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procedures of the Committees on Appropriations, may be waived 
if failure to do so would pose a substantial risk to human health 
or welfare: Provided, That in case of any such waiver, notification 
to the Committees on Appropriations shall be provided as early 
as practicable, but in no event later than 3 days after taking 
the action to which such notification requirement was applicable, 
in the context of the circumstances necessitating such waiver: Pro-
vided further, That any notification provided pursuant to such 
a waiver shall contain an explanation of the emergency cir-
cumstances. 
(f) COUNTRY NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS.—None of the funds 
appropriated under titles III through VI of this Act may be obligated 
or expended for assistance for Afghanistan, Bahrain, Burma, Cam-
bodia, Colombia, Cuba, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, 
Haiti, Honduras, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Mexico, Nicaragua, 
Pakistan, Philippines, the Russian Federation, Rwanda, Somalia, 
South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, 
Yemen, and Zimbabwe except as provided through the regular 
notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations. 
(g) TRUST FUNDS.—Funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available in title III of this Act and prior Acts making funds 
available for the Department of State, foreign operations, and 
related programs that are made available for a trust fund held 
by an international financial institution shall be subject to the 
regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropria-
tions, and such notification shall include the information specified 
under this section in House Report 117–84. 
(h) OTHER PROGRAM NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENT.— 
(1) DIPLOMATIC PROGRAMS.—Funds appropriated under title 
I of this Act under the heading ‘‘Diplomatic Programs’’ that 
are made available for lateral entry into the Foreign Service 
shall be subject to prior consultation with, and the regular 
notification procedures of, the Committees on Appropriations. 
(2) OTHER PROGRAMS.—Funds appropriated by this Act that 
are made available for the following programs and activities 
shall be subject to the regular notification procedures of the 
Committees on Appropriations: 
(A) the Global Engagement Center; 
(B) the Power Africa and Prosper Africa initiatives; 
(C) community-based police assistance conducted 
pursuant to the authority of section 7035(a)(1) of this Act; 
(D) the Prevention and Stabilization Fund and the 
Multi-Donor Global Fragility Fund; 
(E) the Indo-Pacific Strategy; 
(F) the Countering PRC Influence Fund and the Coun-
tering Russian Influence Fund; and 
(G) the Gender Equity and Equality Action Fund. 
(3) DEMOCRACY PROGRAM POLICY AND PROCEDURES.—Modi-
fications to democracy program policy and procedures, including 
relating to the use of consortia, by the Department of State 
and USAID shall be subject to prior consultation with, and 
the regular notification procedures of, the Committees on 
Appropriations. 
(4) ARMS
SALES.—The reports, notifications, and certifi-
cations, and any other documents, required to be submitted 
pursuant to section 36(a) of the Arms Export Control Act (22
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U.S.C. 2776), and such documents submitted pursuant to sec-
tion 36(b) through (d) of such Act with respect to countries 
that have received assistance provided with funds appropriated 
by this Act or prior Acts making appropriations for the Depart-
ment of State, foreign operations, and related programs, shall 
be concurrently submitted to the Committees on Appropriations 
and shall include information about the source of funds for 
any sale or transfer, as applicable, if known at the time of 
submission. 
(i) WITHHOLDING OF FUNDS.—Funds appropriated by this Act 
under titles III and IV that are withheld from obligation or other-
wise not programmed as a result of application of a provision 
of law in this or any other Act shall, if reprogrammed, be subject 
to the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appro-
priations. 
(j) PRIOR
CONSULTATION
REQUIREMENT.—The Secretary of 
State, the Administrator of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development, the Chief Executive Officer of the United 
States International Development Finance Corporation, and the 
Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation 
shall consult with the Committees on Appropriations at least 7 
days prior to informing a government of, or publically announcing 
a decision on, the suspension or early termination of assistance 
to a country or a territory, including as a result of an interagency 
review of such assistance, from funds appropriated by this Act 
or prior Acts making appropriations for the Department of State, 
foreign operations, and related programs: Provided, That such con-
sultation shall include a detailed justification for such suspension, 
including a description of the assistance being suspended. 
DOCUMENTS, REPORT POSTING, RECORDS MANAGEMENT, AND RELATED 
CYBERSECURITY PROTECTIONS 
SEC. 7016. (a) DOCUMENT REQUESTS.—None of the funds appro-
priated or made available pursuant to titles III through VI of 
this Act shall be available to a nongovernmental organization, 
including any contractor, which fails to provide upon timely request 
any document, file, or record necessary to the auditing requirements 
of the Department of State and the United States Agency for 
International Development. 
(b) PUBLIC POSTING OF REPORTS.— 
(1) Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), any report 
required by this Act to be submitted to Congress by any Federal 
agency receiving funds made available by this Act shall be 
posted on the public Web site of such agency not later than 
45 days following the receipt of such report by Congress. 
(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a report if— 
(A) the public posting of the report would compromise 
national security, including the conduct of diplomacy; 
(B) the report contains proprietary or other privileged 
information; or 
(C) the public posting of the report is specifically 
exempted in the explanatory statement described in section 
4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated 
Act).
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(3) The agency posting such report shall do so only after 
the report has been made available to the Committees on 
Appropriations. 
(c) RECORDS
MANAGEMENT
AND
RELATED
CYBERSECURITY 
PROTECTIONS.—The Secretary of State and USAID Administrator 
shall— 
(1) regularly review and update the policies, directives, 
and oversight necessary to comply with Federal statutes, regu-
lations, and presidential executive orders and memoranda con-
cerning the preservation of all records made or received in 
the conduct of official business, including record emails, instant 
messaging, and other online tools; 
(2) use funds appropriated by this Act under the headings 
‘‘Diplomatic Programs’’ and ‘‘Capital Investment Fund’’ in title 
I, and ‘‘Operating Expenses’’ and ‘‘Capital Investment Fund’’ 
in title II, as appropriate, to improve Federal records manage-
ment pursuant to the Federal Records Act (44 U.S.C. Chapters 
21, 29, 31, and 33) and other applicable Federal records 
management statutes, regulations, or policies for the Depart-
ment of State and USAID; 
(3) direct departing employees, including senior officials, 
that all Federal records generated by such employees belong 
to the Federal Government; 
(4) substantially reduce, compared to the previous fiscal 
year, the response time for identifying and retrieving Federal 
records, including requests made pursuant to section 552 of 
title 5, United States Code (commonly known as the ‘‘Freedom 
of Information Act’’); and 
(5) 
strengthen 
cybersecurity 
measures 
to 
mitigate 
vulnerabilities, including those resulting from the use of per-
sonal email accounts or servers outside the .gov domain, 
improve the process to identify and remove inactive user 
accounts, update and enforce guidance related to the control 
of national security information, and implement the rec-
ommendations of the applicable reports of the cognizant Office 
of Inspector General. 
USE OF FUNDS IN CONTRAVENTION OF THIS ACT 
SEC. 7017. If the President makes a determination not to 
comply with any provision of this Act on constitutional grounds, 
the head of the relevant Federal agency shall notify the Committees 
on Appropriations in writing within 5 days of such determination, 
the basis for such determination and any resulting changes to 
program or policy. 
PROHIBITION ON FUNDING FOR ABORTIONS AND INVOLUNTARY 
STERILIZATION 
SEC. 7018. None of the funds made available to carry out 
part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, may 
be used to pay for the performance of abortions as a method of 
family planning or to motivate or coerce any person to practice 
abortions. None of the funds made available to carry out part 
I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, may be 
used to pay for the performance of involuntary sterilization as 
a method of family planning or to coerce or provide any financial 
incentive to any person to undergo sterilizations. None of the funds
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made available to carry out part I of the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961, as amended, may be used to pay for any biomedical research 
which relates in whole or in part, to methods of, or the performance 
of, abortions or involuntary sterilization as a means of family plan-
ning. None of the funds made available to carry out part I of 
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, may be obligated 
or expended for any country or organization if the President certifies 
that the use of these funds by any such country or organization 
would violate any of the above provisions related to abortions and 
involuntary sterilizations. 
ALLOCATIONS AND REPORTS 
SEC. 7019. (a) ALLOCATION TABLES.—Subject to subsection (b), 
funds appropriated by this Act under titles III through V shall 
be made available in the amounts specifically designated in the 
respective tables included in the explanatory statement described 
in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated 
Act): Provided, That such designated amounts for foreign countries 
and international organizations shall serve as the amounts for 
such countries and international organizations transmitted to Con-
gress in the report required by section 653(a) of the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961, and shall be made available for such foreign 
countries and international organizations notwithstanding the date 
of the transmission of such report. 
(b) AUTHORIZED DEVIATIONS.—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 only deviate up to 10 percent from the amounts specifically 
designated in the respective tables included in the explanatory 
statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division 
A of this consolidated Act): Provided, That such percentage may 
be exceeded only if the Secretary of State or USAID Administrator, 
as applicable, determines and reports in writing to the Committees 
on Appropriations on a case-by-case basis that such deviation is 
necessary to respond to significant, exigent, or unforeseen events, 
or to address other exceptional circumstances directly related to 
the national security interest of the United States, including a 
description of such events or circumstances: Provided further, That 
deviations pursuant to the preceding proviso shall be subject to 
prior consultation with, and the regular notification procedures 
of, the Committees on Appropriations. 
(c) LIMITATION.—For specifically designated amounts that are 
included, pursuant to subsection (a), in the report required by 
section 653(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, deviations 
authorized by subsection (b) may only take place after submission 
of such report. 
(d) EXCEPTIONS.— 
(1) Subsections (a) and (b) shall not apply to— 
(A) amounts designated for ‘‘International Military 
Education and Training’’ in the respective tables included 
in the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in 
the matter preceding division A of this consolidated Act); 
(B) funds for which the initial period of availability 
has expired; and 
(C) amounts designated by this Act as minimum 
funding requirements.