An original bill to provide a supplemental authorization of appropriations for the fiscal year 1983 for certain foreign assistance programs and to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Arms Export Control Act to authorize appropriations for the fiscal year 1984 for international security and development assistance, and for other purposes.
International Security and Development Corporation Act of 1983 - Title I: Fiscal Year 1983 Supplemental Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes supplemental appropriations for FY 1983 for: (1) foreign military sales loan guarantees; (2) military assistance; (3) the Economic Support Fund with a specified amount earmarked to Cyprus for refugee relief, reconstruction, and educational exchange programs; and (4) international organizations and programs for payment to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Title II: Military Sales and Related Programs - Amends the Arms Export Control Act to express the sense of the Congress that the President should initiate discussions to limit the transfer by member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to developing countries of conventional arms.
Prohibits personnel performing defense services provided under the Foreign Assistance Act from performing combat duties outside the United States in connection with the performance of those defense services.
Authorizes the President to sell defense services to eligible countries or international organizations if the country or organization agrees to pay, in the case of training sold to a purchaser of a defense service only those additional costs that are incurred furnishing the training.
Deletes the provision which authorizes the President to enter into NATO standardization agreements and similar agreements with Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.
Requires the administrative surcharge included in sales of defense articles and services to include costs which would not otherwise be incurred by the United States.
Authorizes the President to provide free cataloging data and services to NATO or to any member government of NATO if NATO or the member government provides such data and services to the United States on a reciprocal basis.
Changes the deadline for the President's annual report to Congress on arms sales from major arms suppliers to developing countries from February 1, to April 1, each year.
Requires the President's annual report to Congress on U.S. arms sales and military assistance to include the total value of defense articles and services furnished by the United States to each foreign country and international organization by category during the previous fiscal year specifying the authority under which they were furnished.
Requires the President's quarterly report to Congress on U.S. military aid to include the text of all defense requirement surveys completed during the preceding calendar quarter.
Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 for foreign military sales credits and guarantees with specified amounts earmarked for: (1) military sales credits to Israel; and (2) military sales credits and loan guarantees to Egypt. Includes Korea within the list of countries that have a ten year grace period before beginning repayment on guaranteed loans. Releases Egypt from repaying a specified amount of the credits and guarantees provided to Egypt by the United States during FY 1984. Increases the amount of foreign military sales credits and guarantees which shall be available only for Egypt.
Authorizes making funds available for FY 1984 to finance defense procurement by Israel. Increases the amount of such funds which Israel is released from repaying.
Earmarks specified amounts of the funds authorized for loan guarantees for Greece and Turkey during FY 1984.
Authorizes appropriations for each fiscal year beginning with FY 1985 to maintain adequate reserves in the Guaranty Reserve Fund.
Provides for congressional review proposals to sell major defense equipment, defense articles, or defense services which have significantly more sensitive technology than that of other major defense equipment, articles, or services.
Increases the criminal penalties for certain violations of such Act. Limits the civil penalty for each violation involving certain arms export controls.
Prohibits using any of the funds or guaranties made available under this Act for procurement outside the United States unless the President certifies to the Congress that the U.S. national interest will be furthered by such procurement.
Requires that charges for administrative services shall include recovery of administrative and extraordinary expenses incurred by Federal agencies in carrying out certain functions of the Arms Export Control Act. Limits the amount of representational expenses that may be recovered by such charges.
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for FY 1984 for: (1) military assistance; (2) international military education and training; and (3) peacekeeping operations.
Sets the limit on the value of additions to stockpiles of defense articles in foreign countries for FY 1984.
Authorizes Pakistan, Tunisia, Yemen, Liberia, Sudan, Zaire, El Salvador, Honduras, and Venezuela to have more than six but not more than 12 members of the U.S. armed forces in their countries for FY 1984.
Authorizes the President to provide free training for foreign military personnel at professional military schools in the United States if it is pursuant to an agreement providing reciprocal training for U.S. students in foreign military schools.
Authorizes the President, in the event of an unforeseen emergency that requires the immediate provision of peacekeeping operations, to direct the drawdown of a specified amount of commodities and services from the inventory and resources of any U.S. agency. Provides for reimbursement of such agencies. Requires the President to notify the Speaker of the House and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee before exercising such authority.
Title III: Economic Support Fund - Directs the President to provide, to the maximum extent feasible, assistance under the Economic Support Fund consistent with the international development policy directions, purposes and programs of this Act.
Requires that funds made available through the Economic Support Fund for program assistance shall be used to generate local currencies, not less than 50 percent of which shall be available to support specified development objectives.
Requires the Administrator of the agency primarily responsible for administering the development assistance part of the Foreign Assistance Act to be responsible for administering the Economic Support Fund. Requires such agency to provide an annual justification to the Congress for the uses and purposes of the funds provided under the Economic Support Fund.
Authorizes appropriations for the Fund for FY 1984.
Directs the President to use a specified percentage of the funds appropriated for the Fund and made available for commodity import programs to purchase agricultural commodities and agricultural-related products which are of U.S. origin.
Earmarks specified amounts of the funds authorized to carry out the Economic Support Fund for FY 1984 for Israel and Egypt. Prohibits making such funds available to Syria. Deletes the provision for regional cooperative programs in the Middle East.
Earmarks specified amounts for FY 1984 for: (1) Pakistan; (2) Tunisia; (3) Morocco; (4) programs in the Middle East and South Asia Region; (5) the East Asian Region; (6) Portugal; (7) Cyprus refugee relief and scholarship programs; (8) the European Region; (9) Costa Rica; (10) the Latin American Region; and (11) the African Region.
Deletes the sections dealing with: (1) Eastern Mediterranean programs; (2) the Special requirements fund; (3) Tunisia; (4) Costa Rica; (5) the programs for Nicaragua; and (6) the programs for Poland.
Prohibits the use of FY 1984 Economic Support Fund funds for nuclear facilities. Authorizes using a specified amount of such funds for emergency assistance.
Title IV: Development Assistance - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 for: (1) agriculture, rural development, and nutrition; (2) voluntary population planning and health programs, with a specified amount earmarked for the United Nations Fund for Population Activities; (3) education and human resources development, with a specified amount earmarked for education assistance to educationally disadvantaged South Africans; and (4) energy, private voluntary organizations, and selected development activities.
Authorizes the President to establish a revolving fund account in the Treasury in order to promote private sector development in developing countries. Authorizes depositing a specified amount of funds from the Economic Support Fund in the account. Sets forth the method of administering the fund. Requires the fund's Administrator to report annually to Congress on all projects proposed to be funded by the revolving fund. Requires the President to report annually to Congress on projects funded by the revolving fund.
Earmarks a specified amount of FY 1984 funds to support the goals of the United Nations Decade for Women.
Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 for the Sahel development program. Earmarks a specified amount for private voluntary organizations.
Directs the President to use poverty measurement standards in determining target populations for U.S. development assistance and to strengthen U.S. efforts to assure that a substantial percentage of development assistance directly improves the lives of the poor majority. Requires that certain development assistance activities be monitored to ensure the ultimate beneficiaries of these activities are the poor majority. Requires that the annual report to Congress on foreign assistance programs shall include an evaluation of the extent to which development programs directly benefit the poor majority.
Authorizes appropriations for development assistance for Pakistan.
Increases the limit on outstanding housing guaranties. Extends the authorization for the worldwide housing guaranty program until September 30, 1985.
Requires the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance programs, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, to prescribe the maximum interest rate allowable to an eligible investor in a loan investment guaranteed under the housing guaranty program.
Limits commitments to guarantee loans under the agricultural and productive credit and self-help community development programs to the extent provided in appropriation Acts. Extends the authority for such programs through September 30, 1984.
Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 for international organizations and programs. Earmarks specified amounts of such funds for specified programs. Prohibits using any of such funds for programs for the Palestine Liberation Organization, the South West Africa Peoples Organization, Cuba, or Iran.
Title V: Other Assistance Programs - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 for American schools and hospitals abroad.
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to furnish surplus agricultural commodities for famine relief.
Directs the President to suspend all U.S. assistance to a country when the President determines that the government of such country has failed to take adequate measures to prevent narcotic drugs or other controlled substances produced or processed illicitly in such country, or transported through such country, from being sold illegally in that country's jurisdiction to U.S. Government personnel or their dependents, or from being smuggled into the United States. Requires such prohibition to continue in force until the President reports to Congress that such country has devised a plan for eliminating drug traffic and has taken measures to enforce suppression of illicit drugs. Requires the President to terminate all U.S. assistance to any country if Congress so directs by a concurrent resolution stating that such country is substantially in violation of the narcotics control provisions of this Act. Requires the President to report to Congress on the plans for controlling drug traffic which have been made by countries that will be receiving U.S. assistance and that are exporters of illicit drugs.
Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 for: (1) international narcotics control; and (2) international disaster assistance.
Title VI: Antiterrorism Assistance - Authorizes the President to furnish assistance to eligible countries to aid in the deterrence of international terrorism. Sets forth provisions for reimbursement for the value of services and commodities furnished under this program.
Provides for consultation with the Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs in the development and implementation of this program. Sets forth procedures and requirements for training services under this Act.
Requires the President to transmit specified written notification to specified congressional committees not less than 30 days before providing antiterrorism assistance. Sets forth certain reporting requirements. Authorizes: (1) appropriations for FY 1984; and (2) transfers of funds previously made available for FY 1983 to carry out this program.
Title VII: General Provisions - Authorizes the President to furnish assistance to countries to protect and maintain wildlife habitats and to develop sound wildlife management and plant conservation programs. Directs the Administrator of the Agency for International Development, in conjunction with the heads of other specified agencies, to develop a U.S. strategy to protect and conserve biological diversity in developing countries. Requires annual reports to Congress on the implementation of such strategy.
Declares that it is the intent of Congress that the agency primarily responsible for administering the development programs should intensify its efforts to encourage and assist suppliers of U.S.-origin goods and services to compete for procurement opportunities arising from use of development assistance, economic support fund, and multilateral development bank funding. Requires an annual report on such efforts.
Increases the amount which the U.S. Government, without restriction, can grant for development assistance, for American schools and hospitals abroad, or for the Economic Support Fund.
Authorizes furnishing assistance to the People's Republic of China (and Tibet) under the Foreign Assistance Act if the President reports to Congress that extending eligibility to the People's Republic of China (and Tibet) is important to U.S. security.
Directs the President, in determining the level of U.S. assistance to a country, to consider the extent to which the government of such country permits a government-owned entity or nationals of that country to engage in the unauthorized broadcast of copyrighted material belonging to U.S. copyright owners. Requires that a country whose government-owned entity engages in such broadcasts shall receive only one-half of the proposed U.S. assistance for such country. Authorizes the President to waive such limit if the President determines such action is in the national interest.
Directs the President to notify the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee concerning any reprograming of authorized funds in the International Affairs Budget Function in the same way as the President notifies the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Deletes the limit on the amount of funds that may be used to construct facilities for U.S. Government personnel carrying out the Foreign Assistance Act. Increases the amount of funds that may be used to educate the dependents of such personnel.
Excludes from the congressional notification requirement: (1) reprograming of less than $50,000 for use under international narcotics control program; and (2) international military education and training programs.
Provides that aid under the Arms Export Control Act need not be reported to Congress within 30 days of enactment of a law appropriating such funds. Deletes the requirement that the President report to Congress before granting certain foreign assistance which exceeds by ten percent or more the assistance which the President reported to Congress.
Amends the Arms Export Control Act to delete the requirement that the President report to Congress on the amounts of and recipients of foreign military credit sales and guarantees.
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for FY 1984 for the: (1) trade and development program; and (2) operating expenses for the agency primarily responsible for administering the development assistance provisions of such Act.
Provides that the prohibition against using foreign assistance funds for police training shall not apply to assistance or training in maritime law enforcement.
Amends the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1980 to authorize appropriations for FY 1984 for the African Development Foundation.
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1969 to authorize appropriations for FY 1984 for the Inter-American Foundation.
Amends the Peace Corps Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1984 to carry out such Act.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the tax withholding provisions the scholarship or fellowship grants of nonresident aliens.
Authorizes additional appropriations for aid to El Salvador for FY 1983. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 to carry out military assistance and training under the Foreign Assistance Act and the Arms Export Control Act for El Salvador such that the sum of the amounts available do not exceed a specified amount.
Prohibits exercising the emergency authority under the Foreign Assistance Act or the leasing authority under the Arms Export Control Act during FY 1983 and 1984 with respect to El Salvador. Prohibits the President from exercising the special authorities provided under the Foreign Assistance Act with respect to El Salvador, except for reprograming.
Limits the amount of funds available for FY 1983 and 1984 to carry out the Economic Support Fund provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act with respect to El Salvador.
Limits the total number of U.S. military trainers or advisers in El Salvador during FY 1983 and 1984 to 55.
Declares that: (1) it is U.S. policy to support peaceful resolution to the conflict in El Salvador and (2) to support the evolution of democratic forms of government there; (2) the United States is prepared to offer its help in regional efforts aimed at beginning a dialog in El Salvador, reducing regional tensions, and providing substantial emergency aid to the displaced people of the region.
Authorizes providing El Salvador with military assistance, military training, military personnel and offers of military sales credits and guarantees only if the President has reported to the Speaker of the House and the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the plans of El Salvador's Government to meet specified goals. Sets forth the goals. Requires the President to provide Congress with progress reports on El Salvador every six months.
Amends the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1981 to extend through FY 1985 that Act's certification requirement relating to El Salvador. Adds the requirement that the certification include a finding that El Salvador has taken concrete steps to strengthen its judicial system and to insure its independence and integrity. Requires the President to include in each certification a finding that, during the period since the last certification, El Salvador has made further good-faith efforts to investigate the murders of U.S. citizens that have taken place since December 1980 in El Salvador and to bring to justice those responsible for those murders. Requires the President to include in the fourth certification and in subsequent certifications a report on the violence of the guerrillas in El Salvador.
Requires the International Development Cooperation Agency to be abolished within 60 days after enactment of this Act unless the President nominates someone to serve as Director of the Agency.
Requires the President to report to Congress within 180 days of enactment of this Act on the status of the programs of the Agency for International Development in Egypt.
Directs the President to report to Congress on efforts to achieve long-term agricultural commodity agreements.
Urges the President to continue to provide emergency food aid and humanitarian assistance to Ethiopia.
Establishes an Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs to administer the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs of the State Department.
Repeals specified provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered reported an original bill (S.1347) in lieu of this bill.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered reported an original bill (S.1347) in lieu of this bill.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered reported an original bill (S.1347) in lieu of this bill.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered reported an original bill (S.1347) in lieu of this bill.
Committee on Foreign Relations ordered to be reported an original measure in lieu of S. 637, S. 638, S. 701, S. 714.
Introduced in Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Percy. With written report No. 98-146.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Percy. With written report No. 98-146.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Regular Orders. Calendar No. 224.
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