Sec. 512. Use of locally employed staff serving at a United States diplomatic facility in Cuba
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Except as provided in paragraph (2), not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall ensure that each key supervisory position at a United States diplomatic facility in Cuba is occupied by a citizen of the United States. The Secretary of State may extend the deadline to carry out paragraph
(1)by not more than one year if the Secretary submits to the appropriate congressional committees written notification and justification of such extension before making such extension. Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in coordination with the heads of other appropriate departments or agencies of the Federal Government, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on— the progress made by the Secretary with respect to carrying out subsection (a)(1); and the use of locally employed staff in United States diplomatic facilities, including— the number of such staff; the responsibilities of such staff; the manner in which such staff are selected, including efforts to mitigate counterintelligence threats to the United States; and the potential cost and effect on the operational capacity of the diplomatic facility if the number of such staff was reduced. In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the congressional intelligence committees; the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.