Establishment of the cultural heritage coordinating committee

(a) Establishment of the cultural heritage coordinating committee The Cultural Heritage Coordinating Committee, described in section 2 of the Protect and Preserve International Cultural Property Act (Pub. L. 114–151, 130 Stat. 369), is hereby established, with the following members— (1) a member appointed by the Secretary of Defense; (2) a member appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury; (3) a member appointed by the Attorney General; (4) a member appointed by the Secretary of the Interior; (5) a member appointed by the Secretary of Homeland Security; (6) a member appointed by the Commissioner of United Stares Customs and Border Protection; (7) a designee appointed by the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; and (8) other members in such numbers and with such qualifications as may be deemed appropriate and appointed by the Chair of the Cultural Heritage Coordinating Committee pursuant to subsection (c)(2). (b) Establishment of cultural heritage coordinating committee task forces The Cultural Property Anti-Trafficking Task Force (formerly the Cultural Antiquities Task Force, established as directed by H. Rept. 108–401, which accompanied the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2004 (Pub. L. 108–199)), is established and shall operate as a subordinate element of the Cultural Heritage Coordinating Committee established in subsection (a). (c) Authority of the chair of the cultural heritage coordinating committee The Secretary shall appoint an employee of the Department serving at or above the rank of Assistant Secretary to serve concurrently with that employee’s other duties as Chair of the Cultural Heritage Coordinating Committee— (1) to convene the Cultural Heritage Coordinating Committee; (2) to appoint additional members of the Committee in such numbers and with such qualifications as the Chair deems appropriate; (3) to coordinate the Committee’s activities with Federal agencies and trust instrumentalities with responsibility for the preservation and protection of international cultural property; (4) 0to consult on behalf of the Committee with nongovernmental organizations, including the United States Committee of the Blue Shield, museums, professional and scholarly organizations, educational and research institutions, and other participants in the international cultural property market regarding efforts to protect and preserve international cultural property; and (5) to direct and manage existing task forces and to establish new task forces, working groups, and subcommittees, including— (A) the Cultural Property Anti-Trafficking Task Force, to— (i) support and coordinate law enforcement efforts; (ii) assist with preservation efforts through enhancing site and museum security, law enforcement trainings, and creation of inventories abroad; (iii) promote public awareness, and (iv) engage in other projects to prevent trafficking in international cultural property; (B) the Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation, to protect other cultures and thereby further US national interests by reducing incentives for terrorist activities and increasing economic opportunity through the preservation of sites, objects, or expressions, including such sites, objects, and expressions at risk from political instability, armed conflict, civil unrest, or natural or other disasters; (C) the Cultural Heritage Exchange Task Force to assist and promote the international loan of cultural property to cultural, educational, scientific, and religious institutions in the United States, in particular the cultural property affiliated with religious and ethnic minorities and Indigenous peoples represented by diaspora communities in the United States; and to facilitate research collaborations and exchanges with international educational missions from the United States; and (D) such other task forces, working groups, and subcommittees as the Chair may deem appropriate. (d) Frequency of meetings of the cultural heritage coordinating committee The Cultural Heritage Coordinating Committee shall meet at the call of its Chair not less frequently than three times each calendar year. (e) Reports on protecting and preserving international cultural property Section 4 of the Protect and Preserve International Cultural Property Act (Pub. L. 114–151) is amended as follows— (1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking for the next 6 years and inserting until 2031; (2) by striking subparagraph (2)(C) and inserting a list, in consultation with appropriate Federal agencies, of completed Federal criminal, civil, and civil forfeiture actions, proceedings, cases, and matters, a list of the statutes and regulations employed in each such action, and publication of such actions once completed; and; and (3) in paragraph (3), by striking done at The Hague, May 14, 1954. and inserting done at The Hague, May 14, 1954, including the number, commission status, and readiness of any specialist military cultural property protection personnel in the active and reserve forces of the United States. (f) Reporting on cultural heritage destruction The Secretary, to the extent practicable, may include as part of the annual human rights country reports prepared pursuant to sections 116(d) and 502B(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151n and 2304) particularly severe instances of cultural property destruction, including the extent to which such destruction is widespread and systematic, engaged in or tolerated by the government of that country or directed at ethnic and religious minorities or Indigenous peoples by the government of that country.