Bill Details
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2025-02-24 - Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Introduced Date
2025-02-24
Policy Area
International Affairs
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This bill would require the Secretary of State to send Congress a report about the Conflict and Stabilization Operations Bureau within 180 days after the bill becomes law. The report would help lawmakers decide whether the bureau should stay in place, what makes its work different from other offices at the State Department, and how much it costs. It would also look at what would happen if the bureau were shut down, including possible savings and any costs, and explain whether its work or staff should be moved to other parts of the department.
- The report must give a clear recommendation on whether the bureau should be kept.
- It must explain the bureau’s unique role and why it exists.
- It must analyze the costs of the bureau’s work, including possible costs and savings if it were dissolved.
- It must include a plan for any bureau duties or staff that could be transferred to other State Department offices.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1516 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1516
To require the Secretary of State to report an assessment of the
Conflict and Stabilization Operations Bureau, including whether the
Bureau should be maintained, explanations of its function, and cost
analysis of the Bureau.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 24, 2025
Mr. Baird introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Foreign Affairs
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A BILL
To require the Secretary of State to report an assessment of the
Conflict and Stabilization Operations Bureau, including whether the
Bureau should be maintained, explanations of its function, and cost
analysis of the Bureau.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. REPORT ON FUNCTION OF CONFLICT AND STABILIZATION OPERATIONS
BUREAU.
(a) In General.--The Secretary of State submit a report to the
appropriate congressional committees no more than 180 days after the
passage of this bill concerning the Conflict and Stabilization
Operations Bureau (referred to as the ``Bureau'').
(b) Composition.--The report shall consist of--
(1) a bottom-line assessment as to whether the Bureau
should be maintained;
(2) an explanation of the unique function the Bureau
serves;
(3) an analysis of the costs associated with the function
of the Bureau, including--
(A) potential costs related to the dissolution of
the Bureau; and
(B) potential savings, both immediate and long-
term, related to the dissolution of the Bureau; and
(4) a plan detailing which, if any, functions or personnel
of the Bureau would be absorbed by other Bureaus at the
Department.
(c) Appropriate Congressional Committees.--The term ``appropriate
congressional committees'' means the House of Representatives Committee
on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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