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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 4842 

To authorize the Secretary of State to provide funds for a United States 

pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

OCTOBER 23, 2019 

Mr. PHILLIPS (for himself, Ms. CRAIG, Mr. EMMER, Mrs. FLETCHER, Mr. 

HAGEDORN, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. OLSON, Ms. OMAR, Mr. PETERSON, 

Mr. STAUBER, and Mr. YOHO) introduced the following bill; which was 

referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 

A BILL 

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’’. 

6 SEC. 2. STATE DEPARTMENT AUTHORIZATION FOR PAVIL7 ION AT EXPO 2020 DUBAI. 

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

9 the Admiral James W. Nance and Meg Donovan Foreign 


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1 Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2000 and 2001 

2 (22 U.S.C. 2452b), the Secretary of State is authorized, 

3 subject to subsections (b) and (c) of this section, to pro4 vide funds for a United States pavilion at Expo 2020 

5 Dubai. 

6 (b) NOTIFICATION.—No funds made available to the 

7 Department of State to be used for a pavilion at Expo 

8 2020 Dubai may be obligated or expended unless the ap9 propriate congressional committees are notified not less 

10 than 15 days prior to such obligation or expenditure. 

11 (c) REPORT.—The Secretary of State may not pro12 vide funds for a United States pavilion at Expo 2020 

13 Dubai unless, not later than the date that is 180 days 

14 before such pavilion is opened, the Secretary of State sub15 mits to the appropriate congressional committees a report 

16 concerning activities relating to such pavilion, including— 

17 (1) a description of the source of such funds, 

18 including any funds reprogrammed or transferred by 

19 the Department of State to be made available for 

20 such pavilion; 

21 (2) an estimate of the amount of investment 

22 such pavilion could bring to the United States; 

23 (3) an analysis of the human rights record of 

24 the United Arab Emirates; and 


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1 (4) a certification that each entity receiving 

2 amounts for a contract, grant, or other agreement to 

3 construct, maintain, or otherwise service such pavil4 ion is not in violation of the labor laws of the United 

5 Arab Emirates and do not employ, or otherwise uti6 lize, a victim of trafficking (as defined in section 103 

7 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 

8 (22 U.S.C. 7102)). 

9 (d) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES

10 DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate con11 gressional committees’’ means the following: 

12 (1) The Committee on Foreign Affairs and the 

13 Committee on Appropriations of the House of Rep14 resentatives. 

15 (2) The Committee on Foreign Relations and 

16 the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate. 

17 (e) SUNSET.—This section ceases to be effective on 

18 September 30, 2021. 

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