1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Saudi Educational Transparency and Reform Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for more than 15 years has made incremental progress in removing intolerant content in state-published textbooks. (2) Saudi Arabia has committed to educational reforms through its Vision 2030 and National Transformation Program, and is an important partner of the United States in combating terrorism and violent extremism. (3) The 2006 confirmation of policies negotiated by the United States and Saudi Arabia stated that textbooks would be revised within one or two years to remove remaining intolerant references that disparage Muslims or non-Muslims or that promote hatred toward other religions or religious groups. . (4) According to the Department of State’s August 2017 International Religious Freedom Report, [t]he government continued to distribute revised textbooks, although some intolerant material remained in circulation, particularly at the high school level, including content justifying the execution of sorcerers and social exclusion of non-Muslims. (5) Saudi textbooks have been exported internationally, including to countries in the Middle East, Africa, South, Central, and South East Asia, and parts of Europe and North America. (6) The International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 requires the President to designate countries in which violations of religious freedom are systematic, ongoing, [and] egregious as countries of particular concern. (7) The President has designated Saudi Arabia as a country of particular concern since 2004, pursuant to the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, and a waiver of further action has been in place since 2006. 3. Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that, in spite of some progress, Saudi Arabia has not yet sufficiently met its commitments for eliminating all forms of incitement from its educational materials and curriculum in line with its commitments to combat terrorism and