IIB 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2471 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JULY 12, 2021 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 
AN ACT 
To measure the progress of post-disaster recovery and efforts 
to address corruption, governance, rule of law, and media 
freedoms in Haiti. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Haiti Development, 
Accountability, and Institutional Transparency Initiative 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) On January 12, 2010, a massive earth-
quake struck near the Haitian capital city of Port- 
au-Prince, leaving at least 220,000 people dead, in-
cluding 103 United States citizens, 101 United Na-
tions personnel, and nearly 18 percent of Haiti’s 
civil service, as well as 300,000 injured, 115,000 
homes destroyed, and 1,500,000 Haitians displaced. 
(2) The international community, led by the 
United States and the United Nations, mounted an 
unprecedented humanitarian response to the earth-
quake 
in 
Haiti. 
Through 
2018, 
more 
than 
$8,000,000,000 has been disbursed by donors. Since 
the 2010 earthquake, the United States Government 
has disbursed more than $4,000,000,000 in recovery 
and development funding. 
(3) On October 4, 2016, Hurricane Matthew 
struck southwestern Haiti on the Tiburon Peninsula, 
causing widespread damage and flooding and leaving 
1.4 million people in need of immediate assistance. 
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Recovery efforts continue more than four years 
later. 
(4) Prior to both the 2010 earthquake and 
2016 hurricane, Haiti registered among the lowest 
in socioeconomic indicators and had the second high-
est rate of income disparity in the world—conditions 
that have further complicated disaster recovery and 
resilience efforts. As of November 2020, 4,400,000 
people were in need of humanitarian assistance in 
Haiti. 
(5) Since 2018, tens of thousands of Haitians 
have participated in popular demonstrations de-
manding accountability over government manage-
ment of Petrocaribe resources. In early 2019, the 
Haitian superior court of auditors released a series 
of reports implicating high-level government officials 
in the misappropriation of funds. 
(6) The United Nations Human Rights Office 
of the High Commissioner and the Human Rights 
Service jointly found a 333 percent increase in 
human rights violations and abuses against the 
rights of life and security in Haiti from July 2018 
through December 2019. There were 131 violations 
in 2018 and 567 violations in 2019, including the 
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shooting of at least five Haitian journalists covering 
the protests. 
(7) Leading members of civil society have faced 
attacks, including Monferrier Dorval, a constitu-
tional law expert and president of the Port-au- 
Prince bar who was killed on August 28, 2020. 
(8) On November 13, 2018, according to the 
Haitian National Human Rights Defense Network, 
at least 71 people were killed and 18 people were 
raped in the Port-au-Prince neighborhood of La Sa-
line. 
(9) On December 10, 2020, the Department of 
the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control des-
ignated former Haitian National Police officer 
Jimmy Cherizier, former Director General of the 
Ministry of the Interior Fednel Monchery, and 
former Departmental Delegate Joseph Pierre Rich-
ard Duplan pursuant to the Global Magnitsky Exec-
utive Order for being foreign persons responsible for 
or complicit in, or having directly or indirectly en-
gaged in, serious human rights abuse for their con-
nection to the La Saline massacre. 
(10) Following the La Saline massacre, similar 
attacks have occurred in Port-au-Prince neighbor-
hoods, including the November 2019 and August 
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