Sec. 5. Report and certification with respect to Saudi diplomats and diplomatic facilities in the United States
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Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State and the Director of National Intelligence shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report covering the three year period before such date regarding whether and to what extent covered persons used diplomatic credentials or covered facilities to monitor, track, surveil, harass, or harm other Saudi nationals living in the United States. Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act and annually thereafter for five years, the Secretary of State shall, if the Secretary determines that such is the case, submit to the appropriate congressional committees a certification that covered persons are not using diplomatic credentials or covered facilities to monitor, track, surveil, harass, or harm Saudi nationals living in the United States during the time period covered by each such certification.
If the Secretary of State does not submit a certification under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall— close one or more covered facilities for such period of time until the Secretary does submit such a certification; and submit to the appropriate congressional committee a report that contains— a detailed explanation of why the Secretary is unable to make such a certification; and an identification of the locations of the covered facilities referred to in subparagraph (A). Each report required by subsection
(a)and the certification and report required by subsection
(b)shall be submitted in unclassified form but may contain a classified annex. In this section: The term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives; and the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate. The term covered facility means a diplomatic or consular facility of Saudi Arabia in the United States. The term covered person means a Saudi national credentialed to a covered facility.