American Foreign Affairs Talent Expansion Act: Diversity in Diplomacy and Development

Short titles— This Act may be cited as the “American Foreign Affairs Talent Expansion Act: Diversity in Diplomacy and Development” or the “American FATE Act”.

Table of contents— The table of contents for this Act is as follows:

Administrator— The term Administrator means the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development.

Applicant flow data— The term applicant flow data means data tracking the rate of applications for job positions among demographic categories.

Appropriate congressional committees— Except as otherwise provided, the term appropriate congressional committees means—

CDIO— The term CDIO means the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer.

DEIA— The term DEIA means diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.

Demographic data— The term demographic data means facts or statistics relating to the demographic categories specified in the Office of Management and Budget statistical policy directive titled “Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity” (81 Fed. Reg. 67398 ).

Diversity— The term diversity means diversity of persons based on gender, race, ethnicity, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or other demographic categories.

Equity— The term equity means the consistent and systematic fair, just, and impartial treatment of all individuals, including individuals who are members of underserved communities that have been denied such treatment.

Hispanic-serving institution— The term Hispanic-serving institution has the meaning given such term in section 502(a)(5) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1101a(a)(1)).

Historically Black college or university; HBCU— The terms historically Black college or university and HBCU have the meaning given the term part B institution in section 322(2) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1061(2)).

International affairs agency; agency— Except as otherwise provided, the terms international affairs agency and agency mean—

Minority— The term minority has the meaning given such term in section 365(2) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1067k(2)).

Minority business— The term minority business is a business that is not less than 51 percent-owned by 1 or more members of, or where the management and daily business operations are controlled by—

Minority-serving institution; MSI— The terms minority-serving institution and MSI mean an institution of higher education described in section 371(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1067q(a))—

Secretary— The term Secretary means the Secretary of State.

Tribally controlled college or university— The term tribally controlled college or university has the meaning given such term in the first section of the Tribally Controlled Community College Assistance Act of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 1801(a)(4)).

Underrepresented group— The term underrepresented group has the meaning given the term minority in section 365(2) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1067k(2)).

Underserved communities— The term underserved communities means overseas populations sharing a particular characteristic or geographic communities that have been systematically denied a full opportunity to participate in any aspect of economic, social, or civic life.

USAID— The term USAID means the United States Agency for International Development.

Workforce— The term workforce means direct hires in the civil or foreign service, contractors, foreign service nationals, and others working under the authority of any Government agency.