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118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4166 
To authorize contributions to the United Nations Population Fund, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 15, 2023 
Ms. HOULAHAN (for herself, Mr. ALLRED, Mr. AUCHINCLOSS, Mr. BERA, Mr. 
BISHOP of Georgia, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Ms. BLUNT ROCHESTER, Ms. 
BONAMICI, Ms. BROWN, Mr. CARBAJAL, Mr. CA´RDENAS, Mr. CARSON, 
Mr. CARTWRIGHT, Mr. CASE, Mr. CASTEN, Mr. CASTRO of Texas, Mrs. 
CHERFILUS-MCCORMICK, Ms. CHU, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Mr. 
COHEN, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. COSTA, Ms. CROCKETT, Mr. CROW, Ms. 
DEAN of Pennsylvania, Ms. DEGETTE, Ms. DELBENE, Mr. DELUZIO, 
Mr. DESAULNIER, Mrs. DINGELL, Ms. ESCOBAR, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr. 
EVANS, Mrs. FLETCHER, Mr. FOSTER, Mrs. FOUSHEE, Ms. LOIS 
FRANKEL of Florida, Mr. GALLEGO, Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois, Ms. GARCIA 
of Texas, Mr. GOTTHEIMER, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. HIGGINS of New York, 
Mr. HIMES, Mr. HUFFMAN, Ms. JACOBS, Ms. JAYAPAL, Mr. JOHNSON 
of Georgia, Ms. KAMLAGER-DOVE, Mr. KEATING, Ms. KELLY of Illinois, 
Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. KILMER, Mr. KIM of New Jer-
sey, Mrs. MCCLELLAN, Ms. KUSTER, Ms. LEE of California, Mr. LEVIN, 
Mr. LIEU, Ms. LOFGREN, Mr. LYNCH, Ms. MANNING, Ms. MATSUI, Mr. 
MCGOVERN, Mr. MEEKS, Ms. MENG, Mr. MFUME, Ms. MOORE of Wis-
consin, Mr. MORELLE, Mr. MOULTON, Mr. NADLER, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, 
Ms. NORTON, Ms. OMAR, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. PETERS, Ms. PETTERSEN, Mr. 
PHILLIPS, Ms. PINGREE, Mr. POCAN, Ms. PORTER, Ms. PRESSLEY, Mr. 
QUIGLEY, Mr. RASKIN, Ms. ROSS, Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, Mr. RYAN, Ms. 
SA´NCHEZ, Mr. SARBANES, Ms. SCANLON, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. 
SCHIFF, Mr. SCHNEIDER, Ms. SCHRIER, Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia, 
Ms. SEWELL, Mr. SHERMAN, Ms. SHERRILL, Mr. SMITH of Washington, 
Ms. STRICKLAND, Mr. SWALWELL, Mr. TAKANO, Ms. TITUS, Ms. TLAIB, 
Ms. TOKUDA, Mr. TONKO, Mrs. TORRES of California, Mr. TRONE, Mr. 
VARGAS, Mr. VEASEY, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Ms. WATERS, Mrs. 
WATSON COLEMAN, Ms. WILD, Ms. WILLIAMS of Georgia, and Ms. STE-
VENS) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Foreign Affairs 
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A BILL 
To authorize contributions to the United Nations Population 
Fund, 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 ‘‘Support UNFPA 
Funding Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The United Nations Population Fund 
(UNFPA) is the United Nations reproductive health 
agency. 
(2) UNFPA was founded with the leadership of 
the United States and works in more than 150 coun-
tries to end preventable maternal deaths, the unmet 
need for contraception, and gender-based violence 
and other harmful practices, including female genital 
mutilation and child marriage. 
(3) UNFPA also ensures access to health care 
and essential supplies for women and families im-
pacted by emergencies. 
(4) All UNFPA programming is guided by 
principles adopted by 179 governments, including 
the United States, at the 1994 International Con-
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ference for Population and Development. The prin-
ciples include that ‘‘reproductive health care pro-
grams should provide the widest range of services 
without any form of coercion. All couples and indi-
viduals have the basic right to decide freely and re-
sponsibly the number and spacing of their children 
and to have the information, education and means to 
do so.’’. 
(5) UNFPA is currently working to address the 
needs of the following: 
(A) The 800 women and adolescent girls 
who die each day from preventable causes re-
lated to pregnancy and childbirth, most of 
which occur in developing countries and more 
than half of which occur in fragile and humani-
tarian settings. 
(B) The more than 218,000,000 women of 
reproductive age in low- and middle-income 
countries who want to avoid pregnancy and are 
not using a modern contraceptive method. 
(C) The estimated 1 in 3 women who expe-
rience gender-based violence. 
(D) The estimated 200,000,000 women 
who have survived some form of female genital 
mutilation. 
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(E) The estimated 12,000,000 girls who 
are forcibly married before the age of 18 each 
year. 
(6) UNFPA, which works in three times as 
many countries as the United States Agency for 
International Development, extends the impact of 
United States foreign assistance by reaching people 
in politically unstable regions. UNFPA also plays a 
pivotal role in meeting protection and health care 
needs in countries experiencing humanitarian emer-
gencies like Afghanistan, Ukraine, and Yemen. 
(7) Voluntary family planning is central to 
global health, gender equality and women’s em-
powerment, and it is a key factor in reducing pov-
erty. 
(8) UNFPA continues to rebuild health systems 
following the COVID–19 outbreak by supporting 
frontline health workers who help to limit potential 
increases in maternal deaths, unmet need for family 
planning, gender-based violence, female genital muti-
lation, and child marriage. 
SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It is the policy of the United States as follows: 
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(1) Improving the status of women around the 
world is a critical component of the United States 
foreign policy and development strategies. 
(2) The right of every person to determine free-
ly whether, when, and with whom to have children, 
and to attain the highest standard of sexual and re-
productive health, is a basic human right. 
(3) Access to voluntary contraception and re-
productive health care is necessary to improving the 
status of women and ensuring this basic human 
right. 
(4) UNFPA is a key partner to the United 
States in improving the status of women and ex-
panding access to voluntary family planning and re-
productive health care services throughout the world. 
(5) UNFPA helps ensure that family planning 
and reproductive health programs are voluntary and 
centered on protecting human rights. 
(6) Financial support for UNFPA is a crucial 
part of the United States commitment to global 
health, development, and human rights, and the 
Government of the United States is committed to 
providing core, development, and humanitarian fund-
ing to UNFPA. 
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SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There is authorized to be appropriated an annual 
contribution for each of the five fiscal years beginning 
after the date of the enactment of this Act to support the 
core functions and programs of the United Nations Popu-
lation Fund (UNFPA), which may include the following: 
(1) Ending preventable maternal deaths. 
(2) Ending the unmet need for contraceptives 
and promoting a human-rights-based approach to 
family planning. 
(3) Ending gender-based violence. 
(4) Ending other harmful practices, such as 
child marriage and female genital mutilation. 
(5) Supporting United States national security 
and humanitarian efforts by operating in areas 
where medical infrastructure or services have been 
destroyed or limited by natural disasters, armed con-
flict, or other humanitarian emergencies. 
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