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(1) LIMITATION ON FUNDING.—None of the funds appro-
priated under titles III and IV of this Act may be made available 
to the central government of any country that does not meet 
minimum standards of fiscal transparency: Provided, That the 
Secretary of State shall develop ‘‘minimum standards of fiscal 
transparency’’ to be updated and strengthened, as appropriate, 
to reflect best practices: Provided further, That the Secretary 
shall make an annual determination of ‘‘progress’’ or ‘‘no 
progress’’ for countries that do not meet minimum standards 
of fiscal transparency and make those determinations publicly 
available in an annual ‘‘Fiscal Transparency Report’’. 
(2) MINIMUM STANDARDS OF FISCAL TRANSPARENCY.—For 
purposes of paragraph (1), ‘‘minimum standards of fiscal trans-
parency’’ shall include standards for the public disclosure of 
budget documentation, including receipts and expenditures by 
ministry, and government contracts and licenses for natural 
resource extraction, to include bidding and concession allocation 
practices. 
(3) WAIVER.—The Secretary of State may waive the limita-
tion on funding in paragraph (1) on a country-by-country basis 
if the Secretary reports to the Committees on Appropriations 
that the waiver is important to the national interest of the 
United States: Provided, That such waiver shall identify any 
steps taken by the government of the country to publicly dis-
close its national budget and contracts which are additional 
to those which were undertaken in previous fiscal years, include 
specific recommendations of short- and long-term steps such 
government can take to improve budget transparency, and iden-
tify benchmarks for measuring progress. 
(4) ASSISTANCE.—Of the funds appropriated under title III 
of this Act, not less than $5,000,000 should be made available 
for programs and activities to assist the central governments 
of countries named in the list required by paragraph (1) to 
improve budget transparency or to support civil society 
organizations in such countries that promote budget trans-
parency: Provided, That such sums shall be in addition to 
funds otherwise made available for such purposes. 
(c) ANTI-KLEPTOCRACY.— 
(1) Officials of foreign governments and their immediate 
family members who the Secretary of State has credible 
information have been involved in significant corruption, 
including corruption related to the extraction of natural 
resources, shall be ineligible for entry into the United States. 
(2) Individuals shall not be ineligible if entry into the 
United States would further important United States law 
enforcement objectives or is necessary to permit the United 
States to fulfill its obligations under the United Nations Head-
quarters Agreement: Provided, That nothing in this provision 
shall be construed to derogate from United States Government 
obligations under applicable international agreements. 
(3) The Secretary may waive the application of paragraph 
(1) if the Secretary determines that the waiver would serve 
a compelling national interest or that the circumstances which 
caused the individual to be ineligible have changed sufficiently. 
(4) Not later than 90 days after enactment of this Act 
and 180 days thereafter, the Secretary of State shall submit 
a report, in classified form if necessary, to the Committees
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on Appropriations describing the information regarding corrup-
tion concerning each of the individuals found ineligible pursu-
ant to paragraph (1), a list of any waivers provided under 
subsection (3), and the justification for each waiver. 
AUTHORITY TO ENGAGE IN DEBT BUYBACKS OR SALES 
SEC. 7032. (a) LOANS ELIGIBLE FOR SALE, REDUCTION, OR CAN-
CELLATION.— 
(1) AUTHORITY
TO
SELL, REDUCE, OR
CANCEL
CERTAIN 
LOANS.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Presi-
dent may, in accordance with this section, sell to any eligible 
purchaser any concessional loan or portion thereof made before 
January 1, 1995, pursuant to the Foreign Assistance Act of 
1961, to the government of any eligible country as defined 
in section 702(6) of that Act or on receipt of payment from 
an eligible purchaser, reduce or cancel such loan or portion 
thereof, only for the purpose of facilitating— 
(A) debt-for-equity swaps, debt-for-development swaps, 
or debt-for-nature swaps; or 
(B) a debt buyback by an eligible country of its own 
qualified debt, only if the eligible country uses an additional 
amount of the local currency of the eligible country, equal 
to not less than 40 percent of the price paid for such 
debt by such eligible country, or the difference between 
the price paid for such debt and the face value of such 
debt, to support activities that link conservation and 
sustainable use of natural resources with local community 
development, and child survival and other child develop-
ment, in a manner consistent with sections 707 through 
710 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, if the sale, 
reduction, or cancellation would not contravene any term 
or condition of any prior agreement relating to such loan. 
(2) TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, the President shall, in accordance with this 
section, establish the terms and conditions under which loans 
may be sold, reduced, or canceled pursuant to this section. 
(3) ADMINISTRATION.—The Facility, as defined in section 
702(8) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, shall notify the 
administrator of the agency primarily responsible for admin-
istering part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 of pur-
chasers that the President has determined to be eligible, and 
shall direct such agency to carry out the sale, reduction, or 
cancellation of a loan pursuant to this section: Provided, That 
such agency shall make adjustment in its accounts to reflect 
the sale, reduction, or cancellation. 
(4) LIMITATION.—The authorities of this subsection shall 
be available only to the extent that appropriations for the 
cost of the modification, as defined in section 502 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, are made in advance. 
(b) DEPOSIT OF PROCEEDS.—The proceeds from the sale, reduc-
tion, or cancellation of any loan sold, reduced, or canceled pursuant 
to this section shall be deposited in the United States Government 
account or accounts established for the repayment of such loan. 
(c) ELIGIBLE PURCHASERS.—A loan may be sold pursuant to 
subsection (a)(1)(A) only to a purchaser who presents plans satisfac-
tory to the President for using the loan for the purpose of engaging
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in debt-for-equity swaps, debt-for-development swaps, or debt-for- 
nature swaps. 
(d) DEBTOR CONSULTATIONS.—Before the sale to any eligible 
purchaser, or any reduction or cancellation pursuant to this section, 
of any loan made to an eligible country, the President should 
consult with the country concerning the amount of loans to be 
sold, reduced, or canceled and their uses for debt-for-equity swaps, 
debt-for-development swaps, or debt-for-nature swaps. 
(e) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—The authority provided by sub-
section (a) may be used only with regard to funds appropriated 
by this Act under the heading ‘‘Debt Restructuring’’. 
MULTI-YEAR COMMITMENTS 
SEC. 7033. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may 
be used to make a future year funding pledge for any multilateral 
or bilateral program funded in titles III through VI of this Act 
unless such pledge was— 
(1) previously justified in a congressional budget justifica-
tion; 
(2) included in an Act making appropriations for the 
Department of State, foreign operations, and related programs 
or previously authorized by an Act of Congress; 
(3) notified in accordance with the regular notification 
procedures of the Committees on Appropriations; or 
(4) the subject of prior consultation with the Committees 
on Appropriations and such consultation was conducted at least 
7 days in advance of the pledge. 
SPECIAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 7034. (a) VICTIMS OF WAR, DISPLACED CHILDREN, AND 
DISPLACED BURMESE.—Funds appropriated in titles III and VI of 
this Act that are made available for victims of war, displaced 
children, and displaced Burmese, and to assist victims of trafficking 
in persons and, subject to the regular notification procedures of 
the Committees on Appropriations, to combat such trafficking, may 
be made available notwithstanding any other provision of law. 
(b) RECONSTITUTING CIVILIAN POLICE AUTHORITY.—In providing 
assistance with funds appropriated by this Act under section 
660(b)(6) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, support for a 
nation emerging from instability may be deemed to mean support 
for regional, district, municipal, or other sub-national entity 
emerging from instability, as well as a nation emerging from insta-
bility. 
(c) WORLD FOOD PROGRAM.—Funds managed by the Bureau 
for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, United 
States Agency for International Development (USAID), from this 
or any other Act, shall be made available as a general contribution 
to the World Food Program, notwithstanding any other provision 
of law. 
(d) DISARMAMENT, DEMOBILIZATION AND REINTEGRATION.—Not-
withstanding any other provision of law, regulation or Executive 
order, funds appropriated by this Act and prior Acts making appro-
priations for the Department of State, foreign operations, and 
related programs under the headings ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, 
‘‘Peacekeeping Operations’’, ‘‘International Disaster Assistance’’, and
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‘‘Transition Initiatives’’ should be made available to support pro-
grams to disarm, demobilize, and reintegrate into civilian society 
former members of foreign terrorist organizations: Provided, That 
the Secretary of State shall consult with the Committees on Appro-
priations prior to the obligation of funds pursuant to this subsection: 
Provided further, That for the purposes of this subsection the term 
‘‘foreign terrorist organization’’ means an organization designated 
as a terrorist organization under section 219 of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act. 
(e) RESEARCH AND TRAINING.—Funds appropriated by this Act 
under the heading ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’ may be made available 
to carry out the Program for Research and Training on Eastern 
Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union 
(title VIII) as authorized by the Soviet-Eastern European Research 
and Training Act of 1983 (22 U.S.C. 4501–4508). 
(f) CONTINGENCIES.—During fiscal year 2012, the President 
may use up to $50,000,000 under the authority of section 451 
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, notwithstanding any other 
provision of law. 
(g) CONSOLIDATION OF REPORTS.—The Secretary of State, in 
coordination with the USAID Administrator, shall submit to the 
Committees on Appropriations, and other relevant congressional 
committees, not later than 90 days after enactment of this Act 
recommendations for the consolidation or combination of reports 
(including plans and strategies) that are called for by any provision 
of law to be submitted to the Congress and that are substantially 
duplicative of others called for by any other provision of law: Pro-
vided, That reports are considered ‘‘substantially duplicative’’ if 
they are required to address at least more than half of the same 
substantive factors, criteria and issues that are required to be 
addressed by any other report, and any such consolidated report 
must address all the substantive factors, criteria and issues required 
to be addressed in each of the individual reports: Provided further, 
That reports affected by this subsection are those within the pur-
view of, or prepared primarily by, the Department of State and 
USAID and that relate to matters addressed under this Act or 
any other Act authorizing or appropriating funds for use by, or 
actions of, the Department of State or USAID. 
(h) PROMOTION OF DEMOCRACY.— 
(1) Funds made available by this Act that are made avail-
able for the promotion of democracy may be made available 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, and with regard 
to the National Endowment for Democracy, any regulation. 
(2) For the purposes of funds appropriated by this Act, 
the term ‘‘promotion of democracy’’ means programs that sup-
port good governance, human rights, independent media, and 
the rule of law, and otherwise strengthen the capacity of demo-
cratic 
political 
parties, 
governments, 
nongovernmental 
organizations and institutions, and citizens to support the 
development of democratic states, institutions, and practices 
that are responsive and accountable to citizens. 
(3) With respect to the provision of assistance for democ-
racy, human rights and governance activities in this Act, the 
organizations implementing such assistance and the specific 
nature of that assistance shall not be subject to the prior 
approval by the government of any foreign country.