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S. 960 (99th)

International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1985

enactedUnited States· United States Congress· EN

Introduced

19 April 1985

Last action

8 August 1985 · President

Status

Became Public Law No: 99-83.

Sponsors

Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN]

Subjects

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Source updated

14 January 2025

Summary

International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1985 - Title I: Military Sales and Related Programs - Amends the Arms Export Control Act to authorize appropriations to carry out the foreign military sales credit programs for FY 1986. Earmarks specified portions of such sales credits for Israel and for Egypt. Provides that certain amounts of the sales credits earmarked for Israel shall be available for research and development activities in the United States for the Lavi program and that a specified minimum amount of such credits shall be available for procurement in Israel of defense articles and services Grants Greece, South Korea, the Philippines, Portugal, Thailand, and Turkey extended credit terms for arms sales credits or guaranties. Sets the value of a 20 year old naval vessel of 3,000 tons or less for sales purposes. Excludes a pro rata share of fixed base operation costs from the administrative surcharge charged for foreign military arms sales. Authorizes the President to provide free cataloging data and cataloging services to the North American Treaty Organization (NATO) or its member governments if NATO or a member government provides such data and services on a reciprocal basis to the United States. Authorizes the President to provide free contract administration services in connection with certain defense contracts with NATO. Changes the method of financing foreign military sales credits. Authorizes the President to finance foreign military sales on such terms and conditions as the President may determine. Authorizes the President to charge interest at a concessionary rate if it is in the national interest. Requires foreign military loans to be repaid within 12 years unless a longer period is specifically authorized by statute for such country or international organization. Directs the President to report to the Congress within 90 days of enactment of this Act on the history of U.S. financing under the Foreign Assistance Act and the Arms Export Control Act, including recommendations on replenishing the Guaranty Reserve Fund. Requires the President to report to the Congress by April 1, of each year, an estimate of the sales and delivery of weapons and weapons-related defense equipment by all major arms suppliers to all major recipient countries in the developing world during the preceding year. Requires the President to include in the annual report to the Congress on arms sales a report on the cash flow financing provided to certain countries. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to carry out the European air defense agreements and, in carrying out those agreements, to: (1) provide certain articles and services to West Germany; and (2) accept from West Germany certain articles and services in return. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to take certain administrative actions in connection with the administration of the European air defense agreements. Makes special concessions in connection with the sale of certain Patriot missile fire units to West Germany. Increases the criminal penalties for certain violations of the Arms Export Control Act. Imposes maximum civil fine for such violations. Includes charges for official reception and representation expenses in the administrative surcharge charged in connection with foreign military sales. Limits the amount of funds from such source that may be used for official reception and representation expenses. Authorizes using the Special Defense Acquisition Fund to: (1) acquire defense articles and services in anticipation of their transfer, on a reimbursable basis, to the Department of Defense to replace items transferred from the inventory of the Department to foreign countries and international organizations if such items are no longer in production for use by U.S. armed forces; and (2) keep certain defense articles and services on continuous order in anticipation of their transfer to foreign countries and international organizations. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require that the price for foreign military sales shall exclude the costs of salaries of members of U.S. armed forces if military assistance funds are used to pay for such sale. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 for military assistance programs. Earmarks a specified amount of such authorization for Tunisia. Authorizes the President, if it is in the national interest, to waive the requirement that proceeds from the sale of military assistance program equipment by a foreign country must be paid to the United States. Imposes a limit on the value of additions to stockpiles of defense articles in foreign countries for FY 1986. Makes permanent the current list of countries where more than six members of the U.S. armed forces may be assigned. Adds to that list Pakistan, Tunisia, Sudan, El Salvador, and Honduras. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 for the international military education and training assistance program. Authorizes the President to provide for attendance of foreign military personnel at professional military education institutions in the United States (other than Service academies) at no charge if such attendance is pursuant to a reciprocal exchange student agreement. Encourages the President to allocate a portion of the international military education and training funds to provide training in certain maritime law enforcement skills. Exempts such training from the prohibition against using foreign assistance funds for police training. Authorizes appropriations for peacekeeping operations for FY 1986. Authorizes the President, in the event of an unforeseen emergency that requires immediate assistance, to direct the drawdown of commodities and services from the inventory and resources of any Federal agency. Limits the amount of the value of such drawdown. Authorizes appropriations to reimburse such agency in such circumstances. Requires the President to notify the Congress before exercising such authority. Earmarks a specified amount of the military assistance funds provided under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for Turkey with the understanding that the United States is acting to oppose any actions aimed at effecting a permanent bifurcation of Cyprus. Earmarks specified amounts of the arms sales credits provided for FY 1986 under the Arms Export Control Act for Turkey and for Greece. Provides that concessional financing shall be extended in the same proportion for Greece as for Turkey. Prohibits providing any FY 1986 foreign military sales credits for Lebanon. Amends the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1981 to exclude from the prohibition on arms sales to Chile certain safety-related aircraft equipment. Provides that lease or loan of certain naval vessels shall be made only in accordance with specified provisions of the Arms Export Control Act or of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Directs the President to submit a written presidential certification containing agreements with Saudi Arabia that specified conditions set forth in a 1981 airborne warning and control system (AWACS) communication have been met before the E-3A AWACS aircraft are transferred to Saudi Arabia. Directs the President to notify the Congress of any changes being considered by the United States in the arrangements described in such 1981 AWACS communication. Title II: Economic Support Fund - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require that Economic Support Fund assistance made available for commodity import programs or other programs shall, to the maximum extent possible, be used to generate local currencies. Earmarks 50 percent of such currencies for specified development assistance programs. Requires the annual report to the Congress on foreign assistance to include a detailed justification for the uses and purposes of the funds provided through the Economic Support Fund. Authorizes appropriations for the Economic Support Fund for FY 1986. Earmarks specified amounts of such funds for Israel, Egypt, Cyprus, Tunisia, Portugal, and for emergency assistance programs. Requires the President to use at least 20 percent of the amount of such funds which are made available for commodity import programs to purchase U.S. farm commodities. Deletes certain obsolete provisions. Prohibits using FY 1986 Economic Support Fund assistance to finance a nuclear facility in a foreign country unless the President certifies to the Congress that such country is a party to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, cooperates fully with the International Atomic Energy Agency, and pursues nuclear non-proliferation policies. Prohibits making any FY 1986 Economic Support Fund assistance available for Lebanon. Title III: Development Assistance - Adds these principles to the principles guiding U.S. development assistance policy: (1) U.S. encouragement of policy reforms is necessary if developing countries are to achieve economic growth with equity; (2) development assistance should promote private sector activity in open and competitive markets in developing countries; (3) U.S. cooperation in development should recognize as essential the need of developing countries to have access to appropriate technology in order to improve food, water, health, housing, education, agriculture, and industry; and (4) U.S. assistance should focus on establishing and upgrading the institutional capacities of developing countries in order to promote long term development. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 for: (1) agriculture, rural development, and nutrition programs, including funds for aiding private and voluntary agencies engaged in world hunger issues; (2) population and health programs, including funds for special programs for the health needs of children and mothers; (3) education and human resources development programs; (4) energy, private voluntary organizations, and selected development activities; (5) contributions to the private sector revolving fund; and (6) the Sahel development program. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should continue U.S. participation in the International Fund for Agricultural development; (2) the United States should provide a special contribution to the International Fund for Agricultural Development for a special fund for Sub-Saharan African countries affected by drought and desertification; and (3) such objectives should be accomplished through a reprogramming of existing appropriations or through some procedure designed to guarantee that funding levels for international affairs programs are consistent with targets set by the applicable congressional budget resolution. Provides that nongovernmental or multilateral organizations shall not be subjected to eligibility requirements for population and health program assistance funds that are more restrictive than the requirements applicable to foreign governments. Prohibits using population planning and health program assistance funds: (1) in any country that permits infanticide or coerced abortion; and (2) by any organization which provides funds with respect to such a country. Prohibits making any development assistance funds available for population planning programs in China. Requires the United States to oppose the extension of assistance by any international organization to which the United States makes a financial contribution for any population program in China. Earmarks for private and voluntary organizations at least 15 percent of the funds appropriated for any fiscal year for various development assistance programs. Authorizes using funds made available under the Economic Support Fund for such organizations in determining compliance with such requirement. Authorizes providing development assistance to rural and urban cooperatives which offer large numbers of low and middle income people in developing countries an opportunity to participate directly in democratic decision making. Requires that priority consideration be given, in planning economic assistance programs, to programs that would help reduce illicit narcotics cultivation. Authorizes the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance to use resources for activities aimed at increasing awareness of the effects of production and trafficking of illicit narcotics on source and transit countries. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 for the worldwide housing guarantee program. Deletes the limitation on the average face value of such housing guarantees issued in any fiscal year. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 for Export-Import Bank guarantees for financing transactions involving exports for the use of the private sector in Central American countries. Increases the authorization for FY 1985 for such guarantees. Increases the amount of development assistance funds which the President is authorized to spend to help meet the needs of disadvantaged children in Asia. Title IV: Central America Democracy, Peace, and Development Initiative - Sets forth U.S. policy with respect to Central America. Directs the President to ensure that assistance authorized by the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Arms Export Control Act to Central American countries is furnished in a manner which fosters demonstrated progress towards specified objectives. Terminates specified reporting requirements applicable to El Salvador. Expresses congressional support for the peace initiatives taken by the Contadora group and for the Document of Objectives which sets forth the framework for negotiating a peaceful settlement to the conflict in the region. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should enter into negotiations with Central American countries to establish a Central American Development Organization (the Organization) to help provide a continuous and coherent approach to the development of the Central American region; and (2) the Organization should be based on specified principles. Authorizes the President to participate in the Organization. Directs the administrator of the agency primarily responsible for administering the development assistance programs to prepare a proposal to carry out U.S. participation in the Organization and to keep the Congress informed concerning the development of such proposal. Directs the President to transmit to the Congress the text of any agreement the President proposes to sign providing for the establishment of and U.S. participation in the Organization at least 60 days before the President signs signs such agreement. Provides for congressional review of such agreement. Authorizes appropriations for non-military assistance for Central American countries for FY 1987 through 1989. Authorizes the President to furnish assistance to countries and organizations in order to strengthen the administration of justice in Latin America and the Caribbean. Requires the President to notify specified congressional committees at least 15 days before obligating funds for such purposes. Exempts from the prohibition against using U.S. funds to aid governments that nationalize property that monetary assistance made available to a government to compensate nationals of a country in accordance with a land reform program, if such land reform program is in the national interest. Urges the President to develop a plan for the expanded use of employee stock ownership plans in U.S. development efforts in Central America and the Caribbean. Establishes a Presidential Task Force on Project Economic Justice to assist in such effort. Requires the Task Force to report to the President and the Congress by December 31, 1985, on the expanded use of employee stock ownership plans in U.S. development efforts in Central America and the Caribbean. Prohibits using funds authorized by this Act, the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, or the Arms Export Control Act to provide assistance to any person or group engaging in an insurgency or other act of rebellion against Nicaragua. Prohibits the United States from making an agreement under which a recipient of U.S. economic or military assistance or a purchaser of U.S. military equipment shall provide assistance of any kind to persons or groups engaging in an insurgency or other act of rebellion against Nicaragua. Title V: Other Assistance Programs - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 for: (1) American schools and hospitals abroad; (2) international organizations and programs; (3) international narcotics control; (4) international disaster assistance; and (5) anti-terrorism assistance. Earmarks certain amounts of the funds authorized for international organization and programs for specified United Nations programs. Prohibits making any of such funds available for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the Southwest Africa Peoples Organization, Libya, Iran, Cuba, or Syria. Changes the reporting requirements for the international narcotics control program. Requires the last quarterly report of each fiscal year to include a report on the total assistance provided during that fiscal year. Requires the President to transmit to the Congress a midyear report on such program. Extends the antiterrorism assistance programs through FY 1986. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 for the trade and development program and for the operating expenses of the agency primarily responsible for development assistance. Title VI: Peace Corps - Amends the Peace Corps Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1986 for the Peace Corps. Title VII: African Development Foundation - Amends the African Development Foundation Act to authorize appropriations for the African Development Foundation for FY 1986. Extends the authorities of such Act through FY 1989. Title VIII: Inter-American Foundation - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1969 to authorize appropriations for the Inter-American Foundation for FY 1986. Title IX: General Provisions - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to prohibit using foreign assistance funds for the procurement of construction or engineering services from advanced developing countries which have attained a competitive capability in international markets for such services and which are not receiving development assistance or Economic Support Fund assistance under this Act. Increases from $100,000 to $500,000 the minimum amount of a foreign aid agreement or grant which may be made only after specified plans and cost estimates have been completed. Authorizes the President to remove a country from the list of communist countries that may not receive any U.S. aid if the President determines, and reports to the Congress, that such action is important to the national interest. Prohibits furnishing Pakistan with assistance or with military equipment or technology unless the President certifies to the Congress during the fiscal year in which such assistance or military equipment or technology is furnished that Pakistan does not possess a nuclear explosive device and that the proposed U.S. aid program will reduce significantly the risk that Pakistan will possess such a device. Prohibits obligating any of the funds appropriated under the Arms Export Control Act for any programs not justified, or in excess of the amount justified, to the Congress for obligation for any fiscal year unless specified committees of the Congress are notified 15 days before such obligation. Excludes from such a notification requirement development assistance funds if the obligation will exceed the justified amount by no more than 10 percent. Provides that such notification requirement does not apply to the reprogramming of less than $25,000 for use under the international narcotics control program or for use under the international military education and training program for a country for which a program under such program for that fiscal year was justified to the Congress. Requires the President to notify the Congress, within 30 days of enactment of any law appropriating funds to carry out the Arms Export Control Act, of each country and organization to which the United States intends to provide any portion of such funds. Deletes the provision which imposes specified reporting requirements on granting military or economic assistance which exceeds by ten percent or more the amount set forth in the President's annual report on allocation of foreign assistance funds. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to require the President to include all sales (currently cash sales, credits, and guaranty agreements) in the President's annual report to the Congress on military exports. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to declare that no law shall be construed to prohibit training assistance funded by such Act and consistent with specified provisions of such Act for Brazil or Argentina as long as such countries continue to have democratically elected governments. Prohibits, subject to a specified exception, providing military assistance or extending foreign military financing to a non-nuclear weapon state which on or after enactment of this Act exports illegally from the United States any material, equipment, or technology which would contribute significantly to the ability of such country to build a nuclear explosive device, if the President determines that such illegal exports were to be used by such country to build such a device. Authorizes using funds made available under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for programs to assist in halting illegal emigration from Haiti to the United States. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from tax withholding provisions the amounts of scholarships or fellowship grants paid by the United States to a nonresident alien who is engaged in training in the United States under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Authorizes the President to make development assistance funds and Economic Support Fund monies available for humanitarian aid to the Afghan people during FY 1985 and 1986. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to make certain technical amendments. Expresses a reaffirmation of U.S. policy prohibiting negotiations with the PLO so long as the PLO does not recognize Israel's right to exist and does not accept Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338. Directs the President to report to the Congress by June 1, 1986 on efforts to achieve long term agricultural commodity agreements to help stabilize and increase the flow of concessional and commercial food stuffs with food deficit countries.

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Timeline

  1. 27 March 1985

    Reported

    Committee on Foreign Relations ordered to be reported an original measure in lieu of S. 559, S. 560, S. 660, S. 656.

    Source: Committee

  2. 19 April 1985

    Calendars

    Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 84.

    Source: Calendars

  3. 19 April 1985

    Reported

    Committee on Foreign Relations. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Lugar under the authority of the order of Apr 18, 85. With written report No. 99-34.

    Source: Committee

  4. 19 April 1985

    Reported

    Committee on Foreign Relations. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Lugar under the authority of the order of Apr 18, 85. With written report No. 99-34.

    Source: Committee

  5. 19 April 1985

    Introduced

    Introduced in Senate

    Source: IntroReferral

  6. 14 May 1985

    Floor

    Measure laid before Senate.

    Source: Floor

  7. 15 May 1985

    Floor

    Considered by Senate.

    Source: Floor

  8. 15 May 1985

    Vote

    Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments by Yea-Nay Vote. 75-19. Record Vote No: 82.

    Source: Floor

  9. 11 July 1985

    Floor

    House Incorporated H.R.1555 in This Measure as an Amendment.

    Source: Floor

  10. 11 July 1985

    Passed

    Passed House (Amended) by Voice Vote.

    Source: Floor

  11. 11 July 1985

    Passed

    Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Voice Vote.

    Source: Floor

  12. 11 July 1985

    Floor

    Called up by House by Unanimous Consent.

    Source: Floor

  13. 16 July 1985

    ResolvingDifferences

    House Requested a Conference and Speaker Appointed Conferees: Fascell, Hamilton, Yatron, Solarz, Bonker, Mica, Barnes, Wolpe, Broomfield, Gilman, Lagomarsino, Hyde, Solomon, Howard, Mineta, Snyder, Hammerschmidt, de la Garza, Bedell, Roberts.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

  14. 16 July 1985

    ResolvingDifferences

    House Insisted on its Amendments by Unanimous Consent.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

  15. 16 July 1985

    NotUsed

    Resolving differences -- House actions: House Insisted on its Amendments by Unanimous Consent.

    Source: NotUsed

  16. 24 July 1985

    Passed

    Senate agreed to request for conference. Appointed conferees. Lugar; Helms; Mathias; Kassebaum; Boschwitz; Pell; Biden; Sarbanes; Cranston.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

  17. 24 July 1985

    Passed

    Senate disagreed to the House amendments by Voice Vote.

    Source: Floor

  18. 24 July 1985

    Passed

    Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate disagreed to the House amendments by Voice Vote.

    Source: NotUsed

  19. 25 July 1985

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

  20. 25 July 1985

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference committee actions: Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

  21. 26 July 1985

    Passed

    Conferees agreed to file conference report.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

  22. 26 July 1985

    Passed

    Conference committee actions: Conferees agreed to file conference report.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

  23. 29 July 1985

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference Report 99-237 Filed in House.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

  24. 29 July 1985

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference report filed: Conference Report 99-237 Filed in House.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

  25. 30 July 1985

    Passed

    Conference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Voice Vote.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

  26. 30 July 1985

    Passed

    Senate agreed to conference report by Voice Vote.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

  27. 31 July 1985

    Vote

    House Agreed to Conference Report by Yea-Nay Vote: 262 - 161 (Record Vote No: 275).

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

  28. 31 July 1985

    Vote

    Conference report agreed to in House: House Agreed to Conference Report by Yea-Nay Vote: 262 - 161 (Record Vote No: 275).

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

  29. 6 August 1985

    Floor

    Measure Signed in Senate.

    Source: Floor

  30. 7 August 1985

    Floor

    Presented to President.

    Source: Floor

  31. 7 August 1985

    President

    Presented to President.

    Source: President

  32. 8 August 1985

    Became law

    Became Public Law No: 99-83.

    Source: President

  33. 8 August 1985

    Became law

    Signed by President.

    Source: BecameLaw

  34. 8 August 1985

    President

    Signed by President.

    Source: President

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      Public Law · EN · 9 August 1985

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    • Passed House amended

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    • Passed Senate amended

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    • Introduced in Senate

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