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contribution to The Vaccine Fund, and up to $6,000,000 
may be transferred to and merged with funds appropriated 
by this Act under the heading ‘‘Operating Expenses of the 
United States Agency for International Development’’ for 
costs directly related to international health, but funds 
made available for such costs may not be derived from 
amounts made available for contribution under this and 
preceding provisos: Provided further, That restrictions with 
respect to assistance provided with funds appropriated by 
this Act for HIV/AIDS, family planning, or child survival 
and health activities shall not be construed to restrict assist-
ance in support of programs to expand the availability and 
use of condoms for HIV/AIDS prevention and of contracep-
tives to reduce the incidence of abortion: Provided further, 
That nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to alter 
any existing statutory prohibitions against abortion under 
section 104 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961: Provided 
further, That none of the funds made available in this Act 
nor any unobligated balances from prior appropriations 
may be made available to any organization or program 
which, as determined by the President of the United States, 
directly supports coercive abortion or involuntary steriliza-
tion: Provided further, That the previous proviso shall not 
be construed to deny funding to any organization or pro-
gram solely because the government of a country engages
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in coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization: Provided 
further, That none of the funds made available under this 
Act may be used to pay for the performance of abortion 
as a method of family planning or to motivate or coerce 
any person to practice abortions: Provided further, That 
none of the funds made available under this Act may be 
used to lobby for or against abortion: Provided further, That 
in order to reduce reliance on abortion in developing na-
tions, funds shall be available only to voluntary family 
planning projects which offer, either directly or through re-
ferral to, or information about access to, a broad range of 
family planning methods and services, and that any such 
voluntary family planning project shall meet the following 
requirements: (1) service providers or referral agents in the 
project shall not implement or be subject to quotas, or other 
numerical targets, of total number of births, number of fam-
ily planning acceptors, or acceptors of a particular method 
of family planning (this provision shall not be construed 
to include the use of quantitative estimates or indicators 
for budgeting and planning purposes); (2) the project shall 
not include payment of incentives, bribes, gratuities, or fi-
nancial reward to: (A) an individual in exchange for be-
coming a family planning acceptor; or (B) program per-
sonnel for achieving a numerical target or quota of total 
number of births, number of family planning acceptors, or
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acceptors of a particular method of family planning; (3) 
the project shall not deny any right or benefit, including 
the right of access to participate in any program of general 
welfare or the right of access to health care, as a consequence 
of any individual’s decision not to accept family planning 
services; (4) the project shall provide family planning ac-
ceptors comprehensible information on the health benefits 
and risks of the method chosen, including those conditions 
that might render the use of the method inadvisable and 
those adverse side effects known to be consequent to the use 
of the method; and (5) the project shall ensure that experi-
mental contraceptive drugs and devices and medical proce-
dures are provided only in the context of a scientific study 
in which participants are advised of potential risks and 
benefits; and, not less than 60 days after the date on which 
the Administrator of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development determines that there has been a vio-
lation of the requirements contained in paragraph (1), (2), 
(3), or (5) of this proviso, or a pattern or practice of viola-
tions of the requirements contained in paragraph (4) of this 
proviso, the Administrator shall submit to the Committees 
on Appropriations a report containing a description of such 
violation and the corrective action taken by the Agency: 
Provided further, That in awarding grants for natural fam-
ily planning under section 104 of the Foreign Assistance
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Act of 1961 no applicant shall be discriminated against be-
cause of such applicant’s religious or conscientious commit-
ment to offer only natural family planning; and, addition-
ally, all such applicants shall comply with the requirements 
of the previous proviso: Provided further, That for purposes 
of this or any other Act authorizing or appropriating funds 
for foreign operations, export financing, and related pro-
grams, the term ‘‘motivate’’, as it relates to family planning 
assistance, shall not be construed to prohibit the provision, 
consistent with local law, of information or counseling 
about all pregnancy options: Provided further, That infor-
mation provided about the use of condoms as part of 
projects or activities that are funded from amounts appro-
priated by this Act shall be medically accurate and shall 
include the public health benefits and failure rates of such 
use. 
DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE 
For necessary expenses of the United States Agency for 
International Development to carry out the provisions of 
sections 103, 105, 106, and 131, and chapter 10 of part 
I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, $1,460,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2006: Provided, That 
none of the funds appropriated under title II of this Act 
that are managed by or allocated to the United States Agen-
cy for International Development’s Global Development 
Secretariat, may be made available except through the reg-