---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 2734e"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "2734e"
heading: "Annual Report"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/2734e"
units:
  - "Chapter 38 — Department of State"
---

# §2734e. Annual Report


Not later than 90 days after December 27, 2021, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of State shall submit to the Committee on [Foreign](/usc/22/3146.md?p=1) Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Committee on [Foreign](/usc/22/3146.md?p=1) Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate a report that contains the following:

- (1) A rationale for the use of assignment restrictions by the Department of State, including specific case studies related to cleared [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) [Foreign](/usc/22/3146.md?p=1) Service and civil service [employees](/usc/22/4341.md?p=1) of the Department that demonstrate country-specific restrictions serve a counterintelligence role beyond that which is already covered by the security clearance process.
- (2) The number of such Department [employees](/usc/22/4341.md?p=1) subject to assignment restrictions over the previous year, with data disaggregated by—
  - (A) identification as a [Foreign](/usc/22/3146.md?p=1) Service officer, civil service [employee](/usc/22/4341.md?p=1), eligible [family](/usc/22/4304a.md?p=c-2) member, or other employment status;
  - (B) the ethnicity, national origin, and race of the precluded [employee](/usc/22/4341.md?p=1);
  - (C) gender; and
  - (D) the country of restriction.
- (3) A description of the considerations and criteria used by the Bureau of Diplomatic Security to determine whether an assignment restriction is warranted.
- (4) The number of restrictions that were appealed and the success rate of such appeals.
- (5) The impact of assignment restrictions in terms of unused language skills as measured by [Foreign](/usc/22/3146.md?p=1) Service Institute language scores of such precluded [employees](/usc/22/4341.md?p=1).
- (6) Measures taken to ensure the diversity of adjudicators and contracted investigators, with accompanying data on results.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–81, div. E, title LIII, § 5311(d), Dec. 27, 2021, 135 Stat. 2364.)