As reported by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on May 7, 2024
By Fiscal Year, Millions of Dollars
2024
2024-2029
2024-2034
Direct Spending (Outlays)
0
*
*
Revenues
0
*
*
Increase or Decrease (-) in the Deficit
0
*
*
Spending Subject to Appropriation (Outlays)
*
2
not estimated
Increases net direct spending in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2035?
< $2.5 billion
Statutory pay-as-you-go procedures apply?
Yes
Mandate Effects
Increases on-budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2035?
No
Contains intergovernmental mandate?
No
Contains private-sector mandate?
No
* = between -$500,000 and $500,000.
Summary
S. 3854 would make several changes to federal programs to monitor and prevent transnational repression and public corruption in foreign countries. The bill defines transnational repression as attempts by foreign governments to harass, intimidate, coerce, silence, or harm individuals located outside their territories to prevent them from exercising their human rights.
Specifically, the bill would:
Encourage the Administration to consider a foreign person’s involvement in transnational repression as a factor in imposing sanctions;
Authorize the department to offer rewards for information about assets stolen by corrupt foreign governments;
Require the Department of State to develop and provide training on transnational repression to its own staff and to other federal employees; and
Require the department to report to the Congress on its efforts to monitor and prevent transnational repression and on related matters.
