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2-Calendar No. 222
31 118THCONGRESS
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53 STSESSION H. R. 4665
6-IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
7-OCTOBER3, 2023
8-Received; read twice and placed on the calendar
94 AN ACT
105 Making appropriations for the Department of State, foreign
116 operations, and related programs for the fiscal year end-
127 ing September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.
138 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
149 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
1510 That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 3
16-money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 4
17-Department of State, foreign operations, and related pro-5
18-grams for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and 6
19-for other purposes, namely: 7
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23-TITLE I 1
24-DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND RELATED 2
25-AGENCY 3
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13+money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 1
14+for the Department of State, foreign operations, and re-2
15+lated programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 3
16+2024, and for other purposes, namely: 4
17+TITLE I 5
18+DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND RELATED 6
19+AGENCY 7
2620 D
27-EPARTMENT OFSTATE 4
21+EPARTMENT OFSTATE 8
2822 A
29-DMINISTRATION OFFOREIGNAFFAIRS 5
30-DIPLOMATIC PROGRAMS 6
31-For necessary expenses of the Department of State 7
32-and the Foreign Service not otherwise provided for, includ-8
33-ing for training, human resources management, and sala-9
34-ries, including employment without regard to civil service 10
35-and classification laws of persons on a temporary basis 11
36-(not to exceed $700,000), as authorized by section 801 12
37-of the United States Information and Educational Ex-13
38-change Act of 1948 (62 Stat. 11; Chapter 36); for the 14
39-regional bureaus of the Department of State and overseas 15
40-activities as authorized by law; for the functional bureaus 16
41-of the Department of State, including representation to 17
42-certain international organizations in which the United 18
43-States participates pursuant to treaties ratified pursuant 19
44-to the advice and consent of the Senate or specific Acts 20
45-of Congress, general administration, and arms control, 21
46-nonproliferation, and disarmament activities as author-22
47-ized; and for security activities, $8,815,620,000 (reduced 23
48-by $306,505,000) (reduced by $3,000,000) (reduced by 24
49-$1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000) (reduced by 25
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53-$1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000) (increased by 1
54-$1,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000), of which 2
55-$712,418,000 may remain available until September 30, 3
56-2025, and of which $4,066,168,000 (reduced by 4
57-$500,000) (increased by $500,000) is for Worldwide Secu-5
58-rity Protection, which may remain available until ex-6
59-pended: Provided, That funds appropriated or otherwise 7
60-made available by this Act under this heading and under 8
61-the heading ‘‘Consular and Border Security Programs’’ 9
62-shall be made available to increase consular staff, reduce 10
63-passport processing times, and lower wait times for visa 11
64-services, including by assigning onboard staff for tem-12
65-porary duty to meet immediate consular staffing needs. 13
66-CONSULAR AND BORDER SECURITY PROGRAMS 14
67-Of the amounts deposited in the Consular and Border 15
68-Security Programs account in this or any prior fiscal year 16
69-pursuant to section 7069(e) of the Department of State, 17
70-Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropria-18
71-tions Act, 2022 (division K of Public Law 117–103), 19
72-$300,000,000 (increased by $5,000,000) (reduced by 20
73-$5,000,000) shall be available until expended for the pur-21
74-poses of such account, including to reduce passport back-22
75-logs and reduce visa wait times: Provided, That the Sec-23
76-retary of State may by regulation authorize State officials 24
77-or the United States Postal Service to collect and retain 25
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81-the execution fee for each application for a passport ac-1
82-cepted by such officials or by that Service. 2
83-CAPITAL INVESTMENT FUND 3
84-For necessary expenses of the Capital Investment 4
85-Fund, as authorized, $346,210,000, to remain available 5
86-until expended. 6
87-OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 7
88-For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 8
89-General, $108,165,000, of which $16,225,000 may remain 9
90-available until September 30, 2025: Provided, That funds 10
91-appropriated under this heading are made available not-11
92-withstanding section 209(a)(1) of the Foreign Service Act 12
93-of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3929(a)(1)), as it relates to post in-13
94-spections. 14
95-In addition, for the Special Inspector General for Af-15
96-ghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) for reconstruction 16
97-oversight, $26,835,000, to remain available until Sep-17
98-tember 30, 2025: Provided, That funds appropriated 18
99-under this heading that are made available for the print-19
100-ing and reproduction costs of SIGAR shall not exceed 20
101-amounts for such costs during the prior fiscal year. 21
102-EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMS 22
103-For necessary expenses of educational and cultural 23
104-exchange programs, as authorized, $700,946,000, to re-24
105-main available until expended, of which not less than 25
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109-$287,500,000 shall be for the Fulbright Program: Pro-1
110-vided, That fees or other payments received from, or in 2
111-connection with, English teaching, educational advising 3
112-and counseling programs, and exchange visitor programs 4
113-as authorized may be credited to this account, to remain 5
114-available until expended: Provided further, That any sub-6
115-stantive modifications from the prior fiscal year to pro-7
116-grams funded by this Act under this heading shall be sub-8
117-ject to prior consultation with, and the regular notification 9
118-procedures of, the Committees on Appropriations. 10
119-REPRESENTATION EXPENSES 11
120-For representation expenses as authorized, 12
121-$7,415,000. 13
122-PROTECTION OF FOREIGN MISSIONS AND OFFICIALS 14
123-For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided, to 15
124-enable the Secretary of State to provide for extraordinary 16
125-protective services, as authorized, $27,492,000, to remain 17
126-available until September 30, 2025. 18
127-EMBASSY SECURITY, CONSTRUCTION, AND MAINTENANCE 19
128-For necessary expenses for carrying out the Foreign 20
129-Service Buildings Act of 1926 (22 U.S.C. 292 et seq.), 21
130-preserving, maintaining, repairing, and planning for real 22
131-property that are owned or leased by the Department of 23
132-State, and renovating, in addition to funds otherwise avail-24
133-able, the Harry S Truman Building, $917,381,000, to re-25
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137-main available until September 30, 2028, of which not to 1
138-exceed $25,000 may be used for overseas representation 2
139-expenses as authorized: Provided, That none of the funds 3
140-appropriated in this paragraph shall be available for acqui-4
141-sition of furniture, furnishings, or generators for other de-5
142-partments and agencies of the United States Government. 6
143-In addition, for the costs of worldwide security up-7
144-grades, acquisition, and construction as authorized, 8
145-$1,095,801,000, to remain available until expended. 9
146-EMERGENCIES IN THE DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR 10
147-SERVICE 11
148-For necessary expenses to enable the Secretary of 12
149-State to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in the Diplo-13
150-matic and Consular Service, as authorized, $10,685,000, 14
151-to remain available until expended, of which not to exceed 15
152-$1,000,000 may be transferred to, and merged with, funds 16
153-appropriated by this Act under the heading ‘‘Repatriation 17
154-Loans Program Account’’. 18
155-REPATRIATION LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT 19
156-For the cost of direct loans, $1,800,000, as author-20
157-ized: Provided, That such costs, including the cost of modi-21
158-fying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the 22
159-Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That 23
160-such funds are available to subsidize gross obligations for 24
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164-the principal amount of direct loans not to exceed 1
165-$5,167,004. 2
166-PAYMENT TO THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE IN TAIWAN 3
167-For necessary expenses to carry out the Taiwan Rela-4
168-tions Act (Public Law 96–8), $34,964,000. 5
169-INTERNATIONAL CENTER , WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF 6
170-COLUMBIA 7
171-Not to exceed $1,842,732 shall be derived from fees 8
172-collected from other executive agencies for lease or use of 9
173-facilities at the International Center in accordance with 10
174-section 4 of the International Center Act (Public Law 90– 11
175-553), and, in addition, as authorized by section 5 of such 12
176-Act, $744,000, to be derived from the reserve authorized 13
177-by such section, to be used for the purposes set out in 14
178-that section. 15
179-PAYMENT TO THE FOREIGN SERVICE RETIREMENT AND 16
180-DISABILITY FUND 17
181-For payment to the Foreign Service Retirement and 18
182-Disability Fund, as authorized, $158,900,000. 19
23+DMINISTRATION OFFOREIGNAFFAIRS 9
24+DIPLOMATIC PROGRAMS 10
25+For necessary expenses of the Department of State 11
26+and the Foreign Service not otherwise provided for, includ-12
27+ing for training, human resources management, and sala-13
28+ries, including employment without regard to civil service 14
29+and classification laws of persons on a temporary basis 15
30+(not to exceed $700,000), as authorized by section 801 16
31+of the United States Information and Educational Ex-17
32+change Act of 1948 (62 Stat. 11; Chapter 36); for the 18
33+regional bureaus of the Department of State and overseas 19
34+activities as authorized by law; for the functional bureaus 20
35+of the Department of State, including representation to 21
36+certain international organizations in which the United 22
37+States participates pursuant to treaties ratified pursuant 23
38+to the advice and consent of the Senate or specific Acts 24
39+of Congress, general administration, and arms control, 25
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41+•HR 4665 EH
42+nonproliferation, and disarmament activities as author-1
43+ized; and for security activities, $8,815,620,000 (reduced 2
44+by $306,505,000) (reduced by $3,000,000) (reduced by 3
45+$1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000) (reduced by 4
46+$1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000) (increased by 5
47+$1,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000), of which 6
48+$712,418,000 may remain available until September 30, 7
49+2025, and of which $4,066,168,000 (reduced by 8
50+$500,000) (increased by $500,000) is for Worldwide Secu-9
51+rity Protection, which may remain available until ex-10
52+pended: Provided, That funds appropriated or otherwise 11
53+made available by this Act under this heading and under 12
54+the heading ‘‘Consular and Border Security Programs’’ 13
55+shall be made available to increase consular staff, reduce 14
56+passport processing times, and lower wait times for visa 15
57+services, including by assigning onboard staff for tem-16
58+porary duty to meet immediate consular staffing needs. 17
59+CONSULAR AND BORDER SECURITY PROGRAMS 18
60+Of the amounts deposited in the Consular and Border 19
61+Security Programs account in this or any prior fiscal year 20
62+pursuant to section 7069(e) of the Department of State, 21
63+Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropria-22
64+tions Act, 2022 (division K of Public Law 117–103), 23
65+$300,000,000 (increased by $5,000,000) (reduced by 24
66+$5,000,000) shall be available until expended for the pur-25
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69+poses of such account, including to reduce passport back-1
70+logs and reduce visa wait times: Provided, That the Sec-2
71+retary of State may by regulation authorize State officials 3
72+or the United States Postal Service to collect and retain 4
73+the execution fee for each application for a passport ac-5
74+cepted by such officials or by that Service. 6
75+CAPITAL INVESTMENT FUND 7
76+For necessary expenses of the Capital Investment 8
77+Fund, as authorized, $346,210,000, to remain available 9
78+until expended. 10
79+OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 11
80+For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 12
81+General, $108,165,000, of which $16,225,000 may remain 13
82+available until September 30, 2025: Provided, That funds 14
83+appropriated under this heading are made available not-15
84+withstanding section 209(a)(1) of the Foreign Service Act 16
85+of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3929(a)(1)), as it relates to post in-17
86+spections. 18
87+In addition, for the Special Inspector General for Af-19
88+ghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) for reconstruction 20
89+oversight, $26,835,000, to remain available until Sep-21
90+tember 30, 2025: Provided, That funds appropriated 22
91+under this heading that are made available for the print-23
92+ing and reproduction costs of SIGAR shall not exceed 24
93+amounts for such costs during the prior fiscal year. 25
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96+EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMS 1
97+For necessary expenses of educational and cultural 2
98+exchange programs, as authorized, $700,946,000, to re-3
99+main available until expended, of which not less than 4
100+$287,500,000 shall be for the Fulbright Program: Pro-5
101+vided, That fees or other payments received from, or in 6
102+connection with, English teaching, educational advising 7
103+and counseling programs, and exchange visitor programs 8
104+as authorized may be credited to this account, to remain 9
105+available until expended: Provided further, That any sub-10
106+stantive modifications from the prior fiscal year to pro-11
107+grams funded by this Act under this heading shall be sub-12
108+ject to prior consultation with, and the regular notification 13
109+procedures of, the Committees on Appropriations. 14
110+REPRESENTATION EXPENSES 15
111+For representation expenses as authorized, 16
112+$7,415,000. 17
113+PROTECTION OF FOREIGN MISSIONS AND OFFICIALS 18
114+For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided, to 19
115+enable the Secretary of State to provide for extraordinary 20
116+protective services, as authorized, $27,492,000, to remain 21
117+available until September 30, 2025. 22
118+EMBASSY SECURITY, CONSTRUCTION, AND MAINTENANCE 23
119+For necessary expenses for carrying out the Foreign 24
120+Service Buildings Act of 1926 (22 U.S.C. 292 et seq.), 25
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123+preserving, maintaining, repairing, and planning for real 1
124+property that are owned or leased by the Department of 2
125+State, and renovating, in addition to funds otherwise avail-3
126+able, the Harry S Truman Building, $917,381,000, to re-4
127+main available until September 30, 2028, of which not to 5
128+exceed $25,000 may be used for overseas representation 6
129+expenses as authorized: Provided, That none of the funds 7
130+appropriated in this paragraph shall be available for acqui-8
131+sition of furniture, furnishings, or generators for other de-9
132+partments and agencies of the United States Government. 10
133+In addition, for the costs of worldwide security up-11
134+grades, acquisition, and construction as authorized, 12
135+$1,095,801,000, to remain available until expended. 13
136+EMERGENCIES IN THE DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR 14
137+SERVICE 15
138+For necessary expenses to enable the Secretary of 16
139+State to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in the Diplo-17
140+matic and Consular Service, as authorized, $10,685,000, 18
141+to remain available until expended, of which not to exceed 19
142+$1,000,000 may be transferred to, and merged with, funds 20
143+appropriated by this Act under the heading ‘‘Repatriation 21
144+Loans Program Account’’. 22
145+REPATRIATION LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT 23
146+For the cost of direct loans, $1,800,000, as author-24
147+ized: Provided, That such costs, including the cost of modi-25
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150+fying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the 1
151+Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That 2
152+such funds are available to subsidize gross obligations for 3
153+the principal amount of direct loans not to exceed 4
154+$5,167,004. 5
155+PAYMENT TO THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE IN TAIWAN 6
156+For necessary expenses to carry out the Taiwan Rela-7
157+tions Act (Public Law 96–8), $34,964,000. 8
158+INTERNATIONAL CENTER , WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF 9
159+COLUMBIA 10
160+Not to exceed $1,842,732 shall be derived from fees 11
161+collected from other executive agencies for lease or use of 12
162+facilities at the International Center in accordance with 13
163+section 4 of the International Center Act (Public Law 90– 14
164+553), and, in addition, as authorized by section 5 of such 15
165+Act, $744,000, to be derived from the reserve authorized 16
166+by such section, to be used for the purposes set out in 17
167+that section. 18
168+PAYMENT TO THE FOREIGN SERVICE RETIREMENT AND 19
169+DISABILITY FUND 20
170+For payment to the Foreign Service Retirement and 21
171+Disability Fund, as authorized, $158,900,000. 22
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174+INTERNATIONALORGANIZATIONS 1
175+CONTRIBUTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 2
176+For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 3
177+to meet annual obligations of membership in international 4
178+multilateral organizations, pursuant to treaties ratified 5
179+pursuant to the advice and consent of the Senate, conven-6
180+tions, or specific Acts of Congress, $245,795,000: Pro-7
181+vided, That the Secretary of State shall, at the time of 8
182+the submission of the President’s budget to Congress 9
183+under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, 10
184+transmit to the Committees on Appropriations the most 11
185+recent biennial budget prepared by the United Nations for 12
186+the operations of the United Nations: Provided further, 13
187+That the Secretary of State shall notify the Committees 14
188+on Appropriations at least 15 days in advance (or in an 15
189+emergency, as far in advance as is practicable) of any 16
190+United Nations action to increase funding for any United 17
191+Nations program without identifying an offsetting de-18
192+crease elsewhere in the United Nations budget: Provided 19
193+further, That not later than May 1, 2024, and 30 days 20
194+after the end of fiscal year 2024, the Secretary of State 21
195+shall report to the Committees on Appropriations any 22
196+credits attributable to the United States, including from 23
197+the United Nations Tax Equalization Fund, and provide 24
198+updated fiscal year 2024 and fiscal year 2025 assessment 25
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201+costs including offsets from available credits and updated 1
202+foreign currency exchange rates: Provided further, That 2
203+any such credits shall only be available for United States 3
204+assessed contributions to the United Nations regular 4
205+budget, and the Committees on Appropriations shall be 5
206+notified when such credits are applied to any assessed con-6
207+tribution, including any payment of arrearages: Provided 7
208+further, That any notification regarding funds appro-8
209+priated or otherwise made available under this heading in 9
210+this Act or prior Acts making appropriations for the De-10
211+partment of State, foreign operations, and related pro-11
212+grams submitted pursuant to section 7015 of this Act, sec-12
213+tion 34 of the State Department Basic Authorities Act 13
214+of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2706), or any operating plan sub-14
215+mitted pursuant to section 7062 of this Act, shall include 15
216+an estimate of all known credits currently attributable to 16
217+the United States and provide updated assessment costs 17
218+including offsets from available credits and updated for-18
219+eign currency exchange rates: Provided further, That any 19
220+payment of arrearages under this heading shall be directed 20
221+to activities that are mutually agreed upon by the United 21
222+States and the respective international organization and 22
223+shall be subject to the regular notification procedures of 23
224+the Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That 24
225+none of the funds appropriated under this heading shall 25
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228+be available for a United States contribution to an inter-1
229+national organization for the United States share of inter-2
230+est costs made known to the United States Government 3
231+by such organization for loans incurred on or after Octo-4
232+ber 1, 1984, through external borrowings: Provided fur-5
233+ther, That none of the funds appropriated or otherwise 6
234+made available under this heading may be made available 7
235+for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. 8
236+CONTRIBUTIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING 9
237+ACTIVITIES 10
238+For necessary expenses to pay assessed and other ex-11
239+penses of international peacekeeping activities directed to 12
240+the maintenance or restoration of international peace and 13
241+security, $1,268,886,000 (reduced by $667,296,000), of 14
242+which $190,333,000 may remain available until Sep-15
243+tember 30, 2025: Provided, That none of the funds made 16
244+available by this Act shall be obligated or expended for 17
245+any new or expanded United Nations peacekeeping mis-18
246+sion unless, at least 15 days in advance of voting for such 19
247+mission in the United Nations Security Council (or in an 20
248+emergency as far in advance as is practicable), the Com-21
249+mittees on Appropriations are notified of: (1) the esti-22
250+mated cost and duration of the mission, the objectives of 23
251+the mission, the national interest that will be served, and 24
252+the exit strategy; and (2) the sources of funds, including 25
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255+any reprogrammings or transfers, that will be used to pay 1
256+the cost of the new or expanded mission, and the esti-2
257+mated cost in future fiscal years: Provided further, That 3
258+none of the funds appropriated under this heading may 4
259+be made available for obligation unless the Secretary of 5
260+State certifies and reports to the Committees on Appro-6
261+priations on a peacekeeping mission-by-mission basis that 7
262+the United Nations is implementing effective policies and 8
263+procedures to prevent United Nations employees, con-9
264+tractor personnel, and peacekeeping troops serving in such 10
265+mission from trafficking in persons, exploiting victims of 11
266+trafficking, or committing acts of sexual exploitation and 12
267+abuse or other violations of human rights, and to hold ac-13
268+countable individuals who engage in such acts while par-14
269+ticipating in such mission, including prosecution in their 15
270+home countries and making information about such pros-16
271+ecutions publicly available on the website of the United 17
272+Nations: Provided further, That the Secretary of State 18
273+shall work with the United Nations and foreign govern-19
274+ments contributing peacekeeping troops to implement ef-20
275+fective vetting procedures to ensure that such troops have 21
276+not violated human rights: Provided further, That funds 22
277+shall be available for peacekeeping expenses unless the 23
278+Secretary of State determines that United States manu-24
279+facturers and suppliers are not being given opportunities 25
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282+to provide equipment, services, and material for United 1
283+Nations peacekeeping activities equal to those being given 2
284+to foreign manufacturers and suppliers: Provided further, 3
285+That none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 4
286+available under this heading may be used for any United 5
287+Nations peacekeeping mission that will involve United 6
288+States Armed Forces under the command or operational 7
289+control of a foreign national, unless the President’s mili-8
290+tary advisors have submitted to the President a rec-9
291+ommendation that such involvement is in the national in-10
292+terest of the United States and the President has sub-11
293+mitted to Congress such a recommendation: Provided fur-12
294+ther, That not later than May 1, 2024, and 30 days after 13
295+the end of fiscal year 2024, the Secretary of State shall 14
296+report to the Committees on Appropriations any credits 15
297+attributable to the United States, including those resulting 16
298+from United Nations peacekeeping missions or the United 17
299+Nations Tax Equalization Fund, and provide updated fis-18
300+cal year 2024 and fiscal year 2025 assessment costs, in-19
301+cluding offsets from available credits: Provided further, 20
302+That any such credits shall only be available for United 21
303+States assessed contributions to United Nations peace-22
304+keeping missions, and the Committees on Appropriations 23
305+shall be notified when such credits are applied to any as-24
306+sessed contribution, including any payment of arrearages: 25
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309+Provided further, That any notification regarding funds 1
310+appropriated or otherwise made available under this head-2
311+ing in this Act or prior Acts making appropriations for 3
312+the Department of State, foreign operations, and related 4
313+programs submitted pursuant to section 7015 of this Act, 5
314+section 34 of the State Department Basic Authorities Act 6
315+of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2706), or any operating plan sub-7
316+mitted pursuant to section 7062 of this Act, shall include 8
317+an estimate of all known credits currently attributable to 9
318+the United States and provide updated assessment costs, 10
319+including offsets from available credits: Provided further, 11
320+That any payment of arrearages with funds appropriated 12
321+by this Act shall be subject to the regular notification pro-13
322+cedures of the Committees on Appropriations: Provided 14
323+further, That the Secretary of State shall work with the 15
324+United Nations and members of the United Nations Secu-16
325+rity Council to evaluate and prioritize peacekeeping mis-17
326+sions, and to consider a draw down when mission goals 18
327+have been substantially achieved. 19
183328 I
184-NTERNATIONALORGANIZATIONS 20
185-CONTRIBUTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 21
186-For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 22
187-to meet annual obligations of membership in international 23
188-multilateral organizations, pursuant to treaties ratified 24
189-pursuant to the advice and consent of the Senate, conven-25
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193-tions, or specific Acts of Congress, $245,795,000: Pro-1
194-vided, That the Secretary of State shall, at the time of 2
195-the submission of the President’s budget to Congress 3
196-under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, 4
197-transmit to the Committees on Appropriations the most 5
198-recent biennial budget prepared by the United Nations for 6
199-the operations of the United Nations: Provided further, 7
200-That the Secretary of State shall notify the Committees 8
201-on Appropriations at least 15 days in advance (or in an 9
202-emergency, as far in advance as is practicable) of any 10
203-United Nations action to increase funding for any United 11
204-Nations program without identifying an offsetting de-12
205-crease elsewhere in the United Nations budget: Provided 13
206-further, That not later than May 1, 2024, and 30 days 14
207-after the end of fiscal year 2024, the Secretary of State 15
208-shall report to the Committees on Appropriations any 16
209-credits attributable to the United States, including from 17
210-the United Nations Tax Equalization Fund, and provide 18
211-updated fiscal year 2024 and fiscal year 2025 assessment 19
212-costs including offsets from available credits and updated 20
213-foreign currency exchange rates: Provided further, That 21
214-any such credits shall only be available for United States 22
215-assessed contributions to the United Nations regular 23
216-budget, and the Committees on Appropriations shall be 24
217-notified when such credits are applied to any assessed con-25
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221-tribution, including any payment of arrearages: Provided 1
222-further, That any notification regarding funds appro-2
223-priated or otherwise made available under this heading in 3
224-this Act or prior Acts making appropriations for the De-4
225-partment of State, foreign operations, and related pro-5
226-grams submitted pursuant to section 7015 of this Act, sec-6
227-tion 34 of the State Department Basic Authorities Act 7
228-of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2706), or any operating plan sub-8
229-mitted pursuant to section 7062 of this Act, shall include 9
230-an estimate of all known credits currently attributable to 10
231-the United States and provide updated assessment costs 11
232-including offsets from available credits and updated for-12
233-eign currency exchange rates: Provided further, That any 13
234-payment of arrearages under this heading shall be directed 14
235-to activities that are mutually agreed upon by the United 15
236-States and the respective international organization and 16
237-shall be subject to the regular notification procedures of 17
238-the Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That 18
239-none of the funds appropriated under this heading shall 19
240-be available for a United States contribution to an inter-20
241-national organization for the United States share of inter-21
242-est costs made known to the United States Government 22
243-by such organization for loans incurred on or after Octo-23
244-ber 1, 1984, through external borrowings: Provided fur-24
245-ther, That none of the funds appropriated or otherwise 25
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248-HR 4665 PCS
249-made available under this heading may be made available 1
250-for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. 2
251-CONTRIBUTIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING 3
252-ACTIVITIES 4
253-For necessary expenses to pay assessed and other ex-5
254-penses of international peacekeeping activities directed to 6
255-the maintenance or restoration of international peace and 7
256-security, $1,268,886,000 (reduced by $667,296,000), of 8
257-which $190,333,000 may remain available until Sep-9
258-tember 30, 2025: Provided, That none of the funds made 10
259-available by this Act shall be obligated or expended for 11
260-any new or expanded United Nations peacekeeping mis-12
261-sion unless, at least 15 days in advance of voting for such 13
262-mission in the United Nations Security Council (or in an 14
263-emergency as far in advance as is practicable), the Com-15
264-mittees on Appropriations are notified of: (1) the esti-16
265-mated cost and duration of the mission, the objectives of 17
266-the mission, the national interest that will be served, and 18
267-the exit strategy; and (2) the sources of funds, including 19
268-any reprogrammings or transfers, that will be used to pay 20
269-the cost of the new or expanded mission, and the esti-21
270-mated cost in future fiscal years: Provided further, That 22
271-none of the funds appropriated under this heading may 23
272-be made available for obligation unless the Secretary of 24
273-State certifies and reports to the Committees on Appro-25
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276-HR 4665 PCS
277-priations on a peacekeeping mission-by-mission basis that 1
278-the United Nations is implementing effective policies and 2
279-procedures to prevent United Nations employees, con-3
280-tractor personnel, and peacekeeping troops serving in such 4
281-mission from trafficking in persons, exploiting victims of 5
282-trafficking, or committing acts of sexual exploitation and 6
283-abuse or other violations of human rights, and to hold ac-7
284-countable individuals who engage in such acts while par-8
285-ticipating in such mission, including prosecution in their 9
286-home countries and making information about such pros-10
287-ecutions publicly available on the website of the United 11
288-Nations: Provided further, That the Secretary of State 12
289-shall work with the United Nations and foreign govern-13
290-ments contributing peacekeeping troops to implement ef-14
291-fective vetting procedures to ensure that such troops have 15
292-not violated human rights: Provided further, That funds 16
293-shall be available for peacekeeping expenses unless the 17
294-Secretary of State determines that United States manu-18
295-facturers and suppliers are not being given opportunities 19
296-to provide equipment, services, and material for United 20
297-Nations peacekeeping activities equal to those being given 21
298-to foreign manufacturers and suppliers: Provided further, 22
299-That none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 23
300-available under this heading may be used for any United 24
301-Nations peacekeeping mission that will involve United 25
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305-States Armed Forces under the command or operational 1
306-control of a foreign national, unless the President’s mili-2
307-tary advisors have submitted to the President a rec-3
308-ommendation that such involvement is in the national in-4
309-terest of the United States and the President has sub-5
310-mitted to Congress such a recommendation: Provided fur-6
311-ther, That not later than May 1, 2024, and 30 days after 7
312-the end of fiscal year 2024, the Secretary of State shall 8
313-report to the Committees on Appropriations any credits 9
314-attributable to the United States, including those resulting 10
315-from United Nations peacekeeping missions or the United 11
316-Nations Tax Equalization Fund, and provide updated fis-12
317-cal year 2024 and fiscal year 2025 assessment costs, in-13
318-cluding offsets from available credits: Provided further, 14
319-That any such credits shall only be available for United 15
320-States assessed contributions to United Nations peace-16
321-keeping missions, and the Committees on Appropriations 17
322-shall be notified when such credits are applied to any as-18
323-sessed contribution, including any payment of arrearages: 19
324-Provided further, That any notification regarding funds 20
325-appropriated or otherwise made available under this head-21
326-ing in this Act or prior Acts making appropriations for 22
327-the Department of State, foreign operations, and related 23
328-programs submitted pursuant to section 7015 of this Act, 24
329-section 34 of the State Department Basic Authorities Act 25
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333-of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2706), or any operating plan sub-1
334-mitted pursuant to section 7062 of this Act, shall include 2
335-an estimate of all known credits currently attributable to 3
336-the United States and provide updated assessment costs, 4
337-including offsets from available credits: Provided further, 5
338-That any payment of arrearages with funds appropriated 6
339-by this Act shall be subject to the regular notification pro-7
340-cedures of the Committees on Appropriations: Provided 8
341-further, That the Secretary of State shall work with the 9
342-United Nations and members of the United Nations Secu-10
343-rity Council to evaluate and prioritize peacekeeping mis-11
344-sions, and to consider a draw down when mission goals 12
345-have been substantially achieved. 13
329+NTERNATIONALCOMMISSIONS 20
330+For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 21
331+to meet obligations of the United States arising under 22
332+treaties, or specific Acts of Congress, as follows: 23
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334+•HR 4665 EH
335+INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION , 1
336+UNITED STATES AND MEXICO 2
337+For necessary expenses for the United States Section 3
338+of the International Boundary and Water Commission, 4
339+United States and Mexico, and to comply with laws appli-5
340+cable to the United States Section, including not to exceed 6
341+$6,000 for representation expenses, as follows: 7
342+SALARIES AND EXPENSES 8
343+For salaries and expenses, not otherwise provided for, 9
344+$70,000,000, of which $10,500,000 may remain available 10
345+until September 30, 2025. 11
346+CONSTRUCTION 12
347+For detailed plan preparation and construction of au-13
348+thorized projects, $76,530,000, to remain available until 14
349+expended, as authorized: Provided, That of the funds ap-15
350+propriated under this heading in this Act and prior Acts 16
351+making appropriations for the Department of State, for-17
352+eign operations, and related programs for the United 18
353+States Section, up to $5,000,000 may be transferred to, 19
354+and merged with, funds appropriated under the heading 20
355+‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ to carry out the purposes of the 21
356+United States Section, which shall be subject to prior con-22
357+sultation with, and the regular notification procedures of, 23
358+the Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That 24
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360+•HR 4665 EH
361+such transfer authority is in addition to any other transfer 1
362+authority provided in this Act. 2
363+AMERICAN SECTIONS, INTERNATIONAL COMMISSIONS 3
364+For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided, for 4
365+the International Joint Commission and the International 5
366+Boundary Commission, United States and Canada, as au-6
367+thorized by treaties between the United States and Can-7
368+ada or Great Britain, and for technical assistance grants 8
369+and the Community Assistance Program of the North 9
370+American Development Bank, $16,204,000: Provided, 10
371+That of the amount provided under this heading for the 11
372+International Joint Commission, up to $1,250,000 may re-12
373+main available until September 30, 2025, and up to 13
374+$9,000 may be made available for representation expenses: 14
375+Provided further, That of the amount provided under this 15
376+heading for the International Boundary Commission, up 16
377+to $1,000 may be made available for representation ex-17
378+penses. 18
379+INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES COMMISSIONS 19
380+For necessary expenses for international fisheries 20
381+commissions, not otherwise provided for, as authorized by 21
382+law, $62,864,000: Provided, That the United States share 22
383+of such expenses may be advanced to the respective com-23
384+missions pursuant to section 3324 of title 31, United 24
385+States Code. 25
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387+•HR 4665 EH
388+RELATED AGENCY 1
389+U
390+NITEDSTATESAGENCY FORGLOBALMEDIA 2
391+INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING OPERATIONS 3
392+For necessary expenses to enable the United States 4
393+Agency for Global Media (USAGM), as authorized, to 5
394+carry out international communication activities, and to 6
395+make and supervise grants for radio, Internet, and tele-7
396+vision broadcasting to the Middle East, $798,196,000, of 8
397+which $39,910,000 may remain available until September 9
398+30, 2025: Provided, That in addition to amounts otherwise 10
399+available for such purposes, up to $64,208,000 of the 11
400+amount appropriated under this heading may remain 12
401+available until expended for satellite transmissions and 13
402+Internet freedom programs, of which not less than 14
403+$43,500,000 shall be for Internet freedom programs: Pro-15
404+vided further, That of the funds appropriated under this 16
405+heading, not less than $35,000,000 shall be made avail-17
406+able for the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB) pursuant 18
407+to the requirements included in section 7045 of this Act: 19
408+Provided further, That of the funds appropriated under 20
409+this heading and made available for the Open Technology 21
410+Fund, not less than $5,000,000 shall be made available 22
411+for grants for innovative methods to reach audiences in-23
412+side of Cuba: Provided further, That such funds are in ad-24
413+dition to amounts otherwise made available for such pur-25
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415+•HR 4665 EH
416+poses: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated 1
417+under this heading and made available for USAGM net-2
418+works, not less than $5,000,000 shall be made available 3
419+for programming produced about Cuba by OCB, which are 4
420+in addition to funds made available for OCB: Provided fur-5
421+ther, That of the total amount appropriated under this 6
422+heading, not to exceed $35,000 may be used for represen-7
423+tation expenses, of which $10,000 may be used for such 8
424+expenses within the United States as authorized, and not 9
425+to exceed $30,000 may be used for representation ex-10
426+penses of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Provided fur-11
427+ther, That funds appropriated under this heading shall be 12
428+made available in accordance with the principles and 13
429+standards set forth in section 303(a) and (b) of the United 14
430+States International Broadcasting Act of 1994 (22 U.S.C. 15
431+6202) and section 305(b) of such Act (22 U.S.C. 6204): 16
432+Provided further, That the USAGM Chief Executive Offi-17
433+cer shall notify the Committees on Appropriations within 18
434+15 days of any determination by the USAGM that any 19
435+of its broadcast entities, including its grantee organiza-20
436+tions, provides an open platform for international terror-21
437+ists or those who support international terrorism, or is in 22
438+violation of the principles and standards set forth in sec-23
439+tion 303(a) and (b) of such Act or the entity’s journalistic 24
440+code of ethics: Provided further, That in addition to funds 25
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442+•HR 4665 EH
443+made available under this heading, and notwithstanding 1
444+any other provision of law, up to $5,000,000 in receipts 2
445+from advertising and revenue from business ventures, up 3
446+to $500,000 in receipts from cooperating international or-4
447+ganizations, and up to $1,000,000 in receipts from privat-5
448+ization efforts of the Voice of America and the Inter-6
449+national Broadcasting Bureau, shall remain available until 7
450+expended for carrying out authorized purposes: Provided 8
451+further, That significant modifications to USAGM broad-9
452+cast hours previously justified to Congress, including 10
453+changes to transmission platforms (shortwave, medium 11
454+wave, satellite, Internet, and television), for all USAGM 12
455+language services shall be subject to the regular notifica-13
456+tion procedures of the Committees on Appropriations. 14
457+BROADCASTING CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS 15
458+For the purchase, rent, construction, repair, preser-16
459+vation, and improvement of facilities for radio, television, 17
460+and digital transmission and reception; the purchase, rent, 18
461+and installation of necessary equipment for radio, tele-19
462+vision, and digital transmission and reception, including 20
463+to Cuba, as authorized; and physical security worldwide, 21
464+in addition to amounts otherwise available for such pur-22
465+poses, $9,700,000, to remain available until expended, as 23
466+authorized. 24
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469+RELATED PROGRAMS 1
470+T
471+HEASIAFOUNDATION 2
472+For a grant to The Asia Foundation, as authorized 3
473+by The Asia Foundation Act (22 U.S.C. 4402), 4
474+$19,580,000, to remain available until expended. 5
475+U
476+NITEDSTATESINSTITUTE OFPEACE 6
477+For necessary expenses of the United States Institute 7
478+of Peace, as authorized by the United States Institute of 8
479+Peace Act (22 U.S.C. 4601 et seq.), $38,634,000, to re-9
480+main available until September 30, 2025, which shall not 10
481+be used for construction activities. 11
482+C
483+ENTER FORMIDDLEEASTERN-WESTERNDIALOGUE 12
484+T
485+RUSTFUND 13
486+For necessary expenses of the Center for Middle 14
487+Eastern-Western Dialogue Trust Fund, as authorized by 15
488+section 633 of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and 16
489+State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations 17
490+Act, 2004 (22 U.S.C. 2078), the total amount of the inter-18
491+est and earnings accruing to such Fund on or before Sep-19
492+tember 30, 2024, to remain available until expended. 20
493+E
494+ISENHOWEREXCHANGEFELLOWSHIPPROGRAM 21
495+For necessary expenses of Eisenhower Exchange Fel-22
496+lowships, Incorporated, as authorized by sections 4 and 23
497+5 of the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Act of 1990 (20 24
498+U.S.C. 5204–5205), all interest and earnings accruing to 25
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500+•HR 4665 EH
501+the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Program Trust 1
502+Fund on or before September 30, 2024, to remain avail-2
503+able until expended: Provided, That none of the funds ap-3
504+propriated herein shall be used to pay any salary or other 4
505+compensation, or to enter into any contract providing for 5
506+the payment thereof, in excess of the rate authorized by 6
507+section 5376 of title 5, United States Code; or for pur-7
508+poses which are not in accordance with section 200 of title 8
509+2 of the Code of Federal Regulations, including the re-9
510+strictions on compensation for personal services. 10
346511 I
347-NTERNATIONALCOMMISSIONS 14
348-For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 15
349-to meet obligations of the United States arising under 16
350-treaties, or specific Acts of Congress, as follows: 17
351-INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION , 18
352-UNITED STATES AND MEXICO 19
353-For necessary expenses for the United States Section 20
354-of the International Boundary and Water Commission, 21
355-United States and Mexico, and to comply with laws appli-22
356-cable to the United States Section, including not to exceed 23
357-$6,000 for representation expenses, as follows: 24
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361-SALARIES AND EXPENSES 1
362-For salaries and expenses, not otherwise provided for, 2
363-$70,000,000, of which $10,500,000 may remain available 3
364-until September 30, 2025. 4
365-CONSTRUCTION 5
366-For detailed plan preparation and construction of au-6
367-thorized projects, $76,530,000, to remain available until 7
368-expended, as authorized: Provided, That of the funds ap-8
369-propriated under this heading in this Act and prior Acts 9
370-making appropriations for the Department of State, for-10
371-eign operations, and related programs for the United 11
372-States Section, up to $5,000,000 may be transferred to, 12
373-and merged with, funds appropriated under the heading 13
374-‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ to carry out the purposes of the 14
375-United States Section, which shall be subject to prior con-15
376-sultation with, and the regular notification procedures of, 16
377-the Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That 17
378-such transfer authority is in addition to any other transfer 18
379-authority provided in this Act. 19
380-AMERICAN SECTIONS, INTERNATIONAL COMMISSIONS 20
381-For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided, for 21
382-the International Joint Commission and the International 22
383-Boundary Commission, United States and Canada, as au-23
384-thorized by treaties between the United States and Can-24
385-ada or Great Britain, and for technical assistance grants 25
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389-and the Community Assistance Program of the North 1
390-American Development Bank, $16,204,000: Provided, 2
391-That of the amount provided under this heading for the 3
392-International Joint Commission, up to $1,250,000 may re-4
393-main available until September 30, 2025, and up to 5
394-$9,000 may be made available for representation expenses: 6
395-Provided further, That of the amount provided under this 7
396-heading for the International Boundary Commission, up 8
397-to $1,000 may be made available for representation ex-9
398-penses. 10
399-INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES COMMISSIONS 11
400-For necessary expenses for international fisheries 12
401-commissions, not otherwise provided for, as authorized by 13
402-law, $62,864,000: Provided, That the United States share 14
403-of such expenses may be advanced to the respective com-15
404-missions pursuant to section 3324 of title 31, United 16
405-States Code. 17
406-RELATED AGENCY 18
512+SRAELIARABSCHOLARSHIPPROGRAM 11
513+For necessary expenses of the Israeli Arab Scholar-12
514+ship Program, as authorized by section 214 of the Foreign 13
515+Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 14
516+(22 U.S.C. 2452 note), all interest and earnings accruing 15
517+to the Israeli Arab Scholarship Fund on or before Sep-16
518+tember 30, 2024, to remain available until expended. 17
519+E
520+AST-WESTCENTER 18
521+To enable the Secretary of State to provide for car-19
522+rying out the provisions of the Center for Cultural and 20
523+Technical Interchange Between East and West Act of 21
524+1960, by grant to the Center for Cultural and Technical 22
525+Interchange Between East and West in the State of Ha-23
526+waii, $19,580,000. 24
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528+•HR 4665 EH
529+NATIONALENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY 1
530+For grants made by the Department of State to the 2
531+National Endowment for Democracy, as authorized by the 3
532+National Endowment for Democracy Act (22 U.S.C. 4
533+4412), $315,000,000, to remain available until expended, 5
534+of which $215,000,000 shall be allocated in the traditional 6
535+and customary manner, including for the core institutes, 7
536+and $100,000,000 shall be for democracy programs: Pro-8
537+vided, That the requirements of section 7062(a) of this 9
538+Act shall not apply to funds made available under this 10
539+heading. 11
540+OTHER COMMISSIONS 12
541+C
542+OMMISSION FOR THE PRESERVATION OFAMERICA’S 13
543+H
544+ERITAGEABROAD 14
545+SALARIES AND EXPENSES 15
546+For necessary expenses for the Commission for the 16
547+Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, as authorized 17
548+by chapter 3123 of title 54, United States Code, 18
549+$770,000, of which $115,000 may remain available until 19
550+September 30, 2025: Provided, That the Commission may 20
551+procure temporary, intermittent, and other services not-21
552+withstanding paragraph (3) of section 312304(b) of such 22
553+chapter: Provided further, That such authority shall termi-23
554+nate on October 1, 2024: Provided further, That the Com-24
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556+•HR 4665 EH
557+mission shall notify the Committees on Appropriations 1
558+prior to exercising such authority. 2
407559 U
408-NITEDSTATESAGENCY FORGLOBALMEDIA 19
409-INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING OPERATIONS 20
410-For necessary expenses to enable the United States 21
411-Agency for Global Media (USAGM), as authorized, to 22
412-carry out international communication activities, and to 23
413-make and supervise grants for radio, Internet, and tele-24
414-vision broadcasting to the Middle East, $798,196,000, of 25
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417-HR 4665 PCS
418-which $39,910,000 may remain available until September 1
419-30, 2025: Provided, That in addition to amounts otherwise 2
420-available for such purposes, up to $64,208,000 of the 3
421-amount appropriated under this heading may remain 4
422-available until expended for satellite transmissions and 5
423-Internet freedom programs, of which not less than 6
424-$43,500,000 shall be for Internet freedom programs: Pro-7
425-vided further, That of the funds appropriated under this 8
426-heading, not less than $35,000,000 shall be made avail-9
427-able for the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB) pursuant 10
428-to the requirements included in section 7045 of this Act: 11
429-Provided further, That of the funds appropriated under 12
430-this heading and made available for the Open Technology 13
431-Fund, not less than $5,000,000 shall be made available 14
432-for grants for innovative methods to reach audiences in-15
433-side of Cuba: Provided further, That such funds are in ad-16
434-dition to amounts otherwise made available for such pur-17
435-poses: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated 18
436-under this heading and made available for USAGM net-19
437-works, not less than $5,000,000 shall be made available 20
438-for programming produced about Cuba by OCB, which are 21
439-in addition to funds made available for OCB: Provided fur-22
440-ther, That of the total amount appropriated under this 23
441-heading, not to exceed $35,000 may be used for represen-24
442-tation expenses, of which $10,000 may be used for such 25
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445-HR 4665 PCS
446-expenses within the United States as authorized, and not 1
447-to exceed $30,000 may be used for representation ex-2
448-penses of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Provided fur-3
449-ther, That funds appropriated under this heading shall be 4
450-made available in accordance with the principles and 5
451-standards set forth in section 303(a) and (b) of the United 6
452-States International Broadcasting Act of 1994 (22 U.S.C. 7
453-6202) and section 305(b) of such Act (22 U.S.C. 6204): 8
454-Provided further, That the USAGM Chief Executive Offi-9
455-cer shall notify the Committees on Appropriations within 10
456-15 days of any determination by the USAGM that any 11
457-of its broadcast entities, including its grantee organiza-12
458-tions, provides an open platform for international terror-13
459-ists or those who support international terrorism, or is in 14
460-violation of the principles and standards set forth in sec-15
461-tion 303(a) and (b) of such Act or the entity’s journalistic 16
462-code of ethics: Provided further, That in addition to funds 17
463-made available under this heading, and notwithstanding 18
464-any other provision of law, up to $5,000,000 in receipts 19
465-from advertising and revenue from business ventures, up 20
466-to $500,000 in receipts from cooperating international or-21
467-ganizations, and up to $1,000,000 in receipts from privat-22
468-ization efforts of the Voice of America and the Inter-23
469-national Broadcasting Bureau, shall remain available until 24
470-expended for carrying out authorized purposes: Provided 25
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473-HR 4665 PCS
474-further, That significant modifications to USAGM broad-1
475-cast hours previously justified to Congress, including 2
476-changes to transmission platforms (shortwave, medium 3
477-wave, satellite, Internet, and television), for all USAGM 4
478-language services shall be subject to the regular notifica-5
479-tion procedures of the Committees on Appropriations. 6
480-BROADCASTING CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS 7
481-For the purchase, rent, construction, repair, preser-8
482-vation, and improvement of facilities for radio, television, 9
483-and digital transmission and reception; the purchase, rent, 10
484-and installation of necessary equipment for radio, tele-11
485-vision, and digital transmission and reception, including 12
486-to Cuba, as authorized; and physical security worldwide, 13
487-in addition to amounts otherwise available for such pur-14
488-poses, $9,700,000, to remain available until expended, as 15
489-authorized. 16
490-RELATED PROGRAMS 17
491-T
492-HEASIAFOUNDATION 18
493-For a grant to The Asia Foundation, as authorized 19
494-by The Asia Foundation Act (22 U.S.C. 4402), 20
495-$19,580,000, to remain available until expended. 21
560+NITEDSTATESCOMMISSION ONINTERNATIONAL 3
561+R
562+ELIGIOUSFREEDOM 4
563+SALARIES AND EXPENSES 5
564+For necessary expenses for the United States Com-6
565+mission on International Religious Freedom, as authorized 7
566+by title II of the International Religious Freedom Act of 8
567+1998 (22 U.S.C. 6431 et seq.), $4,500,000, to remain 9
568+available until September 30, 2025, including not more 10
569+than $4,000 for representation expenses. 11
570+C
571+OMMISSION ONSECURITY ANDCOOPERATION IN 12
572+E
573+UROPE 13
574+SALARIES AND EXPENSES 14
575+For necessary expenses of the Commission on Secu-15
576+rity and Cooperation in Europe, as authorized by Public 16
577+Law 94–304 (22 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.), $2,908,000, includ-17
578+ing not more than $6,000 for representation expenses, to 18
579+remain available until September 30, 2025. 19
580+C
581+ONGRESSIONAL-EXECUTIVECOMMISSION ON THE 20
582+P
583+EOPLE’SREPUBLIC OFCHINA 21
584+SALARIES AND EXPENSES 22
585+For necessary expenses of the Congressional-Execu-23
586+tive Commission on the People’s Republic of China, as au-24
587+thorized by title III of the U.S.-China Relations Act of 25
588+VerDate Sep 11 2014 14:18 Oct 03, 2023 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 Z:\XMLBILLS\H4665.EH h4665 23
589+•HR 4665 EH
590+2000 (22 U.S.C. 6911 et seq.), $2,300,000, including not 1
591+more than $3,000 for representation expenses, to remain 2
592+available until September 30, 2025. 3
496593 U
497-NITEDSTATESINSTITUTE OFPEACE 22
498-For necessary expenses of the United States Institute 23
499-of Peace, as authorized by the United States Institute of 24
500-Peace Act (22 U.S.C. 4601 et seq.), $38,634,000, to re-25
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503-HR 4665 PCS
504-main available until September 30, 2025, which shall not 1
505-be used for construction activities. 2
506-C
507-ENTER FORMIDDLEEASTERN-WESTERNDIALOGUE 3
508-T
509-RUSTFUND 4
510-For necessary expenses of the Center for Middle 5
511-Eastern-Western Dialogue Trust Fund, as authorized by 6
512-section 633 of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and 7
513-State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations 8
514-Act, 2004 (22 U.S.C. 2078), the total amount of the inter-9
515-est and earnings accruing to such Fund on or before Sep-10
516-tember 30, 2024, to remain available until expended. 11
517-E
518-ISENHOWEREXCHANGEFELLOWSHIPPROGRAM 12
519-For necessary expenses of Eisenhower Exchange Fel-13
520-lowships, Incorporated, as authorized by sections 4 and 14
521-5 of the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Act of 1990 (20 15
522-U.S.C. 5204–5205), all interest and earnings accruing to 16
523-the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Program Trust 17
524-Fund on or before September 30, 2024, to remain avail-18
525-able until expended: Provided, That none of the funds ap-19
526-propriated herein shall be used to pay any salary or other 20
527-compensation, or to enter into any contract providing for 21
528-the payment thereof, in excess of the rate authorized by 22
529-section 5376 of title 5, United States Code; or for pur-23
530-poses which are not in accordance with section 200 of title 24
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533-HR 4665 PCS
534-2 of the Code of Federal Regulations, including the re-1
535-strictions on compensation for personal services. 2
536-I
537-SRAELIARABSCHOLARSHIPPROGRAM 3
538-For necessary expenses of the Israeli Arab Scholar-4
539-ship Program, as authorized by section 214 of the Foreign 5
540-Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 6
541-(22 U.S.C. 2452 note), all interest and earnings accruing 7
542-to the Israeli Arab Scholarship Fund on or before Sep-8
543-tember 30, 2024, to remain available until expended. 9
544-E
545-AST-WESTCENTER 10
546-To enable the Secretary of State to provide for car-11
547-rying out the provisions of the Center for Cultural and 12
548-Technical Interchange Between East and West Act of 13
549-1960, by grant to the Center for Cultural and Technical 14
550-Interchange Between East and West in the State of Ha-15
551-waii, $19,580,000. 16
552-N
553-ATIONALENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY 17
554-For grants made by the Department of State to the 18
555-National Endowment for Democracy, as authorized by the 19
556-National Endowment for Democracy Act (22 U.S.C. 20
557-4412), $315,000,000, to remain available until expended, 21
558-of which $215,000,000 shall be allocated in the traditional 22
559-and customary manner, including for the core institutes, 23
560-and $100,000,000 shall be for democracy programs: Pro-24
561-vided, That the requirements of section 7062(a) of this 25
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564-HR 4665 PCS
565-Act shall not apply to funds made available under this 1
566-heading. 2
567-OTHER COMMISSIONS 3
568-C
569-OMMISSION FOR THE PRESERVATION OFAMERICA’S 4
570-H
571-ERITAGEABROAD 5
594+NITEDSTATES-CHINAECONOMIC ANDSECURITY 4
595+R
596+EVIEWCOMMISSION 5
572597 SALARIES AND EXPENSES 6
573-For necessary expenses for the Commission for the 7
574-Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, as authorized 8
575-by chapter 3123 of title 54, United States Code, 9
576-$770,000, of which $115,000 may remain available until 10
577-September 30, 2025: Provided, That the Commission may 11
578-procure temporary, intermittent, and other services not-12
579-withstanding paragraph (3) of section 312304(b) of such 13
580-chapter: Provided further, That such authority shall termi-14
581-nate on October 1, 2024: Provided further, That the Com-15
582-mission shall notify the Committees on Appropriations 16
583-prior to exercising such authority. 17
584-U
585-NITEDSTATESCOMMISSION ONINTERNATIONAL 18
586-R
587-ELIGIOUSFREEDOM 19
588-SALARIES AND EXPENSES 20
589-For necessary expenses for the United States Com-21
590-mission on International Religious Freedom, as authorized 22
591-by title II of the International Religious Freedom Act of 23
592-1998 (22 U.S.C. 6431 et seq.), $4,500,000, to remain 24
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595-HR 4665 PCS
596-available until September 30, 2025, including not more 1
597-than $4,000 for representation expenses. 2
598-C
599-OMMISSION ONSECURITY ANDCOOPERATION IN 3
600-E
601-UROPE 4
602-SALARIES AND EXPENSES 5
603-For necessary expenses of the Commission on Secu-6
604-rity and Cooperation in Europe, as authorized by Public 7
605-Law 94–304 (22 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.), $2,908,000, includ-8
606-ing not more than $6,000 for representation expenses, to 9
607-remain available until September 30, 2025. 10
608-C
609-ONGRESSIONAL-EXECUTIVECOMMISSION ON THE 11
610-P
611-EOPLE’SREPUBLIC OFCHINA 12
612-SALARIES AND EXPENSES 13
613-For necessary expenses of the Congressional-Execu-14
614-tive Commission on the People’s Republic of China, as au-15
615-thorized by title III of the U.S.-China Relations Act of 16
616-2000 (22 U.S.C. 6911 et seq.), $2,300,000, including not 17
617-more than $3,000 for representation expenses, to remain 18
618-available until September 30, 2025. 19
619-U
620-NITEDSTATES-CHINAECONOMIC ANDSECURITY 20
621-R
622-EVIEWCOMMISSION 21
623-SALARIES AND EXPENSES 22
624-For necessary expenses of the United States-China 23
625-Economic and Security Review Commission, as authorized 24
626-by section 1238 of the Floyd D. Spence National Defense 25
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629-HR 4665 PCS
630-Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (22 U.S.C. 7002), 1
631-$4,000,000, including not more than $4,000 for represen-2
632-tation expenses, to remain available until September 30, 3
633-2025: Provided, That the authorities, requirements, limi-4
634-tations, and conditions contained in the second through 5
635-fifth provisos under this heading in the Department of 6
636-State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appro-7
637-priations Act, 2010 (division F of Public Law 111–117) 8
638-shall continue in effect during fiscal year 2024 and shall 9
639-apply to funds appropriated under this heading. 10
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642-HR 4665 PCS
598+For necessary expenses of the United States-China 7
599+Economic and Security Review Commission, as authorized 8
600+by section 1238 of the Floyd D. Spence National Defense 9
601+Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (22 U.S.C. 7002), 10
602+$4,000,000, including not more than $4,000 for represen-11
603+tation expenses, to remain available until September 30, 12
604+2025: Provided, That the authorities, requirements, limi-13
605+tations, and conditions contained in the second through 14
606+fifth provisos under this heading in the Department of 15
607+State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appro-16
608+priations Act, 2010 (division F of Public Law 111–117) 17
609+shall continue in effect during fiscal year 2024 and shall 18
610+apply to funds appropriated under this heading. 19
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643613 TITLE II 1
644614 UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL 2
645615 DEVELOPMENT 3
646616 F
647617 UNDSAPPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT 4
648618 OPERATING EXPENSES 5
649619 For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 6
650620 of section 667 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 7
651621 $1,214,808,000 (reduced by $26,199,000) (increased by 8
652622 $1,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000), of which up to 9
653623 $182,221,000 may remain available until September 30, 10
654624 2025: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated 11
655625 under this heading and under the heading ‘‘Capital Invest-12
656626 ment Fund’’ in this title may be made available to finance 13
657627 the construction (including architect and engineering serv-14
658628 ices), purchase, or long-term lease of offices for use by 15
659629 the United States Agency for International Development, 16
660630 unless the USAID Administrator has identified such pro-17
661631 posed use of funds in a report submitted to the Commit-18
662632 tees on Appropriations at least 15 days prior to the obliga-19
663633 tion of funds for such purposes: Provided further, That 20
664634 contracts or agreements entered into with funds appro-21
665635 priated under this heading may entail commitments for 22
666636 the expenditure of such funds through the following fiscal 23
667637 year: Provided further, That the authority of sections 610 24
668638 and 109 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 may be 25
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672641 exercised by the Secretary of State to transfer funds ap-1
673642 propriated to carry out chapter 1 of part I of such Act 2
674643 to ‘‘Operating Expenses’’ in accordance with the provi-3
675644 sions of those sections: Provided further, That of the funds 4
676645 appropriated or made available under this heading, not to 5
677646 exceed $250,000 may be available for representation and 6
678647 entertainment expenses, of which not to exceed $5,000 7
679648 may be available for entertainment expenses, and not to 8
680649 exceed $100,500 shall be for official residence expenses, 9
681650 for USAID during the current fiscal year: Provided fur-10
682651 ther, That of the funds appropriated under this heading, 11
683652 up to $20,000,000 may be transferred to, and merged 12
684653 with, funds appropriated or otherwise made available in 13
685654 title II of this Act under the heading ‘‘Capital Investment 14
686655 Fund’’, subject to prior consultation with, and the regular 15
687656 notification procedures of, the Committees on Appropria-16
688657 tions. 17
689658 CAPITAL INVESTMENT FUND 18
690659 For necessary expenses for overseas construction and 19
691660 related costs, and for the procurement and enhancement 20
692661 of information technology and related capital investments, 21
693662 pursuant to section 667 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 22
694663 1961, $230,599,000, to remain available until expended: 23
695664 Provided, That this amount is in addition to funds other-24
696665 wise available for such purposes: Provided further, That 25
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700668 funds appropriated under this heading shall be available 1
701669 subject to the regular notification procedures of the Com-2
702670 mittees on Appropriations. 3
703671 OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 4
704672 For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 5
705673 of section 667 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 6
706674 $87,500,000, of which up to $13,125,000 may remain 7
707675 available until September 30, 2025, for the Office of In-8
708676 spector General of the United States Agency for Inter-9
709677 national Development. 10
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713680 TITLE III 1
714681 BILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE 2
715682 F
716683 UNDSAPPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT 3
717684 For necessary expenses to enable the President to 4
718685 carry out the provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 5
719686 1961, and for other purposes, as follows: 6
720687 GLOBAL HEALTH PROGRAMS 7
721688 For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 8
722689 of chapters 1 and 10 of part I of the Foreign Assistance 9
723690 Act of 1961, for global health activities, in addition to 10
724691 funds otherwise available for such purposes, 11
725692 $3,623,712,000 (reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by 12
726693 $1,000,000) to remain available until September 30, 13
727694 2025, and which shall be apportioned directly to the 14
728695 United States Agency for International Development: Pro-15
729696 vided, That this amount shall be made available for train-16
730697 ing, equipment, and technical assistance to build the ca-17
731698 pacity of public health institutions and organizations in 18
732699 developing countries, and for such activities as: (1) child 19
733700 survival and maternal health programs; (2) immunization 20
734701 and oral rehydration programs; (3) other health, nutrition, 21
735702 water and sanitation programs which directly address the 22
736703 needs of mothers and children, and related education pro-23
737704 grams; (4) assistance for children displaced or orphaned 24
738705 by causes other than AIDS; (5) programs for the preven-25
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742708 tion, treatment, control of, and research on HIV/AIDS, 1
743709 tuberculosis, polio, malaria, and other infectious diseases 2
744710 including neglected tropical diseases, and for assistance to 3
745711 communities severely affected by HIV/AIDS, including 4
746712 children infected or affected by AIDS; (6) disaster pre-5
747713 paredness training for health crises; (7) programs to pre-6
748714 vent, prepare for, and respond to unanticipated and 7
749715 emerging global health threats; and (8) family planning/ 8
750716 reproductive health: Provided further, That funds appro-9
751717 priated under this paragraph may be made available for 10
752718 a United States contribution to The GAVI Alliance: Pro-11
753719 vided further, That none of the funds made available in 12
754720 this Act nor any unobligated balances from prior appro-13
755721 priations Acts may be made available to any organization 14
756722 or program which, as determined by the President of the 15
757723 United States, supports or participates in the manage-16
758724 ment of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary 17
759725 sterilization: Provided further, That any determination 18
760726 made under the previous proviso must be made not later 19
761727 than 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act, 20
762728 and must be accompanied by the evidence and criteria uti-21
763729 lized to make the determination: Provided further, That 22
764730 none of the funds made available under this Act may be 23
765731 used to pay for the performance of abortion as a method 24
766732 of family planning or to motivate or coerce any person 25
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770735 to practice abortions: Provided further, That nothing in 1
771736 this paragraph shall be construed to alter any existing 2
772737 statutory prohibitions against abortion under section 104 3
773738 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961: Provided further, 4
774739 That none of the funds made available under this Act may 5
775740 be used to lobby for or against abortion: Provided further, 6
776741 That in order to reduce reliance on abortion in developing 7
777742 nations, funds shall be available only to voluntary family 8
778743 planning projects which offer, either directly or through 9
779744 referral to, or information about access to, a broad range 10
780745 of family planning methods and services, and that any 11
781746 such voluntary family planning project shall meet the fol-12
782747 lowing requirements: (1) service providers or referral 13
783748 agents in the project shall not implement or be subject 14
784749 to quotas, or other numerical targets, of total number of 15
785750 births, number of family planning acceptors, or acceptors 16
786751 of a particular method of family planning (this provision 17
787752 shall not be construed to include the use of quantitative 18
788753 estimates or indicators for budgeting and planning pur-19
789754 poses); (2) the project shall not include payment of incen-20
790755 tives, bribes, gratuities, or financial reward to: (A) an indi-21
791756 vidual in exchange for becoming a family planning accep-22
792757 tor; or (B) program personnel for achieving a numerical 23
793758 target or quota of total number of births, number of fam-24
794759 ily planning acceptors, or acceptors of a particular method 25
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798762 of family planning; (3) the project shall not deny any right 1
799763 or benefit, including the right of access to participate in 2
800764 any program of general welfare or the right of access to 3
801765 health care, as a consequence of any individual’s decision 4
802766 not to accept family planning services; (4) the project shall 5
803767 provide family planning acceptors comprehensible infor-6
804768 mation on the health benefits and risks of the method cho-7
805769 sen, including those conditions that might render the use 8
806770 of the method inadvisable and those adverse side effects 9
807771 known to be consequent to the use of the method; and 10
808772 (5) the project shall ensure that experimental contracep-11
809773 tive drugs and devices and medical procedures are pro-12
810774 vided only in the context of a scientific study in which 13
811775 participants are advised of potential risks and benefits; 14
812776 and, not less than 60 days after the date on which the 15
813777 USAID Administrator determines that there has been a 16
814778 violation of the requirements contained in paragraph (1), 17
815779 (2), (3), or (5) of this proviso, or a pattern or practice 18
816780 of violations of the requirements contained in paragraph 19
817781 (4) of this proviso, the Administrator shall submit to the 20
818782 Committees on Appropriations a report containing a de-21
819783 scription of such violation and the corrective action taken 22
820784 by the Agency: Provided further, That in awarding grants 23
821785 for natural family planning under section 104 of the For-24
822786 eign Assistance Act of 1961 no applicant shall be discrimi-25
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826789 nated against because of such applicant’s religious or con-1
827790 scientious commitment to offer only natural family plan-2
828791 ning; and, additionally, all such applicants shall comply 3
829792 with the requirements of the previous proviso: Provided 4
830793 further, That for purposes of this or any other Act author-5
831794 izing or appropriating funds for the Department of State, 6
832795 foreign operations, and related programs, the term ‘‘moti-7
833796 vate’’, as it relates to family planning assistance, shall not 8
834797 be construed to prohibit the provision, consistent with 9
835798 local law, of information or counseling about all pregnancy 10
836799 options: Provided further, That information provided about 11
837800 the use of condoms as part of projects or activities that 12
838801 are funded from amounts appropriated by this Act shall 13
839802 be medically accurate and shall include the public health 14
840803 benefits and failure rates of such use. 15
841804 In addition, for necessary expenses to carry out the 16
842805 provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for the 17
843806 prevention, treatment, and control of, and research on, 18
844807 HIV/AIDS, $6,395,000,000, to remain available until 19
845808 September 30, 2028, which shall be apportioned directly 20
846809 to the Department of State: Provided, That funds appro-21
847810 priated under this paragraph may be made available, not-22
848811 withstanding any other provision of law, except for the 23
849812 United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuber-24
850813 culosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 (Public Law 108–25), 25
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854816 for a United States contribution to the Global Fund to 1
855817 Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund): 2
856818 Provided further, That the amount of such contribution 3
857819 shall be $2,000,000,000: Provided further, That up to 5 4
858820 percent of the aggregate amount of funds made available 5
859821 to the Global Fund in fiscal year 2024 may be made avail-6
860822 able to USAID for technical assistance related to the ac-7
861823 tivities of the Global Fund, subject to the regular notifica-8
862824 tion procedures of the Committees on Appropriations: Pro-9
863825 vided further, That of the funds appropriated under this 10
864826 paragraph, up to $20,000,000 may be made available, in 11
865827 addition to amounts otherwise available for such purposes, 12
866828 for administrative expenses of the Office of the United 13
867829 States Global AIDS Coordinator. 14
868830 DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE 15
869831 For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 16
870832 of sections 103, 105, 106, 214, and sections 251 through 17
871833 255, and chapter 10 of part I of the Foreign Assistance 18
872834 Act of 1961, $3,000,000,000, to remain available until 19
873835 September 30, 2025: Provided, That funds made available 20
874836 under this heading shall be apportioned to the United 21
875837 States Agency for International Development. 22
876838 INTERNATIONAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE 23
877839 For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 24
878840 of section 491 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for 25
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882843 international disaster relief, rehabilitation, and recon-1
883844 struction assistance, $3,905,460,000, to remain available 2
884845 until expended: Provided, That funds made available 3
885846 under this heading shall be apportioned to the United 4
886847 States Agency for International Development not later 5
887848 than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act. 6
888849 TRANSITION INITIATIVES 7
889850 For necessary expenses for international disaster re-8
890851 habilitation and reconstruction assistance administered by 9
891852 the Office of Transition Initiatives, United States Agency 10
892853 for International Development, pursuant to section 491 of 11
893854 the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, and to support transi-12
894855 tion to democracy and long-term development of countries 13
895856 in crisis, $80,000,000, to remain available until expended: 14
896857 Provided, That such support may include assistance to de-15
897858 velop, strengthen, or preserve democratic institutions and 16
898859 processes, revitalize basic infrastructure, and foster the 17
899860 peaceful resolution of conflict: Provided further, That 18
900861 funds appropriated under this heading may not be made 19
901862 available for programs for which the sole purpose is to 20
902863 transport individuals: Provided further, That the USAID 21
903864 Administrator shall submit a report to the Committees on 22
904865 Appropriations at least 5 days prior to beginning a new, 23
905866 or terminating a, program of assistance: Provided further, 24
906867 That if the Secretary of State determines that it is impor-25
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910870 tant to the national interest of the United States to pro-1
911871 vide transition assistance in excess of the amount appro-2
912872 priated under this heading, up to $15,000,000 of the 3
913873 funds appropriated by this Act to carry out the provisions 4
914874 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 may be 5
915875 used for purposes of this heading and under the authori-6
916876 ties applicable to funds appropriated under this heading: 7
917877 Provided further, That funds made available pursuant to 8
918878 the previous proviso shall be made available subject to 9
919879 prior consultation with the Committees on Appropriations. 10
920880 COMPLEX CRISES FUND 11
921881 For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 12
922882 of section 509(b) of the Global Fragility Act of 2019 (title 13
923883 V of division J of Public Law 116–94), $30,000,000 (in-14
924884 creased by $45,000,000) (reduced by $45,000,000), to re-15
925885 main available until expended: Provided, That funds ap-16
926886 propriated under this heading may be made available not-17
927887 withstanding any other provision of law, except sections 18
928888 7007, 7008, and 7018 of this Act and section 620M of 19
929889 the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961: Provided further, 20
930890 That funds appropriated under this heading shall be ap-21
931891 portioned to the United States Agency for International 22
932892 Development. 23
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936895 ECONOMIC SUPPORT FUND 1
937896 For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 2
938897 of chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 3
939898 1961, $2,977,850,000, to remain available until Sep-4
940899 tember 30, 2025. 5
941900 DEMOCRACY FUND 6
942901 For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 7
943902 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for the promotion 8
944903 of democracy globally, including to carry out the purposes 9
945904 of section 502(b)(3) and (5) of Public Law 98–164 (22 10
946905 U.S.C. 4411), $210,700,000, to remain available until 11
947906 September 30, 2025, which shall be made available for the 12
948907 Human Rights and Democracy Fund of the Bureau of De-13
949908 mocracy, Human Rights, and Labor, Department of 14
950909 State: Provided, That funds appropriated under this head-15
951910 ing that are made available to the National Endowment 16
952911 for Democracy and its core institutes are in addition to 17
953912 amounts otherwise made available by this Act for such 18
954913 purposes: Provided further, That the Assistant Secretary 19
955914 for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, Department 20
956915 of State, shall consult with the Committees on Appropria-21
957916 tions prior to the initial obligation of funds appropriated 22
958917 under this paragraph. 23
959918 For an additional amount for such purposes, 24
960919 $145,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 25
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964922 2025, which shall be made available for the Bureau for 1
965923 Development, Democracy, and Innovation, United States 2
966924 Agency for International Development. 3
967925 ASSISTANCE FOR EUROPE , EURASIA AND CENTRAL ASIA 4
968926 For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 5
969927 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, the FREEDOM 6
970928 Support Act (Public Law 102–511), and the Support for 7
971929 Eastern European Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989 (Pub-8
972930 lic Law 101–179), $770,334,000 (reduced by 9
973931 $10,000,000) (increased by $10,000,000), to remain avail-10
974932 able until September 30, 2025, which shall be available, 11
975933 notwithstanding any other provision of law, except section 12
976934 7047 of this Act, for assistance and related programs for 13
977935 countries identified in section 3 of the FREEDOM Sup-14
978936 port Act (22 U.S.C. 5801) and section 3(c) of the SEED 15
979937 Act of 1989 (22 U.S.C. 5402), in addition to funds other-16
980938 wise available for such purposes: Provided, That funds ap-17
981939 propriated by this Act under the headings ‘‘Global Health 18
982940 Programs’’, ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, and ‘‘Inter-19
983941 national Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement’’ that 20
984942 are made available for assistance for such countries shall 21
985943 be administered in accordance with the responsibilities of 22
986944 the coordinator designated pursuant to section 102 of the 23
987945 FREEDOM Support Act and section 601 of the SEED 24
988946 Act of 1989: Provided further, That funds appropriated 25
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992949 under this heading shall be considered to be economic as-1
993950 sistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for 2
994951 purposes of making available the administrative authori-3
995952 ties contained in that Act for the use of economic assist-4
996953 ance: Provided further, That funds appropriated under this 5
997954 heading may be made available for contributions to multi-6
998955 lateral initiatives to counter hybrid threats. 7
999956 D
1000957 EPARTMENT OFSTATE 8
1001958 MIGRATION AND REFUGEE ASSISTANCE 9
1002959 For necessary expenses not otherwise provided for, 10
1003960 to enable the Secretary of State to carry out the provisions 11
1004961 of section 2(a) and (b) of the Migration and Refugee As-12
1005962 sistance Act of 1962 (22 U.S.C. 2601), and other activi-13
1006963 ties to meet refugee and migration needs; salaries and ex-14
1007964 penses of personnel and dependents as authorized by the 15
1008965 Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3901 et seq.); 16
1009966 allowances as authorized by sections 5921 through 5925 17
1010967 of title 5, United States Code; purchase and hire of pas-18
1011968 senger motor vehicles; and services as authorized by sec-19
1012969 tion 3109 of title 5, United States Code, $2,548,250,000, 20
1013970 to remain available until expended, of which not less than 21
1014971 $5,000,000 shall be made available for refugees resettling 22
1015972 in Israel. 23
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1019975 INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 1
1020976 PEACE CORPS 2
1021977 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 3
1022978 For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 4
1023979 of the Peace Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), including 5
1024980 the purchase of not to exceed five passenger motor vehicles 6
1025981 for administrative purposes for use outside of the United 7
1026982 States, $410,500,000, of which $7,300,000 (increased by 8
1027983 $2,700,000) is for the Office of Inspector General, to re-9
1028984 main available until September 30, 2025: Provided, That 10
1029985 the Director of the Peace Corps may transfer to the For-11
1030986 eign Currency Fluctuations Account, as authorized by sec-12
1031987 tion 16 of the Peace Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 2515), an 13
1032988 amount not to exceed $5,000,000: Provided further, That 14
1033989 funds transferred pursuant to the previous proviso may 15
1034990 not be derived from amounts made available for Peace 16
1035991 Corps overseas operations: Provided further, That of the 17
1036992 funds appropriated under this heading, not to exceed 18
1037993 $104,000 may be available for representation expenses, of 19
1038994 which not to exceed $4,000 may be made available for en-20
1039995 tertainment expenses: Provided further, That in addition 21
1040996 to the requirements under section 7015(a) of this Act, the 22
1041997 Peace Corps shall consult with the Committees on Appro-23
1042998 priations prior to any decision to open, close, or suspend 24
1043999 a domestic or overseas office or a country program unless 25
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10471002 there is a substantial risk to volunteers or other Peace 1
10481003 Corps personnel: Provided further, That none of the funds 2
10491004 appropriated under this heading shall be used to pay for 3
10501005 abortions: Provided further, That notwithstanding the pre-4
10511006 vious proviso, section 614 of division E of Public Law 5
10521007 113–76 shall apply to funds appropriated under this head-6
10531008 ing. 7
10541009 MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION 8
10551010 For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 9
10561011 of the Millennium Challenge Act of 2003 (22 U.S.C. 7701 10
10571012 et seq.) (MCA), $905,000,000, to remain available until 11
10581013 expended: Provided, That of the funds appropriated under 12
10591014 this heading, up to $122,000,000 may be available for ad-13
10601015 ministrative expenses of the Millennium Challenge Cor-14
10611016 poration: Provided further, That section 605(e) of the 15
10621017 MCA (22 U.S.C. 7704(e)) shall apply to funds appro-16
10631018 priated under this heading: Provided further, That funds 17
10641019 appropriated under this heading may be made available 18
10651020 for a Millennium Challenge Compact entered into pursu-19
10661021 ant to section 609 of the MCA (22 U.S.C. 7708) only if 20
10671022 such Compact obligates, or contains a commitment to obli-21
10681023 gate subject to the availability of funds and the mutual 22
10691024 agreement of the parties to the Compact to proceed, the 23
10701025 entire amount of the United States Government funding 24
10711026 anticipated for the duration of the Compact: Provided fur-25
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10751029 ther, That of the funds appropriated under this heading, 1
10761030 not to exceed $100,000 may be available for representa-2
10771031 tion and entertainment expenses, of which not to exceed 3
10781032 $5,000 may be available for entertainment expenses. 4
10791033 INTER-AMERICAN FOUNDATION 5
10801034 For necessary expenses to carry out the functions of 6
10811035 the Inter-American Foundation in accordance with the 7
10821036 provisions of section 401 of the Foreign Assistance Act 8
10831037 of 1969, $22,500,000, to remain available until September 9
10841038 30, 2025: Provided, That of the funds appropriated under 10
10851039 this heading, not to exceed $2,000 may be available for 11
10861040 representation expenses. 12
10871041 UNITED STATES AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION 13
10881042 For necessary expenses to carry out the African De-14
10891043 velopment Foundation Act (title V of Public Law 96–533; 15
10901044 22 U.S.C. 290h et seq.), $30,000,000, to remain available 16
10911045 until September 30, 2025, of which not to exceed $2,000 17
10921046 may be available for representation expenses: Provided, 18
10931047 That funds made available to grantees may be invested 19
10941048 pending expenditure for project purposes when authorized 20
10951049 by the Board of Directors of the United States African 21
10961050 Development Foundation (USADF): Provided further, 22
10971051 That interest earned shall be used only for the purposes 23
10981052 for which the grant was made: Provided further, That not-24
10991053 withstanding section 505(a)(2) of the African Develop-25
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11031056 ment Foundation Act (22 U.S.C. 290h–3(a)(2)), in excep-1
11041057 tional circumstances the Board of Directors of the 2
11051058 USADF may waive the $250,000 limitation contained in 3
11061059 that section with respect to a project and a project may 4
11071060 exceed the limitation by up to 10 percent if the increase 5
11081061 is due solely to foreign currency fluctuation: Provided fur-6
11091062 ther, That the USADF shall submit a report to the appro-7
11101063 priate congressional committees after each time such waiv-8
11111064 er authority is exercised: Provided further, That the 9
11121065 USADF may make rent or lease payments in advance 10
11131066 from appropriations available for such purpose for offices, 11
11141067 buildings, grounds, and quarters in Africa as may be nec-12
11151068 essary to carry out its functions: Provided further, That 13
11161069 the USADF may maintain bank accounts outside the 14
11171070 United States Treasury and retain any interest earned on 15
11181071 such accounts, in furtherance of the purposes of the Afri-16
11191072 can Development Foundation Act: Provided further, That 17
11201073 the USADF may not withdraw any appropriation from the 18
11211074 Treasury prior to the need of spending such funds for pro-19
11221075 gram purposes. 20
11231076 D
11241077 EPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 21
11251078 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE 22
11261079 For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 23
11271080 of section 129 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 24
11281081 $30,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which 25
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11321084 not more than $6,000,000 may be used for administrative 1
11331085 expenses: Provided, That amounts made available under 2
11341086 this heading may be made available to contract for services 3
11351087 as described in section 129(d)(3)(A) of the Foreign Assist-4
11361088 ance Act of 1961, without regard to the location in which 5
11371089 such services are performed. 6
11381090 DEBT RESTRUCTURING 7
11391091 For ‘‘Bilateral Economic Assistance—Department of 8
11401092 the Treasury—Debt Restructuring’’ there is appropriated 9
11411093 $46,280,000, to remain available until September 30, 10
11421094 2027, for the costs, as defined in section 502 of the Con-11
11431095 gressional Budget Act of 1974, of modifying loans and 12
11441096 loan guarantees for, or credits extended to, such countries 13
11451097 as the President may determine, including the costs of 14
11461098 selling, reducing, or canceling amounts owed to the United 15
11471099 States pursuant to multilateral debt restructurings, in-16
11481100 cluding Paris Club debt restructurings and the ‘‘Common 17
11491101 Framework for Debt Treatments beyond the Debt Service 18
11501102 Suspension Initiative’’: Provided, That such amounts may 19
11511103 be used notwithstanding any other provision of law. 20
11521104 TROPICAL FOREST AND CORAL REEF CONSERVATION 21
11531105 For the costs, as defined in section 502 of the Con-22
11541106 gressional Budget Act of 1974, of modifying loans and 23
11551107 loan guarantees, as the President may determine, for 24
11561108 which funds have been appropriated or otherwise made 25
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11601111 available for programs within the International Affairs 1
11611112 Budget Function 150, including the costs of selling, reduc-2
11621113 ing, or canceling amounts owed to the United States as 3
11631114 a result of concessional loans made to eligible countries 4
11641115 pursuant to part V of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 5
11651116 $15,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 6
11661117 2027. 7
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11701120 TITLE IV 1
11711121 INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ASSISTANCE 2
11721122 D
11731123 EPARTMENT OFSTATE 3
11741124 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL AND LAW 4
11751125 ENFORCEMENT 5
11761126 For necessary expenses to carry out section 481 of 6
11771127 the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, $1,497,469,000 (in-7
11781128 creased by $3,000,000), to remain available until Sep-8
11791129 tember 30, 2025: Provided, That the Department of State 9
11801130 may use the authority of section 608 of the Foreign As-10
11811131 sistance Act of 1961, without regard to its restrictions, 11
11821132 to receive excess property from an agency of the United 12
11831133 States Government for the purpose of providing such 13
11841134 property to a foreign country or international organization 14
11851135 under chapter 8 of part I of such Act, subject to the reg-15
11861136 ular notification procedures of the Committees on Appro-16
11871137 priations: Provided further, That section 482(b) of the 17
11881138 Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 shall not apply to funds 18
11891139 appropriated under this heading, except that any funds 19
11901140 made available notwithstanding such section shall be sub-20
11911141 ject to the regular notification procedures of the Commit-21
11921142 tees on Appropriations: Provided further, That funds ap-22
11931143 propriated under this heading shall be made available to 23
11941144 support training and technical assistance for foreign law 24
11951145 enforcement, corrections, judges, and other judicial au-25
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11991148 thorities, utilizing regional partners: Provided further, 1
12001149 That funds made available under this heading that are 2
12011150 transferred to another department, agency, or instrumen-3
12021151 tality of the United States Government pursuant to sec-4
12031152 tion 632(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 valued 5
12041153 in excess of $5,000,000, and any agreement made pursu-6
12051154 ant to section 632(a) of such Act, shall be subject to the 7
12061155 regular notification procedures of the Committees on Ap-8
12071156 propriations: Provided further, That funds made available 9
12081157 under this heading for Program Development and Support 10
12091158 may be made available notwithstanding pre-obligation re-11
12101159 quirements contained in this Act, except for the notifica-12
12111160 tion requirements of section 7015. 13
12121161 NONPROLIFERATION, ANTI-TERRORISM, DEMINING AND 14
12131162 RELATED PROGRAMS 15
12141163 For necessary expenses for nonproliferation, anti-ter-16
12151164 rorism, demining and related programs and activities, 17
12161165 $921,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 18
12171166 2025, to carry out the provisions of chapter 8 of part II 19
12181167 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for anti-terrorism 20
12191168 assistance, chapter 9 of part II of the Foreign Assistance 21
12201169 Act of 1961, section 504 of the FREEDOM Support Act 22
12211170 (22 U.S.C. 5854), section 23 of the Arms Export Control 23
12221171 Act (22 U.S.C. 2763), or the Foreign Assistance Act of 24
12231172 1961 for demining activities, the clearance of unexploded 25
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12271175 ordnance, the destruction of small arms, and related ac-1
12281176 tivities, notwithstanding any other provision of law, includ-2
12291177 ing activities implemented through nongovernmental and 3
12301178 international organizations, and section 301 of the For-4
12311179 eign Assistance Act of 1961 for a United States contribu-5
12321180 tion to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Pre-6
12331181 paratory Commission, and for a voluntary contribution to 7
12341182 the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): Pro-8
12351183 vided, That funds made available under this heading for 9
12361184 the Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund shall be 10
12371185 made available, notwithstanding any other provision of law 11
12381186 and subject to prior consultation with, and the regular no-12
12391187 tification procedures of, the Committees on Appropria-13
12401188 tions, to promote bilateral and multilateral activities relat-14
12411189 ing to nonproliferation, disarmament, and weapons de-15
12421190 struction, and shall remain available until expended: Pro-16
12431191 vided further, That such funds may also be used for such 17
12441192 countries other than the Independent States of the former 18
12451193 Soviet Union and international organizations when it is 19
12461194 in the national security interest of the United States to 20
12471195 do so: Provided further, That funds appropriated under 21
12481196 this heading may be made available for the IAEA unless 22
12491197 the Secretary of State determines that Israel is being de-23
12501198 nied its right to participate in the activities of that Agen-24
12511199 cy: Provided further, That funds made available for con-25
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12551202 ventional weapons destruction programs, including 1
12561203 demining and related activities, in addition to funds other-2
12571204 wise available for such purposes, may be used for adminis-3
12581205 trative expenses related to the operation and management 4
12591206 of such programs and activities, subject to the regular no-5
12601207 tification procedures of the Committees on Appropria-6
12611208 tions. 7
12621209 PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS 8
12631210 For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 9
12641211 of section 551 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 10
12651212 $420,458,000, of which $301,133,000 may remain avail-11
12661213 able until September 30, 2025: Provided, That funds ap-12
12671214 propriated under this heading may be used, notwith-13
12681215 standing section 660 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 14
12691216 1961, to provide assistance to enhance the capacity of for-15
12701217 eign civilian security forces, including gendarmes, to par-16
12711218 ticipate in peacekeeping operations: Provided further, That 17
12721219 of the funds appropriated under this heading, not less 18
12731220 than $30,000,000 shall be made available for a United 19
12741221 States contribution to the Multinational Force and Ob-20
12751222 servers mission in the Sinai: Provided further, That funds 21
12761223 appropriated under this heading may be made available 22
12771224 to pay assessed expenses of international peacekeeping ac-23
12781225 tivities in Somalia under the same terms and conditions, 24
12791226 as applicable, as funds appropriated by this Act under the 25
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12831229 heading ‘‘Contributions for International Peacekeeping 1
12841230 Activities’’: Provided further, That funds appropriated 2
12851231 under this heading shall be subject to the regular notifica-3
12861232 tion procedures of the Committees on Appropriations. 4
12871233 F
12881234 UNDSAPPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT 5
12891235 INTERNATIONAL MILITARY EDUCATION AND TRAINING 6
12901236 For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 7
12911237 of section 541 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 8
12921238 $125,425,000, to remain available until September 30, 9
12931239 2025: Provided, That the civilian personnel for whom mili-10
12941240 tary education and training may be provided under this 11
12951241 heading may include civilians who are not members of a 12
12961242 government whose participation would contribute to im-13
12971243 proved civil-military relations, civilian control of the mili-14
12981244 tary, or respect for human rights: Provided further, That 15
12991245 of the funds appropriated under this heading, $3,500,000 16
13001246 shall remain available until expended to increase the par-17
13011247 ticipation of women in programs and activities funded 18
13021248 under this heading, following consultation with the Com-19
13031249 mittees on Appropriations: Provided further, That of the 20
13041250 funds appropriated under this heading, not to exceed 21
13051251 $50,000 may be available for entertainment expenses. 22
13061252 FOREIGN MILITARY FINANCING PROGRAM 23
13071253 For necessary expenses for grants to enable the 24
13081254 President to carry out the provisions of section 23 of the 25
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13121257 Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2763), 1
13131258 $6,703,049,000: Provided, That to expedite the provision 2
13141259 of assistance to foreign countries and international organi-3
13151260 zations, the Secretary of State, following consultation with 4
13161261 the Committees on Appropriations and subject to the reg-5
13171262 ular notification procedures of such Committees, may use 6
13181263 the funds appropriated under this heading to procure de-7
13191264 fense articles and services to enhance the capacity of for-8
13201265 eign security forces: Provided further, That funds appro-9
13211266 priated or otherwise made available under this heading 10
13221267 shall be nonrepayable notwithstanding any requirement in 11
13231268 section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act: Provided fur-12
13241269 ther, That funds made available under this heading shall 13
13251270 be obligated upon apportionment in accordance with para-14
13261271 graph (5)(C) of section 1501(a) of title 31, United States 15
13271272 Code. 16
13281273 None of the funds made available under this heading 17
13291274 shall be available to finance the procurement of defense 18
13301275 articles, defense services, or design and construction serv-19
13311276 ices that are not sold by the United States Government 20
13321277 under the Arms Export Control Act unless the foreign 21
13331278 country proposing to make such procurement has first 22
13341279 signed an agreement with the United States Government 23
13351280 specifying the conditions under which such procurement 24
13361281 may be financed with such funds: Provided, That all coun-25
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13401284 try and funding level increases in allocations shall be sub-1
13411285 mitted through the regular notification procedures of sec-2
13421286 tion 7015 of this Act: Provided further, That funds made 3
13431287 available under this heading may be used, notwithstanding 4
13441288 any other provision of law, for demining, the clearance of 5
13451289 unexploded ordnance, and related activities, and may in-6
13461290 clude activities implemented through nongovernmental 7
13471291 and international organizations: Provided further, That a 8
13481292 country that is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty 9
13491293 Organization (NATO) or is a major non-NATO ally des-10
13501294 ignated by section 517(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act 11
13511295 of 1961 may utilize funds made available under this head-12
13521296 ing for procurement of defense articles, defense services, 13
13531297 or design and construction services that are not sold by 14
13541298 the United States Government under the Arms Export 15
13551299 Control Act: Provided further, That funds appropriated 16
13561300 under this heading shall be expended at the minimum rate 17
13571301 necessary to make timely payment for defense articles and 18
13581302 services: Provided further, That not more than 19
13591303 $72,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading 20
13601304 may be obligated for necessary expenses, including the 21
13611305 purchase of passenger motor vehicles for replacement only 22
13621306 for use outside of the United States, for the general costs 23
13631307 of administering military assistance and sales, except that 24
13641308 this limitation may be exceeded only through the regular 25
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13681311 notification procedures of the Committees on Appropria-1
13691312 tions: Provided further, That of the funds made available 2
13701313 under this heading for general costs of administering mili-3
13711314 tary assistance and sales, not to exceed $4,000 may be 4
13721315 available for entertainment expenses and not to exceed 5
13731316 $130,000 may be available for representation expenses: 6
13741317 Provided further, That not more than $1,541,392,546 of 7
13751318 funds realized pursuant to section 21(e)(1)(A) of the Arms 8
13761319 Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2761(e)(1)(A)) may be ob-9
13771320 ligated for expenses incurred by the Department of De-10
13781321 fense during fiscal year 2024 pursuant to section 43(b) 11
13791322 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2792(b)), ex-12
13801323 cept that this limitation may be exceeded only through the 13
13811324 regular notification procedures of the Committees on Ap-14
13821325 propriations. 15
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13861328 TITLE V 1
13871329 MULTILATERAL ASSISTANCE 2
13881330 I
13891331 NTERNATIONALFINANCIALINSTITUTIONS 3
13901332 GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY 4
13911333 For payment to the International Bank for Recon-5
13921334 struction and Development as trustee for the Global Envi-6
13931335 ronment Facility by the Secretary of the Treasury, 7
13941336 $139,575,000, to remain available until expended. 8
13951337 CONTRIBUTION TO THE INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR 9
13961338 RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT 10
13971339 For payment to the International Bank for Recon-11
13981340 struction and Development by the Secretary of the Treas-12
13991341 ury for the United States share of the paid-in portion of 13
14001342 the increases in capital stock, $206,500,000, to remain 14
14011343 available until expended. 15
14021344 LIMITATION ON CALLABLE CAPITAL SUBSCRIPTIONS 16
14031345 The United States Governor of the International 17
14041346 Bank for Reconstruction and Development may subscribe 18
14051347 without fiscal year limitation to the callable capital portion 19
14061348 of the United States share of increases in capital stock 20
14071349 in an amount not to exceed $1,421,275,728.70. 21
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14111352 CONTRIBUTION TO THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 1
14121353 ASSOCIATION 2
14131354 For payment to the International Development Asso-3
14141355 ciation by the Secretary of the Treasury, $1,097,010,000, 4
14151356 to remain available until expended. 5
14161357 CONTRIBUTION TO THE ASIAN DEVELOPMENT FUND 6
14171358 For payment to the Asian Development Bank’s Asian 7
14181359 Development Fund by the Secretary of the Treasury, 8
14191360 $43,610,000, to remain available until expended. 9
14201361 CONTRIBUTION TO THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK 10
14211362 For payment to the African Development Bank by 11
14221363 the Secretary of the Treasury for the United States share 12
14231364 of the paid-in portion of the increases in capital stock, 13
14241365 $32,417,000, to remain available until expended. 14
14251366 LIMITATION ON CALLABLE CAPITAL SUBSCRIPTIONS 15
14261367 The United States Governor of the African Develop-16
14271368 ment Bank may subscribe without fiscal year limitation 17
14281369 to the callable capital portion of the United States share 18
14291370 of increases in capital stock in an amount not to exceed 19
14301371 $856,174,624. 20
14311372 CONTRIBUTION TO THE INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR 21
14321373 AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT 22
14331374 For payment to the International Fund for Agricul-23
14341375 tural Development by the Secretary of the Treasury, 24
14351376 $30,000,000, to remain available until expended. 25
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14391379 TITLE VI 1
14401380 EXPORT AND INVESTMENT ASSISTANCE 2
14411381 E
14421382 XPORT-IMPORTBANK OF THEUNITEDSTATES 3
14431383 INSPECTOR GENERAL 4
14441384 For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 5
14451385 General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector 6
14461386 General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.), $8,860,000, of 7
14471387 which up to $1,329,000 may remain available until Sep-8
14481388 tember 30, 2025. 9
14491389 PROGRAM ACCOUNT 10
14501390 The Export-Import Bank of the United States is au-11
14511391 thorized to make such expenditures within the limits of 12
14521392 funds and borrowing authority available to such corpora-13
14531393 tion, and in accordance with law, and to make such con-14
14541394 tracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year limi-15
14551395 tations, as provided by section 9104 of title 31, United 16
14561396 States Code, as may be necessary in carrying out the pro-17
14571397 gram for the current fiscal year for such corporation: Pro-18
14581398 vided, That none of the funds available during the current 19
14591399 fiscal year may be used to make expenditures, contracts, 20
14601400 or commitments for the export of nuclear equipment, fuel, 21
14611401 or technology to any country, other than a nuclear-weapon 22
14621402 state as defined in Article IX of the Treaty on the Non- 23
14631403 Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons eligible to receive eco-24
14641404 nomic or military assistance under this Act, that has deto-25
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14681407 nated a nuclear explosive after the date of enactment of 1
14691408 this Act. 2
14701409 ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 3
14711410 For administrative expenses to carry out the direct 4
14721411 and guaranteed loan and insurance programs, including 5
14731412 hire of passenger motor vehicles and services as authorized 6
14741413 by section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, and not 7
14751414 to exceed $30,000 for official reception and representation 8
14761415 expenses for members of the Board of Directors, not to 9
14771416 exceed $125,000,000, of which up to $18,750,000 may re-10
14781417 main available until September 30, 2025: Provided, That 11
14791418 the Export-Import Bank (the Bank) may accept, and use, 12
14801419 payment or services provided by transaction participants 13
14811420 for legal, financial, or technical services in connection with 14
14821421 any transaction for which an application for a loan, guar-15
14831422 antee or insurance commitment has been made: Provided 16
14841423 further, That notwithstanding subsection (b) of section 17
14851424 117 of the Export Enhancement Act of 1992, subsection 18
14861425 (a) of such section shall remain in effect until September 19
14871426 30, 2024: Provided further, That the Bank shall charge 20
14881427 fees for necessary expenses (including special services per-21
14891428 formed on a contract or fee basis, but not including other 22
14901429 personal services) in connection with the collection of mon-23
14911430 eys owed the Bank, repossession or sale of pledged collat-24
14921431 eral or other assets acquired by the Bank in satisfaction 25
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14961434 of moneys owed the Bank, or the investigation or appraisal 1
14971435 of any property, or the evaluation of the legal, financial, 2
14981436 or technical aspects of any transaction for which an appli-3
14991437 cation for a loan, guarantee or insurance commitment has 4
15001438 been made, or systems infrastructure directly supporting 5
15011439 transactions: Provided further, That in addition to other 6
15021440 funds appropriated for administrative expenses, such fees 7
15031441 shall be credited to this account for such purposes, to re-8
15041442 main available until expended. 9
15051443 PROGRAM BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS 10
15061444 For the cost of direct loans, loan guarantees, insur-11
15071445 ance, and tied-aid grants as authorized by section 10 of 12
15081446 the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945, as amended, not 13
15091447 to exceed $15,000,000, to remain available until Sep-14
15101448 tember 30, 2027: Provided, That such costs, including the 15
15111449 cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 16
15121450 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided 17
15131451 further, That such funds shall remain available until Sep-18
15141452 tember 30, 2039, for the disbursement of direct loans, 19
15151453 loan guarantees, insurance and tied-aid grants obligated 20
15161454 in fiscal years 2024 through 2027. 21
15171455 RECEIPTS COLLECTED 22
15181456 Receipts collected pursuant to the Export-Import 23
15191457 Bank Act of 1945 (Public Law 79–173) and the Federal 24
15201458 Credit Reform Act of 1990, in an amount not to exceed 25
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15241461 the amount appropriated herein, shall be credited as off-1
15251462 setting collections to this account: Provided, That the 2
15261463 sums herein appropriated from the General Fund shall be 3
15271464 reduced on a dollar-for-dollar basis by such offsetting col-4
15281465 lections so as to result in a final fiscal year appropriation 5
15291466 from the General Fund estimated at $0. 6
15301467 U
15311468 NITEDSTATESINTERNATIONALDEVELOPMENT 7
15321469 F
15331470 INANCECORPORATION 8
15341471 INSPECTOR GENERAL 9
15351472 For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 10
15361473 General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector 11
15371474 General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.), $7,200,000, to re-12
15381475 main available until September 30, 2025. 13
15391476 CORPORATE CAPITAL ACCOUNT 14
15401477 The United States International Development Fi-15
15411478 nance Corporation (the Corporation) is authorized to 16
15421479 make such expenditures and commitments within the lim-17
15431480 its of funds and borrowing authority available to the Cor-18
15441481 poration, and in accordance with the law, and to make 19
15451482 such expenditures and commitments without regard to fis-20
15461483 cal year limitations, as provided by section 9104 of title 21
15471484 31, United States Code, as may be necessary in carrying 22
15481485 out the programs for the current fiscal year for the Cor-23
15491486 poration: Provided, That for necessary expenses of the ac-24
15501487 tivities described in subsections (b), (c), (e), (f), and (g) 25
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15541490 of section 1421 of the BUILD Act of 2018 (division F 1
15551491 of Public Law 115–254) and for administrative expenses 2
15561492 to carry out authorized activities and project-specific 3
15571493 transaction costs described in section 1434(d) of such Act, 4
15581494 $769,029,000: Provided further, That of the amount pro-5
15591495 vided— 6
15601496 (1) $198,000,000 shall remain available until 7
15611497 September 30, 2026, for administrative expenses to 8
15621498 carry out authorized activities (including an amount 9
15631499 for official reception and representation expenses 10
15641500 which shall not exceed $25,000) and project-specific 11
15651501 transaction costs as described in section 1434(k) of 12
15661502 such Act; and 13
15671503 (2) $571,029,000 shall remain available until 14
15681504 September 30, 2026, for the activities described in 15
15691505 subsections (b), (c), (e), (f), and (g) of section 1421 16
15701506 of the BUILD Act of 2018, except such amounts ob-17
15711507 ligated in a fiscal year for activities described in sec-18
15721508 tion 1421(c) of such Act shall remain available for 19
15731509 disbursement for the term of the underlying project: 20
15741510 Provided further, That amounts made available 21
15751511 under this paragraph may be paid to the ‘‘United 22
15761512 States International Development Finance Corpora-23
15771513 tion—Program Account’’ for programs authorized 24
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15811516 by subsections (b), (e), (f), and (g) of section 1421 1
15821517 of the BUILD Act of 2018: 2
15831518 Provided further, That funds may only be obligated pursu-3
15841519 ant to section 1421(g) of the BUILD Act of 2018 subject 4
15851520 to prior consultation with the appropriate congressional 5
15861521 committees and the regular notification procedures of the 6
15871522 Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That 7
15881523 funds appropriated by this Act and prior Acts making ap-8
15891524 propriations for the Department of State, foreign oper-9
15901525 ations, and related programs for support by the Corpora-10
15911526 tion in upper-middle income countries shall be subject to 11
15921527 prior consultation with the Committees on Appropriations: 12
15931528 Provided further, That in fiscal year 2024 collections of 13
15941529 amounts described in section 1434(h) of the BUILD Act 14
15951530 of 2018 shall be credited as offsetting collections to this 15
15961531 appropriation: Provided further, That such collections col-16
15971532 lected in fiscal year 2024 in excess of $769,029,000 shall 17
15981533 be credited to this account and shall be available in future 18
15991534 fiscal years only to the extent provided in advance in ap-19
16001535 propriations Acts: Provided further, That in fiscal year 20
16011536 2024, if such collections are less than $769,029,000, re-21
16021537 ceipts collected pursuant to the BUILD Act of 2018 and 22
16031538 the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990, in an amount 23
16041539 equal to such shortfall, shall be credited as offsetting col-24
16051540 lections to this appropriation: Provided further, That funds 25
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16091543 appropriated or otherwise made available under this head-1
16101544 ing may not be used to provide any type of assistance that 2
16111545 is otherwise prohibited by any other provision of law or 3
16121546 to provide assistance to any foreign country that is other-4
16131547 wise prohibited by any other provision of law: Provided 5
16141548 further, That the sums herein appropriated from the Gen-6
16151549 eral Fund shall be reduced on a dollar-for-dollar basis by 7
16161550 the offsetting collections described under this heading so 8
16171551 as to result in a final fiscal year appropriation from the 9
16181552 General Fund estimated at $558,000,000. 10
16191553 PROGRAM ACCOUNT 11
16201554 Amounts paid from ‘‘United States International De-12
16211555 velopment Finance Corporation—Corporate Capital Ac-13
16221556 count’’ (CCA) shall remain available until September 30, 14
16231557 2026: Provided, That amounts paid to this account from 15
16241558 CCA or transferred to this account pursuant to section 16
16251559 1434(j) of the BUILD Act of 2018 (division F of Public 17
16261560 Law 115–254) shall be available for the costs of direct 18
16271561 and guaranteed loans provided by the Corporation pursu-19
16281562 ant to section 1421(b) of such Act and the costs of modi-20
16291563 fying loans and loan guarantees transferred to the Cor-21
16301564 poration pursuant to section 1463 of such Act: Provided 22
16311565 further, That such costs, including the cost of modifying 23
16321566 such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Con-24
16331567 gressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That 25
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16371570 such amounts obligated in a fiscal year shall remain avail-1
16381571 able for disbursement for the following 8 fiscal years: Pro-2
16391572 vided further, That funds made available in this Act and 3
16401573 transferred to carry out the Foreign Assistance Act of 4
16411574 1961 pursuant to section 1434(j) of the BUILD Act of 5
16421575 2018 may remain available for obligation for 1 additional 6
16431576 fiscal year: Provided further, That the total loan principal 7
16441577 or guaranteed principal amount shall not exceed 8
16451578 $10,000,000,000. 9
16461579 T
16471580 RADE ANDDEVELOPMENTAGENCY 10
16481581 For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 11
16491582 of section 661 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 12
16501583 $87,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 13
16511584 2025, of which no more than $21,000,000 may be used 14
16521585 for administrative expenses: Provided, That of the funds 15
16531586 appropriated under this heading, not more than $5,000 16
16541587 may be available for representation and entertainment ex-17
16551588 penses. 18
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16591591 TITLE VII 1
16601592 GENERAL PROVISIONS 2
16611593 ALLOWANCES AND DIFFERENTIALS 3
16621594 S
16631595 EC. 7001. Funds appropriated under title I of this 4
16641596 Act shall be available, except as otherwise provided, for 5
16651597 allowances and differentials as authorized by subchapter 6
16661598 59 of title 5, United States Code; for services as author-7
16671599 ized by section 3109 of such title and for hire of passenger 8
16681600 transportation pursuant to section 1343(b) of title 31, 9
16691601 United States Code. 10
16701602 UNOBLIGATED BALANCES REPORT 11
16711603 S
16721604 EC. 7002. Any department or agency of the United 12
16731605 States Government to which funds are appropriated or 13
16741606 otherwise made available by this Act shall provide to the 14
16751607 Committees on Appropriations a quarterly accounting of 15
16761608 cumulative unobligated balances and obligated, but unex-16
16771609 pended, balances by program, project, and activity, and 17
16781610 Treasury Account Fund Symbol of all funds received by 18
16791611 such department or agency in fiscal year 2024 or any pre-19
16801612 vious fiscal year, disaggregated by fiscal year: Provided, 20
16811613 That the report required by this section shall be submitted 21
16821614 not later than 30 days after the end of each fiscal quarter 22
16831615 and should specify by account the amount of funds obli-23
16841616 gated pursuant to bilateral agreements which have not 24
16851617 been further sub-obligated. 25
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16891620 CONSULTING SERVICES 1
16901621 S
16911622 EC. 7003. The expenditure of any appropriation 2
16921623 under title I of this Act for any consulting service through 3
16931624 procurement contract, pursuant to section 3109 of title 4
16941625 5, United States Code, shall be limited to those contracts 5
16951626 where such expenditures are a matter of public record and 6
16961627 available for public inspection, except where otherwise pro-7
16971628 vided under existing law, or under existing Executive order 8
16981629 issued pursuant to existing law. 9
16991630 DIPLOMATIC FACILITIES 10
17001631 S
17011632 EC. 7004. (a) CAPITALSECURITYCOSTSHARING 11
17021633 E
17031634 XCEPTION.—Notwithstanding paragraph (2) of section 12
17041635 604(e) of the Secure Embassy Construction and Counter-13
17051636 terrorism Act of 1999 (title VI of division A of H.R. 3427, 14
17061637 as enacted into law by section 1000(a)(7) of Public Law 15
17071638 106–113 and contained in appendix G of that Act), as 16
17081639 amended by section 111 of the Department of State Au-17
17091640 thorities Act, Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114–323), a 18
17101641 project to construct a facility of the United States may 19
17111642 include office space or other accommodations for members 20
17121643 of the United States Marine Corps. 21
17131644 (b) C
17141645 ONSULTATION AND NOTIFICATION.—Funds ap-22
17151646 propriated by this Act and prior Acts making appropria-23
17161647 tions for the Department of State, foreign operations, and 24
17171648 related programs, which may be made available for the 25
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17211651 acquisition of property or award of construction contracts 1
17221652 for overseas United States diplomatic facilities during fis-2
17231653 cal year 2024, shall be subject to prior consultation with, 3
17241654 and the regular notification procedures of, the Committees 4
17251655 on Appropriations: Provided, That notifications pursuant 5
17261656 to this subsection shall include the information enumer-6
17271657 ated under the heading ‘‘Embassy Security, Construction, 7
17281658 and Maintenance’’ in the report accompanying this Act. 8
17291659 (c) I
17301660 NTERIM AND TEMPORARY FACILITIES 9
17311661 A
17321662 BROAD.— 10
17331663 (1) S
17341664 ECURITY VULNERABILITIES .—Funds ap-11
17351665 propriated by this Act under the heading ‘‘Embassy 12
17361666 Security, Construction, and Maintenance’’ may be 13
17371667 made available, following consultation with the ap-14
17381668 propriate congressional committees, to address secu-15
17391669 rity vulnerabilities at interim and temporary United 16
17401670 States diplomatic facilities abroad, including physical 17
17411671 security upgrades and local guard staffing. 18
17421672 (2) C
17431673 ONSULTATION.—Notwithstanding any 19
17441674 other provision of law, the opening, closure, or any 20
17451675 significant modification to an interim or temporary 21
17461676 United States diplomatic facility shall be subject to 22
17471677 prior consultation with the appropriate congressional 23
17481678 committees and the regular notification procedures 24
17491679 of the Committees on Appropriations, except that 25
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17531682 such consultation and notification may be waived if 1
17541683 there is a security risk to personnel. 2
17551684 (d) S
17561685 OFTTARGETS.—Funds appropriated by this Act 3
17571686 under the heading ‘‘Embassy Security, Construction, and 4
17581687 Maintenance’’ may be made available for security up-5
17591688 grades to soft targets, including schools, recreational fa-6
17601689 cilities, residences, and places of worship used by United 7
17611690 States diplomatic personnel and their dependents. 8
17621691 (e) L
17631692 IMITATION ONART INEMBASSIES.—Section 9
17641693 5112 of the Department of State Authorization Act of 10
17651694 2021 (title LI of division E of Public Law 117-81) shall 11
17661695 continue in effect during fiscal year 2024, notwithstanding 12
17671696 subsection (c) of such section. 13
17681697 PERSONNEL ACTIONS 14
17691698 S
17701699 EC. 7005. Any costs incurred by a department or 15
17711700 agency funded under title I of this Act resulting from per-16
17721701 sonnel actions taken in response to funding reductions in-17
17731702 cluded in this Act shall be absorbed within the total budg-18
17741703 etary resources available under title I to such department 19
17751704 or agency: Provided, That the authority to transfer funds 20
17761705 between appropriations accounts as may be necessary to 21
17771706 carry out this section is provided in addition to authorities 22
17781707 included elsewhere in this Act: Provided further, That use 23
17791708 of funds to carry out this section shall be treated as a 24
17801709 reprogramming of funds under section 7015 of this Act. 25
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17841712 PROHIBITION ON PUBLICITY OR PROPAGANDA 1
17851713 S
17861714 EC. 7006. No part of any appropriation contained 2
17871715 in this Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda pur-3
17881716 poses within the United States not authorized before en-4
17891717 actment of this Act by Congress: Provided, That up to 5
17901718 $25,000 may be made available to carry out the provisions 6
17911719 of section 316 of the International Security and Develop-7
17921720 ment Cooperation Act of 1980 (Public Law 96–533; 22 8
17931721 U.S.C. 2151a note). 9
17941722 PROHIBITION AGAINST DIRECT FUNDING FOR CERTAIN 10
17951723 COUNTRIES 11
17961724 S
17971725 EC. 7007. None of the funds appropriated or other-12
17981726 wise made available pursuant to titles III through VI of 13
17991727 this Act shall be obligated or expended to finance directly 14
18001728 any assistance or reparations for the governments of 15
18011729 Cuba, North Korea, Iran, or Syria: Provided, That for 16
18021730 purposes of this section, the prohibition on obligations or 17
18031731 expenditures shall include direct loans, credits, insurance, 18
18041732 and guarantees of the Export-Import Bank or its agents. 19
18051733 COUPS D’E´TAT 20
18061734 S
18071735 EC. 7008. None of the funds appropriated or other-21
18081736 wise made available pursuant to titles III through VI of 22
18091737 this Act shall be obligated or expended to finance directly 23
18101738 any assistance to the government of any country whose 24
18111739 duly elected head of government is deposed by military 25
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18151742 coup d’e´tat or decree or, after the date of enactment of 1
18161743 this Act, a coup d’e´tat or decree in which the military 2
18171744 plays a decisive role: Provided, That assistance may be re-3
18181745 sumed to such government if the Secretary of State cer-4
18191746 tifies and reports to the appropriate congressional commit-5
18201747 tees that subsequent to the termination of assistance a 6
18211748 democratically elected government has taken office: Pro-7
18221749 vided further, That the provisions of this section shall not 8
18231750 apply to assistance to promote democratic elections or 9
18241751 public participation in democratic processes, or to support 10
18251752 a democratic transition: Provided further, That funds 11
18261753 made available pursuant to the previous provisos shall be 12
18271754 subject to prior consultation with, and the regular notifica-13
18281755 tion procedures of, the Committees on Appropriations. 14
18291756 TRANSFER OF FUNDS AUTHORITY 15
18301757 S
18311758 EC. 7009. (a) DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND 16
18321759 U
18331760 NITEDSTATESAGENCY FORGLOBALMEDIA.— 17
18341761 (1) D
18351762 EPARTMENT OF STATE .— 18
18361763 (A) I
18371764 N GENERAL.—Not to exceed 5 percent 19
18381765 of any appropriation made available for the cur-20
18391766 rent fiscal year for the Department of State 21
18401767 under title I of this Act may be transferred be-22
18411768 tween, and merged with, such appropriations, 23
18421769 but no such appropriation, except as otherwise 24
18431770 specifically provided, shall be increased by more 25
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18471773 than 10 percent by any such transfers, and no 1
18481774 such transfer may be made to increase the ap-2
18491775 propriation under the heading ‘‘Representation 3
18501776 Expenses’’. 4
18511777 (B) E
18521778 MBASSY SECURITY.—Funds appro-5
18531779 priated under the headings ‘‘Diplomatic Pro-6
18541780 grams’’, including for Worldwide Security Pro-7
18551781 tection, ‘‘Embassy Security, Construction, and 8
18561782 Maintenance’’, and ‘‘Emergencies in the Diplo-9
18571783 matic and Consular Service’’ in this Act may be 10
18581784 transferred to, and merged with, funds appro-11
18591785 priated under such headings if the Secretary of 12
18601786 State determines and reports to the Committees 13
18611787 on Appropriations that to do so is necessary to 14
18621788 implement the recommendations of the 15
18631789 Benghazi Accountability Review Board, for 16
18641790 emergency evacuations, or to prevent or re-17
18651791 spond to security situations and requirements, 18
18661792 following consultation with, and subject to the 19
18671793 regular notification procedures of, such Com-20
18681794 mittees. 21
18691795 (C) E
18701796 MERGENCIES IN THE DIPLOMATIC 22
18711797 AND CONSULAR SERVICE .—Of the amount made 23
18721798 available under the heading ‘‘Diplomatic Pro-24
18731799 grams’’ for Worldwide Security Protection, not 25
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18771802 to exceed $50,000,000 may be transferred to, 1
18781803 and merged with, funds made available by this 2
18791804 Act under the heading ‘‘Emergencies in the 3
18801805 Diplomatic and Consular Service’’, to be avail-4
18811806 able only for emergency evacuations and re-5
18821807 wards, as authorized. 6
18831808 (D) C
18841809 APITAL INVESTMENT FUND .—Of the 7
18851810 amount made available under the heading, 8
18861811 ‘‘Diplomatic Programs’’, up to $43,000,000 9
18871812 may be transferred to, and merged with, funds 10
18881813 made available in title I of this Act under the 11
18891814 heading ‘‘Capital Investment Fund’’. 12
18901815 (E) P
18911816 RIOR CONSULTATION.—The transfer 13
18921817 authorities provided by subparagraphs (B), (C), 14
18931818 and (D) are in addition to any transfer author-15
18941819 ity otherwise available in this Act and under 16
18951820 any other provision of law and the exercise of 17
18961821 such authority shall be subject to prior con-18
18971822 sultation with the Committees on Appropria-19
18981823 tions. 20
18991824 (2) U
19001825 NITED STATES AGENCY FOR GLOBAL 21
19011826 MEDIA.—Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropria-22
19021827 tion made available for the current fiscal year for 23
19031828 the United States Agency for Global Media under 24
19041829 title I of this Act may be transferred between, and 25
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19081832 merged with, such appropriations, but no such ap-1
19091833 propriation, except as otherwise specifically provided, 2
19101834 shall be increased by more than 10 percent by any 3
19111835 such transfers. 4
19121836 (3) T
19131837 REATMENT AS REPROGRAMMING .—Any 5
19141838 transfer pursuant to this subsection shall be treated 6
19151839 as a reprogramming of funds under section 7015 of 7
19161840 this Act and shall not be available for obligation or 8
19171841 expenditure except in compliance with the proce-9
19181842 dures set forth in that section. 10
19191843 (b) L
19201844 IMITATION ON TRANSFERS OF FUNDSBE-11
19211845 TWEENAGENCIES.— 12
19221846 (1) I
19231847 N GENERAL.—None of the funds made 13
19241848 available under titles II through V of this Act may 14
19251849 be transferred to any department, agency, or instru-15
19261850 mentality of the United States Government, except 16
19271851 pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer author-17
19281852 ity provided in, this Act or any other appropriations 18
19291853 Act. 19
19301854 (2) A
19311855 LLOCATION AND TRANSFERS .—Notwith-20
19321856 standing paragraph (1), in addition to transfers 21
19331857 made by, or authorized elsewhere in, this Act, funds 22
19341858 appropriated by this Act to carry out the purposes 23
19351859 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 may be allo-24
19361860 cated or transferred to agencies of the United States 25
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19401863 Government pursuant to the provisions of sections 1
19411864 109, 610, and 632 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 2
19421865 1961, and section 1434(j) of the BUILD Act of 3
19431866 2018 (division F of Public Law 115–254). 4
19441867 (3) N
19451868 OTIFICATION.—Any agreement entered 5
19461869 into by the United States Agency for International 6
19471870 Development or the Department of State with any 7
19481871 department, agency, or instrumentality of the United 8
19491872 States Government pursuant to section 632(b) of the 9
19501873 Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 valued in excess of 10
19511874 $1,000,000 and any agreement made pursuant to 11
19521875 section 632(a) of such Act, with funds appropriated 12
19531876 by this Act or prior Acts making appropriations for 13
19541877 the Department of State, foreign operations, and re-14
19551878 lated programs under the headings ‘‘Global Health 15
19561879 Programs’’, ‘‘Development Assistance’’, ‘‘Economic 16
19571880 Support Fund’’, and ‘‘Assistance for Europe, Eur-17
19581881 asia and Central Asia’’ shall be subject to the reg-18
19591882 ular notification procedures of the Committees on 19
19601883 Appropriations: Provided, That the requirement in 20
19611884 the previous sentence shall not apply to agreements 21
19621885 entered into between USAID and the Department of 22
19631886 State. 23
19641887 (c) U
19651888 NITEDSTATESINTERNATIONALDEVELOPMENT 24
19661889 F
19671890 INANCECORPORATION.— 25
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19711893 (1) TRANSFERS.—Amounts transferred pursu-1
19721894 ant to section 1434(j) of the BUILD Act of 2018 2
19731895 (division F of Public Law 115–254) may only be 3
19741896 transferred from funds made available under title III 4
19751897 of this Act: Provided, That any such transfers, and 5
19761898 any amounts transferred to the United States Inter-6
19771899 national Development Finance Corporation (the Cor-7
19781900 poration) pursuant to section 632 of the Foreign As-8
19791901 sistance Act of 1961, shall be subject to prior con-9
19801902 sultation with, and the regular notification proce-10
19811903 dures of, the Committees on Appropriations: Pro-11
19821904 vided further, That the Secretary of State, the Ad-12
19831905 ministrator of the United States Agency for Inter-13
19841906 national Development, and the Chief Executive Offi-14
19851907 cer of the Corporation, as appropriate, shall ensure 15
19861908 that the programs funded by such transfers are co-16
19871909 ordinated with, and complement, foreign assistance 17
19881910 programs implemented by the Department of State 18
19891911 and USAID. 19
19901912 (2) T
19911913 RANSFER OF FUNDS FROM MILLENNIUM 20
19921914 CHALLENGE CORPORATION .—Funds appropriated 21
19931915 under the heading ‘‘Millennium Challenge Corpora-22
19941916 tion’’ in this Act or prior Acts making appropria-23
19951917 tions for the Department of State, foreign oper-24
19961918 ations, and related programs may be transferred to 25
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20001921 accounts under the heading ‘‘United States Inter-1
20011922 national Development Finance Corporation’’ and, 2
20021923 when so transferred, may be used for the costs of 3
20031924 activities described in subsections (b) and (c) of sec-4
20041925 tion 1421 of the BUILD Act of 2018: Provided, 5
20051926 That such funds shall be subject to the limitations 6
20061927 provided in the second, third, and fifth provisos 7
20071928 under the heading ‘‘United States International De-8
20081929 velopment Finance Corporation—Program Account’’ 9
20091930 in this Act: Provided further, That any transfer exe-10
20101931 cuted pursuant to the transfer authority provided in 11
20111932 this paragraph shall not exceed 10 percent of an in-12
20121933 dividual Compact awarded pursuant to section 13
20131934 609(a) of the Millennium Challenge Act of 2003 14
20141935 (title VI of Public Law 108–199): Provided further, 15
20151936 That such funds shall not be available for adminis-16
20161937 trative expenses of the United States International 17
20171938 Development Finance Corporation: Provided further, 18
20181939 That such authority shall be subject to prior con-19
20191940 sultation with, and the regular notification proce-20
20201941 dures of, the Committees on Appropriations: Pro-21
20211942 vided further, That the transfer authority provided 22
20221943 in this section is in addition to any other transfer 23
20231944 authority provided by law: Provided further, That 24
20241945 within 60 days of the termination in whole or in part 25
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20281948 of the Compact from which funds were transferred 1
20291949 under this authority to the United States Inter-2
20301950 national Development Finance Corporation, any un-3
20311951 obligated balances shall be transferred back to the 4
20321952 Millennium Challenge Corporation, subject to the 5
20331953 regular notification procedures of the Committees on 6
20341954 Appropriations. 7
20351955 (d) T
20361956 RANSFER OFFUNDSBETWEENACCOUNTS.— 8
20371957 None of the funds made available under titles II through 9
20381958 V of this Act may be obligated under an appropriations 10
20391959 account to which such funds were not appropriated, except 11
20401960 for transfers specifically provided for in this Act, unless 12
20411961 the President, not less than 5 days prior to the exercise 13
20421962 of any authority contained in the Foreign Assistance Act 14
20431963 of 1961 to transfer funds, consults with and provides a 15
20441964 written policy justification to the Committees on Appro-16
20451965 priations. 17
20461966 (e) A
20471967 UDIT OF INTER-AGENCYTRANSFERS OF 18
20481968 F
20491969 UNDS.—Any agreement for the transfer or allocation of 19
20501970 funds appropriated by this Act or prior Acts making ap-20
20511971 propriations for the Department of State, foreign oper-21
20521972 ations, and related programs entered into between the De-22
20531973 partment of State or USAID and another agency of the 23
20541974 United States Government under the authority of section 24
20551975 632(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, or any com-25
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20591978 parable provision of law, shall expressly provide that the 1
20601979 Inspector General (IG) for the agency receiving the trans-2
20611980 fer or allocation of such funds, or other entity with audit 3
20621981 responsibility if the receiving agency does not have an IG, 4
20631982 shall perform periodic program and financial audits of the 5
20641983 use of such funds and report to the Department of State 6
20651984 or USAID, as appropriate, upon completion of such au-7
20661985 dits: Provided, That such audits shall be transmitted to 8
20671986 the Committees on Appropriations by the Department of 9
20681987 State or USAID, as appropriate: Provided further, That 10
20691988 funds transferred under such authority may be made 11
20701989 available for the cost of such audits. 12
20711990 PROHIBITION AND LIMITATION ON CERTAIN EXPENSES 13
20721991 S
20731992 EC. 7010. (a) FIRST-CLASSTRAVEL.—None of the 14
20741993 funds made available by this Act may be used for first- 15
20751994 class travel by employees of United States Government de-16
20761995 partments and agencies funded by this Act in contraven-17
20771996 tion of section 301–10.122 through 301–10.124 of title 18
20781997 41, Code of Federal Regulations. 19
20791998 (b) C
20801999 OMPUTERNETWORKS.—None of the funds 20
20812000 made available by this Act for the operating expenses of 21
20822001 any United States Government department or agency may 22
20832002 be used to establish or maintain a computer network for 23
20842003 use by such department or agency unless such network 24
20852004 has filters designed to block access to sexually explicit 25
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20892007 websites: Provided, That nothing in this subsection shall 1
20902008 limit the use of funds necessary for any Federal, State, 2
20912009 Tribal, or local law enforcement agency, or any other enti-3
20922010 ty carrying out the following activities: criminal investiga-4
20932011 tions, prosecutions, and adjudications; administrative dis-5
20942012 cipline; and the monitoring of such websites undertaken 6
20952013 as part of official business. 7
20962014 (c) P
20972015 ROHIBITION ON PROMOTION OF TOBACCO.— 8
20982016 None of the funds made available by this Act should be 9
20992017 available to promote the sale or export of tobacco or to-10
21002018 bacco products (including electronic nicotine delivery sys-11
21012019 tems), or to seek the reduction or removal by any foreign 12
21022020 country of restrictions on the marketing of tobacco or to-13
21032021 bacco products (including electronic nicotine delivery sys-14
21042022 tems), except for restrictions which are not applied equally 15
21052023 to all tobacco or tobacco products (including electronic nic-16
21062024 otine delivery systems) of the same type. 17
21072025 (d) E
21082026 MAILSERVERSOUTSIDE THE.GOVDOMAIN.— 18
21092027 None of the funds appropriated by this Act under the 19
21102028 headings ‘‘Diplomatic Programs’’ and ‘‘Capital Invest-20
21112029 ment Fund’’ in title I, and ‘‘Operating Expenses’’ and 21
21122030 ‘‘Capital Investment Fund’’ in title II that are made avail-22
21132031 able to the Department of State and the United States 23
21142032 Agency for International Development may be made avail-24
21152033 able to support the use or establishment of email accounts 25
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21192036 or email servers created outside the .gov domain or not 1
21202037 fitted for automated records management as part of a 2
21212038 Federal government records management program in con-3
21222039 travention of the Presidential and Federal Records Act 4
21232040 Amendments of 2014 (Public Law 113–187). 5
21242041 (e) R
21252042 EPRESENTATION AND ENTERTAINMENT EX-6
21262043 PENSES.—Each Federal department, agency, or entity 7
21272044 funded in titles I or II of this Act, and the Department 8
21282045 of the Treasury and independent agencies funded in titles 9
21292046 III or VI of this Act, shall take steps to ensure that do-10
21302047 mestic and overseas representation and entertainment ex-11
21312048 penses further official agency business and United States 12
21322049 foreign policy interests, and— 13
21332050 (1) are primarily for fostering relations outside 14
21342051 of the Executive Branch; 15
21352052 (2) are principally for meals and events of a 16
21362053 protocol nature; 17
21372054 (3) are not for employee-only events; and 18
21382055 (4) do not include activities that are substan-19
21392056 tially of a recreational character. 20
21402057 (f) L
21412058 IMITATIONS ONENTERTAINMENT EXPENSES.— 21
21422059 None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made avail-22
21432060 able by this Act under the headings ‘‘International Mili-23
21442061 tary Education and Training’’ or ‘‘Foreign Military Fi-24
21452062 nancing Program’’ for Informational Program activities or 25
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21492065 under the headings ‘‘Global Health Programs’’, ‘‘Develop-1
21502066 ment Assistance’’, ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, and ‘‘As-2
21512067 sistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia’’ may be 3
21522068 obligated or expended to pay for— 4
21532069 (1) alcoholic beverages; or 5
21542070 (2) entertainment expenses for activities that 6
21552071 are substantially of a recreational character, includ-7
21562072 ing entrance fees at sporting events, theatrical and 8
21572073 musical productions, and amusement parks. 9
21582074 AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS 10
21592075 S
21602076 EC. 7011. No part of any appropriation contained 11
21612077 in this Act shall remain available for obligation after the 12
21622078 expiration of the current fiscal year unless expressly so 13
21632079 provided by this Act: Provided, That funds appropriated 14
21642080 for the purposes of chapters 1 and 8 of part I, section 15
21652081 661, chapters 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9 of part II of the Foreign 16
21662082 Assistance Act of 1961, section 23 of the Arms Export 17
21672083 Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2763), and funds made available 18
21682084 for ‘‘United States International Development Finance 19
21692085 Corporation’’ and under the heading ‘‘Assistance for Eu-20
21702086 rope, Eurasia and Central Asia’’ shall remain available for 21
21712087 an additional 4 years from the date on which the avail-22
21722088 ability of such funds would otherwise have expired, if such 23
21732089 funds are initially obligated before the expiration of their 24
21742090 respective periods of availability contained in this Act: 25
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21782093 Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provi-1
21792094 sion of this Act, any funds made available for the purposes 2
21802095 of chapter 1 of part I and chapter 4 of part II of the 3
21812096 Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 which are allocated or ob-4
21822097 ligated for cash disbursements in order to address balance 5
21832098 of payments or economic policy reform objectives, shall re-6
21842099 main available for an additional 4 years from the date on 7
21852100 which the availability of such funds would otherwise have 8
21862101 expired, if such funds are initially allocated or obligated 9
21872102 before the expiration of their respective periods of avail-10
21882103 ability contained in this Act: Provided further, That the 11
21892104 Secretary of State and the Administrator of the United 12
21902105 States Agency for International Development shall provide 13
21912106 a report to the Committees on Appropriations not later 14
21922107 than October 31, 2024, detailing by account and source 15
21932108 year, the use of this authority during the previous fiscal 16
21942109 year: Provided further, That any funds obligated for an 17
21952110 additional period of availability pursuant to this section 18
21962111 in this Act and prior Acts making appropriations for the 19
21972112 Department of State, foreign operations, and related pro-20
21982113 grams shall be subject to the regular notification proce-21
21992114 dures of the Committees on Appropriations: Provided fur-22
22002115 ther, That any notification submitted pursuant to the pre-23
22012116 vious proviso shall indicate the source year of funds, the 24
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22052119 purpose of initial obligation, the reason for de-obligation, 1
22062120 and the purpose for re-obligation. 2
22072121 LIMITATION ON ASSISTANCE TO COUNTRIES IN DEFAULT 3
22082122 S
22092123 EC. 7012. No part of any appropriation provided 4
22102124 under titles III through VI in this Act shall be used to 5
22112125 furnish assistance to the government of any country which 6
22122126 is in default during a period in excess of 1 calendar year 7
22132127 in payment to the United States of principal or interest 8
22142128 on any loan made to the government of such country by 9
22152129 the United States pursuant to a program for which funds 10
22162130 are appropriated under this Act unless the President de-11
22172131 termines, following consultation with the Committees on 12
22182132 Appropriations, that assistance for such country is in the 13
22192133 national interest of the United States. 14
22202134 PROHIBITION ON TAXATION OF UNITED STATES 15
22212135 ASSISTANCE 16
22222136 S
22232137 EC. 7013. (a) PROHIBITION ONTAXATION.—None 17
22242138 of the funds appropriated under titles III through VI of 18
22252139 this Act may be made available to provide assistance for 19
22262140 a foreign country under a new bilateral agreement gov-20
22272141 erning the terms and conditions under which such assist-21
22282142 ance is to be provided unless such agreement includes a 22
22292143 provision stating that assistance provided by the United 23
22302144 States shall be exempt from taxation, or reimbursed, by 24
22312145 the foreign government, and the Secretary of State and 25
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22352148 the Administrator of the United States Agency for Inter-1
22362149 national Development shall expeditiously seek to negotiate 2
22372150 amendments to existing bilateral agreements, as nec-3
22382151 essary, to conform with this requirement. 4
22392152 (b) N
22402153 OTIFICATION AND REIMBURSEMENT OF FOR-5
22412154 EIGNTAXES.—An amount equivalent to 200 percent of 6
22422155 the total taxes assessed during fiscal year 2024 on funds 7
22432156 appropriated by this Act and prior Acts making appropria-8
22442157 tions for the Department of State, foreign operations, and 9
22452158 related programs by a foreign government or entity 10
22462159 against United States assistance programs, either directly 11
22472160 or through grantees, contractors, and subcontractors, shall 12
22482161 be withheld from obligation from funds appropriated for 13
22492162 assistance for fiscal year 2025 and for prior fiscal years 14
22502163 and allocated for the central government of such country 15
22512164 or for the West Bank and Gaza program, as applicable, 16
22522165 if, not later than September 30, 2025, such taxes have 17
22532166 not been reimbursed. 18
22542167 (c) D
22552168 EMINIMISEXCEPTION.—Foreign taxes of a de 19
22562169 minimis nature shall not be subject to the provisions of 20
22572170 subsection (b). 21
22582171 (d) R
22592172 EPROGRAMMING OF FUNDS.—Funds withheld 22
22602173 from obligation for each foreign government or entity pur-23
22612174 suant to subsection (b) shall be reprogrammed for assist-24
22622175 ance for countries which do not assess taxes on United 25
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22662178 States assistance or which have an effective arrangement 1
22672179 that is providing substantial reimbursement of such taxes, 2
22682180 and that can reasonably accommodate such assistance in 3
22692181 a programmatically responsible manner. 4
22702182 (e) D
22712183 ETERMINATIONS.— 5
22722184 (1) I
22732185 N GENERAL.—The provisions of this sec-6
22742186 tion shall not apply to any foreign government or en-7
22752187 tity that assesses such taxes if the Secretary of 8
22762188 State reports to the Committees on Appropriations 9
22772189 that— 10
22782190 (A) such foreign government or entity has 11
22792191 an effective arrangement that is providing sub-12
22802192 stantial reimbursement of such taxes; or 13
22812193 (B) the foreign policy interests of the 14
22822194 United States outweigh the purpose of this sec-15
22832195 tion to ensure that United States assistance is 16
22842196 not subject to taxation. 17
22852197 (2) C
22862198 ONSULTATION.—The Secretary of State 18
22872199 shall consult with the Committees on Appropriations 19
22882200 at least 15 days prior to exercising the authority of 20
22892201 this subsection with regard to any foreign govern-21
22902202 ment or entity. 22
22912203 (f) I
22922204 MPLEMENTATION.—The Secretary of State shall 23
22932205 issue and update rules, regulations, or policy guidance, as 24
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22972208 appropriate, to implement the prohibition against the tax-1
22982209 ation of assistance contained in this section. 2
22992210 (g) D
23002211 EFINITIONS.—As used in this section: 3
23012212 (1) B
23022213 ILATERAL AGREEMENT .—The term ‘‘bilat-4
23032214 eral agreement’’ refers to a framework bilateral 5
23042215 agreement between the Government of the United 6
23052216 States and the government of the country receiving 7
23062217 assistance that describes the privileges and immuni-8
23072218 ties applicable to United States foreign assistance 9
23082219 for such country generally, or an individual agree-10
23092220 ment between the Government of the United States 11
23102221 and such government that describes, among other 12
23112222 things, the treatment for tax purposes that will be 13
23122223 accorded the United States assistance provided 14
23132224 under that agreement. 15
23142225 (2) T
23152226 AXES AND TAXATION .—The term ‘‘taxes 16
23162227 and taxation’’ shall include value added taxes and 17
23172228 customs duties but shall not include individual in-18
23182229 come taxes assessed to local staff. 19
23192230 RESERVATIONS OF FUNDS 20
23202231 S
23212232 EC. 7014. (a) EXTENSION OFAVAILABILITY.—The 21
23222233 original period of availability of funds appropriated by this 22
23232234 Act and administered by the Department of State or the 23
23242235 United States Agency for International Development that 24
23252236 are specifically designated for particular programs or ac-25
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23292239 tivities by this or any other Act may be extended for an 1
23302240 additional fiscal year if the Secretary of State or the 2
23312241 USAID Administrator, as appropriate, determines and re-3
23322242 ports promptly to the Committees on Appropriations that 4
23332243 the termination of assistance to a country or a significant 5
23342244 change in circumstances makes it unlikely that such des-6
23352245 ignated funds can be obligated during the original period 7
23362246 of availability: Provided, That such designated funds that 8
23372247 continue to be available for an additional fiscal year shall 9
23382248 be obligated only for the purpose of such designation. 10
23392249 (b) O
23402250 THERACTS.—Ceilings and specifically des-11
23412251 ignated funding levels contained in this Act shall not be 12
23422252 applicable to funds or authorities appropriated or other-13
23432253 wise made available by any subsequent Act unless such 14
23442254 Act specifically so directs: Provided, That specifically des-15
23452255 ignated funding levels or minimum funding requirements 16
23462256 contained in any other Act shall not be applicable to funds 17
23472257 appropriated by this Act. 18
23482258 NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS 19
23492259 S
23502260 EC. 7015. (a) NOTIFICATION OFCHANGES INPRO-20
23512261 GRAMS, PROJECTS, ANDACTIVITIES.—None of the funds 21
23522262 made available in titles I, II, and VI, and under the head-22
23532263 ings ‘‘Peace Corps’’ and ‘‘Millennium Challenge Corpora-23
23542264 tion’’, of this Act or prior Acts making appropriations for 24
23552265 the Department of State, foreign operations, and related 25
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23592268 programs to the departments and agencies funded by this 1
23602269 Act that remain available for obligation in fiscal year 2
23612270 2024, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury of 3
23622271 the United States derived by the collection of fees or of 4
23632272 currency reflows or other offsetting collections, or made 5
23642273 available by transfer, to the departments and agencies 6
23652274 funded by this Act, shall be available for obligation to— 7
23662275 (1) create new programs; 8
23672276 (2) suspend or eliminate a program, project, or 9
23682277 activity; 10
23692278 (3) close, suspend, open, or reopen a mission or 11
23702279 post; 12
23712280 (4) create, close, reorganize, downsize, or re-13
23722281 name bureaus, centers, or offices; or 14
23732282 (5) contract out or privatize any functions or 15
23742283 activities presently performed by Federal employees; 16
23752284 unless previously justified to the Committees on Appro-17
23762285 priations or such Committees are notified 15 days in ad-18
23772286 vance of such obligation. 19
23782287 (b) N
23792288 OTIFICATION OF REPROGRAMMING OF 20
23802289 F
23812290 UNDS.—None of the funds provided under titles I, II, 21
23822291 and VI of this Act or prior Acts making appropriations 22
23832292 for the Department of State, foreign operations, and re-23
23842293 lated programs, to the departments and agencies funded 24
23852294 under such titles that remain available for obligation in 25
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23892297 fiscal year 2024, or provided from any accounts in the 1
23902298 Treasury of the United States derived by the collection 2
23912299 of fees available to the department and agency funded 3
23922300 under title I of this Act, shall be available for obligation 4
23932301 or expenditure for programs, projects, or activities 5
23942302 through a reprogramming of funds in excess of 6
23952303 $1,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less, that— 7
23962304 (1) augments or changes existing programs, 8
23972305 projects, or activities; 9
23982306 (2) relocates an existing office or employees; 10
23992307 (3) reduces by 10 percent funding for any exist-11
24002308 ing program, project, or activity, or numbers of per-12
24012309 sonnel by 10 percent as approved by Congress; or 13
24022310 (4) results from any general savings, including 14
24032311 savings from a reduction in personnel, which would 15
24042312 result in a change in existing programs, projects, or 16
24052313 activities as approved by Congress; 17
24062314 unless the Committees on Appropriations are notified 15 18
24072315 days in advance of such reprogramming of funds. 19
24082316 (c) N
24092317 OTIFICATIONREQUIREMENT.—None of the 20
24102318 funds made available by this Act under the headings 21
24112319 ‘‘Global Health Programs’’, ‘‘Development Assistance’’, 22
24122320 ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, ‘‘Democracy Fund’’, ‘‘Assist-23
24132321 ance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia’’, ‘‘Peace 24
24142322 Corps’’, ‘‘Millennium Challenge Corporation’’, ‘‘Inter-25
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24182325 national Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement’’, ‘‘Non-1
24192326 proliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining and Related Pro-2
24202327 grams’’, ‘‘Peacekeeping Operations’’, ‘‘International Mili-3
24212328 tary Education and Training’’, ‘‘Foreign Military Financ-4
24222329 ing Program’’, ‘‘United States International Development 5
24232330 Finance Corporation’’, and ‘‘Trade and Development 6
24242331 Agency’’ shall be available for obligation for programs, 7
24252332 projects, activities, type of materiel assistance, countries, 8
24262333 or other operations not justified or in excess of the amount 9
24272334 justified to the Committees on Appropriations for obliga-10
24282335 tion under any of these specific headings unless the Com-11
24292336 mittees on Appropriations are notified 15 days in advance 12
24302337 of such obligation: Provided, That the President shall not 13
24312338 enter into any commitment of funds appropriated for the 14
24322339 purposes of section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act 15
24332340 for the provision of major defense equipment, other than 16
24342341 conventional ammunition, or other major defense items 17
24352342 defined to be aircraft, ships, missiles, or combat vehicles, 18
24362343 not previously justified to Congress or 20 percent in excess 19
24372344 of the quantities justified to Congress unless the Commit-20
24382345 tees on Appropriations are notified 15 days in advance of 21
24392346 such commitment: Provided further, That requirements of 22
24402347 this subsection or any similar provision of this or any 23
24412348 other Act shall not apply to any reprogramming for a pro-24
24422349 gram, project, or activity for which funds are appropriated 25
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24462352 under titles III through VI of this Act of less than 10 1
24472353 percent of the amount previously justified to Congress for 2
24482354 obligation for such program, project, or activity for the 3
24492355 current fiscal year: Provided further, That any notification 4
24502356 submitted pursuant to subsection (f) of this section shall 5
24512357 include information (if known on the date of transmittal 6
24522358 of such notification) on the use of notwithstanding author-7
24532359 ity. 8
24542360 (d) D
24552361 EPARTMENT OF DEFENSEPROGRAMS AND 9
24562362 F
24572363 UNDINGNOTIFICATIONS.— 10
24582364 (1) P
24592365 ROGRAMS.—None of the funds appro-11
24602366 priated by this Act or prior Acts making appropria-12
24612367 tions for the Department of State, foreign oper-13
24622368 ations, and related programs may be made available 14
24632369 to support or continue any program initially funded 15
24642370 under any authority of title 10, United States Code, 16
24652371 or any Act making or authorizing appropriations for 17
24662372 the Department of Defense, unless the Secretary of 18
24672373 State, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense 19
24682374 and in accordance with the regular notification pro-20
24692375 cedures of the Committees on Appropriations, sub-21
24702376 mits a justification to such Committees that includes 22
24712377 a description of, and the estimated costs associated 23
24722378 with, the support or continuation of such program. 24
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24762381 (2) FUNDING.—Notwithstanding any other pro-1
24772382 vision of law, funds transferred by the Department 2
24782383 of Defense to the Department of State and the 3
24792384 United States Agency for International Development 4
24802385 for assistance for foreign countries and international 5
24812386 organizations shall be subject to the regular notifica-6
24822387 tion procedures of the Committees on Appropria-7
24832388 tions. 8
24842389 (3) N
24852390 OTIFICATION ON EXCESS DEFENSE ARTI -9
24862391 CLES.—Prior to providing excess Department of De-10
24872392 fense articles in accordance with section 516(a) of 11
24882393 the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, the Department 12
24892394 of Defense shall notify the Committees on Appro-13
24902395 priations to the same extent and under the same 14
24912396 conditions as other committees pursuant to sub-15
24922397 section (f) of that section: Provided, That before 16
24932398 issuing a letter of offer to sell excess defense articles 17
24942399 under the Arms Export Control Act, the Department 18
24952400 of Defense shall notify the Committees on Appro-19
24962401 priations in accordance with the regular notification 20
24972402 procedures of such Committees if such defense arti-21
24982403 cles are significant military equipment (as defined in 22
24992404 section 47(9) of the Arms Export Control Act) or 23
25002405 are valued (in terms of original acquisition cost) at 24
25012406 $7,000,000 or more, or if notification is required 25
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25052409 elsewhere in this Act for the use of appropriated 1
25062410 funds for specific countries that would receive such 2
25072411 excess defense articles: Provided further, That such 3
25082412 Committees shall also be informed of the original ac-4
25092413 quisition cost of such defense articles. 5
25102414 (e) W
25112415 AIVER.—The requirements of this section or 6
25122416 any similar provision of this Act or any other Act, includ-7
25132417 ing any prior Act requiring notification in accordance with 8
25142418 the regular notification procedures of the Committees on 9
25152419 Appropriations, may be waived if failure to do so would 10
25162420 pose a substantial risk to human health or welfare: Pro-11
25172421 vided, That in case of any such waiver, notification to the 12
25182422 Committees on Appropriations shall be provided as early 13
25192423 as practicable, but in no event later than 3 days after tak-14
25202424 ing the action to which such notification requirement was 15
25212425 applicable, in the context of the circumstances necessi-16
25222426 tating such waiver: Provided further, That any notification 17
25232427 provided pursuant to such a waiver shall contain an expla-18
25242428 nation of the emergency circumstances. 19
25252429 (f) C
25262430 OUNTRYNOTIFICATIONREQUIREMENTS.—None 20
25272431 of the funds appropriated under titles III through VI of 21
25282432 this Act may be obligated or expended for assistance for 22
25292433 Afghanistan, Burma, Central African Republic, Cam-23
25302434 bodia, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Haiti, Hon-24
25312435 duras, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Mexico, Nicaragua, 25
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25352438 Pakistan, the Russian Federation, Rwanda, Somalia, 1
25362439 South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Ukraine, Venezuela, 2
25372440 Yemen, and Zimbabwe except as provided through the reg-3
25382441 ular notification procedures of the Committees on Appro-4
25392442 priations. 5
25402443 (g) T
25412444 RUSTFUNDS.—Funds appropriated or other-6
25422445 wise made available in title III of this Act and prior Acts 7
25432446 making funds available for the Department of State, for-8
25442447 eign operations, and related programs that are made avail-9
25452448 able for a trust fund held by an international financial 10
25462449 institution shall be subject to the regular notification pro-11
25472450 cedures of the Committees on Appropriations, and such 12
25482451 notification shall include the information specified under 13
25492452 this section in the report accompanying this Act. 14
25502453 (h) O
25512454 THERPROGRAMNOTIFICATIONREQUIRE-15
25522455 MENTS.— 16
25532456 (1) O
25542457 THER PROGRAMS.—Funds appropriated by 17
25552458 this Act and prior Acts making appropriations for 18
25562459 the Department of State, foreign operations, and re-19
25572460 lated programs that are made available for the fol-20
25582461 lowing programs and activities shall be subject to 21
25592462 the regular notification procedures of the Commit-22
25602463 tees on Appropriations— 23
25612464 (A) the Global Engagement Center; 24
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25652467 (B) the Power Africa and Prosper Africa 1
25662468 initiatives; 2
25672469 (C) funds under the headings ‘‘Inter-3
25682470 national Disaster Assistance’’ and ‘‘Migration 4
25692471 and Refugee Assistance’’ that are made avail-5
25702472 able to a country listed in section 7007 of this 6
25712473 Act; 7
25722474 (D) the Prevention and Stabilization Fund 8
25732475 and the Multi-Donor Global Fragility Fund; 9
25742476 (E) the Indo-Pacific Strategy; 10
25752477 (F) the Countering PRC Influence Fund 11
25762478 and the Countering Russian Influence Fund; 12
25772479 (G) assistance made available pursuant to 13
25782480 section 7059; and 14
25792481 (H) funds specifically allocated for the 15
25802482 Partnership for Global Infrastructure and In-16
25812483 vestment. 17
25822484 (2) D
25832485 EMOCRACY PROGRAM POLICY AND PROCE -18
25842486 DURES.—Modifications to democracy program policy 19
25852487 and procedures, including relating to the use of con-20
25862488 sortia, by the Department of State and USAID shall 21
25872489 be subject to prior consultation with, and the regular 22
25882490 notification procedures of, the Committees on Ap-23
25892491 propriations. 24
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25932494 (3) ARMS SALES.—The reports, notifications, 1
25942495 and certifications, and any other documents, re-2
25952496 quired to be submitted pursuant to section 36(a) of 3
25962497 the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2776), and 4
25972498 such documents submitted pursuant to section 36(b) 5
25982499 through (d) of such Act with respect to countries 6
25992500 that have received assistance provided with funds 7
26002501 appropriated by this Act or prior Acts making ap-8
26012502 propriations for the Department of State, foreign 9
26022503 operations, and related programs, shall be concur-10
26032504 rently submitted to the Committees on Appropria-11
26042505 tions and shall include information about the source 12
26052506 of funds for any sale or transfer, as applicable, if 13
26062507 known at the time of submission. 14
26072508 (i) W
26082509 ITHHOLDING OF FUNDS.—Funds appropriated 15
26092510 by this Act under titles III and IV that are withheld from 16
26102511 obligation or otherwise not programmed as a result of ap-17
26112512 plication of a provision of law in this or any other Act 18
26122513 shall, if reprogrammed, be subject to the regular notifica-19
26132514 tion procedures of the Committees on Appropriations. 20
26142515 (j) R
26152516 EQUIREMENT TO INFORM.—The Secretary of 21
26162517 State and Administrator of USAID, as applicable, shall 22
26172518 promptly inform the appropriate congressional committees 23
26182519 of each instance in which funds appropriated by this Act 24
26192520 for assistance have been diverted or destroyed, to include 25
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26232523 the type and amount of assistance, a description of the 1
26242524 incident and parties involved, and an explanation of the 2
26252525 response of the Department of State or USAID, as appro-3
26262526 priate. 4
26272527 DOCUMENTS, REPORT POSTING, RECORDS MANAGEMENT , 5
26282528 AND RELATED CYBERSECURITY PROTECTIONS 6
26292529 S
26302530 EC. 7016. (a) DOCUMENTREQUESTS.—None of the 7
26312531 funds appropriated or made available pursuant to titles 8
26322532 III through VI of this Act shall be available to a non-9
26332533 governmental organization, including any contractor, 10
26342534 which fails to provide upon timely request any document, 11
26352535 file, or record necessary to the auditing requirements of 12
26362536 the Department of State and the United States Agency 13
26372537 for International Development. 14
26382538 (b) P
26392539 UBLICPOSTING OFREPORTS.— 15
26402540 (1) Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and 16
26412541 (3), any report required by this Act to be submitted 17
26422542 to Congress by any Federal agency receiving funds 18
26432543 made available by this Act shall be posted on the 19
26442544 public website of such agency not later than 45 days 20
26452545 following the receipt of such report by Congress. 21
26462546 (2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a report 22
26472547 if— 23
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26512550 (A) the head of such agency determines 1
26522551 and reports to the Committees on Appropria-2
26532552 tions that— 3
26542553 (i) the public posting of the report 4
26552554 would compromise national security, in-5
26562555 cluding the conduct of diplomacy; or 6
26572556 (ii) the report contains proprietary or 7
26582557 other privileged information; or 8
26592558 (B) the public posting of the report is spe-9
26602559 cifically exempted in the report accompanying 10
26612560 this Act. 11
26622561 (3) The agency posting such report shall do so 12
26632562 only after the report has been made available to the 13
26642563 Committees on Appropriations. 14
26652564 (4) The head of the agency posting such report 15
26662565 shall do so in a central location on the public website 16
26672566 of such agency. 17
26682567 (c) R
26692568 ECORDSMANAGEMENT AND RELATEDCYBER-18
26702569 SECURITYPROTECTIONS.—The Secretary of State and 19
26712570 USAID Administrator shall— 20
26722571 (1) regularly review and update the policies, di-21
26732572 rectives, and oversight necessary to comply with 22
26742573 Federal statutes, regulations, and presidential execu-23
26752574 tive orders and memoranda concerning the preserva-24
26762575 tion of all records made or received in the conduct 25
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26802578 of official business, including record emails, instant 1
26812579 messaging, and other online tools; 2
26822580 (2) use funds appropriated by this Act under 3
26832581 the headings ‘‘Diplomatic Programs’’ and ‘‘Capital 4
26842582 Investment Fund’’ in title I, and ‘‘Operating Ex-5
26852583 penses’’ and ‘‘Capital Investment Fund’’ in title II, 6
26862584 as appropriate, to improve Federal records manage-7
26872585 ment pursuant to the Federal Records Act (44 8
26882586 U.S.C. Chapters 21, 29, 31, and 33) and other ap-9
26892587 plicable Federal records management statutes, regu-10
26902588 lations, or policies for the Department of State and 11
26912589 USAID; 12
26922590 (3) direct departing employees, including senior 13
26932591 officials, that all Federal records generated by such 14
26942592 employees belong to the Federal Government; 15
26952593 (4) substantially reduce, compared to the pre-16
26962594 vious fiscal year, the response time for identifying 17
26972595 and retrieving Federal records, including requests 18
26982596 made pursuant to section 552 of title 5, United 19
26992597 States Code (commonly known as the ‘‘Freedom of 20
27002598 Information Act’’); and 21
27012599 (5) strengthen cybersecurity measures to miti-22
27022600 gate vulnerabilities, including those resulting from 23
27032601 the use of personal email accounts or servers outside 24
27042602 the .gov domain, improve the process to identify and 25
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27082605 remove inactive user accounts, update and enforce 1
27092606 guidance related to the control of national security 2
27102607 information, and implement the recommendations of 3
27112608 the applicable reports of the cognizant Office of In-4
27122609 spector General. 5
27132610 USE OF FUNDS IN CONTRAVENTION OF THIS ACT 6
27142611 S
27152612 EC. 7017. If the President makes a determination 7
27162613 not to comply with any provision of this Act on constitu-8
27172614 tional grounds, the head of the relevant Federal agency 9
27182615 shall notify the Committees on Appropriations in writing 10
27192616 within 5 days of such determination, the basis for such 11
27202617 determination and any resulting changes to program or 12
27212618 policy. 13
27222619 PROHIBITION ON FUNDING FOR ABORTIONS AND 14
27232620 INVOLUNTARY STERILIZATION 15
27242621 S
27252622 EC. 7018. None of the funds made available to carry 16
27262623 out part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as 17
27272624 amended, may be used to pay for the performance of abor-18
27282625 tions as a method of family planning or to motivate or 19
27292626 coerce any person to practice abortions. None of the funds 20
27302627 made available to carry out part I of the Foreign Assist-21
27312628 ance Act of 1961, as amended, may be used to pay for 22
27322629 the performance of involuntary sterilization as a method 23
27332630 of family planning or to coerce or provide any financial 24
27342631 incentive to any person to undergo sterilizations. None of 25
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27382634 the funds made available to carry out part I of the Foreign 1
27392635 Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, may be used to pay 2
27402636 for any biomedical research which relates in whole or in 3
27412637 part, to methods of, or the performance of, abortions or 4
27422638 involuntary sterilization as a means of family planning. 5
27432639 None of the funds made available to carry out part I of 6
27442640 the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, may be 7
27452641 obligated or expended for any country or organization if 8
27462642 the President certifies that the use of these funds by any 9
27472643 such country or organization would violate any of the 10
27482644 above provisions related to abortions and involuntary steri-11
27492645 lizations. 12
27502646 ALLOCATIONS AND REPORTS 13
27512647 S
27522648 EC. 7019. (a) ALLOCATIONTABLES.—Subject to 14
27532649 subsection (b), funds appropriated by this Act under titles 15
27542650 III through V shall be made available in the amounts spe-16
27552651 cifically designated in the respective tables included in the 17
27562652 report accompanying this Act: Provided, That such des-18
27572653 ignated amounts for foreign countries and international 19
27582654 organizations shall serve as the amounts for such coun-20
27592655 tries and international organizations transmitted to Con-21
27602656 gress in the report required by section 653(a) of the For-22
27612657 eign Assistance Act of 1961, and shall be made available 23
27622658 for such foreign countries and international organizations 24
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27662661 notwithstanding the date of the transmission of such re-1
27672662 port. 2
27682663 (b) A
27692664 UTHORIZED DEVIATIONS.—Unless otherwise 3
27702665 provided for by this Act, the Secretary of State and the 4
27712666 Administrator of the United States Agency for Inter-5
27722667 national Development, as applicable, may only deviate up 6
27732668 to 5 percent from the amounts specifically designated in 7
27742669 the respective tables included in the report accompanying 8
27752670 this Act. 9
27762671 (c) L
27772672 IMITATION.—For specifically designated 10
27782673 amounts that are included, pursuant to subsection (a), in 11
27792674 the report required by section 653(a) of the Foreign As-12
27802675 sistance Act of 1961, deviations authorized by subsection 13
27812676 (b) may only take place after submission of such report. 14
27822677 (d) E
27832678 XCEPTIONS.—Subsections (a) and (b) shall not 15
27842679 apply to— 16
27852680 (1) funds for which the initial period of avail-17
27862681 ability has expired; and 18
27872682 (2) amounts designated by this Act as min-19
27882683 imum funding requirements. 20
27892684 (e) R
27902685 EPORTS.—The Secretary of State, USAID Ad-21
27912686 ministrator, and other designated officials, as appropriate, 22
27922687 shall submit the reports required, in the manner described, 23
27932688 in the report accompanying this Act. 24
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27972691 (f) CLARIFICATION.—Funds appropriated by this Act 1
27982692 under the headings ‘‘International Disaster Assistance’’ 2
27992693 and ‘‘Migration and Refugee Assistance’’ shall not be in-3
28002694 cluded for purposes of meeting amounts designated for 4
28012695 countries in this Act, unless such headings are specifically 5
28022696 designated as the source of funds. 6
28032697 MULTI-YEAR PLEDGES 7
28042698 S
28052699 EC. 7020. None of the funds appropriated or other-8
28062700 wise made available by this Act may be used to make any 9
28072701 pledge for future year funding for any multilateral or bi-10
28082702 lateral program funded in titles III through VI of this Act 11
28092703 unless such pledge was: (1) previously justified, including 12
28102704 the projected future year costs, in a congressional budget 13
28112705 justification; (2) included in an Act making appropriations 14
28122706 for the Department of State, foreign operations, and re-15
28132707 lated programs or previously authorized by an Act of Con-16
28142708 gress; (3) notified in accordance with the regular notifica-17
28152709 tion procedures of the Committees on Appropriations, in-18
28162710 cluding the projected future year costs; or (4) the subject 19
28172711 of prior consultation with the Committees on Appropria-20
28182712 tions and such consultation was conducted at least 7 days 21
28192713 in advance of the pledge. 22
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28232716 PROHIBITION ON ASSISTANCE TO GOVERNMENTS 1
28242717 SUPPORTING INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM 2
28252718 S
28262719 EC. 7021. (a) LETHALMILITARYEQUIPMENTEX-3
28272720 PORTS.— 4
28282721 (1) P
28292722 ROHIBITION.—None of the funds appro-5
28302723 priated or otherwise made available under titles III 6
28312724 through VI of this Act may be made available to any 7
28322725 foreign government which provides lethal military 8
28332726 equipment to a country the government of which the 9
28342727 Secretary of State has determined supports inter-10
28352728 national terrorism for purposes of section 1754(c) of 11
28362729 the Export Reform Control Act of 2018 (50 U.S.C. 12
28372730 4813(c)): Provided, That the prohibition under this 13
28382731 section with respect to a foreign government shall 14
28392732 terminate 12 months after that government ceases 15
28402733 to provide such military equipment: Provided further, 16
28412734 That this section applies with respect to lethal mili-17
28422735 tary equipment provided under a contract entered 18
28432736 into after October 1, 1997. 19
28442737 (2) D
28452738 ETERMINATION.—Assistance restricted by 20
28462739 paragraph (1) or any other similar provision of law, 21
28472740 may be furnished if the President determines that to 22
28482741 do so is important to the national interest of the 23
28492742 United States. 24
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28532745 (3) REPORT.—Whenever the President makes a 1
28542746 determination pursuant to paragraph (2), the Presi-2
28552747 dent shall submit to the Committees on Appropria-3
28562748 tions a report with respect to the furnishing of such 4
28572749 assistance, including a detailed explanation of the 5
28582750 assistance to be provided, the estimated dollar 6
28592751 amount of such assistance, and an explanation of 7
28602752 how the assistance furthers the United States na-8
28612753 tional interest. 9
28622754 (b) B
28632755 ILATERALASSISTANCE.— 10
28642756 (1) L
28652757 IMITATIONS.—Funds appropriated for bi-11
28662758 lateral assistance in titles III through VI of this Act 12
28672759 and funds appropriated under any such title in prior 13
28682760 Acts making appropriations for the Department of 14
28692761 State, foreign operations, and related programs, 15
28702762 shall not be made available to any foreign govern-16
28712763 ment which the President determines— 17
28722764 (A) grants sanctuary from prosecution to 18
28732765 any individual or group which has committed 19
28742766 an act of international terrorism; 20
28752767 (B) otherwise supports international ter-21
28762768 rorism; or 22
28772769 (C) is controlled by an organization des-23
28782770 ignated as a terrorist organization under sec-24
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28822773 tion 219 of the Immigration and Nationality 1
28832774 Act (8 U.S.C. 1189). 2
28842775 (2) W
28852776 AIVER.—The President may waive the ap-3
28862777 plication of paragraph (1) to a government if the 4
28872778 President determines that national security or hu-5
28882779 manitarian reasons justify such waiver: Provided, 6
28892780 That the President shall publish each such waiver in 7
28902781 the Federal Register and, at least 15 days before the 8
28912782 waiver takes effect, shall notify the Committees on 9
28922783 Appropriations of the waiver (including the justifica-10
28932784 tion for the waiver) in accordance with the regular 11
28942785 notification procedures of the Committees on Appro-12
28952786 priations. 13
28962787 AUTHORIZATION REQUIREMENTS 14
28972788 S
28982789 EC. 7022. Funds appropriated by this Act, except 15
28992790 funds appropriated under the heading ‘‘Trade and Devel-16
29002791 opment Agency’’, may be obligated and expended notwith-17
29012792 standing section 10 of Public Law 91–672 (22 U.S.C. 18
29022793 2412), section 15 of the State Department Basic Authori-19
29032794 ties Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2680), section 313 of the For-20
29042795 eign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 21
29052796 1995 (22 U.S.C. 6212), and section 504(a)(1) of the Na-22
29062797 tional Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3094(a)(1)). 23
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29102800 DEFINITION OF PROGRAM , PROJECT, AND ACTIVITY 1
29112801 S
29122802 EC. 7023. For the purpose of titles II through VI 2
29132803 of this Act, ‘‘program, project, and activity’’ shall be de-3
29142804 fined at the appropriations Act account level and shall in-4
29152805 clude all appropriations and authorizations Acts funding 5
29162806 directives, ceilings, and limitations with the exception that 6
29172807 for the ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, ‘‘Assistance for Eu-7
29182808 rope, Eurasia and Central Asia’’, and ‘‘Foreign Military 8
29192809 Financing Program’’ accounts, ‘‘program, project, and ac-9
29202810 tivity’’ shall also be considered to include country, re-10
29212811 gional, and central program level funding within each such 11
29222812 account, and for the development assistance accounts of 12
29232813 the United States Agency for International Development, 13
29242814 ‘‘program, project, and activity’’ shall also be considered 14
29252815 to include central, country, regional, and program level 15
29262816 funding, either as— 16
29272817 (1) justified to Congress; or 17
29282818 (2) allocated by the Executive Branch in ac-18
29292819 cordance with the report required by section 653(a) 19
29302820 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or as modi-20
29312821 fied pursuant to section 7019 of this Act. 21
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29352824 AUTHORITIES FOR THE PEACE CORPS , INTER-AMERICAN 1
29362825 FOUNDATION, AND UNITED STATES AFRICAN DEVEL -2
29372826 OPMENT FOUNDATION 3
29382827 S
29392828 EC. 7024. Unless expressly provided to the contrary, 4
29402829 provisions of this or any other Act, including provisions 5
29412830 contained in prior Acts authorizing or making appropria-6
29422831 tions for the Department of State, foreign operations, and 7
29432832 related programs, shall not be construed to prohibit activi-8
29442833 ties authorized by or conducted under the Peace Corps 9
29452834 Act, the Inter-American Foundation Act, or the African 10
29462835 Development Foundation Act: Provided, That prior to con-11
29472836 ducting activities in a country for which assistance is pro-12
29482837 hibited, the agency shall consult with the Committees on 13
29492838 Appropriations and report to such Committees within 15 14
29502839 days of taking such action. 15
29512840 COMMERCE, TRADE AND SURPLUS COMMODITIES 16
29522841 S
29532842 EC. 7025. (a) WORLDMARKETS.—None of the 17
29542843 funds appropriated or made available pursuant to titles 18
29552844 III through VI of this Act for direct assistance and none 19
29562845 of the funds otherwise made available to the Export-Im-20
29572846 port Bank and the United States International Develop-21
29582847 ment Finance Corporation shall be obligated or expended 22
29592848 to finance any loan, any assistance, or any other financial 23
29602849 commitments for establishing or expanding production of 24
29612850 any commodity for export by any country other than the 25
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29652853 United States, if the commodity is likely to be in surplus 1
29662854 on world markets at the time the resulting productive ca-2
29672855 pacity is expected to become operative and if the assist-3
29682856 ance will cause substantial injury to United States pro-4
29692857 ducers of the same, similar, or competing commodity: Pro-5
29702858 vided, That such prohibition shall not apply to the Export- 6
29712859 Import Bank if in the judgment of its Board of Directors 7
29722860 the benefits to industry and employment in the United 8
29732861 States are likely to outweigh the injury to United States 9
29742862 producers of the same, similar, or competing commodity, 10
29752863 and the Chairman of the Board so notifies the Committees 11
29762864 on Appropriations: Provided further, That this subsection 12
29772865 shall not prohibit— 13
29782866 (1) activities in a country that is eligible for as-14
29792867 sistance from the International Development Asso-15
29802868 ciation, is not eligible for assistance from the Inter-16
29812869 national Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 17
29822870 and does not export on a consistent basis the agri-18
29832871 cultural commodity with respect to which assistance 19
29842872 is furnished; or 20
29852873 (2) activities in a country the President deter-21
29862874 mines is recovering from widespread conflict, a hu-22
29872875 manitarian crisis, or a complex emergency. 23
29882876 (b) E
29892877 XPORTS.—None of the funds appropriated by 24
29902878 this or any other Act to carry out chapter 1 of part I 25
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29942881 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 shall be available 1
29952882 for any testing or breeding feasibility study, variety im-2
29962883 provement or introduction, consultancy, publication, con-3
29972884 ference, or training in connection with the growth or pro-4
29982885 duction in a foreign country of an agricultural commodity 5
29992886 for export which would compete with a similar commodity 6
30002887 grown or produced in the United States: Provided, That 7
30012888 this subsection shall not prohibit— 8
30022889 (1) activities designed to increase food security 9
30032890 in developing countries where such activities will not 10
30042891 have a significant impact on the export of agricul-11
30052892 tural commodities of the United States; 12
30062893 (2) research activities intended primarily to 13
30072894 benefit United States producers; 14
30082895 (3) activities in a country that is eligible for as-15
30092896 sistance from the International Development Asso-16
30102897 ciation, is not eligible for assistance from the Inter-17
30112898 national Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 18
30122899 and does not export on a consistent basis the agri-19
30132900 cultural commodity with respect to which assistance 20
30142901 is furnished; or 21
30152902 (4) activities in a country the President deter-22
30162903 mines is recovering from widespread conflict, a hu-23
30172904 manitarian crisis, or a complex emergency. 24
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30212907 (c) INTERNATIONAL FINANCIALINSTITUTIONS.— 1
30222908 The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United 2
30232909 States executive director of each international financial in-3
30242910 stitution to use the voice and vote of the United States 4
30252911 to oppose any assistance by such institution, using funds 5
30262912 appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act, for 6
30272913 the production or extraction of any commodity or mineral 7
30282914 for export, if it is in surplus on world markets and if the 8
30292915 assistance will cause substantial injury to United States 9
30302916 producers of the same, similar, or competing commodity. 10
30312917 SEPARATE ACCOUNTS 11
30322918 S
30332919 EC. 7026. (a) SEPARATEACCOUNTS FOR LOCAL 12
30342920 C
30352921 URRENCIES.— 13
30362922 (1) A
30372923 GREEMENTS.—If assistance is furnished to 14
30382924 the government of a foreign country under chapters 15
30392925 1 and 10 of part I or chapter 4 of part II of the 16
30402926 Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 under agreements 17
30412927 which result in the generation of local currencies of 18
30422928 that country, the Administrator of the United States 19
30432929 Agency for International Development shall— 20
30442930 (A) require that local currencies be depos-21
30452931 ited in a separate account established by that 22
30462932 government; 23
30472933 (B) enter into an agreement with that gov-24
30482934 ernment which sets forth— 25
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30522937 (i) the amount of the local currencies 1
30532938 to be generated; and 2
30542939 (ii) the terms and conditions under 3
30552940 which the currencies so deposited may be 4
30562941 utilized, consistent with this section; and 5
30572942 (C) establish by agreement with that gov-6
30582943 ernment the responsibilities of USAID and that 7
30592944 government to monitor and account for deposits 8
30602945 into and disbursements from the separate ac-9
30612946 count. 10
30622947 (2) U
30632948 SES OF LOCAL CURRENCIES .—As may be 11
30642949 agreed upon with the foreign government, local cur-12
30652950 rencies deposited in a separate account pursuant to 13
30662951 subsection (a), or an equivalent amount of local cur-14
30672952 rencies, shall be used only— 15
30682953 (A) to carry out chapter 1 or 10 of part 16
30692954 I or chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assist-17
30702955 ance Act of 1961 (as the case may be), for such 18
30712956 purposes as— 19
30722957 (i) project and sector assistance activi-20
30732958 ties; or 21
30742959 (ii) debt and deficit financing; or 22
30752960 (B) for the administrative requirements of 23
30762961 the United States Government. 24
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30802964 (3) PROGRAMMING ACCOUNTABILITY .—USAID 1
30812965 shall take all necessary steps to ensure that the 2
30822966 equivalent of the local currencies disbursed pursuant 3
30832967 to subsection (a)(2)(A) from the separate account 4
30842968 established pursuant to subsection (a)(1) are used 5
30852969 for the purposes agreed upon pursuant to subsection 6
30862970 (a)(2). 7
30872971 (4) T
30882972 ERMINATION OF ASSISTANCE PRO -8
30892973 GRAMS.—Upon termination of assistance to a coun-9
30902974 try under chapter 1 or 10 of part I or chapter 4 of 10
30912975 part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (as 11
30922976 the case may be), any unencumbered balances of 12
30932977 funds which remain in a separate account estab-13
30942978 lished pursuant to subsection (a) shall be disposed of 14
30952979 for such purposes as may be agreed to by the gov-15
30962980 ernment of that country and the United States Gov-16
30972981 ernment. 17
30982982 (b) S
30992983 EPARATEACCOUNTS FORCASHTRANSFERS.— 18
31002984 (1) I
31012985 N GENERAL.—If assistance is made avail-19
31022986 able to the government of a foreign country, under 20
31032987 chapter 1 or 10 of part I or chapter 4 of part II of 21
31042988 the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as cash transfer 22
31052989 assistance or as nonproject sector assistance, that 23
31062990 country shall be required to maintain such funds in 24
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31102993 a separate account and not commingle with any 1
31112994 other funds. 2
31122995 (2) A
31132996 PPLICABILITY OF OTHER PROVISIONS OF 3
31142997 LAW.—Such funds may be obligated and expended 4
31152998 notwithstanding provisions of law which are incon-5
31162999 sistent with the nature of this assistance, including 6
31173000 provisions which are referenced in the Joint Explan-7
31183001 atory Statement of the Committee of Conference ac-8
31193002 companying House Joint Resolution 648 (House Re-9
31203003 port No. 98–1159). 10
31213004 (3) N
31223005 OTIFICATION.—At least 15 days prior to 11
31233006 obligating any such cash transfer or nonproject sec-12
31243007 tor assistance, the President shall submit a notifica-13
31253008 tion through the regular notification procedures of 14
31263009 the Committees on Appropriations, which shall in-15
31273010 clude a detailed description of how the funds pro-16
31283011 posed to be made available will be used, with a dis-17
31293012 cussion of the United States interests that will be 18
31303013 served by such assistance (including, as appropriate, 19
31313014 a description of the economic policy reforms that will 20
31323015 be promoted by such assistance). 21
31333016 (4) E
31343017 XEMPTION.—Nonproject sector assistance 22
31353018 funds may be exempt from the requirements of para-23
31363019 graph (1) only through the regular notification pro-24
31373020 cedures of the Committees on Appropriations. 25
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31413023 ELIGIBILITY FOR ASSISTANCE 1
31423024 S
31433025 EC. 7027. (a) ASSISTANCETHROUGHNONGOVERN-2
31443026 MENTALORGANIZATIONS.—Restrictions contained in this 3
31453027 or any other Act with respect to assistance for a country 4
31463028 shall not be construed to restrict assistance in support of 5
31473029 programs of nongovernmental organizations from funds 6
31483030 appropriated by this Act to carry out the provisions of 7
31493031 chapters 1, 10, 11, and 12 of part I and chapter 4 of 8
31503032 part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and from 9
31513033 funds appropriated under the heading ‘‘Assistance for Eu-10
31523034 rope, Eurasia and Central Asia’’: Provided, That before 11
31533035 using the authority of this subsection to furnish assistance 12
31543036 in support of programs of nongovernmental organizations, 13
31553037 the President shall notify the Committees on Appropria-14
31563038 tions pursuant to the regular notification procedures, in-15
31573039 cluding a description of the program to be assisted, the 16
31583040 assistance to be provided, and the reasons for furnishing 17
31593041 such assistance: Provided further, That nothing in this 18
31603042 subsection shall be construed to alter any existing statu-19
31613043 tory prohibitions against abortion or involuntary steriliza-20
31623044 tions contained in this or any other Act. 21
31633045 (b) P
31643046 UBLICLAW480.—During fiscal year 2024, re-22
31653047 strictions contained in this or any other Act with respect 23
31663048 to assistance for a country shall not be construed to re-24
31673049 strict assistance under the Food for Peace Act (Public 25
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31713052 Law 83–480; 7 U.S.C. 1721 et seq.): Provided, That none 1
31723053 of the funds appropriated to carry out title I of such Act 2
31733054 and made available pursuant to this subsection may be 3
31743055 obligated or expended except as provided through the reg-4
31753056 ular notification procedures of the Committees on Appro-5
31763057 priations. 6
31773058 (c) E
31783059 XCEPTION.—This section shall not apply— 7
31793060 (1) with respect to section 620A of the Foreign 8
31803061 Assistance Act of 1961 or any comparable provision 9
31813062 of law prohibiting assistance to countries that sup-10
31823063 port international terrorism; or 11
31833064 (2) with respect to section 116 of the Foreign 12
31843065 Assistance Act of 1961 or any comparable provision 13
31853066 of law prohibiting assistance to the government of a 14
31863067 country that violates internationally recognized 15
31873068 human rights. 16
31883069 IMPACT ON JOBS IN THE UNITED STATES 17
31893070 S
31903071 EC. 7028. None of the funds appropriated or other-18
31913072 wise made available under titles III through VI of this 19
31923073 Act may be obligated or expended to provide— 20
31933074 (1) any financial incentive to a business enter-21
31943075 prise currently located in the United States for the 22
31953076 purpose of inducing such an enterprise to relocate 23
31963077 outside the United States if such incentive or in-24
31973078 ducement is likely to reduce the number of employ-25
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32013081 ees of such business enterprise in the United States 1
32023082 because United States production is being replaced 2
32033083 by such enterprise outside the United States; 3
32043084 (2) assistance for any program, project, or ac-4
32053085 tivity that contributes to the violation of internation-5
32063086 ally recognized workers’ rights, as defined in section 6
32073087 507(4) of the Trade Act of 1974, of workers in the 7
32083088 recipient country, including any designated zone or 8
32093089 area in that country: Provided, That the application 9
32103090 of section 507(4)(D) and (E) of such Act (19 U.S.C. 10
32113091 2467(4)(D) and (E)) should be commensurate with 11
32123092 the level of development of the recipient country and 12
32133093 sector, and shall not preclude assistance for the in-13
32143094 formal sector in such country, micro and small-scale 14
32153095 enterprise, and smallholder agriculture; 15
32163096 (3) any assistance to an entity outside the 16
32173097 United States if such assistance is for the purpose 17
32183098 of directly relocating or transferring jobs from the 18
32193099 United States to other countries and adversely im-19
32203100 pacts the labor force in the United States; or 20
32213101 (4) for the enforcement of any rule, regulation, 21
32223102 policy, or guidelines implemented pursuant to the 22
32233103 Supplemental Guidelines for High Carbon Intensity 23
32243104 Projects approved by the Export-Import Bank of the 24
32253105 United States on December 12, 2013, when enforce-25
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32293108 ment of such rule, regulation, policy, or guidelines 1
32303109 would prohibit, or have the effect of prohibiting, any 2
32313110 coal-fired or other power-generation project the pur-3
32323111 pose of which is to— 4
32333112 (A) provide affordable electricity in Inter-5
32343113 national Development Association (IDA)-eligible 6
32353114 countries and IDA-blend countries; and 7
32363115 (B) increase exports of goods and services 8
32373116 from the United States or prevent the loss of 9
32383117 jobs from the United States. 10
32393118 INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS 11
32403119 S
32413120 EC. 7029. (a) COMPENSATION.—None of the funds 12
32423121 appropriated under title V of this Act may be made as 13
32433122 payment to any international financial institution while 14
32443123 the United States executive director to such institution is 15
32453124 compensated by the institution at a rate which, together 16
32463125 with whatever compensation such executive director re-17
32473126 ceives from the United States, is in excess of the rate pro-18
32483127 vided for an individual occupying a position at level IV 19
32493128 of the Executive Schedule under section 5315 of title 5, 20
32503129 United States Code, or while any alternate United States 21
32513130 executive director to such institution is compensated by 22
32523131 the institution at a rate in excess of the rate provided for 23
32533132 an individual occupying a position at level V of the Execu-24
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32573135 tive Schedule under section 5316 of title 5, United States 1
32583136 Code. 2
32593137 (b) H
32603138 UMANRIGHTS.—The Secretary of the Treasury 3
32613139 shall instruct the United States executive director of each 4
32623140 international financial institution to use the voice and vote 5
32633141 of the United States to promote human rights due dili-6
32643142 gence and risk management, as appropriate, in connection 7
32653143 with any loan, grant, policy, or strategy of such institu-8
32663144 tion. 9
32673145 (c) F
32683146 RAUD ANDCORRUPTION.—The Secretary of the 10
32693147 Treasury shall instruct the United States executive direc-11
32703148 tor of each international financial institution to use the 12
32713149 voice of the United States to include in loan, grant, and 13
32723150 other financing agreements improvements in borrowing 14
32733151 countries’ financial management and judicial capacity to 15
32743152 investigate, prosecute, and punish fraud and corruption. 16
32753153 (d) B
32763154 ENEFICIALOWNERSHIPINFORMATION.—The 17
32773155 Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States 18
32783156 executive director of each international financial institu-19
32793157 tion to use the voice of the United States to encourage 20
32803158 such institution to collect, verify, and publish, to the max-21
32813159 imum extent practicable, beneficial ownership information 22
32823160 (excluding proprietary information) for any corporation or 23
32833161 limited liability company, other than a publicly listed com-24
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32873164 pany, that receives funds from any such financial institu-1
32883165 tion. 2
32893166 (e) W
32903167 HISTLEBLOWERPROTECTIONS.—The Secretary 3
32913168 of the Treasury shall instruct the United States executive 4
32923169 director of each international financial institution to use 5
32933170 the voice of the United States to encourage such institu-6
32943171 tion to effectively implement and enforce policies and pro-7
32953172 cedures which meet or exceed best practices in the United 8
32963173 States for the protection of whistleblowers from retalia-9
32973174 tion, including— 10
32983175 (1) protection against retaliation for internal 11
32993176 and lawful public disclosure; 12
33003177 (2) legal burdens of proof; 13
33013178 (3) statutes of limitation for reporting retalia-14
33023179 tion; 15
33033180 (4) access to binding independent adjudicative 16
33043181 bodies, including shared cost and selection external 17
33053182 arbitration; and 18
33063183 (5) results that eliminate the effects of proven 19
33073184 retaliation, including provision for the restoration of 20
33083185 prior employment. 21
33093186 (f) G
33103187 RIEVANCEMECHANISMS AND PROCEDURES.— 22
33113188 The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United 23
33123189 States executive director of each international financial in-24
33133190 stitution to use the voice of the United States to support 25
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33173193 independent investigative and adjudicative mechanisms 1
33183194 and procedures that meet or exceed best practices in the 2
33193195 United States to provide due process and fair compensa-3
33203196 tion, including the right to reinstatement, for employees 4
33213197 who are subjected to harassment, discrimination, retalia-5
33223198 tion, false allegations, or other misconduct. 6
33233199 (g) C
33243200 APITALINCREASES.—None of the funds appro-7
33253201 priated by this Act may be made available to support a 8
33263202 new capital increase for an international financial institu-9
33273203 tion unless the President submits a budget request for 10
33283204 such increase to Congress and determines and reports to 11
33293205 the Committees on Appropriations that— 12
33303206 (1) the institution has completed a thorough 13
33313207 analysis of the development challenges facing the rel-14
33323208 evant geographical region, the role of the institution 15
33333209 in addressing such challenges and its role relative to 16
33343210 other financing partners, and the steps to be taken 17
33353211 to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the in-18
33363212 stitution; and 19
33373213 (2) the governors of such institution have ap-20
33383214 proved the capital increase. 21
33393215 (h) O
33403216 PPOSITION TOLENDING TO THEPEOPLE’SRE-22
33413217 PUBLIC OFCHINA.—The Secretary of the Treasury shall 23
33423218 instruct the United States executive director at each mul-24
33433219 tilateral development bank to use the voice and vote of 25
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33473222 the United States to oppose any loan, extension of finan-1
33483223 cial assistance, or technical assistance by such bank to the 2
33493224 People’s Republic of China. 3
33503225 (i) C
33513226 ONTRIBUTIONS TO FINANCIALINTERMEDIARY 4
33523227 F
33533228 UNDS.—The Secretary of the Treasury shall ensure that 5
33543229 no United States contribution to a financial intermediary 6
33553230 fund may be used to provide any loan, extension of finan-7
33563231 cial assistance, or technical assistance to the People’s Re-8
33573232 public of China or to any country or region subject to com-9
33583233 prehensive sanctions by the United States. 10
33593234 (j) R
33603235 EPORT TOCONGRESS ANDWITHHOLDING.— 11
33613236 (1) Not later than 120 days after the date of 12
33623237 enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury 13
33633238 shall submit a report to the Committees on Appro-14
33643239 priations indicating the amount of funds that a fi-15
33653240 nancial intermediary fund is budgeting for the year 16
33663241 in which the report is submitted for a country or re-17
33673242 gion described in subsection (i). 18
33683243 (2) If a report under paragraph (1) indicates 19
33693244 that a financial intermediary fund plans to spend 20
33703245 funds for a country or region described under sub-21
33713246 section (i), including through projects implemented 22
33723247 by a multilateral development bank, then 10 percent 23
33733248 of the United States contribution to such bank shall 24
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33773251 be withheld from obligation for the remainder of the 1
33783252 fiscal year in which the report is submitted. 2
33793253 (k) G
33803254 UIDANCE ON MULTILATERALDEVELOPMENT 3
33813255 B
33823256 ANKS.—None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 4
33833257 made available by this Act under the heading ‘‘Multilateral 5
33843258 Assistance’’ may be used to implement, administer, or oth-6
33853259 erwise carry out Executive Order 14008 (relating to Exec-7
33863260 utive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and 8
33873261 Abroad), including the memorandum entitled ‘‘Guidance 9
33883262 on Fossil Fuel Energy at the Multilateral Development 10
33893263 Banks’’, issued by the Department of the Treasury on Au-11
33903264 gust 16, 2021. 12
33913265 TECHNOLOGY SECURITY 13
33923266 S
33933267 EC. 7030. (a) INSECURECOMMUNICATIONS NET-14
33943268 WORKS.—Funds appropriated by this Act shall be made 15
33953269 available for programs, including through the Digital 16
33963270 Connectivity and Cybersecurity Partnership, to— 17
33973271 (1) advance the adoption of secure, next-genera-18
33983272 tion communications networks and services, includ-19
33993273 ing 5G, and cybersecurity policies, in countries re-20
34003274 ceiving assistance under this Act and prior Acts 21
34013275 making appropriations for the Department of State, 22
34023276 foreign operations, and related programs; 23
34033277 (2) counter the establishment of insecure com-24
34043278 munications networks and services, including 5G, 25
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34083281 promoted by the People’s Republic of China and 1
34093282 other state-backed enterprises that are subject to 2
34103283 undue or extrajudicial control by their country of or-3
34113284 igin; and 4
34123285 (3) provide policy and technical training on de-5
34133286 ploying open, interoperable, reliable, and secure net-6
34143287 works to information communication technology pro-7
34153288 fessionals in countries receiving assistance under 8
34163289 this Act, as appropriate: 9
34173290 Provided, That such funds, including funds appropriated 10
34183291 under the heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, may be 11
34193292 used to strengthen civilian cybersecurity and information 12
34203293 and communications technology capacity, including par-13
34213294 ticipation of foreign law enforcement and military per-14
34223295 sonnel in non-military activities, notwithstanding any 15
34233296 other provision of law and following consultation with the 16
34243297 Committees on Appropriations. 17
34253298 (b) CHIPS
34263299 FORAMERICAINTERNATIONAL TECH-18
34273300 NOLOGYSECURITY ANDINNOVATIONFUND.— 19
34283301 (1) Within 45 days of enactment of this Act, 20
34293302 the Secretary of State shall allocate amounts made 21
34303303 available from the Creating Helpful Incentives to 22
34313304 Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America 23
34323305 International Technology Security and Innovation 24
34333306 Fund for fiscal year 2024 pursuant to the transfer 25
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34373309 authority in section 102(c)(1) of the CHIPS Act of 1
34383310 2022 (division A of Public Law 117–167), to the ac-2
34393311 counts specified and in the amounts specified, in the 3
34403312 table titled ‘‘CHIPS for America International Tech-4
34413313 nology Security and Innovation Fund’’ in the report 5
34423314 accompanying this Act: Provided, That such funds 6
34433315 shall be subject to prior consultation with, and the 7
34443316 regular notification procedures of, the Committees 8
34453317 on Appropriations: Provided further, That amounts 9
34463318 transferred to the Export-Import Bank of the 10
34473319 United States and the United States International 11
34483320 Development Finance Corporation pursuant to the 12
34493321 transfer authority in section 102(c)(1) of the CHIPS 13
34503322 Act of 2022 (division A of Public Law 117–167) 14
34513323 may be made available for the costs of direct loans 15
34523324 and loan guarantees, including the cost of modifying 16
34533325 such loans, as defined in section 502 of the Congres-17
34543326 sional Budget Act of 1974. 18
34553327 (2) Neither the President nor his designee may 19
34563328 allocate any amounts that are made available for 20
34573329 any fiscal year under section 102(c)(2) of the 21
34583330 CHIPS Act of 2022 if there is in effect an Act mak-22
34593331 ing or continuing appropriations for part of a fiscal 23
34603332 year for the Department of State, Foreign Oper-24
34613333 ations, and Related Programs: Provided, That in any 25
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34653336 fiscal year, the matter preceding this proviso shall 1
34663337 not apply to the allocation, apportionment, or allot-2
34673338 ment of amounts for continuing administration of 3
34683339 programs allocated using funds transferred from the 4
34693340 CHIPS for America International Technology Secu-5
34703341 rity and Innovation Fund, which may be allocated 6
34713342 pursuant to the transfer authority in section 7
34723343 102(c)(1) of the CHIPS Act of 2022 only in 8
34733344 amounts that are no more than the allocation for 9
34743345 such purposes in paragraph (1) of this subsection. 10
34753346 (3) Concurrent with the annual budget submis-11
34763347 sion of the President for fiscal year 2025, the Sec-12
34773348 retary of State shall submit to the Committees on 13
34783349 Appropriations proposed allocations by account and 14
34793350 by program, project, or activity, with detailed jus-15
34803351 tifications, for amounts made available under section 16
34813352 102(c)(2) of the CHIPS Act of 2022 for fiscal year 17
34823353 2025. 18
34833354 (4) The Secretary of State shall provide the 19
34843355 Committees on Appropriations quarterly reports on 20
34853356 the status of balances of projects and activities fund-21
34863357 ed by the CHIPS for America International Tech-22
34873358 nology Security and Innovation Fund for amounts 23
34883359 allocated pursuant to paragraph (1) of this sub-24
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34923362 section, including all uncommitted, committed, and 1
34933363 unobligated funds. 2
34943364 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT , BUDGET TRANSPARENCY , AND 3
34953365 ANTI-CORRUPTION 4
34963366 S
34973367 EC. 7031. (a) LIMITATION ONDIRECTGOVERN-5
34983368 MENT-TO-GOVERNMENTASSISTANCE.— 6
34993369 (1) R
35003370 EQUIREMENTS.—Funds appropriated by 7
35013371 this Act may be made available for direct govern-8
35023372 ment-to-government assistance only if— 9
35033373 (A)(i) each implementing agency or min-10
35043374 istry to receive assistance has been assessed 11
35053375 and is considered to have the systems required 12
35063376 to manage such assistance and any identified 13
35073377 vulnerabilities or weaknesses of such agency or 14
35083378 ministry have been addressed; 15
35093379 (ii) the recipient agency or ministry em-16
35103380 ploys and utilizes staff with the necessary tech-17
35113381 nical, financial, and management capabilities; 18
35123382 (iii) the recipient agency or ministry has 19
35133383 adopted competitive procurement policies and 20
35143384 systems; 21
35153385 (iv) effective monitoring and evaluation 22
35163386 systems are in place to ensure that such assist-23
35173387 ance is used for its intended purposes; 24
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35213390 (v) no level of acceptable fraud is assumed; 1
35223391 and 2
35233392 (vi) the government of the recipient coun-3
35243393 try is taking steps to publicly disclose on an an-4
35253394 nual basis its national budget, to include in-5
35263395 come and expenditures; 6
35273396 (B) the recipient government is in compli-7
35283397 ance with the principles set forth in section 8
35293398 7013 of this Act; 9
35303399 (C) the recipient agency or ministry is not 10
35313400 headed or controlled by an organization des-11
35323401 ignated as a foreign terrorist organization 12
35333402 under section 219 of the Immigration and Na-13
35343403 tionality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189); 14
35353404 (D) the Government of the United States 15
35363405 and the government of the recipient country 16
35373406 have agreed, in writing, on clear and achievable 17
35383407 objectives for the use of such assistance, which 18
35393408 should be made available on a cost-reimbursable 19
35403409 basis; 20
35413410 (E) the recipient government is taking 21
35423411 steps to protect the rights of civil society, in-22
35433412 cluding freedoms of expression, association, and 23
35443413 assembly; and 24
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35483416 (F) the government of the recipient coun-1
35493417 try is taking steps to reduce corruption. 2
35503418 (2) C
35513419 ONSULTATION AND NOTIFICATION .—In 3
35523420 addition to the requirements in paragraph (1), funds 4
35533421 may only be made available for direct government- 5
35543422 to-government assistance subject to prior consulta-6
35553423 tion with, and the regular notification procedures of, 7
35563424 the Committees on Appropriations: Provided, That 8
35573425 such notification shall contain an explanation of how 9
35583426 the proposed activity meets the requirements of 10
35593427 paragraph (1): Provided further, That the require-11
35603428 ments of this paragraph shall only apply to direct 12
35613429 government-to-government assistance in excess of 13
35623430 $5,000,000 and all funds available for cash transfer, 14
35633431 budget support, and cash payments to individuals. 15
35643432 (3) S
35653433 USPENSION OF ASSISTANCE .—The Admin-16
35663434 istrator of the United States Agency for Inter-17
35673435 national Development or the Secretary of State, as 18
35683436 appropriate, shall suspend any direct government-to- 19
35693437 government assistance if the Administrator or the 20
35703438 Secretary has credible information of material mis-21
35713439 use of such assistance, unless the Administrator or 22
35723440 the Secretary reports to the Committees on Appro-23
35733441 priations that it is in the national interest of the 24
35743442 United States to continue such assistance, including 25
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35783445 a justification, or that such misuse has been appro-1
35793446 priately addressed. 2
35803447 (4) S
35813448 UBMISSION OF INFORMATION .—The Sec-3
35823449 retary of State shall submit to the Committees on 4
35833450 Appropriations, concurrent with the fiscal year 2025 5
35843451 congressional budget justification materials, amounts 6
35853452 planned for assistance described in paragraph (1) by 7
35863453 country, proposed funding amount, source of funds, 8
35873454 and type of assistance. 9
35883455 (5) D
35893456 EBT SERVICE PAYMENT PROHIBITION .— 10
35903457 None of the funds made available by this Act may 11
35913458 be used by the government of any foreign country 12
35923459 for debt service payments owed by any country to 13
35933460 any international financial institution or to the Gov-14
35943461 ernment of the People’s Republic of China. 15
35953462 (b) N
35963463 ATIONALBUDGET AND CONTRACTTRANS-16
35973464 PARENCY.— 17
35983465 (1) M
35993466 INIMUM REQUIREMENTS OF FISCAL 18
36003467 TRANSPARENCY.—The Secretary of State shall con-19
36013468 tinue to update and strengthen the ‘‘minimum re-20
36023469 quirements of fiscal transparency’’ for each govern-21
36033470 ment receiving assistance appropriated by this Act, 22
36043471 as identified in the report required by section 23
36053472 7031(b) of the Department of State, Foreign Oper-24
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36093475 ations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1
36103476 2014 (division K of Public Law 113–76). 2
36113477 (2) D
36123478 ETERMINATION AND REPORT .—For each 3
36133479 government identified pursuant to paragraph (1), 4
36143480 the Secretary of State, not later than 180 days after 5
36153481 the date of enactment of this Act, shall make or up-6
36163482 date any determination of ‘‘significant progress’’ or 7
36173483 ‘‘no significant progress’’ in meeting the minimum 8
36183484 requirements of fiscal transparency, and make such 9
36193485 determinations publicly available in an annual ‘‘Fis-10
36203486 cal Transparency Report’’ to be posted on the De-11
36213487 partment of State website: Provided, That such re-12
36223488 port shall include the elements included under this 13
36233489 section in the report accompanying this Act. 14
36243490 (3) A
36253491 SSISTANCE.—Funds appropriated under 15
36263492 title III of this Act shall be made available for pro-16
36273493 grams and activities to assist governments identified 17
36283494 pursuant to paragraph (1) to improve budget trans-18
36293495 parency and to support civil society organizations in 19
36303496 such countries that promote budget transparency. 20
36313497 (c) A
36323498 NTI-KLEPTOCRACY ANDHUMANRIGHTS.— 21
36333499 (1) I
36343500 NELIGIBILITY.— 22
36353501 (A) Officials of foreign governments and 23
36363502 their immediate family members about whom 24
36373503 the Secretary of State has credible information 25
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36413506 have been involved, directly or indirectly, in sig-1
36423507 nificant corruption, including corruption related 2
36433508 to the extraction of natural resources, or a 3
36443509 gross violation of human rights, including the 4
36453510 wrongful detention of locally employed staff of 5
36463511 a United States diplomatic mission or a United 6
36473512 States citizen or national, shall be ineligible for 7
36483513 entry into the United States. 8
36493514 (B) Concurrent with the application of 9
36503515 subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall, as ap-10
36513516 propriate, refer the matter to the Office of For-11
36523517 eign Assets Control, Department of the Treas-12
36533518 ury, to determine whether to apply sanctions 13
36543519 authorities in accordance with United States 14
36553520 law to block the transfer of property and inter-15
36563521 ests in property, and all financial transactions, 16
36573522 in the United States involving any person de-17
36583523 scribed in such subparagraph. 18
36593524 (C) The Secretary shall also publicly or 19
36603525 privately designate or identify the officials of 20
36613526 foreign governments and their immediate family 21
36623527 members about whom the Secretary has such 22
36633528 credible information without regard to whether 23
36643529 the individual has applied for a visa. 24
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36683532 (2) EXCEPTION.—Individuals shall not be ineli-1
36693533 gible for entry into the United States pursuant to 2
36703534 paragraph (1) if such entry would further important 3
36713535 United States law enforcement objectives or is nec-4
36723536 essary to permit the United States to fulfill its obli-5
36733537 gations under the United Nations Headquarters 6
36743538 Agreement: Provided, That nothing in paragraph (1) 7
36753539 shall be construed to derogate from United States 8
36763540 Government obligations under applicable inter-9
36773541 national agreements. 10
36783542 (3) W
36793543 AIVER.—The Secretary may waive the ap-11
36803544 plication of paragraph (1) if the Secretary deter-12
36813545 mines that the waiver would serve a compelling na-13
36823546 tional interest or that the circumstances which 14
36833547 caused the individual to be ineligible have changed 15
36843548 sufficiently. 16
36853549 (4) R
36863550 EPORT.—Not later than 30 days after the 17
36873551 date of enactment of this Act, and every 90 days 18
36883552 thereafter until September 30, 2025, the Secretary 19
36893553 of State shall submit a report, including a classified 20
36903554 annex if necessary, to the appropriate congressional 21
36913555 committees and the Committees on the Judiciary de-22
36923556 scribing the information related to corruption or vio-23
36933557 lation of human rights concerning each of the indi-24
36943558 viduals found ineligible in the previous 12 months 25
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36983561 pursuant to paragraph (1)(A) as well as the individ-1
36993562 uals who the Secretary designated or identified pur-2
37003563 suant to paragraph (1)(B), or who would be ineli-3
37013564 gible but for the application of paragraph (2), a list 4
37023565 of any waivers provided under paragraph (3), and 5
37033566 the justification for each waiver. 6
37043567 (d) E
37053568 XTRACTION OFNATURALRESOURCES.— 7
37063569 (1) A
37073570 SSISTANCE.—Funds appropriated by this 8
37083571 Act may be made available to promote and support 9
37093572 transparency and accountability of expenditures and 10
37103573 revenues related to the extraction of natural re-11
37113574 sources, including by strengthening implementation 12
37123575 and monitoring of the Extractive Industries Trans-13
37133576 parency Initiative, implementing and enforcing sec-14
37143577 tion 8204 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy 15
37153578 Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–246; 122 Stat. 2052) 16
37163579 and the amendments made by such section, and to 17
37173580 prevent the sale of conflict diamonds, and for tech-18
37183581 nical assistance to promote independent audit mech-19
37193582 anisms and support civil society participation in nat-20
37203583 ural resource management. 21
37213584 (2) P
37223585 ROHIBITION.—None of the funds appro-22
37233586 priated by this Act under title III may be made 23
37243587 available to support mining activities related to the 24
37253588 extraction of minerals until the Secretary of State 25
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37293591 certifies and reports to the appropriate congressional 1
37303592 committees that comparable mining activities are 2
37313593 permitted in areas in the United States which were 3
37323594 allowable prior to 2023: Provided, That the restric-4
37333595 tion in this paragraph shall not apply to United 5
37343596 States entities. 6
37353597 (e) F
37363598 OREIGNASSISTANCEWEBSITE.—Funds appro-7
37373599 priated by this Act under titles I and II, and funds made 8
37383600 available for any independent agency in title III, as appro-9
37393601 priate, shall be made available to support the provision 10
37403602 of additional information on United States Government 11
37413603 foreign assistance on the ‘‘ForeignAssistance.gov’’ 12
37423604 website: Provided, That all Federal agencies funded under 13
37433605 this Act shall provide such information on foreign assist-14
37443606 ance, upon request and in a timely manner, to the Depart-15
37453607 ment of State and the United States Agency for Inter-16
37463608 national Development. 17
37473609 DEMOCRACY PROGRAMS 18
37483610 S
37493611 EC. 7032. (a) FUNDING.—Of the funds appro-19
37503612 priated by this Act under the headings ‘‘Development As-20
37513613 sistance’’, ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, ‘‘Democracy 21
37523614 Fund’’, ‘‘Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central 22
37533615 Asia’’, and ‘‘International Narcotics Control and Law En-23
37543616 forcement’’, $2,900,000,000 shall be made available for 24
37553617 democracy programs. 25
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37593620 (b) AUTHORITIES.— 1
37603621 (1) A
37613622 VAILABILITY.—Funds made available by 2
37623623 this Act for democracy programs pursuant to sub-3
37633624 section (a) and under the heading ‘‘National Endow-4
37643625 ment for Democracy’’ may be made available not-5
37653626 withstanding any other provision of law, and with 6
37663627 regard to the National Endowment for Democracy 7
37673628 (NED), any regulation. 8
37683629 (2) B
37693630 ENEFICIARIES.—Funds made available by 9
37703631 this Act for the NED are made available pursuant 10
37713632 to the authority of the National Endowment for De-11
37723633 mocracy Act (title V of Public Law 98–164), includ-12
37733634 ing all decisions regarding the selection of bene-13
37743635 ficiaries. 14
37753636 (c) D
37763637 EFINITION OFDEMOCRACYPROGRAMS.—For 15
37773638 purposes of funds appropriated by this Act, the term ‘‘de-16
37783639 mocracy programs’’ means programs that support: out-17
37793640 comes of improved democratic governance; credible and 18
37803641 observable electoral processes; strong, multi-party political 19
37813642 systems with rights to contest government; rule of law; 20
37823643 freedoms of expression, assembly, association, and reli-21
37833644 gion; human rights, including property rights; activities by 22
37843645 non-governmental organizations and other civil society, in-23
37853646 cluding independent media, that promote the outcomes de-24
37863647 scribed in this subsection. 25
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37903650 (d) PROGRAMPRIORITIZATION.—Funds made avail-1
37913651 able for support to strengthen government institutions, in-2
37923652 cluding ministries, should be prioritized for countries dem-3
37933653 onstrating strong separation of powers, checks and bal-4
37943654 ances, rule of law, and credible and observable electoral 5
37953655 processes. 6
37963656 (e) R
37973657 ESTRICTIONS ON FOREIGNGOVERNMENT IN-7
37983658 TERFERENCE.—With respect to the provision of assistance 8
37993659 for democracy programs in this Act, the organizations im-9
38003660 plementing such assistance, the specific nature of the as-10
38013661 sistance, and the participants in such programs shall not 11
38023662 be subject to prior approval by the government of any for-12
38033663 eign country. 13
38043664 (f) I
38053665 NFORMINGPROGRAMMING.—The Secretary of 14
38063666 State, Administrator of the United States Agency for 15
38073667 International Development, and President of the NED 16
38083668 should coordinate on plans for democracy programs sup-17
38093669 ported with funds appropriated by this Act during joint 18
38103670 regional and country planning for fiscal year 2024. 19
38113671 INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM 20
38123672 S
38133673 EC. 7033. (a) INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUSFREE-21
38143674 DOMOFFICE.—Funds appropriated by this Act under the 22
38153675 heading ‘‘Diplomatic Programs’’ shall be made available 23
38163676 for the Office of International Religious Freedom, Depart-24
38173677 ment of State. 25
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38213680 (b) ASSISTANCE.—(1) Of the funds appropriated by 1
38223681 this Act under the headings ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, 2
38233682 ‘‘Democracy Fund’’, and ‘‘International Broadcasting Op-3
38243683 erations’’, not less than $50,000,000 shall be made avail-4
38253684 able for international religious freedom programs: Pro-5
38263685 vided, That funds made available by this Act under the 6
38273686 headings ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’ and ‘‘Democracy 7
38283687 Fund’’ pursuant to this section shall be the responsibility 8
38293688 of the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious 9
38303689 Freedom, in consultation with other relevant United 10
38313690 States Government officials, and shall be subject to prior 11
38323691 consultation with the Committees on Appropriations. 12
38333692 (2) Funds appropriated by this Act under the head-13
38343693 ings ‘‘International Disaster Assistance’’ and ‘‘Migration 14
38353694 and Refugee Assistance’’ shall be made available for hu-15
38363695 manitarian assistance for vulnerable and persecuted ethnic 16
38373696 and religious minorities 17
38383697 (c) A
38393698 UTHORITY.—Funds appropriated by this Act 18
38403699 and prior Acts making appropriations for the Department 19
38413700 of State, foreign operations, and related programs under 20
38423701 the heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’ may be made 21
38433702 available notwithstanding any other provision of law for 22
38443703 assistance for ethnic and religious minorities in Iraq and 23
38453704 Syria. 24
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38493707 (d) DESIGNATION OFNON-STATEACTORS.—Section 1
38503708 7033(e) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, 2
38513709 and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2017 (division 3
38523710 J of Public Law 115–31) shall continue in effect during 4
38533711 fiscal year 2024. 5
38543712 SPECIAL PROVISIONS 6
38553713 S
38563714 EC. 7034. (a) VICTIMS OFWAR, DISPLACEDCHIL-7
38573715 DREN, ANDDISPLACEDBURMESE.—Funds appropriated 8
38583716 in title III of this Act that are made available for victims 9
38593717 of war, displaced children, displaced Burmese, and to com-10
38603718 bat trafficking in persons and assist victims of such traf-11
38613719 ficking may be made available notwithstanding any other 12
38623720 provision of law. 13
38633721 (b) F
38643722 ORENSICASSISTANCE.— 14
38653723 (1) Funds appropriated by this Act under the 15
38663724 heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’ shall be made 16
38673725 available for forensic anthropology assistance related 17
38683726 to the exhumation and identification of victims of 18
38693727 war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, 19
38703728 which shall be administered by the Assistant Sec-20
38713729 retary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, 21
38723730 Department of State. 22
38733731 (2) Of the funds appropriated by this Act under 23
38743732 the heading ‘‘International Narcotics Control and 24
38753733 Law Enforcement’’, not less than $10,000,000 (in-25
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38793736 creased by $3,000,000) shall be made available for 1
38803737 DNA forensic technology programs to combat 2
38813738 human trafficking in Central America and Mexico. 3
38823739 (c) W
38833740 ORLDFOODPROGRAMME.—Funds managed by 4
38843741 the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, United States 5
38853742 Agency for International Development from this Act may 6
38863743 be made available as a general contribution to the World 7
38873744 Food Programme. 8
38883745 (d) D
38893746 IRECTIVES ANDAUTHORITIES.— 9
38903747 (1) R
38913748 ESEARCH AND TRAINING .—Funds appro-10
38923749 priated by this Act under the heading ‘‘Assistance 11
38933750 for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia’’ shall be 12
38943751 made available to carry out the Program for Re-13
38953752 search and Training on Eastern Europe and the 14
38963753 Independent States of the Former Soviet Union as 15
38973754 authorized by the Soviet-Eastern European Research 16
38983755 and Training Act of 1983 (22 U.S.C. 4501 et seq.). 17
38993756 (2) G
39003757 ENOCIDE VICTIMS MEMORIAL SITES .— 18
39013758 Funds appropriated by this Act and prior Acts mak-19
39023759 ing appropriations for the Department of State, for-20
39033760 eign operations, and related programs under the 21
39043761 headings ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’ and ‘‘Assist-22
39053762 ance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia’’ may be 23
39063763 made available as contributions to establish and 24
39073764 maintain memorial sites of genocide, subject to the 25
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39113767 regular notification procedures of the Committees on 1
39123768 Appropriations. 2
39133769 (3) S
39143770 PECIAL ENVOY FOR HOLOCAUST ISSUES .— 3
39153771 Funds appropriated by this Act under the heading 4
39163772 ‘‘Diplomatic Programs’’ may be made available for 5
39173773 the Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues notwith-6
39183774 standing the limitation of section 7064(e)(3) of this 7
39193775 Act. 8
39203776 (4) P
39213777 RIVATE SECTOR PARTNERSHIPS .—Of the 9
39223778 funds appropriated by this Act under the headings 10
39233779 ‘‘Development Assistance’’ and ‘‘Economic Support 11
39243780 Fund’’ that are made available for private sector 12
39253781 partnerships, including partnerships with philan-13
39263782 thropic foundations, up to $50,000,000 may remain 14
39273783 available until September 30, 2026: Provided, That 15
39283784 funds made available pursuant to this paragraph 16
39293785 may only be made available following prior consulta-17
39303786 tion with, and the regular notification procedures of, 18
39313787 the Committees on Appropriations. 19
39323788 (5) I
39333789 NNOVATION.—The USAID Administrator 20
39343790 may use funds appropriated by this Act under title 21
39353791 III to make innovation incentive awards in accord-22
39363792 ance with the terms and conditions of section 23
39373793 7034(e)(4) of the Department of State, Foreign Op-24
39383794 erations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 25
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39423797 2019 (division F of Public Law 116–6): Provided, 1
39433798 That each individual award may not exceed 2
39443799 $100,000. 3
39453800 (6) E
39463801 XCHANGE VISITOR PROGRAM .—None of 4
39473802 the funds made available by this Act may be used 5
39483803 to modify the Exchange Visitor Program adminis-6
39493804 tered by the Department of State to implement the 7
39503805 Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 8
39513806 1961 (Public Law 87–256; 22 U.S.C. 2451 et seq.), 9
39523807 except through the formal rulemaking process pursu-10
39533808 ant to the Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. 11
39543809 551 et seq.) and notwithstanding the exceptions to 12
39553810 such rulemaking process in such Act: Provided, That 13
39563811 funds made available for such purpose shall only be 14
39573812 made available after consultation with, and subject 15
39583813 to the regular notification procedures of, the Com-16
39593814 mittees on Appropriations, regarding how any pro-17
39603815 posed modification would affect the public diplomacy 18
39613816 goals of, and the estimated economic impact on, the 19
39623817 United States: Provided further, That such consulta-20
39633818 tion shall take place not later than 30 days prior to 21
39643819 the publication in the Federal Register of any regu-22
39653820 latory action modifying the Exchange Visitor Pro-23
39663821 gram. 24
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39703824 (7) PAYMENTS.—Funds appropriated by this 1
39713825 Act and prior Acts making appropriations for the 2
39723826 Department of State, foreign operations, and related 3
39733827 programs under the headings ‘‘Diplomatic Pro-4
39743828 grams’’ and ‘‘Operating Expenses’’, except for funds 5
39753829 designated by Congress as an emergency require-6
39763830 ment pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the 7
39773831 budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def-8
39783832 icit Control Act of 1985, are available to provide 9
39793833 payments pursuant to section 901(i)(2) of title IX of 10
39803834 division J of the Further Consolidated Appropria-11
39813835 tions Act, 2020 (22 U.S.C. 2680b(i)(2)): Provided, 12
39823836 That funds made available pursuant to this para-13
39833837 graph shall be subject to prior consultation with the 14
39843838 Committees on Appropriations. 15
39853839 (e) P
39863840 ARTNERVETTING.—Prior to initiating a partner 16
39873841 vetting program, providing a direct vetting option, or mak-17
39883842 ing a significant change to the scope of an existing partner 18
39893843 vetting program, the Secretary of State and USAID Ad-19
39903844 ministrator, as appropriate, shall consult with the Com-20
39913845 mittees on Appropriations: Provided, That the Secretary 21
39923846 and the Administrator shall provide a direct vetting option 22
39933847 for prime awardees in any partner vetting program initi-23
39943848 ated or significantly modified after the date of enactment 24
39953849 of this Act, unless the Secretary or Administrator, as ap-25
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39993852 plicable, informs the Committees on Appropriations on a 1
40003853 case-by-case basis that a direct vetting option is not fea-2
40013854 sible for such program: Provided further, That the Sec-3
40023855 retary and the Administrator may restrict the award of, 4
40033856 terminate, or cancel contracts, grants, or cooperative 5
40043857 agreements or require an awardee to restrict the award 6
40053858 of, terminate, or cancel a sub-award based on information 7
40063859 in connection with a partner vetting program. 8
40073860 (f) I
40083861 NTERNATIONALCHILDABDUCTIONS.—The Sec-9
40093862 retary of State should withhold funds appropriated under 10
40103863 title III of this Act for assistance for the central govern-11
40113864 ment of any country that is not taking appropriate steps 12
40123865 to comply with the Convention on the Civil Aspects of 13
40133866 International Child Abductions, done at the Hague on Oc-14
40143867 tober 25, 1980: Provided, That the Secretary shall report 15
40153868 to the Committees on Appropriations within 15 days of 16
40163869 withholding funds under this subsection. 17
40173870 (g) T
40183871 RANSFER OF FUNDS FOR EXTRAORDINARY 18
40193872 P
40203873 ROTECTION.—The Secretary of State may transfer to, 19
40213874 and merge with, funds under the heading ‘‘Protection of 20
40223875 Foreign Missions and Officials’’ unobligated balances of 21
40233876 expired funds appropriated under the heading ‘‘Diplomatic 22
40243877 Programs’’ for fiscal year 2024, at no later than the end 23
40253878 of the fifth fiscal year after the last fiscal year for which 24
40263879 such funds are available for the purposes for which appro-25
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40303882 priated: Provided, That not more than $50,000,000 may 1
40313883 be transferred. 2
40323884 (h) E
40333885 XTENSION OFAUTHORITIES.— 3
40343886 (1) I
40353887 NCENTIVES FOR CRITICAL POSTS .—The 4
40363888 authority contained in section 1115(d) of the Sup-5
40373889 plemental Appropriations Act, 2009 (Public Law 6
40383890 111–32) shall remain in effect through September 7
40393891 30, 2024. 8
40403892 (2) S
40413893 PECIAL INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR AF -9
40423894 GHANISTAN RECONSTRUCTION COMPETITIVE STA -10
40433895 TUS.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 11
40443896 any employee of the Special Inspector General for 12
40453897 Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) who completes 13
40463898 at least 12 months of continuous service after enact-14
40473899 ment of this Act or who is employed on the date on 15
40483900 which SIGAR terminates, whichever occurs first, 16
40493901 shall acquire competitive status for appointment to 17
40503902 any position in the competitive service for which the 18
40513903 employee possesses the required qualifications. 19
40523904 (3) T
40533905 RANSFER OF BALANCES .—Section 7081(h) 20
40543906 of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and 21
40553907 Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2017 (divi-22
40563908 sion J of Public Law 115–31) shall continue in ef-23
40573909 fect during fiscal year 2024. 24
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40613912 (4) PROTECTIVE SERVICES.—Section 7071 of 1
40623913 the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and 2
40633914 Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2022 (divi-3
40643915 sion K of Public Law 117–103) shall continue in ef-4
40653916 fect during fiscal year 2024 and shall be applied to 5
40663917 funds appropriated by this Act by substituting 6
40673918 ‘‘$40,000,000’’ for ‘‘$30,000,000’’. 7
40683919 (5) E
40693920 XTENSION OF LOAN GUARANTEES TO 8
40703921 ISRAEL.—Chapter 5 of title I of the Emergency 9
40713922 Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003 10
40723923 (Public Law 108–11; 117 Stat. 576) is amended 11
40733924 under the heading ‘‘Loan Guarantees to Israel’’— 12
40743925 (A) in the matter preceding the first pro-13
40753926 viso, by striking ‘‘September 30, 2028’’ and in-14
40763927 serting ‘‘September 30, 2029’’; and 15
40773928 (B) in the second proviso, by striking 16
40783929 ‘‘September 30, 2028’’ and inserting ‘‘Sep-17
40793930 tember 30, 2029’’. 18
40803931 (6) E
40813932 XTENSION OF CERTAIN PERSONAL SERV -19
40823933 ICES CONTRACT AUTHORITY .—The authority pro-20
40833934 vided in section 2401 of division C of the Extending 21
40843935 Government Funding and Delivering Emergency As-22
40853936 sistance Act (Public Law 117–43) shall remain in 23
40863937 effect through September 30, 2024. 24
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40903940 (7) EXTENSION OF CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS .— 1
40913941 During the current fiscal year, sections (2), (3), and 2
40923942 (4) of the PEPFAR Extension Act of 2018 (Public 3
40933943 Law 115–305) shall be applied by substituting 4
40943944 ‘‘2024’’ for ‘‘2023’’ each place it occurs. 5
40953945 (i) M
40963946 ONITORING ANDEVALUATION.— 6
40973947 (1) B
40983948 ENEFICIARY FEEDBACK .—Funds appro-7
40993949 priated by this Act that are made available for moni-8
41003950 toring and evaluation of assistance under the head-9
41013951 ings ‘‘Development Assistance’’, ‘‘International Dis-10
41023952 aster Assistance’’, and ‘‘Migration and Refugee As-11
41033953 sistance’’ shall be made available for the regular and 12
41043954 systematic collection of feedback obtained directly 13
41053955 from beneficiaries to enhance the quality and rel-14
41063956 evance of such assistance: Provided, That the Sec-15
41073957 retary of State and USAID Administrator shall reg-16
41083958 ularly conduct oversight to ensure that such feed-17
41093959 back is collected and used by implementing partners 18
41103960 to maximize the cost-effectiveness and utility of such 19
41113961 assistance. 20
41123962 (2) E
41133963 X-POST EVALUATIONS.—Of the funds ap-21
41143964 propriated by this Act under titles III and IV, not 22
41153965 less than $10,000,000 should be made available for 23
41163966 ex-post evaluations of the effectiveness and sustain-24
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41203969 ability of United States Government-funded assist-1
41213970 ance programs. 2
41223971 (j) HIV/AIDS W
41233972 ORKINGCAPITALFUND.—Funds 3
41243973 available in the HIV/AIDS Working Capital Fund estab-4
41253974 lished pursuant to section 525(b)(1) of the Foreign Oper-5
41263975 ations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appro-6
41273976 priations Act, 2005 (Public Law 108–447) may be made 7
41283977 available for pharmaceuticals and other products for child 8
41293978 survival, malaria, and tuberculosis to the same extent as 9
41303979 HIV/AIDS pharmaceuticals and other products, subject to 10
41313980 the terms and conditions in such section: Provided, That 11
41323981 the authority in section 525(b)(5) of the Foreign Oper-12
41333982 ations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appro-13
41343983 priations Act, 2005 (Public Law 108–447) shall be exer-14
41353984 cised by the Assistant Administrator for Global Health, 15
41363985 USAID, with respect to funds deposited for such non- 16
41373986 HIV/AIDS pharmaceuticals and other products, and shall 17
41383987 be subject to the regular notification procedures of the 18
41393988 Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That the 19
41403989 Secretary of State shall include in the congressional budg-20
41413990 et justification an accounting of budgetary resources, dis-21
41423991 bursements, balances, and reimbursements related to such 22
41433992 fund. 23
41443993 (k) L
41453994 OANS, CONSULTATION, ANDNOTIFICATION.— 24
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41493997 (1) LOAN GUARANTEES .—Funds appropriated 1
41503998 under the headings ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’ and 2
41513999 ‘‘Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia’’ 3
41524000 by this Act and prior Acts making appropriations 4
41534001 for the Department of State, foreign operations, and 5
41544002 related programs may be made available for the 6
41554003 costs, as defined in section 502 of the Congressional 7
41564004 Budget Act of 1974, of loan guarantees for Egypt, 8
41574005 Jordan, Small Island Developing States, and 9
41584006 Ukraine, which are authorized to be provided: Pro-10
41594007 vided, That amounts made available under this para-11
41604008 graph for the costs of such guarantees shall not be 12
41614009 considered assistance for the purposes of provisions 13
41624010 of law limiting assistance to a country. 14
41634011 (2) F
41644012 OREIGN MILITARY FINANCING DIRECT 15
41654013 LOANS.—During fiscal year 2024, direct loans under 16
41664014 section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act may be 17
41674015 made available for North Atlantic Treaty Organiza-18
41684016 tion (NATO) or Major Non-NATO Allies, notwith-19
41694017 standing section 23(c)(1) of the Arms Export Con-20
41704018 trol Act, gross obligations for the principal amounts 21
41714019 of which shall not exceed $8,000,000,000: Provided, 22
41724020 That funds appropriated under the heading ‘‘For-23
41734021 eign Military Financing Program’’ in this Act and 24
41744022 prior Acts making appropriations for the Depart-25
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41784025 ment of State, foreign operations, and related pro-1
41794026 grams, including balances that were previously des-2
41804027 ignated by the Congress for Overseas Contingency 3
41814028 Operation/Global War on Terrorism pursuant to sec-4
41824029 tion 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Balanced Budget and 5
41834030 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, may be 6
41844031 made available for the costs, as defined in section 7
41854032 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, of 8
41864033 such loans: Provided further, That such costs, in-9
41874034 cluding the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as 10
41884035 defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget 11
41894036 Act of 1974 and may include the costs of selling, re-12
41904037 ducing, or cancelling any amounts owed to the 13
41914038 United States or any agency of the United States: 14
41924039 Provided further, That the Government of the 15
41934040 United States may charge fees for such loans, which 16
41944041 shall be collected from borrowers in accordance with 17
41954042 section 502(7) of the Congressional Budget Act of 18
41964043 1974: Provided further, That no funds made avail-19
41974044 able to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization 20
41984045 (NATO) or Major Non-NATO Allies by this or any 21
41994046 other appropriations Act for this fiscal year or prior 22
42004047 fiscal years may be used for payment of any fees as-23
42014048 sociated with such loans: Provided further, That such 24
42024049 loans shall be repaid in not more than 12 years, in-25
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42064052 cluding a grace period of up to one year on repay-1
42074053 ment of principal: Provided further, That amounts 2
42084054 made available under this paragraph for such costs 3
42094055 shall not be considered assistance for the purposes 4
42104056 of provisions of law limiting assistance to a country. 5
42114057 (3) F
42124058 OREIGN MILITARY FINANCING LOAN GUAR -6
42134059 ANTEES.—Funds appropriated under the heading 7
42144060 ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’ in this Act 8
42154061 and prior Acts making appropriations for the De-9
42164062 partment of State, foreign operations, and related 10
42174063 programs, including balances that were previously 11
42184064 designated by the Congress for Overseas Contin-12
42194065 gency Operations/Global War on Terrorism pursuant 13
42204066 to section 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Balanced Budget 14
42214067 and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, may be 15
42224068 made available, notwithstanding the third proviso 16
42234069 under such heading, for the costs of loan guarantees 17
42244070 under section 24 of the Arms Export Control Act for 18
42254071 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) or 19
42264072 Major Non-NATO Allies: Provided, That such funds 20
42274073 are available to subsidize gross obligations for the 21
42284074 principal amount of commercial loans, and total loan 22
42294075 principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed, not 23
42304076 to exceed $8,000,000,000: Provided further, That no 24
42314077 loan guarantee with respect to any one borrower 25
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42354080 may exceed 80 percent of the loan principal: Pro-1
42364081 vided further, That any loan guaranteed under this 2
42374082 paragraph may not be subordinated to another debt 3
42384083 contracted by the borrower or to any other claims 4
42394084 against the borrower in the case of default: Provided 5
42404085 further, That repayment in United States dollars of 6
42414086 any loan guaranteed under this paragraph shall be 7
42424087 required within a period not to exceed 12 years after 8
42434088 the loan agreement is signed: Provided further, That 9
42444089 the Government of the United States may charge 10
42454090 fees for such loan guarantees, as may be determined, 11
42464091 notwithstanding section 24 of the Arms Export Con-12
42474092 trol Act, which shall be collected from borrowers or 13
42484093 third parties on behalf of such borrowers in accord-14
42494094 ance with section 502(7) of the Congressional Budg-15
42504095 et Act of 1974: Provided further, That amounts 16
42514096 made available under this paragraph for the costs of 17
42524097 such guarantees shall not be considered assistance 18
42534098 for the purposes of provisions of law limiting assist-19
42544099 ance to a country. 20
42554100 (4) L
42564101 IMITATION.—Prior to offering Foreign 21
42574102 Military Financing Program loans or loan guaran-22
42584103 tees to Major Non-NATO Allies, the Secretary of 23
42594104 State shall determine and report to the appropriate 24
42604105 congressional committees that such partners do not 25
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42644108 support any foreign adversary as defined by 15 CFR 1
42654109 § 7.4. 2
42664110 (5) C
42674111 ONSULTATION AND NOTIFICATION .— 3
42684112 Funds made available pursuant to the authorities of 4
42694113 this subsection shall be subject to prior consultation 5
42704114 with the appropriate congressional committees and 6
42714115 the regular notification procedures of the Commit-7
42724116 tees on Appropriations. 8
42734117 (l) L
42744118 OCALWORKS.— 9
42754119 (1) F
42764120 UNDING.—Of the funds appropriated by 10
42774121 this Act under the headings ‘‘Development Assist-11
42784122 ance’’ and ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, not less than 12
42794123 $50,000,000 shall be made available for Local 13
42804124 Works pursuant to section 7080 of the Department 14
42814125 of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs 15
42824126 Appropriations Act, 2015 (division J of Public Law 16
42834127 113–235), which may remain available until Sep-17
42844128 tember 30, 2028. 18
42854129 (2) E
42864130 LIGIBLE ENTITIES.—For the purposes of 19
42874131 section 7080 of the Department of State, Foreign 20
42884132 Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations 21
42894133 Act, 2015 (division J of Public Law 113–235), ‘‘eli-22
42904134 gible entities’’ shall be defined as small local, inter-23
42914135 national, and United States-based nongovernmental 24
42924136 organizations, educational institutions, and other 25
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42964139 small entities that have received less than a total of 1
42974140 $5,000,000 from USAID over the previous 5 fiscal 2
42984141 years: Provided, That departments or centers of 3
42994142 such educational institutions may be considered indi-4
43004143 vidually in determining such eligibility. 5
43014144 (m) D
43024145 EFINITIONS.— 6
43034146 (1) A
43044147 PPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT -7
43054148 TEES.—Unless otherwise defined in this Act, for 8
43064149 purposes of this Act the term ‘‘appropriate congres-9
43074150 sional committees’’ means the Committees on Appro-10
43084151 priations and Foreign Relations of the Senate and 11
43094152 the Committees on Appropriations and Foreign Af-12
43104153 fairs of the House of Representatives. 13
43114154 (2) F
43124155 UNDS APPROPRIATED BY THIS ACT AND 14
43134156 PRIOR ACTS.—Unless otherwise defined in this Act, 15
43144157 for purposes of this Act the term ‘‘funds appro-16
43154158 priated by this Act and prior Acts making appro-17
43164159 priations for the Department of State, foreign oper-18
43174160 ations, and related programs’’ means funds that re-19
43184161 main available for obligation, and have not expired. 20
43194162 (3) I
43204163 NTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITU -21
43214164 TIONS.—In this Act ‘‘international financial institu-22
43224165 tions’’ means the International Bank for Recon-23
43234166 struction and Development, the International Devel-24
43244167 opment Association, the International Finance Cor-25
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43284170 poration, the Inter-American Development Bank, the 1
43294171 International Monetary Fund, the International 2
43304172 Fund for Agricultural Development, the Asian De-3
43314173 velopment Bank, the Asian Development Fund, the 4
43324174 Inter-American Investment Corporation, the North 5
43334175 American Development Bank, the European Bank 6
43344176 for Reconstruction and Development, the African 7
43354177 Development Bank, the African Development Fund, 8
43364178 and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency. 9
43374179 (4) S
43384180 PEND PLAN.—In this Act, the term 10
43394181 ‘‘spend plan’’ means a plan for the uses of funds ap-11
43404182 propriated for a particular entity, country, program, 12
43414183 purpose, or account and which shall include, at a 13
43424184 minimum, a description of— 14
43434185 (A) realistic and sustainable goals, criteria 15
43444186 for measuring progress, and a timeline for 16
43454187 achieving such goals; 17
43464188 (B) amounts and sources of funds by ac-18
43474189 count; 19
43484190 (C) how such funds will complement other 20
43494191 ongoing or planned programs; and 21
43504192 (D) implementing partners, to the max-22
43514193 imum extent practicable. 23
43524194 (5) S
43534195 UCCESSOR OPERATING UNIT .—Any ref-24
43544196 erence to a particular operating unit or office in this 25
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43584199 Act or prior Acts making appropriations for the De-1
43594200 partment of State, foreign operations, and related 2
43604201 programs shall be deemed to include any successor 3
43614202 operating unit performing the same or similar func-4
43624203 tions. 5
43634204 (6) USAID.—In this Act, the term ‘‘USAID’’ 6
43644205 means the United States Agency for International 7
43654206 Development. 8
43664207 LAW ENFORCEMENT AND SECURITY 9
43674208 S
43684209 EC. 7035. (a) ASSISTANCE.— 10
43694210 (1) C
43704211 OMMUNITY-BASED POLICE ASSISTANCE .— 11
43714212 Funds made available under titles III and IV of this 12
43724213 Act to carry out the provisions of chapter 1 of part 13
43734214 I and chapters 4 and 6 of part II of the Foreign As-14
43744215 sistance Act of 1961, may be used, notwithstanding 15
43754216 section 660 of that Act, to enhance the effectiveness 16
43764217 and accountability of civilian police authority 17
43774218 through training and technical assistance in human 18
43784219 rights, the rule of law, anti-corruption, strategic 19
43794220 planning, and through assistance to foster civilian 20
43804221 police roles that support democratic governance, in-21
43814222 cluding assistance for programs to prevent conflict, 22
43824223 respond to disasters, address violence against women 23
43834224 and girls, and foster improved police relations with 24
43844225 the communities they serve. 25
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43884228 (2) COMBAT CASUALTY CARE .— 1
43894229 (A) Consistent with the objectives of the 2
43904230 Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Arms 3
43914231 Export Control Act, funds appropriated by this 4
43924232 Act under the headings ‘‘Peacekeeping Oper-5
43934233 ations’’ and ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Pro-6
43944234 gram’’ shall be made available for combat cas-7
43954235 ualty training and equipment in an amount 8
43964236 above the prior fiscal year. 9
43974237 (B) The Secretary of State shall offer com-10
43984238 bat casualty care training and equipment as a 11
43994239 component of any package of lethal assistance 12
44004240 funded by this Act with funds appropriated 13
44014241 under the headings ‘‘Peacekeeping Operations’’ 14
44024242 and ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’: 15
44034243 Provided, That the requirement of this subpara-16
44044244 graph shall apply to a country in conflict, un-17
44054245 less the Secretary determines that such country 18
44064246 has in place, to the maximum extent prac-19
44074247 ticable, functioning combat casualty care treat-20
44084248 ment and equipment that meets or exceeds the 21
44094249 standards recommended by the Committee on 22
44104250 Tactical Combat Casualty Care: Provided fur-23
44114251 ther, That any such training and equipment for 24
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44154254 combat casualty care shall be made available 1
44164255 through an open and competitive process. 2
44174256 (b) A
44184257 UTHORITIES.— 3
44194258 (1) R
44204259 ECONSTITUTING CIVILIAN POLICE AU -4
44214260 THORITY.—In providing assistance with funds ap-5
44224261 propriated by this Act under section 660(b)(6) of 6
44234262 the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, support for a 7
44244263 nation emerging from instability may be deemed to 8
44254264 mean support for regional, district, municipal, or 9
44264265 other sub-national entity emerging from instability, 10
44274266 as well as a nation emerging from instability. 11
44284267 (2) D
44294268 ISARMAMENT, DEMOBILIZATION, AND RE-12
44304269 INTEGRATION.—Section 7034(d) of the Department 13
44314270 of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs 14
44324271 Appropriations Act, 2015 (division J of Public Law 15
44334272 113–235) shall continue in effect during fiscal year 16
44344273 2024. 17
44354274 (3) C
44364275 OMMERCIAL LEASING OF DEFENSE ARTI -18
44374276 CLES.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 19
44384277 and subject to the regular notification procedures of 20
44394278 the Committees on Appropriations, the authority of 21
44404279 section 23(a) of the Arms Export Control Act (22 22
44414280 U.S.C. 2763) may be used to provide financing to 23
44424281 Israel, Egypt, the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza-24
44434282 tion (NATO), and Major Non-NATO Allies for the 25
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44474285 procurement by leasing (including leasing with an 1
44484286 option to purchase) of defense articles from United 2
44494287 States commercial suppliers, not including Major 3
44504288 Defense Equipment (other than helicopters and 4
44514289 other types of aircraft having possible civilian appli-5
44524290 cation), if the President determines that there are 6
44534291 compelling foreign policy or national security reasons 7
44544292 for those defense articles being provided by commer-8
44554293 cial lease rather than by government-to-government 9
44564294 sale under such Act. 10
44574295 (4) S
44584296 PECIAL DEFENSE ACQUISITION FUND .— 11
44594297 Not to exceed $900,000,000 may be obligated pursu-12
44604298 ant to section 51(c)(2) of the Arms Export Control 13
44614299 Act (22 U.S.C. 2795(c)(2)) for the purposes of the 14
44624300 Special Defense Acquisition Fund (the Fund), to re-15
44634301 main available for obligation until September 30, 16
44644302 2026: Provided, That the provision of defense arti-17
44654303 cles and defense services to foreign countries or 18
44664304 international organizations from the Fund shall be 19
44674305 subject to the concurrence of the Secretary of State. 20
44684306 (5) E
44694307 XTENSION OF WAR RESERVES STOCKPILE 21
44704308 AUTHORITY.— 22
44714309 (A) Section 12001(d) of the Department of 23
44724310 Defense Appropriations Act, 2005 (Public Law 24
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44764313 108–287; 118 Stat. 1011) is amended by strik-1
44774314 ing ‘‘2025’’ and inserting ‘‘2026’’. 2
44784315 (B) Section 514(b)(2)(A) of the Foreign 3
44794316 Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 4
44804317 2321h(b)(2)(A)) is amended by striking ‘‘or 5
44814318 2025’’ and inserting ‘‘2025 and 2026’’. 6
44824319 (6) T
44834320 ECHNICAL AMENDMENTS .— 7
44844321 (A) Notwithstanding Section 503(a)(3) of 8
44854322 Public Law 87-195 (22 U.S.C. 2311(a)(3)), the 9
44864323 procurement of defense articles and services 10
44874324 funded on a non-repayable basis under section 11
44884325 23 of the Arms Export Control Act may be 12
44894326 priced to include the costs of salaries of mem-13
44904327 bers of the Armed Forces of the United States 14
44914328 engaged in security assistance activities pursu-15
44924329 ant to 10 U.S.C. 341 (relating to the State 16
44934330 Partnership Program): Provided, That this sec-17
44944331 tion shall only apply to funds that remain avail-18
44954332 able for obligation in fiscal year 2024. 19
44964333 (B) Notwithstanding any other provision of 20
44974334 law, equipment procured with funds appro-21
44984335 priated by this Act or prior Acts making appro-22
44994336 priations for the Department of State, foreign 23
45004337 operations, and related programs under the 24
45014338 heading ‘‘Pakistan Counterinsurgency Capa-25
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45054341 bility Fund’’ may be used for any other pro-1
45064342 gram and in any region: Provided, That use of 2
45074343 this authority shall be subject to prior consulta-3
45084344 tion with the Committees on Appropriations. 4
45094345 (c) L
45104346 IMITATIONS.— 5
45114347 (1) C
45124348 HILD SOLDIERS.—Funds appropriated by 6
45134349 this Act should not be used to support any military 7
45144350 training or operations that include child soldiers. 8
45154351 (2) L
45164352 ANDMINES AND CLUSTER MUNITIONS .— 9
45174353 (A) A
45184354 UTHORITY.—Notwithstanding any 10
45194355 other provision of law, demining equipment 11
45204356 available to the United States Agency for Inter-12
45214357 national Development and the Department of 13
45224358 State and used in support of the clearance of 14
45234359 landmines and unexploded ordnance for human-15
45244360 itarian purposes may be disposed of on a grant 16
45254361 basis in foreign countries, subject to such terms 17
45264362 and conditions as the Secretary of State may 18
45274363 prescribe. 19
45284364 (B) C
45294365 LUSTER MUNITIONS .—No military 20
45304366 assistance shall be furnished for cluster muni-21
45314367 tions, no defense export license for cluster mu-22
45324368 nitions may be issued, and no cluster munitions 23
45334369 or cluster munitions technology shall be sold or 24
45344370 transferred, unless— 25
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45384373 (i) the submunitions of the cluster 1
45394374 munitions, after arming, do not result in 2
45404375 more than 1 percent unexploded ordnance 3
45414376 across the range of intended operational 4
45424377 environments, and the agreement applica-5
45434378 ble to the assistance, transfer, or sale of 6
45444379 such cluster munitions or cluster munitions 7
45454380 technology specifies that the cluster muni-8
45464381 tions will only be used against clearly de-9
45474382 fined military targets and will not be used 10
45484383 where civilians are known to be present or 11
45494384 in areas normally inhabited by civilians; or 12
45504385 (ii) such assistance, license, sale, or 13
45514386 transfer is for the purpose of demilitarizing 14
45524387 or permanently disposing of such cluster 15
45534388 munitions. 16
45544389 (3) C
45554390 ROWD CONTROL .—If the Secretary of 17
45564391 State has information that a unit of a foreign secu-18
45574392 rity force uses excessive force to repress peaceful ex-19
45584393 pression or assembly concerning corruption, harm to 20
45594394 the environment or human health, or the fairness of 21
45604395 electoral processes, or in countries that are undemo-22
45614396 cratic or undergoing democratic transition, the Sec-23
45624397 retary shall promptly determine if such information 24
45634398 is credible: Provided, That if the information is de-25
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45674401 termined to be credible, funds appropriated by this 1
45684402 Act should not be used for tear gas, small arms, 2
45694403 light weapons, ammunition, or other items for crowd 3
45704404 control purposes for such unit, unless the Secretary 4
45714405 of State determines that the foreign government is 5
45724406 taking effective measures to bring the responsible 6
45734407 members of such unit to justice. 7
45744408 (d) R
45754409 EPORTS.— 8
45764410 (1) S
45774411 ECURITY ASSISTANCE REPORT .—Not later 9
45784412 than 120 days after the date of enactment of this 10
45794413 Act, the Secretary of State shall submit to the Com-11
45804414 mittees on Appropriations a report on funds obli-12
45814415 gated and expended during fiscal year 2023, by 13
45824416 country and purpose of assistance, under the head-14
45834417 ings ‘‘Peacekeeping Operations’’, ‘‘International 15
45844418 Military Education and Training’’, and ‘‘Foreign 16
45854419 Military Financing Program’’. 17
45864420 (2) A
45874421 NNUAL FOREIGN MILITARY TRAINING RE -18
45884422 PORT.—For the purposes of implementing section 19
45894423 656 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, the term 20
45904424 ‘‘military training provided to foreign military per-21
45914425 sonnel by the Department of Defense and the De-22
45924426 partment of State’’ shall be deemed to include all 23
45934427 military training provided by foreign governments 24
45944428 with funds appropriated to the Department of De-25
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45984431 fense or the Department of State, except for train-1
45994432 ing provided by the government of a country des-2
46004433 ignated by section 517(b) of such Act (22 U.S.C. 3
46014434 2321k(b)) as a Major Non-North Atlantic Treaty 4
46024435 Organization ally: Provided, That such third-country 5
46034436 training shall be clearly identified in the report sub-6
46044437 mitted pursuant to section 656 of such Act. 7
46054438 COMBATING TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS 8
46064439 S
46074440 EC. 7036. (a) OFFICE TOMONITOR ANDCOMBAT 9
46084441 T
46094442 RAFFICKING INPERSONS.—Of the funds appropriated 10
46104443 by this Act under the heading ‘‘Diplomatic Programs’’, 11
46114444 not less than $25,000,000 shall be made available for the 12
46124445 Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. 13
46134446 (b) P
46144447 ROGRAMS TOCOMBATTRAFFICKING INPER-14
46154448 SONS.—Of the funds appropriated by this Act under the 15
46164449 headings ‘‘Development Assistance’’, ‘‘Economic Support 16
46174450 Fund’’, ‘‘Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central 17
46184451 Asia’’, and ‘‘International Narcotics Control and Law En-18
46194452 forcement’’, not less than $123,900,000 shall be made 19
46204453 available for activities to combat trafficking in persons 20
46214454 internationally, including for the Program to End Modern 21
46224455 Slavery, of which not less than $92,000,000 shall be from 22
46234456 funds made available under the heading ‘‘International 23
46244457 Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement’’: Provided, That 24
46254458 funds made available by this Act under the headings ‘‘De-25
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46294461 velopment Assistance’’, ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, and 1
46304462 ‘‘Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia’’ that 2
46314463 are made available for activities to combat trafficking in 3
46324464 persons should be obligated and programmed consistent 4
46334465 with the country-specific recommendations included in the 5
46344466 annual Trafficking in Persons Report, and shall be coordi-6
46354467 nated with the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking 7
46364468 in Persons, Department of State. 8
46374469 (c) T
46384470 RAINING.—Of the funds made available by this 9
46394471 Act, not less than $1,000,000 shall be made available to 10
46404472 further develop, standardize, and update training for all 11
46414473 United States Government personnel under Chief of Mis-12
46424474 sion authority posted at United States embassies and con-13
46434475 sulates abroad, on recognizing signs of human trafficking, 14
46444476 and protocols for reporting such cases. 15
46454477 (d) C
46464478 ONFERENCES.—Funds appropriated by this Act 16
46474479 that are made available for international conferences may 17
46484480 not be made available for such conferences in Tier 3 coun-18
46494481 tries, as defined by section 104 of the Victims of Traf-19
46504482 ficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (Public Law 20
46514483 106–386), unless the purpose of the conference is to com-21
46524484 bat human trafficking or is in the United States national 22
46534485 security interest, as determined by the Secretary of State. 23
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46574488 PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD 1
46584489 S
46594490 EC. 7037. (a) LIMITATION ONASSISTANCE.—None 2
46604491 of the funds appropriated under titles III through VI of 3
46614492 this Act may be provided to support a Palestinian state 4
46624493 unless the Secretary of State determines and certifies to 5
46634494 the appropriate congressional committees that— 6
46644495 (1) the governing entity of a new Palestinian 7
46654496 state— 8
46664497 (A) has demonstrated a firm commitment 9
46674498 to peaceful co-existence with the State of Israel; 10
46684499 (B) exercises full territorial jurisdiction 11
46694500 over the Gaza strip; and 12
46704501 (C) is taking appropriate measures to 13
46714502 counter terrorism and terrorist financing in the 14
46724503 West Bank and Gaza, including the dismantling 15
46734504 of terrorist infrastructures, and is cooperating 16
46744505 with appropriate Israeli and other appropriate 17
46754506 security organizations; and 18
46764507 (2) the Palestinian Authority (or the governing 19
46774508 entity of a new Palestinian state) is working with 20
46784509 other countries in the region to vigorously pursue ef-21
46794510 forts to establish a just, lasting, and comprehensive 22
46804511 peace in the Middle East that will enable Israel and 23
46814512 an independent Palestinian state to exist within the 24
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46854515 context of full and normal relationships, which 1
46864516 should include— 2
46874517 (A) termination of all claims or states of 3
46884518 belligerency; 4
46894519 (B) respect for and acknowledgment of the 5
46904520 sovereignty, territorial integrity, and political 6
46914521 independence of every state in the area through 7
46924522 measures including the establishment of demili-8
46934523 tarized zones; 9
46944524 (C) their right to live in peace within se-10
46954525 cure and recognized boundaries free from 11
46964526 threats or acts of force; 12
46974527 (D) freedom of navigation through inter-13
46984528 national waterways in the area; and 14
46994529 (E) a framework for achieving a just set-15
47004530 tlement of the refugee problem. 16
47014531 (b) S
47024532 ENSE OFCONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-17
47034533 gress that the governing entity should enact a constitution 18
47044534 assuring the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and 19
47054535 respect for human rights for its citizens, and should enact 20
47064536 other laws and regulations assuring transparent and ac-21
47074537 countable governance. 22
47084538 (c) W
47094539 AIVER.—The President may waive subsection 23
47104540 (a) if the President determines that it is important to the 24
47114541 national security interest of the United States to do so. 25
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47154544 (d) EXEMPTION.—The restriction in subsection (a) 1
47164545 shall not apply to assistance intended to help reform the 2
47174546 Palestinian Authority and affiliated institutions, or the 3
47184547 governing entity, in order to help meet the requirements 4
47194548 of subsection (a), consistent with the provisions of section 5
47204549 7040 of this Act (‘‘Limitation on Assistance for the Pales-6
47214550 tinian Authority’’). 7
47224551 PROHIBITION ON ASSISTANCE TO THE PALESTINIAN 8
47234552 BROADCASTING CORPORATION 9
47244553 S
47254554 EC. 7038. None of the funds appropriated or other-10
47264555 wise made available by this Act may be used to provide 11
47274556 equipment, technical support, consulting services, or any 12
47284557 other form of assistance to the Palestinian Broadcasting 13
47294558 Corporation. 14
47304559 ASSISTANCE FOR THE WEST BANK AND GAZA 15
47314560 S
47324561 EC. 7039. (a) OVERSIGHT.—For fiscal year 2024, 16
47334562 30 days prior to the initial obligation of funds for the bi-17
47344563 lateral West Bank and Gaza Program, the Secretary of 18
47354564 State shall certify to the Committees on Appropriations 19
47364565 that procedures have been established to assure the Comp-20
47374566 troller General of the United States will have access to 21
47384567 appropriate United States financial information in order 22
47394568 to review the uses of United States assistance for the Pro-23
47404569 gram funded under the heading ‘‘Economic Support 24
47414570 Fund’’ for the West Bank and Gaza. 25
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47454573 (b) VETTING.—Prior to the obligation of funds ap-1
47464574 propriated by this Act under the heading ‘‘Economic Sup-2
47474575 port Fund’’ for assistance for the West Bank and Gaza, 3
47484576 the Secretary of State shall take all appropriate steps to 4
47494577 ensure that such assistance is not provided to or through 5
47504578 any individual, private or government entity, or edu-6
47514579 cational institution that the Secretary knows or has reason 7
47524580 to believe advocates, plans, sponsors, engages in, or has 8
47534581 engaged in, terrorist activity nor, with respect to private 9
47544582 entities or educational institutions, those that have as a 10
47554583 principal officer of the entity’s governing board or gov-11
47564584 erning board of trustees any individual that has been de-12
47574585 termined to be involved in, or advocating terrorist activity 13
47584586 or determined to be a member of a designated foreign ter-14
47594587 rorist organization: Provided, That the Secretary of State 15
47604588 shall, as appropriate, establish procedures specifying the 16
47614589 steps to be taken in carrying out this subsection and shall 17
47624590 terminate assistance to any individual, entity, or edu-18
47634591 cational institution which the Secretary has determined to 19
47644592 be involved in or advocating terrorist activity. 20
47654593 (c) P
47664594 ROHIBITION.— 21
47674595 (1) R
47684596 ECOGNITION OF ACTS OF TERRORISM .— 22
47694597 None of the funds appropriated under titles III 23
47704598 through VI of this Act for assistance under the West 24
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47744601 Bank and Gaza Program may be made available 1
47754602 for— 2
47764603 (A) the purpose of recognizing or otherwise 3
47774604 honoring individuals who commit, or have com-4
47784605 mitted acts of terrorism; and 5
47794606 (B) any educational institution located in 6
47804607 the West Bank or Gaza that is named after an 7
47814608 individual who the Secretary of State deter-8
47824609 mines has committed an act of terrorism. 9
47834610 (2) S
47844611 ECURITY ASSISTANCE AND REPORTING RE -10
47854612 QUIREMENT.—Notwithstanding any other provision 11
47864613 of law, none of the funds made available by this or 12
47874614 prior appropriations Acts, including funds made 13
47884615 available by transfer, may be made available for obli-14
47894616 gation for security assistance for the West Bank and 15
47904617 Gaza until the Secretary of State reports to the 16
47914618 Committees on Appropriations on— 17
47924619 (A) the benchmarks that have been estab-18
47934620 lished for security assistance for the West Bank 19
47944621 and Gaza and on the extent of Palestinian com-20
47954622 pliance with such benchmarks; and 21
47964623 (B) the steps being taken by the Pales-22
47974624 tinian Authority to end torture and other cruel, 23
47984625 inhuman, and degrading treatment of detainees, 24
47994626 including by bringing to justice members of 25
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48034629 Palestinian security forces who commit such 1
48044630 crimes. 2
48054631 (d) O
48064632 VERSIGHT BY THE UNITEDSTATESAGENCY 3
48074633 FORINTERNATIONALDEVELOPMENT.— 4
48084634 (1) The Administrator of the United States 5
48094635 Agency for International Development shall ensure 6
48104636 that Federal or non-Federal audits of all contractors 7
48114637 and grantees, and significant subcontractors and 8
48124638 sub-grantees, under the West Bank and Gaza Pro-9
48134639 gram, are conducted at least on an annual basis to 10
48144640 ensure, among other things, compliance with this 11
48154641 section. 12
48164642 (2) Of the funds appropriated by this Act, up 13
48174643 to $1,500,000 may be used by the Office of Inspec-14
48184644 tor General of the United States Agency for Inter-15
48194645 national Development for audits, investigations, and 16
48204646 other activities in furtherance of the requirements of 17
48214647 this subsection: Provided, That such funds are in ad-18
48224648 dition to funds otherwise available for such pur-19
48234649 poses. 20
48244650 (e) C
48254651 OMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED 21
48264652 S
48274653 TATESAUDIT.—Subsequent to the certification specified 22
48284654 in subsection (a), the Comptroller General of the United 23
48294655 States shall conduct an audit and an investigation of the 24
48304656 treatment, handling, and uses of all funds for the bilateral 25
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48344659 West Bank and Gaza Program, including all funds pro-1
48354660 vided as cash transfer assistance, in fiscal year 2024 2
48364661 under the heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, and such 3
48374662 audit shall address— 4
48384663 (1) the extent to which such Program complies 5
48394664 with the requirements of subsections (b) and (c); 6
48404665 and 7
48414666 (2) an examination of all programs, projects, 8
48424667 and activities carried out under such Program, in-9
48434668 cluding both obligations and expenditures. 10
48444669 (f) N
48454670 OTIFICATIONPROCEDURES.—Funds made 11
48464671 available in this Act for West Bank and Gaza shall be 12
48474672 subject to the regular notification procedures of the Com-13
48484673 mittees on Appropriations. 14
48494674 LIMITATION ON ASSISTANCE FOR THE PALESTINIAN 15
48504675 AUTHORITY 16
48514676 S
48524677 EC. 7040. (a) PROHIBITION OFFUNDS.—None of 17
48534678 the funds appropriated by this Act to carry out the provi-18
48544679 sions of chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance 19
48554680 Act of 1961 may be obligated or expended with respect 20
48564681 to providing funds to the Palestinian Authority. 21
48574682 (b) W
48584683 AIVER.—The prohibition included in subsection 22
48594684 (a) shall not apply if the President certifies in writing to 23
48604685 the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Presi-24
48614686 dent pro tempore of the Senate, and the Committees on 25
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48654689 Appropriations that waiving such prohibition is important 1
48664690 to the national security interest of the United States. 2
48674691 (c) P
48684692 ERIOD OFAPPLICATION OF WAIVER.—Any 3
48694693 waiver pursuant to subsection (b) shall be effective for no 4
48704694 more than a period of 6 months at a time and shall not 5
48714695 apply beyond 12 months after the enactment of this Act. 6
48724696 (d) R
48734697 EPORT.—Whenever the waiver authority pursu-7
48744698 ant to subsection (b) is exercised, the President shall sub-8
48754699 mit a report to the Committees on Appropriations detail-9
48764700 ing the justification for the waiver, the purposes for which 10
48774701 the funds will be spent, and the accounting procedures in 11
48784702 place to ensure that the funds are properly disbursed: Pro-12
48794703 vided, That the report shall also detail the steps the Pales-13
48804704 tinian Authority has taken to arrest terrorists, confiscate 14
48814705 weapons and dismantle the terrorist infrastructure. 15
48824706 (e) C
48834707 ERTIFICATION.—If the President exercises the 16
48844708 waiver authority under subsection (b), the Secretary of 17
48854709 State must certify and report to the Committees on Ap-18
48864710 propriations prior to the obligation of funds that the Pal-19
48874711 estinian Authority has established a single treasury ac-20
48884712 count for all Palestinian Authority financing and all fi-21
48894713 nancing mechanisms flow through this account, no parallel 22
48904714 financing mechanisms exist outside of the Palestinian Au-23
48914715 thority treasury account, and there is a single comprehen-24
48924716 sive civil service roster and payroll, and the Palestinian 25
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48964719 Authority is acting to counter incitement of violence 1
48974720 against Israelis and is supporting activities aimed at pro-2
48984721 moting peace, coexistence, and security cooperation with 3
48994722 Israel. 4
49004723 (f) P
49014724 ROHIBITION TOHAMAS AND THE PALESTINE 5
49024725 L
49034726 IBERATIONORGANIZATION.— 6
49044727 (1) None of the funds appropriated in titles III 7
49054728 through VI of this Act may be obligated for salaries 8
49064729 of personnel of the Palestinian Authority located in 9
49074730 Gaza or may be obligated or expended for assistance 10
49084731 to Hamas or any entity effectively controlled by 11
49094732 Hamas, any power-sharing government of which 12
49104733 Hamas is a member, or that results from an agree-13
49114734 ment with Hamas and over which Hamas exercises 14
49124735 undue influence. 15
49134736 (2) Notwithstanding the limitation of paragraph 16
49144737 (1), assistance may be provided to a power-sharing 17
49154738 government only if the President certifies and re-18
49164739 ports to the Committees on Appropriations that such 19
49174740 government, including all of its ministers or such 20
49184741 equivalent, has publicly accepted and is complying 21
49194742 with the principles contained in section 620K(b)(1) 22
49204743 (A) and (B) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 23
49214744 as amended. 24
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49254747 (3) The President may exercise the authority in 1
49264748 section 620K(e) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 2
49274749 1961, as added by the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism 3
49284750 Act of 2006 (Public Law 109–446) with respect to 4
49294751 this subsection. 5
49304752 (4) Whenever the certification pursuant to 6
49314753 paragraph (2) is exercised, the Secretary of State 7
49324754 shall submit a report to the Committees on Appro-8
49334755 priations within 120 days of the certification and 9
49344756 every quarter thereafter on whether such govern-10
49354757 ment, including all of its ministers or such equiva-11
49364758 lent are continuing to comply with the principles 12
49374759 contained in section 620K(b)(1) (A) and (B) of the 13
49384760 Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended: Pro-14
49394761 vided, That the report shall also detail the amount, 15
49404762 purposes and delivery mechanisms for any assistance 16
49414763 provided pursuant to the abovementioned certifi-17
49424764 cation and a full accounting of any direct support of 18
49434765 such government. 19
49444766 (5) None of the funds appropriated under titles 20
49454767 III through VI of this Act may be obligated for as-21
49464768 sistance for the Palestine Liberation Organization. 22
49474769 MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA 23
49484770 S
49494771 EC. 7041. (a) EGYPT.— 24
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49534774 (1) ASSISTANCE.—Of the funds appropriated by this 1
49544775 Act for assistance for Egypt— 2
49554776 (A) not less than $125,000,000 shall be made 3
49564777 available from funds under the heading ‘‘Economic 4
49574778 Support Fund’’, of which not less than $40,000,000 5
49584779 should be made available for higher education pro-6
49594780 grams, including not less than $15,000,000 for 7
49604781 scholarships for Egyptian students with high finan-8
49614782 cial need to attend not-for-profit institutions of high-9
49624783 er education in Egypt that are currently accredited 10
49634784 by a regional accrediting agency recognized by the 11
49644785 United States Department of Education, or meets 12
49654786 standards equivalent to those required for United 13
49664787 States institutional accreditation by a regional ac-14
49674788 crediting agency recognized by such Department: 15
49684789 Provided, That such funds shall be made available 16
49694790 for democracy programs, and for development pro-17
49704791 grams in the Sinai. 18
49714792 (B) not less than $1,300,000,000 shall be made 19
49724793 available from funds under the heading ‘‘Foreign 20
49734794 Military Financing Program’’, to remain available 21
49744795 until September 30, 2025: Provided, That such 22
49754796 funds may be transferred to an interest bearing ac-23
49764797 count in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. 24
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49804800 (2) ADDITIONALSECURITYASSISTANCE.—In addi-1
49814801 tion to funds made available pursuant to paragraph (1), 2
49824802 not less than $75,000,000 of the funds appropriated under 3
49834803 the heading ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’ shall 4
49844804 be made available for assistance for Egypt. 5
49854805 (3) C
49864806 ERTIFICATION AND REPORT .—Funds ap-6
49874807 propriated by this Act that are available for assist-7
49884808 ance for Egypt may be made available notwith-8
49894809 standing any other provision of law restricting as-9
49904810 sistance for Egypt, except for this subsection and 10
49914811 section 620M of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 11
49924812 and may only be made available for assistance for 12
49934813 the Government of Egypt if the Secretary of State 13
49944814 certifies and reports to the Committees on Appro-14
49954815 priations that such government is— 15
49964816 (A) sustaining the strategic relationship 16
49974817 with the United States; and 17
49984818 (B) meeting its obligations under the 1979 18
49994819 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty. 19
50004820 (b) I
50014821 RAN.— 20
50024822 (1) F
50034823 UNDING.—Funds appropriated by this Act 21
50044824 under the headings ‘‘Diplomatic Programs’’, ‘‘Eco-22
50054825 nomic Support Fund’’, and ‘‘Nonproliferation, Anti- 23
50064826 terrorism, Demining and Related Programs’’ shall 24
50074827 be made available by the Secretary of State— 25
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50114830 (A) to support the United States policy to 1
50124831 prevent Iran from achieving the capability to 2
50134832 produce or otherwise obtain a nuclear weapon; 3
50144833 (B) to support an expeditious response to 4
50154834 any violation of United Nations Security Coun-5
50164835 cil Resolutions or to efforts that advance Iran’s 6
50174836 nuclear program; 7
50184837 (C) to support the implementation and en-8
50194838 forcement of sanctions against Iran for support 9
50204839 of nuclear weapons development, terrorism, 10
50214840 human rights abuses, and ballistic missile and 11
50224841 weapons proliferation; and 12
50234842 (D) for democracy programs in support of 13
50244843 the aspirations of the Iranian people. 14
50254844 (2) R
50264845 EPORTS.— 15
50274846 (A) S
50284847 EMI-ANNUAL REPORT .—The Sec-16
50294848 retary of State shall submit to the Committees 17
50304849 on Appropriations the semi-annual report re-18
50314850 quired by section 135(d)(4) of the Atomic En-19
50324851 ergy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2160e(d)(4)), as 20
50334852 added by section 2 of the Iran Nuclear Agree-21
50344853 ment Review Act of 2015 (Public Law 114–17). 22
50354854 (B) S
50364855 ANCTIONS REPORT.—Not later than 23
50374856 180 days after the date of enactment of this 24
50384857 Act, the Secretary of State, in consultation with 25
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50424860 the Secretary of the Treasury, shall submit to 1
50434861 the appropriate congressional committees a re-2
50444862 port on— 3
50454863 (i) the status of United States bilat-4
50464864 eral sanctions on Iran; 5
50474865 (ii) the reimposition and renewed en-6
50484866 forcement of secondary sanctions; and 7
50494867 (iii) the impact such sanctions have 8
50504868 had on Iran’s destabilizing activities 9
50514869 throughout the Middle East. 10
50524870 (3) L
50534871 IMITATIONS.—None of the funds appro-11
50544872 priated by this Act may be— 12
50554873 (A) used to implement or enforce a future 13
50564874 agreement with the Government of Iran relating 14
50574875 to the nuclear program of Iran, or a renewal of 15
50584876 the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action adopt-16
50594877 ed on October 18, 2015, until such agreement 17
50604878 is transmitted to Congress pursuant to section 18
50614879 135 of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act 19
50624880 of 2015 (42 U.S.C. 2160e) and such agreement 20
50634881 is subject to the advice and consent of the Sen-21
50644882 ate as a treaty and has received the concur-22
50654883 rence of two-thirds of Senators concurring; 23
50664884 (B) made available to any foreign entity or 24
50674885 person that is subject to United Nations or 25
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50714888 United States bilateral sanctions with respect to 1
50724889 the Government of Iran or an entity organized 2
50734890 under the laws of Iran or otherwise subject to 3
50744891 the jurisdiction of such government; or 4
50754892 (C) used to revoke the designation of the 5
50764893 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a For-6
50774894 eign Terrorist Organization pursuant to section 7
50784895 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 8
50794896 U.S.C. 1189). 9
50804897 (c) I
50814898 RAQ.— 10
50824899 (1) P
50834900 URPOSES.—Funds appropriated under ti-11
50844901 tles III and IV of this Act shall be made available 12
50854902 for assistance for Iraq for— 13
50864903 (A) bilateral economic assistance and inter-14
50874904 national security assistance, including in the 15
50884905 Kurdistan Region of Iraq; 16
50894906 (B) stabilization assistance; 17
50904907 (C) programs to support government 18
50914908 transparency and accountability, judicial inde-19
50924909 pendence, protect the right of due process, and 20
50934910 combat corruption; 21
50944911 (D) humanitarian assistance, including in 22
50954912 the Kurdistan Region of Iraq; 23
50964913 (E) programs to protect and assist reli-24
50974914 gious and ethnic minority populations; and 25
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51014917 (F) programs to increase United States 1
51024918 private sector investment. 2
51034919 (2) L
51044920 IMITATION.—Funds appropriated by this 3
51054921 Act under titles III through VI may not be made 4
51064922 available to an organization or entity controlled by, 5
51074923 or an affiliate of, the Badr Organization or to any 6
51084924 other organization or entity for which the Secretary 7
51094925 of State has credible information is a proxy of Iran. 8
51104926 (d) I
51114927 SRAEL.—Of the funds appropriated by this Act 9
51124928 under the heading ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Pro-10
51134929 gram’’, not less than $3,300,000,000 shall be available for 11
51144930 grants only for Israel which shall be disbursed within 30 12
51154931 days of enactment of this Act: Provided, That to the extent 13
51164932 that the Government of Israel requests that funds be used 14
51174933 for such purposes, grants made available for Israel under 15
51184934 this heading shall, as agreed by the United States and 16
51194935 Israel, be available for advanced weapons systems, of 17
51204936 which not less than $725,300,000 shall be available for 18
51214937 the procurement in Israel of defense articles and defense 19
51224938 services, including research and development. 20
51234939 (e) J
51244940 ORDAN.—Of the funds appropriated by this Act 21
51254941 under titles III and IV, not less than $1,650,000,000 shall 22
51264942 be made available for assistance for Jordan, of which not 23
51274943 less than $845,100,000 shall be made available for budget 24
51284944 support for the Government of Jordan and not less than 25
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51324947 $425,000,000 shall be made available under the heading 1
51334948 ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’. 2
51344949 (f) L
51354950 EBANON.— 3
51364951 (1) L
51374952 IMITATION.—None of the funds appro-4
51384953 priated by this Act may be made available for the 5
51394954 Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF) or the Leb-6
51404955 anese Armed Forces (LAF) if the ISF or the LAF 7
51414956 is controlled by a foreign terrorist organization, as 8
51424957 designated pursuant to section 219 of the Immigra-9
51434958 tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189). 10
51444959 (2) S
51454960 ECURITY ASSISTANCE.— 11
51464961 (A) Funds appropriated by this Act under 12
51474962 the headings ‘‘International Narcotics Control 13
51484963 and Law Enforcement’’ and ‘‘Foreign Military 14
51494964 Financing Program’’ that are made available 15
51504965 for assistance for Lebanon may be made avail-16
51514966 able for programs and equipment for the ISF 17
51524967 and the LAF to address security and stability 18
51534968 requirements in areas affected by conflict in 19
51544969 Syria, following consultation with the appro-20
51554970 priate congressional committees. 21
51564971 (B) Funds appropriated by this Act under 22
51574972 the heading ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Pro-23
51584973 gram’’ that are made available for assistance 24
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51624976 for Lebanon may only be made available for 1
51634977 programs to— 2
51644978 (i) professionalize the LAF to miti-3
51654979 gate internal and external threats from 4
51664980 non-state actors, including Hizballah; 5
51674981 (ii) strengthen the security of borders 6
51684982 and combat terrorism, including training 7
51694983 and equipping the LAF to secure the bor-8
51704984 ders of Lebanon and address security and 9
51714985 stability requirements in areas affected by 10
51724986 conflict in Syria, interdicting arms ship-11
51734987 ments, and preventing the use of Lebanon 12
51744988 as a safe haven for terrorist groups; and 13
51754989 (iii) implement United Nations Secu-14
51764990 rity Council Resolution 1701: 15
51774991 Provided, That prior to obligating funds made 16
51784992 available by this subparagraph for assistance 17
51794993 for the LAF, the Secretary of State shall sub-18
51804994 mit to the Committees on Appropriations a 19
51814995 spend plan, including actions to be taken to en-20
51824996 sure equipment provided to the LAF is used 21
51834997 only for the intended purposes, except such plan 22
51844998 may not be considered as meeting the notifica-23
51854999 tion requirements under section 7015 of this 24
51865000 Act or under section 634A of the Foreign As-25
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51905003 sistance Act of 1961: Provided further, That 1
51915004 any notification submitted pursuant to such 2
51925005 section shall include any funds specifically in-3
51935006 tended for lethal military equipment. 4
51945007 (g) M
51955008 OROCCO.—Funds appropriated under titles III 5
51965009 and IV of this Act shall be made available for assistance 6
51975010 for Morocco. 7
51985011 (h) S
51995012 AUDIARABIA.— 8
52005013 (1) None of the funds appropriated by this Act 9
52015014 under the heading ‘‘International Military Education 10
52025015 and Training’’ should be made available for assist-11
52035016 ance for the Government of Saudi Arabia. 12
52045017 (2) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 13
52055018 made available by this Act and prior Acts making 14
52065019 appropriations for the Department of State, foreign 15
52075020 operations, and related programs should be obligated 16
52085021 or expended by the Export-Import Bank of the 17
52095022 United States to guarantee, insure, or extend (or 18
52105023 participate in the extension of) credit in connection 19
52115024 with the export of nuclear technology, equipment, 20
52125025 fuel, materials, or other nuclear technology-related 21
52135026 goods or services to Saudi Arabia unless the Govern-22
52145027 ment of Saudi Arabia— 23
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52185030 (A) has in effect a nuclear cooperation 1
52195031 agreement pursuant to section 123 of the 2
52205032 Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2153); 3
52215033 (B) has committed to renounce uranium 4
52225034 enrichment and reprocessing on its territory 5
52235035 under that agreement; and 6
52245036 (C) has signed and implemented an Addi-7
52255037 tional Protocol to its Comprehensive Safeguards 8
52265038 Agreement with the International Atomic En-9
52275039 ergy Agency. 10
52285040 (i) S
52295041 YRIA.— 11
52305042 (1) N
52315043 ON-LETHAL ASSISTANCE .—Funds appro-12
52325044 priated by this Act under titles III and IV may be 13
52335045 made available, notwithstanding any other provision 14
52345046 of law, for non-lethal stabilization assistance to ad-15
52355047 dress the needs of civilians affected by conflict in 16
52365048 Syria. 17
52375049 (2) L
52385050 IMITATIONS.—Funds made available pur-18
52395051 suant to paragraph (1) of this subsection— 19
52405052 (A) may not be made available for a 20
52415053 project or activity that supports or otherwise le-21
52425054 gitimizes the Government of Iran, foreign ter-22
52435055 rorist organizations (as designated pursuant to 23
52445056 section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality 24
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52485059 Act (8 U.S.C. 1189)), or a proxy of Iran in 1
52495060 Syria; 2
52505061 (B) may not be made available for activi-3
52515062 ties that further the strategic objectives of the 4
52525063 Government of the Russian Federation that the 5
52535064 Secretary of State determines may threaten or 6
52545065 undermine United States national security in-7
52555066 terests; and 8
52565067 (C) may not be used in areas of Syria con-9
52575068 trolled by a government led by Bashar al-Assad 10
52585069 or associated forces or made available to an or-11
52595070 ganization or entity effectively controlled by an 12
52605071 official or immediate family member of an offi-13
52615072 cial of such government. 14
52625073 (3) M
52635074 ONITORING, OVERSIGHT, CONSULTATION, 15
52645075 AND NOTIFICATION.— 16
52655076 (A) Prior to the obligation of funds appro-17
52665077 priated by this Act and made available for as-18
52675078 sistance for Syria, the Secretary of State shall 19
52685079 take all practicable steps to ensure that mecha-20
52695080 nisms are in place for monitoring, oversight, 21
52705081 and control of such assistance inside Syria. 22
52715082 (B) Section 7015(j) of this Act regarding 23
52725083 the notification of assistance diverted or de-24
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52765086 stroyed shall apply to funds made available for 1
52775087 assistance for Syria. 2
52785088 (C) Funds made available pursuant to this 3
52795089 subsection may only be made available following 4
52805090 consultation with the appropriate congressional 5
52815091 committees and shall be subject to the regular 6
52825092 notification procedures of the Committees on 7
52835093 Appropriations: Provided, That such consulta-8
52845094 tion shall include the steps taken to comply 9
52855095 with subparagraph (A). 10
52865096 (j) W
52875097 ESTBANK ANDGAZA.— 11
52885098 (1) R
52895099 EPORT ON ASSISTANCE .—Prior to the ini-12
52905100 tial obligation of funds made available by this Act 13
52915101 under the heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’ for 14
52925102 assistance for the West Bank and Gaza, the Sec-15
52935103 retary of State shall report to the Committees on 16
52945104 Appropriations that the purpose of such assistance 17
52955105 is to— 18
52965106 (A) advance Middle East peace; 19
52975107 (B) improve security in the region; 20
52985108 (C) continue support for transparent and 21
52995109 accountable government institutions; 22
53005110 (D) promote a private sector economy; or 23
53015111 (E) address urgent humanitarian needs. 24
53025112 (2) L
53035113 IMITATIONS.— 25
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53075116 (A) None of the funds appropriated under 1
53085117 the heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’ in this 2
53095118 Act may be made available for assistance for 3
53105119 the Palestinian Authority, if after the date of 4
53115120 enactment of this Act— 5
53125121 (i) the Palestinians obtain the same 6
53135122 standing as member states or full member-7
53145123 ship as a state in the United Nations or 8
53155124 any specialized agency thereof outside an 9
53165125 agreement negotiated between Israel and 10
53175126 the Palestinians; or 11
53185127 (ii) the Palestinians initiate an Inter-12
53195128 national Criminal Court (ICC) judicially 13
53205129 authorized investigation, or actively sup-14
53215130 port such an investigation, that subjects 15
53225131 Israeli nationals to an investigation for al-16
53235132 leged crimes against Palestinians. 17
53245133 (B)(i) The President may waive the provi-18
53255134 sions of section 1003 of the Foreign Relations 19
53265135 Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 20
53275136 (Public Law 100–204) if the President deter-21
53285137 mines and certifies in writing to the Speaker of 22
53295138 the House of Representatives, the President pro 23
53305139 tempore of the Senate, and the appropriate con-24
53315140 gressional committees that the Palestinians 25
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53355143 have not, after the date of enactment of this 1
53365144 Act— 2
53375145 (I) obtained in the United Nations or 3
53385146 any specialized agency thereof the same 4
53395147 standing as member states or full member-5
53405148 ship as a state outside an agreement nego-6
53415149 tiated between Israel and the Palestinians; 7
53425150 (II) initiated or actively supported an 8
53435151 ICC investigation against Israeli nationals 9
53445152 for alleged crimes against Palestinians; 10
53455153 and 11
53465154 (III) initiated any further action, 12
53475155 whether directly or indirectly, based on an 13
53485156 Advisory Opinion of the International 14
53495157 Court of Justice that undermines direct 15
53505158 negotiations to resolve the Israeli-Pales-16
53515159 tinian conflict, including matters related to 17
53525160 final status and Israel’s longstanding secu-18
53535161 rity rights and responsibilities. 19
53545162 (ii) Not less than 90 days after the Presi-20
53555163 dent is unable to make the certification pursu-21
53565164 ant to clause (i) of this subparagraph, the 22
53575165 President may waive section 1003 of Public 23
53585166 Law 100–204 if the President determines and 24
53595167 certifies in writing to the Speaker of the House 25
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53635170 of Representatives, the President pro tempore 1
53645171 of the Senate, and the Committees on Appro-2
53655172 priations that the Palestinians have entered 3
53665173 into direct and meaningful negotiations with 4
53675174 Israel: Provided, That any waiver of the provi-5
53685175 sions of section 1003 of Public Law 100–204 6
53695176 under clause (i) of this subparagraph or under 7
53705177 previous provisions of law must expire before 8
53715178 the waiver under this clause may be exercised. 9
53725179 (iii) Any waiver pursuant to this subpara-10
53735180 graph shall be effective for no more than a pe-11
53745181 riod of 6 months at a time and shall not apply 12
53755182 beyond 12 months after the enactment of this 13
53765183 Act. 14
53775184 (3) A
53785185 PPLICATION OF TAYLOR FORCE ACT .— 15
53795186 Funds appropriated by this Act under the heading 16
53805187 ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’ that are made available 17
53815188 for assistance for the West Bank and Gaza shall be 18
53825189 made available consistent with section 1004(a) of 19
53835190 the Taylor Force Act (title X of division S of Public 20
53845191 Law 115–141). 21
53855192 (4) S
53865193 ECURITY REPORT.—The reporting require-22
53875194 ments in section 1404 of the Supplemental Appro-23
53885195 priations Act, 2008 (Public Law 110–252) shall 24
53895196 apply to funds made available by this Act, including 25
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53935199 a description of modifications, if any, to the security 1
53945200 strategy of the Palestinian Authority. 2
53955201 (5) I
53965202 NCITEMENT REPORT .—Not later than 90 3
53975203 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the 4
53985204 Secretary of State shall submit a report to the ap-5
53995205 propriate congressional committees detailing steps 6
54005206 taken by the Palestinian Authority to counter incite-7
54015207 ment of violence against Israelis and to promote 8
54025208 peace and coexistence with Israel. 9
54035209 (6) O
54045210 FFICE REQUIREMENTS .—The Office of 10
54055211 Palestinian Affairs in Jerusalem shall report directly 11
54065212 to the United States Ambassador to Israel, con-12
54075213 sistent with the operations of the previous Pales-13
54085214 tinian Affairs Unit, and may not administer or man-14
54095215 age funds appropriated under title III of this Act. 15
54105216 AFRICA 16
54115217 S
54125218 EC. 7042. (a) COUNTERILLICITARMEDGROUPS.— 17
54135219 Funds appropriated by this Act shall be made available 18
54145220 for programs and activities in areas affected by the Lord’s 19
54155221 Resistance Army (LRA) or other illicit armed groups in 20
54165222 Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Cen-21
54175223 tral African Republic, including to improve physical ac-22
54185224 cess, telecommunications infrastructure, and early-warn-23
54195225 ing mechanisms and to support the disarmament, demobi-24
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54235228 lization, and reintegration of former LRA combatants, es-1
54245229 pecially child soldiers. 2
54255230 (b) E
54265231 THIOPIA.—Funds appropriated by this Act that 3
54275232 are made available for assistance for Ethiopia should be 4
54285233 used to support— 5
54295234 (1) implementation of the cessation of hos-6
54305235 tilities agreement in Tigray; 7
54315236 (2) political dialogues and confidence building 8
54325237 measures to end other conflicts in the country; 9
54335238 (3) civil society and protect human rights; 10
54345239 (4) efforts to provide unimpeded access to hu-11
54355240 manitarian assistance; 12
54365241 (5) investigations and prosecutions of gross vio-13
54375242 lations of human rights; and 14
54385243 (6) restoration of basic services in areas im-15
54395244 pacted by conflict. 16
54405245 (c) M
54415246 ALAWI.—Funds appropriated by this Act and 17
54425247 prior Acts making appropriations for the Department of 18
54435248 State, foreign operations, and related programs that are 19
54445249 made available for higher education programs in Malawi 20
54455250 shall be made available for higher education and workforce 21
54465251 development programs in agriculture as described under 22
54475252 this section in the report accompanying this Act. 23
54485253 (d) P
54495254 OWERAFRICAALL-OF-THE-ABOVEENERGY 24
54505255 P
54515256 OLICY.—None of the funds appropriated under title III 25
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54555259 of this Act may be made available for renewable energy 1
54565260 programs as part of Power Africa until the Administrator 2
54575261 of the United States Agency for International Develop-3
54585262 ment certifies and reports to the appropriate congressional 4
54595263 committees that no less than the total funds allocated for 5
54605264 renewable energy during the previous fiscal year has been 6
54615265 allocated in fiscal year 2024 for other sources of energy 7
54625266 included in paragraph (8) of section 3 of the Electrify Af-8
54635267 rica Act of 2015 (Public Law 114–121). 9
54645268 (e) S
54655269 OUTHSUDAN.—None of the funds appropriated 10
54665270 by this Act under title IV may be made available for as-11
54675271 sistance for the central Government of South Sudan, ex-12
54685272 cept to support implementation of outstanding issues of 13
54695273 the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, mutual arrange-14
54705274 ments related to post-referendum issues associated with 15
54715275 such Agreement, or any other viable peace agreement in 16
54725276 South Sudan: Provided, That funds appropriated by this 17
54735277 Act and prior Acts making appropriations for the Depart-18
54745278 ment of State, foreign operations, and related programs 19
54755279 that are made available for any new program, project, or 20
54765280 activity in South Sudan shall be subject to prior consulta-21
54775281 tion with the appropriate congressional committees. 22
54785282 (f) S
54795283 UDAN.—Funds appropriated by this Act and 23
54805284 prior Acts making appropriations for the Department of 24
54815285 State, foreign operations, and related programs that are 25
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54855288 made available for any new program, project, or activity 1
54865289 in Sudan shall be subject to prior consultation with the 2
54875290 appropriate congressional committees and the regular no-3
54885291 tification procedures of the Committees on Appropria-4
54895292 tions. 5
54905293 (g) Z
54915294 IMBABWE.— 6
54925295 (1) I
54935296 NSTRUCTION.—The Secretary of the Treas-7
54945297 ury shall instruct the United States executive direc-8
54955298 tor of each international financial institution to vote 9
54965299 against any extension by the respective institution of 10
54975300 any loan or grant to the Government of Zimbabwe, 11
54985301 except to meet basic human needs or to promote de-12
54995302 mocracy, unless the Secretary of State certifies and 13
55005303 reports to the Committees on Appropriations that 14
55015304 the rule of law has been restored, including respect 15
55025305 for ownership and title to property, and freedoms of 16
55035306 expression, association, and assembly. 17
55045307 (2) L
55055308 IMITATION.—None of the funds appro-18
55065309 priated by this Act shall be made available for as-19
55075310 sistance for the central Government of Zimbabwe, 20
55085311 except for health and education, unless the Secretary 21
55095312 of State certifies and reports as required in para-22
55105313 graph (1). 23
55115314 EAST ASIA AND THE PACIFIC 24
55125315 S
55135316 EC. 7043. (a) BURMA.— 25
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55175319 (1) USES OF FUNDS.—Funds appropriated by 1
55185320 this Act under the heading ‘‘Economic Support 2
55195321 Fund’’ may be made available for assistance for 3
55205322 Burma to support implementation of paragraphs (1) 4
55215323 through (7) of section 5575 of the BURMA Act of 5
55225324 2022 (subtitle E of title LV of division E of Public 6
55235325 Law 117–263), and, which— 7
55245326 (A) may be made available notwithstanding 8
55255327 any other provision of law that restricts assist-9
55265328 ance to countries, except for the limitations of 10
55275329 section 5576 of such Act and section 7008 of 11
55285330 this Act, and following consultation with the ap-12
55295331 propriate congressional committees; 13
55305332 (B) may be made available for support for 14
55315333 the administrative operations and programs of 15
55325334 entities that support peaceful efforts to estab-16
55335335 lish an inclusive and representative democracy 17
55345336 in Burma and a federal union to foster equality 18
55355337 and justice among Burma’s diverse ethnic 19
55365338 groups; 20
55375339 (C) shall be made available for programs 21
55385340 to promote ethnic and religious tolerance, unity, 22
55395341 and accountability and to combat violence 23
55405342 against women and girls across Burma, and 24
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55445345 among Burmese displaced and refugee popu-1
55455346 lations in the region; 2
55465347 (D) shall be made available for community- 3
55475348 based organizations with experience operating 4
55485349 in Thailand and may be made available else-5
55495350 where outside of Burma to provide food, med-6
55505351 ical, and other humanitarian assistance to in-7
55515352 ternally displaced persons in Burma, in addition 8
55525353 to assistance for Burmese refugees from funds 9
55535354 appropriated by this Act under the heading 10
55545355 ‘‘Migration and Refugee Assistance’’; and 11
55555356 (E) shall be made available for programs 12
55565357 and activities to investigate and document viola-13
55575358 tions of human rights in Burma committed by 14
55585359 the military junta and its affiliated militias. 15
55595360 (2) I
55605361 NTERNATIONAL SECURITY ASSISTANCE .— 16
55615362 None of the funds appropriated by this Act under 17
55625363 the headings ‘‘International Military Education and 18
55635364 Training’’ and ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Pro-19
55645365 gram’’ may be made available for assistance for 20
55655366 Burma. 21
55665367 (3) L
55675368 IMITATIONS.—None of the funds appro-22
55685369 priated by this Act that are made available for as-23
55695370 sistance for Burma may be made available to the 24
55705371 State Administration Council or any organization or 25
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55745374 entity controlled by, or an affiliate of, the armed 1
55755375 forces of Burma, or to any individual or organization 2
55765376 that has committed a gross violation of human 3
55775377 rights or advocates violence against ethnic or reli-4
55785378 gious groups or individuals in Burma, as determined 5
55795379 by the Secretary of State for programs administered 6
55805380 by the Department of State and the United States 7
55815381 Agency for International Development or the Presi-8
55825382 dent of the National Endowment for Democracy 9
55835383 (NED) for programs administered by NED. 10
55845384 (4) C
55855385 ONSULTATION.—Any new program or ac-11
55865386 tivity in Burma initiated in fiscal year 2024 shall be 12
55875387 subject to prior consultation with the appropriate 13
55885388 congressional committees. 14
55895389 (b) C
55905390 AMBODIA.— 15
55915391 (1) C
55925392 ERTIFICATION AND EXCEPTIONS .— 16
55935393 (A) C
55945394 ERTIFICATION.—None of the funds 17
55955395 appropriated by this Act that are made avail-18
55965396 able for assistance for the Government of Cam-19
55975397 bodia may be obligated or expended unless the 20
55985398 Secretary of State certifies and reports to the 21
55995399 Committees on Appropriations that such Gov-22
56005400 ernment is taking effective steps to— 23
56015401 (i) strengthen regional security and 24
56025402 stability, particularly regarding territorial 25
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56065405 disputes in the South China Sea and the 1
56075406 enforcement of international sanctions with 2
56085407 respect to North Korea; 3
56095408 (ii) assert its sovereignty against in-4
56105409 terference by the People’s Republic of 5
56115410 China, including by verifiably maintaining 6
56125411 the neutrality of Ream Naval Base, other 7
56135412 military installations in Cambodia, and 8
56145413 dual use facilities such as the runway at 9
56155414 the Dara Sakor development project; 10
56165415 (iii) cease violence, threats, and har-11
56175416 assment against civil society and the polit-12
56185417 ical opposition in Cambodia, and dismiss 13
56195418 any politically motivated criminal charges 14
56205419 against critics of the government; and 15
56215420 (iv) respect the rights, freedoms, and 16
56225421 responsibilities enshrined in the Constitu-17
56235422 tion of the Kingdom of Cambodia as en-18
56245423 acted in 1993. 19
56255424 (B) E
56265425 XCEPTIONS.—The certification re-20
56275426 quired by subparagraph (A) shall not apply to 21
56285427 funds appropriated by this Act and made avail-22
56295428 able for programs to strengthen the sovereignty 23
56305429 of Cambodia, and programs to educate and in-24
56315430 form the people of Cambodia of the influence 25
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56355433 activities of the People’s Republic of China in 1
56365434 Cambodia. 2
56375435 (2) U
56385436 SES OF FUNDS .—Funds appropriated 3
56395437 under title III of this Act for assistance for Cam-4
56405438 bodia shall be made available for— 5
56415439 (A) research, documentation, and edu-6
56425440 cation programs associated with the Khmer 7
56435441 Rouge in Cambodia; and 8
56445442 (B) programs in the Khmer language to 9
56455443 monitor, map, and publicize the efforts by the 10
56465444 People’s Republic of China to expand its influ-11
56475445 ence in Cambodia. 12
56485446 (c) I
56495447 NDO-PACIFICSTRATEGY AND THE ASIAREAS-13
56505448 SURANCEINITIATIVEACT OF2018.— 14
56515449 (1) D
56525450 IPLOMATIC ENGAGEMENT .—Of the funds 15
56535451 appropriated under title I of this Act, not less than 16
56545452 $1,238,255,000 should be made available to support 17
56555453 implementation of the Indo-Pacific Strategy and the 18
56565454 Asia Reassurance Initiative Act of 2018 (Public Law 19
56575455 115–409): Provided, That funds under the heading 20
56585456 ‘‘Diplomatic Program’’ that are allocated pursuant 21
56595457 to this paragraph may be transferred to, and merged 22
56605458 with, funds under the heading ‘‘Related Programs’’ 23
56615459 in title I of this Act and under the heading ‘‘Oper-24
56625460 ating Expenses’’ in title II of this Act to carry out 25
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56665463 the purposes of this paragraph: Provided further, 1
56675464 That the transfer authority of this paragraph is in 2
56685465 addition to any other transfer authority provided by 3
56695466 this Act or any other Act and shall be subject to 4
56705467 prior consultation with, and the regular notification 5
56715468 procedures of, the Committees on Appropriations. 6
56725469 (2) A
56735470 SSISTANCE.—Of the funds appropriated 7
56745471 under titles III and IV of this Act, not less than 8
56755472 $2,161,745,000 shall be made available to support 9
56765473 implementation of the Indo-Pacific Strategy and the 10
56775474 Asia Reassurance Initiative Act of 2018 (Public Law 11
56785475 115–409). 12
56795476 (3) C
56805477 OUNTERING PRC INFLUENCE FUND .—Of 13
56815478 the funds appropriated by this Act under the head-14
56825479 ings ‘‘Development Assistance’’, ‘‘Economic Support 15
56835480 Fund’’, ‘‘International Narcotics Control and Law 16
56845481 Enforcement’’, ‘‘Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, 17
56855482 Demining and Related Programs’’, and ‘‘Foreign 18
56865483 Military Financing Program’’, not less than 19
56875484 $400,000,000 shall be made available for a Coun-20
56885485 tering PRC Influence Fund to counter the influence 21
56895486 of the Government of the People’s Republic of China 22
56905487 and the Chinese Communist Party and entities act-23
56915488 ing on their behalf globally, which shall be subject 24
56925489 to prior consultation with the Committees on Appro-25
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56965492 priations: Provided, That such funds are in addition 1
56975493 to amounts otherwise made available for such pur-2
56985494 poses: Provided further, That up to 10 percent of 3
56995495 such funds shall be held in reserve to respond to un-4
57005496 anticipated opportunities to counter PRC influence: 5
57015497 Provided further, That the uses of such funds shall 6
57025498 be the joint responsibility of the Secretary of State 7
57035499 and the USAID Administrator, and shall be allo-8
57045500 cated as described under this section in the report 9
57055501 accompanying this Act: Provided further, That funds 10
57065502 made available pursuant to this paragraph under the 11
57075503 heading ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’ may 12
57085504 remain available until September 30, 2025: Provided 13
57095505 further, That funds appropriated by this Act for 14
57105506 such Fund under the headings ‘‘International Nar-15
57115507 cotics Control and Law Enforcement’’, ‘‘Non-16
57125508 proliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining and Related 17
57135509 Programs’’, and ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Pro-18
57145510 gram’’ may be transferred to, and merged with, 19
57155511 funds appropriated under such headings: Provided 20
57165512 further, That such transfer authority is in addition 21
57175513 to any other transfer authority provided by this Act 22
57185514 or any other Act, and is subject to the regular notifi-23
57195515 cation procedures of the Committees on Appropria-24
57205516 tions. 25
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57245519 (4) RESTRICTION ON USES OF FUNDS .—None 1
57255520 of the funds appropriated by this Act and prior Acts 2
57265521 making appropriations for the Department of State, 3
57275522 foreign operations, and related programs may be 4
57285523 made available for any project or activity that di-5
57295524 rectly supports or promotes— 6
57305525 (A) the Belt and Road Initiative or any 7
57315526 dual-use infrastructure projects of the People’s 8
57325527 Republic of China; or 9
57335528 (B) the use of technology, including bio-10
57345529 technology, digital, telecommunications, and 11
57355530 cyber, developed by the People’s Republic of 12
57365531 China unless the Secretary of State, in con-13
57375532 sultation with the USAID Administrator and 14
57385533 the heads of other Federal agencies, as appro-15
57395534 priate, determines that such use does not ad-16
57405535 versely impact the national security of the 17
57415536 United States. 18
57425537 (5) M
57435538 APS.—None of the funds made available 19
57445539 by this Act should be used to create, procure, or dis-20
57455540 play any map that inaccurately depicts the territory 21
57465541 and social and economic system of Taiwan and the 22
57475542 islands or island groups administered by Taiwan au-23
57485543 thorities. 24
57495544 (d) N
57505545 ORTHKOREA.— 25
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57545548 (1) CYBERSECURITY.—None of the funds ap-1
57555549 propriated by this Act or prior Acts making appro-2
57565550 priations for the Department of State, foreign oper-3
57575551 ations, and related programs may be made available 4
57585552 for assistance for the central government of a coun-5
57595553 try the Secretary of State determines and reports to 6
57605554 the appropriate congressional committees engages in 7
57615555 significant transactions contributing materially to 8
57625556 the malicious cyber-intrusion capabilities of the Gov-9
57635557 ernment of North Korea: Provided, That the Sec-10
57645558 retary of State shall submit the report required by 11
57655559 section 209 of the North Korea Sanctions and Policy 12
57665560 Enhancement Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–122; 22 13
57675561 U.S.C. 9229) to the Committees on Appropriations: 14
57685562 Provided further, That the Secretary of State may 15
57695563 waive the application of the restriction in this para-16
57705564 graph with respect to assistance for the central gov-17
57715565 ernment of a country if the Secretary determines 18
57725566 and reports to the appropriate congressional com-19
57735567 mittees that to do so is important to the national se-20
57745568 curity interest of the United States, including a de-21
57755569 scription of such interest served. 22
57765570 (2) B
57775571 ROADCASTS.—Funds appropriated by this 23
57785572 Act under the heading ‘‘International Broadcasting 24
57795573 Operations’’ shall be made available to maintain 25
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57835576 broadcasting hours into North Korea at levels not 1
57845577 less than the prior fiscal year. 2
57855578 (3) H
57865579 UMAN RIGHTS.—Funds appropriated by 3
57875580 this Act under the headings ‘‘Economic Support 4
57885581 Fund’’ and ‘‘Democracy Fund’’ shall be made avail-5
57895582 able for the promotion of human rights in North 6
57905583 Korea: Provided, That the authority of section 7
57915584 7032(b)(1) of this Act shall apply to such funds. 8
57925585 (4) L
57935586 IMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS .—None of 9
57945587 the funds made available by this Act under the 10
57955588 heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’ may be made 11
57965589 available for assistance for the Government of North 12
57975590 Korea. 13
57985591 (e) P
57995592 ACIFICISLANDSCOUNTRIES.— 14
58005593 (1) O
58015594 PERATIONS.—Funds appropriated under 15
58025595 title I in this Act and prior Acts making appropria-16
58035596 tions for the Department of State, foreign oper-17
58045597 ations, and related programs may be made available 18
58055598 for establishing and operating diplomatic facilities in 19
58065599 Kiribati, Tonga, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu, 20
58075600 subject to section 7015(a)(3) of this Act and fol-21
58085601 lowing consultation with the Committees on Appro-22
58095602 priations. 23
58105603 (2) A
58115604 SSISTANCE.—Of the funds appropriated by 24
58125605 this Act under the headings ‘‘Development Assist-25
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58165608 ance’’, ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, ‘‘International 1
58175609 Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement’’, ‘‘Non-2
58185610 proliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining and Related 3
58195611 Programs’’, and ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Pro-4
58205612 gram’’, not less than $175,000,000 shall be made 5
58215613 available for assistance for Pacific Islands countries 6
58225614 following consultation with the Committees on Ap-7
58235615 propriations: Provided, That funds made available 8
58245616 pursuant to this paragraph shall be made available 9
58255617 for joint development and security programs between 10
58265618 the United States and such countries in coordination 11
58275619 with regional allies and partners, including Taiwan. 12
58285620 (f) P
58295621 EOPLE’SREPUBLIC OFCHINA.— 13
58305622 (1) P
58315623 ROHIBITION.— 14
58325624 (A) None of the funds appropriated by this 15
58335625 Act may be made available for assistance for 16
58345626 the Government of People’s Republic of China 17
58355627 or the Chinese Communist Party. 18
58365628 (B) None of the funds made available by 19
58375629 this Act shall be used to implement, administer, 20
58385630 carry out, modify, revise, or enforce any action 21
58395631 that directly supports or facilitates forced labor 22
58405632 or other violations of human rights, crimes 23
58415633 against humanity, or genocide in the People’s 24
58425634 Republic of China. 25
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58465637 (2) HONG KONG.— 1
58475638 (A) D
58485639 EMOCRACY PROGRAMS .—Of the 2
58495640 funds appropriated by this Act under the first 3
58505641 paragraph under the heading ‘‘Democracy 4
58515642 Fund’’, not less than $5,000,000 shall be made 5
58525643 available for democracy and Internet freedom 6
58535644 programs for Hong Kong, including legal and 7
58545645 other support for democracy activists. 8
58555646 (B) R
58565647 EPORT.—The report required under 9
58575648 section 7043(f)(3)(C) of the Department of 10
58585649 State, Foreign Operations, and Related Pro-11
58595650 grams Appropriations Act, 2021 (division K of 12
58605651 Public Law 116–260) shall be updated and sub-13
58615652 mitted to the Congress in the manner described. 14
58625653 (g) P
58635654 HILIPPINES.—Of the funds appropriated by this 15
58645655 Act under the heading ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Pro-16
58655656 gram’’, not less than $40,000,000 shall be made available 17
58665657 for assistance for the Philippines. 18
58675658 (h) T
58685659 AIWAN.— 19
58695660 (1) G
58705661 LOBAL COOPERATION AND TRAINING 20
58715662 FRAMEWORK.—Of the funds appropriated by this 21
58725663 Act under the heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, 22
58735664 not less than $4,000,000 shall be made available for 23
58745665 the Global Cooperation and Training Framework, 24
58755666 which shall be administered by the American Insti-25
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58795669 tute in Taiwan, and shall be apportioned and allot-1
58805670 ted to the American Institute in Taiwan not later 2
58815671 than 60 days after the date of enactment of this 3
58825672 Act. 4
58835673 (2) F
58845674 OREIGN MILITARY FINANCING PRO -5
58855675 GRAM.—Of the funds appropriated by this Act under 6
58865676 the heading ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’, 7
58875677 not less than $500,000,000 (increased by 8
58885678 $10,000,000) shall be made available for assistance 9
58895679 for Taiwan, as authorized by section 5502(h) of the 10
58905680 Taiwan Enhanced Resilience Act (subtitle A of title 11
58915681 LV of division E of Public Law 117–263): Provided, 12
58925682 That the Secretary of State, in coordination with the 13
58935683 Secretary of Defense, shall prioritize the delivery of 14
58945684 defense articles and services for Taiwan. 15
58955685 (3) F
58965686 OREIGN MILITARY FINANCING PROGRAM 16
58975687 LOAN AND LOAN GUARANTEE AUTHORITY .—Funds 17
58985688 appropriated by this Act and prior Acts making ap-18
58995689 propriations for the Department of State, foreign 19
59005690 operations, and related programs under the heading 20
59015691 ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’, except for 21
59025692 amounts designated as an emergency requirement 22
59035693 pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the budget or 23
59045694 the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 24
59055695 Act of 1985, may be made available for the costs, 25
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59095698 as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budg-1
59105699 et Act of 1974, of direct loans and loan guarantees 2
59115700 for Taiwan, as authorized by section 5502(g) of the 3
59125701 Taiwan Enhanced Resilience Act (subtitle A of title 4
59135702 LV of division E of Public Law 117–263). 5
59145703 (4) F
59155704 ELLOWSHIP PROGRAM .—Funds appro-6
59165705 priated by this Act under the heading ‘‘Payment to 7
59175706 the American Institute in Taiwan’’ shall be made 8
59185707 available to establish a Taiwan Fellowship Program. 9
59195708 (5) C
59205709 ONSULTATION.—Not later than 60 days 10
59215710 after the date of enactment of this Act, the Sec-11
59225711 retary of State shall consult with the Committees on 12
59235712 Appropriations on the uses of funds made available 13
59245713 pursuant to this subsection: Provided, That such 14
59255714 funds shall be subject to the regular notification pro-15
59265715 cedures of the Committees on Appropriations. 16
59275716 (i) T
59285717 IBET.— 17
59295718 (1) P
59305719 ROGRAMS FOR TIBETAN COMMUNITIES .— 18
59315720 (A) Notwithstanding any other provision of 19
59325721 law, of the funds appropriated by this Act 20
59335722 under the heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, 21
59345723 not less than $10,000,000 shall be made avail-22
59355724 able to nongovernmental organizations with ex-23
59365725 perience working with Tibetan communities to 24
59375726 support activities which preserve cultural tradi-25
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59415729 tions and promote sustainable development, 1
59425730 education, and environmental conservation in 2
59435731 Tibetan communities in the Tibet Autonomous 3
59445732 Region and in other Tibetan communities in 4
59455733 China, as authorized by section 346(d) of the 5
59465734 Tibetan Policy and Support Act of 2020 (sub-6
59475735 title E of title III of division FF of Public Law 7
59485736 116–260). 8
59495737 (B) Of the funds appropriated by this Act 9
59505738 under the heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, 10
59515739 not less than $8,000,000 shall be made avail-11
59525740 able for programs to promote and preserve Ti-12
59535741 betan culture and language in the refugee and 13
59545742 diaspora Tibetan communities, development, 14
59555743 and the resilience of Tibetan communities and 15
59565744 the Central Tibetan Administration in India 16
59575745 and Nepal, and to assist in the education and 17
59585746 development of the next generation of Tibetan 18
59595747 leaders from such communities, as authorized 19
59605748 by section 346(e) of the Tibetan Policy and 20
59615749 Support Act of 2020 (subtitle E of title III of 21
59625750 division FF of Public Law 116–260): Provided, 22
59635751 That such funds are in addition to amounts 23
59645752 made available in subparagraph (A) for pro-24
59655753 grams inside Tibet. 25
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59695756 (C) Of the funds appropriated by this Act 1
59705757 under the heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, 2
59715758 not less than $5,000,000 shall be made avail-3
59725759 able for programs to strengthen the capacity of 4
59735760 the Central Tibetan Administration, as author-5
59745761 ized by section 346(f) of the Tibetan Policy and 6
59755762 Support Act of 2020 (subtitle E of title III of 7
59765763 division FF of Public Law 116–260), of which 8
59775764 not less than $2,000,000 shall be provided to 9
59785765 address economic growth and capacity building 10
59795766 activities, including for displaced Tibetan ref-11
59805767 ugee families in India and Nepal to help them 12
59815768 meet basic needs: Provided, That such funds 13
59825769 shall be administered by USAID. 14
59835770 SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA 15
59845771 S
59855772 EC. 7044. (a) AFGHANISTAN.— 16
59865773 (1) R
59875774 ESTRICTION.—None of the funds appro-17
59885775 priated by this Act and prior Acts making appro-18
59895776 priations for the Department of State, foreign oper-19
59905777 ations, and related programs and made available for 20
59915778 assistance for Afghanistan may be made available 21
59925779 for— 22
59935780 (A) assistance to the Taliban; or 23
59945781 (B) a United States contribution to a 24
59955782 multi-donor trust fund for Afghanistan unless 25
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59995785 the Secretary of State certifies and reports to 1
60005786 the appropriate congressional committees that 2
60015787 such contribution will not benefit the Taliban, 3
60025788 directly or indirectly. 4
60035789 (2) A
60045790 FGHAN WOMEN -LED ORGANIZATIONS .— 5
60055791 Funds appropriated by this Act that are made avail-6
60065792 able for assistance for Afghanistan shall be made 7
60075793 available for a program for Afghan women-led orga-8
60085794 nizations to support education, human rights, and 9
60095795 economic livelihoods in Afghanistan: Provided, That 10
60105796 such program shall be co-designed by Afghan 11
60115797 women. 12
60125798 (3) A
60135799 FGHAN STUDENTS .—Funds appropriated 13
60145800 under title III of this Act and prior Acts making ap-14
60155801 propriations for the Department of State, foreign 15
60165802 operations, and related programs shall be made 16
60175803 available to— 17
60185804 (A) support the higher education of stu-18
60195805 dents from Afghanistan studying outside of the 19
60205806 country, including the costs of reimbursement 20
60215807 to institutions hosting such students, as appro-21
60225808 priate: Provided, That the Secretary of State 22
60235809 and the Administrator of the United States 23
60245810 Agency for International Development, as ap-24
60255811 propriate, shall consult with the Committees on 25
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60295814 Appropriations prior to the initial obligation of 1
60305815 funds for such purposes; and 2
60315816 (B) provide modified learning opportunities 3
60325817 for women and girls in Afghanistan, including 4
60335818 but not limited to, efforts to expand internet ac-5
60345819 cess, online schooling, and distribution of edu-6
60355820 cational content. 7
60365821 (b) P
60375822 AKISTAN.— 8
60385823 (1) L
60395824 IMITATION.—Funds appropriated by this 9
60405825 Act under the heading ‘‘Foreign Military Financing 10
60415826 Program’’ that are made available for assistance for 11
60425827 Pakistan may only be made available to support 12
60435828 counterterrorism and counterinsurgency capabilities 13
60445829 in Pakistan. 14
60455830 (2) W
60465831 ITHHOLDING.—Of the funds appropriated 15
60475832 under titles III and IV of this Act that are made 16
60485833 available for assistance for Pakistan, $33,000,000 17
60495834 shall be withheld from obligation until the Secretary 18
60505835 of State reports to the appropriate congressional 19
60515836 committees that Dr. Shakil Afridi has been released 20
60525837 from prison and cleared of all charges relating to the 21
60535838 assistance provided to the United States in locating 22
60545839 Osama bin Laden. 23
60555840 (c) S
60565841 RILANKA.— 24
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60605844 (1) ASSISTANCE.—Funds appropriated under 1
60615845 title III of this Act shall be made available for as-2
60625846 sistance for Sri Lanka for democracy and economic 3
60635847 development programs, particularly in areas recov-4
60645848 ering from ethnic and religious conflict. 5
60655849 (2) C
60665850 ERTIFICATION.—Funds appropriated by 6
60675851 this Act for assistance for the central Government of 7
60685852 Sri Lanka may be made available only if the Sec-8
60695853 retary of State certifies and reports to the Commit-9
60705854 tees on Appropriations that such Government is tak-10
60715855 ing effective and consistent steps to— 11
60725856 (A) protect the rights and freedoms of the 12
60735857 people of Sri Lanka regardless of ethnicity and 13
60745858 religious belief, including by investigating viola-14
60755859 tions of human rights and the laws of war and 15
60765860 holding perpetrators of such violations account-16
60775861 able; 17
60785862 (B) engage in the fundamental, systemic, 18
60795863 political, economic, military, and legal reform 19
60805864 necessary to recover from the current financial 20
60815865 collapse and to prevent conflict and economic 21
60825866 crises in the future; 22
60835867 (C) increase transparency and account-23
60845868 ability in governance and combat corruption; 24
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60885871 (D) assert its sovereignty against influence 1
60895872 by the People’s Republic of China; and 2
60905873 (E) promote reconciliation between ethnic 3
60915874 and religious groups, particularly arising from 4
60925875 past conflict in Sri Lanka: 5
60935876 Provided, That the limitations of this paragraph 6
60945877 shall not apply to funds made available for hu-7
60955878 manitarian assistance and disaster relief; to 8
60965879 protect human rights, locate and identify miss-9
60975880 ing persons, and assist victims of torture and 10
60985881 trauma; to promote justice, accountability, and 11
60995882 reconciliation; to enhance maritime security and 12
61005883 domain awareness; to promote fiscal trans-13
61015884 parency and sovereignty; and for International 14
61025885 Military Education and Training. 15
61035886 (3) L
61045887 IMITATION.—Funds appropriated by this 16
61055888 Act that are made available for assistance for the 17
61065889 Sri Lankan armed forces may only be made avail-18
61075890 able for humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, in-19
61085891 struction in human rights and related curricula de-20
61095892 velopment, maritime security and domain awareness, 21
61105893 including professionalization and training for the 22
61115894 navy and coast guard, and for programs and activi-23
61125895 ties under the heading ‘‘International Military Edu-24
61135896 cation and Training’’. 25
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61175899 LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN 1
61185900 S
61195901 EC. 7045. (a) ASSISTANCE FOR LATINAMERICA 2
61205902 AND THECARIBBEAN.— 3
61215903 (1) A
61225904 SSISTANCE.—Funds appropriated by this 4
61235905 Act under titles III and IV and made available for 5
61245906 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean shall 6
61255907 be prioritized for countries and programs that are— 7
61265908 (A) countering fentanyl and other nar-8
61275909 cotics trafficking; 9
61285910 (B) respecting norms of democracy, con-10
61295911 stitutional order, and human rights; 11
61305912 (C) cooperating in the countering of re-12
61315913 gional and global authoritarian threats; and 13
61325914 (D) demonstrating commitment and 14
61335915 progress in offsetting large-scale migration and 15
61345916 human trafficking from or through the Western 16
61355917 Hemisphere. 17
61365918 (2) S
61375919 TRATEGIC PRIORITIES.—Not later than 30 18
61385920 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the 19
61395921 Secretary of State shall consult with the appropriate 20
61405922 congressional committees on a hemispheric plan to 21
61415923 further the strategic priorities contained in para-22
61425924 graph (1): Provided, That such plan shall include 23
61435925 baseline definitions for the requirements in subpara-24
61445926 graphs (A), (B), (C), and (D). 25
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61485929 (b) CENTRALAMERICA.— 1
61495930 (1) A
61505931 SSISTANCE.—Funds appropriated under titles 2
61515932 III and IV of this Act shall be made available for assist-3
61525933 ance for countries in Central America, including Panama 4
61535934 and Costa Rica, and shall be allocated to address the 5
61545935 unique circumstances of each country in support of United 6
61555936 States security interests in the region. 7
61565937 (2) L
61575938 IMITATION ONASSISTANCE TOCERTAINCEN-8
61585939 TRALGOVERNMENTS.— 9
61595940 (A) Of the funds made available pursuant to 10
61605941 paragraph (1), 50 percent of such funds that are 11
61615942 made available for assistance for each of the central 12
61625943 governments of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Hon-13
61635944 duras, may only be obligated after the Secretary of 14
61645945 State certifies and reports to the Committees on Ap-15
61655946 propriations that such government is— 16
61665947 (i) cooperating with the United States to 17
61675948 counter drug trafficking, human trafficking and 18
61685949 smuggling, and other illicit transnational crime; 19
61695950 (ii) cooperating with the United States and 20
61705951 other governments in the region to facilitate the 21
61715952 return, repatriation, and reintegration of mi-22
61725953 grants arriving at the southwest border of the 23
61735954 United States who do not qualify for asylum, 24
61745955 consistent with international law; 25
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61785958 (iii) taking demonstrable actions to secure 1
61795959 national borders and stem mass migration to-2
61805960 wards Mexico and the United States, including 3
61815961 positive governance related to combating crime 4
61825962 and violence, building economic opportunity, im-5
61835963 proving services, and protecting human rights; 6
61845964 (iv) improving strategies to combat money 7
61855965 laundering and other global financial crimes, 8
61865966 and counter corruption, including investigating 9
61875967 and prosecuting government officials, military 10
61885968 personnel, and police officers credibly alleged to 11
61895969 be corrupt; 12
61905970 (v) improving rule of law and taking posi-13
61915971 tive steps to counter impunity; and 14
61925972 (vi) improving the conditions for businesses 15
61935973 to operate and invest, including investment- 16
61945974 friendly tax reform, transparent and expeditious 17
61955975 dispute resolution, and legal frameworks pro-18
61965976 tecting private property rights. 19
61975977 (B) E
61985978 XCEPTIONS.—The limitation of subpara-20
61995979 graph (A) shall not apply to funds appropriated by 21
62005980 this Act that are made available for— 22
62015981 (i) judicial entities to combat corruption 23
62025982 and impunity; 24
62035983 (ii) investigation of human rights abuses; 25
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62075986 (iii) support for women’s economic em-1
62085987 powerment; 2
62095988 (iv) prevention of violence against women 3
62105989 and girls; 4
62115990 (v) security assistance to combat 5
62125991 transnational crime, including narcotics traf-6
62135992 ficking; 7
62145993 (vi) security assistance to protect national 8
62155994 borders; and 9
62165995 (vii) security assistance associated with mi-10
62175996 gration protection. 11
62185997 (c) C
62195998 OLOMBIA.— 12
62205999 (1) L
62216000 IMITATION.—None of the funds appropriated by 13
62226001 this Act and prior Acts making appropriations for the De-14
62236002 partment of State, foreign operations, and related pro-15
62246003 grams that are made available for assistance for Colombia 16
62256004 may be made available for— 17
62266005 (A) reparation payments or cash subsidies out-18
62276006 lined in the 2016 Peace Accords; and 19
62286007 (B) alternative development assistance on prop-20
62296008 erties where substances deemed illegal under the 21
62306009 Controlled Substance Act of 1970 are grown, pro-22
62316010 duced, imported, or distributed. 23
62326011 (2) O
62336012 VERSIGHT.—Of the funds appropriated by this 24
62346013 Act and prior Acts making appropriations for the Depart-25
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62386016 ment of State, foreign operations, and related programs 1
62396017 under the heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, up to 2
62406018 $1,000,000 may be used by the Inspector General of the 3
62416019 United States Agency for International Development for 4
62426020 audits and other activities related to compliance with the 5
62436021 limitations in paragraph (1): Provided, That such funds 6
62446022 are in addition to funds otherwise available for such pur-7
62456023 poses. 8
62466024 (3) A
62476025 UTHORITY.—Aircraft supported by funds made 9
62486026 available by this Act and prior Acts making appropriations 10
62496027 for the Department of State, foreign operations, and re-11
62506028 lated programs and made available for assistance for Co-12
62516029 lombia may be used to transport personnel and supplies 13
62526030 involved in drug eradication and interdiction, including se-14
62536031 curity for such activities. 15
62546032 (d) C
62556033 UBA.— 16
62566034 (1) D
62576035 EMOCRACYPROGRAMS.—Of the funds appro-17
62586036 priated by this Act under the heading ‘‘Economic Support 18
62596037 Fund’’, not less than $30,000,000 shall be made available 19
62606038 to promote democracy and strengthen civil society in 20
62616039 Cuba, including to support political prisoners, and shall 21
62626040 be administered by the United States Agency for Inter-22
62636041 national Development, the National Endowment for De-23
62646042 mocracy, and the Bureau for Democracy Human Rights 24
62656043 and Labor, Department of State: Provided, That no funds 25
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62696046 shall be obligated for business promotion, economic re-1
62706047 form, entrepreneurship, or any other assistance that is not 2
62716048 democracy building as expressly authorized in the Cuban 3
62726049 Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 4
62736050 1996 and the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992. 5
62746051 (2) O
62756052 FFICE OFCUBABROADCASTING.—Not less 6
62766053 than 50 percent of broadcast production of the Office of 7
62776054 Cuba Broadcasting shall be allocated for medium- and 8
62786055 short-wave broadcasting. 9
62796056 (e) C
62806057 UBANDOCTORS.— 10
62816058 (1) R
62826059 EPORT.—Not later than 90 days after the date 11
62836060 of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall sub-12
62846061 mit a report to the appropriate congressional committees 13
62856062 listing the countries and international organizations for 14
62866063 which the Secretary has credible information are directly 15
62876064 paying the Government of Cuba for coerced and trafficked 16
62886065 labor of Cuban medical professionals: Provided, That such 17
62896066 report shall be submitted in unclassified form but may in-18
62906067 clude a classified annex. 19
62916068 (2) L
62926069 IMITATION.—None of the funds appropriated by 20
62936070 this Act under title III may be made available for assist-21
62946071 ance for the central government of a country or inter-22
62956072 national organization that is listed in the report required 23
62966073 by paragraph (1). 24
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63006076 (3) RESUMPTION OF ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary 1
63016077 may resume assistance to the government of a country or 2
63026078 international organization listed in the report required by 3
63036079 paragraph (1) if the Secretary determines and reports to 4
63046080 the appropriate congressional committees that such gov-5
63056081 ernment or international organization no longer pays the 6
63066082 Government of Cuba for coerced and trafficked labor of 7
63076083 Cuban medical professionals. 8
63086084 (f) F
63096085 ACILITATINGIRRESPONSIBLEMIGRATION.— 9
63106086 (1) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 10
63116087 made available by this Act may be used to encourage, mo-11
63126088 bilize, publicize, or manage mass-migration caravans to-12
63136089 wards the United States southwest border: Provided, That 13
63146090 not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of 14
63156091 this Act, the Secretary of State shall report to the appro-15
63166092 priate congressional committees with analysis on the orga-16
63176093 nization and funding of mass-migration caravans in the 17
63186094 Western Hemisphere. 18
63196095 (2) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 19
63206096 made available by this Act may be made available to des-20
63216097 ignate foreign nationals residing in Mexico and awaiting 21
63226098 entry into the United States on the Mexico side of the 22
63236099 United States border as of May 19, 2023 for Priority 2 23
63246100 processing under the refugee resettlement priority system 24
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63286103 unless such Priority 2 designation is expressly authorized 1
63296104 by a subsequent Act of Congress. 2
63306105 (g) H
63316106 AITI.— 3
63326107 (1) A
63336108 SSISTANCE.—Funds appropriated by this 4
63346109 Act under titles III and IV shall be made available 5
63356110 for assistance for Haiti to support the basic needs 6
63366111 of the Haitian people. 7
63376112 (2) C
63386113 ERTIFICATION.—Funds appropriated by 8
63396114 this Act that are made available for assistance for 9
63406115 Haiti may only be made available for the central 10
63416116 Government of Haiti if the Secretary of State cer-11
63426117 tifies and reports to the appropriate congressional 12
63436118 committees by January 1, 2025 that credible elec-13
63446119 tions have been held in Haiti and it is in the na-14
63456120 tional interest of the United States to provide such 15
63466121 assistance. 16
63476122 (3) E
63486123 XCEPTIONS.—Notwithstanding paragraph 17
63496124 (1), funds may be made available to support— 18
63506125 (A) free and fair elections; 19
63516126 (B) anti-gang police and administration of 20
63526127 justice programs, including to reduce pre-trial 21
63536128 detention and eliminate inhumane prison condi-22
63546129 tions; 23
63556130 (C) public health, food security, subsist-24
63566131 ence farmers, water and sanitation, education, 25
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63606134 and other programs to meet basic human needs; 1
63616135 and 2
63626136 (D) disaster relief and recovery. 3
63636137 (4) C
63646138 ONSULTATION.—Funds appropriated by 4
63656139 this Act and prior Acts making appropriations for 5
63666140 the Department of State, foreign operations, and re-6
63676141 lated programs that are made available for assist-7
63686142 ance for Haiti shall be subject to prior consultation 8
63696143 with the Committees on Appropriations: Provided, 9
63706144 That the requirement of this paragraph shall also 10
63716145 apply to any funds from such Acts that are made 11
63726146 available for support for an international security 12
63736147 force in Haiti. 13
63746148 (5) H
63756149 AITIAN COAST GUARD.—The Government 14
63766150 of Haiti shall be eligible to purchase defense articles 15
63776151 and services under the Arms Export Control Act (22 16
63786152 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.) for the Coast Guard. 17
63796153 (h) M
63806154 EXICO.— 18
63816155 (1) Of the funds appropriated under title IV in 19
63826156 this Act that are made available for assistance for 20
63836157 Mexico, 15 percent shall be withheld from obligation 21
63846158 until the Secretary of State certifies and reports to 22
63856159 the appropriate congressional committees that the 23
63866160 Government of Mexico has taken steps to— 24
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63906163 (A) reduce the amount of fentanyl arriving 1
63916164 at the United States-Mexico border; and 2
63926165 (B) dismantle and hold accountable 3
63936166 transnational criminal organizations. 4
63946167 (2) Prior to the initial obligation of funds made 5
63956168 available for assistance for Mexico under the heading 6
63966169 ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, but not later than 30 7
63976170 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the 8
63986171 Secretary shall report to the appropriate congres-9
63996172 sional committees on how such funds are strategi-10
64006173 cally aligned to address the proliferation of fentanyl 11
64016174 and other opioids from Mexico to the United States. 12
64026175 (i) N
64036176 ICARAGUA.—Funds appropriated by this Act 13
64046177 that are made available for assistance for Nicaragua shall 14
64056178 only be made available for democracy promotion, including 15
64066179 to support religious freedom. 16
64076180 (j) O
64086181 RGANIZATION OFAMERICANSTATES.—The Sec-17
64096182 retary of State shall reduce funds appropriated by this Act 18
64106183 under the headings ‘‘Development Assistance’’ and ‘‘Eco-19
64116184 nomic Support Fund’’ that are made available for assist-20
64126185 ance for Member States of the Organization of American 21
64136186 States (OAS) by an amount equal to the amount of ar-22
64146187 rears in excess of 100 percent of 2023 assessed quotas, 23
64156188 as of the date of enactment of this Act, and re-apply such 24
64166189 amount to the Coordinating Office of the OAS General 25
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64206192 Secretariat: Provided, That the Secretary of State may 1
64216193 waive the requirement of this subsection for a Member 2
64226194 State if the Secretary determines and reports to the Com-3
64236195 mittees on Appropriations that it is important to the na-4
64246196 tional security interest of the United States. 5
64256197 (k) T
64266198 HECARIBBEAN.—Of the funds appropriated by 6
64276199 this Act under titles III and IV, not less than $97,500,000 7
64286200 shall be made available for the Caribbean Basin Security 8
64296201 Initiative: Provided, That funds made available above the 9
64306202 fiscal year 2023 level shall be prioritized for countries 10
64316203 within the transit zones of illicit drug shipments toward 11
64326204 the United States, that have increased interdiction of illicit 12
64336205 drugs, and are most directly impacted by the crisis in 13
64346206 Haiti. 14
64356207 (l) V
64366208 ENEZUELA.— 15
64376209 (1) A
64386210 SSISTANCE.— 16
64396211 (A) Of the funds appropriated by this Act 17
64406212 under the heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, 18
64416213 $50,000,000 shall be made available for democ-19
64426214 racy programs for Venezuela. 20
64436215 (B) Of the funds made available pursuant 21
64446216 to subparagraph (A) that are allocated for elec-22
64456217 toral-related activities, 50 percent may only be 23
64466218 obligated after the Secretary of State certifies 24
64476219 and reports to the appropriate congressional 25
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64516222 committees that elections related to such activi-1
64526223 ties— 2
64536224 (i) allow for the diaspora from Ven-3
64546225 ezuela to participate; and 4
64556226 (ii) are open for credible, unaccom-5
64566227 panied international observation. 6
64576228 (C) Funds shall be made available for as-7
64586229 sistance for communities in countries sup-8
64596230 porting or otherwise impacted by migrants from 9
64606231 Venezuela: Provided, That such amounts are in 10
64616232 addition to funds otherwise made available for 11
64626233 assistance for such countries and are subject to 12
64636234 the regular notification procedures of the Com-13
64646235 mittees on Appropriations. 14
64656236 (2) L
64666237 IMITATIONS.—None of the funds appro-15
64676238 priated by this Act may be used to negotiate the lift-16
64686239 ing of sanctions on the purchase or trade of gold ex-17
64696240 tracted from Venezuela until the Secretary of State 18
64706241 submits a report to the appropriate congressional 19
64716242 committees on human rights abuses, crimes against 20
64726243 humanity involving Indigenous peoples, environ-21
64736244 mental harm, and patrimonial theft associated with 22
64746245 state-sponsored and illegal gold extraction from Ven-23
64756246 ezuela’s Orinoco Mining Arc and in national parks 24
64766247 and reserves in Venezuela, including the Canaima 25
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64806250 National Park, and following consultation with such 1
64816251 committees. 2
64826252 (m) W
64836253 ITHHOLDING.—Of the funds appropriated by 3
64846254 this Act under the heading ‘‘Diplomatic Programs’’ and 4
64856255 made available for the Office of the Secretary, 15 percent 5
64866256 shall be withheld from obligation until the Secretary of 6
64876257 State reports to the appropriate congressional committees 7
64886258 that negotiations have begun with each of the governments 8
64896259 listed in section 302 of H.R. 2, as passed by the House 9
64906260 of Representatives on May 5, 2023, to carry out the direc-10
64916261 tives of such section: Provided, That such report shall de-11
64926262 tail the status of such negotiations with each government. 12
64936263 EUROPE AND EURASIA 13
64946264 S
64956265 EC. 7046. (a) GEORGIA.—Funds appropriated by 14
64966266 this Act under titles III and IV may be made available 15
64976267 for assistance for Georgia. 16
64986268 (b) U
64996269 KRAINE.— 17
65006270 (1) S
65016271 TRATEGY REQUIREMENT .—Not later than 18
65026272 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the 19
65036273 President shall submit to the Speaker of the House 20
65046274 of Representatives, the President Pro Tempore of 21
65056275 the Senate, and the appropriate congressional com-22
65066276 mittees a strategy to prioritize United States na-23
65076277 tional security interests and respond to Russian ag-24
65086278 gression in Ukraine and its impact on the region, 25
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65126281 which shall include an explanation of how United 1
65136282 States assistance for Ukraine and affected countries 2
65146283 in the region advances the objectives of such strat-3
65156284 egy: Provided, That such strategy shall include clear 4
65166285 goals, benchmarks, timelines, and strategic objec-5
65176286 tives with respect to funds appropriated by this Act 6
65186287 and prior Acts making appropriations for the De-7
65196288 partment of State, foreign operations, and related 8
65206289 programs that are made available for assistance for 9
65216290 Ukraine: Provided further, That such strategy shall 10
65226291 also include details on the staffing requirements nec-11
65236292 essary to carry out such strategy. 12
65246293 (2) P
65256294 URPOSE.— 13
65266295 (A) Funds appropriated under titles I and 14
65276296 II of this Act shall be made available to support 15
65286297 additional staff in Ukraine and neighboring 16
65296298 countries to conduct monitoring and oversight 17
65306299 of funds and ensure the safety and security of 18
65316300 United States personnel. 19
65326301 (B) Funds appropriated under titles III 20
65336302 through VI of this Act and made available for 21
65346303 assistance for Ukraine shall only be made avail-22
65356304 able to support the ability of the Government of 23
65366305 Ukraine to— 24
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65406308 (i) defend their sovereignty and with-1
65416309 stand the impacts of Russia’s invasion; 2
65426310 (ii) combat corruption; and 3
65436311 (iii) promote transparency and democ-4
65446312 racy. 5
65456313 (3) I
65466314 N-PERSON MONITORING .—Funds appro-6
65476315 priated by this Act under the headings ‘‘Economic 7
65486316 Support Fund’’, ‘‘Assistance for Europe, Eurasia 8
65496317 and Central Asia’’, ‘‘International Narcotics Control 9
65506318 and Law Enforcement’’, and ‘‘Nonproliferation, 10
65516319 Anti-Terrorism, Demining and Related Programs’’, 11
65526320 and made available for project-based assistance for 12
65536321 Ukraine may not be obligated for any project or ac-13
65546322 tivity that is— 14
65556323 (A) not regularly accessible for the purpose 15
65566324 of conducting effective oversight in accordance 16
65576325 with applicable federal statutes and regulations; 17
65586326 and 18
65596327 (B) conducted in areas where project and 19
65606328 resource disbursement monitoring cannot be 20
65616329 performed by United States personnel or by 21
65626330 vetted third party monitors unless the Secretary 22
65636331 of State, in consultation with the Administrator 23
65646332 of the United States Agency for International 24
65656333 Development, certifies and reports to the appro-25
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65696336 priate congressional committees that to do so is 1
65706337 in the national security interest of the United 2
65716338 States: Provided, That such report shall include 3
65726339 a detailed justification for waiving such limita-4
65736340 tions. 5
65746341 (4) C
65756342 OST MATCHING.— 6
65766343 (A) At any time during fiscal years 2024 7
65776344 and 2025, no United States contribution from 8
65786345 funds appropriated under title III of this Act to 9
65796346 the Government of Ukraine may cause the total 10
65806347 amount of United States Government contribu-11
65816348 tions from funds appropriated under title III of 12
65826349 this Act to the Government of Ukraine to ex-13
65836350 ceed 50 percent of the total amount of non-de-14
65846351 fense funds contributed to the Government of 15
65856352 Ukraine from all sources. 16
65866353 (B) The President may waive the limita-17
65876354 tion of subparagraph (A) if the President deter-18
65886355 mines that the limitation included therein 19
65896356 threatens the national security interest of the 20
65906357 United States. 21
65916358 (C) The President shall notify the appro-22
65926359 priate congressional committees not less than 5 23
65936360 days before making the determination in sub-24
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65976363 paragraph (B) and shall include in the notifica-1
65986364 tion— 2
65996365 (i) a detailed justification as to why 3
66006366 the limitation of subparagraph (A) threat-4
66016367 ens the national security interest of the 5
66026368 United States; and 6
66036369 (ii) an explanation as to why other do-7
66046370 nors to the Government of Ukraine are un-8
66056371 able to match United States assistance. 9
66066372 (D) If the President makes the determina-10
66076373 tion described in subparagraph (B), the Sec-11
66086374 retary of State shall submit a report to Speaker 12
66096375 of the House of Representatives, the President 13
66106376 Pro Tempore of the Senate, and the appro-14
66116377 priate congressional committees every 120 days 15
66126378 for the duration of such determination detailing 16
66136379 steps taken to increase other donor contribu-17
66146380 tions and an update to the justification required 18
66156381 by subparagraph (C). 19
66166382 (5) C
66176383 ERTIFICATION.—Not later than 15 days 20
66186384 prior to the initial obligation of funds made available 21
66196385 for assistance for Ukraine under the headings ‘‘Eco-22
66206386 nomic Support Fund’’, ‘‘Assistance for Europe, Eur-23
66216387 asia and Central Asia’’, ‘‘International Narcotics 24
66226388 Control and Law Enforcement’’, ‘‘Nonproliferation, 25
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66266391 Anti-Terrorism, Demining and Related Programs’’, 1
66276392 and ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’, the 2
66286393 Secretary of State, following consultation with the 3
66296394 USAID Administrator, shall certify and report to 4
66306395 the appropriate congressional committees that mech-5
66316396 anisms for monitoring and oversight of funds are in 6
66326397 place and functioning across all programs and activi-7
66336398 ties to ensure accountability of such funds to prevent 8
66346399 waste, fraud, abuse, diversion, and corruption, in-9
66356400 cluding such mechanisms as— 10
66366401 (A) use of third-party monitors; 11
66376402 (B) enhanced end-use monitoring; 12
66386403 (C) external and independent audits and 13
66396404 evaluations; 14
66406405 (D) randomized spot checks; and 15
66416406 (E) regular reporting on outcomes 16
66426407 achieved and progress made toward stated pro-17
66436408 gram objectives. 18
66446409 (6) C
66456410 ONTINUATION.—The requirements of sec-19
66466411 tion 1705 of the Additional Ukraine Supplemental 20
66476412 Appropriations Act, 2023 (division M of Public Law 21
66486413 117–328) shall apply to funds appropriated by this 22
66496414 Act under title III that are made available for assist-23
66506415 ance for Ukraine for such purposes. 24
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66546418 (7) NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENT .—Notifica-1
66556419 tions submitted pursuant to the requirement of sec-2
66566420 tion 7015(f) of this Act with respect to assistance 3
66576421 for Ukraine shall include for each program notified, 4
66586422 as applicable— 5
66596423 (A) the total amount made available for 6
66606424 such program by account and fiscal year; 7
66616425 (B) any amount that remains unobligated 8
66626426 for such program; 9
66636427 (C) any amount that is obligated but unex-10
66646428 pended for such program; and 11
66656429 (D) any amount committed but not yet no-12
66666430 tified for such program. 13
66676431 (8) O
66686432 BLIGATION REPORT.—Not later than 60 14
66696433 days after the date of enactment of this Act and 15
66706434 every 90 days thereafter until all such funds have 16
66716435 been expended, the Secretary of State and the 17
66726436 USAID Administrator shall provide a comprehensive 18
66736437 report to the appropriate congressional committees 19
66746438 on assistance for Ukraine since February 24, 2022 20
66756439 that includes total amounts— 21
66766440 (A) made available by account and fiscal 22
66776441 year; 23
66786442 (B) that remain unobligated; 24
66796443 (C) that is obligated but unexpended; and 25
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66836446 (D) that is committed but not yet notified. 1
66846447 (9) O
66856448 VERSIGHT REPORTS.—Not later than 90 2
66866449 days after the date of enactment of this Act and 3
66876450 every 90 days thereafter until all such funds have 4
66886451 been expended, the Secretary of State, in coordina-5
66896452 tion with the USAID Administrator, shall report to 6
66906453 the appropriate congressional committees on the use 7
66916454 and planned uses of funds provided for Ukraine, in-8
66926455 cluding categories and amounts, the intended results 9
66936456 and the results achieved, a summary of other donor 10
66946457 contributions, and a description of the efforts under-11
66956458 taken by the Secretary and Administrator to in-12
66966459 crease other donor contributions: Provided, That 13
66976460 such reports shall also include the metrics estab-14
66986461 lished to measure such results and determine effec-15
66996462 tiveness of funds provided and a detailed description 16
67006463 of coordination and information sharing with the Of-17
67016464 fices of the Inspectors General, including a full ac-18
67026465 counting of any reported allegations of waste, fraud, 19
67036466 abuse, and corruption, steps taken to verify such al-20
67046467 legations, and steps taken to address all verified alle-21
67056468 gations. 22
67066469 (10) P
67076470 UBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The requirements 23
67086471 of paragraphs (1), (8), and (9) shall be publicly 24
67096472 posted on the Department of State and the USAID 25
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67136475 website not later than 5 days after submission: Pro-1
67146476 vided, That the reports shall be easily accessible and 2
67156477 centrally located on such websites. 3
67166478 (c) T
67176479 ERRITORIALINTEGRITY.—None of the funds ap-4
67186480 propriated by this Act may be made available for assist-5
67196481 ance for a government of an Independent State of the 6
67206482 former Soviet Union if such government directs any action 7
67216483 in violation of the territorial integrity or national sov-8
67226484 ereignty of any other Independent State of the former So-9
67236485 viet Union, such as those violations included in the Hel-10
67246486 sinki Final Act: Provided, That except as otherwise pro-11
67256487 vided in section 7047(a) of this Act, funds may be made 12
67266488 available without regard to the restriction in this sub-13
67276489 section if the President determines that to do so is in the 14
67286490 national security interest of the United States: Provided 15
67296491 further, That prior to executing the authority contained 16
67306492 in the previous proviso, the Secretary of State shall con-17
67316493 sult with the Committees on Appropriations on how such 18
67326494 assistance supports the national security interest of the 19
67336495 United States. 20
67346496 (d) S
67356497 ECTION907 OF THEFREEDOM S UPPORT 21
67366498 A
67376499 CT.—Section 907 of the FREEDOM Support Act (22 22
67386500 U.S.C. 5812 note) shall not apply to— 23
67396501 (1) activities to support democracy or assist-24
67406502 ance under title V of the FREEDOM Support Act 25
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67446505 (22 U.S.C. 5851 et seq.) and section 1424 of the 1
67456506 Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction Act 2
67466507 of 1996 (50 U.S.C. 2333) or non-proliferation as-3
67476508 sistance; 4
67486509 (2) any assistance provided by the Trade and 5
67496510 Development Agency under section 661 of the For-6
67506511 eign Assistance Act of 1961; 7
67516512 (3) any activity carried out by a member of the 8
67526513 United States and Foreign Commercial Service while 9
67536514 acting within his or her official capacity; 10
67546515 (4) any insurance, reinsurance, guarantee, or 11
67556516 other assistance provided by the United States 12
67566517 International Development Finance Corporation as 13
67576518 authorized by the BUILD Act of 2018 (division F 14
67586519 of Public Law 115–254); 15
67596520 (5) any financing provided under the Export- 16
67606521 Import Bank Act of 1945 (Public Law 79–173); or 17
67616522 (6) humanitarian assistance. 18
67626523 (e) T
67636524 URKEY.—None of the funds made available by 19
67646525 this Act may be used to facilitate or support the sale of 20
67656526 defense articles or defense services to the Turkish Presi-21
67666527 dential Protection Directorate (TPPD) under chapter 2 22
67676528 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2761 et seq.) 23
67686529 unless the Secretary of State determines and reports to 24
67696530 the appropriate congressional committees that members of 25
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67736533 the TPPD who are named in the July 17, 2017, indict-1
67746534 ment by the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 2
67756535 and against whom there are pending charges, have re-3
67766536 turned to the United States to stand trial in connection 4
67776537 with the offenses contained in such indictment or have 5
67786538 otherwise been brought to justice: Provided, That the limi-6
67796539 tation in this paragraph shall not apply to the use of funds 7
67806540 made available by this Act for the security of borders, for 8
67816541 North Atlantic Treaty Organization or coalition oper-9
67826542 ations, or to enhance the protection of United States offi-10
67836543 cials and facilities in Turkey. 11
67846544 COUNTERING RUSSIAN INFLUENCE AND AGGRESSION 12
67856545 S
67866546 EC. 7047. (a) PROHIBITION.—None of the funds ap-13
67876547 propriated by this Act may be made available for assist-14
67886548 ance for the central Government of the Russian Federa-15
67896549 tion. 16
67906550 (b) A
67916551 NNEXATION OFTERRITORY.— 17
67926552 (1) P
67936553 ROHIBITION.—None of the funds appro-18
67946554 priated by this Act may be made available for assist-19
67956555 ance for the central government of a country that 20
67966556 the Secretary of State determines and reports to the 21
67976557 Committees on Appropriations has taken affirmative 22
67986558 steps intended to support or be supportive of the 23
67996559 Russian Federation annexation of Crimea or other 24
68006560 territory in Ukraine: Provided, That except as other-25
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68046563 wise provided in subsection (a), the Secretary may 1
68056564 waive the restriction on assistance required by this 2
68066565 paragraph if the Secretary determines and reports to 3
68076566 such Committees that to do so is in the national in-4
68086567 terest of the United States, and includes a justifica-5
68096568 tion for such interest. 6
68106569 (2) L
68116570 IMITATION.—None of the funds appro-7
68126571 priated by this Act may be made available for— 8
68136572 (A) the implementation of any action or 9
68146573 policy that recognizes the sovereignty of the 10
68156574 Russian Federation over Crimea or other terri-11
68166575 tory in Ukraine; 12
68176576 (B) the facilitation, financing, or guarantee 13
68186577 of United States Government investments in 14
68196578 Crimea or other territory in Ukraine under the 15
68206579 control of the Russian Federation or Russian- 16
68216580 backed forces, if such activity includes the par-17
68226581 ticipation of Russian Government officials, or 18
68236582 other Russian owned or controlled financial en-19
68246583 tities; or 20
68256584 (C) assistance for Crimea or other terri-21
68266585 tory in Ukraine under the control of the Rus-22
68276586 sian Federation or Russian-backed forces, if 23
68286587 such assistance includes the participation of 24
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68326590 Russian Government officials, or other Russian 1
68336591 owned or controlled financial entities. 2
68346592 (3) I
68356593 NTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITU -3
68366594 TIONS.—The Secretary of the Treasury shall in-4
68376595 struct the United States executive director of each 5
68386596 international financial institution to use the voice 6
68396597 and vote of the United States to oppose any assist-7
68406598 ance by such institution (including any loan, credit, 8
68416599 grant, or guarantee) for any program that violates 9
68426600 the sovereignty or territorial integrity of Ukraine. 10
68436601 (4) D
68446602 URATION.—The requirements and limita-11
68456603 tions of this subsection shall cease to be in effect if 12
68466604 the Secretary of State determines and reports to the 13
68476605 appropriate congressional committees that the Gov-14
68486606 ernment of Ukraine has reestablished sovereignty 15
68496607 over Crimea and other territory in Ukraine under 16
68506608 the control of the Russian Federation or Russian- 17
68516609 backed forces. 18
68526610 (c) O
68536611 CCUPATION OF THEGEORGIANTERRITORIES OF 19
68546612 A
68556613 BKHAZIA ANDTSKHINVALIREGION/SOUTHOSSETIA.— 20
68566614 (1) P
68576615 ROHIBITION.—None of the funds appro-21
68586616 priated by this Act may be made available for assist-22
68596617 ance for the central government of a country that 23
68606618 the Secretary of State determines and reports to the 24
68616619 Committees on Appropriations has recognized the 25
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68656622 independence of, or has established diplomatic rela-1
68666623 tions with, the Russian Federation occupied Geor-2
68676624 gian territories of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali Region/ 3
68686625 South Ossetia: Provided, That the Secretary shall 4
68696626 publish on the Department of State website a list of 5
68706627 any such central governments in a timely manner: 6
68716628 Provided further, That the Secretary may waive the 7
68726629 restriction on assistance required by this paragraph 8
68736630 if the Secretary determines and reports to the Com-9
68746631 mittees on Appropriations that to do so is in the na-10
68756632 tional interest of the United States, and includes a 11
68766633 justification for such interest. 12
68776634 (2) L
68786635 IMITATION.—None of the funds appro-13
68796636 priated by this Act may be made available to sup-14
68806637 port the Russian Federation occupation of the Geor-15
68816638 gian territories of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali Region/ 16
68826639 South Ossetia. 17
68836640 (3) I
68846641 NTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITU -18
68856642 TIONS.—The Secretary of the Treasury shall in-19
68866643 struct the United States executive director of each 20
68876644 international financial institution to use the voice 21
68886645 and vote of the United States to oppose any assist-22
68896646 ance by such institution (including any loan, credit, 23
68906647 grant, or guarantee) for any program that violates 24
68916648 the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia. 25
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68956651 (d) COUNTERINGRUSSIANINFLUENCEFUND.—Of 1
68966652 the funds appropriated by this Act under the headings 2
68976653 ‘‘Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia’’, 3
68986654 ‘‘International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement’’, 4
68996655 ‘‘International Military Education and Training’’, and 5
69006656 ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’, not less than 6
69016657 $300,000,000 shall be made available to carry out the pur-7
69026658 poses of the Countering Russian Influence Fund, as au-8
69036659 thorized by section 254 of the Countering Russian Influ-9
69046660 ence in Europe and Eurasia Act of 2017 (Public Law 10
69056661 115–44; 22 U.S.C. 9543) and notwithstanding the country 11
69066662 limitation in subsection (b) of such section, and programs 12
69076663 to enhance the capacity of law enforcement and security 13
69086664 forces in countries in Europe, Eurasia, and Central Asia 14
69096665 and strengthen security cooperation between such coun-15
69106666 tries and the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty 16
69116667 Organization, as appropriate: Provided, That funds made 17
69126668 available pursuant to this paragraph under the heading 18
69136669 ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’ may remain avail-19
69146670 able until September 30, 2025. 20
69156671 (e) F
69166672 UNDINGLIMITATION.—None of the funds made 21
69176673 available by this Act may be used to remove prohibitions 22
69186674 related to transactions involving the Central Bank of the 23
69196675 Russian Federation, the National Wealth Fund of the 24
69206676 Russian Federation, or the Ministry of Finance of the 25
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69246679 Russian Federation unless the Secretary of State certifies 1
69256680 and reports to the appropriate congressional committees 2
69266681 that the Government of Ukraine has entered into an 3
69276682 agreement with the Government of the Russian Federa-4
69286683 tion resolving compensation to Ukraine by the Russian 5
69296684 Federation for damages resulting from the invasion of 6
69306685 Ukraine by the Russian Federation. 7
69316686 UNITED NATIONS 8
69326687 S
69336688 EC. 7048. (a) TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNT-9
69346689 ABILITY.—Of the funds appropriated by this Act that are 10
69356690 available for contributions to the United Nations (includ-11
69366691 ing the Department of Peacekeeping Operations), inter-12
69376692 national organizations, or any United Nations agency, 15 13
69386693 percent may not be obligated for such organization, de-14
69396694 partment, or agency until the Secretary of State deter-15
69406695 mines and reports to the appropriate congressional com-16
69416696 mittees that the organization, department, or agency is— 17
69426697 (1) posting on a publicly available website, con-18
69436698 sistent with privacy regulations and due process, 19
69446699 regular financial and programmatic audits of such 20
69456700 organization, department, or agency, and providing 21
69466701 the United States Government with necessary access 22
69476702 to such financial and performance audits; 23
69486703 (2) effectively implementing and enforcing poli-24
69496704 cies and procedures which meet or exceed best prac-25
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69536707 tices in the United States for the protection of whis-1
69546708 tleblowers from retaliation, including— 2
69556709 (A) protection against retaliation for inter-3
69566710 nal and lawful public disclosures; 4
69576711 (B) legal burdens of proof; 5
69586712 (C) statutes of limitation for reporting re-6
69596713 taliation; 7
69606714 (D) access to binding independent adju-8
69616715 dicative bodies, including shared cost and selec-9
69626716 tion of external arbitration; and 10
69636717 (E) results that eliminate the effects of 11
69646718 proven retaliation, including provision for the 12
69656719 restoration of prior employment; and 13
69666720 (3) effectively implementing and enforcing poli-14
69676721 cies and procedures on the appropriate use of travel 15
69686722 funds, including restrictions on first-class and busi-16
69696723 ness-class travel. 17
69706724 (b) R
69716725 ESTRICTIONS ON UNITEDNATIONSDELEGA-18
69726726 TIONS ANDORGANIZATIONS.— 19
69736727 (1) R
69746728 ESTRICTIONS ON UNITED STATES DELEGA -20
69756729 TIONS.—None of the funds made available by this 21
69766730 Act may be used to pay expenses for any United 22
69776731 States delegation to any specialized agency, body, or 23
69786732 commission of the United Nations if such agency, 24
69796733 body, or commission is chaired or presided over by 25
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69836736 a country, the government of which the Secretary of 1
69846737 State has determined, for purposes of section 2
69856738 1754(c) of the Export Reform Control Act of 2018 3
69866739 (50 U.S.C. 4813(c)), supports international ter-4
69876740 rorism. 5
69886741 (2) R
69896742 ESTRICTIONS ON CONTRIBUTIONS .—None 6
69906743 of the funds made available by this Act may be used 7
69916744 by the Secretary of State as a contribution to any 8
69926745 organization, agency, commission, or program within 9
69936746 the United Nations system if such organization, 10
69946747 agency, commission, or program is chaired or pre-11
69956748 sided over by a country the government of which the 12
69966749 Secretary of State has determined, for purposes of 13
69976750 section 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 14
69986751 section 40 of the Arms Export Control Act, section 15
69996752 1754(c) of the Export Reform Control Act of 2018 16
70006753 (50 U.S.C. 4813(c)), or any other provision of law, 17
70016754 is a government that has repeatedly provided sup-18
70026755 port for acts of international terrorism. 19
70036756 (c) U
70046757 NITEDNATIONSHUMANRIGHTSCOUNCIL.— 20
70056758 (1) None of the funds appropriated by this Act 21
70066759 and prior Acts making appropriations for the De-22
70076760 partment of State, foreign operations, and related 23
70086761 programs may be made available in support of the 24
70096762 United Nations Human Rights Council unless the 25
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70136765 Secretary of State determines and reports to the ap-1
70146766 propriate congressional committees that participa-2
70156767 tion in the Council is important to the national secu-3
70166768 rity interest of the United States and that such 4
70176769 Council is taking significant steps to remove Israel 5
70186770 as a permanent agenda item and ensure integrity in 6
70196771 the election of members to such Council: Provided, 7
70206772 That such report shall include a description of the 8
70216773 national security interest served and provide a de-9
70226774 tailed reform agenda, including a timeline to remove 10
70236775 Israel as a permanent agenda item and ensure integ-11
70246776 rity in the election of members to such Council: Pro-12
70256777 vided further, That the Secretary of State shall with-13
70266778 hold, from funds appropriated by this Act and prior 14
70276779 Acts making appropriations for the Department of 15
70286780 State, foreign operations, and related programs 16
70296781 made available under the heading ‘‘Contributions to 17
70306782 International Organizations’’ in title I of such acts 18
70316783 for a contribution to the United Nations Regular 19
70326784 Budget, the United States proportionate share of 20
70336785 the total annual amount of the United Nations Reg-21
70346786 ular Budget funding for the United Nations Human 22
70356787 Rights Council until such determination and report 23
70366788 is made: Provided further, That if the Secretary is 24
70376789 unable to make such determination and report, such 25
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70416792 amounts may be reprogrammed for purposes other 1
70426793 than the United Nations Regular Budget, subject to 2
70436794 the regular notification procedures of the Commit-3
70446795 tees on Appropriations: Provided further, That the 4
70456796 Secretary shall report to the Committees on Appro-5
70466797 priations not later than September 30, 2024, on the 6
70476798 resolutions considered in the United Nations Human 7
70486799 Rights Council during the previous 12 months, and 8
70496800 on steps taken to remove Israel as a permanent 9
70506801 agenda item and to improve the quality of member-10
70516802 ship through competitive elections. 11
70526803 (2) None of the funds appropriated by this Act 12
70536804 or prior Acts making appropriations for the Depart-13
70546805 ment of State, foreign operations, and related pro-14
70556806 grams may be made available for the United Nations 15
70566807 International Commission of Inquiry on the Occu-16
70576808 pied Palestinian Territory, including East Jeru-17
70586809 salem, and Israel. 18
70596810 (d) U
70606811 NITEDNATIONSRELIEF ANDWORKSAGEN-19
70616812 CY.—Prior to each obligation of funds for the United Na-20
70626813 tions Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the Secretary 21
70636814 of State shall certify and report to the appropriate con-22
70646815 gressional committees, in writing, on whether UNRWA 23
70656816 is— 24
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70696819 (1) utilizing Operations Support Officers in the 1
70706820 West Bank, Gaza, and other fields of operation to 2
70716821 inspect UNRWA installations and reporting any in-3
70726822 appropriate use; 4
70736823 (2) acting promptly to address any staff or ben-5
70746824 eficiary violation of its own policies (including the 6
70756825 policies on neutrality and impartiality of employees) 7
70766826 and the legal requirements under section 301(c) of 8
70776827 the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961; 9
70786828 (3) implementing procedures to maintain the 10
70796829 neutrality of its facilities, including implementing a 11
70806830 no-weapons policy, and conducting regular inspec-12
70816831 tions of its installations, to ensure they are only 13
70826832 used for humanitarian or other appropriate pur-14
70836833 poses; 15
70846834 (4) taking necessary and appropriate measures 16
70856835 to ensure it is operating in compliance with the con-17
70866836 ditions of section 301(c) of the Foreign Assistance 18
70876837 Act of 1961 and continuing regular reporting to the 19
70886838 Department of State on actions it has taken to en-20
70896839 sure conformance with such conditions; 21
70906840 (5) not engaging in operations with financial in-22
70916841 stitutions or related entities in violation of relevant 23
70926842 United States law, and is taking steps to improve 24
70936843 the financial transparency of the organization; 25
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70976846 (6) in compliance with the United Nations 1
70986847 Board of Auditors’ biennial audit requirements and 2
70996848 is implementing in a timely fashion the Board’s rec-3
71006849 ommendations; and 4
71016850 (7) establishing or updating, and implementing 5
71026851 procedures to— 6
71036852 (A) prevent the use of UNRWA resources 7
71046853 for disseminating anti-American, anti-Israel, or 8
71056854 anti-Semitic rhetoric; or incitement of violence; 9
71066855 and 10
71076856 (B) ensure the content of all educational 11
71086857 materials currently taught in UNRWA-adminis-12
71096858 tered schools and summer camps is consistent 13
71106859 with the values of human rights, dignity, and 14
71116860 tolerance and does not induce incitement of vio-15
71126861 lence or antisemitism. 16
71136862 (e) P
71146863 ROHIBITION OF PAYMENTS TO UNITEDNA-17
71156864 TIONSMEMBERS.—None of the funds appropriated or 18
71166865 made available pursuant to titles III through VI of this 19
71176866 Act for carrying out the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 20
71186867 may be used to pay in whole or in part any assessments, 21
71196868 arrearages, or dues of any member of the United Nations 22
71206869 or, from funds appropriated by this Act to carry out chap-23
71216870 ter 1 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 24
71226871 the costs for participation of another country’s delegation 25
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71266874 at international conferences held under the auspices of 1
71276875 multilateral or international organizations. 2
71286876 (f) R
71296877 EPORTS.— 3
71306878 (1) Not later than 45 days after the date of en-4
71316879 actment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall sub-5
71326880 mit a report to the Committees on Appropriations 6
71336881 detailing the amount of funds available for obliga-7
71346882 tion or expenditure in fiscal year 2024 for contribu-8
71356883 tions to any organization, department, agency, or 9
71366884 program within the United Nations system or any 10
71376885 international program that are withheld from obliga-11
71386886 tion or expenditure due to any provision of law: Pro-12
71396887 vided, That the Secretary shall update such report 13
71406888 each time additional funds are withheld by operation 14
71416889 of any provision of law: Provided further, That the 15
71426890 reprogramming of any withheld funds identified in 16
71436891 such report, including updates thereof, shall be sub-17
71446892 ject to prior consultation with, and the regular noti-18
71456893 fication procedures of, the Committees on Appro-19
71466894 priations. 20
71476895 (2) Not later than 90 days after the date of en-21
71486896 actment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a re-22
71496897 port to the appropriate congressional committees on 23
71506898 United Nations buildings and facilities, as described 24
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71546901 under this section in the report accompanying this 1
71556902 Act. 2
71566903 (g) S
71576904 EXUALEXPLOITATION AND ABUSE INPEACE-3
71586905 KEEPINGOPERATIONS.—The Secretary of State shall, to 4
71596906 the maximum extent practicable, withhold assistance to 5
71606907 any unit of the security forces of a foreign country if the 6
71616908 Secretary has credible information that such unit has en-7
71626909 gaged in sexual exploitation or abuse, including while serv-8
71636910 ing in a United Nations peacekeeping operation, until the 9
71646911 Secretary determines that the government of such country 10
71656912 is taking effective steps to hold the responsible members 11
71666913 of such unit accountable and to prevent future incidents: 12
71676914 Provided, That the Secretary shall promptly notify the 13
71686915 government of each country subject to any withholding of 14
71696916 assistance pursuant to this paragraph, and shall notify the 15
71706917 appropriate congressional committees of such withholding 16
71716918 not later than 10 days after a determination to withhold 17
71726919 such assistance is made: Provided further, That the Sec-18
71736920 retary shall, to the maximum extent practicable, assist 19
71746921 such government in bringing the responsible members of 20
71756922 such unit to justice. 21
71766923 (h) A
71776924 DDITIONALAVAILABILITY.—Subject to the reg-22
71786925 ular notification procedures of the Committees on Appro-23
71796926 priations, funds appropriated by this Act which are re-24
71806927 turned or not made available due to the second proviso 25
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71846930 under the heading ‘‘Contributions for International Peace-1
71856931 keeping Activities’’ in title I of this Act or section 307(a) 2
71866932 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 3
71876933 2227(a)), shall remain available for obligation until Sep-4
71886934 tember 30, 2025: Provided, That the requirement to with-5
71896935 hold funds for programs in Burma under section 307(a) 6
71906936 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 shall not apply to 7
71916937 funds appropriated by this Act. 8
71926938 (i) P
71936939 ROCUREMENT RESTRICTIONS.—None of the 9
71946940 funds appropriated by this Act and prior Acts making ap-10
71956941 propriations for the Department of State, foreign oper-11
71966942 ations, and related programs may be used for the procure-12
71976943 ment by any entity of the United Nations system or any 13
71986944 other multilateral organization of goods or services origi-14
71996945 nating in or produced by any person in the Russian Fed-15
72006946 eration, including any entity that is a shell or front com-16
72016947 pany organized to disguise or obscure financial activity re-17
72026948 lating to such goods or services. 18
72036949 (j) A
72046950 CCOUNTABILITY REQUIREMENT.—Not later 19
72056951 than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the 20
72066952 Secretary of State, in coordination with the Administrator 21
72076953 of the United States Agency for International Develop-22
72086954 ment, shall seek to enter into written agreements with 23
72096955 each international organization that receives funding ap-24
72106956 propriated by this Act to provide timely access to the In-25
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72146959 spectors General of the Department of State and the 1
72156960 United States Agency for International Development and 2
72166961 the Comptroller General of the United States to such or-3
72176962 ganization’s financial data and other information, includ-4
72186963 ing investigative records and reports of sexual misconduct, 5
72196964 relevant to United States contributions to such organiza-6
72206965 tion, as determined by the Inspectors and Comptroller 7
72216966 General: Provided, That not later than 180 days after the 8
72226967 date of enactment of this Act, the Inspectors and Comp-9
72236968 troller General shall consult with the appropriate congres-10
72246969 sional committees on the implementation of such require-11
72256970 ments. 12
72266971 (k) W
72276972 ORLDHEALTHORGANIZATION.—None of the 13
72286973 funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this 14
72296974 Act may be made available for the World Health Organi-15
72306975 zation. 16
72316976 (l) I
72326977 NTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS.—None of the 17
72336978 funds provided by this Act shall be made available to im-18
72346979 plement or support any international convention, agree-19
72356980 ment, protocol, legal instrument, or agreed outcome with 20
72366981 legal force drafted by the intergovernmental negotiating 21
72376982 body of the World Health Assembly or any other United 22
72386983 Nations body until such instrument has been subject to 23
72396984 the requirements of article II, section 2, clause 2 of the 24
72406985 Constitution of the United States, which requires the ad-25
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72446988 vice and consent of the Senate, with two-thirds of Senators 1
72456989 concurring. 2
72466990 ARMS TRADE TREATY 3
72476991 S
72486992 EC. 7049. None of the funds appropriated by this 4
72496993 Act may be obligated or expended to implement the Arms 5
72506994 Trade Treaty until the Senate approves a resolution of 6
72516995 ratification for the Treaty. 7
72526996 GLOBAL INTERNET FREEDOM 8
72536997 S
72546998 EC. 7050. (a) FUNDING.—Of the funds available for 9
72556999 obligation during fiscal year 2024 under the headings 10
72567000 ‘‘International Broadcasting Operations’’, ‘‘Economic 11
72577001 Support Fund’’, ‘‘Democracy Fund’’, and ‘‘Assistance for 12
72587002 Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia’’, not less than 13
72597003 $94,000,000 shall be made available for programs to pro-14
72607004 mote Internet freedom globally, as authorized by section 15
72617005 9707 of the Department of State Authorization Act 2022 16
72627006 (title XCVII of division I of Public Law 117–263). 17
72637007 (b) C
72647008 OORDINATION AND SPENDPLANS.—After con-18
72657009 sultation among the relevant agency heads to coordinate 19
72667010 and de-conflict planned activities, but not later than 90 20
72677011 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary 21
72687012 of State and the Chief Executive Officer of the United 22
72697013 States Agency for Global Media, in consultation with the 23
72707014 President of the Open Technology Fund, shall submit to 24
72717015 the Committees on Appropriations spend plans for funds 25
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72757018 made available by this Act for programs to promote Inter-1
72767019 net freedom globally, which shall include a description of 2
72777020 safeguards established by relevant agencies to ensure that 3
72787021 such programs are not used for illicit purposes: Provided, 4
72797022 That the Department of State spend plan shall include 5
72807023 funding for all such programs for all relevant Department 6
72817024 of State and United States Agency for International De-7
72827025 velopment offices and bureaus. 8
72837026 TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL , INHUMAN, OR DEGRADING 9
72847027 TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT 10
72857028 S
72867029 EC. 7051. None of the funds made available by this 11
72877030 Act may be used to support or justify the use of torture 12
72887031 and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or pun-13
72897032 ishment by any official or contract employee of the United 14
72907033 States Government. 15
72917034 AIRCRAFT TRANSFER, COORDINATION, AND USE 16
72927035 S
72937036 EC. 7052. (a) TRANSFERAUTHORITY.—Notwith-17
72947037 standing any other provision of law or regulation, aircraft 18
72957038 procured with funds appropriated by this Act and prior 19
72967039 Acts making appropriations for the Department of State, 20
72977040 foreign operations, and related programs under the head-21
72987041 ings ‘‘Diplomatic Programs’’, ‘‘International Narcotics 22
72997042 Control and Law Enforcement’’, ‘‘Andean Counterdrug 23
73007043 Initiative’’, and ‘‘Andean Counterdrug Programs’’ may be 24
73017044 used for any other program and in any region. 25
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73057047 (b) PROPERTYDISPOSAL.—The authority provided 1
73067048 in subsection (a) shall apply only after the Secretary of 2
73077049 State determines and reports to the Committees on Appro-3
73087050 priations that the equipment is no longer required to meet 4
73097051 programmatic purposes in the designated country or re-5
73107052 gion: Provided, That any such transfer shall be subject 6
73117053 to prior consultation with, and the regular notification 7
73127054 procedures of, the Committees on Appropriations. 8
73137055 (c) A
73147056 IRCRAFTCOORDINATION.— 9
73157057 (1) A
73167058 UTHORITY.—The uses of aircraft pur-10
73177059 chased or leased by the Department of State and the 11
73187060 United States Agency for International Development 12
73197061 with funds made available in this Act or prior Acts 13
73207062 making appropriations for the Department of State, 14
73217063 foreign operations, and related programs shall be co-15
73227064 ordinated under the authority of the appropriate 16
73237065 Chief of Mission: Provided, That such aircraft may 17
73247066 be used to transport, on a reimbursable or non-reim-18
73257067 bursable basis, Federal and non-Federal personnel 19
73267068 supporting Department of State and USAID pro-20
73277069 grams and activities: Provided further, That official 21
73287070 travel for other agencies for other purposes may be 22
73297071 supported on a reimbursable basis, or without reim-23
73307072 bursement when traveling on a space available basis: 24
73317073 Provided further, That funds received by the Depart-25
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73357076 ment of State in connection with the use of aircraft 1
73367077 owned, leased, or chartered by the Department of 2
73377078 State may be credited to the Working Capital Fund 3
73387079 of the Department and shall be available for ex-4
73397080 penses related to the purchase, lease, maintenance, 5
73407081 chartering, or operation of such aircraft. 6
73417082 (2) S
73427083 COPE.—The requirement and authorities 7
73437084 of this subsection shall only apply to aircraft, the 8
73447085 primary purpose of which is the transportation of 9
73457086 personnel. 10
73467087 (d) A
73477088 IRCRAFTOPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE.— 11
73487089 To the maximum extent practicable, the costs of oper-12
73497090 ations and maintenance, including fuel, of aircraft funded 13
73507091 by this Act shall be borne by the recipient country. 14
73517092 PARKING FINES AND REAL PROPERTY TAXES OWED BY 15
73527093 FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS 16
73537094 S
73547095 EC. 7053. The terms and conditions of section 7055 17
73557096 of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Re-18
73567097 lated Programs Appropriations Act, 2010 (division F of 19
73577098 Public Law 111–117) shall apply to this Act: Provided, 20
73587099 That subsection (f)(2)(B) of such section shall be applied 21
73597100 by substituting ‘‘September 30, 2023’’ for ‘‘September 30, 22
73607101 2009’’. 23
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73647104 INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND 1
73657105 S
73667106 EC. 7054. (a) EXTENSIONS.—The terms and condi-2
73677107 tions of sections 7086(b)(1) and (2) and 7090(a) of the 3
73687108 Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related 4
73697109 Programs Appropriations Act, 2010 (division F of Public 5
73707110 Law 111–117) shall apply to this Act. 6
73717111 (b) R
73727112 EPAYMENT.—The Secretary of the Treasury 7
73737113 shall instruct the United States Executive Director of the 8
73747114 International Monetary Fund (IMF) to seek to ensure 9
73757115 that any loan will be repaid to the IMF before other pri-10
73767116 vate or multilateral creditors. 11
73777117 EXTRADITION 12
73787118 S
73797119 EC. 7055. (a) LIMITATION.—None of the funds ap-13
73807120 propriated in this Act may be used to provide assistance 14
73817121 (other than funds provided under the headings ‘‘Develop-15
73827122 ment Assistance’’, ‘‘International Disaster Assistance’’, 16
73837123 ‘‘Complex Crises Fund’’, ‘‘International Narcotics Control 17
73847124 and Law Enforcement’’, ‘‘Migration and Refugee Assist-18
73857125 ance’’, ‘‘United States Emergency Refugee and Migration 19
73867126 Assistance Fund’’, and ‘‘Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, 20
73877127 Demining and Related Assistance’’) for the central gov-21
73887128 ernment of a country which has notified the Department 22
73897129 of State of its refusal to extradite to the United States 23
73907130 any individual indicted for a criminal offense for which 24
73917131 the maximum penalty is life imprisonment without the 25
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73957134 possibility of parole or for killing a law enforcement offi-1
73967135 cer, as specified in a United States extradition request. 2
73977136 (b) C
73987137 LARIFICATION.—Subsection (a) shall only apply 3
73997138 to the central government of a country with which the 4
74007139 United States maintains diplomatic relations and with 5
74017140 which the United States has an extradition treaty and the 6
74027141 government of that country is in violation of the terms 7
74037142 and conditions of the treaty. 8
74047143 (c) W
74057144 AIVER.—The Secretary of State may waive the 9
74067145 restriction in subsection (a) on a case-by-case basis if the 10
74077146 Secretary certifies to the Committees on Appropriations 11
74087147 that such waiver is important to the national interest of 12
74097148 the United States. 13
74107149 ENTERPRISE FUNDS 14
74117150 S
74127151 EC. 7056. (a) NOTIFICATION.—None of the funds 15
74137152 made available under titles III through VI of this Act may 16
74147153 be made available for Enterprise Funds unless the appro-17
74157154 priate congressional committees are notified at least 15 18
74167155 days in advance. 19
74177156 (b) D
74187157 ISTRIBUTION OFASSETSPLAN.—Prior to the 20
74197158 distribution of any assets resulting from any liquidation, 21
74207159 dissolution, or winding up of an Enterprise Fund, in whole 22
74217160 or in part, the President shall submit to the appropriate 23
74227161 congressional committees a plan for the distribution of the 24
74237162 assets of the Enterprise Fund. 25
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74277165 (c) TRANSITION OROPERATINGPLAN.—Prior to a 1
74287166 transition to and operation of any private equity fund or 2
74297167 other parallel investment fund under an existing Enter-3
74307168 prise Fund, the President shall submit such transition or 4
74317169 operating plan to the appropriate congressional commit-5
74327170 tees. 6
74337171 LIMITATIONS RELATED TO GLOBAL HEALTH ASSISTANCE 7
74347172 S
74357173 EC. 7057. (a) None of the funds appropriated or 8
74367174 otherwise made available by this Act may be made avail-9
74377175 able for the United Nations Population Fund. 10
74387176 (b) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 11
74397177 made available by this Act for global health assistance 12
74407178 may be made available to any foreign nongovernmental or-13
74417179 ganization that promotes or performs abortion, except in 14
74427180 cases of rape or incest or when the life of the mother 15
74437181 would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term. 16
74447182 GLOBAL HEALTH ACTIVITIES 17
74457183 S
74467184 EC. 7058. (a) INGENERAL.—Funds appropriated 18
74477185 by titles III and IV of this Act that are made available 19
74487186 for bilateral assistance for child survival activities or dis-20
74497187 ease programs including activities relating to research on, 21
74507188 and the prevention, treatment and control of, HIV/AIDS 22
74517189 may be made available notwithstanding any other provi-23
74527190 sion of law except for provisions under the heading ‘‘Glob-24
74537191 al Health Programs’’ and the United States Leadership 25
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74577194 Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 1
74587195 2003 (117 Stat. 711; 22 U.S.C. 7601 et seq.), as amend-2
74597196 ed. 3
74607197 (b) L
74617198 IMITATION.—Of the funds appropriated by this 4
74627199 Act, not more than $461,000,000 may be made available 5
74637200 for family planning/reproductive health. 6
74647201 (c) P
74657202 ANDEMICS AND OTHERINFECTIOUSDISEASE 7
74667203 O
74677204 UTBREAKS.— 8
74687205 (1) G
74697206 LOBAL HEALTH SECURITY .—Funds appro-9
74707207 priated by this Act under the heading ‘‘Global 10
74717208 Health Programs’’ shall be made available for global 11
74727209 health security programs to accelerate the capacity 12
74737210 of countries to prevent, detect, and respond to infec-13
74747211 tious disease outbreaks, including by strengthening 14
74757212 public health capacity where there is a high risk of 15
74767213 emerging zoonotic infectious diseases: Provided, 16
74777214 That not later than 60 days after the date of enact-17
74787215 ment of this Act, the Administrator of the United 18
74797216 States Agency for International Development and 19
74807217 the Secretary of State, as appropriate, shall consult 20
74817218 with the Committees on Appropriations on the 21
74827219 planned uses of such funds. 22
74837220 (2) E
74847221 XTRAORDINARY MEASURES .—If the Sec-23
74857222 retary of State determines and reports to the Com-24
74867223 mittees on Appropriations that an international in-25
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74907226 fectious disease outbreak is sustained, severe, and is 1
74917227 spreading internationally, or that it is in the na-2
74927228 tional interest to respond to a Public Health Emer-3
74937229 gency of International Concern, not to exceed an ag-4
74947230 gregate total of $200,000,000 of the funds appro-5
74957231 priated by this Act under the headings ‘‘Global 6
74967232 Health Programs’’, ‘‘Development Assistance’’, 7
74977233 ‘‘International Disaster Assistance’’, ‘‘Complex Cri-8
74987234 ses Fund’’, ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, ‘‘Democracy 9
74997235 Fund’’, ‘‘Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Cen-10
75007236 tral Asia’’, ‘‘Migration and Refugee Assistance’’, and 11
75017237 ‘‘Millennium Challenge Corporation’’ may be made 12
75027238 available to combat such infectious disease or public 13
75037239 health emergency, and may be transferred to, and 14
75047240 merged with, funds appropriated under such head-15
75057241 ings for the purposes of this paragraph. 16
75067242 (3) E
75077243 MERGENCY RESERVE FUND .—Up to 17
75087244 $50,000,000 of the funds appropriated by this Act 18
75097245 under the heading ‘‘Global Health Programs’’ may 19
75107246 be made available for the Emergency Reserve Fund 20
75117247 established pursuant to section 7058(c)(1) of the 21
75127248 Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Re-22
75137249 lated Programs Appropriations Act, 2017 (division J 23
75147250 of Public Law 115–31): Provided, That such funds 24
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75187253 shall be made available under the same terms and 1
75197254 conditions of such section. 2
75207255 (4) C
75217256 ONSULTATION AND NOTIFICATION .— 3
75227257 Funds made available by this subsection shall be 4
75237258 subject to prior consultation with the appropriate 5
75247259 congressional committees and the regular notifica-6
75257260 tion procedures of the Committees on Appropria-7
75267261 tions. 8
75277262 (d) L
75287263 IMITATIONS.—Notwithstanding any other provi-9
75297264 sion of law, none of the funds made available by this Act 10
75307265 may be made available to support, directly or indirectly,— 11
75317266 (1) the Wuhan Institute of Virology located in 12
75327267 the City of Wuhan in the People’s Republic of 13
75337268 China; 14
75347269 (2) the EcoHealth Alliance, Inc.; 15
75357270 (3) any laboratory owned or controlled by the 16
75367271 governments of the People’s Republic of China, the 17
75377272 Republic of Cuba, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the 18
75387273 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Russian 19
75397274 Federation, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela 20
75407275 under the regime of Nicola´s Maduro Moros, or any 21
75417276 other country determined by the Secretary of State 22
75427277 to be a foreign adversary; or 23
75437278 (4) gain-of-function research. 24
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75477281 (e) CHILDHOOD CANCER.—Funds appropriated 1
75487282 under titles III and VI of this Act may be made available 2
75497283 for public-private partnerships, including in coordination 3
75507284 with relevant multilateral organizations and research enti-4
75517285 ties, to address childhood cancer: Provided, That the Sec-5
75527286 retary of State, in consultation with the USAID Adminis-6
75537287 trator, shall submit a report to the appropriate congres-7
75547288 sional committees not later than 180 days after the date 8
75557289 of enactment of this Act on the feasibility of such partner-9
75567290 ships: Provided further, The Secretary and Administrator 10
75577291 shall consult with the appropriate congressional commit-11
75587292 tees on uses of funds for such partnerships prior to the 12
75597293 initial obligation of funds and submission of such report. 13
75607294 WOMEN’S EQUALITY AND EMPOWERMENT 14
75617295 S
75627296 EC. 7059. (a) INGENERAL.—Funds appropriated 15
75637297 by this Act shall be made available to promote the equality 16
75647298 and empowerment of women and girls in United States 17
75657299 Government diplomatic and development efforts by raising 18
75667300 the status, increasing the economic participation and op-19
75677301 portunities for political leadership, and protecting the 20
75687302 rights of women and girls worldwide. 21
75697303 (b) W
75707304 OMEN’SECONOMICEMPOWERMENT.—Of the 22
75717305 funds appropriated under title III of this Act, 23
75727306 $200,000,000 shall be made available to expand economic 24
75737307 opportunities for women by increasing the number and ca-25
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75777310 pacity of women-owned enterprises, improving property 1
75787311 rights for women, increasing women’s access to financial 2
75797312 services and capital, enhancing the role of women in eco-3
75807313 nomic decision-making at the local, national, and inter-4
75817314 national levels, and improving women’s ability to partici-5
75827315 pate in the global economy: Provided, That prior to the 6
75837316 initial obligation of funds, the Secretary of State and the 7
75847317 Administrator of the United States Agency for Inter-8
75857318 national Development, as applicable, shall consult with the 9
75867319 Committees on Appropriations on the uses of funds made 10
75877320 available pursuant to this subsection. 11
75887321 (c) W
75897322 OMEN’SLEADERSHIPPROGRAM.—Of the funds 12
75907323 appropriated under title III of this Act, not less than 13
75917324 $50,000,000 shall be made available for programs specifi-14
75927325 cally designed to increase leadership opportunities for 15
75937326 women in countries where women and girls suffer discrimi-16
75947327 nation due to law, policy, or practice, by strengthening 17
75957328 protections for women’s political status, expanding wom-18
75967329 en’s participation in political parties and elections, and in-19
75977330 creasing women’s opportunities for leadership positions in 20
75987331 the public and private sectors at the local, provincial, and 21
75997332 national levels. 22
76007333 (d) P
76017334 REVENTION OF VIOLENCEAGAINSTWOMEN 23
76027335 ANDGIRLS.— 24
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76067338 (1) Of the funds appropriated under titles III 1
76077339 and IV of this Act, not less than $250,000,000 shall 2
76087340 be made available to prevent and respond to violence 3
76097341 against women and girls. 4
76107342 (2) Funds appropriated under titles III and IV 5
76117343 of this Act that are available to train foreign police, 6
76127344 judicial, and military personnel, including for inter-7
76137345 national peacekeeping operations, shall address, 8
76147346 where appropriate, prevention and response to vio-9
76157347 lence against women and girls and trafficking in per-10
76167348 sons, and shall promote the integration of women 11
76177349 into the police and other security forces. 12
76187350 (3) Funds made available pursuant to this sub-13
76197351 section should include efforts to combat a variety of 14
76207352 forms of violence against women and girls, including 15
76217353 child marriage, rape, and female genital cutting and 16
76227354 mutilation. 17
76237355 (e) W
76247356 OMEN, PEACE, ANDSECURITY.—Of the funds 18
76257357 appropriated by this Act under the headings ‘‘Develop-19
76267358 ment Assistance’’, ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, ‘‘Assist-20
76277359 ance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia’’, and ‘‘Inter-21
76287360 national Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement’’, 22
76297361 $150,000,000 should be made available to support a 23
76307362 multi-year strategy to expand, and improve coordination 24
76317363 of, United States Government efforts to empower women 25
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76357366 as equal partners in conflict prevention, peace building, 1
76367367 transitional processes, and reconstruction efforts in coun-2
76377368 tries affected by conflict or in political transition, and to 3
76387369 ensure the equal provision of relief and recovery assistance 4
76397370 to women and girls. 5
76407371 (f) P
76417372 ROHIBITION.—None of the funds appropriated 6
76427373 by this Act may be made available for the Gender Equity 7
76437374 and Equality Action Fund. 8
76447375 SECTOR ALLOCATIONS 9
76457376 S
76467377 EC. 7060. (a) BASICEDUCATION AND HIGHER 10
76477378 E
76487379 DUCATION.— 11
76497380 (1) B
76507381 ASIC EDUCATION.— 12
76517382 (A) Of the funds appropriated under title 13
76527383 III of this Act, not less than $970,000,000 14
76537384 shall be made available for the Nita M. Lowey 15
76547385 Basic Education Fund: Provided, That such 16
76557386 funds shall also be used for secondary education 17
76567387 activities: Provided further, That of the funds 18
76577388 made available by this paragraph, 19
76587389 $150,000,000 should be available for the edu-20
76597390 cation of girls in areas of conflict. 21
76607391 (B) Of the funds appropriated under title 22
76617392 III of this Act for assistance for basic education 23
76627393 programs, not less than $160,000,000 shall be 24
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76667396 made available for contributions to multilateral 1
76677397 partnerships that support education. 2
76687398 (2) H
76697399 IGHER EDUCATION.—Of the funds appro-3
76707400 priated by title III of this Act, not less than 4
76717401 $285,000,000 shall be made available for assistance 5
76727402 for higher education: Provided, That of such 6
76737403 amount, not less than $35,000,000 shall be made 7
76747404 available for new and ongoing partnerships between 8
76757405 higher education institutions in the United States 9
76767406 and developing countries focused on building the ca-10
76777407 pacity of higher education institutions and systems 11
76787408 in developing countries: Provided further, That of 12
76797409 such amount and in addition to the previous proviso, 13
76807410 not less than $50,000,000 shall be made available 14
76817411 for higher education programs pursuant to section 15
76827412 7060(a)(3) of the Department of State, Foreign Op-16
76837413 erations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 17
76847414 2021 (division K of Public Law 116–260). 18
76857415 (b) C
76867416 ONSERVATIONPROGRAMS.— 19
76877417 (1) B
76887418 IODIVERSITY.—Of the funds appropriated 20
76897419 under title III of this Act, not less than 21
76907420 $385,000,000 shall be made available for biodiver-22
76917421 sity conservation programs. 23
76927422 (2) W
76937423 ILDLIFE POACHING AND TRAFFICKING .— 24
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76977426 (A) Of the funds appropriated under titles 1
76987427 III and IV of this Act, not less than 2
76997428 $125,000,000 shall be made available to combat 3
77007429 the transnational threat of wildlife poaching 4
77017430 and trafficking. 5
77027431 (B) None of the funds appropriated under 6
77037432 title IV of this Act may be made available for 7
77047433 training or other assistance for any military 8
77057434 unit or personnel that the Secretary of State 9
77067435 determines has been credibly alleged to have 10
77077436 participated in wildlife poaching or trafficking, 11
77087437 unless the Secretary reports to the appropriate 12
77097438 congressional committees that to do so is in the 13
77107439 national security interest of the United States. 14
77117440 (c) D
77127441 EVELOPMENTPROGRAMS.—Of the funds appro-15
77137442 priated by this Act under the heading ‘‘Development As-16
77147443 sistance’’, not less than $18,500,000 shall be made avail-17
77157444 able for United States Agency for International Develop-18
77167445 ment cooperative development programs and not less than 19
77177446 $31,500,000 shall be made available for the American 20
77187447 Schools and Hospitals Abroad program. 21
77197448 (d) D
77207449 ISABILITYPROGRAMS.—Funds appropriated by 22
77217450 this Act under the heading ‘‘Development Assistance’’ 23
77227451 shall be made available for programs and activities admin-24
77237452 istered by USAID to address the needs of, and protect 25
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77277455 and promote the rights of, people with disabilities in devel-1
77287456 oping countries. 2
77297457 (e) F
77307458 OODSECURITY ANDAGRICULTURALDEVELOP-3
77317459 MENT.—Of the funds appropriated by title III of this Act, 4
77327460 not less than $1,010,600,000 (increased by $9,000,000) 5
77337461 (reduced by $9,000,000) shall be made available for food 6
77347462 security and agricultural development programs to carry 7
77357463 out the purposes of the Global Food Security Act of 2016 8
77367464 (Public Law 114–195), as amended, including for the 9
77377465 Feed the Future Innovation Labs: Provided, That funds 10
77387466 may be made available for a contribution as authorized 11
77397467 by section 3202 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy 12
77407468 Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–246), as amended by section 13
77417469 3310 of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (Public 14
77427470 Law 115–334). 15
77437471 (f) M
77447472 ICRO, SMALL, ANDMEDIUM-SIZEDENTER-16
77457473 PRISES.—Of the funds appropriated by this Act, not less 17
77467474 than $265,000,000 shall be made available to support the 18
77477475 development of, and access to financing for, micro, small, 19
77487476 and medium-sized enterprises that benefit the poor, espe-20
77497477 cially women. 21
77507478 (g) W
77517479 ATER ANDSANITATION.—Of the funds appro-22
77527480 priated by this Act, not less than $475,000,000 shall be 23
77537481 made available for water supply and sanitation projects 24
77547482 pursuant to section 136 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 25
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77587485 1961, of which not less than $237,000,000 shall be for 1
77597486 programs in sub-Saharan Africa. 2
77607487 (h) D
77617488 EVIATION.—Unless otherwise provided for by 3
77627489 this Act, the Secretary of State and the USAID Adminis-4
77637490 trator, as applicable, may deviate below the minimum 5
77647491 funding requirements designated in sections 7059 and 6
77657492 7060 of this Act by up to 10 percent, notwithstanding 7
77667493 such designation: Provided, That such deviations shall 8
77677494 only be exercised to address unforeseen or exigent cir-9
77687495 cumstances, including a change in country context: Pro-10
77697496 vided further, That concurrent with the submission of the 11
77707497 report required by section 653(a) of the Foreign Assist-12
77717498 ance Act of 1961, the Secretary shall submit to the Com-13
77727499 mittees on Appropriations in writing any proposed devi-14
77737500 ations utilizing such authority that are planned at the time 15
77747501 of submission of such report: Provided further, That any 16
77757502 deviations proposed subsequent to the submission of such 17
77767503 report shall be subject to prior consultation with such 18
77777504 Committees: Provided further, That not later than Novem-19
77787505 ber 1, 2025, the Secretary shall submit a report to the 20
77797506 Committees on Appropriations on the use of the authority 21
77807507 of this subsection. 22
77817508 ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMS 23
77827509 S
77837510 EC. 7061. (a) GREENCLIMATEFUND.—None of 24
77847511 the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this 25
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77887514 Act may be made available as a contribution, grant, or 1
77897515 any other payment to the Green Climate Fund. 2
77907516 (b) C
77917517 LEANTECHNOLOGYFUND.—None of the funds 3
77927518 appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may 4
77937519 be made available as a contribution, grant, or any other 5
77947520 payment to the Clean Technology Fund. 6
77957521 (c) C
77967522 LIMATEDAMAGES.—None of the funds appro-7
77977523 priated or otherwise made available by this Act may be 8
77987524 made available to pay compensation to any country, orga-9
77997525 nization, or individual for loss and damages attributed to 10
78007526 climate change. 11
78017527 (d) A
78027528 TTRIBUTION.—Funds appropriated by this Act 12
78037529 and made available for the sectors and programs in sec-13
78047530 tions 7032, 7036, 7059, and 7060 shall not be attributed 14
78057531 to, or counted toward targets for, climate change pro-15
78067532 grams. 16
78077533 (e) T
78087534 RANSITPIPELINES.—None of the funds appro-17
78097535 priated or otherwise made available by this Act may be 18
78107536 used by the Secretary of State to impede the uninter-19
78117537 rupted transmission of hydrocarbons by pipeline through 20
78127538 the territory of one Party not originating in the territory 21
78137539 of that Party, for delivery to the territory of the other 22
78147540 Party as ratified by The Agreement between the Govern-23
78157541 ment of the United States of America and the Government 24
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78197544 of Canada concerning Transit Pipelines, signed at Wash-1
78207545 ington on January 28, 1977. 2
78217546 (f) S
78227547 TUDY.—The Comptroller General of the United 3
78237548 States shall conduct a study on funds appropriated in 4
78247549 prior Acts making appropriations for the Department of 5
78257550 State, foreign operations, and related programs from fiscal 6
78267551 years 2020 through 2023 made available for climate 7
78277552 change programs and whether such funds have had a di-8
78287553 rect result on lowering global temperatures. 9
78297554 BUDGET DOCUMENTS 10
78307555 S
78317556 EC. 7062. (a) OPERATINGPLANS.—Not later than 11
78327557 45 days after the date of enactment of this Act, each de-12
78337558 partment, agency, or organization funded in titles I, II, 13
78347559 and VI of this Act, and the Department of the Treasury 14
78357560 and Independent Agencies funded in title III of this Act, 15
78367561 including the Inter-American Foundation and the United 16
78377562 States African Development Foundation, shall submit to 17
78387563 the Committees on Appropriations an operating plan for 18
78397564 funds appropriated to such department, agency, or organi-19
78407565 zation in such titles of this Act, or funds otherwise avail-20
78417566 able for obligation in fiscal year 2024, that provides de-21
78427567 tails of the uses of such funds at the program, project, 22
78437568 and activity level: Provided, That such plans shall include, 23
78447569 as applicable, a comparison between the congressional 24
78457570 budget justification funding levels, the most recent con-25
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78497573 gressional directives or approved funding levels, and the 1
78507574 funding levels proposed by the department or agency; and 2
78517575 a clear, concise, and informative description/justification: 3
78527576 Provided further, That operating plans that include 4
78537577 changes in levels of funding for programs, projects, and 5
78547578 activities specified in the congressional budget justifica-6
78557579 tion, in this Act, or amounts specifically designated in the 7
78567580 respective tables included in the report accompanying this 8
78577581 Act, as applicable, shall be subject to the notification and 9
78587582 reprogramming requirements of section 7015 of this Act. 10
78597583 (b) S
78607584 PENDPLANS.— 11
78617585 (1) Prior to the initial obligation of funds, the 12
78627586 Secretary of State or Administrator of the United 13
78637587 States Agency for International Development, as ap-14
78647588 propriate, shall submit to the Committees on Appro-15
78657589 priations a spend plan for funds made available by 16
78667590 this Act for— 17
78677591 (A) assistance for countries in Central 18
78687592 America and the Caribbean, Iraq, Pacific Is-19
78697593 lands Countries, Pakistan, and Tunisia; 20
78707594 (B) assistance for the Africa Regional 21
78717595 Counterterrorism program, Caribbean Basin 22
78727596 Security Initiative, Central America Regional 23
78737597 Security Initiative, Global Peace Operations Ini-24
78747598 tiative, Indo-Pacific Strategy and the Coun-25
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78787601 tering PRC Influence Fund, Partnership for 1
78797602 Global Infrastructure and Investment, Power 2
78807603 Africa, and Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism 3
78817604 Partnership; 4
78827605 (C) assistance made available pursuant to 5
78837606 the following sections in this Act: section 7032; 6
78847607 section 7036; section 7047(d) (on a country-by- 7
78857608 country basis); section 7059; and subsections 8
78867609 (a), (b), (d), (e), (f), and (g) of section 7060; 9
78877610 (D) Funds provided under the heading 10
78887611 ‘‘International Narcotics Control and Law En-11
78897612 forcement’’ for International Organized Crime 12
78907613 and for Cybercrime and Intellectual Property 13
78917614 Rights: Provided, That the spend plans shall in-14
78927615 clude bilateral and global programs funded 15
78937616 under such heading along with a brief descrip-16
78947617 tion of the activities planned for each country; 17
78957618 and 18
78967619 (E) implementation of the Global Fragility 19
78977620 Act of 2019. 20
78987621 (2) Not later than 90 days after the date of en-21
78997622 actment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury 22
79007623 shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations a 23
79017624 detailed spend plan for funds made available by this 24
79027625 Act under the heading ‘‘Department of the Treas-25
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79067628 ury, International Affairs Technical Assistance’’ in 1
79077629 title III. 2
79087630 (3) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), up to 10 3
79097631 percent of the funds contained in a spend plan re-4
79107632 quired by this subsection may be obligated prior to 5
79117633 the submission of such spend plan if the Secretary 6
79127634 of State, the USAID Administrator, or the Secretary 7
79137635 of the Treasury, as applicable, determines that the 8
79147636 obligation of such funds is necessary to avoid signifi-9
79157637 cant programmatic disruption: Provided, That not 10
79167638 less than seven days prior to such obligation, the 11
79177639 Secretary or Administrator, as appropriate, shall 12
79187640 consult with the Committees on Appropriations on 13
79197641 the justification for such obligation and the proposed 14
79207642 uses of such funds. 15
79217643 (c) C
79227644 LARIFICATION.—The spend plans referenced in 16
79237645 subsection (b) shall not be considered as meeting the noti-17
79247646 fication requirements in this Act or under section 634A 18
79257647 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. 19
79267648 (d) C
79277649 ONGRESSIONALBUDGETJUSTIFICATION.—The 20
79287650 congressional budget justification for Department of State 21
79297651 operations and foreign operations shall be provided to the 22
79307652 Committees on Appropriations concurrent with the date 23
79317653 of submission of the President’s budget for fiscal year 24
79327654 2025: Provided, That the appendices for such justification 25
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79367657 shall be provided to the Committees on Appropriations not 1
79377658 later than 10 calendar days thereafter. 2
79387659 REORGANIZATION 3
79397660 S
79407661 EC. 7063. (a) PRIORCONSULTATION AND NOTIFI-4
79417662 CATION.—Funds appropriated by this Act, prior Acts 5
79427663 making appropriations for the Department of State, for-6
79437664 eign operations, and related programs, or any other Act 7
79447665 may not be used to implement a reorganization, redesign, 8
79457666 or other plan described in subsection (b) by the Depart-9
79467667 ment of State, the United States Agency for International 10
79477668 Development, or any other Federal department, agency, 11
79487669 or organization funded by this Act without prior consulta-12
79497670 tion by the head of such department, agency, or organiza-13
79507671 tion with the appropriate congressional committees: Pro-14
79517672 vided, That such funds shall be subject to the regular noti-15
79527673 fication procedures of the Committees on Appropriations: 16
79537674 Provided further, That any such notification submitted to 17
79547675 such Committees shall include a detailed justification for 18
79557676 any proposed action: Provided further, That congressional 19
79567677 notifications submitted in prior fiscal years pursuant to 20
79577678 similar provisions of law in prior Acts making appropria-21
79587679 tions for the Department of State, foreign operations, and 22
79597680 related programs may be deemed to meet the notification 23
79607681 requirements of this section. 24
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79647684 (b) DESCRIPTION OFACTIVITIES.—Pursuant to sub-1
79657685 section (a), a reorganization, redesign, or other plan shall 2
79667686 include any action to— 3
79677687 (1) expand, eliminate, consolidate, or downsize 4
79687688 covered departments, agencies, or organizations, in-5
79697689 cluding bureaus and offices within or between such 6
79707690 departments, agencies, or organizations, including 7
79717691 the transfer to other agencies of the authorities and 8
79727692 responsibilities of such bureaus and offices; 9
79737693 (2) expand, eliminate, consolidate, or downsize 10
79747694 the United States official presence overseas, includ-11
79757695 ing at bilateral, regional, and multilateral diplomatic 12
79767696 facilities and other platforms; or 13
79777697 (3) expand or reduce the size of the permanent 14
79787698 Civil Service, Foreign Service, eligible family mem-15
79797699 ber, and locally employed staff workforce of the De-16
79807700 partment of State and USAID from the staffing lev-17
79817701 els previously justified to the Committees on Appro-18
79827702 priations for fiscal year 2024. 19
79837703 DEPARTMENT OF STATE MANAGEMENT 20
79847704 S
79857705 EC. 7064. (a) WORKINGCAPITALFUND.—Funds 21
79867706 appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available to 22
79877707 the Department of State for payments to the Working 23
79887708 Capital Fund that are made available for new service cen-24
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79927711 ters, shall be subject to the regular notification procedures 1
79937712 of the Committees on Appropriations. 2
79947713 (b) C
79957714 ERTIFICATION.— 3
79967715 (1) C
79977716 OMPLIANCE.—Not later than 45 days 4
79987717 after the initial obligation of funds appropriated 5
79997718 under titles III and IV of this Act that are made 6
80007719 available to a Department of State bureau or office 7
80017720 with responsibility for the management and over-8
80027721 sight of such funds, the Secretary of State shall cer-9
80037722 tify and report to the Committees on Appropria-10
80047723 tions, on an individual bureau or office basis, that 11
80057724 such bureau or office is in compliance with Depart-12
80067725 ment and Federal financial and grants management 13
80077726 policies, procedures, and regulations, as applicable. 14
80087727 (2) C
80097728 ONSIDERATIONS.—When making a certifi-15
80107729 cation required by paragraph (1), the Secretary of 16
80117730 State shall consider the capacity of a bureau or of-17
80127731 fice to— 18
80137732 (A) account for the obligated funds at the 19
80147733 country and program level, as appropriate; 20
80157734 (B) identify risks and develop mitigation 21
80167735 and monitoring plans; 22
80177736 (C) establish performance measures and 23
80187737 indicators; 24
80197738 (D) review activities and performance; and 25
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80237741 (E) assess final results and reconcile fi-1
80247742 nances. 2
80257743 (3) P
80267744 LAN.—If the Secretary of State is unable 3
80277745 to make a certification required by paragraph (1), 4
80287746 the Secretary shall submit a plan and timeline de-5
80297747 tailing the steps to be taken to bring such bureau 6
80307748 or office into compliance. 7
80317749 (c) I
80327750 NFORMATIONTECHNOLOGYPLATFORM.—None 8
80337751 of the funds appropriated in title I of this Act under the 9
80347752 heading ‘‘Administration of Foreign Affairs’’ may be made 10
80357753 available for a new major information technology invest-11
80367754 ment without the concurrence of the Chief Information Of-12
80377755 ficer, Department of State. 13
80387756 (d) O
80397757 THERMATTERS.— 14
80407758 (1) In addition to amounts appropriated or oth-15
80417759 erwise made available by this Act under the heading 16
80427760 ‘‘Diplomatic Programs’’— 17
80437761 (A) as authorized by section 810 of the 18
80447762 United States Information and Educational Ex-19
80457763 change Act, not to exceed $5,000,000, to re-20
80467764 main available until expended, may be credited 21
80477765 to this appropriation from fees or other pay-22
80487766 ments received from English teaching, library, 23
80497767 motion pictures, and publication programs and 24
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80537770 from fees from educational advising and coun-1
80547771 seling and exchange visitor programs; and 2
80557772 (B) not to exceed $15,000, which shall be 3
80567773 derived from reimbursements, surcharges, and 4
80577774 fees for use of Blair House facilities. 5
80587775 (2) Funds appropriated or otherwise made 6
80597776 available by this Act under the heading ‘‘Diplomatic 7
80607777 Programs’’ are available for acquisition by exchange 8
80617778 or purchase of passenger motor vehicles as author-9
80627779 ized by law and, pursuant to section 1108(g) of title 10
80637780 31, United States Code, for the field examination of 11
80647781 programs and activities in the United States funded 12
80657782 from any account contained in title I of this Act. 13
80667783 (3) Of the funds appropriated under the head-14
80677784 ing ‘‘Diplomatic Programs’’ in this Act and prior 15
80687785 Acts making appropriations for the Department of 16
80697786 State, foreign operations, and related programs, 17
80707787 $2,000,000 shall be made available to carry out sec-18
80717788 tion 9803 of the Department of State Authorization 19
80727789 Act of 2022 (division I of Public Law 117–263). 20
80737790 (4) Consistent with section 204 of the Admiral 21
80747791 James W. Nance and Meg Donovan Foreign Rela-22
80757792 tions Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2000 and 23
80767793 2001 (22 U.S.C. 2452b), up to $25,000,000 of the 24
80777794 amounts made available under the heading ‘‘Diplo-25
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80817797 matic Programs’’ in this Act may be obligated and 1
80827798 expended for United States participation in inter-2
80837799 national fairs and expositions abroad, including for 3
80847800 construction and operation of a United States pavil-4
80857801 ion at Expo 2025. 5
80867802 (5) Of the funds appropriated by this Act under 6
80877803 the heading ‘‘Diplomatic Programs’’, not less than 7
80887804 $500,000 shall be made available for additional per-8
80897805 sonnel for the Bureau of Legislative Affairs, Depart-9
80907806 ment of State. 10
80917807 (e) L
80927808 IMITATIONS.— 11
80937809 (1) None of the funds appropriated by this Act 12
80947810 under the heading ‘‘Diplomatic Programs’’ may be 13
80957811 made available to carry out the functions of the 14
80967812 Global Engagement Center established pursuant to 15
80977813 section 1287 of the National Defense Authorization 16
80987814 Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (22 U.S.C. 2656 note) un-17
80997815 less prior to the initial obligation of such funds— 18
81007816 (A) the Secretary of State certifies and re-19
81017817 ports to the appropriate congressional commit-20
81027818 tees that— 21
81037819 (i) no funds will be used for purposes 22
81047820 other than countering foreign propaganda 23
81057821 and disinformation by foreign state and 24
81067822 non-state actors that threaten United 25
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81107825 States national security pursuant to sec-1
81117826 tion 1287(i) of such Act; 2
81127827 (ii) programs and activities will not be 3
81137828 designed to influence public opinion in the 4
81147829 United States or in a manner that 5
81157830 abridges the freedom of speech or of the 6
81167831 press of United States persons enshrined 7
81177832 in the First Amendment of the United 8
81187833 States Constitution; 9
81197834 (iii) the development of tactics, tech-10
81207835 niques, and procedures to expose and re-11
81217836 fute foreign propaganda and 12
81227837 disinformation and proactively support the 13
81237838 promotion of credible, fact-based narratives 14
81247839 and policies will be directed solely on audi-15
81257840 ences outside the United States; and 16
81267841 (iv) the Department of State has re-17
81277842 solved with the Office of Inspector General, 18
81287843 Department of State (OIG) and the OIG 19
81297844 has closed each of the 18 recommendations 20
81307845 detailed in the report ‘‘Inspection of the 21
81317846 Global Engagement Center’’ (ISP I-22-15) 22
81327847 dated September 2022; and 23
81337848 (B) the Secretary submits to the Commit-24
81347849 tees on Appropriations a spend plan for the ac-25
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81387852 tivities of the Center in fiscal year 2024: Pro-1
81397853 vided, That such plan shall detail amounts 2
81407854 planned for each function authorized in section 3
81417855 1287(b) of the National Defense Authorization 4
81427856 Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (22 U.S.C. 2656 5
81437857 note): Provided further, That such plan shall 6
81447858 also include a list of each entity that received 7
81457859 funding in the previous fiscal year. 8
81467860 (2) None of the funds appropriated by this Act 9
81477861 under the heading ‘‘Diplomatic Programs’’ may be 10
81487862 reprogrammed for support of an international con-11
81497863 ference unless such conference has been previously 12
81507864 justified in a congressional budget justification: Pro-13
81517865 vided, That any such reprogramming shall be sub-14
81527866 ject to prior consultation with the Committees on 15
81537867 Appropriations. 16
81547868 (3)(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of 17
81557869 law, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise 18
81567870 made available under the heading ‘‘Diplomatic Pro-19
81577871 grams’’ in this Act and prior Acts making appro-20
81587872 priations for the Department of State, foreign oper-21
81597873 ations, and related programs may be made available 22
81607874 for support of a Special Envoy, Special Representa-23
81617875 tive, Special Coordinator, Special Negotiator, Envoy, 24
81627876 Representative, Coordinator, Special Advisor, or 25
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81667879 other position performing a similar function unless 1
81677880 such Special Envoy, Special Representative, Special 2
81687881 Coordinator, Special Negotiator, Envoy, Representa-3
81697882 tive, Coordinator, Special Advisor, or other position 4
81707883 performing a similar function— 5
81717884 (i) is expressly authorized by statute; 6
81727885 or 7
81737886 (ii) has affirmatively received the ad-8
81747887 vice and consent of the Senate. 9
81757888 (B) The limitations of this paragraph shall 10
81767889 be construed to include the applicable office 11
81777890 personnel and bureau managed funds of such 12
81787891 office. 13
81797892 (4) Not later than 15 days prior to entering 14
81807893 into a bilateral or multilateral agreement authorized 15
81817894 by section 303(a) of the Convention on Cultural 16
81827895 Property Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 2602) or 17
81837896 the extension of an agreement pursuant to section 18
81847897 303(e) of such Act, the Secretary of State shall cer-19
81857898 tify and report to the Committees on Appropriations 20
81867899 that any import restrictions authorized by such 21
81877900 agreement comply with the provisions of sections 22
81887901 302 and 305 of such Act. 23
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81927904 UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL 1
81937905 DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT 2
81947906 S
81957907 EC. 7065. (a) AUTHORITY.—Up to $170,000,000 of 3
81967908 the funds made available in title III of this Act pursuant 4
81977909 to or to carry out the provisions of part I of the Foreign 5
81987910 Assistance Act of 1961, including funds appropriated 6
81997911 under the heading ‘‘Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and 7
82007912 Central Asia’’, may be used by the United States Agency 8
82017913 for International Development to hire and employ individ-9
82027914 uals in the United States and overseas on a limited ap-10
82037915 pointment basis pursuant to the authority of sections 308 11
82047916 and 309 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 12
82057917 3948 and 3949). 13
82067918 (b) R
82077919 ESTRICTION.—The authority to hire individuals 14
82087920 contained in subsection (a) shall expire on September 30, 15
82097921 2025. 16
82107922 (c) P
82117923 ROGRAMACCOUNTCHARGED.—The account 17
82127924 charged for the cost of an individual hired and employed 18
82137925 under the authority of this section shall be the account 19
82147926 to which the responsibilities of such individual primarily 20
82157927 relate: Provided, That funds made available to carry out 21
82167928 this section may be transferred to, and merged with, funds 22
82177929 appropriated by this Act in title II under the heading ‘‘Op-23
82187930 erating Expenses’’. 24
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82227933 (d) FOREIGNSERVICELIMITEDEXTENSIONS.—Indi-1
82237934 viduals hired and employed by USAID, with funds made 2
82247935 available in this Act or prior Acts making appropriations 3
82257936 for the Department of State, foreign operations, and re-4
82267937 lated programs, pursuant to the authority of section 309 5
82277938 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3949), may 6
82287939 be extended for a period of up to 4 years notwithstanding 7
82297940 the limitation set forth in such section. 8
82307941 (e) D
82317942 ISASTERSURGECAPACITY.—Funds appro-9
82327943 priated under title III of this Act to carry out part I of 10
82337944 the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, including funds ap-11
82347945 propriated under the heading ‘‘Assistance for Europe, 12
82357946 Eurasia and Central Asia’’, may be used, in addition to 13
82367947 funds otherwise available for such purposes, for the cost 14
82377948 (including the support costs) of individuals detailed to or 15
82387949 employed by USAID whose primary responsibility is to 16
82397950 carry out programs in response to natural disasters, or 17
82407951 man-made disasters subject to the regular notification 18
82417952 procedures of the Committees on Appropriations. 19
82427953 (f) P
82437954 ERSONALSERVICESCONTRACTORS.—Funds ap-20
82447955 propriated by this Act to carry out chapter 1 of part I, 21
82457956 chapter 4 of part II, and section 667 of the Foreign As-22
82467957 sistance Act of 1961, and title II of the Food for Peace 23
82477958 Act (Public Law 83–480; 7 U.S.C. 1721 et seq.), may be 24
82487959 used by USAID to employ up to 40 personal services con-25
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82527962 tractors in the United States, notwithstanding any other 1
82537963 provision of law, for the purpose of providing direct, in-2
82547964 terim support for new or expanded overseas programs and 3
82557965 activities managed by the agency until permanent direct 4
82567966 hire personnel are hired and trained: Provided, That not 5
82577967 more than 15 of such contractors shall be assigned to any 6
82587968 bureau or office: Provided further, That such funds appro-7
82597969 priated to carry out title II of the Food for Peace Act 8
82607970 (Public Law 83–480; 7 U.S.C. 1721 et seq.), may be made 9
82617971 available only for personal services contractors assigned 10
82627972 to the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance. 11
82637973 (g) S
82647974 MALLBUSINESS.—In entering into multiple 12
82657975 award indefinite-quantity contracts with funds appro-13
82667976 priated by this Act, USAID may provide an exception to 14
82677977 the fair opportunity process for placing task orders under 15
82687978 such contracts when the order is placed with any category 16
82697979 of small or small disadvantaged business. 17
82707980 (h) C
82717981 RISISOPERATIONS STAFFING.—Up to 18
82727982 $86,000,000 of the funds made available in title III of 19
82737983 this Act pursuant to, or to carry out the provisions of, 20
82747984 part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and section 21
82757985 509(b) of the Global Fragility Act of 2019 (title V of divi-22
82767986 sion J of Public Law 116–94) may be made available for 23
82777987 the United States Agency for International Development 24
82787988 to appoint and employ personnel in the excepted service 25
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82827991 to prevent or respond to foreign crises and contexts with 1
82837992 growing instability: Provided, That functions carried out 2
82847993 by personnel hired under the authority of this subsection 3
82857994 shall be related to the purpose for which the funds were 4
82867995 appropriated: Provided further, That such funds are in ad-5
82877996 dition to funds otherwise available for such purposes and 6
82887997 may remain attributed to any minimum funding require-7
82897998 ment for which they were originally made available: Pro-8
82907999 vided further, That the USAID Administrator shall coordi-9
82918000 nate with the Director of the Office of Personnel Manage-10
82928001 ment and consult with the appropriate congressional com-11
82938002 mittees on implementation of this provision. 12
82948003 STABILIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN REGIONS 13
82958004 IMPACTED BY EXTREMISM AND CONFLICT 14
82968005 S
82978006 EC. 7066. (a) PREVENTION AND STABILIZATION 15
82988007 F
82998008 UND.—Funds appropriated by this Act under the head-16
83008009 ings ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, ‘‘International Narcotics 17
83018010 Control and Law Enforcement’’, ‘‘Nonproliferation, Anti- 18
83028011 terrorism, Demining and Related Programs’’, ‘‘Peace-19
83038012 keeping Operations’’, and ‘‘Foreign Military Financing 20
83048013 Program’’ may be made available for the Prevention and 21
83058014 Stabilization Fund for the purposes enumerated in section 22
83068015 509(a) of the Global Fragility Act of 2019 (title V of divi-23
83078016 sion J of Public Law 116–94). 24
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83118019 (b) TRANSITIONALJUSTICE.—Funds appropriated 1
83128020 by this Act under the headings ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’ 2
83138021 and ‘‘International Narcotics Control and Law Enforce-3
83148022 ment’’ may be made available for programs to promote 4
83158023 accountability for genocide, crimes against humanity, and 5
83168024 war crimes, which shall be in addition to any other funds 6
83178025 made available by this Act for such purposes: Provided, 7
83188026 That such programs shall include components to develop 8
83198027 local investigative and judicial skills, and to collect and 9
83208028 preserve evidence and maintain the chain of custody of 10
83218029 evidence, including for use in prosecutions, and may in-11
83228030 clude the establishment of, and assistance for, transitional 12
83238031 justice mechanisms: Provided further, That such funds 13
83248032 shall be administered by the Ambassador-at-Large for the 14
83258033 Office of Global Criminal Justice, Department of State, 15
83268034 and shall be subject to prior consultation with the Com-16
83278035 mittees on Appropriations: Provided further, That funds 17
83288036 made available by this paragraph shall be made available 18
83298037 on an open and competitive basis. 19
83308038 DEBT-FOR-DEVELOPMENT 20
83318039 S
83328040 EC. 7067. In order to enhance the continued partici-21
83338041 pation of nongovernmental organizations in debt-for-devel-22
83348042 opment and debt-for-nature exchanges, a nongovern-23
83358043 mental organization which is a grantee or contractor of 24
83368044 the United States Agency for International Development 25
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83408047 may place in interest bearing accounts local currencies 1
83418048 which accrue to that organization as a result of economic 2
83428049 assistance provided under title III of this Act and, subject 3
83438050 to the regular notification procedures of the Committees 4
83448051 on Appropriations, any interest earned on such investment 5
83458052 shall be used for the purpose for which the assistance was 6
83468053 provided to that organization. 7
83478054 EXTENSION OF CONSULAR FEES AND RELATED 8
83488055 AUTHORITIES 9
83498056 S
83508057 EC. 7068. (a) Section 1(b)(1) of the Passport Act 10
83518058 of June 4, 1920 (22 U.S.C. 214(b)(1)) shall be applied 11
83528059 through fiscal year 2024 by substituting ‘‘the costs of pro-12
83538060 viding consular services’’ for ‘‘such costs’’. 13
83548061 (b) Section 21009 of the Emergency Appropriations 14
83558062 for Coronavirus Health Response and Agency Operations 15
83568063 (division B of Public Law 116–136; 134 Stat. 592) shall 16
83578064 be applied during fiscal year 2024 by substituting ‘‘2020 17
83588065 through 2024’’ for ‘‘2020 and 2021’’. 18
83598066 (c) Discretionary amounts made available to the De-19
83608067 partment of State under the heading ‘‘Administration of 20
83618068 Foreign Affairs’’ of this Act, and discretionary unobli-21
83628069 gated balances under such heading from prior Acts mak-22
83638070 ing appropriations for the Department of State, foreign 23
83648071 operations, and related programs, may be transferred to 24
83658072 the Consular and Border Security Programs account if the 25
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83698075 Secretary of State determines and reports to the Commit-1
83708076 tees on Appropriations that to do so is necessary to sus-2
83718077 tain consular operations, following consultation with such 3
83728078 Committees: Provided, That such transfer authority is in 4
83738079 addition to any transfer authority otherwise available in 5
83748080 this Act and under any other provision of law: Provided 6
83758081 further, That no amounts may be transferred from 7
83768082 amounts designated as an emergency requirement pursu-8
83778083 ant to a concurrent resolution on the budget or the Bal-9
83788084 anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 10
83798085 (d) In addition to the uses permitted pursuant to sec-11
83808086 tion 286(v)(2)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 12
83818087 (8 U.S.C. 1356(v)(2)(A)), for fiscal year 2024, the Sec-13
83828088 retary of State may also use fees deposited into the Fraud 14
83838089 Prevention and Detection Account for the costs of pro-15
83848090 viding consular services. 16
83858091 (e) Amounts repurposed pursuant to this section that 17
83868092 were previously designated by the Congress as an emer-18
83878093 gency requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and 19
83888094 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 or a concurrent 20
83898095 resolution on the budget are designated by the Congress 21
83908096 as an emergency requirement pursuant to legislation es-22
83918097 tablishing fiscal year 2024 budget enforcement in the 23
83928098 House of Representatives. 24
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83968101 PROMOTION OF UNITED STATES ECONOMIC INTERESTS 1
83978102 S
83988103 EC. 7069. (a) DIPLOMATICENGAGEMENT.—Pursu-2
83998104 ant to section 704 of the Championing American Business 3
84008105 Through Diplomacy Act of 2019 (title VII of division J 4
84018106 of Public Law 116–94) the Secretary of State, in consulta-5
84028107 tion with the Secretary of Commerce, shall prioritize the 6
84038108 allocation of funds appropriated by this Act under the 7
84048109 heading ‘‘Diplomatic Programs’’ for support of Chief of 8
84058110 Mission diplomatic engagement to foster commercial rela-9
84068111 tions and safeguard United States economic and business 10
84078112 interests in the country in which each Chief of Mission 11
84088113 serves, including activities and initiatives to create and 12
84098114 maintain an enabling environment, promote and protect 13
84108115 such interests, and resolve commercial disputes: Provided, 14
84118116 That each Mission Resource Request and Bureau Re-15
84128117 source Request shall include amounts required to 16
84138118 prioritize the activities described in this subsection. 17
84148119 (b) T
84158120 RAINING.—In carrying out section 705 of the 18
84168121 Championing American Business Through Diplomacy Act 19
84178122 of 2019 (title VII of division J of Public Law 116–94) 20
84188123 the Secretary of State shall annually assess training needs 21
84198124 across the economic and commercial diplomacy issue areas 22
84208125 and ensure after a review of course offerings, course at-23
84218126 tendance records, and course evaluation results, that cur-24
84228127 rent offerings meet training needs. 25
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84268130 (c) ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary of State should di-1
84278131 rect each Chief of Mission to consider how best to advance 2
84288132 and support commercial relations and the safeguarding of 3
84298133 United States business interests in the development and 4
84308134 execution of the applicable Integrated Country Strategy 5
84318135 and the Mission Resource Request for each country receiv-6
84328136 ing bilateral assistance from funds appropriated by this 7
84338137 Act. 8
84348138 ADDITIONAL LIMITATIONS ON OPERATIONS AND 9
84358139 ASSISTANCE 10
84368140 S
84378141 EC. 7070. (a) None of the funds appropriated or 11
84388142 otherwise made available by this Act or prior Acts making 12
84398143 appropriations for the Department of State, foreign oper-13
84408144 ations, and related programs may be made available for 14
84418145 drag queen workshops, performances, or documentaries. 15
84428146 (b) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 16
84438147 made available by this Act may be used to carry out any 17
84448148 program, project, or activity that teaches or trains any 18
84458149 idea or concept that condones an individual being discrimi-19
84468150 nated against or receiving adverse or beneficial treatment 20
84478151 based on race or sex, that condones an individual feeling 21
84488152 discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psycho-22
84498153 logical distress on account of that individual’s race or sex, 23
84508154 as well as any idea or concept that regards one race as 24
84518155 inherently superior to another race, the United States or 25
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84558158 its institutions as being systemically racist or sexist, an 1
84568159 individual as being inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive 2
84578160 by virtue of that individual’s race or sex, an individual’s 3
84588161 moral character as being necessarily determined by race 4
84598162 or sex, an individual as bearing responsibility for actions 5
84608163 committed in the past by other members of the same race 6
84618164 or sex, or meritocracy being racist, sexist, or having been 7
84628165 created by a particular race to oppress another race. 8
84638166 (c) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 9
84648167 available by this Act may be made available to implement, 10
84658168 administer, apply, enforce, or carry out Executive Order 11
84668169 13985 of January 20, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 7009), Execu-12
84678170 tive Order 14035 of June 25, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 34593), 13
84688171 or Executive Order 14091 of February 16, 2023 (88 Fed. 14
84698172 Reg. 10825). 15
84708173 (d) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 16
84718174 made available by this Act may be obligated or expended 17
84728175 to— 18
84738176 (1) classify or facilitate the classification of any 19
84748177 communications by a United States person as misin-20
84758178 formation, disinformation, or malinformation; or 21
84768179 (2) partner with or fund nonprofit or other or-22
84778180 ganizations that pressure or recommend private 23
84788181 companies to censor, filter, or otherwise suppress 24
84798182 lawful and constitutionally protected speech of 25
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84838185 United States persons, including recommending the 1
84848186 censoring or removal of content on social media plat-2
84858187 forms. 3
84868188 (e) None of the funds made available by this Act or 4
84878189 any other Act shall be used or transferred to another Fed-5
84888190 eral Agency, board, or commission to fund any domestic 6
84898191 or international non-governmental organization or any 7
84908192 other program, organization, or association coordinated or 8
84918193 operated by such non-governmental organization that ei-9
84928194 ther offers counseling regarding sex change surgeries, pro-10
84938195 motes sex change surgeries for any reason as an option, 11
84948196 conducts or subsidizes sex change surgeries, promotes the 12
84958197 use of medications or other substances to halt the onset 13
84968198 of puberty or sexual development of minors, or otherwise 14
84978199 promotes transgenderism. 15
84988200 (f) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 16
84998201 available by this Act may be obligated or expended to fly 17
85008202 or display a flag over a facility of a United States Federal 18
85018203 department or agency funded by this Act other than the— 19
85028204 (1) United States flag; 20
85038205 (2) Foreign Service flag pursuant to 2 FAM 21
85048206 154.2-1; 22
85058207 (3) POW/MIA flag; 23
85068208 (4) flag of a State, insular area, or the District 24
85078209 of Columbia at domestic locations; 25
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85118212 (5) flag of an Indian Tribal government; or 1
85128213 (6) sovereign flag of other countries. 2
85138214 PRESIDENTIAL PERMIT REFORM 3
85148215 S
85158216 EC. 7071. Funds appropriated by this Act shall be 4
85168217 made available to carry out the responsibilities delegated 5
85178218 to the Secretary of State pursuant to Executive Order 6
85188219 13867 (April 10, 2019) or any successor Executive Order: 7
85198220 Provided, That the Secretary shall carry out such respon-8
85208221 sibilities within the 60 day time period set forth in section 9
85218222 2 of such Executive Order: Provided further, That Agency 10
85228223 heads for whom the Secretary refers such applications for 11
85238224 pertinent information or advise pursuant to such Execu-12
85248225 tive Order should respond not later than the 30 days: Pro-13
85258226 vided further, That Executive Order 13867, or any suc-14
85268227 cessor Executive Order, should not be construed to require 15
85278228 the application of the National Environmental Policy Act 16
85288229 of 1969 prior to the Secretary providing advice to the 17
85298230 President of the United States concerning any new or 18
85308231 amended Presidential permit application. 19
85318232 RESCISSIONS 20
85328233 (INCLUDING RESCISSIONS OF FUNDS) 21
85338234 S
85348235 EC. 7072. (a) EMBASSYSECURITY, CONSTRUCTION, 22
85358236 ANDMAINTENANCE.—Of the unobligated balances from 23
85368237 amounts available under the heading ‘‘Embassy Security, 24
85378238 Construction, and Maintenance’’ from prior Acts making 25
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85418241 appropriations for the Department of State, foreign oper-1
85428242 ations, and related programs, $174,000,000 are rescinded. 2
85438243 (b) D
85448244 EVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE.—Of the unobli-3
85458245 gated and unexpended balances from amounts available 4
85468246 under the heading ‘‘Development Assistance’’ from prior 5
85478247 Acts making appropriations for the Department of State, 6
85488248 foreign operations, and related programs, $709,500,000 7
85498249 are rescinded. 8
85508250 (c) E
85518251 CONOMICSUPPORTFUND.—Of the unobligated 9
85528252 and unexpended balances from amounts available under 10
85538253 the heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’ from prior Acts 11
85548254 making appropriations for the Department of State, for-12
85558255 eign operations, and related programs, $808,600,000 are 13
85568256 rescinded. 14
85578257 (d) P
85588258 EACECORPS.—Of the unobligated balances 15
85598259 from amounts available under the heading ‘‘Peace Corps’’ 16
85608260 from prior Acts making appropriations for the Depart-17
85618261 ment of State, foreign operations, and related programs, 18
85628262 $18,000,000 are rescinded. 19
85638263 (e) I
85648264 NTERNATIONALNARCOTICSCONTROL ANDLAW 20
85658265 E
85668266 NFORCEMENT.—Of the unobligated, and unexpended 21
85678267 balances from amounts available under the heading 22
85688268 ‘‘International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement’’ 23
85698269 from prior Acts making appropriations for the Depart-24
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85738272 ment of State, foreign operations, and related programs, 1
85748273 $40,000,000 are rescinded. 2
85758274 (f) E
85768275 XPORT-IMPORTBANK OF THE UNITED 3
85778276 S
85788277 TATES.—Of the unobligated balances available under the 4
85798278 heading ‘‘Export and Investment Assistance, Export-Im-5
85808279 port Bank of the United States, Subsidy Appropriation’’ 6
85818280 for tied-aid grants from prior Acts making appropriations 7
85828281 for the Department of State, foreign operations, and re-8
85838282 lated programs, $59,000,000 are rescinded. 9
85848283 (g) S
85858284 ECTION60103.—Of the unobligated balances of 10
85868285 amounts appropriated or otherwise made available for ac-11
85878286 tivities of the Environmental Protection Agency under sec-12
85888287 tion 60103 of Public Law 117–169 (commonly known as 13
85898288 the ‘‘Inflation Reduction Act of 2022’’), $11,135,000,000 14
85908289 are hereby permanently rescinded. 15
85918290 (h) R
85928291 ESTRICTION.—No amounts may be rescinded 16
85938292 from amounts that were previously designated by the Con-17
85948293 gress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a concur-18
85958294 rent resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget and 19
85968295 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 20
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86008298 TITLE VIII—COUNTERING THE MALIGN INFLU-1
86018299 ENCE OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF 2
86028300 CHINA 3
86038301 BILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE 4
86048302 F
86058303 UNDSAPPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT 5
86068304 ECONOMIC SUPPORT FUND 6
86078305 For an additional amount for ‘‘Economic Support 7
86088306 Fund’’, $1,000,000,000, to remain available until ex-8
86098307 pended for programs to advance United States national 9
86108308 security interests in the Indo-Pacific and counter the ma-10
86118309 lign influence of the People’s Republic of China: Provided, 11
86128310 That, if expressly authorized and established in the Treas-12
86138311 ury of the United States, funds made available under this 13
86148312 title may be transferred to a ‘‘Compact Assistance Fund’’. 14
86158313 TITLE IX—ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISION 15
86168314 SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 16
86178315 S
86188316 EC. 9001. $0 (increased by $1,000,000,000). 17
86198317 S
86208318 EC. 9002. None of the funds made available by this 18
86218319 Act may be used in contravention of section 221 of the 19
86228320 Immigration and Nationality Technical Corrections Act of 20
86238321 1994 (Public Law 103–416; 108 Stat. 4321; 8 U.S.C. 21
86248322 1101 note). 22
86258323 S
86268324 EC. 9003. None of the funds appropriated or other-23
86278325 wise made available by this Act may be made available 24
86288326 to create, procure, or display any map that inaccurately 25
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86328329 depicts the occupied country of Tibet as part of the Peo-1
86338330 ple’s Republic of China. 2
86348331 S
86358332 EC. 9004. None of the funds appropriated or other-3
86368333 wise made available by this Act may be made available 4
86378334 to enforce the restrictions outlined under the headings 5
86388335 ‘‘Visits and Travel’’ (regarding limitations on ‘‘Travel to 6
86398336 Taiwan’’) and ‘‘Communications’’ (regarding limitations 7
86408337 on ‘‘Name’’, ‘‘Symbols of Sovereignty’’, and ‘‘Correspond-8
86418338 ence’’) in the Department of State’s June 29, 2021, 9
86428339 Memorandum for All Department and Agency Executive 10
86438340 Secretaries entitled ‘‘Revised Guidelines on Interacting 11
86448341 with Taiwan’’. 12
86458342 S
86468343 EC. 9005. None of the funds made available by this 13
86478344 Act may be used to pay Secretary Antony John Blinken 14
86488345 a salary that exceeds $1. 15
86498346 S
86508347 EC. 9006. None of the funds appropriated or other-16
86518348 wise made available by this Act may be made available 17
86528349 for the Office of Palestinian Affairs. 18
86538350 S
86548351 EC. 9007. None of the funds made available by this 19
86558352 Act may be used for the adoption or implementation of 20
86568353 the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migra-21
86578354 tion set forth in the annex to the resolution adopted by 22
86588355 the United Nations General Assembly on December 18, 23
86598356 2018 (A/RES/73/195). 24
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86638359 SEC. 9008. None of the funds made available by this 1
86648360 Act may be used to enforce or otherwise implement a re-2
86658361 quirement for individuals traveling outside of the United 3
86668362 States to receive a vaccination against COVID–19. 4
86678363 S
86688364 EC. 9009. None of the funds made available by this 5
86698365 Act under chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance 6
86708366 Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2346 et seq.) (relating to the eco-7
86718367 nomic support fund) may be obligated or expended for as-8
86728368 sistance for Mexico. 9
86738369 S
86748370 EC. 9010. None of the funds made available by this 10
86758371 Act may be used to carry out or administer any Remote 11
86768372 Work Agreement of a domestically-assigned direct-hire 12
86778373 employee if the employee’s alternate worksite is located 13
86788374 outside of the locality pay area of the regular worksite for 14
86798375 the employee’s position of record. 15
86808376 S
86818377 EC. 9011. None of the funds appropriated by this 16
86828378 Act may be made available to support the negotiations to-17
86838379 ward an extension of the Scientific and Technological Co-18
86848380 operation Protocol Between the United States of America 19
86858381 and China. 20
86868382 S
86878383 EC. 9012. None of the funds made available by this 21
86888384 Act may be used to implement the decision by the United 22
86898385 Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s 21st 23
86908386 Conference of Parties in Paris, France, adopted December 24
86918387 12, 2015, commonly known as the ‘‘Paris Agreement’’. 25
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86958390 SEC. 9013. None of the funds appropriated or other-1
86968391 wise made available by this Act may be made available 2
86978392 for any employee of the Department of State to travel to 3
86988393 or attend any conference or event hosted by the Clinton 4
86998394 Global Initiative. 5
87008395 S
87018396 EC. 9014. None of the funds made available by this 6
87028397 Act may be used for the Art in Embassies program of 7
87038398 the Department of State. 8
87048399 S
87058400 EC. 9015. The salary of Robert Malley, the United 9
87068401 States Special Envoy to Iran, shall be reduced to $1. 10
87078402 S
87088403 EC. 9016. None of the funds made available by this 11
87098404 Act may be used for the Special Presidential Envoy for 12
87108405 Climate. 13
87118406 S
87128407 EC. 9017. None of the funds made available by this 14
87138408 Act may be used to move the United States embassy in 15
87148409 Israel to a location other than Jerusalem. 16
87158410 S
87168411 EC. 9018. None of the funds appropriated by this 17
87178412 Act may be used to implement any of the following execu-18
87188413 tive orders: 19
87198414 (1) Executive Order No. 13990, relating to 20
87208415 Protecting Public Health and the Environment and 21
87218416 Restoring Science To Tackle the Climate Crisis. 22
87228417 (2) Executive Order No. 14008, relating to 23
87238418 Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad. 24
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87278421 (3) Section 6 of Executive Order No. 14013, re-1
87288422 lating to Rebuilding and Enhancing Programs To 2
87298423 Resettle Refugees and Planning for the Impact of 3
87308424 Climate Change on Migration. 4
87318425 (4) Executive Order No. 14030, relating to Cli-5
87328426 mate-Related Financial Risk. 6
87338427 (5) Executive Order No. 14057, relating to 7
87348428 Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs 8
87358429 Through Federal Sustainability. 9
87368430 (6) Executive Order No. 14082, relating to Im-10
87378431 plementation of the Energy and Infrastructure Pro-11
87388432 visions of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. 12
87398433 (7) Executive Order No. 14096, relating to Re-13
87408434 vitalizing Our Nation’s Commitment to Environ-14
87418435 mental Justice for All. 15
87428436 S
87438437 EC. 9019. None of the funds appropriated or other-16
87448438 wise made available by this Act may be made available 17
87458439 in contravention of the notice entitled ‘‘In the Matter of 18
87468440 the Designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps 19
87478441 (and Other Aliases) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization’’ 20
87488442 issued by the Department of State on April 15, 2019 (84 21
87498443 Fed. Reg. 15278). 22
8750-This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of State, 23
8751-Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropria-24
8752-tions Act, 2024’’. 25
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8446+This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of State, 1
8447+Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropria-2
8448+tions Act, 2024’’. 3
87568449 Passed the House of Representatives September 28,
87578450 2023.
8758-Attest: KEVIN F. MCCUMBER,
8451+Attest:
87598452 Clerk.
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87648454 TH
87658455 CONGRESS
87668456 1
87678457 ST
87688458 S
87698459 ESSION
87708460
87718461 H. R. 4665
87728462 AN ACT
87738463 Making appropriations for the Department of
87748464 State, foreign operations, and related programs
87758465 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024,
87768466 and for other purposes.
8777-O
8778-CTOBER
8779-3, 2023
8780-Received; read twice and placed on the calendar
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