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(This measure has not been amended since it was amended by the Senate on December 13, 2011. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2011 - (Sec. 2) Amends the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to prohibit any individual (including members appointed prior to enactment of this Act) from serving more than two terms as a member of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Requires, for any member serving on the date of enactment of this Act who has completed at least two full terms, that such member's term expire 90 days after such enactment. Bars a member from serving after the expiration of that member's term.
Prohibits: (1) a member attending less than 75% of the meetings during one of such member's terms from being eligible for reappointment, and (2) a member from being eligible to be elected as Chair of the Commission for a second, consecutive term.
Subjects members to specified Department of State and federal travel regulations governing authorized travel at government expense.
(Sec. 3) Requires, for purposes of providing remedies and procedures to address alleged violations of rights and protections that pertain to various specified antidiscrimination laws, that all employees of the Commission be treated as employees whose pay is disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate or the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives and that the Commission be treated as an employing office of the Senate or House.
Authorizes such treatment for any administrative or judicial claim or action pending on the date of enactment of this Act.
(Sec. 4) Authorizes appropriations of $3 million for each of FY2012-FY2014.
(Sec. 5) Increases to $250,000 the maximum amount the Commission may expend in any fiscal year to procure temporary or intermittent services contracts for the conduct of certain activities necessary to Commission functions.
(Sec. 6) Extends the Commission's termination date to September 30, 2014.
(Sec. 7) Directs the Comptroller General to: (1) review the effectiveness of federal programs to promote international religious freedom; (2) assess the roles and functions of the Office on International Religious Freedom, the relationship to other offices in the Department of State, and the role of the Ambassador at Large; (3) analyze the Commission's structure as an independent nonpartisan entity in relation to other U.S. advisory commissions; and (4) review the relationship between the Ambassador at Large and the Commission.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 2867 as public Law on Dec 23, 2011. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House Sep 15, 2011
To reauthorize the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, and for other purposes
Passed · Two-thirds required
391 Yea 21 Nay 21 not voting
Crossed both parties 21 of 412 voting members broke with their own party: 21 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
433 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 2867 and vote against it. 2 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 2867 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
4 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.