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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1820 

To authorize appropriations for certain cooperative projects among the United 

States, Israel, and developing countries, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 18, 2019 

Ms. FRANKEL (for herself and Mr. WEBER of Texas) introduced the following 

bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 

A BILL 

To authorize appropriations for certain cooperative projects 

among the United States, Israel, and developing countries, 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 ‘‘United States-Israel 

5 International Development Cooperation Act of 2019’’. 

6 SEC. 2. STATEMENT OF POLICY AND MEMORANDUM OF UN7 DERSTANDING. 

8 (a) STATEMENT OF POLICY.—It should be the policy 

9 of the United States Agency for International Develop10 ment to seek to partner with Israel in order to advance 


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1 common goals across a wide variety of sectors, including 

2 for projects relating to— 

3 (1) energy, agriculture, and food security; 

4 (2) democracy, human rights, and governance; 

5 (3) economic growth and trade; and 

6 (4) education, environment, global health, 

7 water, and sanitation. 

8 (b) MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING.—The Ad9 ministrator of the United States Agency for International 

10 Development is authorized to enter into a memorandum 

11 of understanding with the appropriate officials of the Gov12 ernment of Israel in order to enhance coordination be13 tween the two countries on advancing the common goals 

14 described in subsection (a)(1) through (a)(4) with a focus 

15 on strengthening mutual ties and cooperation with other 

16 countries throughout the world. 

17 SEC. 3. COOPERATIVE PROJECTS AMONG THE UNITED 

18 STATES, ISRAEL, AND DEVELOPING COUN19 TRIES. 

20 Section 106(f) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 

21 (22 U.S.C. 2151d) is amended to read as follows: 

22 ‘‘(f) There is authorized to be appropriated 

23 $2,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2020 through 2024 

24 to finance cooperative projects among the United States, 

25 Israel, and developing countries that identify and support 


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1 local solutions to address sustainability challenges relating 

2 to water resources, agriculture, and energy storage, in3 cluding for the following activities: 

4 ‘‘(1) Establishing public-private partnerships. 

5 ‘‘(2) Supporting the identification, research, de6 velopment testing, and scaling of innovations that 

7 focus on populations that are vulnerable to environ8 mental and resource-scarcity crises, such as subsist9 ence farming communities. 

10 ‘‘(3) Seed or transition-to-scale funding, pub11 licity and marketing promotional support, or men12 torship and partnership brokering support. 

13 ‘‘(4) Acceleration of demonstrations or applica14 tions of local solutions to sustainability challenges, 

15 or the further refinement, testing, or implementation 

16 of innovations that have previously effectively ad17 dressed sustainability challenges.’’. 

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