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Title V — Accountability Review Boards

S. 1386 · 113th Congress · Jul 30, 2013 · Lineage

V Accountability Review Boards

Sec. 501 Sense of Congress

It is the sense of Congress that—
(1)
the Accountability Review Board mechanism as outlined in section 302 of the Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism Act (22 U.S.C. 4832) is an effective tool to collect information about and evaluate adverse incidents that occur in a world that is increasingly complex and dangerous for United States diplomatic personnel; and
(2)
the Accountability Review Board should provide information and analysis that will assist the Secretary, the President, and Congress in determining what contributed to an adverse incident as well as what new measures are necessary in order to prevent the recurrence of such incidents.

Sec. 502 Provision of copies of Accountability Review Board reports to Congress

Not later than 2 days after an Accountability Review Board provides its report to the Secretary of State in accordance with title III of the Omnibus Diplomatic and Antiterrorism Act of 1986 (22 U.S.C. 4831 et seq.), the Secretary shall provide copies of the report to the appropriate congressional committees for retention and review by those committees.

Sec. 503 Changes to existing law

(a)
Membership— Section 302(a) of the Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism Act (22 U.S.C. 4832(a)) is amended by inserting “one of which shall be the Inspector General of the Department of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors,” after “4 appointed by the Secretary of State,”.
(b)
Staff— Section 302(b)(2) of the Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism Act (22 U.S.C. 4832(b)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following: “Such persons shall be drawn from bureaus or other agency sub-units that are not impacted by the incident that is the subject of the Board’s review.”.