Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1980

Summary

Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1980 - Makes appropriations for foreign assistance for fiscal year 1980. Title I: Multilateral Economic Assistance - Appropriates funds for the U.S. contributions to the: (1) Inter-American Development Bank; (2) International Bank for Reconstruction and Development; (3) International Finance Corporation; (4) International Development Association; (5) Asian Development Bank; and (6) African Development Fund. Prohibits such payments while the U.S. Executive Director to the Bank concerned receives compensation in excess of specified amounts. Appropriates funds for international organizations and programs. Limits the amount to be available for the United Nations Environment Program. Title II: Bilateral Economic Assistance - Makes appropriations to carry out the following provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961: (1) agriculture, rural development, and nutrition assistance; (2) population assistance; (3) health assistance; (4) education and human resources development assistance; (5) technical assistance, energy, research, reconstruction, and selected development problems; (6) loan allocation assistance; (7) American schools and hospitals abroad; (8) contingencies; (9) international disaster assistance; (10) African refugee assistance; (11) Sahel development program; (12) payment to the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (13) overseas training and special development activities; (14) Economic Support Fund (with specified minimum amounts earmarked for Israel, Egypt, and Jamaica); (15) peacekeeping operations; (16) operating expenses of the Agency for International Development (limits the amounts to be spent in Washington and for hiring experts and consultants); and (17)international narcotics control. Appropriates funds for the: (1) Inter-American Foundation; (2) Institute for Scientific and Technological Cooperation; (3) Overseas Private Investment Corporation; (4) Peace Corps; and (5) migration and refugee assistance. Title III: Military Assistance - Makes appropriations for: (1) military assistance, (2) international military education and training; and (3) foreign military credit sales (with a specified minimum amount earmarked for Israel). Title IV: Export-Import Bank of the United States - Authorizes the Export-Import Bank to make expenditures without regard to specified fiscal year limitations. Limits the use of funds for nuclear exports. Sets ceilings on the amounts authorized for programs, including direct loans, and for administrative expenses. Title V: General Provisions - Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for: (1) water resource projects not meeting specified criteria; (2) the obligation of more than 15 percent of such funds during the last month, with specific exceptions; (3) military pensions of any recipient country; (4) procurement contracts not containing termination provisions for the convenience of the United States; (5) the assessments or dues of any U.N. member; (6) the transfer of funds to various inter-national banks; (7) financing nuclear exports or providing nuclear training to foreigners; (8) aiding governments to repress human rights; (9) direct assistance to Mozambique unless the President determines and so reports to Congress that such assistance would further U.S. interests; (10) direct assistance to Angola, Central African Empire, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, or Cuba; (11) obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided; (12) assistance to countries in default on loans made by the United States; (13) international financial institutions whose U.S. representative cannot obtain the amounts and names of borrowers of loans and management documents from such institutions; (14) countries aiding international terrorists; (15) financing loans or assistance to produce export commodities likely to be in surplus on world markets and which will cause substantial injuries to U.S. producers; and (16) military assistance to Panama. Continues the availability of unobligated balances from prior fiscal years for Lebanon and the Maqarin Dam. Sets ceilings on the amount of appropriated funds to be used by the Agency for International Development for: (1) official residence expenses; (2) entertainment expenses; and (3) representation allowances. Requires congressional approval before appropriated funds: (1) may be obligated under an appropriation account to which they were not appropriated; or (2) may be used for publicity or propaganda purposes within the United States. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive directors of specified international banking institutions to oppose assistance by such institutions for the production of export commodities in surplus on world markets and which will cause substantial injuries to U.S. producers. Requires notification be given to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees before making funds appropriated for specified programs available for obligations not justified or in excess of the amounts justified.

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• Conference report filed in House

  summary · EN · 27 February 1980

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• Passed Senate amended

  summary · EN · 12 October 1979

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• Reported to Senate with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 4 October 1979

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• Passed House amended

  summary · EN · 6 September 1979

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 14 June 1979

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