Sec. 512. Replacement of locally employed staff serving at United States diplomatic facilities in Cuba
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Except as provided under paragraph (2), the Secretary of State shall ensure that, not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, every supervisory position at a United States diplomatic facility in Cuba is occupied by a citizen of the United States who has been subjected to, and has passed, a thorough background check. The Secretary of State may extend the deadline under paragraph
(1)for up to 1 year by providing advance written notification and justification of such extension to the appropriate congressional committees. Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees that describes the progress made toward meeting the requirement under paragraph (1). Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in coordination with other appropriate Federal agencies, shall submit a plan to the appropriate congressional committees for reducing the reliance on locally employed staff in United States diplomatic facilities in Cuba that includes cost estimates, timelines, and numbers of employees to be replaced. 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 .