Foreign Prison Conditions Improvement Act of 2013
Latest action · Nov 14, 2013 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 246.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMar 22, 2013
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Foreign Prison Conditions Improvement Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of State to report annually to Congress for 6 years describing prison and detention facility conditions in at least 30 countries receiving U.S. assistance or under U.S. sanction selected as a result of the Secretary's determination that such conditions raise the most serious human rights or humanitarian concerns.
Urges the Secretary and the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to provide assistance to eliminate inhumane conditions in prisons and other detention facilities. Prohibits such funds from being used to construct new prisons.
Directs the Secretary to enter into negotiations to achieve the purposes of this Act with a government listed in the report as not making significant compliance efforts. Authorizes the Secretary and the Administrator to restructure or reduce U.S. assistance to such government in order to achieve such purposes.
Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish within the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor a full-time equivalent Deputy Assistant Secretary level position to advance the purposes of this Act; and (2) provide training for Foreign Service officers in assessing foreign prison and detention facility conditions.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Mar 22, 2013.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-OK | James M. Inhofe | Original | Mar 22, 2013 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 14, 2013Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Menendez without amendment. Without written report.
- Nov 14, 2013Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 246.
- Apr 16, 2013Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
- Mar 22, 2013Introduced in Senate
- Mar 22, 2013Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: International Affairs.
- Congressional oversight
- Correctional facilities and imprisonment
- Department of State
- Detention of persons
- Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
- Federal officials
- Foreign aid and international relief
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Government information and archives
- Human rights
- International Affairs
- Sanctions
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Nov 14, 2013Reported to Senate
- Mar 22, 2013Introduced in Senate
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