Sec. 212. AMENDMENTS TO THE CHILD SOLDIERS PREVENTION ACT OF 2008
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## SEC. 212 AMENDMENTS TO THE CHILD SOLDIERS PREVENTION ACT OF 2008 ###
(a)Definitions Section 402(2) of the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008 (22 U.S.C. 2370c(2)) is amended— ####
(1)in subparagraph (A), by inserting “, police, or other security forces” after “governmental armed forces” each place such term appears; and ####
(2)in subparagraph (B), by striking “clauses” and inserting “clause”. ###
(b)Prohibition Section 404 of the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008 (22 U.S.C. 2370c-1) is amended— ####
(1)in subsection (a)— #####
(A)by inserting “, police, or other security forces,” after “governmental armed forces”; and #####
(B)by striking “recruit and use child soldiers” and inserting “recruit or use child soldiers”; ####
(2)in subsection (b), by amending paragraph
(2)to read as follows: > > #### “(2) Notification > > > ##### “(A) In general > > Not later than 45 days after the date on which each report is submitted under section 110(b) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7107(b)), the Secretary of State shall formally notify each government included in the list under paragraph
(1)that such government is included in such list. > > > ##### “(B) Congressional notification > > As soon as practicable after making all of the notifications required under subparagraph
(A)with respect to a report, the Secretary of State shall notify the appropriate congressional committees that the requirements of subparagraph
(A)have been met.” > ; ####
(3)in subsection (c)(1), by inserting before the period at the end the following: “and certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that the government of such country is taking effective and continuing steps to address the problem of child soldiers”; and ####
(4)in subsection (e)(1), in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking “to a country” and all that follows through “subsection (a)” and inserting “under section 541 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2347) through the Defense Institute for International Legal Studies or the Center for Civil-Military Relations at the Naval Post-Graduate School, and may provide nonlethal supplies (as defined in section 2557(d)(1)(B) of title 10, United States Code), to a country subject to the prohibition under subsection (a)”. ###
(c)Reports Section 405 of the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008 (22 U.S.C. 2370c-2) is amended— ####
(1)in subsection (c)— #####
(A)in the matter preceding paragraph (1)— ######
(i)by striking “, during any of the 5 years following the date of the enactment of this Act,”; and ######
(ii)by striking “wavier” and inserting “waiver”; #####
(B)by redesignating paragraphs (2), (3), and
(4)as paragraphs (3), (4), and (5), respectively; #####
(C)by inserting after paragraph
(1)the following: > > #### “(2) > > a description and the amount of any assistance withheld under this title pursuant to the application to those countries of the prohibition in section 404(a);” > ; and #####
(D)in paragraph (5), as redesignated, by inserting “and the amount” after “a description”; and ####
(2)by adding at the end the following: > > ### “(d) Information to Be Included in Annual Trafficking in Persons Report > > If the Secretary of State notifies a country pursuant to section 404(b)(2), or the President grants a waiver pursuant to section 404(c)(1), the Secretary of State shall include, in each report required under section 110(b) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7107(b)), the information required to be included in the annual report to Congress under paragraphs
(1)through
(5)of subsection (c).” > . ###
(d)Elimination of Child Sexual Assault by Afghan Security Forces ####
(1)Sense of congress It is the sense of Congress that the Department of State and the Department of Defense should fully implement the recommendations in the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction’s 2017 report on Child Sexual Assault in Afghanistan. ####
(2)Report on status of implementation of recommendations Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense shall report to the appropriate congressional committees on the status of implementation, within their respective departments, of each recommendation included in the report referenced in paragraph (1). ####
(3)Report on interagency efforts to monitor abuses Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense shall report to the appropriate congressional committees on the status of interagency efforts to establish effective, coherent, and discrete reporting by United States personnel on child sexual abuse by Afghan security forces with whom they train or advise or to whom they provide assistance. ####
(4)Prioritization at ministerial conference on afghanistan The Department of State shall ensure that the issue of child sexual assault by Afghan security forces is incorporated and elevated as an issue of international concern and focus at the next Ministerial Conference on Afghanistan, scheduled for November 27-28, 2018, in Geneva, Switzerland, with the goal of ending the illegal but ongoing practice known as “bacha bazi”. ####
(5)Appropriate congressional committees defined In this subsection, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means— #####
(A)the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate; and #####
(B)the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives. # TITLE III AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS
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AMENDMENTS TO THE CHILD SOLDIERS PREVENTION ACT OF 2008
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