Preshevo Valley Discrimination Assessment Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6411 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6411

 To direct the Secretary of State to prepare a report on the treatment 
                    of ethnic minorities in Serbia.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 3, 2025

   Mr. Self introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of State to prepare a report on the treatment 
                    of ethnic minorities in Serbia.

    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 ``Preshevo Valley Discrimination 
Assessment Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORT ON TREATMENT OF ETHNIC MINORITIES IN SERBIA.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall prepare and submit 
to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and 
the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a report on the 
treatment of ethnic minorities in Serbia.
    (b) Matters To Be Included.--The report required by subsection (a) 
should include the following:
            (1) The deactivation of registered residences, referred to 
        as ``passivation'' or ``passivization'' of addresses by Serbian 
        government authorities, belonging to ethnic Albanians in the 
        Preshevo Valley (also referred to as the ``Presevo Valley'', 
        ``Presheva Valley'', or the ``Presevo Valley'').
            (2) If such occurrence is confirmed, whether such 
        passivation is preventing ethnic Albanians from renewing 
        identity documents and exercising basic rights that require 
        identification, such as voting.
            (3) Whether Serbia disregards a proportional integration of 
        ethnic Albanians in state and other public institutions.
            (4) Whether Serbia neglects or refuses to recognize 
        diplomas and degrees earned in Kosovo by Albanians who live in 
        the Preshevo Valley.
            (5) Whether Serbia restricts or prohibits the use of the 
        Albanian language in public institutions at any level or on any 
        personal documents, including personal identification, driver's 
        licenses, health cards, birth, marriage, or death certificates, 
        particularly in Serbian municipalities where most of the 
        inhabitants are Albanian.
            (6) Whether Serbia is preventing or hindering the regular 
        and timely provision of school textbooks in the Albanian 
        language to ethnic Albanian students in the Preshevo Valley.
            (7) Whether Serbia actively opposes or disregards a 
        proportional integration of ethnic Albanians in state or other 
        public institutions.
            (8) Whether Serbia provides low amounts of central 
        government grants to majority-Albanian municipalities relative 
        to majority-Serb municipalities, and whether if such grant 
        funding adequately enables local governments to maintain or 
        build new infrastructure or provide other public goods as 
        needed by local residents.
            (9) Whether Serbia suppresses or restricts the use of 
        symbols which are a feature of one's ethnic identity.
            (10) Whether Serbia uses police or any law enforcement 
        forces to interrogate, threaten, and intimidate local ethnic 
        Albanians without due cause or process.
            (11) The level of support provided by Serbia for Albanian 
        language media, press, or cultural activities.
            (12) Serbia's consideration to implement mandatory military 
        service for ethnic Albanians.
            (13) Whether Serbia takes any measures to deliberately 
        increase poverty or make life unsustainable in the Preshevo 
        Valley for ethnic Albanians.
    (c) Form.--The report required by subsection (a) should be 
submitted in unclassified form but may contain a classified annex if 
necessary.
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