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a terrorist government for purposes of section 6(j) of the Export 
Administration Act of 1979. The prohibition under this section 
with respect to a foreign government shall terminate 12 months 
after that government ceases to provide such military equipment. 
This section applies with respect to lethal military equipment pro-
vided under a contract entered into after October 1, 1997. 
(b) Assistance restricted by subsection (a) or any other similar 
provision of law, may be furnished if the President determines 
that furnishing such assistance is important to the national 
interests of the United States. 
(c) Whenever the waiver authority of subsection (b) is exercised, 
the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional commit-
tees a report with respect to the furnishing of such assistance. 
Any such report shall include a detailed explanation of the assist-
ance to be provided, including the estimated dollar amount of such 
assistance, and an explanation of how the assistance furthers 
United States national interests. 
WITHHOLDING OF ASSISTANCE FOR PARKING FINES AND REAL 
PROPERTY TAXES OWED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES 
SEC. 543. (a) Subject to subsection (c), of the funds appropriated 
by this Act that are made available for assistance for a foreign 
country, an amount equal to 110 percent of the total amount of 
the unpaid fully adjudicated parking fines and penalties and unpaid 
property taxes owed by the central government of such country 
shall be withheld from obligation for assistance for the central 
government of such country until the Secretary of State submits 
a certification to the appropriate congressional committees stating 
that such parking fines and penalties and unpaid property taxes 
are fully paid. 
(b) Funds withheld from obligation pursuant to subsection (a) 
may be made available for other programs or activities funded 
by this Act, after consultation with and subject to the regular 
notification procedures of the appropriate congressional committees, 
provided that no such funds shall be made available for assistance 
for the central government of a foreign country that has not paid 
the total amount of the fully adjudicated parking fines and penalties 
and unpaid property taxes owed by such country. 
(c) Subsection (a) shall not include amounts that have been 
withheld under any other provision of law. 
(d)(1) The Secretary of State may waive the requirements set 
forth in subsection (a) with respect to parking fines and penalties 
no sooner than 60 days from the date of enactment of this Act, 
or at any time with respect to a particular country, if the Secretary 
determines that it is in the national interests of the United States 
to do so. 
(2) The Secretary of State may waive the requirements set 
forth in subsection (a) with respect to the unpaid property taxes 
if the Secretary of State determines that it is in the national 
interests of the United States to do so. 
(e) Not later than 6 months after the initial exercise of the 
waiver authority in subsection (d), the Secretary of State, after 
consultations with the City of New York, shall submit a report 
to the Committees on Appropriations describing a strategy, 
including a timetable and steps currently being taken, to collect 
the parking fines and penalties and unpaid property taxes and
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interest owed by nations receiving foreign assistance under this 
Act. 
(f) In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘appropriate congressional committees’’ means 
the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Com-
mittee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives. 
(2) The term ‘‘fully adjudicated’’ includes circumstances 
in which the person to whom the vehicle is registered—
(A)(i) has not responded to the parking violation sum-
mons; or 
(ii) has not followed the appropriate adjudication proce-
dure to challenge the summons; and 
(B) the period of time for payment of or challenge 
to the summons has lapsed. 
(3) The term ‘‘parking fines and penalties’’ means parking 
fines and penalties—
(A) owed to—
(i) the District of Columbia; or 
(ii) New York, New York; and 
(B) incurred during the period April 1, 1997, through 
September 30, 2005. 
(4) The term ‘‘unpaid property taxes’’ means the amount 
of unpaid taxes and interest determined to be owed by a foreign 
country on real property in the District of Columbia or New 
York, New York in a court order or judgment entered against 
such country by a court of the United States or any State 
or subdivision thereof. 
LIMITATION ON ASSISTANCE FOR THE PLO FOR THE WEST BANK AND 
GAZA 
SEC. 544. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may 
be obligated for assistance for the Palestine Liberation Organization 
for the West Bank and Gaza unless the President has exercised 
the authority under section 604(a) of the Middle East Peace Facilita-
tion Act of 1995 (title VI of Public Law 104–107) or any other 
legislation to suspend or make inapplicable section 307 of the For-
eign Assistance Act of 1961 and that suspension is still in effect: 
Provided, That if the President fails to make the certification under 
section 604(b)(2) of the Middle East Peace Facilitation Act of 1995 
or to suspend the prohibition under other legislation, funds appro-
priated by this Act may not be obligated for assistance for the 
Palestine Liberation Organization for the West Bank and Gaza. 
WAR CRIMES TRIBUNALS DRAWDOWN 
SEC. 545. If the President determines that doing so will con-
tribute to a just resolution of charges regarding genocide or other 
violations of international humanitarian law, the President may 
direct a drawdown pursuant to section 552(c) of the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961 of up to $30,000,000 of commodities and services 
for the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal established with 
regard to the former Yugoslavia by the United Nations Security 
Council or such other tribunals or commissions as the Council 
may establish or authorize to deal with such violations, without 
regard to the ceiling limitation contained in paragraph (2) thereof: 
Provided, That the determination required under this section shall 
be in lieu of any determinations otherwise required under section
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552(c): Provided further, That the drawdown made under this sec-
tion for any tribunal shall not be construed as an endorsement 
or precedent for the establishment of any standing or permanent 
international criminal tribunal or court: Provided further, That 
funds made available for tribunals other than Yugoslavia, Rwanda, 
or the Special Court for Sierra Leone shall be made available 
subject to the regular notification procedures of the Committees 
on Appropriations. 
LANDMINES 
SEC. 546. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, demining 
equipment available to the United States Agency for International 
Development and the Department of State and used in support 
of the clearance of landmines and unexploded ordnance for humani-
tarian purposes may be disposed of on a grant basis in foreign 
countries, subject to such terms and conditions as the President 
may prescribe. 
RESTRICTIONS CONCERNING THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY 
SEC. 547. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may 
be obligated or expended to create in any part of Jerusalem a 
new office of any department or agency of the United States Govern-
ment for the purpose of conducting official United States Govern-
ment business with the Palestinian Authority over Gaza and Jericho 
or any successor Palestinian governing entity provided for in the 
Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles: Provided, That this restriction 
shall not apply to the acquisition of additional space for the existing 
Consulate General in Jerusalem: Provided further, That meetings 
between officers and employees of the United States and officials 
of the Palestinian Authority, or any successor Palestinian governing 
entity provided for in the Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles, 
for the purpose of conducting official United States Government 
business with such authority should continue to take place in loca-
tions other than Jerusalem. As has been true in the past, officers 
and employees of the United States Government may continue 
to meet in Jerusalem on other subjects with Palestinians (including 
those who now occupy positions in the Palestinian Authority), have 
social contacts, and have incidental discussions. 
PROHIBITION OF PAYMENT OF CERTAIN EXPENSES 
SEC. 548. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act under the heading ‘‘International Military 
Education and Training’’ or ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’ 
for Informational Program activities or under the headings ‘‘Child 
Survival and Health Programs Fund’’, ‘‘Development Assistance’’, 
and ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’ may be obligated or expended to 
pay for—
(1) alcoholic beverages; or 
(2) entertainment expenses for activities that are substan-
tially of a recreational character, including but not limited 
to entrance fees at sporting events, theatrical and musical 
productions, and amusement parks.
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HAITI 
SEC. 549. (a) Of the funds appropriated by this Act, the fol-
lowing amounts shall be made available for assistance for Haiti—
(1) $20,000,000 from ‘‘Child Survival and Health Programs 
Fund’’; 
(2) $30,000,000 from ‘‘Development Assistance’’; 
(3) $50,000,000 from ‘‘Economic Support Fund’’; 
(4) $15,000,000 from ‘‘International Narcotics Control and 
Law Enforcement’’; 
(5) $1,000,000 from ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’; 
and 
(6) $215,000 from ‘‘International Military Education and 
Training’’. 
(b) The Government of Haiti shall be eligible to purchase 
defense articles and services under the Arms Export Control Act 
(22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.), for the Coast Guard. 
(c) None of the funds made available in this Act under the 
heading ‘‘International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement’’ 
may be used to transfer excess weapons, ammunition or other 
lethal property of an agency of the United States Government 
to the Government of Haiti for use by the Haitian National Police 
until the Secretary of State certifies to the Committees on Appro-
priations 
that: 
(1) 
the 
United 
Nations 
Mission 
in 
Haiti 
(MINUSTAH) has carried out the vetting of the senior levels of 
the Haitian National Police and has ensured that those credibly 
alleged to have committed serious crimes, including drug trafficking 
and human rights violations, have been suspended; and (2) the 
Transitional Haitian National Government is cooperating in a 
reform and restructuring plan for the Haitian National Police and 
the reform of the judicial system as called for in United Nations 
Security Council Resolution 1608 adopted on June 22, 2005. 
LIMITATION ON ASSISTANCE TO THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY 
SEC. 550. (a) PROHIBITION OF FUNDS.—None of the funds appro-
priated by this Act to carry out the provisions of chapter 4 of 
part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 may be obligated 
or expended with respect to providing funds to the Palestinian 
Authority. 
(b) WAIVER.—The prohibition included in subsection (a) shall 
not apply if the President certifies in writing to the Speaker of 
the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of 
the Senate that waiving such prohibition is important to the 
national security interests of the United States. 
(c) PERIOD OF APPLICATION OF WAIVER.—Any waiver pursuant 
to subsection (b) shall be effective for no more than a period of 
6 months at a time and shall not apply beyond 12 months after 
the enactment of this Act. 
(d) REPORT.—Whenever the waiver authority pursuant to sub-
section (b) is exercised, the President shall submit a report to 
the Committees on Appropriations detailing the steps the Pales-
tinian Authority has taken to arrest terrorists, confiscate weapons 
and dismantle the terrorist infrastructure. The report shall also 
include a description of how funds will be spent and the accounting 
procedures in place to ensure that they are properly disbursed.