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detonated a nuclear explosive after the date of the enactment
of this Act: Provided further, That notwithstanding section
1(c) of Public Law 103–428, as amended, sections 1(a) and
(b) of Public Law 103–428 shall remain in effect through
October 1, 2006.
SUBSIDY APPROPRIATION
For the cost of direct loans, loan guarantees, insurance,
and tied-aid grants as authorized by section 10 of the Ex-
port-Import Bank Act of 1945, as amended, $125,000,000,
to remain available until September 30, 2009: Provided,
That such costs, including the cost of modifying such loans,
shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budg-
et Act of 1974: Provided further, That such sums shall re-
main available until September 30, 2024, for the disburse-
ment of direct loans, loan guarantees, insurance and tied-
aid grants obligated in fiscal years 2006, 2007, 2008, and
2009: Provided further, That none of the funds appro-
priated by this Act or any prior Act appropriating funds
for foreign operations, export financing, and related pro-
grams for tied-aid credits or grants may be used for any
other purpose except through the regular notification proce-
dures of the Committees on Appropriations: Provided fur-
ther, That funds appropriated by this paragraph are made
available notwithstanding section 2(b)(2) of the Export-Im-
port Bank Act of 1945, in connection with the purchase
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or lease of any product by any Eastern European country,
any Baltic State or any agency or national thereof.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES
For administrative expenses to carry out the direct
and guaranteed loan and insurance programs, including
hire of passenger motor vehicles and services as authorized
by 5 U.S.C. 3109, and not to exceed $30,000 for official
reception and representation expenses for members of the
Board of Directors, $73,200,000: Provided, That the Ex-
port-Import Bank may accept, and use, payment or services
provided by transaction participants for legal, financial,
or technical services in connection with any transaction for
which an application for a loan, guarantee or insurance
commitment has been made: Provided further, That, not-
withstanding subsection (b) of section 117 of the Export En-
hancement Act of 1992, subsection (a) thereof shall remain
in effect until October 1, 2006.
OVERSEAS PRIVATE INVESTMENT CORPORATION
NONCREDIT ACCOUNT
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation is au-
thorized to make, without regard to fiscal year limitations,
as provided by 31 U.S.C. 9104, such expenditures and com-
mitments within the limits of funds available to it and in
accordance with law as may be necessary: Provided, That
the amount available for administrative expenses to carry
out the credit and insurance programs (including an
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amount for official reception and representation expenses
which shall not exceed $35,000) shall not exceed
$42,274,000: Provided further, That project-specific trans-
action costs, including direct and indirect costs incurred
in claims settlements, and other direct costs associated with
services provided to specific investors or potential investors
pursuant to section 234 of the Foreign Assistance Act of
1961, shall not be considered administrative expenses for
the purposes of this heading.
PROGRAM ACCOUNT
For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans,
$20,276,000, as authorized by section 234 of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961, to be derived by transfer from the
Overseas Private Investment Corporation Non-Credit Ac-
count: Provided, That such costs, including the cost of modi-
fying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That
such sums shall be available for direct loan obligations and
loan guaranty commitments incurred or made during fiscal
years 2006 and 2007: Provided further, That such sums
shall remain available through fiscal year 2014 for the dis-
bursement of direct and guaranteed loans obligated in fiscal
year 2006, and through fiscal year 2015 for the disburse-
ment of direct and guaranteed loans obligated in fiscal year
2007: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other
provision of law, the Overseas Private Investment Corpora-
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tion is authorized to undertake any program authorized by
title IV of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 in Iraq: Pro-
vided further, That funds made available pursuant to the
authority of the previous proviso shall be subject to the reg-
ular notification procedures of the Committees on Appro-
priations.
In addition, such sums as may be necessary for admin-
istrative expenses to carry out the credit program may be
derived from amounts available for administrative expenses
to carry out the credit and insurance programs in the Over-
seas Private Investment Corporation Noncredit Account
and merged with said account.
FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT
TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of
section 661 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961,
$50,900,000, to remain available until September 30, 2007.
TITLE III—BILATERAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT
For expenses necessary to enable the President to carry
out the provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961,
and for other purposes, to remain available until September
30, 2006, unless otherwise specified herein, as follows:
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UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
CHILD SURVIVAL AND HEALTH PROGRAMS FUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of
chapters 1 and 10 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act
of 1961, for child survival, health, and family planning/
reproductive health activities, in addition to funds other-
wise available for such purposes, $1,659,000,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2007: Provided, That this
amount shall be made available for such activities as: (1)
immunization programs; (2) oral rehydration programs;
(3) health, nutrition, water and sanitation programs which
directly address the needs of mothers and children, and re-
lated education programs; (4) assistance for children dis-
placed or orphaned by causes other than AIDS; (5) pro-
grams for the prevention, treatment, control of, and research
on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, polio, malaria, and other infec-
tious diseases, and for assistance to communities severely
affected by HIV/AIDS, including children displaced or or-
phaned by AIDS; and (6) family planning/reproductive
health: Provided further, That none of the funds appro-
priated under this heading may be made available for non-
project assistance, except that funds may be made available
for such assistance for ongoing health activities: Provided
further, That of the funds appropriated under this heading,
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not to exceed $350,000, in addition to funds otherwise
available for such purposes, may be used to monitor and
provide oversight of child survival, maternal and family
planning/reproductive health, and infectious disease pro-
grams: Provided further, That the following amounts should
be allocated as follows: $375,000,000 for child survival and
maternal health; $30,000,000 for vulnerable children;
$350,000,000 for HIV/AIDS including not less than
$42,000,000 to support the development of microbicides as
a means for combating HIV/AIDS; $285,000,000 for other
infectious diseases; and $369,000,000 for family planning/
reproductive health, including in areas where population
growth threatens biodiversity or endangered species: Pro-
vided further, That of the funds appropriated under this
heading, and in addition to funds allocated under the pre-
vious proviso, not less than $250,000,000 shall be made
available, notwithstanding any other provision of law, ex-
cept for the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS,
Tuberculosis and Malaria Act of 2003 (Public Law 108–
25), for a United States contribution to the Global Fund
to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the ‘‘Global
Fund’’), and shall be expended at the minimum rate nec-
essary to make timely payment for projects and activities:
Provided further, That up to 5 percent of the aggregate
amount of funds made available to the Global Fund in fis-
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cal year 2006 may be made available to the United States
Agency for International Development for technical assist-
ance related to the activities of the Global Fund: Provided
further, That of the funds appropriated under this heading
that are available for HIV/AIDS programs and activities,
not less than $35,000,000 should be made available for the
International AIDS Vaccine Initiative: Provided further,
That of the funds appropriated under this heading,
$70,000,000 should be made available for a United States
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 none of the funds made available in this Act nor any
unobligated balances from prior appropriations may be
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made available to any organization or program which, as
determined by the President of the United States, directly
supports coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization: Pro-
vided further, That the previous proviso shall not be con-
strued to deny funding to any organization or program
solely because the government of a country engages in coer-
cive 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 nothing in this
paragraph shall be construed to alter any existing statutory
prohibitions against abortion under section 104 of the For-
eign Assistance Act of 1961: 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 nations,
funds shall be available only to voluntary family planning
projects which offer, either directly or through referral to,
or information about access to, a broad range of family
planning methods and services, and that any such vol-
untary family planning project shall meet the following re-
quirements: (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-
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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
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-
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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
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.
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DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE
For necessary expenses 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, $1,675,000,000, to
remain available until September 30, 2006: Provided, That
$350,000,000 should be made available for basic education:
Provided further, That of the aggregate amount of the funds
appropriated by this Act that are made available for agri-
culture and rural development programs, $40,000,000 shall
be made available for plant biotechnology research and de-
velopment: Provided further, That of the funds appro-
priated under this heading, not less than $1,000,000 shall
be made available for support of the United States Tele-
communications Training Institute: Provided further, That
not less than $2,300,000 shall be made available for core
support for the International Fertilizer Development Cen-
ter: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated under
this heading, not less than $25,000,000 shall be made avail-
able for the American Schools and Hospitals Abroad pro-
gram: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated
under this heading, $10,000,000 shall be made available for
cooperative development programs within the Office of Pri-
vate and Voluntary Cooperation: Provided further, That of
the funds appropriated under this heading, not less than
$700,000 shall be made available to the nonprofit organiza-
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tion that conducted the 2001 Micronutrient Compliance Re-
view to improve food aid product quality and nutrient de-
livery, and shall remain available until expended: Provided
further, That of the funds appropriated under this heading
that are made available for assistance programs for dis-
placed and orphaned children and victims of war, not to
exceed $42,500, in addition to funds otherwise available for
such purposes, may be used to monitor and provide over-
sight of such programs: Provided further, That of the funds
appropriated under this heading, $2,000,000 shall be made
available for the Doulos Foundation for programs in South
Asia: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated
under this heading, not less than $20,000,000 shall be made
available for the Election and Political Processes Program
of the Office of Democracy and Governance, United States
Agency for International Development, of which not less
than $18,000,000 shall be made available for democracy
grants: Provided further, That not less than $5,000,000
should be made available for pilot programs to support ef-
forts to reduce the incidence of child marriage in developing
countries: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated
under this heading, not less than $20,000,000 shall be made
available to develop clean water treatment activities in de-
veloping countries: Provided further, That of the funds ap-
propriated by this Act, not less than $200,000,000 shall be