22 U.S.C. § 290q — Organization of American States revitalization and reform strategy

(a) Strategy: (1) In general: Within 180 days of October 2, 2013, the Secretary of State must send the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee a multiyear strategy that: (A) lays out a path toward reforms that make the OAS focus on its core jobs; (B) explains how to get the OAS to adopt a results-based budgeting process — one that prioritizes and, where it makes sense, cuts current and future tasks — and transparent rules for hiring, firing, and promoting staff; (C) reflects input and coordination from other parts of the executive branch, as appropriate; and (D) lays out a path toward reforms that would (i) cap any single member country's share of the OAS's yearly dues at 50 percent, and (ii) try to limit the financial harm this causes the OAS and its work. (2) Policy priorities and coordination: The Secretary of State must (A) do diplomatic work to build support among OAS member countries and observers for these reforms and for sharing the funding burden, and (B) encourage OAS member countries to coordinate as donors. (b) Briefings: The Secretary of State must offer the same congressional committees a briefing every quarter that (1) reviews required and voluntary payments made to the OAS; (2) looks at the OAS's progress adopting results-based budgeting to prioritize and, where appropriate, cut tasks; (3) looks at the OAS's progress adopting transparent, merit-based hiring, firing, and promotion practices, including how they treat factors like gender and national origin; (4) looks at the OAS's progress getting member countries to pay their dues on a schedule that makes its budget more predictable; and (5) looks at the OAS's progress reviewing, streamlining, and prioritizing its tasks to focus on its core mission and use its funding efficiently.