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Code · BILL · 118th Congress · H.R. 4388 (Introduced in House) — To amend the Robert Levinson Hostage Recovery and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act to require the Secretary of State... · Sec. 2

Sec. 2. Amendment to Robert Levinson Hostage Recovery and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act

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Section 302 of the Robert Levinson Hostage Recovery and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act ( 22 U.S.C. 1741 ) is amended— by redesignating subsections
(c)and
(d)as subsections
(e)and (f), respectively; and by inserting after subsection
(b)the following: If, within 180 days of the initiation of any review of a case of a United States national detained abroad under subsection (a), the Secretary of State— has not made a determination with respect to the detention of the individual, the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees copies of all documents and communications described in paragraph
(2)relating to the review of the criteria described in subsection
(a)with respect to the detention of the individual; or has made a determination that there is not credible information that the individual is being detained unlawfully or wrongfully, the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees— copies of all documents and communications described in paragraph
(2)relating to the review of the criteria described in subsection
(a)with respect to the detention of the individual; and copies of all documents providing a justification for the determination. The documents and communications described in this paragraph are documents, memoranda, advisory legal opinions, audio recordings (including telephone records), correspondence (including electronic mail records), and other communications, or any portion of any such communications. The information required by paragraph
(1)shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a classified annex. .
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