Title: To provide for an accounting of total United States contributions to the United Nations.
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to report annually to Congress regarding all assessed and voluntary U.S. contributions to the United Nations (U.N.) and its affiliated agencies and related bodies during the previous fiscal year.
The report shall include: (1) the total amount of all assessed and voluntary U.S. contributions to the U.N. and its affiliated agencies and related bodies; (2) the approximate percentage of U.S. contributions to each such agency or body in a fiscal year when compared with all such contributions in that fiscal year; and (3) the amount, description, and purpose of each contribution, the identity of the donating U.S. agency, and the identity of the recipient U.N. agency or body. The first report shall include information for the previous three fiscal years. OMB shall post a version of such report on a publicly available website.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 733 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 733

 To provide for an accounting of total United States contributions to 
                          the United Nations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 30, 2017

Mr. Brooks of Alabama introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                  to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for an accounting of total United States contributions to 
                          the United Nations.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REPORT ON UNITED STATES CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE UNITED NATIONS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act and annually thereafter, the Director of the 
Office of Management and Budget shall submit to Congress a report on 
all assessed and voluntary contributions, including in-kind, of the 
United States Government to the United Nations and its affiliated 
agencies and related bodies during the previous fiscal year.
    (b) Content.--The report required under subsection (a) shall 
include the following elements:
            (1) The total amount of all assessed and voluntary 
        contributions, including in-kind, of the United States 
        Government to the United Nations and its affiliated agencies 
        and related bodies during the previous fiscal year.
            (2) The approximate percentage of United States Government 
        contributions to each United Nations affiliated agency or body 
        in such fiscal year when compared with all contributions to 
        each such agency or body from any source in such fiscal year.
            (3) For each such United States Government contribution--
                    (A) the amount of each such contribution;
                    (B) a description of each such contribution 
                (including whether assessed or voluntary);
                    (C) the department or agency of the United States 
                Government responsible for each such contribution;
                    (D) the purpose of each such contribution; and
                    (E) the United Nations or its affiliated agency or 
                related body receiving the contribution.
    (c) Scope of Initial Report.--The first report required under 
subsection (a) shall include the information required under this 
section for the previous three fiscal years.
    (d) Public Availability of Information.--Not later than 14 days 
after submitting a report required under subsection (a), the Director 
of the Office of Management and Budget shall post a public version of 
the report on a text-based, searchable, and publicly available Internet 
Web site.
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