Definitions

In this Act: (1) Appropriate congressional committees The term appropriate congressional committees means— (A) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the United States Senate; and (B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Financial Services, the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives. (2) Case of concern The term case of concern means unjustly detained individuals who— (A) are not designated by the Secretary of State as wrongfully detained but where credible information exists that a United States national detained abroad meets some of the criteria set by section 2(a) of the Robert Levinson Hostage Recovery and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act (22 U.S.C. 1741(a)); and (B) is the family member of a United States national who has been detained to— (i) silence, censor, or intimidate a United States national because of their advocacy for internationally recognized human rights; (ii) silence, censor, or intimidate efforts of a United States national for their efforts to publicly report on internationally recognized human rights in authoritarian or nondemocratic countries; and (iii) to influence United States Government policy or to secure economic or political concessions from the United States Government. (3) Family member The term family member means a spouse, father, mother, child, brother, sister, grandparent, grandchild, aunt, uncle, nephew, niece, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half-brother, or half sister. (4) United states national The term United States national means— (A) a United States national as defined in section 101(a)(22) or section 308 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(22), 8 U.S.C. 1408); or (B) a lawful permanent resident alien with significant ties to the United States.