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(D) improve the response time for identifying and 
retrieving Federal records, including requests made pursu-
ant to section 552 of title 5, United States Code (commonly 
known as the ‘‘Freedom of Information Act’’); and 
(E) strengthen cyber security measures to mitigate 
vulnerabilities, including those resulting from the use of 
personal 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 and 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 
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 joint explanatory statement accom-
panying this Act: Provided, That such designated amounts for for-
eign countries and international organizations shall serve as the 
amounts for such countries and international organizations trans-
mitted to Congress in the report required by section 653(a) of 
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. 
(b) AUTHORIZED DEVIATIONS.—Unless otherwise provided for 
by this Act, the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the
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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 joint explanatory 
statement accompanying this Act: Provided, That such percentage 
may be exceeded only if the Secretary of State and USAID Adminis-
trator, as applicable, determines and reports 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: Provided further, 
That deviations pursuant to the previous 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, no deviations 
authorized by subsection (b) may take place until 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 joint explanatory statement accompanying this Act; 
(B) funds for which the initial period of availability 
has expired; 
(C) amounts designated by this Act as minimum 
funding requirements; and 
(D) funds made available for a country pursuant to 
sections 7043(c), 7047(d), and 7071(b) of this Act. 
(2) The authority in subsection (b) to deviate below amounts 
designated in the respective tables included in the joint 
explanatory statement accompanying this Act shall not apply 
to the table included under the heading ‘‘Global Health Pro-
grams’’ in such explanatory statement. 
(3) With respect to the amounts designated for ‘‘Global 
Programs’’ in the table under the heading ‘‘Economic Support 
Fund’’ included in the joint explanatory statement accom-
panying this Act, subsection (b) shall be applied by substituting 
‘‘5 percent’’ for ‘‘10 percent’’. 
(e) REPORTS.—The Secretary of State and the USAID Adminis-
trator, as appropriate, shall submit the reports required, in the 
manner described, in House Report 115–829, Senate Report 115– 
282, and the joint explanatory statement accompanying this Act, 
unless directed otherwise in such explanatory statement. 
REPRESENTATION AND ENTERTAINMENT EXPENSES 
SEC. 7020. (a) USES
OF FUNDS.—Each Federal department, 
agency, or entity funded in titles I or II of this Act, and the 
Department of the Treasury and independent agencies funded in 
titles III or VI of this Act, shall take steps to ensure that domestic 
and overseas representation and entertainment expenses further 
official agency business and United States foreign policy interests, 
and— 
(1) are primarily for fostering relations outside of the 
Executive Branch; 
(2) are principally for meals and events of a protocol nature;
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(3) are not for employee-only events; and 
(4) do not include activities that are substantially of a 
recreational character. 
(b) LIMITATIONS.—None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act under the headings ‘‘International Mili-
tary Education and Training’’ or ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Pro-
gram’’ for Informational Program activities or under the headings 
‘‘Global Health Programs’’, ‘‘Development Assistance’’, ‘‘Economic 
Support Fund’’, and ‘‘Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central 
Asia’’ 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 entrance fees at 
sporting events, theatrical and musical productions, and amuse-
ment parks. 
PROHIBITION ON ASSISTANCE TO GOVERNMENTS SUPPORTING 
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM 
SEC. 7021. (a) LETHAL MILITARY EQUIPMENT EXPORTS.— 
(1) PROHIBITION.—None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available under titles III through VI of this Act 
may be made available to any foreign government which pro-
vides lethal military equipment to a country the government 
of which the Secretary of State has determined supports inter-
national terrorism for purposes of section 6(j) of the Export 
Administration Act of 1979 as continued in effect pursuant 
to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act: Provided, 
That the prohibition under this section with respect to a foreign 
government shall terminate 12 months after that government 
ceases to provide such military equipment: Provided further, 
That this section applies with respect to lethal military equip-
ment provided under a contract entered into after October 
1, 1997. 
(2) DETERMINATION.—Assistance restricted by paragraph 
(1) or any other similar provision of law, may be furnished 
if the President determines that to do so is important to the 
national interest of the United States. 
(3) REPORT.—Whenever the President makes a determina-
tion pursuant to paragraph (2), the President shall submit 
to the Committees on Appropriations a report with respect 
to the furnishing of such assistance, including a detailed expla-
nation of the assistance to be provided, the estimated dollar 
amount of such assistance, and an explanation of how the 
assistance furthers United States national interest. 
(b) BILATERAL ASSISTANCE.— 
(1) LIMITATIONS.—Funds appropriated for bilateral assist-
ance in titles III through VI of this Act and funds appropriated 
under any such title in prior Acts making appropriations for 
the Department of State, foreign operations, and related pro-
grams, shall not be made available to any foreign government 
which the President determines— 
(A) grants sanctuary from prosecution to any individual 
or group which has committed an act of international ter-
rorism; 
(B) otherwise supports international terrorism; or
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(C) is controlled by an organization designated as a 
terrorist organization under section 219 of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189). 
(2) WAIVER.—The President may waive the application of 
paragraph (1) to a government if the President determines 
that national security or humanitarian reasons justify such 
waiver: Provided, That the President shall publish each such 
waiver in the Federal Register and, at least 15 days before 
the waiver takes effect, shall notify the Committees on Appro-
priations of the waiver (including the justification for the 
waiver) in accordance with the regular notification procedures 
of the Committees on Appropriations. 
AUTHORIZATION REQUIREMENTS 
SEC. 7022. Funds appropriated by this Act, except funds appro-
priated under the heading ‘‘Trade and Development Agency’’, may 
be obligated and expended notwithstanding section 10 of Public 
Law 91–672 (22 U.S.C. 2412), section 15 of the State Department 
Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2680), section 313 of 
the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 
1995 (22 U.S.C. 6212), and section 504(a)(1) of the National Security 
Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3094(a)(1)). 
DEFINITION OF PROGRAM, PROJECT, AND ACTIVITY 
SEC. 7023. For the purpose of titles II through VI of this 
Act ‘‘program, project, and activity’’ shall be defined at the appro-
priations Act account level and shall include all appropriations 
and authorizations Acts funding directives, ceilings, and limitations 
with the exception that for the following accounts: ‘‘Economic Sup-
port Fund’’, ‘‘Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia’’, 
and ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’, ‘‘program, project, and 
activity’’ shall also be considered to include country, regional, and 
central program level funding within each such account; and for 
the development assistance accounts of the United States Agency 
for International Development, ‘‘program, project, and activity’’ shall 
also be considered to include central, country, regional, and program 
level funding, either as— 
(1) justified to Congress; or 
(2) allocated by the Executive Branch in accordance with 
a report, to be provided to the Committees on Appropriations 
within 30 days after enactment of this Act, as required by 
section 653(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or as 
modified pursuant to section 7019 of this Act. 
AUTHORITIES FOR THE PEACE CORPS, INTER-AMERICAN FOUNDATION 
AND UNITED STATES AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION 
SEC. 7024. Unless expressly provided to the contrary, provisions 
of this or any other Act, including provisions contained in prior 
Acts authorizing or making appropriations for the Department of 
State, foreign operations, and related programs, shall not be con-
strued to prohibit activities authorized by or conducted under the 
Peace Corps Act, the Inter-American Foundation Act or the African 
Development Foundation Act: Provided, That prior to conducting 
activities in a country for which assistance is prohibited, the agency