22 U.S.C. § 2734e — Annual Report
submitted 5 years ago by Pub. L. 117-81 to r/title-22-FOREIGN-RELATIONS-AND-INTERCOURSE · 240 words · no verdicts yet
Beginning 90 days after December 27, 2021, and every year afterward, the Secretary must report to specified congressional committees about assignment restrictions. The report must explain their purpose, scope, criteria, appeals, language-skill effects, and adjudicator and investigator diversity.
The Secretary must report within 90 days after December 27, 2021, and annually thereafter to the specified House and Senate committees: (1) why the Department uses assignment restrictions, including case studies showing country restrictions add a counterintelligence function beyond security-clearance review; (2) the prior year’s number of affected employees, broken down by (A) Foreign Service officer, civil-service employee, eligible family member, or other status, (B) ethnicity, national origin, and race, (C) gender, and (D) restricted country; (3) the Diplomatic Security Bureau’s considerations and criteria for deciding whether a restriction is warranted; (4) the number of appeals and their success rate; (5) the effect of restrictions in unused language skills, measured by Foreign Service Institute scores; and (6) steps to ensure diverse adjudicators and contract investigators, with results data.
Not later than 90 days after December 27, 2021, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of State shall submit to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate a report that contains the following:
A rationale for the use of assignment restrictions by the Department of State, including specific case studies related to cleared United States Foreign Service and civil service employees of the Department that demonstrate country-specific restrictions serve a counterintelligence role beyond that which is already covered by the security clearance process.
The number of such Department employees subject to assignment restrictions over the previous year, with data disaggregated by—
identification as a Foreign Service officer, civil service employee, eligible family member, or other employment status;
the ethnicity, national origin, and race of the precluded employee;
gender; and
the country of restriction.
A description of the considerations and criteria used by the Bureau of Diplomatic Security to determine whether an assignment restriction is warranted.
The number of restrictions that were appealed and the success rate of such appeals.
The impact of assignment restrictions in terms of unused language skills as measured by Foreign Service Institute language scores of such precluded employees.
Measures taken to ensure the diversity of adjudicators and contracted investigators, with accompanying data on results.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 117–81, div. E, title LIII, § 5311(d), Dec. 27, 2021, 135 Stat. 2364.)
- 2021Enacted · Pub. L. 117-81 · 135 Stat. 2364
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