Title: UNRWA Accountability Act of 2018
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
UNRWA Accountability Act of 2018
This bill directs the Department of State to report to Congress on the long-term strategy for funding and policy towards the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. The report shall include the national security impact of any such funding changes.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5898 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5898

      To require the Secretary of State to develop a strategy on 
     administration policy regarding UNRWA, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 21, 2018

  Mr. Cicilline (for himself and Mr. Zeldin) introduced the following 
      bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
      To require the Secretary of State to develop a strategy on 
     administration policy regarding UNRWA, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``UNRWA Accountability Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of Congress that the United States should--
            (1) continue to oppose anti-Israel bias at the United 
        Nations and in United Nations agencies;
            (2) define and convey to the United Nations and appropriate 
        United Nations agencies reform priorities that should be met in 
        order to facilitate future United States funding for the United 
        Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA); 
        and
            (3) support greater transparency in ongoing reform efforts 
        at UNRWA.

SEC. 3. REQUIREMENT FOR STRATEGY ON ADMINISTRATION POLICY REGARDING 
              UNRWA.

    (a) Report.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the 
Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development 
(USAID), shall submit to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Committee 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Foreign Relations and Committee on Appropriations of the Senate a 
report on the long-term strategy for funding and policy towards UNRWA.
    (b) Contents.--The strategy required under subsection (a) shall 
include the following:
            (1) A detailed strategy regarding future United States 
        contributions to UNRWA, including the anticipated United States 
        contributions to UNRWA for the five fiscal years after the date 
        of the enactment of this Act.
            (2) An identification of the bureaus, entities, and 
        leadership positions and offices within the Department of State 
        or any other Executive branch agencies that review United 
        States contributions to UNRWA, and an identification of the 
        lead position in each such agency who is overseeing each such 
        corresponding review.
            (3) The metrics, data, and other information being used by 
        the Department of State or any other Executive branch agency to 
        review United States contributions to UNRWA.
            (4) A description of any desired reforms the Administration 
        has submitted to or requested from the United Nations or United 
        Nations agencies that UNRWA undertake as a condition for future 
        funding.
            (5) The national security impact of changes to United 
        States funding to UNRWA.
    (c) Form.--The strategy required under subsection (a) shall be 
submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.
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