{"format":1,"id":"117-hr-7025","congress":117,"number":"H.R. 7025","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Advancing Human Rights-Centered International Conservation Act of 2022","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To prohibit the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service from funding entities that commit, fund, or support gross violations of internationally recognized human rights, and for other purposes.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To prohibit the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service from funding entities that commit, fund, or support gross violations of internationally recognized human rights, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"Advancing Human Rights-Centered International Conservation Act of 2022"},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Advancing Human Rights-Centered International Conservation Act of 2022"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"Advancing Human Rights-Centered International Conservation Act of 2022"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Reported to House","title":"Advancing Human Rights-Centered International Conservation Act of 2022"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Advancing Human Rights-Centered International Conservation Act of 2022"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2022-03-09","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2022-07-19","vote":{"id":"117-2022-h377","question":"On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended","title":"Advancing Human Rights-Centered International Conservation Act","result":"Passed","yea":379,"nay":43,"present":0,"not_voting":8,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2022/roll377.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"na","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"na","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.","date":"2022-07-20"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2022-07-19","stage":"Passed House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Advancing Human Rights-Centered International Conservation Act of 2022"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill requires the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to take actions to ensure that the international financial assistance it provides does not go to any foreign security force unit (e.g., a military or paramilitary unit) where there is a reasonable belief that the unit has committed a gross violation of internationally recognized human rights."},{"k":"p","t":"The USFWS must conduct risk analysis to ensure that a recipient (or subrecipient) of a grant does not fund or support any such unit. The prohibition against providing funding to such a unit shall not apply if the applicable government is taking effective steps to (1) bring the responsible members of the unit to justice, and (2) prevent gross violations of internationally recognized human rights by the unit in the future."},{"k":"p","t":"The USFWS must take other actions to prevent funding such a unit, such as (1) coordinating with the Department of State on procedures for vetting potential assistance recipients, (2) publicly identifying units that are barred from receiving assistance, (3) requiring assistance recipients to provide certain information and to implement a safeguards plan, and (4) requiring periodic financial and programmatic audits of assistance recipients."},{"k":"p","t":"The bill also requires (1) a grant recipient to report credible information about possible human rights violations involving a grant to the USFWS and the relevant diplomatic or consular post, (2) the program awarding the grant to investigate such allegations, and (3) the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of the Interior to investigate certain cases referred by the USFWS."}],"words":260},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Restricts U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service international financial assistance from supporting foreign security force units with credible information of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights, and sets certification, reporting, investigation and audit requirements for recipients of that assistance.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7025/text/eh#HBA21E8BDD3B241BA8627271E95E832EA"},{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7025/text/eh#H29DCC9687CFB4944BC3164596E1344DC"}]},"core_areas":["Restrictions on Fish and Wildlife Service international grants to foreign security force units","Human rights certification and social safeguards plans for grant recipients","Reporting, investigation and enforcement of human rights allegations tied to grants","Audits and annual reporting to Congress on international conservation grants"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Requires the Director to ensure that no international financial assistance goes to a covered recipient or subrecipient for funding or supporting a foreign security force unit when the Director or the Secretary of State has credible information that the unit committed a gross violation of internationally recognized human rights.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7025/text/eh#HBA21E8BDD3B241BA8627271E95E832EA"}},{"text":"Lifts that prohibition if the Director, in consultation with the Secretary of State, determines and reports to the appropriate congressional committees that the national government and recipient are taking effective steps to bring responsible unit members to justice and prevent future violations.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7025/text/eh#HBA21E8BDD3B241BA8627271E95E832EA"}},{"text":"Requires the Director, with the Secretary of State, to set up procedures for vetting foreign security force units and to make public the units barred from assistance, unless publication would risk national security or the health and safety of a victim.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7025/text/eh#HBA21E8BDD3B241BA8627271E95E832EA"}},{"text":"Requires each covered recipient to certify before receiving an award that it will not commit, fund, or support gross violations of human rights, to provide subrecipient lists, certifications and human rights policies, and to implement a social safeguards plan.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7025/text/eh#H29DCC9687CFB4944BC3164596E1344DC"}},{"text":"Requires a covered recipient to refer credible information of a gross violation to the Director and the U.S. diplomatic or consular post within 30 days, and to submit a report on steps taken within 60 days of that notification.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7025/text/eh#H29DCC9687CFB4944BC3164596E1344DC"}},{"text":"Requires the Director to refer unresolved allegations to the Department of the Interior Inspector General, who decides within 30 days whether to investigate and completes any investigation within 180 days of referral.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7025/text/eh#H29DCC9687CFB4944BC3164596E1344DC"}}],"unexpected":[],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2022-07-19","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7025/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-15","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7025","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7025/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/117-hr-7025.png","v":"56650a842466","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 7025, 117th Congress: Advancing Human Rights-Centered International Conservation Act of 2022. House: 379 Yea, 43 Nay. Outcome: Passed House, 19 Jul 2022."}}