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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 600
To prohibit the use of funds to seek membership in the World Health
Organization or to provide assessed or voluntary contributions to the
World Health Organization.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY22, 2025
Mr. A
RRINGTON(for himself, Mr. CRENSHAW, Mr. ESTES, and Mr. STEUBE)
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on
Foreign Affairs
A BILL
To prohibit the use of funds to seek membership in the
World Health Organization or to provide assessed or
voluntary contributions to the World Health Organiza-
tion.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘WHO is Accountable 4
Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS TO SEEK MEMBER-1
SHIP IN THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION 2
OR TO PROVIDE ASSESSED OR VOLUNTARY 3
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE WORLD HEALTH OR-4
GANIZATION. 5
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-6
sion of law, no funds available to any Federal department 7
or agency may be used to seek membership by the United 8
States in the World Health Organization or to provide as-9
sessed or voluntary contributions to the World Health Or-10
ganization until such time as the Secretary of State cer-11
tifies to Congress that the World Health Organization 12
meets the conditions described in subsection (b). 13
(b) C
ONDITIONSDESCRIBED.—The conditions de-14
scribed in this subsection are the following: 15
(1) The World Health Organization has adopt-16
ed meaningful reforms to ensure that humanitarian 17
assistance is not politicized and is to be provided to 18
those with the most need. 19
(2) The World Health Organization is not 20
under the control or significant malign influence of 21
the Chinese Communist Party. 22
(3) The World Health Organization is not in-23
volved in a coverup of the Chinese Communist Par-24
ty’s response to the COVID–19 pandemic. 25
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(4) The World Health Organization grants ob-1
server status to Taiwan. 2
(5) The World Health Organization does not di-3
vert humanitarian or medical supplies to Iran, North 4
Korea, or Syria. 5
(6) The World Health Organization has put in 6
place mechanisms to increase transparency and ac-7
countability in its operations and eliminate waste, 8
fraud, and abuse. 9
(7) The World Health Organization has ceased 10
all funding for, engagement in, and messaging with 11
respect to certain controversial and politically 12
charged issues that are non-germane to the World 13
Health Organization’s directive, including— 14
(A) so-called ‘‘gender identity’’ and harm-15
ful rhetoric relating to ‘‘gender affirming care’’; 16
(B) climate change; and 17
(C) access to abortion. 18
(8) The World Health Organization has agreed 19
that as a condition of membership by the United 20
States in the World Health Organization, no direc-21
tive issued by the World Health Organization may 22
be considered to be legally binding on any United 23
States citizen or individual State. 24
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