Sec. 301. Non-state actor designations
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The President shall, concurrent with the annual foreign country review required under section 402(b)(1) of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 ( 22 U.S.C. 6442(b)(1) )— review and identify any non-state actors operating in any such reviewed country or surrounding region that have engaged in particularly severe violations of religious freedom; and designate, in a manner consistent with such Act, each such non-state actor as an entity of particular concern for religious freedom. Whenever the President designates a non-state actor under subsection
(a)as an entity of particular concern for religious freedom, the President shall, as soon as practicable after the designation is made, submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report detailing the reasons for such designation. The President should take specific actions to address severe violations of religious freedom of non-state actors that are designated under subsection (a), including taking actions commensurate to those actions described in section 405 of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 ( 22 U.S.C. 6445 ). The Secretary of State should include information detailing the reasons the President designated a non-state actor as an entity of particular concern for religious freedom under subsection
(a)in the Annual Report required in section 102(b)(1) of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 ( 22 U.S.C. 6442(b)(1) ). It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of State should work with Congress to create new political, financial, and diplomatic tools to address severe violations of religious freedom by non-state actors and to update the actions the President can take in section 405 of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. In order to appropriately target Presidential actions under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 in response, the President shall with respect to each non-state actor designated as an entity of particular concern for religious freedom under subsection (a), seek to determine the specific officials or members thereof that are responsible for the particularly severe violations of religious freedom engaged in or tolerated by that entity. In this section, the terms appropriate congressional committees , non-state actor , and particularly severe violations of religious freedom have the meanings given such terms in section 3 of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 ( 22 U.S.C. 6402 ), as amended by section 3 of this Act.
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