; (6) the Government of Vietnam has made substantial progress toward respecting the human rights of members of all ethnic and minority groups; and (7) neither any official of the Government of Vietnam nor any agency or entity wholly or partly owned by the Government of Vietnam was complicit in a severe form of trafficking in persons, or the Government of Vietnam took all appropriate steps to end any such complicity and hold such official, agency, or entity fully accountable for such conduct. (b) Exception The restriction described in subsection (a) should not apply to assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for the following purposes: (1) Disaster relief assistance, including any assistance under chapter 9 of part I of such Act ( 22 U.S.C. 2292 et seq. ). (2) Assistance which involves the provision of food (including monetization of food) or medicine. (3) Assistance for environmental remediation of dioxin-contaminated sites and related health activities. (4) Assistance to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons (as such term is defined in section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 ( 22 U.S.C. 7102 )). (5) Assistance to combat pandemic diseases. (6) Assistance for refugees. (7) Assistance to combat HIV/AIDS, including any assistance under section 104A of such Act ( 22 U.S.C. 2151b–2 ). 12. Definitions In this Act: (1) Appropriate congressional committees Except as otherwise provided, the term appropriate congressional committees means the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate. (2) Internet The term internet has the meaning given such term in section 231(e)(3) of the Communications Act of 1934 ( 47 U.S.C. 231(e)(3) ). (3) Personally identifiable information The term personally identifiable information means data in a form that identifies a particular person.