Foreign Assistance Authorization Act of 1993

Summary

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Reform of Foreign Assistance Programs Title II: Authorizations for Foreign Assistance Programs Title III: Regional Provisions Title IV: Provisions Relating to Arms Transfers Title V: Other Foreign Assistance Provisions Title VI: Bosnia-Hercegovina Foreign Assistance Authorization Act of 1993 - Title I: Reform of Foreign Assistance Programs - (Sec. 101) Requires the President to submit to the Congress a plan for comprehensive reform of U.S. foreign assistance programs and of the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance. (Sec. 102) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require the President to establish a program performance, monitoring, and evaluation capacity with respect to such agency and to report annually to the Congress on: (1) the progress of the agency in achieving sustainable development objectives; and (2) the impact on economic development of U.S. economic assistance on a country-by-country basis. Title II: Authorizations for Foreign Assistance Programs - (Sec. 201) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 for: (1) specified development assistance; (2) international disaster assistance; (3) American schools, libraries, and hospitals abroad; (4) assistance for the Philippines; (5) economic assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States; (6) assistance for the independent states of the former Soviet Union; (7) the Inter-American Foundation; (8) the African Development Foundation; (9) the International Fund for Ireland; (10) foreign military financing and international military education and training; (11) economic support fund (ESF) assistance; (12) anti-terrorism assistance; (13) a nonproliferation and disarmament fund; and (14) the Peace Corps. Reduces the amount previously authorized for international narcotics control for FY 1994. (Sec. 202) Declares that the Congress expects that certain amounts of assistance will be allocated for child survival activities and the Vitamin A deficiency program and related activities. (Sec. 203) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 for worldwide housing guarantees and raises the ceiling on the amount of loans available under such program. (Sec. 204) Raises the ceiling on insurance and guarantees issued by the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) and extends OPIC programs through FY 1995. (Sec. 205) Authorizes the President to reduce the debt owed by an eligible country as a result of housing guarantees or credits or guarantees extended under the Arms Export Control Act. Defines an "eligible country" as a country with a heavy debt burden that is eligible to borrow from the International Development Association but not from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Title III: Regional Provisions - (Sec. 302) Amends the African Development Foundation Act to authorize the African Development Foundation to employ persons who are not U.S. citizens. (Sec. 303) Allocates assistance for establishing conflict resolution capabilities within specified African organizations and for facilitating reductions in the size of armed forces of Subsaharan African countries. (Sec. 305) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to remove restrictions on assistance to nongovernmental organizations financed or controlled by the South African Government if they meet certain conditions relating to promotion of democracy and assistance to disadvantaged South Africans. (Secs. 306 and 307) Bars specified economic and military assistance for Sudan and Zaire. (Sec. 308) Makes humanitarian assistance available to Afghanistan. (Sec. 311) Directs the President to report to the Congress on progress towards the withdrawal of personnel of any independent state of the former Soviet Union from the Cienfuegos nuclear facility in Cuba. Makes ineligible for assistance any independent state that: (1) is providing assistance for, or engaging in nonmarket based trade with Cuba; or (2) knowingly transfers sophisticated conventional weapons to Iran in numbers and types that are destabilizing. Directs the President to study and report to the Congress on: (1) the possible use of barter or exchange of resources as methods of reimbursement for assistance provided to the independent states; and (2) the collateralization of loans and investment guarantees provided by the U.S. Government for project financing in such states using resources or prospective revenues. (Sec. 312) Authorizes the President to use funds for the independent states to provide assistance to Mongolia. (Sec. 313) Bars international military education and training assistance for Malta. (Sec. 314) Extends the administration of justice assistance program. Makes such assistance available for Panama. (Sec. 317) Earmarks ESF and foreign military financing assistance for Israel and Egypt and ESF assistance for Middle East cooperative programs. Title IV: Provisions Relating to Arms Transfers - (Sec. 402) Amends the Arms Export Control Act to increase the aggregate ceiling on excess defense articles for delivery to foreign countries or international organizations. (Sec. 403) Makes East European countries eligible to receive excess defense articles. (Sec. 406) Establishes limits on additions to stockpiles in South Korea, Israel, and Thailand. (Sec. 407) Prohibits the sale or lease of defense articles or services to any country or international organization which is known to have sent letters to U.S. firms requesting, or soliciting information about, compliance with the secondary or tertiary Arab boycott. Provides for presidential waivers, subject to certain conditions. Title V: Other Foreign Assistance Provisions - (Sec. 503) Provides that certain restrictions with respect to foreign assistance shall not restrict assistance in support of a nongovernmental organization's programs (with exceptions). (Sec. 504) Prohibits the use of funds authorized for foreign assistance programs for FY 1994 for: (1) financial incentives to businesses for inducing them to relocate outside the United States if it will reduce the number of individuals employed in the United States; (2) establishing any export processing zone or designated area in which the tax, tariff, labor, environment, and safety laws of a country do not apply to activities in such area, unless the President certifies that such assistance is not likely to cause a loss of jobs within the United States; or (3) assistance for a project that contributes to the violation of workers' rights. (Sec. 505) Requires the Director of the Trade and Development Agency to carry out a capital projects pilot program in developing countries and countries making the transition from a nonmarket to a market economy. (Sec. 506) Provides for the establishment of a Microenterprise Development Fund within the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance. (Sec. 507) Requires the administrator of such agency to report to the Congress on the incorporation of the Agenda 21 principles of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development into foreign assistance activities. (Sec. 509) Requires the annual deobligation of specified unexpended foreign assistance funds that have been obligated for more than four years. Title VI: Bosnia-Hercegovina - Bosnia-Hercegovina Self-Defense Act of 1993 - (Sec. 603) Authorizes the President to terminate the arms embargo of Bosnia-Hercegovina upon receipt of a request for assistance in exercising its right of self-defense under the United Nations Charter. (Sec. 604) Authorizes the President, if such request is made, to direct the drawdown of defense articles and services and military education and training to provide assistance. Bars members of the armed forces who provide such assistance abroad from performing combatant duties.

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Timeline

1. 14 June 1993

   Introduced

   Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

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2. 14 June 1993

   Reported

   Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 196 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2333 and H.R. 2404 with 1 hour of general debate. Upon adoption of this rule it shall be in order for the Speaker to declare the House resolved into the Committee of the Whole House for the separate consideration of the bills. All points of order against consideration of the bills shall be waived. At the conclusion of general debate on each bill, the Committee of the Whole shall rise without motion. No further consideration of either bill shall be in order except pursuant to a subsequent order of the House.

   Source: Floor

3. 14 June 1993

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

4. 14 June 1993

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

5. 15 June 1993

   Reported

   Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 197 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2333 and H.R. 2404. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. For the consideration of H.R. 2333, it shall be in order to consider as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Foreign Affairs now printed in the bill, modified by the amendments printed in part 1 of the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution. Measure will be considered read. Specified amendments are in order. For both H.R. 2333 and H.R. 2404, all specified amendments made in order by the rule must be offered in the order and mannner specified in the report accompanying the rule. For both H.R. 2333 and H.R. 2404, all points of order against the amendments made in order by the rule are ...

   Source: Floor

6. 15 June 1993

   Floor

   Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 2404 as unfinished business.

   Source: Floor

7. 15 June 1993

   Floor

   Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2333 and H.R. 2404 with 1 hour of general debate. Upon adoption of this rule it shall be in order for the Speaker to declare the House resolved into the Committee of the Whole House for the separate consideration of the bills. All points of order against consideration of the bills shall be waived. At the conclusion of general debate on each bill, the Committee of the Whole shall rise without motion. No further consideration of either bill shall be in order except pursuant to a subsequent order of the House.

   Source: Floor

8. 15 June 1993

   Floor

   The Speaker designated the Honorable Jim McDermott to act as Chairman of the Committee.

   Source: Floor

9. 15 June 1993

   Floor

   House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 196 and Rule XXIII.

   Source: Floor

10. 15 June 1993

    Floor

    Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 196. (consideration: CR H3575-3583)

    Source: Floor

11. 15 June 1993

    Passed

    Rule H. Res. 196 passed House.

    Source: Floor

12. 16 June 1993

    Passed

    Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by voice vote.

    Source: Floor

13. 16 June 1993

    Passed

    Rule H. Res. 197 passed House.

    Source: Floor

14. 16 June 1993

    Passed

    Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

    Source: Floor

15. 16 June 1993

    Passed

    On passage Passed by voice vote.

    Source: Floor

16. 16 June 1993

    Failed

    On motion to recommit Failed by voice vote.

    Source: Floor

17. 16 June 1993

    Floor

    The previous question on the motion to recommit was ordered without objection.

    Source: Floor

18. 16 June 1993

    Floor

    Mr. Goodling moved to recommit to Foreign Affairs. (consideration: CR H3656)

    Source: Floor

19. 16 June 1993

    Passed

    The House adopted the remaining amendments en gross as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union.

    Source: Floor

20. 16 June 1993

    Floor

    The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.

    Source: Floor

21. 16 June 1993

    Floor

    The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 2404.

    Source: Floor

22. 16 June 1993

    Floor

    DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 197, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with ten minutes of debate on the Hamilton amendments offered en bloc and as modified. The amendments contained in the en bloc submission are numbered 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14 and 15 in part 3 of the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying H. Res. 197 (H. Rept. 103-32).

    Source: Floor

23. 16 June 1993

    Floor

    The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.

    Source: Floor

24. 16 June 1993

    Floor

    Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H3613-3657)

    Source: Floor

25. 17 June 1993

    Introduced

    Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

    Source: IntroReferral

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Related records

• related to → Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2333) to authorize appropriations for the Department of State, the United States Information Agency, and related agencies, to authorize appropriations for foreign assistance programs, and for other purposes, and the bill (H.R. 2404) to authorize appropriations for foreign assistance programs, and for other purposes.
• related to → Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 2333) to authorize appropriations for the Department of State, the United States Information Agency, and related agencies, to authorize appropriations for foreign assistance programs, and for other purposes, and for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 2404) to authorize appropriations for foreign assistance programs, and for other purposes.
• related to ← Foreign Assistance Act of 1993
• amends ← An amendment to reduce the authorization for aid to Russia and the Independent States by $703 million, from $903,820,000 to $200,000,000, and specifying that the remaining authorized funding be used exclusively for aid to the Independent States.
• amends ← An amendment to prohibit security assistance--including International Military Education and Training, Foreign Military Financing, and Economic Support Fund assistance--to any country that votes with the U.S. position in the U.N. General Assembly less than 25% of the time, except in certain instances.
• amends ← An amendment which makes several additions to the bill's requirement that the President submit a plan to Congress for reform of U.S. foreign assistance programs by stipulating that as part of the reform plan, all foreign assistance must include four objectives: expansion of economic opportunities, meeting of basic human needs, promotion of environmental protection, and strengthening of pluralism and democratic participation. The amendment also provides that a country in default of any foreign assistance loans for longer than three months will be ineligible to receive additional foreign assistance. Under the amendment, the reform plan must also propose an increase in funds for the procurement of U.S. products through tied aid and other programs, as well as provide for a reduction in the number of countries receiving economic assistance. Lastly, the amendment abolishes the Agency for International Development as of Sept. 30, 1994.
• amends ← An amendment to eliminate all development assistance to India ($41 million) unless the President certifies that the Indian government has repealed five specific internal security laws which have been deemed to be incompatible with democratic principles by international human rights organizations.
• amends ← An amendment to reduce the bill's total authorization by $360,000,000.
• amends ← An amendment comprised of a series of amendments offered en bloc consisting of the following amendments printed in H. Rept. 103-32, as modified: Amendment No. 6 (Durbin) placing conditions on aid to Russia, tied to significant progress being made on the removal of Russian troops from the Baltic States or the completion of agreements with those states on troop removal; No. 8 (Fazio) barring military education/training funds for India unless the President certifies that the Indian government has adequately addressed human rights problems in various Indian states; No. 9 (Traficant) requiring foreign aid recipients to buy products/services in America; No. 10 (Traficant) to terminate aid to any country which uses aid for an unauthorized purpose; No. 12 (Valentine) requiring the President to incorporate into the annual budget request an integrated justification for all foreign assistance programs; No. 13 (Collins, MI) to require at least 10% of annual economic assistance funds to be used to procure U.S. goods or services; No. 14 (Molinari) directing the President to urge an increase from 20 to 50 in the number of Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe observer missions in Kosovo; No. 15 (Molinari) directing the President to urge the United Nations Security Council to redeploy UN Protection Forces to Kosovo.
• amends ← An amendment expressing that it is the sense of Congress that the President should encourage the Independent States of the former Soviet Union to eventually reimburse the U.S. for provided assistance, and that at least $744 million of the funds authorized in the bill be obligated with the understanding that they will be reimbursed.

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