United States · Law · HR
H.R. 4559 (97th)
Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations Act of 1982
Introduced
22 September 1981
Last action
29 December 1981 · President
Status
Became Public Law No: 97-121.
Sponsors
Rep. Long, Clarence D. [D-MD-2]
Subjects
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Source updated
23 April 2026
Summary
Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1982 - Title I: Multilateral Economic Assistance - Appropriates fiscal year 1982 funds to the President 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 the Asian Development Fund; (6) African Development Fund; and (7) International Fund for Agricultural Development. Specifies the maximum amount of callable capital stock to which the U.S.Governors of such Banks may subscribe. Appropriates a specified sum for the United Nations Environmental Fund and for other international organizations and programs. Title II: Bilateral Economic Assistance - Makes fiscal year 1982 appropriations to carry out the provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 relating to: (1) agriculture, rural development, and nutrition; (2) voluntary population planning; (3) health programs; (4) education and human resources development (earmarking a specified amount for scholarships for South African students); (5) energy and selected development activities (earmarking a specified amount for resettlement services for refugees and displaced persons in Africa); (6) science and technology; (7) loan allocation (setting specified repayment periods based on a country's per capita gross national product); (8) American schools and hospitals abroad; (9) international disaster assistance; (10) the Sahel development program (earmarking a specified amount for the African Development Foundation); (11) payments to the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (12) the Economic Support Fund (earmarking specified amounts to Egypt and to Israel and requiring congressional approval for obligating funds for the Special Requirements Fund); (13) peacekeeping operations; (14) the operating expenses of the Agency for International Development; (15) trade and development programs; and (16) international narcotics control. Makes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 for the Inter-American Foundation and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), with limitations on OPIC's direct and guaranteed loans. Appropriates fiscal year 1982 funds to ACTION for the Peace Corps. Appropriates fiscal year 1982 funds to the Department of State for migration and refugee assistance (earmarking a specified sum for aiding displaced persons from El Salvador). Title III: Military Assistance - Appropriates fiscal year 1982 funds to the President for: (1) military assistance; (2) international military education and training; and (3) foreign military credit sales, with limitations on the amounts of direct and guaranteed loans. Title IV: Export-Import Bank of the United States - Authorizes, with specified exceptions, the Export-Import Bank to make expenditures without regard to fiscal year limitations. Prohibits expenditures, during the current fiscal year, for nuclear exports to any country, other than a nuclear weapons State, that has detonated a nuclear explosive after enactment of this Act. Limits, during specified fiscal years, the amounts of direct and guaranteed loans, administrative expenses, and entertainment allowances. Title V: General Provisions - Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for: (1) financing construction of any water or related land resource development project which has not met specified standards; (2) pensions for persons who have served in the armed forces of any recipient country; (3) procurement contracts which do not permit termination for U.S. convenience; (4) dues of any member of the United Nations; (5) the transfer of appropriated funds among international lending organizations; (6) financing nuclear exports or providing nuclear training assistance to foreign nationals; (7) assisting countries to violate human rights; (8) assistance to Mozambique (unless it would further U.S. foreign policy interests), Angola, Cambodia, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam, or Syria; (9) obligation under an appropriations account to which they were not appropriated, without prior congressional approval; (10) unauthorized publicity purposes within the United States; (11) obligation beyond the current fiscal year, unless otherwise permitted; (12) assistance to countries which are more than one year in default on loans payments to the United States; (13) international financial institutions which do not make available to the U.S. representatives information concerning loans or documents; (14) any government which aids or abets international terrorism; (15) assisting the production of commodities for export, if such commodities will likely be in surplus on world markets and will cause substantial injury to U.S. producers; and (16) the obligation of specified funds for programs not justified or in excess of the amount justified, without prior congressional notification. Limits the use of appropriated funds for: (1) obligation during the last month of availability; (2) official residence expenses, entertainment expenses, and representation allowances of the Agency for International Development; and (3) consulting services. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive directors of specified international financial institutions to oppose assistance for the production of export commodities in surplus on world markets if such assistance will cause substantial injury to U.S. producers.
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Timeline
15 January 1981
Referred
Referred to Subcommittee on Foreign Operations.
Source: Committee
15 January 1981
Introduced
Referred to House Committee on Appropriations.
Source: IntroReferral
25 February 1981
Committee
First Day of Subcommittee Hearings.
Source: Committee
10 June 1981
Committee
Final Day of Subcommittee Hearings.
Source: Committee
23 June 1981
Committee
First Day of Subcommittee Mark-up.
Source: Committee
16 September 1981
Committee
First Day of Committee Mark-Up.
Source: Committee
17 September 1981
Reported
Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
Source: Committee
17 September 1981
Committee
Final Day of Committee Mark-Up.
Source: Committee
22 September 1981
Calendars
Placed on Union Calendar No: 160.
Source: Calendars
22 September 1981
Reported
Reported to House by House Committee on Appropriations. Report No: 97-245.
Source: Committee
22 September 1981
Reported
Reported to House by House Committee on Appropriations. Report No: 97-245.
Source: Committee
22 September 1981
Introduced
Introduced in House
Source: IntroReferral
22 September 1981
Introduced
Introduced in House
Source: IntroReferral
8 December 1981
Reported
Rules Committee Resolution H.Res.290 Reported to House.
Source: Floor
8 December 1981
Floor
Committee on Rules Granted a Rule. Partial Waiver of Points of Order.
Source: Floor
10 December 1981
Floor
Called up by House by Rule.
Source: Floor
10 December 1981
Passed
Rule Passed House.
Source: Floor
11 December 1981
ResolvingDifferences
Senate requests a conference. Appoints conferees. Kasten; Hatfield; D'Amato; Rudman; Specter; Inouye; Johnston; Leahy; DeConcini; Proxmire.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
11 December 1981
Floor
Senate insists on its amendments by Voice Vote.
Source: Floor
11 December 1981
Introduced
Received in the Senate. Deemed to have been read twice. The Senate action on S.1802 was incorporated into the bill and the bill as thus amended was deemed to have been read the third time and passed.
Source: IntroReferral
11 December 1981
Introduced
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Received in the Senate. Deemed to have been read twice. The Senate action on S.1802 was incorporated into the bill and the bill as thus amended was deemed to have been read the third time and passed.
Source: Floor
11 December 1981
Vote
Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 199 - 166 (Record Vote No: 356).
Source: Floor
11 December 1981
Vote
Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 199 - 166 (Record Vote No: 356).
Source: Floor
11 December 1981
Passed
House Agreed to Amendments Adopted by the Committee of the Whole.
Source: Floor
14 December 1981
Passed
House Agreed to Request for Conference and Speaker Appointed Conferees: Long (MD), Obey, Yates, McHugh, Lehman, Wilson, Dixon, Gray, Whitten, Kemp, Edwards (OK), Livingston, Lewis, Porter, Conte.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
14 December 1981
Passed
House Disagreed to Senate Amendments by Unanimous Consent.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
14 December 1981
Passed
Resolving differences -- House actions: House Disagreed to Senate Amendments by Unanimous Consent.
Source: NotUsed
15 December 1981
Passed
Conferees agreed to file conference report.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
15 December 1981
Passed
Conference committee actions: Conferees agreed to file conference report.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
16 December 1981
ResolvingDifferences
Conference report considered in Senate.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
16 December 1981
Passed
Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to House amendments to Senate amendments 22, 23, 24, 25, 38, 62, 63, 89, and 138. By Voice Vote.
Source: NotUsed
16 December 1981
Vote
Conference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 55-34. Record Vote No: 497.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
16 December 1981
ResolvingDifferences
House Receded and Concurred in Senate Amendments 053, 070, 073, 142.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
16 December 1981
NotUsed
Resolving differences -- House actions: House Receded and Concurred in Senate Amendments 053, 070, 073, 142.
Source: NotUsed
16 December 1981
Vote
House Agreed to Conference Report by Yea-Nay Vote: 217 - 201 (Record Vote No: 366).
Source: ResolvingDifferences
16 December 1981
Vote
Conference report agreed to in House: House Agreed to Conference Report by Yea-Nay Vote: 217 - 201 (Record Vote No: 366).
Source: ResolvingDifferences
16 December 1981
ResolvingDifferences
Conference Report 97-416 Filed in House.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
16 December 1981
ResolvingDifferences
Conference report filed: Conference Report 97-416 Filed in House.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
22 December 1981
Floor
Presented to President.
Source: Floor
22 December 1981
President
Presented to President.
Source: President
22 December 1981
Floor
Measure Signed in Senate.
Source: Floor
29 December 1981
Became law
Became Public Law No: 97-121.
Source: President
29 December 1981
Became law
Signed by President.
Source: BecameLaw
29 December 1981
President
Signed by President.
Source: President
Votes
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Public Law (PDF)
Public Law · EN · 30 December 1981
Conference report filed in House
summary · EN · 16 December 1981
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Passed Senate amended
summary · EN · 11 December 1981
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Passed House amended
summary · EN · 11 December 1981
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Introduced in House
summary · EN · 22 September 1981
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Sponsors
- Rep. Long, Clarence D. [D-MD-2] · D · Sponsor
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Related records
- related to → A resolution waiving certain points of order against the bill (H.R. 4559) making appropriations for Foreign Assistance and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1982, and for other purposes.
- related to ← Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1982
- amends ← An amendment to the Edwards (OK) amendment. The Kemp amendment would reduce the International Development Association funds from $850,000,000 to $725,000,000 instead of to $520,000,000 as in the Edwards (OK) amendment.
- amends ← A substitute amendment to the Lewis amendment to state that the Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the Executive Director of IDA to undertake negotiations to reallocate the development credits made available through the sixth replenishment to provide a more efficient distribution among recipient nations including a reduction in the maximum development credits provided to any given nation.
- amends ← An amendment to state that in each instance in which the International Development Association has informed the Secretary of the Treasury that it has made loans or loan commitments to a single country in amounts which are cumulatively greater than 15% of the total projected funding of the sixth replenishment of the International Development Association, then the sums made available to IDA shall be reduced by an amount equal to 27% of the portion of loans or loan commitments to the country that exceeds 15% of the projected sixth replenishment total.
- amends ← An amendment to the prohibition on direct assistance to Angola, Cambodia, Cuba, Laos, Socialist Republic of Vietnam and Syria a prohibition on indirect assistance.
- amends ← An amendment to increase from $3,961,000,000 to $4,400,000,000 the limitation on gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans of the Export Import Bank for FY '82.
- amends ← A substitute amendment to the Conte amendment to reduce from $3,961,000,000 the limitations on gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. The Conte amendment raises the limitation to $4,400,000,000. This is for FY '82.
- amends ← An amendment to reduce from $850,- 000,000 to $520,000,000 funds for the International Development Association.
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