Sec. 10. Senior Director for Global Religion Engagement and International Religious Freedom Promotion; Interagency Policy Committees
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Section 101 of the National Security Act of 1947 ( 50 U.S.C. 3021 ) is amended— in subsection (k)— in the first sentence, by striking It is the sense of that there should be and inserting The President shall appoint ; and by striking Special Adviser to the President on International Religious Freedom and inserting Senior Director for Global Religion Engagement and International Religious Freedom Promotion ; and by striking the second and third sentences and inserting the following:
The Senior Director, shall develop and coordinate religious freedom policies and religion engagement strategies throughout the Executive Branch, serve as a resource for executive branch officials, compile and maintain information on the facts and circumstances of violations of religious freedom, assist in coordinating all programs, projects, and activities of the United States to promote religious freedom and religious engagement outside the United States, and make policy recommendations relevant to the programs, projects, activities of the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State, the Department of the Treasury, and the United States Agency for International Development, and carry out all other applicable duties, responsibilities, and coordination activities enumerated in the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998.
The Senior Director shall serve as liaison with the Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom and the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom described in the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, Congress, religious and nongovernmental organizations, and, as appropriate, Cabinet-level agencies. ; and by adding at the end, the following new subsections: There is established within the National Security Council a permanent interagency policy committee to be known as the Interagency Policy Committee on Religious Freedom and Engagement (in this subsection referred to as the Committee ).
The Committee shall be co-chaired by the Senior Director for Global Religion Engagement and International Religious Freedom Promotion and the Ambassador at Large for Religious Freedom described in section 101 of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. The Committee shall develop a religion engagement strategy globally and coordinate international religious freedom policy across the Executive Branch. There is established within the National Security Council a permanent interagency policy committee to be known as the Interagency Policy Committee on Religion, Human Rights, and National Security (in this subsection referred to as the Committee ).
The Committee shall be chaired by the Deputy National Security Advisor, the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, and the Ambassador at Large for Religious Freedom described in section 101 of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. The Committee shall coordinate policy on the intersection of religion, human rights, and United States interests in preventing terrorism, countering violent extremism, and mitigating and preventing conflict. .
Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall promulgate regulations to carry out subsections (k), (m), and
(n)of section 101 of the National Security Act of 1947 as amended by subsection
(a)of this section.
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