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report is submitted for a country program in the People’s 
Republic of China. 
(2) If a report under paragraph (1) indicates that UNFPA 
plans to spend funds for a country program in the People’s 
Republic of China in the year covered by the report, then 
the amount of such funds UNFPA plans to spend in the People’s 
Republic of China shall be deducted from the funds made 
available to UNFPA after March 1 for obligation for the 
remainder of the fiscal year in which the report is submitted. 
GLOBAL HEALTH ACTIVITIES 
SEC. 7058. (a) IN GENERAL.—Funds appropriated by titles III 
and IV of this Act that are made available for bilateral assistance 
for child survival activities or disease programs including activities 
relating to research on, and the prevention, treatment and control 
of, HIV/AIDS may be made available notwithstanding any other 
provision of law except for provisions under the heading ‘‘Global 
Health Programs’’ and the United States Leadership Against HIV/ 
AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 (117 Stat. 711; 22 
U.S.C. 7601 et seq.), as amended: Provided, That of the funds 
appropriated under title III of this Act, not less than $575,000,000 
should be made available for family planning/reproductive health, 
including in areas where population growth threatens biodiversity 
or endangered species. 
(b) PANDEMICS AND OTHER INFECTIOUS DISEASE OUTBREAKS.— 
(1) GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY.—Funds appropriated by this 
Act under the heading ‘‘Global Health Programs’’ shall be made 
available for global health security programs to accelerate the 
capacity of countries to prevent, detect, and respond to infec-
tious disease outbreaks by strengthening public health capacity 
where there is a high risk of emerging zoonotic infectious 
diseases, including as described in the explanatory statement 
described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of 
this consolidated Act): Provided, That not later than 60 days 
after enactment of this Act, the USAID Administrator and 
the Secretary of State, as appropriate, shall consult with the 
Committees on Appropriations on the planned uses of such 
funds. 
(2) INTERNATIONAL FINANCING MECHANISM.—Funds appro-
priated by this Act under the heading ‘‘Global Health Programs’’ 
may be made available for a contribution to an international 
financing mechanism for pandemic preparedness. 
(3) EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES.—If the Secretary of State 
determines and reports to the Committees on Appropriations 
that an international infectious disease outbreak is sustained, 
severe, and is spreading internationally, or that it is in the 
national interest to respond to a Public Health Emergency 
of International Concern, not to exceed an aggregate total of 
$200,000,000 of the funds appropriated by this Act under the 
headings ‘‘Global Health Programs’’, ‘‘Development Assistance’’, 
‘‘International Disaster Assistance’’, ‘‘Complex Crises Fund’’, 
‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, ‘‘Democracy Fund’’, ‘‘Assistance for 
Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia’’, ‘‘Migration and Refugee 
Assistance’’, and ‘‘Millennium Challenge Corporation’’ may be 
made available to combat such infectious disease or public 
health emergency, and may be transferred to, and merged
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with, funds appropriated under such headings for the purposes 
of this paragraph. 
(4) EMERGENCY RESERVE FUND.—Up to $100,000,000 of the 
funds made available under the heading ‘‘Global Health Pro-
grams’’ may be made available for the Emergency Reserve 
Fund established pursuant to section 7058(c)(1) of the Depart-
ment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs 
Appropriations Act, 2017 (division J of Public Law 115–31): 
Provided, That such funds shall be made available under the 
same terms and conditions of such section. 
(5) CONSULTATION AND NOTIFICATION.—Funds made avail-
able by this subsection shall be subject to prior consultation 
with, and the regular notification procedures of, the Committees 
on Appropriations. 
(c) LIMITATION.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
none of the funds made available by this Act may be made available 
to the Wuhan Institute of Virology located in the City of Wuhan 
in the People’s Republic of China. 
GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT 
SEC. 7059. (a) IN GENERAL.— 
(1) GENDER
EQUALITY.—Funds appropriated by this Act 
shall be made available to promote gender equality in United 
States Government diplomatic and development efforts by 
raising the status, increasing the economic participation and 
opportunities for political leadership, and protecting the rights 
of women and girls worldwide. 
(2) WOMEN’S
ECONOMIC
EMPOWERMENT.—Funds appro-
priated by this Act are available to implement the Women’s 
Entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment Act of 2018 
(Public Law 115–428): Provided, That the Secretary of State 
and the Administrator of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development, as appropriate, shall consult with the 
Committees on Appropriations on the implementation of such 
Act. 
(3) GENDER EQUITY AND EQUALITY ACTION FUND.—Of the 
funds appropriated under title III of this Act, up to 
$200,000,000 may be made available for the Gender Equity 
and Equality Action Fund. 
(b) WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP.—Of the funds appropriated under 
title III of this Act, not less than $50,000,000 shall be made avail-
able for programs specifically designed to increase leadership 
opportunities for women in countries where women and girls suffer 
discrimination due to law, policy, or practice, by strengthening 
protections for women’s political status, expanding women’s partici-
pation in political parties and elections, and increasing women’s 
opportunities for leadership positions in the public and private 
sectors at the local, provincial, and national levels. 
(c) GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE.— 
(1) Of the funds appropriated under titles III and IV of 
this Act, not less than $175,000,000 shall be made available 
to implement a multi-year strategy to prevent and respond 
to gender-based violence in countries where it is common in 
conflict and non-conflict settings. 
(2) Funds appropriated under titles III and IV of this 
Act that are available to train foreign police, judicial, and
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military personnel, including for international peacekeeping 
operations, shall address, where appropriate, prevention and 
response to gender-based violence and trafficking in persons, 
and shall promote the integration of women into the police 
and other security forces. 
(d) WOMEN, PEACE, AND SECURITY.—Of the funds appropriated 
by this Act under the headings ‘‘Development Assistance’’, ‘‘Eco-
nomic Support Fund’’, ‘‘Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central 
Asia’’, and ‘‘International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement’’, 
not less than $135,000,000 should be made available to support 
a multi-year strategy to expand, and improve coordination of, 
United States Government efforts to empower women as equal 
partners in conflict prevention, peace building, transitional proc-
esses, and reconstruction efforts in countries affected by conflict 
or in political transition, and to ensure the equitable provision 
of relief and recovery assistance to women and girls. 
SECTOR ALLOCATIONS 
SEC. 7060. (a) BASIC EDUCATION AND HIGHER EDUCATION.— 
(1) BASIC EDUCATION.— 
(A) Of the funds appropriated under title III of this 
Act, not less than $950,000,000 shall be made available 
for the Nita M. Lowey Basic Education Fund, and such 
funds may be made available notwithstanding any other 
provision of law that restricts assistance to foreign coun-
tries: Provided, That such funds shall also be used for 
secondary education activities: Provided further, That of 
the funds made available by this paragraph, $150,000,000 
should be available for the education of girls in areas 
of conflict: Provided further, That section 7(a) of Public 
Law 115–56 shall be implemented by substituting ‘‘the 
thirtieth day of June following’’ for ‘‘180 days after’’. 
(B) Of the funds appropriated under title III of this 
Act for assistance for basic education programs, not less 
than $150,000,000 shall be made available for contributions 
to multilateral partnerships that support education. 
(2) HIGHER EDUCATION.—Of the funds appropriated by title 
III of this Act, not less than $250,000,000 shall be made avail-
able for assistance for higher education: Provided, That such 
funds may be made available notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law that restricts assistance to foreign countries, and 
shall be subject to the regular notification procedures of the 
Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That of such 
amount, not less than $35,000,000 shall be made available 
for new and ongoing partnerships between higher education 
institutions in the United States and developing countries 
focused on building the capacity of higher education institutions 
and systems in developing countries: Provided further, That 
not later than 45 days after enactment of this Act, the USAID 
Administrator shall consult with the Committees on Appropria-
tions on the proposed uses of funds for such partnerships. 
(b) DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS.—Of the funds appropriated by 
this Act under the heading ‘‘Development Assistance’’, not less 
than $18,500,000 shall be made available for USAID cooperative 
development programs and not less than $31,500,000 shall be made 
available for the American Schools and Hospitals Abroad program.
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(c) FOOD SECURITY AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT.—Of the 
funds appropriated by title III of this Act, not less than 
$1,010,600,000 shall be made available for food security and agricul-
tural development programs to carry out the purposes of the Global 
Food Security Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–195): Provided, That 
funds may be made available for a contribution as authorized 
by section 3202 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 
2008 (Public Law 110–246), as amended by section 3310 of the 
Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–334). 
(d) MICRO, SMALL, AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES.—Of the 
funds appropriated by this Act, not less than $265,000,000 shall 
be made available to support the development of, and access to 
financing for, micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises that ben-
efit the poor, especially women. 
(e) PROGRAMS TO COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS.—Of the 
funds appropriated by this Act under the headings ‘‘Development 
Assistance’’, ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, ‘‘Assistance for Europe, Eur-
asia and Central Asia’’, and ‘‘International Narcotics Control and 
Law Enforcement’’, not less than $106,400,000 shall be made avail-
able for activities to combat trafficking in persons internationally, 
including for the Program to End Modern Slavery, of which not 
less than $77,000,000 shall be from funds made available under 
the heading ‘‘International Narcotics Control and Law Enforce-
ment’’: Provided, That funds made available by this Act under 
the headings ‘‘Development Assistance’’, ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’, 
and ‘‘Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia’’ that are 
made available for activities to combat trafficking in persons should 
be obligated and programmed consistent with the country-specific 
recommendations included in the annual Trafficking in Persons 
Report, and shall be coordinated with the Office to Monitor and 
Combat Trafficking in Persons, Department of State. 
(f) RECONCILIATION PROGRAMS.—Of the funds appropriated by 
this Act under the heading ‘‘Development Assistance’’, not less 
than $25,000,000 shall be made available to support people-to- 
people reconciliation programs which bring together individuals 
of different ethnic, racial, religious, and political backgrounds from 
areas of civil strife and war: Provided, That the USAID Adminis-
trator shall consult with the Committees on Appropriations, prior 
to the initial obligation of funds, on the uses of such funds, and 
such funds shall be subject to the regular notification procedures 
of the Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That to 
the maximum extent practicable, such funds shall be matched by 
sources other than the United States Government: Provided further, 
That such funds shall be administered by the Center for Conflict 
and Violence Prevention, USAID. 
(g) WATER
AND SANITATION.—Of the funds appropriated by 
this Act, not less than $475,000,000 shall be made available for 
water supply and sanitation projects pursuant to section 136 of 
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, of which not less than 
$237,000,000 shall be for programs in sub-Saharan Africa, and 
of which not less than $17,000,000 shall be made available to 
support initiatives by local communities in developing countries 
to build and maintain safe latrines. 
(h) DEVIATION.—Unless otherwise provided for by this Act, 
the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the United States 
Agency for International Development, as applicable, may deviate 
below the minimum funding requirements designated in sections