§10502 Publication and Provision of Lists Regarding Progress on Anti-corruption Efforts

Summary

The Secretary of State must put a yearly public list on a website of foreign countries that are sustaining or making good progress on anti-corruption efforts under the minimum standards in section 10503. Each country on that list must have a short description of its progress. The Secretary must also give the appropriate congressional committees a classified list of countries that are making limited or no effort and not showing meaningful progress, with a short explanation for each. The Secretary must provide a classified annual update to those committees about U.S. efforts to fight corruption, the main obstacles, and near-term and long-term strategies. All lists and the classified update must be completed no later than 2 years after December 22, 2023, and then done every year for seven years. A report explaining how countries are assigned to the public or classified list, plus a proposed budget for preparing the first lists, must be sent to the committees no later than one year after December 22, 2023. If naming a country on the public list would not be in the national interest, the Secretary may instead give that country’s information and a written justification to the committees in classified form on the same date as the public list.