HR 57 IHCommentsClose CommentsPermalink

To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to permit eligibility in certain circumstances for an officer or employee of a foreign government to receive a reward under the Department of State Rewards Program.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

January 6, 2009CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

Mr. KIRK introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign AffairsCommentsClose CommentsPermalink

To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to permit eligibility in certain circumstances for an officer or employee of a foreign government to receive a reward under the Department of State Rewards Program.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ‘Terrorist Rewards Enhancement Act of 2009’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES FOR AN AGENCY OF A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT TO RECEIVE A REWARD UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE REWARDS PROGRAM.

(a) Eligibility- Subsection (f) of section 36 of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2708(f)) is amended--CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(1) by striking ‘(f) Ineligibility- An officer’ and inserting the following:CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(f) Ineligibility-CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(1) IN GENERAL- Except as provided in paragraph (2), an officer’; andCommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(2) EXCEPTION IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES- The Secretary may pay a reward to an officer or employee of a foreign government (or any entity thereof) who, while in the performance of his or her official duties, furnishes information described in such subsection, if the Secretary determines that such payment satisfies the following conditions:CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(A) Such payment is appropriate in light of the exceptional or high-profile nature of the information furnished pursuant to such subsection.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(B) Such payment may aid in furnishing further information described in such subsection.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘(C) Such payment is formally requested by such agency.’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(b) Conforming Amendment- Subsection (b) of such section (22 U.S.C. 2708(b)) is amended in the matter preceding paragraph (1) by inserting ‘or to an officer or employee of a foreign government in accordance with subsection (f)(2)’ after ‘individual’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink