Rewards for Justice Congressional Notification Act of 2014

Rewards for Justice Congressional Notification Act of 2014 - Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to require congressional notification not less than 15 days after a reward is authorized under the the Department of State's rewards for justice program.

Requires such notification to include information about the identity of the individual for whom the award is being made, the amount of the reward, the acts with respect to which the reward is being made, and how the reward is being publicized.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5685 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5685

To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to require 
  congressional notification not less than 15 days after a reward is 
 authorized under the Rewards for Justice Program of the Department of 
                     State, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 12, 2014

 Mr. McCaul (for himself and Mr. Royce) introduced the following bill; 
         which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to require 
  congressional notification not less than 15 days after a reward is 
 authorized under the Rewards for Justice Program of the Department of 
                     State, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Rewards for Justice Congressional 
Notification Act of 2014''.

SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION OF REWARD.

    (a) In General.--Section 36 of the State Department Basic 
Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2708) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (g), by adding at the end the following 
        new paragraph:
            ``(4) Reports on rewards authorized.--Not less than 15 days 
        after a reward is authorized under this section, the Secretary 
        of State shall submit to the appropriate congressional 
        committees a report, which may be submitted in classified form 
        if necessary, detailing information about the reward, including 
        the identity of the individual for whom the award is being 
        made, the amount of the reward, the acts with respect to which 
        the reward is being made, and how the reward is being 
        publicized.''; and
            (2) in subsection (k)(2), by striking ``International 
        Relations'' and inserting ``Foreign Affairs''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a)(1) takes 
effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and applies with 
respect to any reward authorized under section 36 of the State 
Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 on or after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
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