NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR AUTHORIZED AND ORDERED DEPARTURES.

SEC. 5173. [22 U.S.C. 4865 note] NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR AUTHORIZED AND ORDERED DEPARTURES. (a) Departures Report.— (1) In general.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees listing every instance that an authorized or ordered departure was issued for the five-year period preceding the date of the enactment of this Act. (2) Contents.—The Secretary shall include in the report required under paragraph (1)— (A) the name of the post and the date of the approval of the authorized or ordered departure; (B) the basis for the authorized or ordered departure; and (C) the number of chief of mission personnel that departed, categorized by agency, as well as their eligible family members, if available. (b) Congressional Notification Requirement.—Any instance of an authorized or ordered departure shall be notified to appropriate congressional committees not later than three days after the Secretary authorized an authorized or ordered departure. The details in the notification shall include— (1) the information described in subsection (a)(2); (2) the mode of travel for chief of mission personnel who departed; (3) the estimated cost of the authorized or ordered departure, including travel and per diem costs; and (4) the destination of all departed personnel and changes to their work activities due to the departure. (c) Establishment of a Database.—Not later than two years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall establish a database with the information required by subsections (a)(2) and (b) and shall make such database available on a regular basis to the appropriate congressional committees. (d) Termination.—The congressional notification requirement under this section shall terminate following the establishment of the database required by subsection (c). (e) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.—In this section, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means— (1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives; and (2) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate.