I 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 3771 
To promote long-term, sustainable rebuilding and development in Haiti, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 13, 2012 
Mr. CONYERS (for himself, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Ms. BROWN of Florida, 
Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. JACK-
SON of Illinois, Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas, Mr. COHEN, Ms. RICHARD-
SON, and Ms. LEE of California) introduced the following bill 
JANUARY 17, 2012 
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To promote long-term, sustainable rebuilding and 
development in Haiti, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Haiti Empowerment, 
Assistance, and Rebuilding Act of 2012’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
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(1) On January 12, 2010, Haiti suffered an 
earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter magnitude 
scale, the greatest natural disaster in Haiti’s history, 
which— 
(A) devastated Port-au-Prince and the sur-
rounding areas; 
(B) killed more than 300,000 people; 
(C) injured 200,000 to 300,000 more peo-
ple; 
(D) left 2,300,000 people homeless; 
(E) left many people with newly acquired 
disabilities, including limb loss and other phys-
ical and mental trauma; and 
(F) disrupted social structures and families 
through death, injury, and relocation. 
(2) The scale of the initial relief effort was un-
precedented, with many countries, hundreds of orga-
nizations, and thousands of people generously con-
tributing to a massive influx of supplies, resources, 
and personnel to support search and rescue oper-
ations and humanitarian assistance, underlying one 
of the most effective relief efforts in history. 
(3) Prior to the earthquake, Haiti was the poor-
est country in the Western Hemisphere, with— 
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(A) an estimated 54 percent of its popu-
lation living on less than $1 per day; 
(B) approximately 120,000 people living 
with HIV; 
(C) 29,333 new cases of tuberculosis in 
2007; 
(D) nearly 50,000 children living in or-
phanages; 
(E) 55 percent of school-aged children not 
attending school; and 
(F) an estimated 800,000 people with dis-
abilities. 
(4) Despite these challenges, cautious signs of 
developmental progress and stability were beginning 
to emerge in Haiti before the earthquake after years 
of security challenges and natural disasters that 
weakened the economy and slowed the consolidation 
of democracy and good governance. 
(5) Although initial recovery efforts must con-
tinue to assist the people of Haiti struggling to se-
cure basic necessities, including food, water, health 
care, shelter, and electricity, Haiti cannot afford to 
only focus on its immediate needs. 
(6) Haiti’s leaders have advocated that— 
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(A) reconstruction should not follow the in-
efficient and poorly coordinated practices of the 
past, but should build back better through di-
rect collaboration with both the Haitian govern-
ment and Haitian grassroots and civil society 
groups; and 
(B) Haitians should be assisted and sup-
ported in accelerating and implementing long- 
planned reforms and new ways of doing busi-
ness in every sector. 
(7) Haiti enjoys several advantages that can fa-
cilitate its rebuilding, including— 
(A) people committed to education and 
hard work; 
(B) proximity and duty-free access to 
United States markets; 
(C) a large, hardworking North American 
Diaspora, which remits generous amounts of 
money back to Haiti every year; and 
(D) many regional neighbors who are 
peaceful, prosperous, and supportive of Haiti’s 
success. 
(8) The experiences of other countries that have 
successfully recovered from serious natural disasters 
confirm that— 
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(A) when the people and other civil society 
actors in an affected country play a significant 
role in the design and execution of the rebuild-
ing efforts, the efforts are often more sustain-
able and more in line with the needs and aspi-
rations of local populations; 
(B) when the government of the affected 
country plays a leading role in the planning and 
execution of the rebuilding efforts, there is a 
higher probability of reforms being long-lasting 
and coordinated with the long-term planning 
and development efforts of the affected country; 
(C) every effort should be made to incor-
porate, at the earliest time possible, market- 
based employment and economic development 
opportunities to allow people to take ownership 
of their long-term self sufficiency; 
(D) stability and security are essential pre-
conditions to longer-term development; 
(E) education is critical to securing a bet-
ter future for the people in the affected coun-
try; 
(F) removing gender disparities spurs mac-
roeconomic growth; and 
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(G) projects that integrate gender are 
more likely to achieve their overall goals. 
(9) In addition to providing emergency assist-
ance and relief, the Government of Haiti must grap-
ple with the longer-term issues of how to— 
(A) provide permanent, sustainable shelter 
to an estimated 595,000 Haitians still displaced 
by the earthquake; 
(B) ensure that communities are at the 
center of the rebuilding process, by employing 
local labor and consulting with local leaders and 
communities; 
(C) provide health care in a sustainable 
and comprehensive manner that is accessible to 
all Haitians; 
(D) provide all children with access to edu-
cation; and 
(E) 
provide 
agricultural 
producers 
throughout the country with improved access to 
fertile land and investment opportunities for ag-
ricultural development. 
(10) The impact of natural disasters on Haiti 
is exacerbated by— 
(A) the lack of enforcement of earthquake- 
resistant construction procedures, weak building 
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codes, and massive private sector economic 
losses that hinder the ability of people to pur-
chase materials of sufficient quality to rebuild 
existing buildings; 
(B) a government that has long struggled 
to provide its people with minimal public serv-
ices, including security, clean water, shelter, 
electricity, health care, and education; and 
(C) under-investment in infrastructure and 
development in rural areas and secondary cities 
outside of Port-au-Prince. 
(11) Assistance to Haiti should be delivered in 
a manner that enhances the ability of the Govern-
ment of Haiti to improve democratic, transparent 
governance and to use credible government institu-
tions to provide services to its people. 
(12) Local communities, grassroots groups, 
peasant movements and women’s organizations 
should play a central role in the rebuilding of Haiti, 
while the national recovery process is led by the Gov-
ernment of Haiti in such a way that foreign assist-
ance upholds the primacy of Haitian government in-
stitutions in the rebuilding effort. 
(13) International donors and nongovernmental 
organizations— 
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(A) have a responsibility to support the 
Government of Haiti in its rebuilding efforts 
and help it build its capacity to implement its 
own development plan and decentralization ini-
tiatives; 
(B) are critical to the success of the recov-
ery and reconstruction efforts; 
(C) are key to the provision of services in 
the near term; 
(D) can build capacity for national institu-
tions, both governmental and nongovernmental, 
to take over the management and provision of 
essential services over the medium term; 
(E) should support and encourage rebuild-
ing and development of programs which are en-
vironmentally sustainable and respectful and re-
storative of Haiti’s natural resources; 
(F) should work with the Government of 
Haiti to improve the educational system and to 
ensure that all children have access to an edu-
cation; 
(G) should work with the Government of 
Haiti and the international community to better 
predict, anticipate, and protect against future 
disasters; 
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(H) should prioritize the effective partici-
pation of Haitian grassroots and civil society, 
including the French and Creole translation of 
public aid documents and proceedings and the 
increase of nation-wide consultations with Hai-
tian civil society networks and community-based 
organizations in order to help inform recovery 
and rebuilding initiatives; and 
(I) should continue to work with the Gov-
ernments of Haiti and the Dominican Republic 
to support efforts to combat human trafficking 
along the border between Haiti and the Domini-
can Republic, including the trafficking of 
women and children. 
(14) The circumstances following the earth-
quake in Haiti provide a real opportunity for 
Haiti— 
(A) to break the cycle of poverty, social in-
equality and unrealized expectations that has 
marked Haiti’s history; and 
(B) to establish a new framework for sus-
tained economic development through a commit-
ment of engagement from the United States, 
other donors, and multilateral organizations to 
support the Government of Haiti and the Hai-
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tian people as they undertake the long rebuild-
ing process. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) AGENCY.—The term ‘‘agency’’ has the 
meaning given the term in section 551(1) of title 5, 
United States Code. 
(2) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means the Committee on Foreign Relations 
of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
of the House of Representatives. 
(3) HAITI
REBUILDING
AND
DEVELOPMENT 
STRATEGY; STRATEGY.—The terms ‘‘Haiti Rebuild-
ing and Development Strategy’’ and ‘‘Strategy’’ 
mean the multi-year strategy to provide assistance in 
support of the reconstruction and rebuilding of Haiti 
prepared pursuant to section 5. 
SEC. 4. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It is the policy of the United States, in partnership 
with the Government of Haiti and in coordination with 
the international community, to— 
(1) support the sustainable recovery and re-
building of Haiti in a manner that— 
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(A) encourages greater economic equality 
by supporting economic development, education 
investments, agricultural investments, food se-
curity programs and nonagriculture livelihood 
creation in rural and decentralized areas; 
(B) embraces Haitian independence, self- 
reliance, sovereignty, democratic governance, 
and efficiency; 
(C) requires collaboration with the Haitian 
government and consultation with Haitian and 
international civil society, including nation-wide 
consultation meetings with Haitian grassroots 
organizations and French and Creole trans-
lation services for all public aid documents and 
proceedings; 
(D) incorporates the potential of both 
women and men to contribute equally and to 
their maximum efficiency; and 
(E) maximizes local and regional procure-
ment through capacity building to help Haitian 
organizations and companies participate effec-
tively in the bidding process for contracts re-
lated to relief and reconstruction programs, in-
cluding access to procurement documents trans-
lated into French and Haitian Creole; 
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(2) affirm and build a long-term partnership 
with Haiti in support of— 
(A) just, democratic, and competent gov-
ernance including— 
(i) an independent, efficient, and ef-
fective judicial system; 
(ii) parliamentary strengthening; 
(iii) political pluralism, equality, and 
the rule of law; 
(iv) civil society, governance institu-
tions, and political parties that are rep-
resentative and peaceful; 
(v) transparency and accountability 
among all branches of government and ju-
dicial proceedings, including supporting 
anti-corruption efforts among bureaucrats, 
elected officials, and public servants at all 
levels of security and government adminis-
tration; and 
(vi) security, by— 
(I) ensuring legitimate state ef-
forts to prevent and respond to crime, 
especially overall violence and gender- 
based violence; 
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(II) instilling public order and 
confidence in, and increasing the ca-
pacity of, Haitian security institu-
tions, including their capacity to ad-
dress gender-based violence through 
recruitment of female police officers 
and gender-sensitive training of all se-
curity forces; 
(III) providing local and national 
police forces with comprehensive pro-
fessional training and equipment, in-
cluding 
gender-sensitive 
protection 
training; and 
(IV) holding aid partners ac-
countable 
for 
meeting 
minimum 
standards for gender-based violence 
planning and response, as outlined in 
Inter-Agency 
Standing 
Committee 
(IASC) Guidelines for gender-based 
violence interventions in humanitarian 
settings and put into place monitoring 
mechanisms; 
(B) providing a foundation for economic 
growth and economic sustainability, through in-
vestments— 
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(i) in essential infrastructure, includ-
ing transport and energy; 
(ii) in sustainable urban development 
and improved urban management by iden-
tifying, developing, and implementing a 
long-term, sustainable framework for fu-
ture growth and development in urban 
areas that will ensure livelihood creation, 
appropriate environmental and resource 
management, appropriate disaster response 
plans, affordable long-term housing, en-
ergy, clean water, sanitation services, and 
essential urban services and infrastructure; 
(iii) to rebuild Haiti’s competitiveness 
and private sector in order to foster em-
ployment generation, including policies to 
encourage investment and open world con-
sumer markets to Haitian exports; 
(iv) in food security and rural and ag-
ricultural development, particularly of food 
staples and other crops that provide eco-
nomic growth and income opportunities in 
times of shortage and increase production 
and incomes of agriculture and livestock 
producers in rural communities, including 
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direct support to small and medium Hai-
tian farms, appropriate technical support 
for high yielding staple food crops, micro- 
financing, increased market access, repair 
and improvements of agricultural infra-
structure, 
investment 
in 
participatory 
farmer-led research and knowledge trans-
fer and strengthening of local seed sys-
tems; 
(v) that recognize and address where 
obstacles related to gender limit, hinder, or 
suppress women’s economic productivity 
and gain; and 
(vi) promote international labor and 
wage standards in all United States funded 
job creation projects; and 
(C) environmentally sustainable programs 
that are respectful and restorative of Haiti’s 
natural resources and build community-level re-
silience to environmental and weather-related 
impacts, including— 
(i) programs to reduce and mitigate 
the effects of natural disaster, including 
floods and hurricanes; 
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(ii) programs to address land use, 
land tenure, land for reconstruction, and 
land price escalation issues; 
(iii) programs and associated support 
to reduce deforestation and increase the 
rates of afforestation and reforestation in 
Haiti, including through diversification of 
Haiti’s energy sources; and 
(iv) programs to address safe drinking 
water, sanitation, hygiene, water resource 
management, and other water related 
issues; 
(D) investments in people, particularly 
women and children, including— 
(i) supporting the Government of 
Haiti, in coordination with nongovern-
mental education providers, to rehabilitate 
and improve Haiti’s education sector with 
the goal of providing access to quality and 
affordable education for all children; 
(ii) ensuring that women’s and girls’ 
unique needs are appropriately integrated 
across all sectors in consultation with Hai-
tian women’s organizations, including gov-
ernance, security, livelihood creation and 
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development, and in program assessment, 
design, implementation, monitoring, and 
evaluation, with a goal of promoting ac-
cess, inclusion, and empowerment; 
(iii) establish effective initiatives to 
address gender-based violence, including 
mechanisms to address the rape charges 
and impunity measures, establishment of 
special care units in hospitals for medical 
attention, pre and post counseling, HIV/ 
AIDS testing, administration of prophy-
laxis, access to anti-retrovirals for HIV 
positive women, support for emergency 
protection mechanisms including shelter, 
and durable solutions for survivors; 
(iv) health care delivery and capacity 
building to strengthen the overall health 
care system; 
(v) supporting programs, activities, 
and initiatives that provide or promote 
equal opportunity, full participation, inde-
pendent living, and economic self-suffi-
ciency for individuals with disabilities; 
(vi) increasing cholera prevention and 
treatment efforts, including the use of vac-
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cines, training and awareness-building and 
support for improved water and sanitation 
infrastructure where needed; 
(vii) support for Haitian government 
capacity building; and 
(viii) strengthening the child welfare 
system— 
(I) to ensure the protection of 
children from violence, abuse, exploi-
tation, and neglect and to combat 
child trafficking by supporting the 
Haitian government’s initiatives to 
strengthen the child protection system 
across Haiti and at the border with 
the Dominican Republic; 
(II) to support family preserva-
tion and reunification and prevent 
child abandonment, to the extent pos-
sible; 
(III) to ensure that children 
without family care receive safe, devel-
opmentally appropriate care; and 
(IV) to end the practice and ex-
ploitation of child domestic servants 
(referred to in Haiti as ‘‘restaveks’’), 
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by offering families education, sup-
port, and alternatives; 
(3) support, pursuant to the strategic objectives 
in paragraph (2) and in coordination with other do-
nors— 
(A) the institutional development and ca-
pacity building of the Government of Haiti at 
the national, local, and community levels so 
that the Government of Haiti— 
(i) can better ensure basic services to 
its population, including health care, pro-
tection against gender-based violence, agri-
cultural development, education, and other 
basic social services; and 
(ii) will be an effective steward of 
state resources through a transparent 
process of equitable resource allocation 
that includes a broad range of participa-
tion from Haitian civil society; 
(B) Haitian civil society organizations that 
are committed to making a positive contribution 
to the rebuilding and sustainable development 
of Haiti; 
(C) people-to-people engagement between 
the United States and Haiti, through increased 
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educational, technical, and cultural exchanges 
and other methods; 
(D) significant contributions to a multilat-
eral trust fund that will be established to en-
hance the reconstruction and rebuilding of 
Haiti; and 
(E) a Haitian government budget that is 
appropriately sized to fulfill the functions ex-
pected of the budget for the delivery of essential 
public services, including arrangements to en-
sure transparency and accountability for the 
funds provided to the budget of the Haitian 
government; and 
(4) promote development and rebuilding efforts 
in Haiti that are led by, and in support of, all levels 
of government in Haiti, including national and local 
governments, so that— 
(A) the Government and people of Haiti 
lead the vision for reconstruction and rebuilding 
of Haiti; 
(B) resources are channeled in concrete 
and specific ways toward key sectoral objectives 
identified by the Government and its people; 
(C) feasible steps are taken to recognize 
and rectify the social injustice of poverty and 
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gender inequality and to decrease the vulner-
ability of the poor, through job creation, access 
to education, the provision of health care, the 
provision of safe shelter and settlements, and 
food security in the rural regions and other 
smaller cities, as well as in Port-au-Prince; 
(D) communities are placed at the center 
of the rebuilding process, by employing local 
labor and consulting local leaders and commu-
nities for their experience and vision; 
(E) rebuilding and development programs 
are environmentally sustainable and respectful 
and restorative of Haiti’s natural resources; and 
(F) the Haiti Rebuilding and Development 
Strategy builds from and supports— 
(i) existing assessments for Haiti, in-
cluding the Post Disaster Needs Assess-
ment; 
(ii) the Government of Haiti’s Action 
Plan for the Reconstruction and National 
Development of Haiti; 
(iii) other existing development plans 
for Haiti, including the Poverty Reduction 
Strategy Paper for Haiti; and 
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(iv) shared principles in the Paris 
Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the 
Accra Agenda for Action. 
SEC. 5. HAITI REBUILDING AND DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator of the United 
States Agency for International Development, with input 
provided by the Special Coordinator for Haiti, shall pre-
pare and submit to the appropriate congressional commit-
tees a multi-year strategy to provide assistance in support 
of the reconstruction and rebuilding of Haiti. 
(b) COMPONENTS.—The Haiti Rebuilding and Devel-
opment Strategy shall— 
(1) include— 
(A) specific and measurable goals; 
(B) benchmarks and time frames; 
(C) an implementation plan to achieve the 
policy objectives set forth in section 4; and 
(D) a detailed monitoring and evaluation 
plan tied to measurable indicators addressing 
progress toward achieving those policy objec-
tives, including impact evaluations of United 
States assistance to Haiti carried out in direct 
consultation with both the Haitian government 
and Haitian grassroots, women’s and civil soci-
ety groups; and 
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(2) to the greatest extent possible— 
(A) 
leverage 
private 
sector 
resources 
through different agencies, including assistance 
that allows Haiti to make greater use of the 
trade preferences provided under section 213A 
of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act 
(19 U.S.C. 2703a) (as added by the Haitian 
Hemispheric Opportunity Through Partnership 
Act of 2006 (title V of division D of Public Law 
109–432; 120 Stat. 3181) (commonly known as 
the ‘‘HOPE Act’’) and amended by the Haitian 
Hemispheric Opportunity Through Partnership 
Act of 2008 (part I of subtitle D of title XV of 
Public Law 110–246; 122 Stat. 2289) (com-
monly known as the ‘‘HOPE II Act’’)); 
(B) consult with the academic and re-
search communities, nonprofit organizations, 
foundations, other implementing partners, the 
Government of Haiti, Haitian civil society, and 
the Haitian Diaspora; 
(C) coordinate United States assistance ef-
forts with similar efforts of international orga-
nizations, international financial institutions, 
the governments of developing and developed 
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countries, and United States and international 
nongovernmental organizations; 
(D) promote access to education for all 
children; 
(E) incorporate approaches directed at 
reaching women living in poverty; 
(F) incorporate best practices for improv-
ing child welfare and protection for orphans 
and other vulnerable children; and 
(G) maximize local and regional procure-
ment. 
(c) PRIOR CONSULTATION.—Not later than 30 days 
before the initial submission of the Haiti Rebuilding and 
Development Strategy, the Administrator of the United 
States Agency for International Development, in conjunc-
tion with the Special Coordinator for Haiti, shall consult 
with the appropriate congressional committees on the con-
tents of the Strategy. 
(d) REPORTS.— 
(1) ANNUAL REPORTS.—Not later than 90 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, and an-
nually thereafter, in accordance with the normal per-
formance reporting schedule, the Secretary of State 
shall submit to the appropriate congressional com-
mittees a report that includes— 
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(A) a copy of the Haiti Rebuilding and De-
velopment Strategy, including— 
(i) any changes made to the Strategy 
during the preceding calendar year; and 
(ii) an explanation of such changes; 
(B) a description, by foreign assistance 
framework objective, of the implementation of 
the Strategy; 
(C) an assessment of progress made during 
the preceding fiscal year toward meeting— 
(i) the policy objectives set forth in 
section 4; and 
(ii) the specific goals, benchmarks, 
and time frames specified in the Strategy; 
(D) a description of all United States Gov-
ernment programs contributing to the achieve-
ment of the policy objectives set forth in section 
4, including the amounts obligated and ex-
pended on such programs during the preceding 
fiscal year, including— 
(i) a breakdown of the percentage of 
United States funds spent on Haitian 
goods and services; 
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(ii) an analysis of the number of Hai-
tian employment opportunities created with 
United States funds; 
(iii) a description of the increase in 
official reports that are translated into 
French and Creole and easily accessible; 
(iv) a description of official annual re-
porting of such programs from the Depart-
ment of State, the United States Agency 
for International Development, the Depart-
ment of Defense, the Department of 
Health and Human Services, the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security, and Depart-
ment of Justice; and 
(v) inclusion of United States Agency 
for International Development evaluation 
indicators on the percentage of the affected 
Haitian population benefitting from United 
States assistance and the percentage of 
funds going to local communities for both 
the United States Agency for International 
Development and its contractors; and 
(E) an assessment of United States ef-
forts— 
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(i) to encourage and leverage business 
and philanthropic participation toward 
Haiti rebuilding and development; and 
(ii) to coordinate United States Gov-
ernment programs with assistance provided 
by 
international 
organizations, 
inter-
national financial institutions, the govern-
ments of developing and developed coun-
tries, and United States and international 
nongovernmental organizations. 
(2) GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE RE-
PORT.—Not later than 270 days after the submis-
sion of each report under paragraph (1), the Comp-
troller General of the United States shall submit a 
report to the appropriate congressional committees 
that contains— 
(A) a review of, and comments addressing, 
the report submitted under paragraph (1); and 
(B) recommendations relating to any addi-
tional actions the Comptroller General deter-
mines to be important to improve the provision 
of assistance for Haiti to support rebuilding 
and development. 
(3) PROGRAM REVIEW.— 
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(A) IN
GENERAL.—Concurrent with the 
submission of the second annual report under 
paragraph (1), the Secretary of State shall sub-
mit a report to the appropriate congressional 
committees that contains— 
(i) an assessment of the progress 
made during the preceding 2 years toward 
meeting the policy objectives set forth in 
section 4 and the specific goals, bench-
marks, and time frames specified in the 
Haiti Rebuilding and Development Strat-
egy; 
(ii) an evaluation of the impact during 
the preceding 2 years of United States as-
sistance programs on Haitian rebuilding 
and development; and 
(iii) an assessment of the overall sta-
tus of broader rebuilding and development 
taking place in Haiti, as outlined by the 
Government of Haiti. 
(B) BASIS FOR REPORT.—The report re-
quired under subparagraph (A) shall be based 
on data quality assessments and impact evalua-
tions of quantitative and qualitative indicators. 
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(4) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION.— 
The information requested in paragraphs (1) and 
(3) for United States programs contributing to the 
achievement of the policy objectives set forth in sec-
tion 4, including the amounts obligated and ex-
pended on such programs during preceding fiscal 
years, shall— 
(A) be made publically accessible in a time-
ly manner on a single, consolidated website; and 
(B) be presented in a detailed, program- 
by-program basis. 
(5) UNCLASSIFIED SUMMARY.—If detailed in-
formation is classified, an unclassified summary 
shall be posted and the classified details shall be 
submitted separately to the appropriate congres-
sional committees. 
SEC. 6. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
(a) AMOUNTS AUTHORIZED.—There are authorized 
to be appropriated to provide assistance for Haiti and to 
carry out the other purposes of this Act, in addition to 
amounts otherwise available for such purposes— 
(1) $1,500,000,000 for fiscal year 2013; and 
(2) $500,000,000 for fiscal year 2014. 
(b) APPLICABILITY OF THE FOREIGN ASSISTANCE 
ACT OF 1961 AND OTHER LAWS.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Amounts made available to 
carry out the purposes of this Act, including 
amounts authorized to be appropriated by this Act— 
(A) shall be considered to be economic as-
sistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 
1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.) for purposes of 
making available the administrative authorities 
contained in that Act for the use of economic 
assistance; and 
(B) shall be provided in accordance with 
the provisions of, the general authorities con-
tained in, and the limitations of, sections 116, 
491, and 620M of the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151n, 2292, and 2378d), 
respectively. 
(2) TECHNICAL
AMENDMENT.—Chapter 1 of 
part III of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
U.S.C. 2351 et seq.) is amended by redesignating 
section 620J (as added by section 651 of the De-
partment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related 
Programs Appropriations Act, 2008 (division J of 
Public Law 110–161; 22 U.S.C. 2378d)) as section 
620M. 
(c) TRANSFERS.—Of the amounts appropriated for 
each fiscal year pursuant to subsection (a)— 
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(1) the Department of the Treasury may con-
tribute to a multi-donor trust fund for reconstruc-
tion and recovery expenses related to Haiti following 
the earthquake of January 12, 2010; and 
(2) remaining amounts may be transferred to 
the ‘‘Development Credit Authority’’ account of the 
United States Agency for International Development 
for the cost of direct loans and loan guarantees, not-
withstanding the dollar limitations in such account 
on transfers to the account. 
(d) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Amounts appropriated for 
each fiscal year pursuant to subsection (a) shall re-
main available until expended. 
(2) REPORTS REQUIRED.—Of the amounts ap-
propriated for each fiscal year pursuant to sub-
section (a), none of the amounts may be made avail-
able for assistance to Haiti unless the Haiti Rebuild-
ing and Development Strategy reports are being 
submitted to the appropriate congressional commit-
tees in accordance with section 5(d)(1). 
(e) PREFERENCE
FOR BUILDING LOCAL CAPAC-
ITY.—In providing assistance under this Act, the Presi-
dent is encouraged to utilize Haitian firms and community 
and local nongovernmental organizations, as appropriate. 
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