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Calendar No. 291 

116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 4842 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

OCTOBER 30, 2019 

Received 

NOVEMBER 5, 2019 

Read the first time 

NOVEMBER 6, 2019 

Read the second time and placed on the calendar 

AN ACT 

To authorize the Secretary of State to provide funds for 

a United States pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, and for 

other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Expositions Provide 

5 Opportunities Act of 2019’’ or ‘‘EXPO Act of 2019’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. STATE DEPARTMENT AUTHORIZATION FOR PAVIL2 ION AT EXPO 2020 DUBAI. 

3 (a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding section 204 of 

4 the Admiral James W. Nance and Meg Donovan Foreign 

5 Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2000 and 2001 

6 (22 U.S.C. 2452b), there is authorized to be appropriated 

7 for each of fiscal years 2020 and 2021 funds for a United 

8 States pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, subject to sub9 sections (b) and (c). 

10 (b) COST-SHARE REQUIREMENT.—Funds made 

11 available pursuant to subsection (a) to the Department of 

12 State for a United States pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai 

13 shall be made available on a cost-matching basis, to the 

14 maximum extent practicable, from sources other than the 

15 United States Government. 

16 (c) NOTIFICATION.— 

17 (1) IN GENERAL.—Funds made available pur18 suant to subsection (a) to the Department of State 

19 for a United States pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai 

20 may be obligated only after the appropriate congres21 sional committees are notified not less than 15 days 

22 prior to such obligation. 

23 (2) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED.—Such notifi24 cation shall include the following: 

25 (A) A description of the source of such 

26 funds, including any funds reprogrammed or 


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1 transferred by the Department of State to be 

2 made available for such pavilion. 

3 (B) An estimate of the amount of invest4 ment such pavilion could bring to the United 

5 States. 

6 (C) A description of the strategy of the 

7 Department to identify and obtain such match8 ing funds from sources other than the United 

9 States Government, in accordance with sub10 section (b). 

11 (D) An analysis of the human rights 

12 record of the United Arab Emirates. 

13 (E) A certification that each entity receiv14 ing amounts for a contract, grant, or other 

15 agreement to construct, maintain, or otherwise 

16 service such pavilion— 

17 (i) is not in violation of the labor laws 

18 of the United Arab Emirates, the Foreign 

19 Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 (Public Law 

20 95–213), and any other applicable anti21 corruption laws; and 

22 (ii) does not employ, or otherwise uti23 lize, a victim of trafficking (as defined in 

24 section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Pro25 tection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102)). 


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1 (d) FINAL REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after 

2 the date on which a United States pavilion at Expo 2020 

3 Dubai is opened, the Secretary of State shall submit to 

4 the appropriate congressional committees a report that in5 cludes— 

6 (1) the number of United States businesses 

7 that participated in such pavilion; and 

8 (2) the dollar amount and source of any match9 ing funds obtained by the Department. 

10 (e) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DE11 FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate congres12 sional committees’’ means the following: 

13 (1) The Committee on Foreign Affairs and the 

14 Committee on Appropriations of the House of Rep15 resentatives. 

16 (2) The Committee on Foreign Relations and 

17 the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate. 

18 (f) SUNSET.—This section ceases to be effective on 

19 September 30, 2021. 

Passed the House of Representatives October 29, 

2019. 

Attest: CHERYL L. JOHNSON, 

Clerk. 


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Calendar No. 291 

116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 4842 

AN ACT 

To authorize the Secretary of State to provide 

Dubai, and for other purposes. funds for a United States pavilion at Expo 2020 

NOVEMBER 6, 2019 

Read the second time and placed on the calendar 


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