Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Strengthening Traditional American Diplomacy Act” or the “STAND Act”.
Strengthening Traditional American Diplomacy Act
A BILL
To amend the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to require a certain appointments of chiefs of mission to be from Foreign Service or Civil Service of the Department of State, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Requirement relating to appointment as a chief of mission
Paragraph (2) of section 304(a) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3944(a)) is amended—
by inserting “or Civil Service of the Department of State” after “be accorded to career members of the Service”; and
by adding at the end the following new sentence: “Not less than 70 percent of appointments and assignments under this section shall be of career members of Service or Civil Service of the Department, except that this requirement may be waived if the President certifies in writing, on a case by case basis, to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, that a reduction in such percentage is vital to the national security interests of the United States.”.