 and 
                $30,000,000 for the fiscal year 1997.
                    (B) Limitation.--Of the amounts authorized 
                to be appropriated under subparagraph (A) for 
                each fiscal year, not more than 55 percent 
                shall be available only for the following 
                organizations, in equal allotments:
                            (i) The International Republican 
                        Institute (IRI).
                            (ii) The National Democratic 
                        Institute (NDI).
                            (iii) The Free Trade Union 
                        Institute (FTUI).
                            (iv) The Center for International 
                        Private Enterprise (CIPE).
            (10) Center for cultural and technical interchange 
        between north and south.--For ``Center for Cultural and 
        Technical Interchange between North and South'' 
        $2,000,000 for the fiscal year 1996 and $3,000,000 for 
        the fiscal year 1997.

SEC. 1107. UNITED STATES ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT.

    There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out the 
purposes of the Arms Control and Disarmament Act--
            (1) $35,700,000 for the fiscal year 1996, 
        $30,000,000 for the fiscal year 1997, $28,000,000 for 
        the fiscal year 1998, and $25,000,000 for the fiscal 
        year 1999; and
            (2) such sums as may be necessary for each of the 
        fiscal years 1996 and 1997 for increases in salary, 
        pay, retirement, other employee benefits authorized by 
        law, and to offset adverse fluctuations in foreign 
        currency exchange rates.

SEC. 1108. ADMINISTRATION OF FOREIGN ASSISTANCE.

    (a) Operating Expenses Generally.--Section 667(a)(1) of the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2427(a)(1)) is 
amended to read as follows:
            ``(1) $465,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 
        1996 and 1997, $445,000,000 for fiscal year 1998, and 
        $435,000,000 for fiscal year 1999 for necessary 
        operating expenses of the agency primarily responsible 
        for administering part I of this Act (other than the 
        office of the inspector general of such agency); and''.
    (b) Operating Expenses of the Office of the Inspector 
General of AID.--Section 667(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2427(a)) is further amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph 
        (3);
            (2) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph 
        (1); and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:
            ``(2) $30,200,000 for fiscal year 1996, $27,000,000 
        for fiscal year 1997, $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1998, 
        and $19,000,000 for fiscal year 1999 for necessary 
        operating expenses of the office of the inspector 
        general of such agency; and''.

SEC. 1109. NARCOTICS CONTROL ASSISTANCE.

    (a) In General.--There are authorized to be appropriated 
$115,000,000 for fiscal year 1996 and $213,000,000 for fiscal 
year 1997 to carry out chapter 8 of part I of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2291 et seq.).
    (b) Availability of Amounts.--Amounts authorized to be 
appropriated under subsection (a) are authorized to remain 
available until expended.

SEC. 1110. PEACE CORPS.

    Section 3(b) of the Peace Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 2502(b)) is 
amended to read as follows:
    ``(b)(1) There are authorized to be appropriated to carry 
out the purposes of this Act $210,000,000 for fiscal year 1996 
and $234,000,000 for fiscal year 1997.
    ``(2) Amounts authorized to be appropriated under paragraph 
(1)--
            ``(A) with respect to fiscal year 1996 are 
        authorized to remain available until September 30, 
        1997; and
            ``(B) with respect to fiscal year 1997 are 
        authorized to remain available until September 30, 
        1998.''.

SEC. 1111. HOUSING GUARANTEE PROGRAM.

    (a) Authorization of Appropriations for Administrative 
Expenses.--
            (1) In general.--(A) Subject to subparagraph (B), 
        there are authorized to be appropriated $7,000,000 for 
        fiscal year 1996 and $6,000,000 for fiscal year 1997 
        for administrative expenses to carry out guaranteed 
        loan programs under sections 221 and 222 of the Foreign 
        Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2181 and 2182).
            (B) Amounts authorized to be appropriated under 
        subparagraph (A) may be made available only for--
                    (i) administrative expenses incurred with 
                respect to guaranties issued before the date of 
                the enactment of this Act; or
                    (ii) expenses incurred with respect to 
                activities related to the collection of amounts 
                paid by the United States in the discharge of 
                liabilities under guaranties issued under 
                section 222 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
                1961 (22 U.S.C. 2182).
            (2) Availability.--Amounts authorized to be 
        appropriated under paragraph (1) are authorized to 
        remain available until expended.
    (b) Additional Requirements.--
            (1) Expiration of authority.--Section 222(a) of the 
        Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2182(a)) is 
        amended by striking the third sentence and inserting 
        the following: ``No guaranties may be issued under this 
        section on or after the date of the enactment of the 
        Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1996 
        and 1997.''.
            (2) Cancellation of certain existing guaranties.--
        Section 222 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 2182) is amended--
                    (A) by redesignating subsection (k) as 
                subsection (d); and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following new 
                subsection:
    ``(e) The President shall cancel all guaranties issued 
under this section with respect to which eligible investors 
have not (before the date of the enactment of the Foreign 
Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1996 and 1997) 
applied such guaranties to loans for projects under this title. 
The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to guaranties 
which have been issued for the benefit of the Republic of South 
Africa.''.
            (3) Prohibition on assistance for entities in 
        default and certain other entities.--Section 620 of 
        such Act (22 U.S.C. 2370) is amended by inserting after 
        subsection (u) the following new subsection:
    ``(v)(1) Subject to paragraph (2), no assistance shall be 
furnished under this Act to any entity that--
            ``(A) fails to make timely payments on loans with 
        respect to which guaranties have been issued under 
        title III of chapter 2 of part I of this Act (relating 
        to housing and other credit guaranty programs); or
            ``(B) causes amounts (including amounts for 
        administrative expenses) to be paid by the United 
        States in the discharge of liabilities under guaranties 
        issued under such title, unless such entity has 
        reimbursed the United States for such amounts.
    ``(2) The President may waive the prohibition in paragraph 
(1) with respect to an entity if the President determines that 
it is in the national interest of the United States to furnish 
assistance under this Act to such entity.''.

       TITLE XII--DEPARTMENT OF STATE AUTHORITIES AND ACTIVITIES

                 CHAPTER 1--AUTHORITIES AND ACTIVITIES

SEC. 1201. REVISION OF DEPARTMENT OF STATE REWARDS PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--Section 36 of the State Department Basic 
Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2708) is amended to read as 
follows:

``SEC. 36. DEPARTMENT OF STATE REWARDS PROGRAM.

    ``(a) Establishment.--(1) There is established a program 
for the payment of rewards to carry out the purposes of this 
section.
    ``(2) The rewards program established by this section shall 
be administered by the Secretary of State, in consultation, 
where appropriate, with the Attorney General.
    ``(b) Purpose.--(1) The rewards program established by this 
section shall be designed to assist in the prevention of acts 
of international terrorism, international narcotics 
trafficking, and other related criminal acts.
    ``(2) At the sole discretion of the Secretary of State and 
in consultation, as appropriate, with the Attorney General, the 
Secretary of State may pay a reward to any individual who 
furnishes information leading to--
            ``(A) the arrest or conviction in any country of 
        any individual for the commission of an act of 
        international terrorism against a United States person 
        or United States property;
            ``(B) the arrest or conviction in any country of 
        any individual conspiring or attempting to commit an 
        act of international terrorism against a United States 
        person or United States property;
            ``(C) the arrest or conviction in any country of 
        any individual for committing, primarily outside the 
        territorial jurisdiction of the United States, any 
        narcotics-related offense if that offense involves or 
        is a significant part of conduct that involves--
                    ``(i) a violation of United States 
                narcotics laws and which is such that the 
                individual would be a major violator of such 
                laws;
                    ``(ii) the killing or kidnapping of--
                            ``(I) any officer, employee, or 
                        contract employee of the United States 
                        Government while such individual is 
                        engaged in official duties, or on 
                        account of that individual's official 
                        duties, in connection with the 
                        enforcement of United States narcotics 
                        laws or the implementing of United 
                        States narcotics control objectives; or
                            ``(II) a member of the immediate 
                        family of any such individual on 
                        account of that individual's official 
                        duties in connection with the 
                        enforcement of United States narcotics 
                        laws or the implementing of United 
                        States narcotics control objectives; or
                    ``(iii) an attempt or conspiracy to commit 
                any of the acts described in clause (i) or 
                (ii);
            ``(D) the arrest or conviction in any country of 
        any individual aiding or abetting in the commission of 
        an act described in subparagraphs (A) through (C); or
            ``(E) the prevention, frustration, or favorable 
        resolution of an act described in subparagraphs (A) 
        through (C).
    ``(c) Coordination.--(1) To ensure that the payment of 
rewards pursuant to this section does not duplicate or 
interfere with the payment of informants or the obtaining of 
evidence or information, as authorized to the Department of 
Justice, the offering, administration, and payment of rewards 
under this section, including procedures for--
            ``(A) identifying individuals, organizations, and 
        offenses with respect to which rewards will be offered;
            ``(B) the publication of rewards;
            ``(C) offering of joint rewards with foreign 
        governments;
            ``(D) the receipt and analysis of data; and
            ``(E) the payment and approval of payment,
shall be governed by procedures developed by the Secretary of 
State, in consultation with the Attorney General.
    ``(2) Before making a reward under this section in a matter 
over which there is Federal criminal jurisdiction, the 
Secretary of State shall advise and consult with the Attorney 
General.
    ``(d) Funding.--(1) There are authorized to be appropriated 
to the Department of State from time to time such amounts as 
may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this section, 
notwithstanding section 102 of the Foreign Relations 
Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987 (Public Law 99-
93).
    ``(2) No amount of funds may be appropriated which, when 
added to the amounts previously appropriated but not yet 
obligated, would cause such amounts to exceed $15,000,000.
    ``(3) To the maximum extent practicable, funds made 
available to carry out this section should be distributed 
equally for the purpose of preventing acts of international 
terrorism and for the purpose of preventing international 
narcotics trafficking.
    ``(4) Amounts appropriated to carry out the purposes of 
this section shall remain available until expended.
    ``(e) Limitation and Certification.--(1) A reward under 
this section may not exceed $2,000,000.
    ``(2) A reward under this section of more than $100,000 may 
not be made without the approval of the President or the 
Secretary of State.
    ``(3) Any reward granted under this section shall be 
approved and certified for payment by the Secretary of State.
    ``(4) The authority of paragraph (2) may not be delegated 
to any other officer or employee of the United States 
Government.
    ``(5) If the Secretary determines that the identity of the 
recipient of a reward or of the members of the recipient's 
immediate family must be protected, the Secretary may take such 
measures in connection with the payment of the reward as he 
considers necessary to effect such protection.
    ``(f) Ineligibility.--An officer or employee of any 
governmental entity who, while in the performance of his or her 
official duties, furnishes information described in subsection 
(b) shall not be eligible for a reward under this section.
    ``(g) Reports.--(1) Not later than 30 days after the 
payment of any reward under this section, the Secretary of 
State shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional 
committees with respect to such reward. The report, which may 
be submitted on a classified basis if necessary, shall specify 
the amount of the reward paid, to whom the reward was paid, and 
the acts with respect to which the reward was paid. The report 
shall also discuss the significance of the information for 
which the reward was paid in dealing with those acts.
    ``(2) Not later than 60 days after the end of each fiscal 
year, the Secretary of State shall submit an annual report to 
the appropriate congressional committees with respect to the 
operation of the rewards program authorized by this section. 
Such report shall provide information on the total amounts 
expended during such fiscal year to carry out the purposes of 
this section, including amounts spent to publicize the 
availability of rewards. Such report shall also include 
information on all requests for the payment of rewards under 
this section, including the reasons for the denial of any such 
requests.
    ``(h) Definitions.--As used in this section--
            ``(1) the term `appropriate congressional 
        committees' means the Committee on International 
        Relations of the House of Representatives and the 
        Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate;
            ``(2) the term `act of international terrorism' 
        includes, but is not limited to--
                    ``(A) any act substantially contributing to 
                the acquisition of unsafeguarded special 
                nuclear material (as defined in section 830(8) 
                of the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Act of 
                1994) or any nuclear explosive device (as 
                defined in section 830(4) of that Act) by an 
                individual, group, or non-nuclear weapon state 
                (as defined in section 830(5) of that Act); and
                    ``(B) any act, as determined by the 
                Secretary of State, which materially supports 
                the conduct of international terrorism, 
                including the counterfeiting of United States 
                currency or the illegal use of other monetary 
                instruments by an individual, group, or country 
                supporting international terrorism as 
                determined for purposes of section 6(j) of the 
                Export Administration Act of 1979;
            ``(3) the term `United States narcotics laws' means 
        the laws of the United States for the prevention and 
        control of illicit traffic in controlled substances (as 
        such term is defined for purposes of the Controlled 
        Substances Act); and
            ``(4) the term `member of the immediate family' 
        includes--
                    ``(A) a spouse, parent, brother, sister, or 
                child of the individual;
                    ``(B) a person to whom the individual 
                stands in loco parentis; and
                    ``(C) any other person living in the 
                individual's household and related to the 
                individual by blood or marriage.
    ``(i) Judicial Review.--A determination made by the 
Secretary of State as to whether to authorize a reward under 
this section or as to the amount of a reward shall not be 
subject to judicial review.''.
    (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of the Congress 
that the Secretary of State should pursue additional means of 
funding the program established by section 36 of the State 
Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2708), 
including the authority to seize and dispose of assets used in 
the commission of any offense under sections 1028, 1541 through 
1544, and 1546 of title 18, United States Code, and to retain 
the proceeds derived from the disposition of such assets; to 
participate in asset sharing programs conducted by the 
Department of Justice; and to retain earnings accruing on all 
assets of foreign countries blocked by the President pursuant 
to the International Emergency Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 and 
following) to carry out the purposes of section 36 of the State 
Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956.

SEC. 1202. BUYING POWER MAINTENANCE ACCOUNT.

    Section 24(b)(7) of the State Department Basic Authorities 
Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2696(b)(7)) is amended by striking 
subparagraph (D).

SEC. 1203. EXPENSES RELATING TO CERTAIN INTERNATIONAL CLAIMS AND 
                    PROCEEDINGS.

    (a) Recovery of Certain Expenses.--The Department of State 
Appropriation Act, 1937 (49 Stat. 1321, 22 U.S.C. 2661, as 
amended by section 142(b) of the Foreign Relations 
Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 (Public Law 100-
204)) is amended in the fifth undesignated paragraph under the 
heading entitled ``international fisheries commission'' by 
striking ``extraordinary''.
    (b) Procurement of Services.--Section 38(c) of the State 
Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2710(c)) is 
amended in the first sentence by inserting ``personal and'' 
before ``other support services''.

SEC. 1204. DENIAL OF PASSPORTS TO NONCUSTODIAL PARENTS SUBJECT TO STATE 
                    ARREST WARRANTS IN CASES OF NONPAYMENT OF CHILD 
                    SUPPORT.

    The Secretary of State is authorized to refuse to issue a 
passport or to revoke, restrict, or limit a passport in any 
case in which the Secretary of State determines or is informed 
by competent authority that the applicant or passport holder is 
a noncustodial parent who is the subject of an outstanding 
State warrant of arrest for nonpayment of child support, where 
the amount in controversy is not less than $10,000.

SEC. 1205. TRAINING.

    Section 701 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 
4021) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (d)(4) as 
        subsection (g); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (d) the following 
        new subsections:
    ``(e)(1) The Secretary of State is authorized to provide 
appropriate training through the institution to employees of 
any United States company engaged in business abroad, and to 
the families of such employees, when such training is in the 
national interest of the United States.
    ``(2) In the case of any company under contract to provide 
services to the Department of State, the Secretary of State is 
authorized to provide job-related training to any company 
employee who is performing such services.
    ``(3) Training under this subsection shall be on a 
reimbursable or advance-of-funds basis. Such reimbursements or 
advances shall be credited to the currently applicable 
appropriation account.
    ``(4) Training under this subsection is authorized only to 
the extent that it will not interfere with the institution's 
primary mission of training employees of the Department and of 
other agencies in the field of foreign relations.
    ``(f)(1) The Secretary of State is authorized to provide on 
a reimbursable basis foreign language training programs to 
Members of Congress and officers and employees of Congress.
    ``(2) Reimbursements under this subsection, to the extent 
practicable, should be equivalent to the rate of reimbursement 
charged other agencies of the United States Government for 
comparable training.
    ``(3) Reimbursements collected under this subsection shall 
be credited to the currently available applicable appropriation 
account.
    ``(4) Training under this subsection is authorized only to 
the extent that it will not interfere with the institution's 
primary mission of training employees of the Department and of 
other agencies in the field of foreign relations.''.

SEC. 1206. CAPITAL INVESTMENT FUND.

    Section 135 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, 
Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (22 U.S.C. 2684a) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by inserting ``and upgrade'' 
        after ``procurement'';
            (2) in subsection (c), by striking ``are authorized 
        to'' and inserting ``shall'';
            (3) in subsection (d), by striking all that follows 
        ``available'' and inserting ``for the purposes of 
        subsection (a).''; and
            (4) in subsection (e), by striking all that follows 
        ``(22 U.S.C. 2710)'' before the period at the end.

SEC. 1207. LEASE-PURCHASE OF OVERSEAS PROPERTY.

    (a) Authority for Lease-Purchase.--Subject to subsections 
(b) and (c), the Secretary is authorized to acquire by lease-
purchase such properties as are described in subsection (b), 
if--
            (1) the Secretary of State, and
            (2) the Director of the Office of Management and 
        Budget,

certify and notify the appropriate committees of Congress that 
the lease-purchase arrangement will result in a net cost 
savings to the Federal Government when compared to a lease, a 
direct purchase, or direct construction of comparable property.
    (b) Locations and Limitations.--The authority granted in 
subsection (a) may be exercised only--
            (1) to acquire appropriate housing for Department 
        of State personnel stationed abroad and for the 
        acquisition of other facilities, in locations in which 
        the United States has a diplomatic mission; and
            (2) during fiscal years 1996 and 1997.
    (c) Authorization of Funding.--Funds for lease-purchase 
arrangements made pursuant to subsection (a) shall be available 
from amounts appropriated under the authority of section 
1101(4) (relating to the ``Security and Maintenance of United 
States Missions'' account). Such funds shall be available only 
to such extent or in such amounts as are provided in advance in 
an appropriation Act.

SEC. 1208. FEES FOR COMMERCIAL SERVICES.

    Section 52 of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 
1956 (22 U.S.C. 2724) is amended in subsection (b) by adding at 
the end the following: ``Such fees shall remain available for 
obligation until expended. Deposited funds may be obligated and 
expended only in such amounts as are provided in advance in an 
appropriation Act.''.

SEC. 1209. REDUCTION OF REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.

    Section 488(a)(3) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
U.S.C. 2291g) is amended by striking ``quarter of the''.

SEC. 1210. FEE FOR USE OF DIPLOMATIC RECEPTION ROOMS.

    Title I of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 
1956 (22 U.S.C. 2651a et seq.) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new section:

``SEC. 53. FEE FOR USE OF DIPLOMATIC RECEPTION ROOMS.

    ``The Secretary of State is authorized to charge a fee for 
use of the Department of State diplomatic reception rooms. Fees 
collected under the authority of this section shall be 
deposited as an offsetting collection to any Department of 
State appropriation to recover the costs of such use and shall 
remain available for obligation until expended. Amounts 
deposited may be obligated and expended only to the extent and 
in such amounts as are provided in advance in an appropriation 
Act.''.

SEC. 1211. INTERNATIONAL CENTER RESERVE FUNDS.

    Section 5 of the International Center Act (Public Law 90-
533) is amended by inserting before the last sentence the 
following: ``Amounts in the reserve may be deposited in 
interest bearing accounts, and the Secretary may retain for the 
purposes of the reserve any interest earned on such deposits 
without returning such interest to the Treasury of the United 
States.''.

SEC. 1212. JOINT FUNDS UNDER AGREEMENTS FOR COOPERATION IN 
                    ENVIRONMENTAL, SCIENTIFIC, CULTURAL, AND RELATED 
                    AREAS.

    In order to promote the maximum benefits from continued 
participation in international agreements in effect as of the 
date of enactment of this Act for cooperation in environmental, 
scientific, cultural, and related areas, appropriated funds 
that have been made available in fiscal year 1995 and prior 
fiscal years under the Department of State's program of 
international environmental, scientific, and cultural 
cooperation to joint funds or accounts under such agreements 
may, to the extent specified within the agreement, be deposited 
in interest bearing accounts prior to disbursement of such 
funds for the purposes of the program. Interest earned may be 
retained for use under such agreements for program or 
administrative purposes, without returning such interest to the 
Treasury of the United States. Such retained interest amounts 
shall be available for obligation and expenditure only to such 
extent and in such amounts as are provided in advance in 
appropriation Acts.

SEC. 1213. EFFICIENCY IN PROCUREMENT.

    (a) In General.--To the maximum extent practicable, United 
States Government agencies performing functions at diplomatic 
and consular posts abroad shall avoid duplicative acquisition 
actions.
    (b) Authority.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
a contract awarded in accordance with the Competition in 
Contracting Act by an agency of the United States Government 
performing functions at diplomatic and consular posts abroad 
may be amended without competition to permit other such United 
States Government agencies to obtain goods or services under 
such contract, if unit prices are not increased as a result of 
any such amendment.

SEC. 1214. CONCERNING THE USE OF FUNDS TO FURTHER NORMALIZE RELATIONS 
                    WITH VIETNAM.

    None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or 
otherwise made available by this Act may be obligated or 
expended to pay for any cost incurred for (1) opening or 
operating any United States diplomatic or consular post in the 
Socialist Republic of Vietnam that was not operating on July 
11, 1995; (2) expanding any United States diplomatic or 
consular post in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam that was 
operating on July 11, 1995; or (3) increasing the total number 
of personnel assigned to United States diplomatic or consular 
posts in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam above the levels 
existing on July 11, 1995, unless not less than 60 days prior 
to any such obligation or expenditure the President certifies 
to the Congress that based upon all information available to 
the United States Government that the Government of the 
Socialist Republic of Vietnam is fully cooperating with the 
United States in the following 4 areas:
            (A) Resolving discrepancy cases, live sightings, 
        and field activities.
            (B) Recovering and repatriating American remains.
            (C) Accelerating efforts to provide documents that 
        will help lead to fullest possible accounting of POW/
        MIA's.
            (D) Providing further assistance in implementing 
        trilateral investigations with Laos.

SEC. 1215. DIPLOMATIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE.

    Section 507 of the Department of State and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 1995 (Public Law 103-317) is amended in 
subsections (a) and (b) by striking ``and each succeeding 
fiscal year'' each place it appears.

       CHAPTER 2--CONSULAR AUTHORITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE

SEC. 1231. FEES FOR MACHINE READABLE VISAS.

    Section 140(a) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, 
Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (Public Law 103-236) is amended--
            (1) by striking paragraphs (2) and (3) and 
        inserting the following:
            ``(2) For fiscal years 1996 and 1997, not more than 
        $150,000,000 in fees collected under the authority of 
        paragraph (1) for each fiscal year shall be deposited 
        as an offsetting collection to any Department of State 
        appropriation to recover the costs of the Department of 
        State's border security program, including the costs 
        of--
                    ``(A) installation and operation of the 
                machine readable visa and automated name-check 
                process;
                    ``(B) improving the quality and security of 
                the United States passport;
                    ``(C) passport and visa fraud 
                investigations; and
                    ``(D) the technological infrastructure to 
                support and operate the programs referred to in 
                subparagraphs (A) through (C).

        Such fees shall remain available for obligation until 
        expended.
            ``(3) For any fiscal year, fees collected under the 
        authority of paragraph (1) in excess of the amount 
        specified for such fiscal year under paragraph (2) 
        shall be deposited in the general fund of the Treasury 
        as miscellaneous receipts.''; and
            (2) by striking paragraph (5).

SEC. 1232. FINGERPRINT CHECK REQUIREMENT.

    Section 140(e)(1) of the Foreign Relations Authorization 
Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (Public Law 103-236; 8 U.S.C. 
1182 note) as amended by section 505 of the Department of State 
and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, Fiscal Year 1995 
(Public Law 103-317) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(1) The Secretary of State shall in the 10 
        countries with the highest volume of immigrant visa 
        issuance for the most recent fiscal year for which data 
        are available require applicants for immigrant visas to 
        provide a fingerprint record for submission with the 
        application, at no cost to the Department of State, if 
        such an applicant--
                    ``(A) has been determined to have a 
                criminal history record under subsection 
                (d)(1);
                    ``(B) has been physically present in the 
                United States; and
                    ``(C) is more than 16 years of age.

        The Department of State shall submit such fingerprint 
        records to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 
        analysis to determine whether the applicant has been 
        convicted of a felony under State or Federal law in the 
        United States.''.

SEC. 1233. USE OF CERTAIN PASSPORT PROCESSING FEES FOR ENHANCED 
                    PASSPORT SERVICES.

    For each of the fiscal years 1996 and 1997, of the fees 
collected for expedited passport processing and deposited to an 
offsetting collection pursuant to the Department of State and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1995 
(Public Law 103-317; 22 U.S.C. 214), 10 percent shall be 
available only for enhancing passport services for United 
States citizens, improving the integrity and efficiency of the 
passport issuance process, improving the secure nature of the 
United States passport, investigating passport fraud, and 
preventing entry into the United States by terrorists, drug 
traffickers, or other criminals.

SEC. 1234. CONSULAR OFFICERS.

    (a) Persons Authorized To Issue Reports of Births Abroad.--
Section 33 of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 
1956 (22 U.S.C. 2705) is amended in paragraph (2) by adding at 
the end the following: ``For purposes of this paragraph, a 
consular officer shall include any United States citizen 
employee of the Department of State designated by the Secretary 
of State to adjudicate nationality abroad pursuant to such 
regulations as the Secretary may prescribe.''.
    (b) Provisions Applicable to Consular Officers.--Section 31 
of the Act of August 18, 1856 (Rev. Stat. 1689; 22 U.S.C. 
4191), is amended by inserting after ``such officers'' the 
following: ``and to such other United States citizen employees 
of the Department of State as may be designated by the 
Secretary of State pursuant to such regulations as the 
Secretary may prescribe''.
    (c) Persons Authorized To Authenticate Foreign Documents.--
Section 3492(c) of title 18 of the United States Code is 
amended by adding at the end the following: ``For purposes of 
this section and sections 3493 through 3496 of this title, a 
consular officer shall include any United States citizen 
employee of the Department of State designated to perform 
notarial functions pursuant to section 24 of the Act of August 
18, 1856 (Rev. Stat. 1750; 22 U.S.C. 4221).''.
    (d) Persons Authorized To Administer Oaths.--Section 115 of 
title 35 of the United States Code is amended by adding at the 
end the following: ``For purposes of this section, a consular 
officer shall include any United States citizen employee of the 
Department of State designated to perform notarial functions 
pursuant to section 24 of the Act of August 18, 1856 (Rev. 
Stat. 1750; 22 U.S.C. 4221).''.
    (e) Definition of Consular Officer.--Section 101(a)(9) of 
the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(9)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: ``As 
used in title III, the term ``consular officer'' includes any 
United States citizen employee of the Department of State 
designated by the Secretary of State to adjudicate nationality 
abroad pursuant to such regulations as the Secretary may 
prescribe.''.

SEC. 1235. FEE FOR DIVERSITY IMMIGRANT LOTTERY.

    The Secretary of State may establish a fee to be paid by 
each alien who applies for an immigrant visa on the basis of an 
approved petition filed under section 204(a)(1)(G) of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act. Such fee may be set at a level 
so as to recover the full cost to the Department of State of 
administering subsection (c) of section 203 of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act, including the cost of processing all 
petitions thereunder. All such fees collected shall be 
deposited as an offsetting collection to any Department of 
State appropriation and shall remain available for obligation 
until expended. The provisions of the Act of August 18, 1856 
(Rev. Stat. 1726-28; 22 U.S.C. 4212-14), concerning accounting 
for consular fees, shall not apply to fees collected pursuant 
to this section. Amounts deposited shall be available for 
obligation and expenditure only in such amounts as are provided 
in advance in appropriation Acts.

SEC. 1236. FEE FOR EXECUTION OF PASSPORT APPLICATIONS.

    Section 1 of the Act of June 4, 1920 (41 Stat. 750; 22 
U.S.C. 214) is amended by--
            (1) inserting before the period at the end of the 
        first sentence the following: ``; except that the 
        Secretary of State may by regulation authorize State 
        officials or the United States Postal Service to 
        collect and retain the execution fee for each 
        application for a passport accepted by such officials 
        or by that Service''; and
            (2) striking the second sentence.

SEC. 1237. EXCLUSION FROM THE UNITED STATES FOR MEMBERSHIP IN A 
                    TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.

    Section 212(a)(3)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(3)(B)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``or'' at the end of clause (i)(I);
            (2) by inserting ``or'' at the end of clause 
        (i)(II);
            (3) by inserting after clause (i)(II) the following 
        new subclause:
                                    ``(III) is a member of a 
                                terrorist organization or who 
                                actively supports or advocates 
                                terrorist activity,''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following new clause:
                            ``(iv) Terrorist organization 
                        defined.--As used in this subparagraph, 
                        the term `terrorist organization' means 
                        an organization that engages in, or has 
                        engaged in, terrorist activity as 
                        determined by the Attorney General, in 
                        consultation with the Secretary of 
                        State.''.

SEC. 1238. TERRORIST LOOKOUT COMMITTEES.

    (a) Establishment.--
            (1) Not later than 30 days after the date of 
        enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall 
        establish within each United States Embassy a Terrorist 
        Lookout Committee, which shall include the head of the 
        political section and senior representatives of all 
        United States law enforcement agencies and all elements 
        of the intelligence community under the authority of 
        the chief of mission.
            (2) Each Committee shall be chaired by the 
        respective deputy chief of mission, with the head of 
        the consular section as vice chair.
    (b) Meetings.--Each Terrorist Lookout Committee established 
under subsection (a) shall meet at least monthly and shall 
maintain records of its meetings. Upon the completion of each 
meeting, each Committee shall report to the Department of State 
all names submitted for inclusion in the visa lookout system.
    (c) Reports.--
            (1) The Secretary of State shall submit a report to 
        the appropriate congressional committees within 90 days 
        after the date of the enactment of this Act on the 
        status of establishing Terrorist Lookout Committees 
        under this section and evaluating interagency 
        cooperation in the process.
            (2) Not later than April 1, 1997, the Secretary of 
        State shall submit a follow-up report to the 
        appropriate congressional committees detailing progress 
        on submitting names for inclusion in the visa lookout 
        system and evaluating cooperation among agencies and 
        embassy sections in maintaining lists of such names.

SEC. 1239. INCITEMENT AS A BASIS FOR EXCLUSION FROM THE UNITED STATES.

    (a) In General.--Section 212(a)(3)(B) of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(3)(B)), as amended by 
this Act, is further amended--
            (1) by striking ``or'' at the end of clause 
        (i)(II);
            (2) in clause (i)(III) by inserting ``or'' at the 
        end; and
            (3) by inserting after clause (i)(III) the 
        following new subclause:
                                    ``(IV) has, under 
                                circumstances indicating an 
                                intention to cause death or 
                                serious bodily harm, incited 
                                terrorism, engaged in targeted 
                                racial vilification, or 
                                advocated the overthrow of the 
                                United States Government or 
                                death or serious bodily harm to 
                                any United States citizen or 
                                United States Government 
                                official,''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) 
shall apply to aliens seeking to enter the United States on or 
after the date of enactment of this Act.

                   CHAPTER 3--REFUGEES AND MIGRATION

SEC. 1251. REPORT TO CONGRESS CONCERNING CUBAN EMIGRATION POLICIES.

    Beginning 3 months after the date of the enactment of this 
Act and every subsequent 6 months, the President shall submit a 
report to the appropriate congressional committees concerning 
the methods employed by the Government of Cuba to enforce the 
United States-Cuba agreement of September 1994 to restrict the 
emigration of the Cuban people from Cuba to the United States, 
and the treatment by the Government of Cuba of persons who have 
been returned to Cuba pursuant to the United States-Cuba 
agreement of May 1995. Each report transmitted pursuant to this 
section shall include a detailed account of United States 
efforts to monitor such enforcement and treatment.

SEC. 1252. EXTENSION OF CERTAIN ADJUDICATION PROVISIONS.

    The Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related 
Programs Appropriations Act, 1990 (Public Law 101-167) is 
amended--
            (1) in section 599D (8 U.S.C. 1157 note)--
                    (A) in subsection (b)(3), by striking ``and 
                1996'' and inserting ``1996, and 1997''; and
                    (B) in subsection (e), by striking out 
                ``October 1, 1996'' each place it appears and 
                inserting ``October 1, 1997''; and
            (2) in section 599E (8 U.S.C. 1255 note) in 
        subsection (b)(2), by striking out ``September 30, 
        1996'' and inserting ``September 30, 1997''.

SEC. 1253. UNITED STATES POLICY REGARDING THE INVOLUNTARY RETURN OF 
                    REFUGEES.

    (a) In General.--No funds authorized to be appropriated by 
section 1104 of this Act or by section 2(c) of the Migration 
and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (22 U.S.C. 2601(c)) shall be 
available to effect the involuntary return of any person to a 
country in which the person has a well founded fear of 
persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, 
membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.
    (b) Involuntary Return Defined.--As used in this section, 
the term ``effect the involuntary return'' means to take action 
by which it is reasonably foreseeable that a person will be 
required to return to a country against the person's will, 
regardless of whether such return is induced by physical force 
and regardless of whether the person is physically present in 
the United States.

SEC. 1254. REPORT ON IRAQI REFUGEES.

    (a) Requirement.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit 
to the appropriate congressional committees a report describing 
in detail the procedures for determining eligibility for 
resettlement of Iraqi nationals from Saudi Arabia and Turkey to 
the United States.
    (b) Report.--The report under subsection (a) shall include 
the following:
            (1) The history of the United States resettlement 
        program for Iraqi refugees, including the number of 
        such refugees resettled in the United States and in 
        other countries during each year since fiscal year 
        1991, as well as activities of the United States 
        Government, other governments, and international 
        organizations with respect to temporary protection for 
        Iraqi refugees in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and other 
        countries.
            (2) An evaluation and explanation of the continuing 
        need for the program, including an evaluation of the 
        prospects for future resettlement of Iraqi refugees in 
        countries other than the United States and the impact 
        of United States activities on resettlement commitments 
        by such countries and on the actions of countries 
        providing temporary protection.
            (3) A detailed analysis of the basis for claims of 
        persecution of Iraqi refugees approved for resettlement 
        in the United States.
            (4) A detailed description and evaluation of 
        procedures employed by United States personnel to 
        ensure the denial of fraudulent applications and the 
        application of all grounds of exclusion provided by 
        United States law.
            (5) A detailed description of the acculturation 
        program for Iraqi refugees selected for admission to 
        the United States, with particular reference to any 
        differences between this program and similar programs 
        for other refugees, and an evaluation of the continuing 
        need for such program and for improvements therein.

SEC. 1255. PERSECUTION FOR RESISTANCE TO COERCIVE POPULATION CONTROL 
                    METHODS.

    Section 101(a)(42) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(42)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following: ``For purposes of determinations under this Act, a 
person who has been forced to abort a pregnancy or to undergo 
involuntary sterilization, or who has been persecuted for 
failure or refusal to undergo such a procedure or for other 
resistance to a coercive population control program, shall be 
deemed to have been persecuted on account of political opinion, 
and a person who has a well founded fear that he or she will be 
forced to undergo such a procedure or subjected to persecution 
for such failure, refusal, or resistance shall be deemed to 
have a well founded fear of persecution on account of political 
opinion.''.

SEC. 1256. UNITED STATES POLICY WITH RESPECT TO THE INVOLUNTARY RETURN 
                    OF PERSONS IN DANGER OF SUBJECTION TO TORTURE.

    (a) In General.--No funds authorized to be appropriated by 
this Act, or by section 2(c) of the Migration and Refugee 
Assistance Act of 1962 (22 U.S.C. 2601(c)), shall be available 
to expel, extradite, or otherwise effect the involuntary return 
of any person to a country in which there are substantial 
grounds for believing the person would be in danger of being 
subjected to torture.
    (b) Definitions.--
            (1) In general.--Except as otherwise provided, 
        terms used in this section have the meanings assigned 
        under the United Nations Convention Against Torture and 
        Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or 
        Punishment, subject to any reservations, 
        understandings, declarations and provisos contained in 
        the United States resolution of advice and consent to 
        ratification to such Convention.
            (2) Involuntary return.--As used in this section, 
        the term ``effect the involuntary return'' means to 
        take action by which it is reasonably foreseeable that 
        a person will be required to return to a country 
        against the person's will, regardless of whether such 
        return is induced by physical force and regardless of 
        whether the person is physically present in the United 
        States.

  TITLE XIII--ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE; DEPARTMENT OF 
                  STATE PERSONNEL; THE FOREIGN SERVICE

           CHAPTER 1--ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE

SEC. 1301. COORDINATOR FOR COUNTERTERRORISM.

    (a) Establishment.--Section 1(f) of the State Department 
Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2651a(f)) (as amended 
by section 213 of this Act) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``In'' and inserting the following:
            ``(1) In''; and
            (2) by inserting at the end the following:
            ``(2) Coordinator for counterterrorism.--
                    ``(A) There shall be within the office of 
                the Secretary of State a Coordinator for 
                Counterterrorism (hereafter in this paragraph 
                referred to as the `Coordinator') who shall be 
                appointed by the President, by and with the 
                advice and consent of the Senate.
                    ``(B)(i) The Coordinator shall perform such 
                duties and exercise such power as the Secretary 
                of State shall prescribe.
                    ``(ii) The principal duty of the 
                Coordinator shall be the overall supervision 
                (including policy oversight of resources) of 
                international counterterrorism activities. The 
                Coordinator shall be the principal advisor to 
                the Secretary of State on international 
                counterterrorism matters. The Coordinator shall 
                be the principal counterterrorism official 
                within the senior management of the Department 
                of State and shall report directly to the 
                Secretary of State.
                    ``(C) The Coordinator shall have the rank 
                and status of Ambassador-at-Large. The 
                Coordinator shall be compensated at the annual 
                rate of basic pay in effect for a position at 
                level IV of the Executive Schedule under 
                section 5314 of title 5, United States Code, 
                or, if the Coordinator is appointed from the 
                Foreign Service, the annual rate of pay which 
                the individual last received under the Foreign 
                Service Schedule, whichever is greater.''.
    (b) Technical and Conforming Amendments.--Section 161 of 
the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 
1995 (Public Law 103-236) is amended by striking subsection 
(e).
    (c) Transition Provision.--The individual serving as 
Coordinator for Counterterrorism of the Department of State on 
the day before the effective date of this division may continue 
to serve in that position.

SEC. 1302. AUTHORITY OF UNITED STATES PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE TO THE 
                    UNITED NATIONS.

    Section 2(a) of the United Nations Participation Act of 
1945 (22 U.S.C. 287(a)) is amended by striking ``hold office at 
the pleasure of the President'' and inserting ``serve at the 
pleasure of the President and subject to the direction of the 
Secretary of State''.

SEC. 1303. SPECIAL ENVOY FOR TIBET.

    (a) United States Special Envoy for Tibet.--The President 
should appoint within the Department of State a United States 
Special Envoy for Tibet, who shall hold office at the pleasure 
of the President.
    (b) Rank.--A United States Special Envoy for Tibet 
appointed under subsection (a) shall have the personal rank of 
ambassador and shall be appointed by and with the advice and 
consent of the Senate.
    (c) Special Functions.--The United States Special Envoy for 
Tibet should be authorized and encouraged--
            (1) to promote substantive negotiations between the 
        Dalai Lama or his representatives and senior members of 
        the Government of the People's Republic of China;
            (2) to promote good relations between the Dalai 
        Lama and his representatives and the United States 
        Government, including meeting with members or 
        representatives of the Tibetan government-in-exile; and
            (3) to travel regularly throughout Tibet and 
        Tibetan refugee settlements.
    (d) Duties and Responsibilities.--The United States Special 
Envoy for Tibet should--
            (1) consult with the Congress on policies relevant 
        to Tibet and the future and welfare of all Tibetan 
        people;
            (2) coordinate United States Government policies, 
        programs, and projects concerning Tibet; and
            (3) report to the Secretary of State regarding the 
        matters described in section 536(a)(2) of the Foreign 
        Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 
        (Public Law 103-236).

SEC. 1304. RESPONSIBILITIES OF BUREAU CHARGED WITH MIGRATION AND 
                    REFUGEE ASSISTANCE.

    The Bureau of Migration and Refugee Assistance shall be the 
bureau within the Department of State with principal 
responsibility for assisting the Secretary in carrying out the 
Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 and shall not be 
charged with responsibility for assisting the Secretary in 
matters relating to family planning or population policy.

SEC. 1305. ELIMINATION OF STATUTORY ESTABLISHMENT OF CERTAIN POSITIONS 
                    OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

    (a) Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs.--
Section 122 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal 
Years 1992 and 1993 (22 U.S.C. 2652b) is repealed.
    (b) Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for 
Burdensharing.--Section 161 of the Foreign Relations 
Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (22 U.S.C. 2651a 
note) is amended by striking subsection (f).
    (c) Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International 
Environmental and Scientific Affairs.--Section 9 of the 
Department of State Appropriations Authorization Act of 1973 
(22 U.S.C. 2655a) is repealed.

SEC. 1306. MANAGEMENT OF THE HUMAN RESOURCES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 
                    STATE.

    (a) Position.--Either the head or next most senior person 
of the bureau or office within the Department of State with 
principal responsibility for management of human resources and 
personnel policies of the Department shall have substantial 
professional qualifications in the field of human resource 
policy and management.
    (b) Definition.--For purposes of this section, the term 
``substantial professional qualifications in the field of human 
resources policy and management'' means in excess of 15 years 
experience as a human resources management professional of 
which at least 5 years shall have been gained in the private 
sector or in government service outside the Foreign Service.

  CHAPTER 2--PERSONNEL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE; THE FOREIGN SERVICE

SEC. 1351. AUTHORIZED STRENGTH OF THE FOREIGN SERVICE.

    (a) End Fiscal Year 1996 Levels.--The number of members of 
the Foreign Service authorized to be employed as of September 
30, 1996--
            (1) for the Department of State, shall not exceed 
        9,000, of whom not more than 660 shall be members of 
        the Senior Foreign Service;
            (2) for the United States Information Agency, shall 
        not exceed 1,150, of whom not more than 160 shall be 
        members of the Senior Foreign Service; and
            (3) for the Agency for International Development, 
        not to exceed 1,800, of whom not more than 225 shall be 
        members of the Senior Foreign Service.
    (b) End Fiscal Year 1997 Levels.--The number of members of 
the Foreign Service authorized to be employed as of September 
30, 1997--
            (1) for the Department of State, shall not exceed 
        8,800, of whom not more than 660 shall be members of 
        the Senior Foreign Service;
            (2) for the United States Information Agency, not 
        to exceed 1,100 of whom not more than 160 shall be 
        members of the Senior Foreign Service; and
            (3) for the Agency for International Development, 
        not to exceed 1,775 of whom not more than 225 shall be 
        members of the Senior Foreign Service.
    (c) Definition.--For the purposes of this section, the term 
``members of the Foreign Service'' is used within the meaning 
of such term under section 103 of the Foreign Service Act of 
1980 (22 U.S.C 3903), except that such term does not include--
            (1) members of the Service under paragraphs (6) and 
        (7) of such section;
            (2) members of the Service serving under temporary 
        resident appointments abroad;
            (3) members of the Service employed on less than a 
        full-time basis;
            (4) members of the Service subject to involuntary 
        separation in cases in which such separation has been 
        suspended pursuant to section 1106(8) of the Foreign 
        Service Act of 1980; and
            (5) members of the Service serving under non-career 
        limited appointments.
    (d) Waiver Authority.--(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the 
President may waive any limitation under subsection (a) or (b) 
to the extent that such waiver is necessary to carry on the 
foreign affairs functions of the United States.
    (2) Not less than 15 days before the President exercises a 
waiver under paragraph (1), such agency head shall notify the 
Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate 
and the Chairman of the Committee on International Relations of 
the House of Representatives of the President's intention to 
exercise the waiver authority. Such notice shall include an 
explanation of the circumstances and necessity for such waiver.

SEC. 1352. RESTRICTION ON LOBBYING ACTIVITIES OF FORMER UNITED STATES 
                    CHIEFS OF MISSION.

    Section 207(d)(1) of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``or'' at the end of subparagraph 
        (B);
            (2) in subparagraph (C), by inserting ``or'' after 
        ``title 3,''; and
            (3) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the 
        following new subparagraph:
                    ``(D) serves in the position of chief of 
                mission (as defined in section 102(3) of the 
                Foreign Service Act of 1980),''.

SEC. 1353. LIMITATIONS ON MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENTS.

    Section 1017(e)(2) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 
U.S.C. 4117(e)(2)) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(A)(ii) and 
paragraph (1)(B), the term `management official' does not 
include chiefs of mission, principal officers or their 
deputies, administrative and personnel officers abroad, or 
individuals described in section 1002(12) (B), (C), and (D) who 
are not involved in the administration of this chapter or in 
the formulation of the personnel policies and programs of the 
Department.''.

SEC. 1354. NONOVERTIME DIFFERENTIAL PAY.

    Title 5 of the United States Code is amended--
            (1) in section 5544(a), by inserting after the 
        fourth sentence the following new sentence: ``For 
        employees serving outside the United States in areas 
        where Sunday is a routine workday and another day of 
        the week is officially recognized as the day of rest 
        and worship, the Secretary of State may designate the 
        officially recognized day of rest and worship as the 
        day with respect to which additional pay is authorized 
        by the preceding sentence.''; and
            (2) at the end of section 5546(a), by adding the 
        following new sentence: ``For employees serving outside 
        the United States in areas where Sunday is a routine 
        workday and another day of the week is officially 
        recognized as the day of rest and worship, the 
        Secretary of State may designate the officially 
        recognized day of rest and worship as the day with 
        respect to which additional pay is authorized by the 
        preceding sentence.''.

SEC. 1355. RECOVERY OF COSTS OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES.

    (a) Authorities.--Section 904 of the Foreign Service Act of 
1980 (22 U.S.C. 4084) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking ``and'' before ``members of 
                the families of such members and employees''; 
                and
                    (B) by inserting immediately before the 
                period ``, and for care provided abroad) such 
                other persons as are designated by the 
                Secretary of State, except that such persons 
                shall be considered persons other than covered 
                beneficiaries for purposes of subsections (g) 
                and (h)'';
            (2) in subsection (d), by inserting ``, subject to 
        the provisions of subsections (g) and (h)'' after 
        ``treatment''; and
            (3) by adding the following new subsections:
    ``(g)(1) In the case of a person who is a covered 
beneficiary, the Secretary of State is authorized to collect 
from a third-party payer the reasonable costs incurred by the 
Department of State on behalf of such person for health care 
services to the same extent that the covered beneficiary would 
be eligible to receive reimbursement or indemnification from 
the third-party payer for such costs.
    ``(2) If the insurance policy, plan, contract, or similar 
agreement of that third-party payer includes a requirement for 
a deductible or copayment by the beneficiary of the plan, then 
the Secretary of State may collect from the third-party payer 
only the reasonable costs of the care provided less the 
deductible or copayment amount.
    ``(3) A covered beneficiary shall not be required to pay 
any deductible or copayment for health care services under this 
subsection.
    ``(4) No provision of any insurance, medical service, or 
health plan contract or agreement having the effect of 
excluding from coverage or limiting payment of charges for care 
in the following circumstances shall operate to prevent 
collection by the Secretary of State under paragraph (1) for--
            ``(A) care provided directly or indirectly by a 
        governmental entity;
            ``(B) care provided to an individual who has not 
        paid a required deductible or copayment; or
            ``(C) care provided by a provider with which the 
        third-party payer has no participation agreement.
    ``(5) No law of any State, or of any political subdivision 
of a State, and no provision of any contract or agreement shall 
operate to prevent or hinder recovery or collection by the 
United States under this section.
    ``(6) As to the authority provided in paragraph (1) of this 
subsection--
            ``(A) the United States shall be subrogated to any 
        right or claim that the covered beneficiary may have 
        against a third-party payer;
            ``(B) the United States may institute and prosecute 
        legal proceedings against a third-party payer to 
        enforce a right of the United States under this 
        subsection; and
            ``(C) the Secretary may compromise, settle, or 
        waive a claim of the United States under this 
        subsection.
    ``(7) The Secretary shall prescribe regulations for the 
administration of this subsection and subsection (h). Such 
regulations shall provide for computation of the reasonable 
cost of health care services.
    ``(8) Regulations prescribed under this subsection shall 
provide that medical records of a covered beneficiary receiving 
health care under this subsection shall be made available for 
inspection and review by representatives of the payer from 
which collection by the United States is sought for the sole 
purpose of permitting the third party to verify--
            ``(A) that the care or services for which recovery 
        or collection is sought were furnished to the covered 
        beneficiary; and
            ``(B) that the provisions of such care or services 
        to the covered beneficiary meets criteria generally 
        applicable under the health plan contract involved, 
        except that this paragraph shall be subject to the 
        provisions of paragraphs (2) and (4).
    ``(9) Amounts collected under this subsection or under 
subsection (h) from a third-party payer or from any other payer 
shall be deposited as an offsetting collection to any 
Department of State appropriation and shall remain available 
until expended. Amounts deposited shall be obligated and 
expended only to the extent and in such amounts as are provided 
in advance in an appropriation Act.
    ``(10) For purposes of this section--
            ``(A) the term `covered beneficiary' means an 
        individual eligible to receive health care under this 
        section whose health care costs are to be paid by a 
        third-party payer under a contractual agreement with 
        such payer;
            ``(B) the term `services', as used in `health care 
        services' includes products; and
            ``(C) the term `third-party payer' means an entity 
        that provides a fee-for-service insurance policy, 
        contract, or similar agreement through the Federal 
        Employees Health Benefit program, under which the 
        expenses of health care services for individuals are 
        paid.
    ``(h) In the case of a person, other than a covered 
beneficiary, who receives health care services pursuant to this 
section, the Secretary of State is authorized to collect from 
such person the reasonable costs of health care services 
incurred by the Department of State on behalf of such person. 
The United States shall have the same rights against persons 
subject to the provisions of this subsection as against third-
party payers covered by subsection (g).''.
    (b) Effective Date.--Subsection (a) shall take effect 
October 1, 1996.

SEC. 1356. REPORT ON PROMOTION AND RETENTION OF PERSONNEL.

    Section 601(c)(4) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 
U.S.C. 4001(c)(4)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of subparagraph 
        (B);
            (2) by striking the period at the end of 
        subparagraph (C) and inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new 
        subparagraph:
            ``(D) include on a biennual basis the comments of 
        the Inspector General for Foreign Affairs with respect 
        to the adequacy of the reports on the matters described 
        in this paragraph.''.

SEC. 1357. FOREIGN SERVICE REFORM.

    (a) Appointments by the President.--Section 302(b) of the 
Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3942(b)) is amended in 
the second sentence--
            (1) by striking ``may elect to'' and inserting 
        ``shall''; and
            (2) by striking ``Service,'' and all that follows 
        and inserting ``Service.''.
    (b) Performance Pay.--Section 405 of the Foreign Service 
Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3965) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``Members'' and 
        inserting ``Subject to subsection (e), members''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of State may provide for recognition of the 
meritorious or distinguished service of a member of the Foreign 
Service described in subsection (a) (including members of the 
Senior Foreign Service) by means other than an award of 
performance pay in lieu of making such an award under this 
section.''.
    (c) Expedited Separation Out.--Not later than 90 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall 
develop and implement procedures to identify, and recommend for 
separation, members of the Foreign Service ranked by promotion 
boards in the bottom five percent of their class for any two of 
the five preceding years.

 TITLE XIV--UNITED STATES PUBLIC DIPLOMACY: AUTHORITIES AND ACTIVITIES 
  FOR UNITED STATES INFORMATIONAL, EDUCATIONAL, AND CULTURAL PROGRAMS

SEC. 1401. AVAILABILITY OF VOICE OF AMERICA AND RADIO MARTI 
                    MULTILINGUAL COMPUTER READABLE TEXT AND VOICE 
                    RECORDINGS.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding section 208 of the Foreign 
Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987 (22 
U.S.C. 1461-1a) and the second sentence of section 501 of the 
United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 
(22 U.S.C. 1461), the Director of the United States Information 
Agency is authorized to make available, upon request, to the 
Linguistic Data Consortium of the University of Pennsylvania 
computer readable multilingual text and recorded speech in 
various languages. The Consortium shall, directly or indirectly 
as appropriate, reimburse the Director for any expenses 
involved in making such materials available.
    (b) Termination.--Subsection (a) shall cease to have effect 
5 years after the date of the enactment of this Act.

SEC. 1402. CENTER FOR CULTURAL AND TECHNICAL INTERCHANGE BETWEEN NORTH 
                    AND SOUTH.

    Section 208(e) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, 
Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 (22 U.S.C. 2075(e)) is amended by 
striking ``$10,000,000'' and inserting ``$4,000,000''.

SEC. 1403. EXPANSION OF MUSKIE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM.

    Section 227 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, 
Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 (22 U.S.C. 2452 note) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``Soviet Union, 
        Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia'' and inserting ``former 
        Soviet Union, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Albania, 
        Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, 
        Romania, Slovenia, and the Former Yugoslav Republic of 
        Macedonia'';
            (2) in subsection (c)(5), by striking ``law,'' in 
        the first sentence and all that follows through the end 
        of paragraph (5) and inserting ``journalism, law, 
        library and information science, public administration, 
        and public policy.'';
            (3) in subsection (b), by striking ``Soviet Union, 
        Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia'' and inserting 
        ``countries specified in subsection (a)'';
            (4) in subsection (c)(11), by striking ``Soviet 
        republics, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia'' and 
        inserting ``countries specified in subsection (a)''; 
        and
            (5) in the section heading, by striking ``THE 
        SOVIET UNION, LITHUANIA, LATVIA, AND ESTONIA'' and 
        inserting ``CERTAIN EURASIAN COUNTRIES''.

SEC. 1404. MANSFIELD FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.

    Section 253(4)(B) of the Foreign Relations Authorization 
Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (22 U.S.C. 6102(4)(B)) is 
amended by striking ``certain'' and inserting the following: 
``, under criteria established by the Mansfield Center for 
Pacific Affairs, certain allowances and benefits not to exceed 
the amount of equivalent''.

SEC. 1405. PILOT PROGRAM ON ADVERTISING ON USIA TELEVISION AND RADIO 
                    BROADCASTS.

    (a) In General.--(1) The Director of the United States 
Information Agency shall carry out a pilot program to determine 
the feasibility and advisability of permitting advertisements 
on the television broadcasts and radio broadcasts of the USIA , 
including broadcasts of the Voice of America, Radio Marti/TV 
Marti, Worldnet, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and Radio 
Free Asia.
    (2) The Director shall commence carrying out the pilot 
program not later than 90 days after the date of the 
transmittal to Congress of the plan required under subsection 
(b).
    (3) The Director shall carry out the pilot program for 12 
months.
    (b) Program Plan.--(1) Not later than 120 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Director shall prepare 
and transmit to Congress a plan for carrying out the pilot 
program required under subsection (a).
    (2) In preparing the plan, the Director shall solicit and 
take into account the comments of other broadcasting entities 
funded by the United States Government on the experiences of 
and advantages and disadvantages to public television and radio 
broadcast stations of permitting advertisements on the 
broadcasts of such stations.
    (c) Treatment of Revenues.--Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, the Director may use any revenues received by 
the USIA under the pilot program to pay for the cost of the 
radio and television broadcasting activities of the USIA. Such 
funds shall be available for that purpose without fiscal year 
limitation.
    (d) Program Report.--Not later than 60 days after the date 
of the completion of the pilot program, the Director shall 
submit to Congress a report on the pilot program. The report 
shall include the following:
            (1) A description of the pilot program, including 
        the number and type of advertisements aired under the 
        pilot program and the revenues received as a result of 
        the advertisements.
            (2) An estimate of the number and type of 
        advertisements that would be carried on the television 
        broadcasts and radio broadcasts of the USIA on an 
        annual basis after the completion of the pilot program 
        if the USIA were authorized to continue to carry such 
        advertisements, and the revenues that the USIA would 
        receive as a result of carrying such advertisements.
            (3) An assessment of the feasibility and 
        advisability of permitting advertisements on the 
        television broadcasts and radio broadcasts of the USIA, 
        including a discussion of the advisability of 
        permitting such advertisements by--
                    (A) United States entities;
                    (B) foreign governments;
                    (C) foreign individuals or entities; and
                    (D) a combination of such entities, 
                governments, and individuals.
    (e) Regulations.--The Director may prescribe regulations to 
carry out the pilot program.

SEC. 1406. CHANGES IN ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITIES.

    (a) Contract Authority for Voice of America Radio 
Facility.--Section 235 of the Foreign Relations Authorization 
Act, Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 (Public Law 101-246) is amended 
by inserting ``Tinian,'' after ``Sao Tome,''.
    (b) Availability of Appropriations.--Section 701(f)(4) of 
the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 
1948 (22 U.S.C. 1476(f)) is amended by striking ``September 30, 
1995'' and inserting ``March 1, 1997''.
    (c) Technical Correction.--Section 314(2)(B) of the Foreign 
Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (22 
U.S.C. 6213(2)(B)) is amended by striking ``section 307(e)'' 
and inserting ``section 308(d)''.
    (d) Radio Broadcasting to Cuba.--Section 4 of the Radio 
Broadcasting to Cuba Act (22 U.S.C. 1465b) is amended by 
striking ``Director of the Voice of America'' and inserting 
``Director of the International Broadcasting Bureau''.
    (e) Television Broadcasting to Cuba.--Section 244(a) of the 
Television Broadcasting to Cuba Act (22 U.S.C. 1465cc(a)) is 
amended in the third sentence by striking ``Voice of America'' 
and inserting ``International Broadcasting Bureau''.
    (f) International Broadcasting Bureau.--Section 307 of the 
Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 
(Public Law 103-236) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new subsection:
    ``(c) Consolidation of Engineering Function.--For the 
purpose of achieving economies and eliminating duplication, the 
Director of the United States Information Agency is authorized 
to appoint, during 1996, up to 5 otherwise qualified United 
States citizens employed in the Office of the Vice President 
for Engineering and Technical Operations of RFE/RL, 
Incorporated, to the competitive service or the career Foreign 
Service of the United States Information Agency in accordance 
with the provisions of title 5 of the United States Code, and 
without regard to section 301(b) or 306 of the Foreign Service 
Act of 1980, governing appointments in the Foreign Service. 
Prior service with RFE/RL, Incorporated, by an individual 
appointed under this subsection shall be credited in 
determining the length of service of the individual for 
reduction in force purposes and toward establishing the career 
tenure of the individual.''.
    (g) Use of Fees From Educational Advising.--Section 810 of 
the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 
1948 (22 U.S.C. 1475e) is amended by inserting ``, educational 
advising,'' after ``English-teaching''.

SEC. 1407. RETENTION OF INTEREST.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, with the 
approval of the National Endowment for Democracy, grant funds 
made available by the National Endowment for Democracy may be 
deposited in interest-bearing accounts pending disbursement and 
any interest which accrues may be retained by the grantee and 
used for the purposes for which the grant was made.

SEC. 1408. CONDUCT OF CERTAIN EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE 
                    PROGRAMS.

    In carrying out programs of educational and cultural 
exchange in countries whose people do not fully enjoy freedom 
and democracy (including but not limited to China, Vietnam, 
Cambodia, Tibet, and Burma), the Director of the United States 
Information Agency shall take appropriate steps to provide 
opportunities for participation in such programs to human 
rights and democracy leaders of such countries.

SEC. 1409. EXTENSION OF AU PAIR PROGRAMS.

    (a) Repeal.--Section 581 of the Foreign Operations, Export 
Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1996 
(Public Law 104-107) is repealed.
    (b) Authority for Au Pair Programs.--The Director of the 
United States Information Agency is authorized to continue to 
administer an au pair program, operating on a world-wide basis, 
through fiscal year 1999.
    (c) Report.--Not later than October 1, 1998, the Director 
of the United States Information Agency shall submit a report 
regarding the continued extension of au pair programs to the 
appropriate congressional committees. This report shall 
specifically detail the compliance of all au pair organizations 
with regulations governing au pair programs as published on 
February 15, 1995.

SEC. 1410. EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL EXCHANGES AND SCHOLARSHIPS FOR 
                    TIBETANS AND BURMESE.

    (a) Establishment of Educational and Cultural Exchange for 
Tibetans.--The Director of the United States Information Agency 
shall establish programs of educational and cultural exchange 
between the United States and the people of Tibet. Such 
programs shall include opportunities for training and, as the 
Director considers appropriate, may include the assignment of 
personnel and resources abroad.
    (b) Scholarships for Tibetans and Burmese.--
            (1) For each of the fiscal years 1996 and 1997, at 
        least 30 scholarships shall be made available to 
        Tibetan students and professionals who are outside 
        Tibet, and at least 15 scholarships shall be made 
        available to Burmese students and professionals who are 
        outside Burma.
            (2) Waiver.--Paragraph (1) shall not apply to the 
        extent that the Director of the United States 
        Information Agency determines that there are not enough 
        qualified students to fulfill such allocation 
        requirement.
            (3) Scholarship defined.--For the purposes of this 
        section, the term ``scholarship'' means an amount to be 
        used for full or partial support of tuition and fees to 
        attend an educational institution, and may include 
        fees, books, and supplies, equipment required for 
        courses at an educational institution, living expenses 
        at a United States educational institution, and travel 
        expenses to and from, and within, the United States.

SEC. 1411. INITIATION OF BROADCASTS BY RADIO FREE ASIA.

    Section 309 of the United States International Broadcasting 
Act of 1994 (22 U.S.C. 6208) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new subsection:
    ``(j) Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal 
Years 1996 and 1997, Radio Free Asia shall initiate regular 
broadcasts to the People's Republic of China, Burma, Cambodia, 
Laos, North Korea, Tibet, and Vietnam. Such broadcasts shall be 
conducted under the name `Radio Free Asia' and shall provide 
accurate and timely information, news, and commentary about 
events in the respective countries of Asia and elsewhere, and 
shall be a forum for a variety of opinions and voices from 
within Asian nations whose people do not fully enjoy freedom of 
expression.''.

SEC. 1412. DISTRIBUTION WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OF THE UNITED STATES 
                    INFORMATION AGENCY FILM ENTITLED ``THE FRAGILE RING 
                    OF LIFE''.

    Notwithstanding section 208 of the Foreign Relations 
Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987 (22 U.S.C. 1461-
1(a)) and the second sentence of section 501 of the United 
States Information and Education Act of 1948 (22 U.S.C. 1461), 
the Director of the United States Information Agency may make 
available for distribution within the United States the 
documentary entitled ``The Fragile Ring of Life'', a film about 
coral reefs around the world.

         TITLE XV--INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMISSIONS

                     CHAPTER 1--GENERAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 1501. TERMINATION OF UNITED STATES PARTICIPATION IN CERTAIN 
                    INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS.

    (a) In General.--Subject to subsection (b) and 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the funds 
authorized to be appropriated by this Act or any other 
provision of law may be used for payment of United States 
membership in any of the following organizations:
            (1) The United Nations Industrial Development 
        Organization.
            (2) Pan American Railway Congress Association.
            (3) The International Cotton Advisory Committee.
            (4) The World Tourism Organization.
            (5) The Inter-American Indian Institute.
            (6) International Tropical Timber Organization.
    (b) Expenses Pending Termination of United States 
Membership.--Notwithstanding the requirements of subsection 
(a), funds authorized to be appropriated under this Act, to the 
extent required under any treaty to which the United States is 
a party, may be used to make payments to the organizations 
identified in subsection (a) during the period beginning on the 
date that the United States gives notice pursuant to such 
treaty of the intent to terminate United States membership in 
the organization as promptly as permitted by such treaty and 
ending on the date that the termination of United States 
membership takes effect.

SEC. 1502. INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION.

    The Act of May 13, 1924 (49 Stat. 660, 22 U.S.C. 277-277f), 
is amended in section 3 (22 U.S.C. 277b) by adding at the end 
the following new subsection:
    ``(d) Pursuant to the authority of subsection (a) and in 
order to facilitate further compliance with the terms of the 
Convention for Equitable Distribution of the Waters of the Rio 
Grande, May 21, 1906, United States-Mexico, the Secretary of 
State, acting through the United States Commissioner of the 
International Boundary and Water Commission, may make 
improvements to the Rio Grande Canalization Project, originally 
authorized by the Act of August 29, 1935 (49 Stat. 961). Such 
improvements may include all such works as may be needed to 
stabilize the Rio Grande in the reach between the Percha 
Diversion Dam in New Mexico and the American Diversion Dam in 
El Paso.''.

SEC. 1503. PROHIBITION ON ASSISTANCE TO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 
                    ESPOUSING WORLD GOVERNMENT.

    None of the funds authorized to be made available by this 
Act shall be used--
            (1) to pay the United States contribution to any 
        international organization which engages in the direct 
        or indirect promotion of the principle or doctrine of 
        one world government or one world citizenship; or
            (2) for the promotion, direct or indirect, of the 
        principle or doctrine of one world government or one 
        world citizenship.

SEC. 1504. INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS.

    (a) Findings.--The Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) On April 2, 1992, the Senate approved a 
        resolution of advice and consent to ratification of the 
        International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 
        subject to reservations, understandings, declarations, 
        and a proviso intended, inter alia, to protect the 
        First Amendment rights of American citizens and other 
        United States constitutional rights and practices.
            (2) In accordance with the action of the Senate, 
        the President deposited the United States instrument of 
        ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and 
        Political Rights on June 8, 1992, and the Covenant 
        entered into force for the United States on September 
        8, 1992.
            (3) On November 2, 1994, the Human Rights 
        Committee, established under the Covenant to interpret 
        the Covenant and to receive complaints of 
        noncompliance, adopted General Comment No. 24 regarding 
        reservations to the Covenant.
            (4) In General Comment No. 24, the Human Rights 
        Committee claimed for itself the power to judge the 
        validity under international law of reservations to the 
        Covenant, and in the purported exercise of this power 
        asserted that reservations of the type included in the 
        Senate resolution of ratification are invalid, and 
        further asserted that invalid reservations will be read 
        out of instruments of ratification, ``in the sense that 
        the Covenant will be operative for the reserving party 
        without benefit of the reservation''.
            (5) The purpose and effect of General Comment No. 
        24 is to seek to nullify as a matter of international 
        law the reservations, understandings, declarations, and 
        proviso contained in the Senate resolution of 
        ratification, thereby purporting to impose legal 
        obligations on the United States never accepted by the 
        United States.
            (6) General Comment No. 24 threatens not only the 
        Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution and 
        the constitutional authority of the Senate with respect 
        to the approval of treaties, but also the First 
        Amendment rights of American citizens and the other 
        United States constitutional rights and practices 
        protected by the reservations, understandings, 
        declarations, and proviso contained in the Senate 
        resolution of ratification.
    (b) Restriction on Obligation or Expenditure of Funds.--
            (1) Restriction.--Effective two years after the 
        date of enactment of this Act, no funds authorized to 
        be appropriated by this Act or any other Act, or 
        otherwise made available, may be obligated or expended 
        for the conduct of any activity which has the purpose 
        or effect of--
                    (A) reporting to the Human Rights Committee 
                in accordance with Article 40 of the 
                International Covenant on Civil and Political 
                Rights, or
                    (B) responding to any effort by the Human 
                Rights Committee to use the procedures of 
                Articles 41 and 42 of the International 
                Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to 
                resolve claims by other parties to the Covenant 
                that the United States is not fulfilling its 
                obligations under the Covenant,
        until the President has submitted to the Congress the 
        certification described in paragraph (2).
            (2) Certification.--The certification referred to 
        in paragraph (1) is a certification by the President to 
        the Congress that the Human Rights Committee 
        established under the International Covenant on Civil 
        and Political Rights has--
                    (A) revoked its General Comment No. 24 
                adopted on November 2, 1994; and
                    (B) expressly recognized the validity as a 
                matter of international law of the 
                reservations, understandings, and declarations 
                contained in the United States instrument of 
                ratification of the International Covenant on 
                Civil and Political Rights.

SEC. 1505. UNITED STATES PARTICIPATION IN SINGLE COMMODITY 
                    INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS.

    Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of 
this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit to the 
appropriate congressional committees a report that--
            (1) identifies the national interests, if any, that 
        are served by continuing United States participation in 
        single-commodity international organizations;
            (2) assesses the current and projected costs of 
        continuing United States participation in such 
        organizations in light of the increasingly limited 
        funds available to fund United States participation in 
        all international organizations;
            (3) assesses the feasibility and desirability of 
        the privatization of United States representation in 
        such organizations; and
            (4) sets forth options for achieving the 
        privatization of the organizations if the Secretary 
        determines that the privatization is feasible and 
        desirable.

  CHAPTER 2--UNITED NATIONS AND AFFILIATED AGENCIES AND ORGANIZATIONS

SEC. 1521. REFORM IN BUDGET DECISIONMAKING PROCEDURES OF THE UNITED 
                    NATIONS AND ITS SPECIALIZED AGENCIES.

    (a) Assessed Contributions.--Of amounts authorized to be 
appropriated for ``Assessed Contributions to International 
Organizations'' by this Act, the President may withhold 20 
percent of the funds appropriated for the United States 
assessed contribution to the United Nations or to any of its 
specialized agencies for any calendar year if the United 
Nations or any such agency has failed to implement or to 
continue to implement consensus-based decisionmaking procedures 
on budgetary matters which assure that sufficient attention is 
paid to the views of the United States and other member states 
that are the major financial contributors to such assessed 
budgets.
    (b) Notice to Congress.--The President shall notify the 
Congress when a decision is made to withhold any share of the 
United States assessed contribution to the United Nations or 
its specialized agencies pursuant to subsection (a) and shall 
notify the Congress when the decision is made to pay any 
previously withheld assessed contribution. A notification under 
this subsection shall include appropriate consultation between 
the President (or the President's representative) and the 
Committee on International Relations of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
Senate.
    (c) Contributions for Prior Years.--Subject to the 
availability of appropriations, payment of assessed 
contributions for prior years may be made to the United Nations 
or any of its specialized agencies notwithstanding subsection 
(a) if such payment would further United States interests in 
that organization.
    (d) Report to Congress.--Not later than February 1 of each 
year, the President shall submit to the appropriate 
congressional committees a report concerning the amount of 
United States assessed contributions paid to the United Nations 
and each of its specialized agencies during the preceding 
calendar year.

SEC. 1522. REPORT ON UNICEF.

    Not later than December 31, 1996, the Secretary of State 
shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a 
report on (1) the progress of UNICEF toward effective 
financial, program, and personnel management; (2) the progress 
of UNICEF in shifting its health, child survival, and maternal 
survival programs toward efficient and low-overhead 
contractors, with particular emphasis on nongovernmental 
organizations; and (3) the extent to which UNICEF has 
demonstrated its commitment to its traditional mission of child 
health and welfare and resisted pressure to become involved in 
functions performed by other United Nations agencies.

SEC. 1523. UNITED NATIONS BUDGETARY AND MANAGEMENT REFORM.

    (a) In General.--(1) The United Nations Participation Act 
of 1945 (22 U.S.C. 287 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new section:

``SEC. 10. UNITED NATIONS BUDGETARY AND MANAGEMENT REFORM.

    ``(a) Withholding of Contributions.--
            ``(1) Assessed contributions for regular united 
        nations budget.--At the beginning of each fiscal year, 
        20 percent of the amount of funds made available for 
        that fiscal year for United States assessed 
        contributions for the regular United Nations budget 
        shall be withheld from obligation and expenditure 
        unless a certification for that fiscal year has been 
        made under subsection (b).
            ``(2) Assessed contributions for united nations 
        peacekeeping.--At the beginning of each fiscal year, 50 
        percent of the amount of funds made available for that 
        fiscal year for United States assessed contributions 
        for United Nations peacekeeping activities shall be 
        withheld from obligation and expenditure unless a 
        certification for that fiscal year has been made under 
        subsection (b).
            ``(3) Voluntary contributions for united nations 
        peacekeeping.--The United States may not during any 
        fiscal year pay any voluntary contribution to the 
        United Nations for international peacekeeping 
        activities unless a certification for that fiscal year 
        has been made under subsection (b).
    ``(b) Certification.--The certification referred to in 
subsection (a) for any fiscal year is a certification by the 
President to the Congress, submitted on or after the beginning 
of that fiscal year, of each of the following:
            ``(1) The United Nations has an independent office 
        of Inspector General to conduct and supervise objective 
        audits, inspections, and investigations relating to 
        programs and operations of the United Nations.
            ``(2) The United Nations has an Inspector General 
        who was appointed by the Secretary General with the 
        approval of the General Assembly and whose appointment 
        was made principally on the basis of the appointee's 
        integrity and demonstrated ability in accounting, 
        auditing, financial analysis, law, management analysis, 
        public administration, or investigation.
            ``(3) The Inspector General is authorized to--
                    ``(A) make investigations and reports 
                relating to the administration of the programs 
                and operations of the United Nations;
                    ``(B) have access to all relevant records, 
                documents, and other available materials 
                relating to those programs and operations; and
                    ``(C) have direct and prompt access to any 
                official of the United Nations.
            ``(4) The United Nations has fully implemented, and 
        made available to all member states, procedures 
        designed to protect the identity of, and prevent 
        reprisals against, any staff member of the United 
        Nations making a complaint or disclosing information 
        to, or cooperating in any investigation or inspection 
        by, the United Nations Inspector General.
            ``(5) The United Nations has fully implemented 
        procedures designed to ensure compliance with 
        recommendations of the United Nations Inspector 
        General.
            ``(6) The United Nations has required the United 
        Nations Inspector General to issue an annual report and 
        has ensured that the annual report and all other 
        relevant reports of the Inspector General are made 
        available to the General Assembly without modification.
            ``(7) The United Nations is committed to providing, 
        sufficient budgetary resources to ensure the effective 
        operation of the United Nations Inspector General.''.
    (2) Section 10 of the United Nations Participation Act of 
1945, as added by paragraph (1), shall apply only with respect 
to fiscal years after fiscal year 1996.
    (b) Withholding of Contributions Related to Contracting of 
the United Nations.--The United Nations Participation Act of 
1945 (22 U.S.C. 287 et seq.) is further amended by adding at 
the end the following new section:

``SEC. 11. WITHHOLDING OF CONTRIBUTIONS.

    ``(a) Withholding of Contributions Related to Timely Notice 
of Contract Opportunities and Contract Awards.--
            ``(1) Withholding of assessed contributions for 
        regular united nations budget.--For fiscal year 1997 
        and for each subsequent fiscal year, 3 percent of the 
        amount of funds made available for that fiscal year for 
        United States assessed contributions for the regular 
        United Nations budget shall be withheld from obligation 
        and expenditure unless a certification for that fiscal 
        year has been made under paragraph (2).
            ``(2) Certification.--The certification referred to 
        in paragraph (1) for any fiscal year is a certification 
        by the President to the Congress, submitted on or after 
        the beginning of that fiscal year, that the United 
        Nations has implemented a system requiring (A) prior 
        notification for the submission of all qualified bid 
        proposals on all United Nations procurement 
        opportunities of more than $100,000, and (B) a public 
        announcement of the award of any contract of more than 
        $100,000. To the extent practicable, notifications 
        shall be made in a widely available business-related 
        publication.
    ``(b) Withholding of Contributions Related to 
Discrimination Against Companies Which Challenge Contract 
Awards.--
            ``(1) Withholding of assessed contributions for 
        regular united nations budget.--For fiscal year 1997 
        and for each subsequent fiscal year, 3 percent of the 
        amount of funds made available for that fiscal year for 
        United States assessed contributions for the regular 
        United Nations budget shall be withheld from obligation 
        and expenditure unless a certification for that fiscal 
        year has been made under paragraph (2).
            ``(2) Certification.--The certification referred to 
        in paragraph (1) for any fiscal year is a certification 
        by the President to the Congress, submitted on or after 
        the beginning of that fiscal year, that the procurement 
        regulations of the United Nations prohibit punitive 
        actions such as the suspension of contract eligibility 
        for contractors who challenge contract awards or 
        complain about delayed payments.
    ``(c) Withholding of Contributions Related to Establishment 
of a United Nations Contract Review Process.--
            ``(1) Withholding of assessed contributions for 
        regular united nations budget.--For fiscal year 1998 
        and for each subsequent fiscal year, 3 percent of the 
        amount of funds made available for that fiscal year for 
        United States assessed contributions for the regular 
        United Nations budget shall be withheld from obligation 
        and expenditure unless a certification for that fiscal 
        year has been made under paragraph (2).
            ``(2) Certification.--The certification referred to 
        in paragraph (1) for any fiscal year is a certification 
        by the President to the Congress, submitted on or after 
        the beginning of that fiscal year, that the United 
        Nations has established a contract review process for 
        contracts of more than $100,000 and a process to assure 
        unsuccessful bidders a timely opportunity to challenge 
        awards for contracts of more than $100,000 that such 
        bidders consider to have been made improperly.''.
    (c) Procurement Information.--Section 4(d) of the United 
Nations Participation Act of 1945 (22 U.S.C. 287b(d)), as 
amended by section 407 of the Foreign Relations Authorization 
Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (Public Law 103-236) is amended 
in paragraph (2)(B) by inserting before the period ``, 
including local procurement contracts''.

SEC. 1524. LIMITATION ON ASSESSMENT PERCENTAGE FOR PEACEKEEPING 
                    ACTIVITIES.

    (a) Amendment to the UNPA.--The United Nations 
Participation Act of 1945 (22 U.S.C. 287 et seq.), as amended 
by this Act, is further amended by adding at the end the 
following new section:

``SEC. 12. CONTRIBUTIONS FOR PEACEKEEPING ACTIVITIES.

    ``(a) Reassessment of Contribution Percentages.--The 
Permanent Representative of the United States to the United 
Nations should make every effort to ensure that the United 
Nations completes an overall review and reassessment of each 
nation's assessed contributions for United Nations peacekeeping 
operations. As part of the overall review and assessment, the 
Permanent Representative should make every effort to advance 
the concept that, when appropriate, host governments and other 
governments in the region where a United Nations peacekeeping 
operation is carried out should bear a greater burden of its 
financial cost.
    ``(b) Limitation on Assessed Contribution With Respect to a 
Peacekeeping Operation.--(1) Funds authorized to be 
appropriated for `Contributions for International Peacekeeping 
Activities' for any fiscal year shall not be available for the 
payment of the United States assessed contribution for a United 
Nations peacekeeping operation in an amount which is greater 
than 25 percent of the total amount of all assessed 
contributions for that operation, and any arrearages that 
accumulate as a result of assessments in excess of 25 percent 
of the total amount of all assessed contributions for any 
United Nations peacekeeping operation shall not be recognized 
or paid by the United States.
    ``(2) Any penalties, interest, or other charges imposed on 
the United States in connection with such contributions shall 
be credited as a part of the percentage limitation contained in 
the preceding sentence.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The limitation contained in section 
12(b) of the United Nations Participation Act of 1945, as added 
by subsection (a), shall apply only with respect to funds 
authorized to be appropriated for ``Contributions for 
International Peacekeeping Activities'' for fiscal years after 
fiscal year 1995.
    (c) Conforming Repeal.--Section 404 of the Foreign 
Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995, is 
repealed.

SEC. 1525. ANNUAL REPORT ON UNITED STATES CONTRIBUTIONS TO UNITED 
                    NATIONS PEACEKEEPING ACTIVITIES.

    Section 4(d)(1) of the United Nations Participation Act of 
1945 (22 U.S.C. 287b(d)(1)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subparagraph (D) as 
        subparagraph (E); and
            (2) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the 
        following new subparagraph:
                    ``(D) A description of the anticipated 
                budget for the next fiscal year for United 
                States participation in United Nations 
                peacekeeping activities, including a statement 
                of the aggregate amount of funds (from all 
                accounts) and the aggregate costs of in-kind 
                contributions that the United States proposes 
                to make available to the United Nations for 
                that fiscal year for United Nations 
                peacekeeping activities.''.

SEC. 1526. PRIOR CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION OF SECURITY COUNCIL VOTES 
                    ON UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING ACTIVITIES.

    Section 4 of the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 
(22 U.S.C. 287b) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (e) as subsection 
        (f); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (d) the 
        following:
    ``(e) Notice to Congress of Proposed United Nations 
Peacekeeping Activities.--(1) Except as provided in paragraph 
(2), at least 5 days before any vote in the Security Council to 
initiate, expand, or modify any United Nations peacekeeping 
activity or any other action under the Charter of the United 
Nations which would involve the use of United States Armed 
Forces, the President shall submit to the designated 
congressional committees a notification with respect to the 
proposed action. The notification shall include the following:
            ``(A) A cost assessment of such action (including 
        the total estimated cost and the United States share of 
        such cost).
            ``(B) Identification of the source of funding for 
        the United States share of the costs of the action 
        (whether in an annual budget request, reprogramming 
        notification, a rescission of funds, a budget 
        amendment, or a supplemental budget request).
    ``(2)(A) If the President determines that an emergency 
exists which prevents submission of the 5-day advance 
notification specified in paragraph (1) and that the proposed 
action is in the national security interests of the United 
States, the notification described in paragraph (1) shall be 
provided in a timely manner but no later than 48 hours after 
the vote by the Security Council.
    ``(B) Determinations made under subparagraph (A) may not be 
delegated.''.

SEC. 1527. CODIFICATION OF REQUIRED NOTICE TO CONGRESS OF PROPOSED 
                    UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING ACTIVITIES.

    (a) Required Notice.--Section 4 of the United Nations 
Participation Act of 1945 (22 U.S.C. 287b) is amended--
            (1) by striking the second sentence of subsection 
        (a);
            (2) by redesignating subsections (e) and (f) (as 
        redesignated by the preceding section) as subsections 
        (f) and (g), respectively; and
            (3) by inserting after subsection (d) a new 
        subsection (e) consisting of the text of subsection (a) 
        of section 407 of the Foreign Relations Authorization 
        Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (Public Law 103-236), 
        revised--
                    (A) in paragraph (2)--
                            (i) in the matter preceding 
                        subparagraph (A), by inserting ``in 
                        written form not later than the 10th 
                        day of'' after ``shall be provided'';
                            (ii) in subparagraph (A)(iv), by 
                        inserting ``(including facilities, 
                        training, transportation, 
                        communication, and logistical support, 
                        but not including intelligence 
                        activities reportable under title V of 
                        the National Security Act of 1947 (50 
                        U.S.C. 413 et seq.))'' after ``covered 
                        by the resolution''; and
                            (iii) in subparagraph (B), by 
                        adding at the end the following new 
                        clause:
                            ``(iv) A description of any other 
                        United States assistance to or support 
                        for the operation (including 
                        facilities, training, transportation, 
                        communication, and logistical support, 
                        but not including intelligence 
                        activities reportable under title V of 
                        the National Security Act of 1947 (50 
                        U.S.C. 413 et seq.)), and an estimate 
                        of the cost to the United States of 
                        such assistance or support.'';
                    (B) by striking paragraph (3);
                    (C) by redesignating paragraph (4) as 
                paragraph (3) and in the last sentence of 
                subparagraph (A) of that paragraph by striking 
                ``and (ii)'' and inserting ``through (iv)'';
                    (D) by inserting after paragraph (3) (as so 
                redesignated) the following new paragraph:
            ``(4) New united nations peacekeeping operation 
        defined.--As used in paragraphs (2)(B) and (3), the 
        term `new United Nations peacekeeping operation' 
        includes any existing or otherwise ongoing United 
        Nations peacekeeping operation--
                    ``(A) that is to be expanded by more than 
                25 percent during the period covered by the 
                Security Council resolution, as measured by 
                either the number of personnel participating 
                (or authorized to participate) in the operation 
                or the budget of the operation; or
                    ``(B) that is to be authorized to operate 
                in a country in which it was not previously 
                authorized to operate.''; and
                    (E) in paragraph (5)--
                            (i) by striking ``(5) 
                        Notification'' and all that follows 
                        through ``(B) The President'' and 
                        inserting ``(5) Quarterly reports.--The 
                        President''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``section 4(d)'' 
                        and all that follows through ``of this 
                        section)'' and inserting ``subsection 
                        (d)''.
    (b) Conforming Repeal.--Subsection (a) of section 407 of 
the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 
1995 (Public Law 103-236), is repealed.
    (c) Designated Congressional Committees.--Subsection (g) of 
section 4 of the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 (22 
U.S.C. 287b(g)), as redesignated by subsection (a), is amended 
to read as follows:
    ``(g) Designated Congressional Committees.--As used in this 
section, the term `designated congressional committees' means 
the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Foreign 
Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Appropriations and 
the Committee on International Relations of the House of 
Representatives.''.

SEC. 1528. RESTRICTIONS ON INTELLIGENCE SHARING WITH THE UNITED 
                    NATIONS.

    The United Nations Participation Act of 1945 (22 U.S.C. 287 
et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
section:

``SEC. 13. RESTRICTIONS ON INTELLIGENCE SHARING WITH THE UNITED 
                    NATIONS.

    ``(a) Provision of Intelligence Information to the United 
Nations.--(1) No United States intelligence information may be 
provided to the United Nations or any organization affiliated 
with the United Nations, or to any official or employee 
thereof, unless the President certifies to the Committee on 
Foreign Relations and the Select Committee on Intelligence of 
the Senate and the Committee on International Relations and the 
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of 
Representatives that the Director of Central Intelligence (in 
this section referred to as the `DCI'), in consultation with 
the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, has 
required, and such organization has established and 
implemented, procedures for protecting intelligence sources and 
methods (including protection from release to nations and 
foreign nationals that are otherwise not eligible to receive 
such information) no less stringent than procedures maintained 
by nations with which the United States regularly shares 
similar types of intelligence information. Such certification 
shall include a description of the procedures in effect at such 
organization.
    ``(2) Paragraph (1) may be waived upon written 
certification by the President to the appropriate committees of 
Congress that providing such information to the United Nations 
or an organization affiliated with the United Nations, or to 
any official or employee thereof, is in the national security 
interest of the United States and that all possible measures 
protecting such information have been taken, except that such 
waiver must be made for each instance such information is 
provided, or for each such document provided.
    ``(b) Periodic and Special Reports.--(1) The President 
shall periodically report, but not less frequently than 
quarterly, to the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Select 
Committee on Intelligence of the Senate and the Committee on 
International Relations and the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence of the House of Representatives on the types and 
volume of intelligence provided to the United Nations and the 
purposes for which it was provided during the period covered by 
the report. Such periodic reports shall be submitted to the 
Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate and the 
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of 
Representatives with an annex containing a counterintelligence 
and security assessment of all risks, including an evaluation 
of any potential adverse impact on national collection systems, 
of providing intelligence to the United Nations, together with 
information on how such risks have been addressed.
    ``(2) The President shall submit a special report to the 
Committee on Foreign Relations and the Select Committee on 
Intelligence of the Senate and the Committee on International 
Relations and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of 
the House of Representatives within 15 days after the United 
States Government becomes aware of any unauthorized disclosure 
of intelligence provided to the United Nations by the United 
States.
    ``(c) Limitation.--The restrictions of subsection (a) and 
the requirement for periodic reports under paragraph (1) of 
subsection (a) shall not apply to the provision of intelligence 
that is provided only to, and for the use of, appropriately 
cleared United States Government personnel serving with the 
United Nations.
    ``(d) Delegation of Duties.--The President may not delegate 
or assign the duties of the President under subsection (a).
    ``(e) Relationship to Existing Law.--Nothing in this 
section shall be construed to--
            ``(1) impair or otherwise affect the authority of 
        the Director of Central Intelligence to protect 
        intelligence sources and methods from unauthorized 
        disclosure pursuant to section 103(c)(5) of the 
        National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 403-3(c)(5)); 
        or
            ``(2) supersede or otherwise affect the provisions 
        of title V of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 
        U.S.C. 413 et seq.).''.

                  TITLE XVI--FOREIGN POLICY PROVISIONS

SEC. 1601. APPLICABILITY OF TAIWAN RELATIONS ACT.

    Section 3 of the Taiwan Relations Act (22 U.S.C. 3302) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(d) The provisions of subsections (a) and (b) supersede 
any provision of the Joint Communique of the United States and 
China of August 17, 1982.''.

SEC. 1602. REPORT ON OCCUPIED TIBET.

    (a) Report on United States-Tibet Relations.--Not later 
than 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act, and 
every 12 months thereafter, the Secretary of State shall submit 
to the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives a report 
on the state of relations between the United States and those 
recognized by Congress as the true representatives of the 
Tibetan people, the Dalai Lama, his representatives, and the 
Tibetan Government in exile, and on conditions in Tibet.
    (b) Separate Tibet Reports.--
            (1) It is the sense of the Congress that whenever 
        an executive branch report is transmitted to the 
        Congress on a country-by-country basis there should be 
        included in such report, where applicable, a separate 
        report on Tibet listed alphabetically with its own 
        state heading.
            (2) The reports referred to in paragraph (1) 
        include, but are not limited to, reports transmitted 
        under sections 116(d) and 502B(b) of the Foreign 
        Assistance Act of 1961 (relating to human rights).

SEC. 1603. TAIPEI REPRESENTATIVE OFFICE.

    For purposes of carrying out its activities in the United 
States, the instrumentality known as the Taipei Economic and 
Cultural Representative Office as of the date of enactment of 
this Act shall, on and after such date, be permitted to operate 
under the name ``Taipei Representative Office''.

SEC. 1604. EFFORTS AGAINST EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

    (a) Prioritization.--The President shall give urgent 
priority to the strengthening of efforts against emerging 
infectious diseases through the development of appropriate 
United States Government strategies and response mechanisms.
    (b) Strategic Plan.--Not later than 6 months after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to the 
Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Foreign Relations of the Senate a report outlining a United 
States strategic plan, in cooperation with the international 
public health infrastructure, to identify and respond to the 
threat of emerging infectious diseases to the health of the 
people of the United States.

SEC. 1605. STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION.

    Section 33 of the Arms Control and Disarmament Act (22 
U.S.C. 2573) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsection:
    ``(c) Statutory Construction.--Nothing contained in this 
chapter shall be construed to authorize any policy or action by 
any Government agency which would interfere with, restrict, or 
prohibit the acquisition, possession, or use of firearms by an 
individual for the lawful purpose of personal defense, sport, 
recreation, education, or training.''.

SEC. 1606. REPORTS REGARDING HONG KONG.

    (a) Extension of Reporting Requirement.--Section 301 of the 
United States-Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992 (22 U.S.C. 5731) is 
amended in the text above paragraph (1) by striking ``and March 
31, 2000,'' and inserting ``March 31, 2000, and every year 
thereafter,''.
    (b) Additional Requirements.--In light of deficiencies in 
reports submitted to the Congress pursuant to section 301 of 
the United States-Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992 (22 U.S.C. 
5731), reports required to be submitted under that section on 
or after the date of enactment of this Act shall include 
detailed information on the status of, and other developments 
affecting, implementation of the Sino-British Joint Declaration 
on the Question of Hong Kong, including--
            (1) the Basic Law and its consistency with the 
        Joint Declaration;
            (2) the openness and fairness of elections to the 
        legislature;
            (3) the openness and fairness of the election of 
        the chief executive and the executive's accountability 
        to the legislature;
            (4) the treatment of political parties;
            (5) the independence of the judiciary and its 
        ability to exercise the power of final judgment over 
        Hong Kong law;
            (6) the Bill of Rights;
            (7) a list of all treaties and international 
        agreements (including multilateral conventions) in 
        force as of July 1, 1997, between the United States and 
        Hong Kong, or between the United States and the United 
        Kingdom which apply to Hong Kong; and
            (8) a short description of the extent to which Hong 
        Kong is carrying out and has the capacity to carry out 
        its commitments and obligations under each treaty or 
        international agreement under paragraph (7).

SEC. 1607. THE UNITED STATES-NORTH KOREA AGREED FRAMEWORK OF OCTOBER 
                    21, 1994, AND THE KOREAN PENINSULA ENERGY 
                    DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION (KEDO).

    (a) Clarification of Nuclear Nonproliferation Obligations 
of North Korea Under the Agreed Framework.--It is the sense of 
the Congress that in discussions or negotiations with the 
Government of North Korea pursuant to the implementation of the 
United States-Democratic People's Republic of Korea Agreed 
Framework entered into on October 21, 1994, the President 
should uphold the following minimum conditions relating to 
nuclear nonproliferation:
            (1) All spent fuel from the graphite-moderated 
        nuclear reactors and related facilities of North Korea 
        should be removed from the territory of North Korea as 
        is consistent with the Agreed Framework.
            (2) The International Atomic Energy Agency should 
        have the freedom to conduct any and all inspections 
        that it deems necessary to fully account for the stocks 
        of plutonium and other nuclear materials in North 
        Korea, including special inspections of suspected 
        nuclear waste sites, before any nuclear components 
        controlled by the Nuclear Supplier Group Guidelines are 
        delivered for a light water reactor for North Korea.
            (3) The dismantlement of all declared graphite-
        based nuclear reactors and related facilities in North 
        Korea, including reprocessing units, should be 
        completed in accordance with the Agreed Framework and 
        in a manner that effectively bars in perpetuity any 
        reactivation of such reactors and facilities.
            (4) The United States should suspend actions 
        described in the Agreed Framework if North Korea 
        reloads its existing 5 megawatt nuclear reactor or 
        resumes construction of nuclear facilities other than 
        those permitted to be built under the Agreed Framework.
    (b) Role of the Republic of Korea Under the Agreed 
Framework.--It is further the sense of the Congress that the 
Republic of Korea should play the central role in the project 
to provide light water reactors to North Korea under the Agreed 
Framework.
    (c) Further Steps To Promote United States Security and 
Political Interests With Respect to North Korea.--It is further 
the sense of the Congress that, after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the President should not take further steps toward 
upgrading diplomatic relations with North Korea beyond opening 
liaison offices or relaxing trade and investment barriers 
imposed against North Korea without--
            (1) consistent and sustained efforts by the 
        Government of North Korea to engage in a substantive 
        North-South dialogue with the Government of the 
        Republic of Korea;
            (2) significant progress toward implementation of 
        the North-South Joint Declaration on the 
        Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula; and
            (3) progress toward the achievement of several 
        long-standing United States policy objectives regarding 
        North Korea and the Korean Peninsula, including--
                    (A) reducing the number of military forces 
                of North Korea along the Demilitarized Zone and 
                relocating such military forces away from the 
                Demilitarized Zone;
                    (B) prohibiting any movement by North Korea 
                toward the deployment of an intermediate range 
                ballistic missile system;
                    (C) prohibiting the export by North Korea 
                of missiles and other weapons of mass 
                destruction, including related technology and 
                components;
                    (D) obtaining positive and productive 
                cooperation from North Korea on the recovery of 
                remains of Americans missing in action from the 
                Korean War without consenting to exorbitant 
                demands by North Korea for financial 
                compensation; and
                    (E) achieving credible assurances and 
                intelligence confirmation that North Korea has 
                ended its participation in and support of 
                international terrorism.
    (d) Restrictions on Assistance to North Korea and the 
Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization.--
            (1) In general.--Chapter 1 of part III of the 
        Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2370 et seq.) 
        is amended by adding at the end the following new 
        section:

``SEC. 620G. ASSISTANCE TO NORTH KOREA AND THE KOREAN PENINSULA ENERGY 
                    DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION.

    ``(a) Limitation.--No assistance may be provided under this 
Act or any other provision of law to North Korea or the Korean 
Peninsula Energy Development Organization unless--
            ``(1) such assistance is provided in accordance 
        with all requirements, limitations, and procedures 
        otherwise applicable to the provision of such 
        assistance for such purposes; and
            ``(2) the President--
                    ``(A) notifies the congressional committees 
                specified in section 634A(a) of this Act prior 
                to the obligation of such assistance in 
                accordance with the procedures applicable to 
                reprogramming notifications under that section, 
                irrespective of the amount of the proposed 
                obligation of such assistance; and
                    ``(B) determines and reports to such 
                committees that the provision of such 
                assistance is vital to the national security of 
                the United States.
    ``(b) Exception.--The requirement of subsection (a)(2)(B) 
shall not apply with respect to assistance authorized to be 
appropriated and appropriated for North Korea or the Korean 
Peninsula Energy Development Organization.''.
            (2) Effective date.--Section 620G of the Foreign 
        Assistance Act of 1961, as added by subsection (a), 
        applies with respect to assistance provided to North 
        Korea or the Korean Peninsula Energy Development 
        Organization on or after the date of the enactment of 
        this Act.

SEC. 1608. INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT PARTICIPATION.

    (a) In General.--The United States may not participate in 
an international criminal court with jurisdiction over crimes 
of an international character except to the extent and in the 
manner authorized--
            (1) by a treaty entered into in accordance with 
        Article II, section 2, clause 2 of the Constitution; or
            (2) by a law enacted in accordance with Article I, 
        section 7 of the Constitution.
    (b) Definitions.--As used in subsection (a)--
            (1) the term ``participate'' means consent to the 
        jurisdiction of, recognize the validity of the 
        decisions of, or extradite or otherwise render suspects 
        to, an international criminal court with jurisdiction 
        over crimes of an international character; and
            (2) the term ``international criminal court with 
        jurisdiction over crimes of an international 
        character'' does not include any international war 
        crimes tribunal established prior to the date of 
        enactment of this Act.

SEC. 1609. PROHIBITION ON THE TRANSFER OF ARMS TO INDONESIA.

    Consistent with section 582 of the Foreign Operations 
Export Financing and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1995 
(Public Law 103-306), the United States is prohibited from 
selling or licensing for export to the Government of Indonesia 
light arms, small weapons, and crowd control ordnances, 
including helicopter-mounted equipment, until the Secretary of 
State determines and reports to the Committee on Foreign 
Relations of the Senate and the Committee on International 
Relations of the House of Representatives that there has been 
significant progress made on human rights in East Timor and 
elsewhere in Indonesia, including--
            (1) compliance with the recommendations in the 
        United Nations Special Rapporteur's January 1992 report 
        and the March 1993 recommendations of the United 
        Nations Human Rights Commission;
            (2) significant reduction in Indonesia's troop 
        presence in East Timor;
            (3) thorough and impartial investigation of gangs 
        and violent civilian groups operating in East Timor;
            (4) improved access to East Timor for Indonesian 
        and international human rights and humanitarian 
        organizations and journalists, including the deployment 
        of United Nations human rights monitors if so 
        requested;
            (5) constructive participation in the United 
        Nations Secretary General's efforts to resolve the 
        status of East Timor; and
            (6) greater local control over political, economic, 
        and cultural affairs, with an aim toward resolving the 
        future status of East Timor.

SEC. 1610. BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA SELF-DEFENSE FUND.

    (a) Authority for Establishment.--
            (1) Subject to the other provisions of this 
        section, the President is authorized to enter into an 
        international agreement with eligible countries for the 
        establishment of a fund to assist the self-defense of 
        Bosnia and Herzegovina, which may be known as the 
        ``Multilateral Bosnia and Herzegovina Self-Defense 
        Fund''.
            (2) The Secretary of State is authorized to 
        transfer to the custody of the international board 
        having responsibility for the Fund defense articles 
        from the stocks of the Department of Defense and 
        defense services of the Department of Defense 
        transferred or available for transfer pursuant to 
        section 540 of the Foreign Operations, Export 
        Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 
        1996 (Public Law 104-107), or pursuant to any similar 
        provision of law.
    (b) Purpose.--The purpose of the Fund shall be to provide 
an international mechanism for the procurement of military 
equipment and training for transfer to the Government of Bosnia 
and Herzegovina for the exercise of its right to self-defense 
under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, and to 
facilitate the achievement of a lasting peace by enabling the 
Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina to protect its population 
and territory.
    (c) Requirements.--An agreement referred to in subsection 
(a) shall meet the following requirements:
            (1) United states representation.--The United 
        States will chair any international board having 
        responsibility for the Fund.
            (2) Control of military equipment.--The agreement 
        will provide procedures for the control of military 
        equipment received by the international board having 
        responsibility for the Fund.
            (3) Commitment by the government of bosnia and 
        herzegovina.--Before any military equipment or training 
        purchased or otherwise acquired through the Fund, or 
        held by the international board responsible for the 
        Fund, may be transferred to the Government of Bosnia 
        and Herzegovina, that Government will provide written 
        assurances that the equipment or training will not be 
        used to take reprisals against any civilians.
    (d) Report on Efforts To Enable the Federation of Bosnia 
and Herzegovina To Provide for Its Own Defense.--Within 30 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President 
shall submit a detailed report to the Congress on the 
administration's plan to assist the Federation of Bosnia to 
provide for its own defense, including the role of the United 
States and other countries in providing such assistance. Such 
report shall include an evaluation of the defense needs of the 
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, including, to the maximum 
extent possible--
            (1) the types and quantities of arms, spare parts, 
        and logistics support required to establish a stable 
        military balance prior to the withdrawal of United 
        States Armed Forces;
            (2) the nature and scope of training to be 
        provided;
            (3) a detailed description of the past, present, 
        and future United States role in ensuring that the 
        Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is provided as 
        rapidly as possible with equipment, training, arms, and 
        related logistic assistance of the highest possible 
        quality;
            (4) administration plans to use existing military 
        drawdown authority and other assistance authorities 
        pursuant to this section; and
            (5) specific or anticipated commitments by third 
        countries to provide arms, equipment, or training to 
        the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The report shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may 
contain a classified annex.
    (e) Definitions.--As used in this section:
            (1) Eligible countries.--The term ``eligible 
        countries'' includes any foreign country other than a 
        country the government of which the Secretary of State 
        has determined, in accordance with section 6(j)(1)(A) 
        of the Export Administration Act of 1979, repeatedly 
        provides support for acts of international terrorism.
            (2) Fund.--The term ``Fund'' means the fund 
        established as provided in subsection (a).
            (3) Government of bosnia and herzegovina.--The term 
        ``Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina'' includes any 
        agency, instrumentality, or forces of the Government of 
        Bosnia and Herzegovina.
    (f) Statutory Construction.--Nothing in this section shall 
be interpreted as authorization for the deployment of United 
States forces in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina for 
any purpose, including training, support, or delivery of 
military equipment.

SEC. 1611. REPORTS TO CONGRESS ON ASPECTS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 
                    GENERAL FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT.

    (a) Military Aspects.--Thirty days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, and at least once every 60 days 
thereafter until all United States Armed Forces are withdrawn 
from Bosnia and Herzegovina, the President shall submit to the 
Congress a report on the status of the deployment of United 
States Armed Forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including a 
detailed description of the following:
            (1) Criteria for determining success for the 
        deployment.
            (2) The military mission and objectives.
            (3) Milestones for measuring progress in achieving 
        the mission and objectives.
            (4) Command arrangements for United States Armed 
        Forces.
            (5) The rules of engagement for United States Armed 
        Forces.
            (6) The multilateral composition of forces in 
        Bosnia and Herzegovina.
            (7) The status of compliance by all parties with 
        the General Framework Agreement and associated Annexes, 
        including Article III of Annex 1-A concerning the 
        withdrawal of foreign forces from Bosnia and 
        Herzegovina.
            (8) All incremental costs of the Department of 
        Defense and any costs incurred by other Federal 
        agencies, for the deployment of United States Armed 
        Forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including support for 
        the NATO Implementation Force.
            (9) The exit strategy to provide for complete 
        withdrawal of United States Armed Forces in the NATO 
        Implementation Force, including an estimated date of 
        completion.
            (10) A description of progress toward enabling the 
        Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina to provide for its 
        own defense.

Reports under this section shall include a description of any 
changes in the areas listed in paragraphs (1) through (10) 
since the previous report, if applicable. Reports shall be 
submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a classified 
annex.
    (b) Nonmilitary Aspects.--Thirty days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, and at least once every 60 days 
thereafter, until all United States Armed Forces withdraw from 
Bosnia and Herzegovina, the President shall submit to the 
Congress a report on the following:
            (1) The status of implementation of nonmilitary 
        aspects of the General Framework Agreement and 
        associated Annexes, especially Annex 10 on Civilian 
        Implementation, and of efforts, which are separate from 
        the Implementation Force, by the United States and 
        other countries to support implementation of the 
        nonmilitary aspects. Such report shall include a 
        detailed description of--
                    (A) progress toward conducting of 
                elections;
                    (B) the status of refugees and displaced 
                persons;
                    (C) humanitarian and reconstruction 
                efforts;
                    (D) police training and related civilian 
                security efforts, including the status of the 
                implementation of Annex 11 regarding an 
                international police task force; and
                    (E) implementation of Article XIII of Annex 
                6 concerning cooperation with the International 
                Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and other 
                appropriate organizations in the investigation 
                and prosecution of war crimes and other 
                violations of international humanitarian law.
            (2) The status of coordination between the High 
        Representative and the Implementation Force Commander.
            (3) The status of plans and preparation for the 
        continuation of civilian activities after the 
        withdrawal of the Implementation Force.
            (4) All costs incurred by all United States 
        Government agencies for reconstruction, refugee, 
        humanitarian, and all other nonmilitary bilateral and 
        multilateral assistance in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
            (5) United States and international diplomatic 
        efforts to contain and end conflict in the former 
        Yugoslavia, including efforts to resolve the status of 
        Kosova and halt violations of internationally 
        recognized human rights of its majority Albanian 
        population.
            (6) The progress of efforts to establish a United 
        States Information Agency facility in Pristina, Kosova.
Reports under this subsection shall be submitted in 
unclassified form, but may contain a classified annex.

SEC. 1612. VERIFICATION OF MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME.

    Not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of 
this Act, the Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament 
Agency shall submit to the Congress a report on the capability 
of the United States to verify the Missile Technology Control 
Regime, including any applicable United States policy 
statements, pursuant to section 37 of the Arms Control and 
Disarmament Act.

SEC. 1613. REPEAL OF TERMINATION OF PROVISIONS OF THE NUCLEAR 
                    PROLIFERATION PREVENTION ACT OF 1994.

    (a) Repeal.--Part D of the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention 
Act of 1994 (part D of title VIII of the Foreign Relations 
Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995; Public Law 103-
236; 108 Stat. 525) is hereby repealed.
    (b) Judicial Review.--Section 824 of the Nuclear 
Proliferation Prevention Act of 1994 is amended by striking 
subsection (e).

SEC. 1614. PAYMENT OF IRAQI CLAIMS.

    (a) Vesting of Assets.--All nondiplomatic accounts of the 
Government of Iraq in the United States that have been blocked 
pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 
U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) shall vest in the President and the 
President, not later than 30 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, shall liquidate such accounts. Amounts 
from such liquidation shall be transferred into the Iraq Claims 
Fund established under subsection (b).
    (b) Iraq Claims Fund.--Upon the vesting of accounts under 
subsection (a), the Secretary of the Treasury shall establish 
in the Treasury of the United States a fund to be known as the 
Iraq Claims Fund (hereafter in this section referred to as the 
``Fund'') for payment of private claims or United States 
Government claims in accordance with subsection (c).
    (c) Payments.--
            (1) Payments on private claims.--Not later than 2 
        years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
        Secretary of the Treasury shall make payment out of the 
        Fund in ratable proportions on private claims certified 
        under subsection (e) according to the proportions which 
        the total amount of the private claims so certified 
        bear to the total amount in the Fund that is available 
        for distribution at the time such payments are made.
            (2) Payments on u.s. government claims.--After 
        payment has been made in full out of the Fund on all 
        private claims certified under subsection (e), any 
        funds remaining in the Fund shall be made available to 
        satisfy claims of the United States Government against 
        the Government of Iraq determined under subsection (d).
    (d) Determination of Validity of U.S. Government Claims.--
The President shall determine the validity and amounts of 
claims of the Government of the United States against the 
Government of Iraq which the Secretary of State has determined 
are outside the jurisdiction of the United Nations Commission, 
and, to the extent that such claims are not satisfied from 
funds made available by the Fund, the President is authorized 
and requested to enter into a settlement agreement with the 
Government of Iraq which would provide for the payment of such 
unsatisfied claims.
    (e) Determination of Private Claims.--
            (1) Authority of the foreign claims settlement 
        commission.--The Foreign Claims Settlement Commission 
        of the United States is authorized to receive and 
        determine, in accordance with substantive law, 
        including international law, the validity and amounts 
        of private claims. The Commission shall complete its 
        affairs in connection with the determination of private 
        claims under this section within such time as is 
        necessary to allow the payment of the claims under 
        subsection (c)(1).
            (2) Applicability.--Except to the extent 
        inconsistent with the provisions of this section, the 
        provisions of title I of the International Claims 
        Settlement Act of 1949 (22 U.S.C. 1621 et seq.) shall 
        apply with respect to private claims under this 
        section. Any reference in such provisions to ``this 
        title'' shall be deemed to refer to those provisions 
        and to this section.
            (3) Certification.--The Foreign Claims Settlement 
        Commission shall certify to the Secretary of the 
        Treasury the awards made in favor of each private claim 
        under paragraph (1).
    (f) Unsatisfied Claims.--Payment of any award made pursuant 
to this section shall not extinguish any unsatisfied claim, or 
be construed to have divested any claimant, or the United 
States on his or her behalf, of any rights against the 
Government of Iraq with respect to any unsatisfied claim.
    (g) Definitions.--As used in this section--
            (1) the term ``Government of Iraq'' includes 
        agencies, instrumentalities, and controlled entities 
        (including public sector enterprises) of that 
        government;
            (2) the term ``private claims'' mean claims of 
        United States persons against the Government of Iraq 
        that are determined by the Secretary of State to be 
        outside the jurisdiction of the United Nations 
        Commission;
            (3) the term ``United Nations Commission'' means 
        the United Nations Compensation Commission established 
        pursuant to United Nations Security Council Resolution 
        687, adopted in 1991; and
            (4) the term ``United States person''--
                    (A) includes--
                            (i) any person, wherever located, 
                        who is a citizen of the United States;
                            (ii) any corporation, partnership, 
                        association, or other legal entity 
                        organized under the laws of the United 
                        States or of any State, the District of 
                        Columbia, or any commonwealth, 
                        territory, or possession of the United 
                        States; and
                            (iii) any corporation, partnership, 
                        association, or other organization, 
                        wherever organized or doing business, 
                        which is owned or controlled by persons 
                        described in clause (i) or (ii); and
                    (B) does not include the United States 
                Government or any officer or employee of the 
                United States Government acting in an official 
                capacity.

SEC. 1615. INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR IRELAND.

    (a) Funding.--
            (1) In general.--Of the amounts made available for 
        fiscal years 1996 and 1997 for assistance under chapter 
        4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
        U.S.C. 2346 et seq.; relating to the economic support 
        fund), not more than $19,600,000 for each of the fiscal 
        years 1996 and 1997 shall be available for the United 
        States contribution to the International Fund for 
        Ireland in accordance with the Anglo-Irish Agreement 
        Support Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-415).
            (2) Availability.--Amounts made available under 
        paragraph (1) are authorized to remain available until 
        expended.
    (b) Additional Requirements.--
            (1) Purposes.--Section 2(b) of the Anglo-Irish 
        Agreement Support Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-415; 100 
        Stat. 947) is amended by adding at the end the 
        following new sentences: ``United States contributions 
        should be used in a manner that effectively increases 
        employment opportunities in communities with rates of 
        unemployment higher than the local or urban average of 
        unemployment in Northern Ireland. In addition, such 
        contributions should be used to benefit individuals 
        residing in such communities.''.
            (2) Conditions and understandings.--Section 5(a) of 
        such Act is amended--
                    (A) in the first sentence--
                            (i) by striking ``The United 
                        States'' and inserting the following:
            ``(1) In general.--The United States'';
                            (ii) by striking ``in this Act may 
                        be used'' and inserting the following: 
                        ``in this Act--
                    ``(A) may be used'';
                            (iii) by striking the period and 
                        inserting ``; and''; and
                            (iv) by adding at the end the 
                        following:
                    ``(B) should be provided to individuals or 
                entities in Northern Ireland which employ 
                practices consistent with the principles of 
                economic justice.''; and
                    (B) in the second sentence, by striking 
                ``The restrictions'' and inserting the 
                following:
            ``(2) Additional requirements.--The restrictions''.
            (3) Prior certifications.--Section 5(c)(2) of such 
        Act is amended--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``in 
                accordance with the principle of equality'' and 
                all that follows and inserting ``to individuals 
                and entities whose practices are consistent 
                with principles of economic justice; and''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (B), by inserting 
                before the period at the end the following: 
                ``and will create employment opportunities in 
                regions and communities of Northern Ireland 
                suffering from high rates of unemployment''.
            (4) Annual reports.--Section 6 of such Act is 
        amended--
                    (A) in paragraph (2), by striking ``and'' 
                at the end;
                    (B) in paragraph (3), by striking the 
                period and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following new 
                paragraph:
            ``(4) the extent to which the practices of each 
        individual or entity receiving assistance from United 
        States contributions to the International Fund has been 
        consistent with the principles of economic justice.''.
            (5) Requirements relating to funds.--Section 7 of 
        such Act is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) Prohibition.--Nothing included herein shall require 
quotas or reverse discrimination or mandate their use.''.
            (6) Definitions.--Section 8 of such Act is 
        amended--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``and'' 
                at the end;
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by striking the 
                period at the end and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following new 
                paragraph:
            ``(3) the term `principles of economic justice' 
        means the following principles:
                    ``(A) Increasing the representation of 
                individuals from underrepresented religious 
                groups in the workforce, including managerial, 
                supervisory, administrative, clerical, and 
                technical jobs.
                    ``(B) Providing adequate security for the 
                protection of minority employees at the 
                workplace.
                    ``(C) Banning provocative sectarian or 
                political emblems from the workplace.
                    ``(D) Providing that all job openings be 
                advertised publicly and providing that special 
                recruitment efforts be made to attract 
                applicants from underrepresented religious 
                groups.
                    ``(E) Providing that layoff, recall, and 
                termination procedures do not favor a 
                particular religious group.
                    ``(F) Abolishing job reservations, 
                apprenticeship restrictions, and differential 
                employment criteria which discriminate on the 
                basis of religion.
                    ``(G) Providing for the development of 
                training programs that will prepare substantial 
                numbers of minority employees for skilled jobs, 
                including the expansion of existing programs 
                and the creation of new programs to train, 
                upgrade, and improve the skills of minority 
                employees.
                    ``(H) Establishing procedures to assess, 
                identify, and actively recruit minority 
                employees with the potential for further 
                advancement.
                    ``(I) Providing for the appointment of a 
                senior management staff member to be 
                responsible for the employment efforts of the 
                entity and, within a reasonable period of time, 
                the implementation of the principles described 
                in subparagraphs (A) through (H).''.

SEC. 1616. DEOBLIGATION OF CERTAIN UNEXPENDED ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE 
                    FUNDS.

    Chapter 3 of part III of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
(22 U.S.C. 2401 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:

``SEC. 668. DEOBLIGATION OF CERTAIN UNEXPENDED ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE 
                    FUNDS.

    ``(a) Requirement to Deobligate.--
            ``(1) In general.--Except as provided in subsection 
        (b) of this section and in paragraphs (1) and (3) of 
        section 617(a) of this Act, at the beginning of each 
        fiscal year the President shall deobligate and return 
        to the Treasury, any funds described in paragraph (2) 
        that, as of the end of the preceding fiscal year, have 
        been obligated for a project or activity for a period 
        of more than 3 years but have not been expended.
            ``(2) Funds.--Paragraph (1) applies to funds made 
        available for--
                    ``(A) assistance under chapter 1 of part I 
                of this Act (relating to development 
                assistance), chapter 10 of part I of this Act 
                (relating to the Development Fund for Africa), 
                or chapter 4 of part II of this Act (relating 
                to the economic support fund);
                    ``(B) assistance under the `Multilateral 
                Assistance Initiative for the Philippines';
                    ``(C) assistance under the Support for East 
                European Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989; and
                    ``(D) economic assistance for the 
                independent states of the former Soviet Union 
                under this Act or under any other Act 
                authorizing economic assistance for such 
                independent states.
    ``(b) Exceptions.--The President, on a case-by-case basis, 
may waive the requirement of subsection (a)(1) if the President 
determines, and reports to the appropriate congressional 
committees, that--
            ``(1) the funds are being used for a construction 
        project that requires more than 3 years to complete; or
            ``(2) the funds have not been expended because of 
        unforeseen circumstances, and those circumstances could 
        not have been reasonably foreseen.
    ``(c) Comments by Inspector General.--As soon as possible 
after the submission of a report pursuant to subsection (b), 
the Inspector General of the agency primarily responsible for 
administering part I of this Act shall submit to the 
appropriate congressional committees such comments as the 
Inspector General considers appropriate with regard to the 
determination described in that report.
    ``(d) Appropriate Congressional Committees.--As used in 
this section, the term `appropriate congressional committees' 
means the Committee on International Relations and the 
Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and 
the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on 
Appropriations of the Senate.''.

SEC. 1617. LIMITATION ON ASSISTANCE TO COUNTRIES THAT RESTRICT THE 
                    TRANSPORT OR DELIVERY OF UNITED STATES HUMANITARIAN 
                    ASSISTANCE.

    (a) Findings.--The Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) The United States Federal budget deficit and 
        spending constraints require the maximum efficiency in 
        the usage of United States foreign assistance.
            (2) The delivery of humanitarian assistance to 
        people in need is consistent with the fundamental 
        values of our Nation and is an important component of 
        United States foreign policy.
            (3) As a matter of principle and in furtherance of 
        fiscal prudence, the United States should seek to 
        promote the delivery of humanitarian assistance to 
        people in need in a manner that is both timely and cost 
        effective.
            (4) Recipients of United States assistance should 
        not hinder or delay the transport or delivery of United 
        States humanitarian assistance to other countries.
    (b) Prohibition on Assistance.--Section 620 of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2370), as amended by this 
Act, is further amended by inserting after subsection (v) (as 
added by this Act) the following new subsection:
    ``(w)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, United 
States assistance may not be made available for any country 
whose government prohibits or otherwise restricts, directly or 
indirectly, the transport or delivery of United States 
humanitarian assistance.
    ``(2) The prohibition on United States assistance contained 
in paragraph (1) shall not apply if the President determines 
and notifies the Congress in writing that providing such 
assistance to a country is in the national security interest of 
the United States.
    ``(3) A suspension or termination of United States 
assistance for any country under paragraph (1) shall cease to 
be effective when the President certifies in writing to the 
Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Foreign Relations of the Senate that such country is no longer 
prohibiting or otherwise restricting, either directly or 
indirectly, the transport or delivery of United States 
humanitarian assistance.
    ``(4)(A) At the time of the annual budget submission to 
Congress, the President shall submit a report to the Congress 
describing any information available to the President 
concerning prohibitions or restrictions, direct or indirect, on 
the transport or delivery of United States humanitarian 
assistance by the government of any country receiving or 
eligible to receive United States foreign assistance during the 
current or preceding fiscal year.
    ``(B) The President shall include in the report required by 
subparagraph (A) a statement as to whether the prohibition in 
paragraph (1) is being applied to each country for which the 
President has information available to him concerning 
prohibitions or restrictions, direct or indirect, on the 
transport or delivery of United States humanitarian assistance.
    ``(5) As used in this subsection, the term `United States 
assistance' has the same meaning given that term in section 
481(e)(4) of this Act.''.

                  TITLE XVII--CONGRESSIONAL STATEMENTS

SEC. 1701. THE LAOGAI SYSTEM OF POLITICAL PRISONS.

    It is the sense of the Congress that the President should--
            (1) publicly condemn the continued existence of the 
        Chinese gulag, known as the Laogai, and call upon the 
        Government of the People's Republic of China to 
        dismantle it and release all of its political 
        prisoners; and
            (2) instruct the appropriate diplomatic 
        representatives of the United States to cause a 
        resolution condemning the Laogai to be put before the 
        United Nations Human Rights Commission and work for its 
        passage.

SEC. 1702. DECLARATION OF CONGRESS REGARDING UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT 
                    HUMAN RIGHTS POLICY TOWARD CHINA.

    (a) Findings.--The Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) According to the 1994 State Department Country 
        Reports on Human Rights Practices, there continue to be 
        ``widespread and well-documented human rights abuses in 
        China, in violation of internationally accepted norms . 
        . . (including) arbitrary and lengthy incommunicado 
        detention, torture, and mistreatment of prisoners. The 
        regime continued severe restrictions on freedoms of 
        speech, press assembly and association, and tightened 
        controls on the exercise of these rights during 1994. 
        Serious human rights abuses persisted in Tibet and 
        other areas populated by ethnic minorities''.
            (2) The President, in announcing his decision on 
        Most Favored Nation trading status for China in May 
        1994 stated that, ``China continues to commit very 
        serious human rights abuses. Even as we engage the 
        Chinese on military, political, and economic issues, we 
        intend to stay engaged with those in China who suffer 
        from human rights abuses. The United States must remain 
        a champion of their liberties''.
    (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of the Congress 
that the President should take the following actions:
            (1) Decline the invitation to visit China until and 
        unless there is dramatic overall progress on human 
        rights in China and Tibet and communicate to the 
        Government of China that such a visit cannot take place 
        without such progress. Indications of overall progress 
        would include the release of hundreds of political, 
        religious, and labor activists; an agreement to allow 
        unhindered confidential access to prisoners by 
        international humanitarian agencies; enactment of major 
        legal reforms such as an end to all restrictions on the 
        exercise of freedom of religion, revocation of the 1993 
        state security law, and the abolition of all so-called 
        ``counter-revolutionary'' crimes; an end to forced 
        abortion, forced sterilization, and the provision by 
        government facilities of human fetal remains for 
        consumption as food; and a decision to allow 
        unrestricted access to Tibet by foreign media and 
        international human rights monitors.
            (2) Seek to develop an agreement on a multilateral 
        strategy to promote human rights in China. Such an 
        agreement should include efforts to encourage greater 
        cooperation by the Government of China with the human 
        rights rapporteurs and working groups of the United 
        Nations Human Rights Commission, as well as bilateral 
        and multilateral initiatives to secure the 
        unconditional release of imprisoned peaceful pro-
        democracy advocates such as Wei Jingsheng.
            (3) Extend an invitation to the Dalai Lama to visit 
        Washington, District of Columbia, in 1996.
    (c) United States Government Human Rights Policy Toward 
China.--It shall be the policy of the United States Government 
to continue to promote internationally recognized human rights 
and worker rights in China and Tibet. The President shall 
submit the following reports on the formulation and 
implementation of United States human rights policy toward 
China and the results of that policy to the appropriate 
congressional committees:
            (1) Not later than 90 days after the date of 
        enactment of this Act, the President shall report on 
        the status of the ``new United States Human Rights 
        Policy for China'' announced by the President on May 
        26, 1994, including an assessment of the implementation 
        and effectiveness of the policy in bringing about human 
        rights improvements in China and Tibet, with reference 
        to the following specific initiatives announced on that 
        date:
                    (A) High-level dialogue on human rights.
                    (B) Voluntary principles in the area of 
                human rights for United States businesses 
                operating in China.
                    (C) Increased contact with and support for 
                groups and individuals in China promoting law 
                reform and human rights.
                    (D) Increased exchanges to support human 
                rights law reform in China.
                    (E) The practice of all United States 
                officials who visit China to meet with the 
                broadest possible spectrum of Chinese citizens.
                    (F) Increased efforts to press United 
                States views on human rights in China at the 
                United Nations, the United Nations Human Rights 
                Commission, and other international 
                organizations.
                    (G) A plan of international actions to 
                address Tibet's human rights problems and to 
                promote substantive discussions between the 
                Dalai Lama and the Chinese Government.
                    (H) An information strategy for promoting 
                human rights by expanding Chinese and Tibetan 
                language broadcasts on the Voice of America and 
                establishing Radio Free Asia.
                    (I) Encouraging the Chinese Government to 
                permit international human rights groups to 
                operate in and visit China.

        The report required by this paragraph shall also assess 
        the progress, if any, of the People's Republic of China 
        toward ending forced abortion, forced sterilization, 
        and other coercive population control practices.
            (2) Not later than 120 days after the date of 
        enactment of this Act, the President shall report on 
        the status of Chinese Government compliance with United 
        States laws prohibiting the importation into the United 
        States of forced labor products, including (but not 
        limited to) a complete assessment and report on the 
        implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding 
        signed by the United States and China in 1992. The 
        report shall include (but not be limited to) the 
        following:
                    (A) All efforts made by the United States 
                Customs Service from 1992 until the date of the 
                report to investigate forced labor exports and 
                to conduct unannounced unrestricted inspections 
                of suspected forced labor sites in China, and 
                the extent to which Chinese authorities 
                cooperated with such investigations.
                    (B) Recommendations of what further steps 
                might be taken to enhance United States 
                effectiveness in prohibiting forced labor 
                exports to the United States from China.

SEC. 1703. UNITED STATES RELATIONS WITH THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF 
                    MACEDONIA (FYROM).

    It is the sense of the Congress that the Former Yugoslav 
Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) should be eligible for all United 
States foreign assistance programs, including programs of the 
Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private Investment 
Corporation, if the government continues to respect the rights 
of all ethnic minorities.

SEC. 1704. DISPLACED PERSONS.

    It is the sense of the Congress that of the amounts made 
available to the United Nations Development Program (and United 
Nations Development Program-Administered Funds), at least 
$20,000,000 for fiscal year 1996 and $20,000,000 for fiscal 
year 1997 should be available for programs and services 
conducted in cooperation with the International Organization 
for Migration, the International Committee for the Red Cross, 
and nongovernmental organizations, for persons who are 
displaced within their countries of nationality.

SEC. 1705. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON BORDER CROSSING FEES.

    It is the sense of the Congress that the United States 
Government should not impose or collect a border crossing fee 
along its borders with Canada and Mexico.

SEC. 1706. INTER-AMERICAN ORGANIZATIONS.

    Taking into consideration the long-term commitment by the 
United States to the affairs of this Hemisphere and the need to 
build further upon the linkages between the United States and 
its neighbors, the Secretary of State, in allocating the level 
of resources for international organizations, should make every 
effort to pay the full United States assessed funding levels 
for the Organization of American States and the Pan American 
Health Organization so that these two entities, which are 
uniquely dependent on United States contributions, have 
adequate resources to contribute effectively to United States 
foreign policy initiatives.

SEC. 1707. ESCALATING COSTS FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING ACTIVITIES.

    It is the sense of the Congress that the executive branch 
should cease obligating the United States to pay for 
international peacekeeping operations in excess of funds 
specifically authorized and appropriated for this purpose.

SEC. 1708. VISIT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA ON TAIWAN.

    It is the sense of the Congress that the President of the 
Republic of China on Taiwan should be admitted to the United 
States for a visit in 1996 with all appropriate courtesies.

SEC. 1709. REPUBLIC OF CHINA ON TAIWAN'S PARTICIPATION IN GATT AND WTO.

    It is the sense of the Congress that--
            (1) the United States should separate the Republic 
        of China on Taiwan's application for membership in the 
        General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the 
        World Trade Organization (WTO) from the People's 
        Republic of China's application for membership in such 
        organizations;
            (2) the United States should support the Republic 
        of China on Taiwan's earliest membership in the GATT 
        and the WTO if it meets full and legitimate membership 
        criteria, including the elimination of inappropriate 
        tariff levels and nontariff barriers;
            (3) the United States should support the membership 
        of the People's Republic of China in the GATT and the 
        WTO only if a sound bilateral commercial agreement is 
        reached between the United States and the People's 
        Republic of China, and that the People's Republic of 
        China makes significant progress in making its economic 
        system compatible with GATT and WTO principles; and
            (4) the People's Republic of China's application 
        for membership in the GATT and the WTO should be 
        reviewed strictly in accordance with the rules, 
        guidelines, principles, precedents, and practices of 
        the GATT and the WTO.

SEC. 1710. INDUSTRIAL PARK FOR GAZA OR THE WEST BANK.

    (a) Sense of the Congress.--It is the sense of Congress 
that--
            (1) the United States should take prompt, visible 
        action before the coming elections in Gaza and Jericho 
        that promises hope and jobs to Palestinians;
            (2) the rapid development of an industrial park in 
        Gaza or the West Bank, closely coordinated with private 
        sector investors, will provide a clear sign of 
        opportunity resulting from peace with Israel;
            (3) the decision to site the industrial park should 
        give special consideration to the extremely difficult 
        economic conditions in Gaza and the West Bank;
            (4) the President should appoint a special 
        coordinator to coordinate the rapid development of an 
        industrial park in Gaza or the West Bank and to begin 
        the recruitment of United States investors; and
            (5) the Secretary of State should direct a short-
        term review and implementation of United States 
        assistance plans to assist in speeding the flow of 
        goods and services between Israel and Gaza and the West 
        Bank while increasing security among those areas.
    (b) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the President shall prepare and transmit 
to the Congress a report detailing the following:
            (1) All actions taken by the President to establish 
        an industrial park in Gaza or the West Bank.
            (2) Funds planned for expenditure to develop such 
        industrial park.
      And the Senate agree to the same.
                                   Benjamin A. Gilman,
                                   Bill Goodling,
                                   Henry J. Hyde,
                                   Toby Roth,
                                   Doug Bereuter,
                                   Christopher H. Smith,
                                   Dan Burton,
                                   Ileana Ros-Lehtinen,
                                 Managers on the Part of the House.

                                   Jesse Helms,
                                   Olympia Snowe,
                                   Hank Brown,
                                   Paul Coverdell,
                                   John Ashcroft,
                                Managers on the Part of the Senate.

       JOINT EXPLANATORY STATEMENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE

      The managers on the part of the House and the Senate at 
the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on 
the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 1561) to 
authorize appropriations for the Department of State, the 
United States Information Agency, and related agencies, and for 
other purposes, submit the following joint statement to the 
House and the Senate in explanation of the effect of the action 
agreed upon by the managers and recommended in the accompanying 
conference report:
      The Senate amendment struck all of the House bill after 
the enacting clause and inserted a substitute text.
      The House recedes from its disagreement to the amendment 
of the Senate with an amendment that is a substitute for the 
House bill and the Senate amendment. The differences between 
the House bill, the Senate amendment, and the substitute agreed 
to in conference are noted below, except for clerical 
corrections, conforming changes made necessary by agreements 
reached by the conferees, and minor drafting and clerical 
changes.

                               Division A

                      title i--general provisions

Short title
      The House bill (sec. 101) provides a short title for this 
Division, the ``Foreign Affairs Agencies Consolidation Act of 
1995.''
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1001) provides a short title 
for this Division, the ``Foreign Affairs Reinvention Act of 
1995.''
      The conference substitute provides a short title for this 
Division, the ``Foreign Affairs Agencies Consolidation Act of 
1996.''
Congressional findings
      The House bill (sec. 102) sets forth congressional 
findings that the United States must remain engaged in 
international affairs; that the U.S. budget deficit requires 
streamlining of government programs and activities, including 
foreign programs and activities; and that, as part of the 
downsizing of the international affairs budget, the 
proliferation of foreign affairs agencies that occurred during 
the Cold War must be reversed and the leadership of the 
Secretary of State strengthened.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the House bill.
Purposes
      The House bill (sec. 103) states that the purposes of the 
Division are to consolidate and reinvent the foreign affairs 
agencies of the United States within the Department of State; 
provide for the reorganization of the Department of State; 
strengthen the coordination of U.S. foreign policy; and to 
abolish not later than March 1, 1997, the United States Arms 
Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), the United States 
Information Agency (USIA), the International Development 
Cooperation Agency, and the Agency for International 
Development (AID).
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1002) states that the purposes 
of the Division are, inter alia, to reorganize and reinvent the 
foreign affairs agencies of the United States within the 
Department of State, to assist in congressional efforts to 
balance the Federal budget, to ensure that the United States 
maintains adequate representation abroad within budgetary 
constraints, and to encourage United States foreign affairs 
agencies to maintain a high percentage of the best qualified 
United States Government employees while downsizing 
significantly the total number of employees of such agencies.
      The conference substitute (sec. 103) contains a 
combination of the purposes set forth in the House bill and the 
Senate amendment.
Definitions
      The House bill (sec. 104) defines terms used within this 
Division of the House bill.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1624) defines terms used 
within this Division of the Senate bill.
      The conference substitute (sec. 104) is substantially 
identical to the House bill.
Office of the Secretary of State
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1101) amends the State 
Department Basic Authorities Act to provide that the Secretary 
of State shall be the principal foreign policy adviser to the 
President and shall be responsible for the overall direction, 
coordination, and supervision of the interdepartmental 
activities of the Government abroad.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the House bill.
Assumption of duties by incumbent employees
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1102) provides that 
individuals appointed by and with the advice and consent of the 
Senate and performing duties substantially similar to the 
duties of a new office to be created pursuant to this Division 
may, in the discretion of the Secretary of State, assume the 
duties of such new office and shall not be required to be 
reappointed.
      The House bill (secs. 222(c), 322(a)(2), 322(b)(2), and 
422(b)) provides that officials appointed by and with the 
advice and consent of the Senate may be appointed in an acting 
capacity to new offices created pursuant to this Division until 
the President nominates and the Senate confirms a permanent 
appointee.
      The conference substitute (sec. 614(b)) is similar to the 
Senate amendment.
Procedures for coordination of Government personnel at overseas posts
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1104) amends the Foreign 
Service Act of 1980 to require heads of Executive departments 
and agencies to obtain the approval of chiefs of mission 
regarding changes in the size, composition, or mandate of 
employees of such departments and agencies in foreign 
countries, and to require compliance with the procedures of 
National Security Decision Directive 38.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 102) is identical to the 
House bill.

      TITLE II--UNITED STATES ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT AGENCY

Effective date
      The House bill (sec. 201) provides that this title and 
the amendments made by this title (other than section 221) 
shall take effect on March 1, 1997, or on an earlier date 
announced by the President in the Federal Register, which date 
may be not earlier than 60 calendar days (excluding any days on 
which either House of Congress is not in session because of a 
sine die adjournment) after the President has submitted a 
reorganization plan to the appropriate committees of Congress 
pursuant to section 221. Section 221 shall take effect on the 
date of enactment.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1207) provides that this title 
and the amendments made by this title shall take effect in the 
event that the President does not transmit to Congress within 
six months of the date of enactment a reorganization plan 
meeting the objectives of section 1501(a)(2) of the Senate 
bill.
      The conference substitute (sec. 201) is similar to the 
House bill.
References in title
      The House bill (sec. 202) states that, except as 
otherwise provided, the references in this title to provisions 
of law shall be considered references to the Arms Control and 
Disarmament Act.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1201(c)) is similar to the 
House bill.
      The conference substitute contains no comparable 
provision.
Abolition of United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
      The House bill (sec. 211) abolishes ACDA.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1201(a)) is similar to the 
House bill.
      The conference substitute (sec. 211) is identical to the 
House bill.
Transfer of functions to Secretary of State
      The House bill (sec. 212) transfers to the Secretary of 
State all functions of the Director of ACDA and of ACDA.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 212) is identical to the 
House bill.
Reorganization plan
      The House bill (sec 221) provides that, not later than 
March 1, 1996, the President, in consultation with the 
Secretary of State and the Director of ACDA, shall submit a 
reorganization plan to the appropriate committees of Congress. 
The plan is to provide for the abolition of ACDA; the transfer 
of ACDA's functions and personnel to the Department of State; 
and the consolidation, reorganization, and streamlining of the 
Department of State upon the transfer in order to carry out the 
transferred functions. The plan is to identify the functions of 
ACDA that are to be transferred; the personnel and positions of 
ACDA and the Department that are to be transferred, separated, 
or eliminated; specify the consolidations and reorganizations 
within the Department that will be required; specify the funds 
available to ACDA that will be transferred; specify the 
proposed allocations within the Department of unexpended funds 
that are to be transferred from ACDA; and specify the proposed 
disposition of the property, facilities, contracts, records, 
and other assets and liabilities of ACDA.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1603) provides that, in the 
event that the President does not transmit to Congress within 
six months of the date of enactment a reorganization plan 
meeting the objectives of section 1501(a)(2) of the Senate 
amendment, the President shall, in consultation with the 
Secretary of State, transmit a reorganization plan with respect 
to ACDA to the appropriate committees of Congress. The plan is 
to provide for substantially the same matters as the plan 
submitted under the House bill. A plan transmitted under this 
section shall become effective after 90 calendar days of 
continuous session of Congress, unless Congress enacts a joint 
resolution disapproving the plan. The Senate amendment further 
requires a reduction in employees and in funds available for 
salaries and expenses in the event that a plan transmitted 
under this section takes effect.
      The conference substitute (sec. 601) is similar to the 
House bill, except that the plan is to be submitted not later 
than October 1, 1996. In addition, the requirement for 
submission of the plan shall not apply if the President 
exercises the waiver authority of section 602 of the conference 
substitute with respect to ACDA. A plan submitted pursuant to 
this section may be modified by the President on the basis of 
consultations with the appropriate congressional committees. A 
plan submitted pursuant to this section shall become effective 
on the earlier of March 1, 1997, or such date as the President 
shall determine to be appropriate and announce by notice 
published in the Federal Register.
      The Committee notes that ACDA's single-mission focus has 
permitted the agency to develop over the years unique expertise 
and experience among its personnel in arms control matters. The 
Department of State has needed to develop similar expertise 
within the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs and elsewhere. 
However, the personnel system of the Department, which 
emphasizes the development of broad expertise among the 
Department's employees so as to equip them to effectively carry 
out the Department's many missions, has necessarily limited the 
Department's ability to match the training and experience in 
arms control matters that is found within ACDA.
      The Committee believes that it would be detrimental to 
the interests of the United States for the expertise and 
experience of ACDA personnel to be lost as a result of the 
consolidation of ACDA with the Department of State. 
Accordingly, the Committee would expect any reorganization plan 
applicable to ACDA submitted pursuant to section 601 of the 
conference substitute to be designed, to the maximum extent 
feasible, to ensure that the unique expertise and experience of 
ACDA personnel is not lost to the United States Government as a 
result of the consolidation.
Principal officers
      The House bill (sec. 222) amends the State Department 
Basic Authorities Act to establish the new position within the 
Department of State of Coordinator for Arms Control and 
Disarmament, with the rank and status of Ambassador-at-Large. 
The Coordinator heads the Bureau of Arms Control and 
Disarmament and reports directly to the Secretary of State. In 
addition, an amendment to the National Security Act of 1947 
provides that the Coordinator shall serve as a statutory 
advisor to the National Security Council.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 213) is substantially 
identical to the House bill.
References
      The House bill (sec. 244) provides that any reference in 
any statute or other official document or proceeding to the 
Director of ACDA shall be deemed to refer to the Secretary of 
State, and any reference to ACDA shall be deemed to refer to 
the Department of State.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1206) is virtually identical.
      The conference substitute (sec. 221) is identical to the 
House bill.
Repeal of establishment of Agency
      The House bill (sec. 242) repeals section 21 of the Arms 
Control and Disarmament Act (relating to the establishment of 
ACDA).
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1201(b)) is substantially 
identical.
      The conference substitute (sec. 222) is identical to the 
House bill.
Repeal of positions and offices
      The House bill (sec. 243) repeals provisions of the Arms 
Control and Disarmament Act establishing positions and offices 
within ACDA.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1202) is substantially 
identical, except that the provision establishing the ACDA 
Inspector General is not repealed.
      The conference substitute (secs. 223 and 501) is similar 
to the House bill.
Transfer of authorities and functions under the Arms Control and 
        Disarmament Act to the Secretary of State
      The House bill (sec. 244) transfers authorities and 
functions of ACDA and the Director of ACDA to the Department of 
State and to the Secretary of State.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1203) is similar.
      The conference substitute (sec. 224) is based on the 
House bill.
Conforming amendments
      The House bill (sec. 225) makes conforming amendments to 
other provisions of the Arms Control and Disarmament Act.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1205) is similar.
      The conference substitute (sec. 225) is based on the 
House bill.
Authorization of appropriations
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1204) makes a conforming 
amendment to the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal 
Years 1994 and 1995.
      The House bill has no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the House bill.

              TITLE III--UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY

Effective date
      The House bill (sec. 301) provides that this title and 
the amendments made by this title (other than section 321) 
shall take effect on March 1, 1997, or on an earlier date 
announced by the President in the Federal Register, which date 
may be not earlier than 60 calendar days (excluding any days on 
which either House of Congress is not in session because of a 
sine die adjournment) after the President has submitted a 
reorganization plan to the appropriate committees of Congress 
pursuant to section 321. Section 321 shall take effect on the 
date of enactment.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1329) provides that this title 
and the amendments made by this title shall take effect in the 
event that the President does not transmit to Congress within 
six months of the date of enactment a reorganization plan 
meeting the objectives of section 1501(a)(2) of the Senate 
bill.
      The conference substitute (sec. 301) is similar to the 
House bill.
Abolition of United States Information Agency
      The House bill (sec. 311) abolishes USIA.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1301) is substantially 
identical.
      The conference substitute (sec. 311) is identical to the 
House bill.
Transfer of functions to Secretary of State
      The House bill (sec. 312) transfers to the Secretary of 
State all functions of the Director of USIA and of USIA.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 312) is similar to the 
House bill, but includes a special provision governing transfer 
of the Broadcasting Board of Governors to the Department of 
State.
Reorganization plan
      The House bill (sec 321) provides that, not later than 
March 1, 1996, the President, in consultation with the 
Secretary of State and the Director of USIA, shall submit a 
reorganization plan to the appropriate committees of Congress. 
The plan is to provide for the abolition of USIA; the transfer 
of USIA's functions and personnel to the Department of State; 
and the consolidation, reorganization, and streamlining of the 
Department of State upon the transfer in order to carry out the 
transferred functions. The plan is to identify the functions of 
USIA that are to be transferred; the personnel and positions of 
USIA and the Department that are to be transferred, separated, 
or eliminated; specify the consolidations and reorganizations 
within the Department that will be required; specify the funds 
available to USIA that will be transferred; specify the 
proposed allocations within the Department of unexpended funds 
that are to be transferred from USIA; and specify the proposed 
disposition of the property, facilities, contracts, records, 
and other assets and liabilities of USIA.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1604) provides that, in the 
event that the President does not transmit to Congress within 
six months of the date of enactment a reorganization plan 
meeting the objectives of section 1501(a)(2) of the Senate 
amendment, the President shall, in consultation with the 
Secretary of State, transmit a reorganization plan with respect 
to USIA to the appropriate committees of Congress. The plan is 
to provide for substantially the same matters as the plan 
submitted under the House bill. A plan transmitted under this 
section shall become effective after 90 calendar days of 
continuous session of Congress, unless Congress enacts a joint 
resolution disapproving the plan. The Senate amendment further 
requires a reduction in employees and in funds available for 
salaries and expenses in the event that a plan transmitted 
under this section takes effect.
      The conference substitute (sec. 601) is similar to the 
House bill, except that the plan is to be submitted not later 
than October 1, 1996. In addition, the requirement for 
submission of the plan shall not apply if the President 
exercises the waiver authority of section 602 of the conference 
substitute with respect to USIA. A plan submitted pursuant to 
this section may be modified by the President on the basis of 
consultations with the appropriate congressional committees. A 
plan submitted pursuant to this section shall become effective 
on the earlier of March 1, 1997, or such date as the President 
shall determine to be appropriate and announce by notice 
published in the Federal Register.
Principal officers
      The House bill (sec. 322) amends the State Department 
Basic Authorities Act to establish the new positions within the 
Department of State of Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy, 
Assistant Secretary for Academic Programs and Cultural 
Exchanges, and Assistant Secretary for Information, Policy, and 
Programs. Both assistant secretaries shall report to the under 
secretary.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 313) amends the State 
Department Basic Authorities Act to establish within the 
Department of State the position of Under Secretary for Public 
Diplomacy, but does not establish any assistant secretary 
positions.
References
      The House bill (sec. 341) provides that any reference in 
any statute or other official document or proceeding to the 
Director of USIA shall be deemed to refer to the Secretary of 
State, and any reference to USIA shall be deemed to refer to 
the Department of State.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1302) is virtually identical.
      The conference substitute is identical to the Senate 
amendment.
Abolition of Office of Inspector General of the United States 
        Information Agency and transfer of functions to Office of 
        Inspector General of the Department of State
       The House bill (sec. 342) abolishes the Office of 
Inspector General of USIA, and transfers the functions of that 
Office to the Office of Inspector General of the Department of 
State.
       The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 502) is virtually 
identical to the House bill.
Amendments to title 5
       The House bill (sec. 343) makes conforming amendments to 
title 5 of the United States Code.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1303) is identical.
      The conference substitute (sec. 322) is identical.
Amendments to United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 
        1948
       The House bill (sec. 344) makes conforming amendments to 
the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 
1948.
       The Senate amendment (sec. 1304) is similar.
      The conference substitute (sec. 323) is similar.
Amendments to the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 
        (Fulbright-Hays Act)
       The House bill (sec. 345) makes conforming amendments to 
the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1305) is similar.
      The conference substitute (sec. 324) is similar.
International broadcasting activities
       The House bill (sec. 346) makes conforming amendments to 
the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 
1995, and to title 5 of the United States Code.
       The Senate amendment (sec. 1306) is similar.
       The conference substitute (sec. 325) is similar.
Television broadcasting to Cuba
       The House bill (sec. 347) makes conforming amendments to 
the Television Broadcasting to Cuba Act.
       The Senate amendment (sec. 1307) is similar.
      The conference substitute (sec. 326) is similar.
Radio broadcasting to Cuba
       The House bill (sec. 348) makes conforming amendments to 
the Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Act.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1308) is similar.
      The conference substitute (sec. 327) is similar.
National Endowment for Democracy
       The House bill (sec. 349) makes conforming amendments to 
Public Law 98-164.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1309) is similar.
      The conference substitute (sec. 328) is similar.
United States Scholarship Program for Developing Countries
       The House bill (sec. 350) makes conforming amendments to 
the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 
1987.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1310) is similar.
      The conference substitute (sec. 329) is similar.
Fascell Fellowship Board
       The House bill (sec. 351) makes conforming amendments to 
the Fascell Fellowship Act.
      The Senate bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 330) is identical to the 
House bill.
National Security Education Board
       The House bill (sec. 352) makes conforming amendments to 
the Intelligence Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1992.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1311) is similar.
      The conference substitute (sec. 331) is identical to the 
Senate amendment.
Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between North and South
       The House bill (sec. 353) makes conforming amendments to 
the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1992 and 
1993.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1312) is identical.
      The conference substitute (sec. 332) is identical.
East-West Center
       The House bill (sec. 354) makes conforming amendments to 
the Mutual Security Act of 1960.
       The Senate amendment (sec. 1313) is identical.
       The conference substitute (sec. 333) is identical.
Mission of the Department of State
       The House bill (sec. 334) makes conforming amendments to 
the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1979.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1314) is similar.
      The conference substitute (sec. 334) is similar.
Consolidation of administrative services
      The House bill (sec. 356) makes conforming amendments to 
the State Department Basic Authorities Act.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1315) is similar.
      The conference substitute (sec. 335) is similar.
Grants
      The House bill (sec. 357) makes conforming amendments to 
the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1992 and 
1993.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1316) is similar.
      The conference substitute (sec. 336) is similar.
Ban on domestic activities
      The House bill (sec. 358) makes conforming amendments to 
the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 
1987.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1317) is similar.
      The conference substitute (sec. 337) is similar.
Conforming repeal to the Arms Control and Disarmament Act
      The House bill (sec. 359) makes a conforming amendment to 
the Arms Control and Disarmament Act.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1318) is identical.
      The conference substitute (sec. 338) is identical.
Repeal relating to procurement of legal services
      The House bill (sec. 360) makes a conforming amendment to 
the State Department Basic Authorities Act.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1319) is identical.
      The conference substitute (sec. 339) is identical.
Repeal relating to payment of subsistence expenses
      The House bill (sec. 361) makes a conforming amendment to 
the State Department Basic Authorities Act.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1320) is identical.
      The conference substitute (sec. 340) is identical.
Conforming amendment to the SEED Act
      The House bill (sec. 362) makes a conforming amendment to 
the Support for East European Democracies Act of 1989.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1321) is identical.
      The conference substitute (sec. 341) is identical.
International Cultural and Trade Center Commission
      The House bill (sec. 363) makes conforming amendments to 
the Federal Triangle Development Act.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1322) is similar.
      The conference substitute (sec. 342) is similar.
Foreign Service Act of 1980
      The House bill (sec. 364) makes conforming amendments to 
the Foreign Service Act of 1980.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the Senate 
amendment.
Au Pair programs
      The House bill (sec. 365) makes a conforming amendment to 
the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Act of 1990.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the Senate 
amendment.
Exchange program with countries in transition from totalitarianism to 
        democracy
      The House bill (sec. 366) makes conforming amendments to 
the National and Community Service Act of 1990.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1324) is identical.
      The conference substitute (sec. 344) is identical.
Edmund S. Muskie Fellowship Program
      The House bill (sec. 367) makes conforming amendments to 
the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1992 and 
1993.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1324) is similar.
      The conference substitute (sec. 345) is similar.
Implementation of Convention on Cultural Property
      The House bill (sec. 368) makes conforming amendments to 
the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1326) is identical.
      The conference substitute (sec. 346) is identical.
Mike Mansfield Fellowships
      The House bill (sec. 369) makes conforming a amendment to 
the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 
1995.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1327) is similar.
      The conference substitute (sec. 347) is similar.
Other laws referenced in Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1977
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1323) makes conforming 
amendments to various public laws referenced in Reorganization 
Plan No. 2 of 1977.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 343) is identical to the 
Senate amendment.
United States Advisory Committee for Public Diplomacy
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1328) makes conforming 
amendments to the United States Information and Educational 
Exchange Act of 1948.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 348) is identical to the 
Senate amendment.

             TITLE IV--AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Effective date
      The House bill (sec. 401) provides that this title and 
the amendments made by this title (other than section 421) 
shall take effect on March 1, 1997, or on an earlier date 
announced by the President in the Federal Register, which date 
may be not earlier than 60 calendar days (excluding any days on 
which either House of Congress is not in session because of a 
sine die adjournment) after the President has submitted a 
reorganization plan to the appropriate committees of Congress 
pursuant to section 421. Section 421 shall take effect on the 
date of enactment.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1412) provides that this title 
and the amendments made by this title shall take effect in the 
event that the President does not transmit to Congress within 
six months of the date of enactment a reorganization plan 
meeting the objectives of section 1501(a)(2) of the Senate 
bill.
      The conference substitute (sec. 401) is similar to the 
House bill.
References in title
      The House bill (sec. 402) states that, except as 
otherwise provided, the references in this title to provisions 
of law shall be considered references to the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1401(b)) is similar to the 
House bill.
      The conference substitute contains no comparable 
provision.
Abolition of Agency for International Development
      The House bill (sec. 411) abolishes AID and the United 
States International Development Cooperation Agency.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1401(a)) is similar to the 
House bill.
      The conference substitute (sec. 411) is similar to the 
House bill, but states that the abolition of AID shall not be 
interpreted to apply to the Overseas Private Investment 
Corporation.
Transfer of functions to Secretary of State
      The House bill (sec. 412) transfers to the Secretary of 
State all functions of the Administrator of AID and of AID.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 412) is identical to the 
House bill.
Reorganization plan
      The House bill (sec. 421) provides that, not later than 
March 1, 1996, the President, in consultation with the 
Secretary of State and the Director of AID, shall submit a 
reorganization plan to the appropriate committees of Congress. 
The plan is to provide for the abolition of AID; the transfer 
of AID's functions and personnel to the Department of State; 
and the consolidation, reorganization, and streamlining of the 
Department of State upon the transfer in order to carry out the 
transferred functions. The plan is to identify the functions of 
AID that are to be transferred; the personnel and positions of 
AID and the Department that are to be transferred, separated, 
or eliminated; specify the consolidations and reorganizations 
within the Department that will be required; specify the funds 
available to AID that will be transferred; specify the proposed 
allocations within the Department of unexpended funds that are 
to be transferred from AID; and specify the proposed 
disposition of the property, facilities, contracts, records, 
and other assets and liabilities of AID.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1605) provides that, in the 
event that the President does not transmit to Congress within 
six months of the date of enactment a reorganization plan 
meeting the objectives of section 1501(a)(2) of the Senate 
amendment, the President shall, in consultation with the 
Secretary of State, transmit a reorganization plan with respect 
to AID to the appropriate committees of Congress. The plan is 
to provide for substantially the same matters as the plan 
submitted under the House bill. A plan transmitted under this 
section shall become effective after 90 calendar days of 
continuous session of Congress, unless Congress enacts a joint 
resolution disapproving the plan. The Senate amendment further 
requires a reduction in employees and in funds available for 
salaries and expenses in the event that a plan transmitted 
under this section takes effect.
      The conference substitute (sec. 601) is similar to the 
House bill, except that the plan is to be submitted not later 
than October 1, 1996. In addition, the requirement for 
submission of the plan shall not apply if the President 
exercise the waiver authority of section 602 of the conference 
substitute with respect to AID. A plan submitted pursuant to 
this section may be modified by the President on the basis of 
consultations with the appropriate congressional committees. A 
plan submitted pursuant to this section shall become effective 
on the earlier of March 1, 1997, or such date as the President 
shall determine to be appropriate and announce by notice 
published in the Federal Register.
Principal officers
      The House bill (sec. 422) amends the State Department 
Basic Authorities Act to establish the new position within the 
Department of State of Under Secretary for Development and 
Economic Affairs.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 413) is similar to the 
House bill, but designates the new under secretary as the Under 
Secretary for Development and for Economic and Commercial 
Affairs.
      The committee of conference intends the Under Secretary 
for Development and for Economic and Commercial Affairs to be 
responsible for, inter alia, the administration of funds under 
the Sustainable Development, Development Fund for Africa, SEED, 
FREEDOM Support, ESF, Disaster, Housing Guarantee, Small and 
Micro-enterprise, PL-480 Titles II & III, American Schools and 
Hospitals Abroad, and International Fund for Ireland accounts. 
The committee of conference intends this list of accounts to be 
the minimum number of accounts administered by the Under 
Secretary. Should the Administration wish, the committee of 
conference would welcome the movement of other foreign 
assistance programs under the Under Secretary's administration.
References
      The House bill (sec. 441) provides that any reference in 
any statute or other official document or proceeding to the 
Administrator of AID shall be deemed to refer to the Secretary 
of State, and any reference to AID shall be deemed to refer to 
the Department of State.
      The Senate amendment (secs. 1402 and 1411) is similar.
      The conference substitute (sec. 421) is similar.
Abolition of Office of Inspector General of the Agency for 
        International Development and transfer of functions to Office 
        of Inspector General of the Department of State
      The House bill (sec. 442) abolishes the Office of 
Inspector General of AID, and transfers the functions of that 
Office to the Office of Inspector General of the Department of 
State.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 414) is similar to the 
House bill.
Abolition of Chief Financial Officer of the Agency for International 
        Development and transfer of functions to Chief Financial 
        Officer Department of State
      The House bill (sec. 443) abolishes the Office of Chief 
Financial Officer of AID, and transfers the functions of that 
Office to the Office of Chief Financial Officer of the 
Department of State.
      The Senate bill (sec. 1410) abolishes the Office of Chief 
Financial Officer of AID.
      The conference substitute (sec. 415) is similar to the 
House bill.
Amendments to title 5, United States Code
      The House bill (sec. 444) makes conforming amendments to 
title 5 of the United States Code.
      The Senate bill (sec. 1408) is similar.
      The conference substitute (sec. 427) is similar.
Public Law 480 Program
      The House bill (sec. 445) makes conforming amendments to 
the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954.
      The Senate substitute (sec. 1407) is similar.
      The conference substitute (sec. 426) is similar.
Exercise of functions by the Secretary of State
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1403) makes conforming 
amendments to the Foreign Assistance Act.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 422) is similar to the 
Senate amendment.
Repeal of positions; employment and contracting authorities
Development Loan Committee
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1405) makes conforming 
amendments to the Foreign Assistance Act.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 424) is identical to the 
Senate amendment.
Development Coordination Committee
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1406) makes conforming 
amendments to the Foreign Assistance Act.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 425) is identical to the 
Senate amendment.
Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1409) makes conforming 
amendments to the Export Enhancement Act of 1988.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 428) is identical to the 
Senate amendment.
Additional conforming amendments
      The conference substitute (sec. 429) contains additional 
conforming amendments to various public laws.
      The House bill and the Senate amendment do not contain 
similar provisions.

                          TITLE V--TRANSITION

Reorganization of the Department of State and the Independent Foreign 
        Affairs Agencies
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1501) provides that if the 
President does not submit to Congress a reorganization plan 
meeting specified objectives within six months of the date of 
enactment, ACDA, USIA, and AID are to be abolished in 
accordance with titles II, III, and IV of this Division. If the 
President in fact submits such a plan in a timely fashion, 
titles II, III, and IV do not come into effect. The specified 
objectives of such a reorganization plan include the 
streamlining and reorganization of the foreign affairs 
agencies, and the achievement of $1.7 billion in savings over 
five years calculated from an FY 1995 baseline. Not more than 
30 percent of the savings is to be realized from reductions in 
program levels, and not more than 15 percent may come from the 
administrative expenses of the Department of State. A 
reorganization plan transmitted pursuant to this section shall 
take effect after 90 calendar days of continuous session of 
Congress, unless Congress enacts a joint resolution 
disapproving the plan.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 602) permits the 
President to waive the applicability of two of the following 
three titles of this Division: titles II, III, and IV. In order 
to exercise this waiver, the President must include a 
certification to the Congress in the reorganization plan that 
is required by section 601 to be submitted to Congress no later 
than October 1, 1996. In this certification, the President must 
affirm that the reorganization plan he has submitted pursuant 
to section 601 will achieve savings of $1.7 billion in budget 
authority over the four-year period of 1996-1999, with not more 
than 30 percent of the savings realized from reductions in 
program levels. The President must also certify that the plan 
conforms to the authorization levels for agency operating 
expenses for the years 1996-1999 set forth in Division B. 
Inasmuch as the authorization levels for agency operating 
expenses for those years dictate approximately $1.3 billion in 
savings from the 1995 level, and the remaining $500 million of 
the required $1.7 billion in savings can come from program 
cuts, the first two elements of the President's certification 
are intended to be complementary. Finally, the President must 
certify that preservation of any agency that otherwise would be 
abolished is important to the national interest of the United 
States.
Reorganization authority
      The House bill (sec. 501) authorizes the Secretary of 
State to allocate or reallocate functions transferred to the 
Department among the officers of the Department, and to 
establish, consolidate, alter, or discontinue organizational 
entities within the Department as necessary to carry out any 
reorganization under this Division. This authority does not 
extend to the abolition of organizational entities or offices 
established by law, or to the alteration of any delegation of 
functions required by law. A reorganization plan prepared 
pursuant to this Division may not have the effect of creating a 
new department or agency, continuing functions beyond the 
period authorized by law, authorizing the exercise of functions 
not otherwise authorized by law, or increasing the term of an 
office beyond that provided by law. Any such reorganization 
plan shall provide for a twenty-percent reduction applicable to 
each of the first two fiscal years after implementation of such 
plan in the total level of expenditures for the functions 
transferred to the Department of State from the amounts 
appropriated for such transferred functions for fiscal year 
1995.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1606) specifies requirements 
and limitations applicable to reorganization plans transmitted 
pursuant to this Division.
      The conference substitute (sec. 611) is similar to the 
House bill, but omits the requirement that a reorganization 
plan transmitted pursuant to this Division provide for a 
twenty-percent reduction in expenditures following the transfer 
of functions to the Department of State.
Transfer and allocation of appropriations and personnel
      The House bill (sec. 502) provides that personnel, 
assets, liabilities, contracts, property, records, and 
unexpended appropriations balances of abolished agencies shall 
be transferred to the Secretary of State. Unexpended and 
unobligated funds that are so transferred shall be used only 
for the purposes for which they were originally authorized and 
appropriated. When an agency is abolished, the limit on the 
number of members of the foreign service that may be employed 
by that agency shall be added to the limit for the Department 
of State.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1612) is similar.
      The conference substitute (sec. 612) is identical to the 
House bill.
Incidental transfers
      The House bill (sec. 503) provides that the Director of 
the Office of Management and Budget, in consultation with the 
Secretary of State, is authorized to make such incidental 
dispositions of personnel, assets, liabilities, contracts, 
property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations as 
may be necessary to carry out this Division.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 613) is identical to the 
House bill.
Effect on personnel
      The House bill (sec. 504) provides that personnel holding 
Executive Schedule positions who are transferred to the 
Department of State shall continue to be compensated at a rate 
not less than that of their previous position. Positions whose 
incumbents are appointed by the President and confirmed by the 
Senate, the functions of which are transferred, shall terminate 
upon the transfer. Employees in the career Senior Executive 
Service transferred pursuant to any title of this Division 
shall be placed in a position at the Department of State 
comparable to the position previously held by the employee. 
Transferring employees shall be provided reasonable notice of 
new positions and assignments prior to their transfer pursuant 
to any title of this Division. Foreign service personnel 
transferred to the Department of State pursuant to any title of 
this Division shall be eligible for any assignment open to 
foreign service personnel within the Department for which they 
are qualified.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1611) is similar.
      The conference substitute (sec. 614) is based on the 
House bill.
Savings provisions
      The House bill (sec. 505) provides that all orders, 
rules, regulations, agreements, contracts, and other 
administrative actions of the agencies abolished under this 
Division shall remain in effect according to their terms. 
Pending proceedings shall not be affected by the transfer of 
functions of the abolished agencies to the Department of State.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1619) is similar.
      The conference substitute (sec. 616) is identical to the 
House bill.
Property and facilities
      The House bill (sec. 506) provides that the Secretary of 
State shall review the property and facilities transferred to 
the Department to determine whether they are required by the 
Department.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1614) is similar.
      The conference substitute (sec. 617) is based on the 
House bill.
Authority of Secretary to facilitate transition
      The House bill (sec. 507) authorizes the Secretary of 
State to utilize the services of employees and the funds of the 
agencies that are to be abolished pursuant to this Division in 
order to facilitate the transfer of functions to the 
Department.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1621) is similar.
      The conference substitute (sec. 618) is based on the 
House bill.
Recommendations for additional conforming amendments
      The House bill (sec. 508) urges the President to submit 
recommendations for additional technical and conforming 
amendments to reflect the changes made by this Division.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1622) is similar.
      The conference substitute (sec. 619) is based on the 
House bill.
Final report
      The House bill (sec. 509) provides that, not later than 
October 1, 1998, the President, in consultation with the 
Secretary of the Treasury and the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget, shall submit to the appropriate 
congressional committees a final accounting of the finances of 
the abolished agencies.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1623) is similar.
      The conference substitute (sec. 620) is based on the 
House bill.
Transfer of function
      The House bill (sec. 510) provides that any determination 
as to whether a transfer of function carried out under this 
Division constitutes a transfer of function for purposes of 
subchapter I of chapter 35 of title 5 of the United States Code 
shall be made without regard to whether the function 
transferred is identical to functions already performed by the 
receiving agency.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 621) is identical to the 
House bill.
Severability
      The House bill (sec. 511) provides that if any provision 
of this Division is held invalid, the remainder of the Division 
shall not be affected.
      The Senate bill (sec. 1620) is similar.
      The conference substitute (sec. 622) is identical to the 
House bill.
Amendments or modification to reorganization plans
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1607) permits the President to 
submit to Congress amendments to reorganization plans 
previously submitted pursuant to this Division.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 601(d)) permits the 
President to modify or revise a reorganization plan transmitted 
to the Congress.
Procedures for congressional consideration of reorganization plans
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1608) establishes procedures 
for expedited congressional consideration of a reorganization 
plan transmitted pursuant to this Division. Under these 
procedures, if a joint resolution were enacted disapproving a 
reorganization plan, that plan would not take effect.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the House bill. 
The committee of conference concluded that expedited procedures 
for congressional resolutions to disapprove reorganization 
plans are unnecessary for two reasons. First, the timetable 
under section 601 for submission by the President to Congress 
of a reorganization plan ensures that Congress will have ample 
time to consider and comment on the plan. The committee of 
conference is confident that the President will not seek to 
implement any portions of a reorganization plan that are 
strongly opposed by the committees of jurisdiction. Second, no 
provision of this Division is intended to render inapplicable 
to a reorganization pursuant to this Division the existing 
requirements for notice to Congress of program changes. The 
availability of the reprogramming procedures will, in the 
judgment of the committee of conference, provide ample 
insurance against ill-advised reorganization decisions. The 
mechanism provided by section 601(d) of the conference 
substitute, which permits the President to modify a 
reorganization plan after its submission and before its 
implementation, is intended to enable the President to respond 
to congressional comments on such plans and congressional holds 
placed on reprogramming notifications submitted in connection 
with such plans.
Transition fund
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1609) establishes a transition 
fund to assist in meeting costs associated with reorganization 
pursuant to this Division.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 615) is similar to the 
Senate amendment.
Voluntary separation incentives
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1610) authorizes the payment 
of voluntary separation incentives to employees of the foreign 
affairs agencies in order to avoid or minimize the need for 
involuntary separations.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the House bill.
Effect on contracts and grants
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1618) imposes significant 
restrictions on the ability of ACDA, USIA, and AID to enter new 
contracts, extend existing contracts, or make grants that will 
extend past the date of abolition of the agency.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the House bill.

 title vi--reorganization of united states export promotion and trade 
                               activities

Plan for reorganization of United States export promotion and trade 
        activities
      The House bill (sec. 601) provides that the Trade Policy 
Coordinating Committee shall submit a report to the Committee 
on International Relations of the House and the Committee on 
Foreign Relations of the Senate not later than March 1, 1996, 
detailing what steps are being taken and what steps should be 
taken to improve accessibility and coordination among the trade 
promotion agencies of the U.S. Government. The report shall 
identify such matters as the function and budget of all U.S. 
Government agencies with some responsibility for trade 
promotion, the amount of exports directly generated by each 
such agency, and areas where greater interoperability and 
efficiencies could be achieved. The report shall include a plan 
to reorganize the trade and export promotion agencies, with any 
necessary legislative changes, in order to more efficiently 
promote trade and reduce costs.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the Senate 
amendment.

                    Foreign Relations Authorizations

               title xi--authorization of appropriations

      Of the House bill sections included in the final 
conference report, the House bill authorizes a total of 
$6,716,742,000 for fiscal year 1996 and $6,157,431,000 for 
fiscal year 1997, for the Department of State, AID, USIA and 
ACDA.
      Of the Senate amendment sections included in the final 
conference report, the Senate amendment authorizes a total of 
$6,301,796,000 for fiscal year 1996 and $5,970,429,000 for 
fiscal year 1997.
      The conference substitute authorizes a total of 
$6,524,131,000 for fiscal year 1996 and $ 6,518,385,000 for 
fiscal year 1997. The conference substitute incorporates the 
following sub-authorizations:
            (1) $11,900,000 for fiscal year 1997 for 
        administrative expenses of the bureau charged with 
        carrying out refugee programs.
            (2) $80,000,000 for each fiscal year for refugees 
        resettling in Israel.
            (3) $1,500,000 for each fiscal year for Burmese 
        refugees.
      While this bill includes four year authorizations for 
certain operating accounts of the foreign affairs agencies, 
this conference report in most respects is a two-year 
authorization bill. The authorizing Committees plan to pass 
another authorization bill for fiscal years 1998 and 1999.
      The committee of conference do not intend that any 
provision in this bill could be used as an authorization of 
foreign assistance in the meaning of Section 518(a) of P.L. 
104-107, the Foreign Operations Appropriations Act for Fiscal 
Year 1996.
      Merged accounts. The conference substitute authorizes the 
merger of the Inspector General of the Department of State and 
the Inspector General of the U.S. Information Agency. This 
merger should be completed in fiscal year 1996 and accordingly, 
the conference substitute merges the two separate authorization 
of appropriations under the Inspector General for the 
Department of State.
      Exchange programs. The committee of conference did not 
include soft earmarks as in previous years for South Pacific 
Exchanges, East Timorese exchanges, Cambodian scholarships, and 
Tibetan exchanges. However, the committee of conference lists 
these programs under the category of ``Other Exchanges'' and 
recommends that funds be allocated to support each of these 
specific exchange programs. The inclusion of these programs 
under ``Other Programs'' should not be construed as an 
indication of a diminution in support for these programs, or a 
justification for funding levels disproportionately lower than 
the House-passed authorizations.
      South Pacific exchanges. The committee of conference 
recognizes the unique and important function fulfilled by the 
South Pacific Exchange program. It is a relatively small 
program funded at $900,000 in the fiscal years 1994 and 1995, 
which promotes better understanding with the people of a region 
that has not always been given the attention it deserves in the 
implementation of U.S. foreign policy.
      Fulbright. The committee of conference believes that USIA 
should require open competitions for the Administration of the 
Fulbright program and other scholar exchange programs. Such 
competitions encourage cost savings and remove unnecessary 
bureaucratization of scholar recruitment, selection, and 
placement.
      Section 1101(2)(b) requires that $11.9 million in fiscal 
year 1997 authorized for salaries and expenses must be 
available for the salaries and expenses of the bureau that 
administers Refugee and Migration Assistance. This restores, 
effective in fiscal year 1997, a provision of the Foreign 
Relations Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 
(P.L. 103-236).
      The House bill (sec. 1101 (1)) authorized $5 million for 
visa processing outside the countries of origin of persons who 
would have a credible fear of persecution in such countries. 
The committee of conference agreed to drop this limitation in 
deference to a suggestion by the Department of State that $5 
million may be more than the amount necessary to process such 
applications.
      The committee of conference notes that a number of 
persons who have been determined to be currently eligible to 
apply for immigrant visas have been displaced and uprooted from 
their homes as a result of war, violent civil disturbance or 
systematic abuse of human rights in their native countries. The 
committee of conference expects that the Department will 
process the immigrant visa applications of such persons in the 
country in which they are physically present so long as they 
expect to remain in that country for the period required to 
process those applications. Processing of such displaced 
applicants outside their native lands is in accordance with the 
original intent of the framers of 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1152, who took 
cognizance of the unprecedented number of persons who have been 
uprooted and dislocated during World War II or due to events 
subsequent thereto. The amendment is designed to alleviate 
hardship which might be caused by a rigid requirement that visa 
applications ``shall be filed only with the consular officer in 
whose district the applicant shall have established his 
residence.'' H. Rept. No. 1365, 2d Sess. (1952), reprinted in 
1952 U.S.C.C.A.N. 1663, 1708-09. The conferees share the view 
that a requirement that a displaced person return to his or her 
country of origin in such circumstances would constitute an 
undue burden on the issuance of his or her immigrant visa. In 
this connection, the conferees note that the United States 
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has 
recently held that the State Department's refusal to process 
the immigrant visa applications of Vietnamese asylum seekers in 
Hong Kong violates the provision of 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1152(a) that 
``[n]o person shall * * * be discriminated against in the 
issuance of an immigrant visa because of his * * * 
nationality.'' Legal Assistance for Vietnamese Asylum-Seekers 
v. United States Department of State, 45 F.3d 469 (D.C. Cir. 
1995).
      UNDP activities in Burma. The House bill (sec 
2102(a)(2)(I)) provides that any United States voluntary 
contribution to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) 
would be limited in each fiscal year to $70 million, minus the 
amount UNDP has announced that it plans to spend on programs 
and activities in or for Burma ($18,200,000 for fiscal year 
1996 and $25,480,000 for fiscal year 1997), unless UNDP 
discontinued all of its activities in and for Burma.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1102 (e)) is similar to 
the House provision, except that the limitation for fiscal year 
1997 is identical to the limitation in fiscal year 1996. Also, 
the limitation in each fiscal year may be waived if the 
President certifies that all UNDP programs and activities in 
and for Burma are focused on the needs of the poor; are 
undertaken only through private voluntary organizations 
independent of the State Law and Order Restoration Council 
(SLORC); provide no benefit to the SLORC; and are supported by 
the democratic leadership of Burma.
      Section 431 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act 
for Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 provided that $27.6 million of 
the funds made available for UNDP for FY 1995 would be 
available only in certain strictly defined circumstances. The 
Department of State, acting on behalf of the President, 
released the $27.6 million pursuant to a certification that 
UNDP had met the statutory test of having ``initiated no new 
programs and no new funding for existing programs'' in and for 
Burma since the 1993 meeting of the UNDP Governing Council. The 
Memorandum of Justification accompanying the certification 
stated that UNDP had not initiated or approved any new programs 
``beyond those contemplated in the June 1993 [UNDP] Governing 
Council decision.'' The language of section 431, however, made 
no reference to projects ``contemplated'' in the 1993 decision. 
Rather, it required a finding of no new programs or funding 
``since the [1993] meeting.'' The Memorandum also seemed to 
interpret section 431 as prohibiting release of the money only 
if UNDP had initiated or funded new ``types'' of projects.
       The present provision is intended to clarify and give 
effect to the purpose of the fiscal 1995 limitation.
      Refugees and migration. Section 1104(a)(4) authorizes 
funds for fiscal year 1996 for admission and resettlement of 
certain Southeast Asian refugees who are in the high-risk 
categories identified by the ``Lautenberg Amendment''. These 
categories include those who served with U.S. forces in Vietnam 
or were in the former government of South Vietnam, or are 
considered to be religious refugees, or who are members of the 
Hmong ethnic minority from Laos.
      Subsection (b) prohibits expenditures on programs 
involving repatriation to Vietnam, Laos, or Cambodia unless the 
remaining asylum seekers have been or will be interviewed by 
U.S. immigration officers, and unless resettlement offers have 
been or will be made to those found to be refugees under U.S. 
immigration standards under current law. The House-passed 
provision was modified in conference to make it clear that the 
refugee status interviews can, under certain circumstances, be 
held in the asylum seeker's country of origin. The committee of 
conference expects that interviews in the country of origin 
would take place only if diligent efforts to secure permission 
from first asylum countries for interviews in such countries 
had proved unavailing, and that arrangements would be made to 
ensure the safety of returnees pending the completion of the 
interview and resettlement process.
      The committee of conference notes that the authorization 
of $1.5 million for each fiscal year for humanitarian 
assistance for persons displaced by civil conflict in Burma is 
directed at both those displaced within Burma and those persons 
now outside of Burma. During the past year, the refugee 
population along the Thai/Burma border has increased from 
approximately 77,000 to over 93,000, representing one of the 
largest influxes in any period since relief efforts began in 
1984. Due primarily to the attack on Manerplaw, the 
headquarters of the Karen National Union and the seat of the 
exiled democracy movement, which occurred in early 1995, this 
increase illustrates the uncertainty of the current situation.
      On the one hand, SLORC has negotiated, or is in the 
process of negotiating, cease-fire agreements with nearly all 
the ethnic groups. A large portion of the Mon refugee 
population has repatriated over the past few months. On the 
other hand, the situation on the ground does not seem to have 
improved. Attacks on the Karen and Karenni go on today despite 
cease-fire agreements and negotiations. New refugees continue 
to arrive with reports of human rights abuses, forced labor and 
relocation and hundreds of thousands remain displaced within 
Burma.
      In this unstable and unpredictable climate, humanitarian 
assistance to the over 93,000 along the border remains 
critical. Whether people stay in Thailand or go back to Burma 
they will be in need of support. Assistance in the form of 
food, health services and education should continue to be made 
available to refugees and displaced inside Burma and along the 
border. Further, funds should be provided to NGOs operating in 
the border areas in order to conduct assessments of the project 
planning and management capacity of the ethnic leadership and 
to develop and implement capacity-building and vocational 
training courses for appropriate refugee community members. 
Funds should also be made available for the subsistence and 
education of Burmese students in Thailand, regardless of their 
place of residence.
      Broadcasting. Section 1106(4)(B) of the conference 
substitute is designed to ensure that U.S. non-military 
international broadcasting resources are deployed where they 
are most needed. In recent years, for instance, the broadcasts 
to Iran carried out by the Voice of America Farsi Service have 
declined, despite the continued prohibition within Iran of 
objective news and the free expression of opinions. In 
contrast, broadcasting services to countries that do enjoy wide 
and diverse sources of news and opinion, such as the Voice of 
America broadcasts into Ethiopia, may have outlived their 
usefulness and should be considered for elimination.

                       Authorities and Activities

Department of State Rewards Program
      The House bill (sec. 2201) rewrites the Department of 
State rewards program to update this important tool used for 
capturing fugitives abroad in cases of terrorism and narcotics 
related offenses.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1201) is similar to the 
House bill but deletes the use of fees collected from issuing 
machine readable visas as a possible source of funds to pay 
rewards. It suggests that foreign assets frozen in the U.S. and 
controlled by the Department of Treasury could be used as an 
additional means by which to fund the rewards program.
Buying power maintenance account
      The House bill (sec. 2203) permits the transfer of 
expired, unobligated balances into no-year Buying Power 
Maintenance Account, subject to compliance with congressional 
reprogramming requirements. The Department maintains that 
paragraph (D), which makes such transfers subject to advance 
appropriations, is unnecessary and has made the transfer 
authority unworkable. Striking paragraph (D) enables the 
Department to transfer expiring balances with greater 
flexibility.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 125) is virtually identical 
except for drafting differences.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1202) is the same as the 
House provision.
Expenses relating to certain international claims and proceedings
      The House bill (sec. 2204) allows the Department to 
accept, in certain cases, reimbursement from private sector 
claimants for tribunal expenses, salaries, and other ordinary 
expenses.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 130) is virtually identical.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1203) is the same as the 
House provision.
Consolidation of U.S. diplomatic missions and consular posts
      The House bill (sec. 2205) requires the Secretary of 
State to prepare a world wide plan for the consolidation on a 
regional or area wide basis of U.S. missions and consular posts 
abroad.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 1103) is similar but it also 
includes expedited procedures for Congressional disapproval of 
the Secretary's plan to consolidate diplomatic posts abroad.
      The conference substitute omits the House and Senate 
provisions.
Denial of passports to noncustodial parents subject to State arrest 
        warrants in cases of nonpayment of child support.
      The House bill (sec. 2206) allows the Secretary to refuse 
to issue a passport, or to revoke, restrict or limit a passport 
in any case in which the Secretary of State determines, or is 
informed by a competent authority, that the applicant or 
passport holder is a noncustodial parent who is the subject of 
an outstanding arrest for non payment of child support.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1204) is identical to the 
House provision.
Capital investment fund
      The House bill (sec. 2207) amends section 135 of the 
Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 
(22 U.S.C. 2684a) to allow the Capital Investment Fund to be 
used for the procurement and upgrade of information technology 
and other related capital investments for the Department of 
State and to ensure the efficient management, coordination, 
operation, and utilization of such resources. This amendment 
would allow the Department to pay for upgrades of existing 
systems and purchase hardware or software to ensure 
interoperability of State Department information systems. This 
amendment also provides that the amounts deposited into the 
Fund will remain available until expended and that such amounts 
will be available for the purposes defined in this section.
      Section 135(e) is amended to eliminate as duplicative the 
requirement that subjects money in the Fund to Congressional 
reprogramming requirements before it is obligated. The 
Department will follow reprogramming procedures when it 
proposes to transfer monies into the Fund and will explain 
potential uses of the Fund in its Congressional Presentation 
Documents.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 126) is similar but is drafted 
differently.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1206) is identical to the 
Senate provision.
Efficiency in procurement
      The House bill (sec. 2208) allows US agencies operating 
overseas to participate in existing contracts rather than being 
required to let new contracts for services.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 129) is similar.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1208) is identical to the 
House provision.
Training
      The House bill (sec. 2209) allows the Department of State 
to provide training for employees of U.S. companies operating 
overseas on a reimbursable basis. In addition, this section 
allows the Department to provide foreign language training, on 
a reimbursable basis to Members, officials and employees of the 
U.S. Congress.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 151) is similar but allows for 
training of non-executive branch staff members on a 
reimbursable, space available basis.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1205) is identical to the 
Senate provision.
Lease-purchase agreements
      The Senate amendment (sec. 121) provides that when the 
Department of State enters into lease-purchase agreements 
involving property in foreign countries pursuant to section 1 
of the Foreign Service Buildings Act (22 U.S.C. 292), budget 
authority should be assessed on an annual basis over the period 
of the lease in an amount equal to the annual lease payments.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1207) is identical to the 
Senate provision.
U.S. Embassy building in Berlin, Germany
      The Senate amendment (sec. 122) expresses a sense of 
Congress that the Secretary of State should utilize the U.S. 
government property in the vicinity of the Brandenburg Gate in 
Berlin, Germany, as a site to build the U.S. embassy.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the House bill.
Fees for commercial services
      The Senate amendment (sec. 123) allows fees collected for 
commercial services provided to businesses to remain available 
for obligation until expended. This authority will ensure the 
Department does not lose funds collected late in a fiscal year 
and that are not obligated by the end of that year. This 
authority is subject to the availability of appropriations.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1208) is identical to the 
Senate amendment.
Reporting requirements
      The Senate amendment (sec. 124) amends a reporting 
requirement and repeals one reporting requirement.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1209) retains subsection 
(a) to require the Secretary of State to provide a report on 
all leases entered into for the acquisition of real property to 
be submitted within 30 days after the end of each fiscal year 
rather than after the end of each quarter of the fiscal year. 
Subsection (b), the repeal of the reporting requirement under 
503(b) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act (P.L. 95-
426), was enacted in P.L. 104-66 and therefore dropped in the 
substitute.
Administrative expenses
      The Senate amendment (sec. 127) allows funds to be 
available directly to other personnel assigned to bureaus 
charged with carrying out the Migration and Refugee Assistance 
Act of 1962.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the House bill.
Fee for use of diplomatic reception rooms
      The Senate amendment (sec. 128) authorizes the Secretary 
of State to charge a fee for use of the Department of State 
diplomatic reception rooms. Such fees are deposited as an 
offsetting collection to recover the costs of such use and 
should remain available for obligation until expended. This 
authority is subject to the availability of appropriations.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1210) is identical to the 
Senate amendment.
Diplomatic telecommunications service
      The Senate amendment (sec. 131) amends section 507 of the 
Department of State and Related Agencies Appropriations Act 
(P.L. 103-317) to require the Secretary to provide funding for 
the Diplomatic Telecommunications Service to sustain current 
levels of support services for each succeeding fiscal year. 
This amendment further prohibits any reprogramming or transfers 
from such amounts in future years, and specifies the current 
and future makeup of the Diplomatic Telecommunications Service 
Program Office Board.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1215) is identical to the 
Senate amendment.
Diplomatic Telecommunications Service Program Office
      The Senate amendment (sec. 132) designates the officials 
that will comprise the Diplomatic Telecommunications Service 
Policy Board, the management structure, and sets forth the 
responsibilities of the officials on the Board.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the House bill. 
The committee of conference notes that the provision was 
determined not to be necessary given that the agencies have 
made progress toward establishing the management, leadership 
and objectives of this interagency Board. Furthermore, the 
respective committees intend to continue oversight over this 
important activity and urge cooperation and not competition in 
designing the future communications systems for U.S. 
international facilities.
International center reserve funds
      The Senate amendment (sec. 133) amends current law to 
allow the Secretary of State to accrue and retain the interest 
collected on the International Chancery Center reserve account 
to be used to pay for maintenance and security costs, subject 
to the availability of appropriated funds.
      The House bill contains no comparable amendment.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1211) is identical to the 
Senate amendment.
Joint funds under agreements for cooperation in environmental, 
        scientific, cultural and related areas
      The Senate amendment (sec. 134) authorizes the use of 
interest on funds held under bilateral agreements for 
scientific, cultural and technical cooperation to pay the 
administrative and programmatic expenses of the funds, subject 
to appropriations.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1212) is identical to the 
Senate amendment.
Antibribery study
      The Senate amendment (sec. 136) requires the Secretary of 
State, in consultation with other government officials, to 
develop proposals to combat bribery in international business 
transactions.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the House bill.
Budget Act compliance
      The Senate amendment (sec. 137) makes the authorities in 
Senate sections 121, 123, 125, 128, 130, 133, 134, 148, 161, 
and 163 subject appropriations.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the House bill. 
The ``subject to appropriations'' language was added to each of 
the Senate sections listed in the Senate amendment.
Fees for machine readable visas
      The Senate amendment (sec. 163) authorizes the collection 
and retention of fees not to exceed $150 million for each of 
the fiscal years 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999.
      The House bill (sec. 2231) authorizes collection and 
retention of not more than $250 million in fiscal years 1996 
and 1997 to recover the costs of the border security program. 
It also permits all countries to be subject to the fee.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1231) authorizes the 
collection and retention of not more than $150 million for each 
fiscal 1996 and 1997 for the border security program as defined 
in the House provision.
Fingerprint check requirement
      The House bill (sec. 2232) modifies the fingerprint 
requirement for immigrant visa applicants established in Sec. 
505 of P.L. 103-317. The revision requires the fingerprinting 
only of individuals 16 years or older who have at some time 
been in the U.S. and have been determined to have a criminal 
history.
      The Senate amendment contained no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1232) is similar to the 
House bill with drafting changes. This provision is intended to 
modify the current program to be more cost effective and 
efficient by targeting those that would likely have a criminal 
record in the U.S. The committee of conference continues to 
have strong concerns about the cost-benefit of the pilot 
program.
Use of passport processing fees for enhanced passport services
      The House bill (sec. 2233) requires 10% of funds 
generated by the expedited passport fee be dedicated 
exclusively to enhance passport services for U.S. citizens, 
improve efficiency of the issuing process, improve the secure 
nature of the document, investigate passport fraud, and deter 
entry into the U.S. by criminal elements.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1233) is identical to the 
House bill.
Consular officers
      The Senate amendment (sec. 165) permits U.S. citizen 
employees abroad who are not consular officers to perform 
additional consular functions, including the issuance of 
certificates of birth abroad, the authentications of foreign 
documents, the administration of nationality provisions in 
Title III of the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the 
administration of oaths for patent purposes.
      Section 127 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act 
for Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995, as amended by section 
(1)(mm)(2) of P.L. 103-415, authorized the Secretary of State 
to designate U.S. citizen employees abroad, other than consular 
officers, to perform notarial and passport services, thereby 
permitting more effective use of both consular officers and 
non-consular officer employees abroad and creating the 
opportunity to improve service to the public in the face of 
consular officer staffing shortfalls. This provision will 
further improve the efficiency of consular operations abroad.
      The House bill (sec. 2234) is virtually identical.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1234) is identical to the 
Senate amendment.
Fee for diversity immigrant lottery
      The Senate amendment (sec. 161) allows the Secretary of 
State to collect and retain a fee to be paid by each immigrant 
issued a visa under the diversity lottery program. Fees are 
available for obligation until expended, and the authority is 
subject to the availability of appropriations.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1235) is similar to the 
Senate amendment with a change made at the Administration's 
request to clarify that all those who apply for immigrant visas 
based on the diversity lottery selection pay a fee.
Fee for execution of passport applications
      The Senate amendment (sec. 162) permits the Secretary of 
State to authorize the U.S. Postal Service to retain passport 
execution fees directly rather than being sent through the 
Department of State to the U.S. Treasury. This will save the 
Department of State (and the Postal Service) significant 
resources required by the reconciliation procedures connected 
with multiple transfer of these funds.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1236) is identical to the 
Senate amendment.
Children adopted abroad
      The Senate amendment (sec. 164) expedites the processing 
of an adoption of a foreign child by replacing in the 
Immigration and Nationality Act the ``legitimate/illegitimate'' 
distinction with ``wedlock/out of wedlock.''
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the House bill. 
The committee of conference notes this provision was passed in 
P.L. 104-51.
Exclusion from the United States for membership in a terrorist 
        organization
      The Senate amendment (sec. 166) amends the Immigration 
and Nationality Act to deny a U.S. visa to a member of a 
terrorist organization or who actively supports or advocates 
terrorist activity. A terrorist organization is defined as an 
organization that engages in or has engaged in terrorist 
activity as determined by the Attorney General in consultation 
with the Department of State.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1237) is identical to the 
Senate amendment.
Incitement as a basis for exclusion from the United States
      The Senate amendment (sec. 167) amends the Immigration 
and Nationality Act by adding a new ground for exclusion for 
those who have advocated terrorism, incited targeted racial 
vilification, or advocated the death or destruction of U.S. 
citizens, or U.S. government officials, or the overthrow of the 
U.S. government.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1239) is similar to the 
Senate amendment but has been clarified to ensure that it 
comports with its purpose. The Senate provision would have 
required the exclusion of non-U.S. citizens wishing to enter 
the U.S. who have advocated terrorism or engaged in related 
practices. Non-citizens seeking admission to the U.S. have been 
held not to enjoy the full measure of constitutional protection 
afforded citizens and others who are lawfully present in the 
U.S. Nevertheless, in an effort to accommodate concerns about 
the potential scope of the Senate provision, it has been 
narrowed to comport with U.S. Supreme Court cases construing 
the First Amendment.
Visit of the President of the Republic of China on Taiwan
      The Senate Amendment (sec. 168) states that the President 
of the Republic of China on Taiwan shall be admitted to the 
U.S. for a visit in 1995 with all appropriate courtesies.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1708) expresses the sense 
of Congress that the President of the Republic of China on 
Taiwan should be admitted to the U.S. for a visit in 1996 with 
all appropriate courtesies.
Terrorist lookout committees
      The Senate amendment (sec. 169) codifies existing embassy 
visa terrorist lookout committees created under the ``Visas 
Viper Program''. The provision establishes the Deputy Chief of 
Mission as the chair of the committee and requires 
representatives of the embassy's political section, law 
enforcement and intelligence agencies to be members of the 
committee. The purpose of the committee is to overcome the 
serious deficiencies in the current system to preclude known 
terrorists from gaining visas for entry into the U.S. 
Certification procedures and reporting requirements are 
established.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1238) eliminates the 
certification requirements and reduces the reporting 
requirements to two. Within 90 days of enactment, the Secretary 
of State is required to report to Congress on the status of 
establishing the committees at posts around the world. The 
second report, due in April 1997, will evaluate the success of 
the program and the extent of interagency cooperation.
Sense of Congress on border crossing fees
      The Senate amendment (sec. 170) expresses a sense of 
Congress that the U.S. should not impose a border crossing fee 
along the Mexican or Canadian border.
      The House bill had no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1705) retains the sense 
of Congress provision.
      (a) Findings--The committee of conference finds that--
            (1) in the budget of the United States for fiscal 
        year 1996 that was submitted to Congress, the President 
        proposed to impose and collect a border crossing fee 
        for individuals and vehicles entering the United 
        States;
            (2) both the Canadian and Mexican governments have 
        expressed opposition to the imposition and collection 
        of such a fee and have raised the possibility of 
        imposing retaliatory border crossing fees of their own;
            (3) the imposition and collection of such a fee 
        would have adverse effects on tourism and commerce that 
        depend on travel across the borders of the United 
        States;
            (4) the imposition and collection of such a fee 
        would have such effects without addressing illegal 
        immigration in a meaningful way;
            (5) on February 22, 1995, the President modified 
        his proposal making the imposition of the new fees 
        voluntary on United States border States (but tied the 
        availability of Federal funds to improve border 
        crossing infrastructure on their willingness to impose 
        such fees); and
            (6) on May 4, 1995, the President further modified 
        the border crossing fee proposal in immigration control 
        legislation he submitted to Congress setting a $1.50 
        per car and $.75 per pedestrian fee structure.
U.S. Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund
      The House bill (sec. 2251) amends the Migration and 
Refugee Assistance Act (P.L. 87-510) to specify Congressional 
notification requirements for use of funds under the Act. This 
provision requires a 15-day notification to Congress of the 
drawdown of funds from the Emergency Refugee and Migration 
Account. A waiver of this notification is permitted under 
emergency situations.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the Senate 
amendment. The committee of conference remains concerned about 
the Department of State's lack of consultation on the use of 
these funds. We strongly encourage the Department to use the 
emergency funds for the intended purpose and use alternative 
sources of funding when available.
Persecution for resistance to coercive population control methods
      The House bill (sec. 2252) provides that forced abortion, 
forced sterilization or persecution for resistance to such 
measures are ``persecution on account of political opinion'' 
within the meaning of the refugee definition of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act. It is intended to overrule administrative 
law decisions holding that subjection to such measures is not 
ordinarily persecution on account of a political opinion. This 
section reinstates the interpretation of the law that was 
reversed by an Immigration and Naturalization Service order on 
August 5, 1994.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1255) is identical to the 
House bill.
Report to Congress concerning Cuban emigration policies
      The House bill (sec. 2253) requires periodic reports on 
the Cuban government's methods of enforcing its 1994 and 1995 
anti-immigration agreements with the U.S. on treatment of 
persons returned to Cuba under the 1995 agreement and on the 
methods used by the U.S. to monitor such treatment.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 611) is identical.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1251) is identical to the 
House bill.
U.S. policy regarding the involuntary return of refugees
      The House bill (sec. 2254) provides that no funds 
authorized by this Act be used for the involuntary return of 
any person to a country in which he or she has a well-founded 
fear of persecution.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1256) states that no 
funds authorized for refugee and migration assistance be used 
for the involuntary return of any person to a country in which 
he or she has a well-founded fear of persecution. It would not 
prohibit funding for the return of people who had been found to 
be non-refugees by any process genuinely calculated to detect a 
well-founded fear of persecution.
Extension of certain adjudication provisions
      The House bill (sec. 2255) extends the ``Lautenberg 
Amendment'' which identifies certain high-risk refugee 
categories and provides that applicants in these categories are 
presumed to be refugees if they assert both a fear of 
persecution and a credible basis for their fear of persecution. 
This standard is somewhat more generous than the general 
``well-founded fear'' status. The high-risk categories include 
nationals or residents of an independent state of the former 
Soviet Union or Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania who are Jews or 
evangelical Christians, as well as certain Southeast Asians. 
(See the discussion of section 2104 of the House bill, above.) 
The provision would also extend until Oct. 1, 1997 the Attorney 
General's ability to adjust the status of aliens who are 
nationals of an independent state of the former Soviet Union, 
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Vietnam, Laos, or Cambodia and were 
granted parole into the US after August 14, 1988, to the status 
of aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1252) is identical to the 
House bill.
Vietnam POW/MIA Asylum Program
      The House bill (sec. 2256) gives the Attorney General the 
authority to grant asylum to a national of Vietnam, Cambodia, 
or Laos if he presents a live American POW/MIA.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the Senate 
amendment.
Korea POW/MIA Asylum Program
      The House bill (sec. 2257) gives the Attorney General the 
authority to grant asylum to a national of North Korea, South 
Korea, or China if he presents a live American POW/MIA.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the Senate 
amendment.
Coordinator for counterterrorism
      The House bill (sec. 2301) makes permanent the office of 
the Coordinator for Counterterrorism and retains a reporting 
line directly to the Secretary of State.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1301) is identical to the 
House bill, except that subsection (D) is deleted.
Special Envoy for Tibet
      The House bill (sec. 2302) requires the establishment of 
a Special Envoy to Tibet within the State Department. The 
Special Envoy is authorized to promote substantive negotiations 
between the Dalai Lama or his representatives and senior 
members of the Chinese government.
      Through this special envoy, the U.S. demonstrates its 
continued support for His Holiness the Dalai Lama in his quest 
for a peaceful resolution to the situation in Tibet through 
negotiations with the Chinese government.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 608) is virtually identical.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1303) permits the 
Secretary to establish a Special Envoy to Tibet. Following are 
committee of conference findings on this issue.
      Findings.--(1) The Government of the People's Republic of 
China withholds meaningful participation in the government of 
Tibet from Tibetans and has failed to abide by its own 
constitutional guarantee of autonomy for Tibetans.
      (2) The Government of the People's Republic of China is 
responsible for the destruction of much of Tibet's cultural and 
religious heritage since 1959 and continues to threaten the 
survival of Tibetan culture and religion.
      (3) The Government of the People's Republic of China, 
through direct and indirect incentives, has established 
discriminatory development programs which have resulted in an 
overwhelming flow of Chinese immigrants into Tibet, including 
those areas incorporated into the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, 
Yunnan, Gansu, and Quinghai in recent years, and have excluded 
Tibetans from participation in important policy decisions, 
further threatening traditional Tibetan life.
      (4) The Government of the People's Republic of China 
denies Tibetans their fundamental human rights, as reported in 
the Department of State's Country Reports on Human Rights 
Practices for 1995.
      (5) The President and the Congress have determined that 
the promotion of human rights in Tibet and the protection of 
Tibet's religion and culture are important elements in United 
States-China relations and have urged senior members of the 
Government of the People's Republic of China to enter into 
substantive negotiations on these matters with Dalai Lama or 
his representative.
      (6) The Dalai Lama has repeatedly stated his willingness 
to begin substantive negotiations without preconditions.
      (7) The Government of the People's Republic of China has 
failed to respond in a good faith manner by reciprocating a 
willingness to begin negotiations without preconditions, and no 
substantive negotiations have begun.
Responsibilities of bureau charged with migration and refugee 
        assistance
      The House bill (sec. 2303) establishes a Coordinator for 
Human Rights and Refugees within the Office of the Secretary of 
State. It also establishes a statutory bureau of Refugee and 
Migration Assistance.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1304) is designed to 
ensure that the bureau with responsibility for refugee and 
migration assistance be independent of the bureau charged with 
the substantially unrelated responsibility for population 
policy. The Department may, of course, still maintain a 
population office in another bureau as it did prior to 1993.
Elimination of statutory establishment of certain positions of the 
        Department of State.
      The House bill (sec. 2304) eliminates the statutory 
requirements for the Assistant Secretary for South Asia, the 
Assistant Secretary for Oceans, Environment, and Science, and 
the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Burdensharing.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1305) is identical to the 
House bill.
Establishment of an Assistant Secretary of State for Human Resources
      The House bill (sec. 2305) establishes an Assistant 
Secretary for Human Resources and requires that the position be 
occupied by a professional in the field of personnel and human 
resources management.
      The Senate amendment has no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1306) requires that 
either the head or the next most senior person of the bureau or 
office within the Department of State with responsibility for 
human resources and personnel policies shall have substantial 
professional qualifications in the field of human resources. 
This is a modification of the suggestion in the ``State Team'' 
For the Future, Personnel Commission Report of October 1992, 
that strongly recommended that the Department establish an 
Assistant Secretary for Human Resources with proper 
qualifications.
Authority of the Permanent Representative to the United Nations
      The House bill (sec. 2306) clarifies that the U.S. 
Permanent Representative to the United Nations shall be subject 
to the direction of the Secretary of State.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1302) is identical to the 
House bill.
Authorized strength of the Foreign Service
      The House bill (sec. 2351) imposes limits on the number 
of members of the Foreign Service authorized to be employed in 
fiscal years 1996 and 1997 as follows: for the Department of 
State not more than 9,000 in fiscal year 1996 and 8,800 in 
fiscal year 1997, of whom not more than 720 in fiscal year 1996 
and 680 in fiscal year 1997 shall be members of the Senior 
Foreign Service; for the United States Information Agency 
(USIA) not more than 1,150 in fiscal year 1996 and 1,100 for 
fiscal year 1997, of whom not more than 165 in fiscal year 1996 
and 160 in fiscal year 1997 shall be members of the Senior 
Foreign Service; and for the Agency for International 
Development (AID) not more than 1,800 members of the Foreign 
Service in fiscal years 1996 and 1,775 for fiscal year 1997, of 
whom not more than 240 in fiscal year 1996 and 230 in fiscal 
year 1997 shall be members of the Senior Foreign Service.
       The Senate amendment (sec. 141) contains a similar 
provision with overall lower numbers.
       The conference substitute (sec. 1351) sets the end 
strength levels as follows: for the Department of State not 
more than 9,000 in fiscal year 1996 and 8,800 in fiscal year 
1997, of whom not more than 660 in fiscal year 1996 and 660 in 
fiscal year 1997 shall be members of the Senior Foreign 
Service; for the United States Information Agency (USIA) not 
more than 1,150 in fiscal year 1996 and 1,100 for fiscal year 
1997, of whom not more than 160 in fiscal year 1996 and 160 in 
fiscal year 1997 shall be members of the Senior Foreign 
Service; and for the Agency for International Development (AID) 
not more than 1,800 members of the Foreign Service in fiscal 
years 1996 and 1,775 for fiscal year 1997, of whom not more 
than 225 in fiscal year 1996 and 225 in fiscal year 1997 shall 
be members of the Senior Foreign Service.
      The committee of conference notes that this provision was 
included pursuant to a recommendation of the Commission on the 
Foreign Service Personnel System (the ``Thomas Commission''), 
the establishment of which was mandated by the Foreign 
Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989.
Repeal of authority for Senior Foreign Service performance pay
      The House bill (sec. 2352) repeals section 405 of the 
Foreign Service Act that provides for payment of performance 
pay.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 145) requires that Foreign 
Service Officers commissioned by the President receive in all 
instances their regular salaries based on rank and service.
      It also amends section 405 to allow recognition by the 
President even if funds are not available to pay for such an 
award. It requires the Secretary of State to develop and 
implement a plan to identify officers who are ranked by 
promotion boards in the bottom 5% of their class for two years 
and recommend that separation from the Foreign Service. In 
addition, it amends the Foreign Service Act to establish a 
single Foreign Service under the direction of the Director 
General of the Foreign Service. Agencies using the Foreign 
Service Act must conform with common standards set by the 
Director General.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1357) omits the provision 
relating to a single Foreign Service. The section on expedited 
separation out is amended in line with the Administration's 
suggestions to provide that separation be recommended for 
members of the Foreign Service ranked by promotion boards in 
the bottom 5% of their class for any two of the five preceding 
years.
Recovery of costs of health care services
      The House bill (sec. 2353) authorizes the Department of 
State to recover and retain the costs incurred by the 
Department of health care services provided to eligible 
employees and their families. The provision permits the 
recovery and retention of such costs from third-party payers 
and to recover directly from the employee if the employee 
chooses to be uninsured.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 148) is virtually identical.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1355) is identical to the 
House bill.
Restrictions on lobbying activities of former U.S. Chiefs of Mission
      The Senate amendment (sec. 142) amends Title 18 by adding 
the Chief of Mission to the list of executive branch personnel 
who are restricted for one year after they leave the Chief of 
Mission position from representing someone with an interest in 
a matter that is before any officer or employee of the 
Department or agency in which they served.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1352) is identical to the 
Senate amendment.
Foreign service grounding in U.S. business
      The Senate amendment (sec. 143) expresses the sense of 
Congress that the National Foreign Affairs Training Institute 
should increase its emphasis on commercial activity, export 
promotion, and trade in carrying out its core programs and 
should offer additional classes in such subjects.
      The House bill contains no comparable amendment.
      The conference substitute is identical to the House bill.
Foreign affairs administrative support
      The Senate amendment (sec. 144) authorizes the Secretary 
of State to establish a financial system to manage 
reimbursements to the Department from other agencies. The 
President is required to establish an interagency committee for 
the purpose of developing the financial management system.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the House bill.
Limitation on management assignments
      The Senate bill (sec. 146) amends current law dealing 
with the movement of Foreign Service personnel between certain 
American Foreign Service Association positions and management 
jobs. This narrows the definition of ``management official'' by 
exempting Chiefs of Mission and their deputies, administrative 
and personnel officers abroad and other individuals not 
involved in labor-management relations.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1353) is identical to the 
Senate amendment.
Report on promotion and retention of personnel
      The Senate amendment (sec. 147) requires the Inspector 
General to comment biannually on the adequacy of the 
Secretary's annual report on foreign service work force 
planning and personnel policies.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1356) requires the 
Inspector General to comment with respect to the adequacy of 
the reports every other year.
Non-overtime differential pay
      The Senate amendment (sec. 149) allows the Secretary of 
State to substitute another day in lieu of Sunday for purposes 
of Sunday premium pay in countries where the normal workweek 
includes Sunday.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1354) is identical to the 
Senate amendment.
Access to records
      The Senate amendment (sec. 150) allows the Inspector 
General to furnish records or information as requested by the 
Grievance Board only if the IG decides that there is no 
confidentiality requirements which would bar release.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the House bill.
Redesignation of the National Foreign Affairs Training Center
      The Senate amendment (sec. 152) redesignates the National 
Foreign Affairs Training Institute as the National Center for 
Humanities, Education, Languages, and Management Studies.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the House bill.
Extension of the Au Pair Program
      The Senate amendment (sec. 412) provides for a four-year 
extension of the Au Pair Program, lifts restrictions to make 
the program world-wide and requires a one-time report on the 
program.
      The House bill (sec. 2402) provides for a two-year 
extension.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1409) is identical to the 
Senate amendment with the addition of a repeal of section 581 
of the Foreign Operations Appropriations Act (P.L. 104-107) 
which authorized a one-year extension of the Au Pair Program.
Educational and cultural exchanges with Hong Kong
      The House bill (sec. 2403) requires USIA to conduct 
exchange programs with Hong Kong.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the Senate 
amendment.
Conduct of certain educational and cultural exchange programs
      The House bill (sec. 2404) directs USIA to provide 
opportunities for participation in exchange programs for human 
rights and democracy leaders of Asian countries to persons who 
are nationals but not residents of such countries.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1408) is similar to the 
House bill. It is designed to ensure that exchange programs are 
effective in promoting a commitment to human rights, freedom, 
and democracy. In addition to helping future leaders get to 
know the U.S., it is hoped that these programs will also be a 
source of information about the situation in the named 
countries, and will signal to the rulers of those countries 
that in order to obtain American training for their promising 
students, they will have to accept the risk that American 
notions of democracy and open government will be brought home.
Educational and cultural exchange and scholarships for Tibetans and 
        Burmese
      The House bill (sec. 2405) requires USIA to provide 30 
scholarships for Tibetans and 15 scholarships for Burmese. It 
also requires USIA to establish exchange programs for Tibetans 
and Burmese.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1410) is identical to the 
House bill. Having been impoverished by the corrupt 
mismanagement of a military dictatorship that has ruled the 
country since 1962, Burma needs educators, engineers, 
entrepreneurs, environmental and public health specialists--
professionals in virtually all fields. It is anticipated that 
the great majority of Burmese who are now in exile would gladly 
return home if and when conditions in Burma have changed for 
the better. The scholarships provide a way to prepare these 
individuals to play a future role in rebuilding their country.
      This exchange program also targets exiled Tibetans living 
in India and Nepal. Thirty percent of the program's costs are 
met by private organizations. In accepting the scholarship, all 
of the Tibetans agree to return to India or Nepal to work 
toward improving the conditions and future opportunities for 
their fellow refugees.
Availability of VOA and Radio Marti multilingual computer readable text 
        and voice recordings
      The House bill (sec. 2406) permits university level 
linguistic researchers to use VOA and Radio Marti transcripts 
for the purposes of research. This authority sunsets five years 
from date of enactment.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 414) is virtually identical.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1401) is identical to the 
House bill.
Retention of interest
      The House bill (sec. 2407) authorizes grantees of NED to 
deposit their grant money in interest bearing accounts and use 
the interest for the purposes of the grant.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1407) is identical to the 
House bill.
USIA office in Pristina, Kosova
      The House bill (sec. 2408) states that the USIA shall 
seek to establish an office in Pristina.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the Senate 
amendment.
U.S. diplomatic facilities in Kosova
      The Senate amendment (sec. 135) authorizes the Secretary 
of State to establish a diplomatic office and residence in 
Pristina.
      The House bill contains no comparable amendment.
      The conference substitute is identical to the House bill.
Participation in international fairs and expositions
      The Senate amendment (sec. 411) provides that none of the 
funds available in this Act can be used by a government agency 
to participate in an international fair or pavilion in excess 
of amounts authorized to be appropriated.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the House bill. 
The committee of conference notes that the Senate provision 
restated current law.
Expansion of Muskie Fellowship Program
      The Senate amendment (sec. 416) expands the Muskie 
program to include Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, 
Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, and Macedonia. It also 
amends the guidelines for participation by adding to the fields 
of study the following subjects: law, library, and information 
science and public policy to the fields of study of the 
program.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1403) is identical to the 
Senate amendment.
GAO study of duplication among international affairs grantees
      The Senate amendment (sec. 418) requires the GAO to 
report on the purposes and activities of the North/South 
Center, East-West Center, the Asia Foundation, and NED to 
identify the extent to which their activities duplicate 
activities conducted elsewhere in the U.S. government.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the House bill.
GAO study of activities of the North/South Center in support of NAFTA
      The Senate amendment (sec. 419) requires the GAO to 
report on whether the North/South Center used U.S. funds to 
engage in improper lobbying efforts advocating NAFTA.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the House bill.
Mansfield Fellowship Program requirements
      The Senate amendment (sec. 420) allows the Mansfield 
Board to refigure the housing allowance so fellows are placed 
in comparable housing. This is a cost saving measure.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1404) is identical to the 
Senate amendment.
Distribution within the United States of the USIA film ``The Fragile 
        Ring of Life''
      The Senate amendment (sec. 421) waives the Smith-Mundt 
Act which prohibits domestic dissemination of products produced 
by USIA with respect to the film ``The Fragile Ring of Life.''
      The House bill contains no comparable provision. The 
House passed this provision as a separate bill.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1412) is identical to the 
Senate amendment.
Expansion of the Board of Broadcasting Governors
      The House bill (sec. 2431) expands the current 
Broadcasting Board of Governors from 9 to 11.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the Senate 
provision.
Radio Free Asia
      The House bill (sec. 2432) requires the Director of USIA 
to submit a plan to Congress to establish Radio Free Asia 
within 90 days of the enactment of this Act.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 415) contains a similar 
provision with drafting differences.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1411) requires that 
within 180 days of enactment, Radio Free Asia shall initiate 
regular broadcasts to the People's Republic of China, Burma, 
Cambodia, Laos, North Korea, Tibet and Vietnam. The broadcasts 
will be conducted under the name of Radio Free Asia.
      The conferees expect that in considering applications for 
employment, contracts, and similar arrangements in the 
establishment and operation of Radio Free Asia, USIA will give 
strong preference to those which will allow Radio Free Asia to 
(1) take advantage of the expertise of political and religious 
dissidents and pro-democracy and human rights activists from 
within the countries to whom broadcasting is directed, 
including exiles from these countries; and (2) take advantage 
of contracts and similar arrangements with existing broadcast 
facilities so as to provide immediate broadcast coverage with 
low overhead.
Pilot project for freedom broadcasting
      The House bill (sec. 2433) requires USIA to make grants 
for broadcasting to Asian countries. In reviewing the grants, 
USIA is to give preference to organizations with expertise in 
the pro-democracy and human rights movements in Asia.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the Senate 
amendment.
Pilot program on advertising on USIA television and radio
      The Senate amendment (sec. 413) requires the Director of 
USIA to submit a plan within 120 days for a pilot program to 
determine the feasibility of permitting advertising on USIA 
television and radio broadcasts.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1405) is the same as the 
Senate amendment except that the length of the pilot project 
was extended from 6 to 12 months.
Changes in administrative authorities
      The Senate amendment (sec. 417) provides contract 
authority for the Tinian transmitter project; allows the 
authorization of appropriations for USIA to be available until 
March 1, 1997; includes technical amendments to direct that the 
heads of the Cuba Service and TV Marti report directly to the 
Director of the International Broadcasting Bureau; authorizes 
the Director of USIA to appoint up to 15 engineers employed by 
RFE/RL to the competitive service or career Foreign Service of 
USIA, and it authorizes fees to be collected at posts for 
educational advising services.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1406) is the same as the 
Senate amendment except the number of engineers that can be 
appointed is reduced from 15 to 5 upon the recommendation of 
USIA.
International Boundary and Water Commission
      The House bill (sec. 2501) clarifies the authority of the 
U.S. section of the IBWC with regard to the reach of the Rio 
Grande from the Percha Diversion Dam in New Mexico to the 
American Diversion Dam in El Paso, Texas. This provision 
permits the U.S. Section to stabilize the river channel within 
the Rio Grande Canalization Project. This authorization will 
facilitate further compliance with the terms of the Convention 
for Equitable Distribution of the Waters of the Rio Grande, May 
21, 1906, United States-Mexico.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 303) is virtually identical to 
the House bill.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1502) is identical to the 
House bill.
Repeal of authority for participation by the United States in the 
        Interparliamentary Union
      The House bill (sec. 2502) repeals the permanent 
authority for the Congressional participation in the IPU.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 601) repeals U.S. 
participation in several of the interparliamentary groups.
      The conference substitute deletes both provisions.
Termination of U.S. participation in certain international 
        organizations
      The Senate amendment (sec. 313) provides that no funds 
are available for U.S. membership in the following: U.N. 
Industrial Development Organization, the Inter-American Indian 
Institute, the Pan American Railway Congress Association, and 
the Interparliamentary Union.
      The House bill has no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1501) provides that no 
funds are available for U.S. membership in the following: U.N. 
Industrial Development Organization, the Inter-American Indian 
Institute, the Pan American Railway Congress Association, the 
International Cotton Advisory Committee, the World Tourism 
Organization, and the International Tropical Timber 
Organization.
International Criminal Court participation
      The Senate amendment (sec. 311) prohibits the U.S. from 
participating in an international criminal court with 
jurisdiction over crimes of an international character.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1608) includes a 
definition of the term ``participate'' in order to clarify that 
War Crimes Tribunals for specific countries would not be 
affected by this provision.
Prohibition on assistance to international organizations espousing one 
        world government
      The Senate amendment (sec. 312) prohibits the use of 
funds to pay for the U.S. contribution to any international 
organization which engages in direct or indirect promotion of 
the principle or doctrine of one world government or one world 
citizenship, or for the promotion of the principle of one world 
government or one world citizenship.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1503) is identical to the 
Senate amendment.
International covenant on civil and political rights
      The Senate amendment (sec. 314) includes findings and an 
expression of the sense of the Senate that the Human Rights 
Committee should revoke its General Comment No. 24.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1504) is similar to the 
Senate amendment, and includes a restriction that, effective 
two years after the date of enactment, no funds authorized to 
be appropriated by this or any other Act may be obligated or 
expended to report to the U.N. Human Rights Committee 
established by the International Covenant on Civil and 
Political Rights, or to respond to certain inquiries from the 
Committee. This restriction will cease to apply when the 
President certifies to the Congress that the Human Rights 
Committee has revoked its General comment No. 24 and expressly 
recognized the validity as a matter of international law of the 
reservations, understanding, and declarations contained in the 
U.S. instrument of ratification of the Covenant.
      The committee of conference agreed to delay the effective 
date of the restriction for two years in order to afford the 
Human Rights Committee up to one year to reconsider and revoke 
its General Comment No. 24. If by the end of this one-year 
period the Human Rights Committee has not revoked General 
Comment No. 24 and expressly recognized the validity as a 
matter of international law of the reservations, understanding, 
and declarations contained in the U.S. instrument of 
ratification, the committee of conference expects the United 
States to provide notice in accordance with Article 56 of the 
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties of its intention to 
withdraw from the Covenant effective twelve months from the 
date of such notice. Adherence to this procedure will ensure 
that the United States remains in compliance with its 
international legal obligations as understood by the United 
States while at the same time insisting upon the primacy of the 
U.S. Constitution.
U.S participation in single commodity international organizations
      The Senate amendment (sec. 315) requires the Secretary of 
State to report within 180 days of enactment on U.S. interests 
served by participation in single-commodity IO's and to assess 
the feasibility of privatization of U.S. representation in such 
organizations.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1505) is the same as the 
Senate amendment with the added requirement that the report 
assess the current and projected costs of continuing U.S. 
participation in such organizations.
Prohibition on contributions to the International Natural Rubber 
        Organization
      The Senate amendment (sec. 316) prohibits U.S. 
contributions to the International Natural Rubber Organization.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the House 
provision.
Prohibition on contributions to the International Tropical Timber 
        Organization
      The Senate amendment (sec. 317) prohibits U.S. 
contributions to the International Tropical Timber 
Organization.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the Senate 
amendment. This provision has been included in section 1501, 
terminating U.S. participation in certain international 
organizations.
Sense of Congress on the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women in 
        Beijing
      The Senate amendment (sec. 319) is a sense of Congress 
that the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women should promote a 
representative American perspective on issues of equality, 
peace and development and other issues.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the House 
provision.
Reform in budget decisionmaking procedures of the U.N. and its 
        specialized agencies
      The House bill (sec. 2521) extends current law allowing 
the President to withhold 20% of appropriated funds for the 
U.N. or any of its specialized agencies if the U.N. or the 
agency fails to implement consensus-based budget decisionmaking 
procedures. This is to ensure that the U.S. and other major 
contributors to U.N. agency budgets have an appropriate 
influence in the budget decision-making processes of 
international organizations. The President is directed to 
notify Congress of any decisions to withhold our share of an 
assessed contribution to the U.N.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 204) is virtually identical to 
the House bill with minor drafting differences.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1521) is identical to the 
House bill.
Limitation on contributions to the U.N. or U.N. affiliated 
        organizations
      The House bill (sec. 2522) prohibits U.S. contributions 
to the U.N. or affiliated organizations that grant full 
membership to any organization that does not have the 
internationally recognized attributes of statehood.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the Senate 
amendment.
Report on UNICEF
      The House bill (sec. 2523) requires the Secretary of 
State to report on aspects of UNICEF's progress in implementing 
management reforms and ensuring a greater commitment to its 
traditional mission of child health and welfare. It further 
directs UNICEF to resist pressure to become involved in 
activities within the scope of responsibility of other U.N. 
agencies.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1522) is identical to the 
House bill.
U.N. budgetary and management reform
      The House bill (sec. 2524) requires a 20% withholding of 
amounts for assessed contributions to the regular U.N. budget, 
a 50% withholding for assessed contributions to U.N. 
peacekeeping and no voluntary contributions to U.N. 
peacekeeping until the President certifies a series of 
management reforms. Withholding begins in FY 97 and each 
subsequent year. The House bill also requires further 
withholdings unless U.N. procurement reforms are implemented. 
These include the withholding of 10% of the amount of funds 
available for U.S. assessed contributions for the regular U.N. 
budget unless the President certifies that there is timely 
notice of contract awards or opportunities over $100,000. It 
also requires a similar percentage withholding unless there is 
a certification of no discrimination against companies 
challenging contract awards and unless a U.N. contract review 
process is established.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 205) amends the U.N. 
Participation Act of 1945 directing the President to certify, 
to Congress that the U.N. has fully achieved the management 
reforms in the House bill. If the President cannot make such a 
certification, there are similar withholding provisions as in 
the House provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1523) is the same as the 
Senate amendment except that it includes the withholdings of 3% 
of U.S. assessed contributions for the regular U.N. budget 
unless the President makes the U.N. procurement certifications 
in the House bill relating to U.N. procurement opportunities, 
punitive actions on certain contractors and procedures for 
challenging the awarding of U.N. contracts.
Calculations of assessed contributions
      The Senate amendment (sec. 203) expresses the sense of 
Congress that the U.N. General Assembly should reformulate the 
rates of assessment to reflect each member's share of the total 
world GNP.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the House bill.
Whistleblower provision
      The Senate amendment (sec. 206) requires the President to 
withhold 10 percent of fiscal year 1996 assessed contributions 
to the U.N. until the Secretary of State certifies that the 
U.N. has implemented policies to protect adequately employees 
who allege fraud or mismanagement.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the House bill.
Annual report on U.S. contributions to U.N. peacekeeping activities
      The Senate amendment (sec. 211) requires the President to 
submit a report of the budget expected for the next fiscal year 
for all U.N. peacekeeping activities and for U.S. participation 
in all U.N. peacekeeping activities.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1525) is the same as the 
Senate amendment except that the provision requiring a 
statement of the aggregate amount of funds available to the 
U.N. for the upcoming fiscal year is deleted.
Prior congressional notification of security council votes on U.N. 
        peacekeeping activities
      The Senate amendment (sec. 212) requires the President to 
notify Congress 5 days before casting a vote in the Security 
Council authorizing a U.N. peacekeeping operation that would 
involve the use of U.S. forces or funds. The President may 
waive this requirement if he determines that an emergency 
exists. In this case, he must provide notification to Congress 
within 48 hours after the adoption of any such authorization.
       The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1526) is the same as the 
Senate amendment except that the notification requirement is 
deleted in regard to the expenditure of U.S. funds.
Codification of required notice to Congress of proposed U.N. 
        peacekeeping activities
      The Senate amendment (sec. 213) requires the President to 
report monthly in writing on U.S. assistance for United Nations 
peacekeeping operations with regard to facilities, training, 
transportation, communication and logistical support to certain 
Congressional committees.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1527) is identical to the 
Senate amendment.
Limitation on assessment percentage for peacekeeping activities
      The Senate amendment (sec. 214) amends the U.N. 
Participation Act of 1945 to urge the U.N. Permanent 
Representative to work for a review of U.N. peacekeeping 
assessments. As part of this effort, the U.S. Ambassador should 
seek to employ the concept that a greater proportionate share 
of the burden of a peacekeeping operations should fall on the 
host government and other nearby states. It also limits the use 
of appropriated funds for peacekeeping to no more than 25% of 
the total assessed cost of an operation, regardless of any 
penalties or interest charges the U.N. may levy on the U.S. One 
intent of this provision is to discourage the U.N. from any 
attempt to charge member states, including the U.S., a late 
charge or fee for past-due assessments, as some have 
recommended.
       The House bill contains no comparable provision.
       The conference substitute (sec. 1524) is identical to 
the Senate amendment.
Buy America requirement
       The Senate amendment (sec. 215) conditions U.S. payments 
for U.N. peacekeeping on fair treatment of U.S. companies in 
U.N. procurement activities.
       The House bill contains no comparable provision.
       The conference substitute is identical to the House 
bill.
Restrictions on intelligence sharing with the United Nations
      The Senate amendment (sec. 216) requires that before 
sharing U.S. intelligence information with the U.N., the 
President must certify that security procedures have been 
implemented at the U.N. to protect unauthorized disclosure of 
U.S. intelligence sources or methods. The Senate amendment 
specifies that the requirement may be waived upon written 
certification by the President that providing such information 
is in our national interest. It also provides for special 
reports regarding unauthorized disclosure of intelligence to 
the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on 
Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Permanent Select 
Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on International 
Relations of the House of Representatives. It finally provides 
for semi-annual reports to the same committees on the types and 
volumes of intelligence provided to the U.N.
       The House bill contains no comparable provision.
       The conference substitute (sec. 1528) is the same as the 
Senate amendment except that no intelligence may be provided to 
the U.N. unless the President certifies that the U.N. has 
implemented procedures no less stringent than procedures 
maintained by nations with which the U.S. regularly shares 
similar types of information. Periodic and special reports 
shall be provided as well except that the periodic report shall 
be no less frequently than quarterly and it shall be submitted 
to the Select Committee and the Permanent Select Committee with 
an annex containing a counter-intelligence and security 
assessment of the risks providing intelligence to the U.N.
UNPROFOR funding restrictions
      The Senate amendment (sec. 217) states that none of the 
funds authorized by this act may be made available for 
contributions to the U.N. Protection Force unless the President 
certifies and reports to the Congress during the calendar years 
in which the funds are to be provided.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the House bill.
Escalating costs for international peacekeeping
      The Senate amendment (sec. 218) is a sense of Congress 
that the Executive branch should stop obligating funds for 
peacekeeping operations in excess of authorized and 
appropriated funds.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1707) retains the sense 
of Congress provision.
      (a) Findings.--The Congress finds that--
            (1) in fiscal year 1989 the United States provided 
        $29,000,000 to the United Nations for assessed United 
        States contributions for international peacekeeping 
        activities, compared to $485,000,000 paid for combined 
        assessed contributions for all other international 
        organizations, including the United Nations, all United 
        Nations specialized agencies and the Organization for 
        American States and all other pan American 
        international organizations;
            (2) in fiscal year 1994 United States assessed 
        contributions to the United Nations for international 
        peacekeeping activities had grown to $1,072,000,000, 
        compared to $860,000,000 for combined assessed 
        contributions for all other international 
        organizations;
            (3) for fiscal year 1995 the President requested a 
        $672,000,000 United Nations peacekeeping supplemental 
        appropriation which, if approved, would have been a 
        direct increase in the Federal budget deficit and would 
        have brought fiscal year 1995 total appropriations for 
        assessed contributions for United Nations peacekeeping 
        activities to $1,025,000,000;
            (4) for fiscal year 1995 the President also 
        requested supplemental appropriations of $1,900,000,000 
        to cover the Department of Defense's unbudgeted costs 
        for humanitarian and peacekeeping missions in Haiti, 
        Kuwait and Bosnia, which are in addition to regular 
        United States assessed contributions to the United 
        Nations for peacekeeping activities; and
            (5) for fiscal year 1996 the President requested 
        $445,000,000 for assessed contributions to the United 
        Nations for international peacekeeping activities, a 
        funding level most observers believe to be a 
        significant understatement of actual peacekeeping 
        obligations the Administration has committed the United 
        States to support and which, if accurate, would lead to 
        the third year in a row in which the Administration 
        requests supplemental appropriations for assessed 
        contributions to international peacekeeping in excess 
        of $600,000,000 outside of the regular budget process.
Peacekeeping definition
      The Senate amendment (sec. 219) amends the U.N. 
Participation Act of 1945 by adding a definition of 
peacekeeping activities.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the House bill.
Taiwan Relations Act
      The House bill (sec. 2601) amends the Taiwan Relations 
Act to add a new subsection (d) to section 3 of the Act. This 
new subsection reasserts the primacy of sections 3(a) and 3(b) 
of the Taiwan Relations Act with regard to U.S. arms sales to 
Taiwan. Sections 3(a) and 3(b) provide in pertinent part that 
``the U.S. will make available to Taiwan such defense articles 
and defense services in such quantity as may be necessary to 
enable Taiwan to maintain a sufficient self-defense 
capability'', and that ``[t]he President and the Congress shall 
determine the nature and quantity of such defense articles and 
services based solely upon their judgment of the needs of 
Taiwan.''
      The Senate amendment (sec. 605) is virtually identical.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1601) amends the Taiwan 
Relations Act to add a new subsection (d) to section 3 of the 
Act. This new subsection reasserts the primacy of sections 3(a) 
and 3(b) of the Taiwan Relations Act with regard to United 
States arms sales to Taiwan. Sections 3(a) and 3(b) provide in 
pertinent part that ``the United States will make available to 
Taiwan such defense articles and defense services in such 
quantity as may be necessary to enable Taiwan to maintain a 
sufficient self-defense capability'', and that ``[t]he 
President and the Congress shall determine the nature of 
quantity of such defense articles and services based solely 
upon their judgement of the needs of Taiwan.''
      Subsequent to the enactment of the Taiwan Relations Act, 
and without the approval of the Congress, the Executive branch 
issued a ``Joint Communique of the United States and China'' on 
August 17, 1982, which purported to commit the United States 
``to reduce gradually its sales of arms to Taiwan, leading over 
a period of time to a final solution.'' Insofar as this policy 
statement is inconsistent with sections 3(a) and 3(b) of the 
Act, it is contrary to law and cannot be the policy of the 
United States. The new section 3(d) of the Act is intended to 
underscore this fact.
      The new section 3(d) of the Act does not change United 
States law; it reaffirms it. It merely states that the Taiwan 
Relations Act, a law passed by the Congress, has primacy over a 
policy statement issued by the Executive branch. Any policy 
statement which, contrary to sections 3(a) and 3(b) of the Act, 
does not take into account Taiwan's defense needs or the role 
of the Congress and the President in determining such needs is 
invalid as a matter of law.
Reports to Congress on aspects of implementation of the General 
        Framework Agreement
      The House bill (sec. 2602) is a sense of Congress that 
the President should bring to justice persons responsible for 
genocide, war crimes, and other serious violations of 
international human rights law committed in the territory of 
the former Yugoslavia since 1991.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable amendment.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1611) merges two House 
provisions, sec. 2602 Bosnia Genocide Act and sec. 2702 
Territorial Integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This revised 
section provides for periodic reports from the President on the 
military aspects of implementation of the Dayton Agreement, 
including the conduct of United States Armed Forces deployed in 
Bosnia-Herzegovina as part of Operation Joint Endeavor and the 
costs associated with their participation as well as plan for 
the timely withdrawal of U.S. military personnel. In addition, 
the President would report on progress in implementing civilian 
aspects of the Agreement including: preparations for elections 
to be supervised by the Organization for Security and 
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE); steps taken to uphold the right 
of refugees and displaced persons to return home safely and 
regain lost property, or to obtain just compensation (or, where 
return would be unsafe and/or unjust, to be resettled 
elsewhere); progress in international humanitarian and 
reconstruction efforts; and cooperation with the ongoing work 
of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia to 
investigate and prosecute war criminals, as well as efforts of 
the OSCE and other international and non-governmental 
organizations to protect and promote human rights. In addition, 
the section would require regular reporting on efforts by the 
United States and others to address the plight of the ethnic 
Albanian majority in Kosova and steps to establish a USIA 
office in Pristina.
      USIA Office in Pristina: Kosovo's ethnic Albanian 
majority has been, and continues to be, the subject of brutal 
repression involving harassment, detention, and intimidation 
including beatings by police. Nearly half of the region's 
Albanian work-force was summarily fired in 1990 and replaced by 
Serbian workers. Albanian cultural identity remains under 
siege. The suppression of free media continues. Kosovar 
Albanians have felt increasingly isolated, particularly since 
OSCE observers were expelled from the region in 1993. A USIA 
office in Pristina will help to ease the current dire situation 
by disseminating information about the United States; promoting 
discussions on human rights, democracy, rule of law, and 
conflict resolution; facilitating U.S. private sector 
involvement in educational and cultural activities in Kosova; 
and advising the U.S. Government with respect to public opinion 
in Kosova. Opening an office in Pristina will send a strong 
signal to the Albanian population of Kosova that they have not 
been forgotten. The conferees have been informed that plans for 
such an office are underway. The reporting requirement is 
designed to ensure that they are implemented as soon as 
possible.
      Territorial Integrity. The Dayton Peace Agreement on 
Bosnia-Herzegovina commits the signatories to ``conduct their 
relations in accordance with the principles set forth in the 
United Nations Charter, as well as the Helsinki Final Act and 
other documents of the Organization for Security and 
Cooperation in Europe'' (OSCE), including the principle of 
territorial integrity. The House-passed bill, which was adopted 
prior to the Dayton accords, included specific language on 
territorial integrity in recognition of the centrality of this 
principle to the conflict in Bosnia and the implications of its 
violation in the former Yugoslavia and beyond. For nearly four 
years the people of Bosnia-Herzegovina fought, at significant 
disadvantage, to preserve their country in the face of armed 
aggression and genocide. The widespread illegal use of armed 
force in Bosnia-Herzegovina, including the targeting of unarmed 
civilian populations, has had devastating consequences for the 
people of that country. Against that backdrop, any moves to 
recognize the incorporation of any of the territory of Bosnia-
Herzegovina into the territory of any neighboring state or the 
creation of any new state or states within the borders of 
Bosnia-Herzegovina would violate the principle of territorial 
integrity as reflected in the Charter and the Final Act. The 
conferees note the importance attached to this fundamental 
principle in Article 1 of the Dayton Agreement and will closely 
monitor implementation of this provision by all parties to the 
accord.
Expansion of the Commission for Security and Cooperation in Europe
      The House bill (sec. 2603) expands the CSCE by 8 
commissioners, 4 from the House and 4 from the Senate.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable amendment.
      The conference substitute is identical to the Senate 
amendment.
Repeal of the executive branch membership in the Commission for 
        Security and Cooperation in Europe
      The Senate amendment (sec. 602) repeals the membership of 
the three executive branch representatives from the CSCE.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the House bill.
Repeal of termination of provisions of the Nuclear Proliferation 
        Prevention Act of 1994
      The House bill (sec. 2604) repeals a sunset provision in 
P.L. 103-236 thereby making permanent law the Nuclear 
Proliferation Prevention Act. The NPPA establishes a wide 
ranging nuclear non-proliferation sanctions regime similar to 
the Chemical and Biological Weapons and Missile Technology 
Control Regime sanctions laws.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable amendment.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1613) is identical to the 
House with the addition of the repeal of the judicial review 
provisions contained in the original provision. This change 
reflects the concerns of the Administration.
Annual assessment
      The House bill (sec. 2605) requires the Secretary of 
State to provide annually an assessment of the impact of 
foreign policy on the ability of U.S. entities to compete in 
foreign markets.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the Senate 
amendment.
Verification of Missile Technology Control Regime
      The House bill (sec. 2606) requires the Director of the 
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency to transmit a report on the 
capability of the U.S. to verify the Missile Technology Control 
Regime.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1612) is identical to the 
House bill.
Bosnia and Herzegovnia Self-Defense Fund
      The House bill (sec. 2607) provided for terminating the 
U.S. arms embargo against the government of Bosnia and 
Herzegovnia.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 2610) substantially 
revises this provision. Sec. 2610 (a) of the Conference Report 
provides the President with the authority to enter an agreement 
with other eligible countries to establish a fund to assist in 
the self defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The fund may be 
known as the ``Multilateral Bosnia and Herzegovina Self Defense 
Fund.'' The United States contribution to this fund will be 
pursuant to the defense articles and services provided for in 
section 540 of the Foreign Operations and, Export Financing and 
Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1996 (Public Law 104-107). 
In order to maximize the amount of equipment provided under 
this authority, it is the intention of the Conference Committee 
that, as the Administration utilizes the referenced authority 
for the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the price of 
transferred equipment shall not exceed the lowest level at 
which the same or similar equipment has been transferred to any 
other country under any other U.S. government program.
      The Conference Committee notes that credible reports 
indicate that Iranian nationals remain in Bosnia and 
Herzegovina in violation of the Dayton General Framework 
Agreement to end the war in the former Yugoslavia. The 
Committee encourages the Administration to use its continued 
efforts to arm and train the forces of the Federation of Bosnia 
and Herzegovina as leverage to ensure full compliance with the 
expulsion of all disallowed Iranian nationals. The Committee 
further notes that the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina 
should curtail all military and intelligence relations with the 
Government of Iran.
      Section 2610(b) identifies the purpose of the Fund as a 
means to coordinate the procurement of military equipment and 
training for transfer to the Government of Bosnia and 
Herzegovina for the exercise of its right to self-defense under 
Article 51 of the United Nations Charter and to enable the 
Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina to protect its population 
and territory.
      Section 2610(c) requires United States leadership of the 
Fund. This provision is consistent with the text of a December 
12, 1995 letter from President Clinton to the Honorable Robert 
Dole, Republican Leader of the Senate, in which the President 
wrote: ``* * * the United States will take a leadership role in 
coordinating an international effort to ensure that the Bosnian 
Federation receives the assistance necessary to achieve an 
adequate military balance when IFOR leaves. This subsection 
directs the Fund to provide procedures for administering 
donations of military equipment and training, and requires 
written assurance from the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina 
that such donations will not be used to take reprisals against 
civilians.
      Section 2610(d) requires the President to prepare and 
transmit to Congress a detailed report on the Administration's 
plan to assist the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina to 
provide for its own defense.
      Section 2610(e) provides definitions for relevant terms 
in this section.
      Section 2610(f) states unambiguously that nothing in this 
section shall be interpreted as authorization for deployment of 
United States forces in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina 
for any purpose, including training, support, or delivery of 
military equipment.
      Annex 1 of the Dayton General Framework Agreement to end 
the war in the former Yugoslavia addresses the military aspects 
of the peace settlement, including the establishment of a NATO-
led multinational force called the Implementation Force (IFOR). 
This annex also continues the cessation of hostilities 
agreement (as previously agreed by the warring parties on 
October 5, 1995), details a process for the separation of 
belligerent forces within 30 days of signing, establishes a 
process for notification by the parties of the type and 
location of military equipment within their control, and 
outlines the mission of the IFOR.
      Annex 1 includes a second part establishing confidence 
building measures between the parties and laying out a process 
to create a military balance through arms reductions. In the 
event that negotiations do not achieve arms reductions, the 
agreement establishes a process to create military parity based 
on a maximum ratio of heavy weaponry (as defined in the 
agreement) of 5:2:2 for Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia respectively 
(the Bosnian ratio is to be split 2:1 between the Federation 
and Republic of Srpska, respectively). The baseline for 
creating this ratio would be the total amount of heavy weapons 
held by Serbia after a mandatory twenty-five percent reduction.
      The Conference Committee views the arms reduction 
provisions of the Agreement to be a positive feature. The 
Committee is concerned, however, that the Agreement contains 
little detail on how the arms reductions would be implemented, 
nor is there any mention in the Agreement of a plan for arming 
or training the Bosnian government forces should that be 
determined as a preferable option. Regardless of whether arms 
control measures are implemented successfully in the former 
Yugoslavia, the Conference Committee considers the creation of 
a military balance between the Federation of Bosnia and 
Herzegovina and its potential adversaries through the provision 
of military assistance to the Federation as a fundamental step 
in creating the conditions for the successful withdrawal of 
United States forces, serving as part of the Implementation 
Force (IFOR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
      The United Nations arms embargo imposed upon the former 
Yugoslavia in September 1991, and extended without action in 
the United Nations Security Council to the sovereign nation of 
Bosnia and Herzegovina in April 1992, served to enforce an 
imbalance in forces between the Government of Bosnia and 
Herzegovina and its adversaries in the former Yugoslavia. This 
imbalance led to disproportionate losses of civilians and 
soldiers in Bosnia, and prevented the Government of Bosnia and 
Herzegovina from exercising its fundamental right of self-
defense as provided for in Article 51 of the United Nations 
Charter.
      It is the view of the Conference Committee that the 
improved military capabilities of the Bosnian government forces 
was a factor in creating a measure of military stability--and 
an environment for negotiations--which led to signing of the 
Dayton Agreement. The improvement in the military capabilities 
of the Bosnian government forces is, however, still 
insufficient to effectively deter further aggression. By 
creating a real military balance in the region it is the view 
of the Committee that the environment in which negotiations 
took place can be further enhanced to become an environment in 
which a stable peace can occur between the warring parties in 
the former Yugoslavia. The Conference Committee is particularly 
emphatic in its support of this initiative because the creation 
of such an environment is also a critical element of the 
Clinton Administration's pledge to remove United States forces 
from Bosnia and Herzegovina by the end of 1996.
United States-North Korea Agreed Framework
      The House bill (sec. 2641) summarizes the findings of 
Congress regarding the salient features of the Agreed Framework 
and its inadequacies in regard to specific Congressional 
concerns.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1607) merges House bill 
sections 2641, 2642, 2643, 2644, and 2645 into one provision. 
The conference substitute expresses the sense of Congress 
regarding the minimum conditions for participation in the 
Agreed Framework, and lays out conditions under which 
additional progress may occur in U.S.-North Korean bilateral 
relations. Areas where progress is expected before upgrading 
bilateral relations include: 1) dialogue in North-South 
dialogue; 2) progress implementation of the North-South Joint 
declaration on Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula; 3) 
reduction in the number of North Korean military forces along 
the Demilitarized Zone; and, 4) prohibiting deployment of North 
Korean ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction. At 
the Senate's request, a fifth and sixth category of expected 
progress on the part of the North Koreans. These included 
cooperation on the recovery of remains of American MIAs, and 
confirmation that North Korea has ceased its support of 
international terrorism.
      The conference substitute seeks to ensure that any 
assistance provided to North Korea or the Korean Peninsula 
Energy Development Organization (KEDO), regardless of the 
agency or account from which they are derived will be provided 
in accordance with the reprogramming notification procedures 
contained in section 634A of the Foreign Assistance Act.
U.S. policy concerning the dictatorship in Burma
      The House bill (sec. 2651), is a sense of Congress that 
the U.N. Security Council should impose an international arms 
embargo on Burma, affirm human rights, and reduce U.N. 
organizations' presence in Burma, except to the UNDCP.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the Senate 
amendment.
U.S. policy with respect to the involuntary return of persons subjected 
        to torture
      The House bill (secs. 2661, 2662) prohibits the use of 
funds for the involuntary return of any person to a place in 
which he/she is in serious danger of torture. A definition of 
torture is included.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1256) prohibits the use 
of funds authorized by this Act, or funds authorized for 
emergency refugee and migration assistance, to be used for the 
involuntary return of any person to a country in which he or 
she is in serious danger of being subjected to torture. The 
provision will partly implement the international obligations 
of the United States under the Convention Against Torture and 
Other Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
Inter American organizations
      The House bill (sec. 2701) states that the Secretary of 
State should take into account the long-term commitment of the 
U.S. to the affairs of the Western Hemisphere insetting funding 
levels for Inter-American organizations.
      The Senate amendment (sec. 304) is virtually identical.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1706) specifies that the 
Secretary of State should make every effort to pay the full 
U.S. assessment for two Inter-American organizations, the 
Organization of American States and the Pan American Health 
Organization.
Territorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina
      The House bill (sec. 2702) expresses the sense of 
Congress that the U.S. should refuse to recognize the 
incorporation of any of the territory of Bosnia-Herzegovina 
into the territory of a neighboring state.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute refers to sec. 1611.
The Laogai system of political prisons
      The House bill (sec. 2703) expresses a sense of Congress 
that the President should condemn the continued existence of 
the Laogai and calls upon the Government of China to dismantle 
it.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1701) expresses the sense 
of Congress as contained in the House bill.
      (a) Findings--The committee of conference makes the 
following findings:
      (1) The Chinese gulag, known as the Laogai, was created 
as a primary means of political repression and control when the 
Communists assumed power in China in 1949.
      (2) The Laogai has caused millions of people to suffer 
grave human rights abuses over the past 46 years, including 
countless deaths.
      (3) The Laogai continues to be used to incarcerate 
unknown numbers of ordinary citizens for political reasons, 
including workers, students, intellectuals, religious 
believers, and Tibetans.
      (4) So-called ``thought reform'' is a standard practice 
of Laogai officials, and reports of torture are routinely 
received by human rights organizations from Laogai prisoners 
and survivors.
      (5) Negotiations about unfettered access to Laogai 
prisoners between the Chinese Government and the International 
Red Cross have ceased.
      (6) The Laogai is in reality a huge system of forced 
labor camps in which political and penal criminals are slave 
laborers producing an array of products for export throughout 
the world, including the United States.
      (7) The Chinese Government continues to maintain, as part 
of its official propaganda and in defiance of significant 
evidence to the contrary gathered by many human rights 
organizations, that the Laogai is a prison system like any 
other in the world.
      (8) Testimony delivered before the Subcommittee on 
International Operations and Human Rights of the Committee on 
International Relations of the House of Representatives has 
documented human rights abuses in the Laogai which continue to 
this day.
      (9) The American people have repeatedly expressed their 
abhorrence of forced labor camps for persons convicted of 
political crimes, whether they be operated by the Nazis, Soviet 
Communists, or any other political ideology.
Use of funds to further normalize relations with Vietnam
      The House bill (sec. 2704) expresses a sense of Congress 
that funds should not be obligated to further normalize 
relations with Vietnam until the government of Vietnam holds 
free elections, respects human rights and accounts for 
remaining POW/MIA cases.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1214) provides that none 
of the funds authorized to be appropriated under this Act may 
be obligated or expended for costs incurred for opening or 
operating any U.S. diplomatic or consular post in Vietnam that 
was not operating on July 11, 1995, for expanding any U.S. 
diplomatic or consular post in Vietnam that was not operating 
on July 11, 1995, or increasing the total number of personnel 
assigned to the U.S. diplomatic or consular posts in Vietnam 
above the levels existing on July 11, 1995 unless 60 days prior 
to the obligation of funds, the President certifies to Congress 
that based upon all information available to the U.S. 
government that the Government of Vietnam is fully cooperating 
in four areas of POW/MIA investigations and research. This 
substitute is consistent with the provision contained in the 
Commerce, Justice, State and Related Agencies Appropriations 
bill for Fiscal Year 1996.
Declaration of Congress regarding U.S. Government human rights policy 
        toward China
      The House bill (sec. 2705) expresses a sense of Congress 
that the People's Republic of China continues to violate human 
rights, and requires within 90 days, reports on the President's 
successes with his China human rights policy and the status of 
coercive population control programs and on prison labor 
conditions.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1702) is similar to the 
House bill with modifications to update the provision.
Concerning the U.N. Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture
      The House bill (sec. 2706) expresses a sense of Congress 
that the Voluntary Fund should develop and support treatment 
centers for torture victims and that the U.S. should support 
the work of the Special Rapporteur on Torture and the 
Convention Against Torture.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the Senate 
amendment. The committee of conference suggest that the 
President acting through the U.S. Permanent Representative to 
the U.N., should request the U.N. Voluntary Fund for Victims of 
Torture to find new ways to support and protect treatment 
centers that are carrying out rehabilitative services for 
victims of torture.
Recommendations of the President for reform of the War Powers 
        Resolution
      The House bill (sec. 2707) expresses a sense of Congress 
that the President should transmit to Congress recommendations 
for reform of the War Powers Resolution.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the Senate 
amendment.
Conflict in Kashmir
      The House bill (sec. 2708) expresses a sense of Congress 
that the U.S. should reiterate the need for parties to the 
conflict in Kashmir to enter into negotiations.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the Senate 
amendment.
U.S. relations with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
      The House bill (sec. 2709) expresses a sense of Congress 
that the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia should be 
eligible for all U.S. foreign assistance programs.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1703) is identical to the 
House bill.
Displaced persons
      The House bill (sec. 2711) expresses a sense of Congress 
that $20 million of U.N. Development Program funds should be 
used for programs for displaced person within their own 
countries of nationality, in cooperation with the International 
Organization for Migration, the International Committee for the 
Red Cross, and other non-governmental organizations.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1704) is the same as the 
House bill with a technical modification.
Policy toward Iran
      The House bill (sec. 2712) expresses a series of findings 
and Congressional declarations regarding U.S. policy toward 
Iran.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the Senate 
amendment.
Conflict in Chechnya
      The House bill (sec. 2713) expresses a series of findings 
and Congressional declarations urging the President to repeat 
the call to end the war in Chechnya.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the Senate 
amendment. The Committee of Conference still considers this 
provision to be important.
      (a) Findings--The committee of conference finds the 
following:
      (1) Russian troops advanced into Chechnya on December 10, 
1994, and were met with strong resistance from Chechen rebels 
who have now moved to the Caucasus mountains where they are 
engaging in what even the most optimistic Russian military 
officers predict will be a drawn-out guerrilla war.
      (2) The cost of the Chechen battle is estimated to cost 
the Government of Russia at least $2,000,000,000 and could 
exacerbate the budget deficit of the Government of Russia.
      (3) The United States has approved over $2,400,000,000 in 
loan guarantees through the Export-Import Bank of the United 
States and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
      (4) The United States has provided Russia with 
significant direct assistance to promote a free market economy, 
support democracy, meet humanitarian needs, and dismantle 
nuclear weapons.
      (b) Declaration of Policy--The committee of conference 
declares the following:
      (1) United States investment in Russia has been 
significant in promoting democracy and stabilizing the economy 
of Russia and this progress could be imperiled by Russia's 
continued war in Chechnya.
      (2) The inability to negotiate an end to this crisis and 
the resulting economic implications could adversely affect the 
ability of Russia to fulfill its commitments to the 
International Monetary Fund, the Export-Import Bank of the 
United States, and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
      (3) In further contacts with President Yeltsin, it is 
imperative that President Clinton repeat his call for an 
immediate end to the war in Chechnya.
U.S. Delegation to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing
      The House bill (sec. 27l4) expresses a sense of Congress 
that the U.S. delegation to the Fourth World Conference on 
Women, should include a Tibetan representative.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the Senate 
amendment.
Female genital mutilation
      The House bill (sec. 2715) expresses a sense of Congress 
that the President should seek to end the practice of female 
genital mutilation worldwide through the active cooperation and 
participation of governments in countries where female genital 
mutilation takes place.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the Senate 
amendment.
Sense of Congress regarding Syrian occupation of Lebanon
      The House bill (sec. 2716) expresses a sense of Congress 
that the Government of Syria should comply with the Taif 
Agreement and withdraw all of its troops from Lebanon and the 
Secretary of State should report to Congress on the actions the 
U.S. has taken to encourage withdrawal of all Syrian troops 
from Lebanon.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the Senate 
amendment.
Statutory construction
      The Senate amendment (sec. 502) clarifies that the Arms 
Control and Disarmament Agency cannot authorize policies which 
would interfere with the acquisition, possession or use of 
firearms by an individual for the purpose of personal defense, 
sport, education or training.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1605) is identical to the 
Senate amendment.
Payments of Iraq claims
      The Senate amendment (sec. 603) requires the Secretary of 
the Treasury to approve all applications for licenses that meet 
the criteria of section 575.510 of title 31, Code of Federal 
Regulations, even though such applications may have failed to 
meet the requirement that the letter of credit be issued or 
confirmed by a U.S. bank or that the letter of credit 
reimbursement be confirmed by a U.S. bank. Licenses pursuant to 
this section shall be issued within 30 days of the date of 
enactment of this Act.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1614) vests in the 
President all blocked non-diplomatic accounts or assets of the 
Government of Iraq and would direct the President to liquidate 
such accounts not later than 30 days after enactment.
      Upon the vesting of these accounts, the Secretary of the 
Treasury is directed to establish in the Treasury an Iraq 
Claims Fund for payment of private claims or U.S. Government 
claims. The Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United 
States is authorized to determine the validity and amounts of 
private claims and certify to the Treasury the awards made in 
favor of each private claim.
      Not later than two years after the date of enactment, the 
Secretary shall make payment out of the Fund on certified 
private claims according to the proportions which the total 
amount of certified private claims bear to the total amount in 
the Fund that is available for distribution at the time 
payments are made. After payments have been made in full on 
private claims out of the Fund, any funds remaining can be made 
to satisfy U.S. Government claims against the Government of 
Iraq.
      The President is directed to determine the validity of 
government claims which the Secretary of State has determined 
are outside the jurisdiction of the United Nations Commission. 
To the extent that there are enough funds available to satisfy 
these claims, the President is authorized and requested to 
enter into a settlement with the Government of Iraq providing 
payment for these claims.
      The conference substitute embraces the pre-existing 
procedures of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission to 
ensure uniformity of process with previous claim adjudications 
such as Iran and Vietnam.
      Paying private claims first out of blocked Iraqi assets 
recognizes that many U.S. companies cannot wait over six years 
to receive the proceeds from their legitimate commercial 
transactions. When the President freezes assets of hostile 
foreign countries, U.S. exporters and businesses should not be 
forced to shoulder a disproportionate burden of the costs.
      Private American claimants cannot readily negotiate with 
the Government of Iraq for satisfaction of their claims. This 
legislation does nothing to prohibit the United States 
Government from fully collecting on the American taxpayer 
claims through continued negotiations with the Government of 
Iraq or with the United Nations Compensation Commission.
Reports regarding Hong Kong
      The Senate Amendment (sec. 604) amends the Hong Kong 
Policy Act of 1992 (22 U.S.C. 5731) to extend the requirement 
in the Hong Kong Policy Act for the Secretary of State to 
transmit a report on conditions in Hong Kong of interest to the 
U.S. by March 31, 1995 and every year thereafter.
      The provision requires this report to detail information 
on the status of and other developments affecting: 
implementation of the Sino-British Joint Declaration on the 
Question of Hong Kong, including the Basic Law and its 
consistency with the Joint Declaration; the openness and 
fairness of the election of the chief executive and the 
executive's accountability to the legislature; the treatment of 
political parties; the independence of the judiciary and its 
ability to exercise the power of final judgement over Hong Kong 
law; and the Bill of Rights.
      The House bill contains no comparable amendment.
Taipei Representative Office
      The Senate amendment (sec. 606) redesignates the Taipei 
Economic and Cultural Representative Office as the ``Taipei 
Representative Office''.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1603) permits the Taipei 
Economic and Cultural Representative Office to operate under 
the name of the ``Taipei Representative Office''.
Prohibition on the use of funds to facilitate Iraqi refugee admissions 
        into the United States
      The Senate amendment (sec. 609) prohibits funding for 
admission into the U.S. of Iraqi refugees currently residing in 
Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1254) requires a report 
on various aspects of the Iraqi refugee resettlement program. 
The main purpose of the report is to ensure that the 
resettlement of Iraqi refugees from Turkey or Saudi Arabia to 
the United States comports with all applicable immigration and 
refugee laws and policies.
Special envoy for Nagorno-Karabakh
      The Senate amendment (sec. 610) expresses a sense of 
Congress that the President should appoint a special envoy to 
settle the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the House bill.
Efforts against emerging infectious diseases
      The Senate amendment (sec. 612) directs the President to 
develop strategies to combat emerging infectious diseases. It 
requires the submission to Congress of a strategic plan, in 
cooperation with the international public health 
infrastructure, to identify and respond to the threat of 
emerging infectious diseases which pose a danger to the health 
of the people of the U.S.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1604) is identical to the 
Senate amendment except the reporting date is changed to six 
months after enactment.
Report on firms engaged in export of dual-use items
      The Senate amendment (sec. 613) requires the Secretary of 
State to issue a report every 180 days until 1998 discussing 
measures taken to prevent future lapses in the screening 
process and to coordinate government agencies involved in 
exports.
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the House bill.
Middle East Peace Facilitation Act
      The Senate amendment (sec. 615)
      The House bill contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute is identical to the House bill.
Housing Guarantee Program
      The House bill (sec. 3251 & 3252) provides close-down 
funding for the Housing Investment Guarantee Program in 
accordance with GAO's recommendation. Loan losses and 
management problems have plagued this program. Sec. 3252, 
prohibits the issuance of any new guarantees under the HIG 
program after the date of enactment of this bill. Existing 
guarantees which have not been applied to loans are cancelled 
upon enactment of the bill.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1111) includes the two 
above-referenced House provisions that would terminate the AID 
Housing Guarantee Program and impose new penalties to forestall 
defaults on existing guarantees and increase collection on bad 
loans. Under these sections, no new guarantees would be issued. 
Existing guarantees which have not been used would be 
cancelled, except in South Africa. Borrowers which fall into 
arrears on a guaranteed loan will have AID assistance suspended 
until the borrower becomes current on the guaranteed loan, 
whereupon assistance is restored.
      These provisions address the findings by the General 
Accounting Office that the U.S. has paid $542 million to cover 
the failure of 23 foreign governments to make payments on 
guaranteed loans and that another $600 million will have to be 
paid out to cover future defaults on the existing $2.7 billion 
in outstanding guarantees. That is a total projected loss of $1 
billion, or 40 percent. Further, the GAO found that of the $542 
million in claims paid, the U.S. government has failed to 
recover $409 million from the borrowers who failed to make 
payments on guaranteed loans.
Deobligation of certain AID funds
      The House bill (sec. 3286) requires the deobligation of 
certain categories of economic assistance funds which have 
remained unexpended for more than three years after being 
appropriated. Deobligated funds are returned to the Treasury.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1616) is identical to the 
House provision which would de-obligate certain AID funds left 
over from prior years which have remained unspent. Under the 
provision, AID funds remaining unspent after 3 fiscal years 
would be de-obligated and returned to the Treasury. Exceptions 
are incorporated for funds devoted to long-term construction 
projects and projects delayed due to unforeseen circumstances.
      This provision addresses a long-standing recommendation 
by the General Accounting Office that the AID ``pipeline'' be 
curtailed. In 1991 when GAO first made its recommendation, AID 
had $8.8 billion in funds left over from prior years. At the 
end of FY 1995, 5 years later, the amount was $8.5 billion, of 
which approximately $1 billion dated back more than 3 years. 
GAO found that although AID has authority to re-program funds 
when priorities change, AID has made very little use of this 
administrative flexibility. GAO further found that leaving AID 
funds unspent for many years leads to waste.
Limitation on assistance to countries that restrict the transport or 
        delivery of United States humanitarian assistance
      The House bill (sec. 3418) prohibits assistance to any 
country that impedes or prohibits the transport or delivery of 
U.S. humanitarian assistance. The ban on U.S. aid to countries 
impeding delivery of U.S. humanitarian aid to third countries 
would be waived if the President issued Congress a waiver 
stating the continued aid would be in the U.S. national 
security interest.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1617) is identical to the 
House bill.
Industrial park for Gaza or the West Bank
      The conference substitute (sec. 1710) requires the 
President to report to the Appropriate Congressional Committees 
not later than 180 days after enactment of this bill detailing 
all actions taken by the U.S. government to establish an 
industrial park in Gaza or the West Bank and identifying all 
U.S. government funds intended for the development of such an 
industrial park.
      The Congress finds that (1) extremists in Hamas and 
Islamic Jihad who reject the gains made since the signing of 
the Declaration of Principles have used terrorist tactics to 
force the closing of the territories; (2) these terrorists acts 
have exacerbated existing problems in Gaza is now experiencing 
staggering unemployment nearing fifty percent, increasing chaos 
and a downward spiral of dashed hopes and deepening poverty; 
(3) Israel's legitimate security concerns necessitate creative 
new methods of ensuring continued economic opportunity for the 
Palestinians; and (4) the development of industrial parks along 
the border between Gaza, the West Bank and Israel sponsored by 
individual nations provides an important means of providing 
both development for Palestinians while maintaining border 
security.
International Fund for Ireland
      The House bill (sec. 3204) provided a funding cap from 
Economic Support Funds of $29.6 million in FY 1996 and $19.6 
million in FY 1997 for the U.S. contribution to the 
International Fund for Ireland (IFI). The amounts made 
available are authorized to remain available until expended.
      The House section also amended the Anglo-Irish Agreement 
Support Act of 1986 (P.L. 99-415) to require that U.S. 
contributions ``shall'' be used in a manner that effectively 
increases employment opportunities in communities with rates of 
unemployment ``significantly'' higher than the local or urban 
average of unemployment in Northern Ireland (defined as the 
counties of Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Down, Tyrone, and 
Fermanagh).
      Under this section funding could be provided by the IFI 
only if individuals or entities receiving such funds are in 
compliance with the ``principles of economic justice.'' The 
principles of economic justice are defined as the ``MacBride 
Principles'' as modified, include:
            (1) Increasing the representation of individuals, 
        from underrepresented religious groups in the 
        workforce, including managerial, supervisory, 
        administrative, clerical, and technical jobs,
            (2) Providing adequate security for the protection 
        of minority employees at the workplace,
            (3) Banning provocative sectarian or political 
        emblems from the workplace,
            (4) Providing that all job openings be advertised 
        publicly and providing that special recruitment efforts 
        be made to attract applicants from underrepresented 
        religious groups,
            (5) Providing that layoff, recall and termination 
        procedures do not favor a particular religious group,
            (6) Abolishing job reservations, apprenticeship 
        restrictions and differential employment criteria which 
        discriminate on the basis of religion,
            (7) Providing for the development of training 
        programs that will prepare substantial numbers of 
        minority employees for skilled jobs, including the 
        expansion of existing programs and the creation of new 
        programs to train, upgrade and improve the skills of 
        minority employees,
            (8) Establishing procedures to assess, identify and 
        actively recruit minority employees with the potential 
        for further advancement, and
            (9) Proving for the appointment of a senior 
        management staff member to be responsible for the 
        employment efforts of the entity and, within a 
        reasonable period of time, the implementation of the 
        principles described above.
      The Senate amendment contains no comparable provision.
      The conference substitute (sec. 1615) reduces the funding 
cap from $29.6 million to $19.6 million for fiscal year 1996. 
The committee of conference also inserted ``should'' for 
``shall'' in the Anglo-Irish Agreement Act amendment to provide 
the Administration with more discretion in implementing this 
section. The term significantly was determined to be redundant 
and was deleted from the referenced areas of high unemployment.
      The section also includes the principles of economic 
justice to insure that these principles should be applied by 
those individuals or entities who receive any portion of the 
U.S. contribution to the International Fund for Ireland.
      In addition a new provision was added to insure nothing 
shall require quotas or reverse discrimination, which is 
consistent with the intent and purpose of the MacBride 
principles.
Republic of China Taiwan participation in GATT and WTO
      The committee of conference (sec. 1709) agreed to this 
provision (sec. 2709) expressing a sense of Congress on The 
Republic of Taiwan's membership in the General Agreement on 
Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization.

                                   Benjamin A. Gilman,
                                   Bill Goodling,
                                   Henry J. Hyde,
                                   Toby Roth,
                                   Doug Bereuter,
                                   Christopher H. Smith,
                                   Dan Burton,
                                   Ileana Ros-Lehtinen,
                                 Managers on the Part of the House.

                                   Jesse Helms,
                                   Olympia Snowe,
                                   Hank Brown,
                                   Paul Coverdell,
                                   John Ashcroft,
                                Managers on the Part of the Senate.

                                
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