I 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4842 
To authorize the Secretary of State to provide funds for a United States 
pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 23, 2019 
Mr. PHILLIPS (for himself, Ms. CRAIG, Mr. EMMER, Mrs. FLETCHER, Mr. 
HAGEDORN, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. OLSON, Ms. OMAR, Mr. PETERSON, 
Mr. STAUBER, and Mr. YOHO) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To authorize the Secretary of State to provide funds for 
a United States pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, 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 ‘‘Expositions Provide 
Opportunities Act of 2019’’ or ‘‘EXPO Act of 2019’’. 
SEC. 2. STATE DEPARTMENT AUTHORIZATION FOR PAVIL-
ION AT EXPO 2020 DUBAI. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding section 204 of 
the Admiral James W. Nance and Meg Donovan Foreign 
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Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2000 and 2001 
(22 U.S.C. 2452b), the Secretary of State is authorized, 
subject to subsections (b) and (c) of this section, to pro-
vide funds for a United States pavilion at Expo 2020 
Dubai. 
(b) NOTIFICATION.—No funds made available to the 
Department of State to be used for a pavilion at Expo 
2020 Dubai may be obligated or expended unless the ap-
propriate congressional committees are notified not less 
than 15 days prior to such obligation or expenditure. 
(c) REPORT.—The Secretary of State may not pro-
vide funds for a United States pavilion at Expo 2020 
Dubai unless, not later than the date that is 180 days 
before such pavilion is opened, the Secretary of State sub-
mits to the appropriate congressional committees a report 
concerning activities relating to such pavilion, including— 
(1) a description of the source of such funds, 
including any funds reprogrammed or transferred by 
the Department of State to be made available for 
such pavilion; 
(2) an estimate of the amount of investment 
such pavilion could bring to the United States; 
(3) an analysis of the human rights record of 
the United Arab Emirates; and 
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(4) a certification that each entity receiving 
amounts for a contract, grant, or other agreement to 
construct, maintain, or otherwise service such pavil-
ion is not in violation of the labor laws of the United 
Arab Emirates and do not employ, or otherwise uti-
lize, a victim of trafficking (as defined in section 103 
of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 
(22 U.S.C. 7102)). 
(d) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEES 
DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate con-
gressional committees’’ means the following: 
(1) The Committee on Foreign Affairs and the 
Committee on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives. 
(2) The Committee on Foreign Relations and 
the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate. 
(e) SUNSET.—This section ceases to be effective on 
September 30, 2021. 
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