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22 U.S.C. § 6434 — Report of Commission
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**(a) In general** Not later than May 1 of each year, the Commission shall submit a report to the President, the Secretary of State, and Congress setting forth its recommendations for United States policy options based on its evaluations under [section 6432 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section6432&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Classified form of report** The report may be submitted in classified form, together with a public summary of recommendations, if the classification of information would further the purposes of this chapter.
**(c) Individual or dissenting views** Each member of the Commission may include the individual or dissenting views of the member.
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**(a) In general** Not later than May 1 of each year, the Commission shall submit a report to the President, the Secretary of State, and Congress setting forth its recommendations for United States policy options based on its evaluations under [section 6432 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section6432&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Classified form of report** The report may be submitted in classified form, together with a public summary of recommendations, if the classification of information would further the purposes of this chapter.
**(c) Individual or dissenting views** Each member of the Commission may include the individual or dissenting views of the member.
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**(a) Finding** Congress recognizes the enduring importance of United States institutions of higher education worldwide—
(1) for their potential for shaping positive leadership and new educational models in host countries; and
(2) for their emphasis on teaching universally recognized rights of free inquiry and academic freedom.
**(b) Sense of Congress** It is the sense of Congress that United States institutions of higher education operating campuses outside the United States or establishing any educational entities with foreign governments, particularly with or in countries the governments of which engage in or tolerate severe violations of religious freedom as identified in the Annual Report, should seek to adopt a voluntary code of conduct for operating in such countries that should—
(1) uphold the right of freedom of religion of their employees and students, including the right to manifest that religion peacefully as protected in international law;
(2) ensure that the religious views and peaceful practice of religion in no way affect, or be allowed to affect, the status of a worker’s or faculty member’s employment or a student’s enrollment; and
(3) make every effort in all negotiations, contracts, or memoranda of understanding engaged in or constructed with a foreign government to protect academic freedom and the rights enshrined in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.
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**(a) Sense of Congress** To encourage involvement with religious freedom concerns at every possible opportunity and by all appropriate representatives of the United States Government, it is the sense of the Congress that officials of the executive branch of Government should promote increased advocacy on such issues during meetings between foreign dignitaries and executive branch officials or Members of Congress.
**(b) Prisoner lists and issue briefs on religious freedom concerns** The Secretary of State, in consultation with the Ambassador at Large, the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, United States chiefs of mission abroad, regional experts, and nongovernmental human rights and religious groups, shall prepare and maintain issue briefs on religious freedom, on a country-by-country basis, consisting of lists of persons believed to be imprisoned, detained, or placed under house arrest for their religious activities, religious freedom advocacy, or efforts to protect and advance the universally recognized right to the freedom of religion, together with brief evaluations and critiques of the policies of the respective country restricting religious freedom. In considering the inclusion of names of prisoners on such lists, the Secretary of State shall exercise appropriate discretion, including concerns regarding the safety, security, and benefit to such prisoners.
**(c) Availability of information** The Secretary shall make available religious freedom issue briefs under subsection (b) to executive branch officials and Members of Congress in anticipation of bilateral contacts with foreign leaders, both in the United States and abroad.
**(d) Victims list maintained by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom**
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**(a) Definitions** In this section:
(1) **Appropriate congressional committees** — The term “appropriate congressional committees” means—
(A) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate;
(B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives;
(C) the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and
(D) the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.
(2) **Commission** — The term “Commission” means the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom established under [section 6431 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section6431&num=0&edition=prelim).
(3) **Commissioner** — The term “Commissioner” means a member of the Commission.
(4) **Vice Chair** — The term “Vice Chair” means the Vice Chair of the Commission who was appointed to such position by an elected official from the political party that is different from the political party of the elected official who appointed the Chair of the Commission.
**(b) Strategic policy and organizational review planning process** Not later than 60 days after October 16, 2015, and not less frequently than biennially thereafter, the Chair and Vice Chair of the Commission, in coordination with the Commissioners, the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, Commission staff, and others jointly selected by the Chair and Vice Chair, shall carry out a strategic policy and organizational review planning process that includes—
(1) a review of the duties set forth in [section 6432 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section6432&num=0&edition=prelim) and the powers set forth in [section 6432a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-titl
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**(a) In general** The Commission may, without regard to the civil service laws and regulations, appoint and terminate an Executive Director and such other additional personnel as may be necessary to enable the Commission to perform its duties. The decision to employ or terminate an Executive Director shall be made by an affirmative vote of at least six of the nine members of the Commission.
**(b) Compensation** The Commission may provide reasonable compensation to the Executive Director without regard to the provisions of chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5 relating to classification of positions and General Schedule pay rates, except that the rate of pay for the Executive Director may not exceed the rate payable under level II of the Executive Schedule under section 5313 of such title. The rate of pay for other personnel of the Commission may not exceed the rate payable for level IV of the Executive Schedule under section 5315 of such title. All employees of the Commission shall otherwise be treated as employees whose pay is disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate, including for purposes of applying the Standing Rules of the Senate. The Commission shall be treated as an employing office of the Senate.
**(c) Professional staff** The Commission and the Executive Director shall hire Commission staff on the basis of professional and nonpartisan qualifications. Commissioners may not individually hire staff of the Commission. Staff shall serve the Commission as a whole and may not be assigned to the particular service of a single Commissioner or a specified group of Commissioners. This subsection does not prohibit staff personnel from assisting individual members of the Commission with particular needs related to their duties.
**(d) Staff and services
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TITLE 22—FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
§ 6434
(1) make available for inspection any infor-
mation and documents requested by the appro-
priate congressional committees; and
(2) respond to any requests to provide testi-
mony before the appropriate congressional
committees.
(Pub. L. 114–71, § 4, Oct. 16, 2015, 129 Stat. 563;
Pub. L. 116–94, div. J, title VIII, § 807, Dec. 20,
2019, 133 Stat. 3079.)
Editorial Notes
REFERENCES IN TEXT
December 20, 2019, referred to in subsec. (d), was in
the original ‘‘the date of the enactment of this Act’’,
and was translated as referring to the date of enact-
ment of Pub. L. 116–94, which amended subsec. (d), to
reflect the probable intent of Congress. See 2019
Amendment note below.
CODIFICATION
Section was enacted as part of the United States
Commission on International Religious Freedom Reau-
thorization Act of 2015, and not as part of the Inter-
national Religious Freedom Act of 1998 which com-
prises this chapter.
AMENDMENTS
2019—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 116–94, in introductory pro-
visions, substituted ‘‘Not later than 180 days after De-
cember 20, 2019, and every 2 years thereafter’’ for ‘‘Not
later than 180 days after October 16, 2015, and not less
frequently than biennially thereafter’’.
§ 6434. Applicability of other laws
Chapter 10 of title 5 shall not apply to the
Commission.
(Pub. L. 105–292, title II, § 206, formerly § 204, Oct.
27, 1998, 112 Stat. 2799; renumbered § 206, Pub. L.
106–55, § 1(b)(2), Aug. 17, 1999, 113 Stat. 401; Pub.
L. 117–286, § 4(a)(172), Dec. 27, 2022, 136 Stat. 4324.)
Editorial Notes
PRIOR PROVISIONS
A prior section 206 of Pub. L. 105–292 was renumbered
section 209 and is classified to section 6436 of this title.
AMENDMENTS
2022—Pub. L. 117–286 substituted ‘‘Chapte
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