Title: United States-Israel International Development Cooperation Act of 2019
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
United States-Israel International Development Cooperation Act of 2019
This bill authorizes projects among the United States, Israel, and developing countries to support local solutions to sustainability challenges relating to water resources, agriculture, and energy storage.
The U.S. Agency for International Development may enter into a memorandum of understanding with Israel to work together toward common goals in areas such as energy, agriculture, democracy, human rights, economic growth, and education.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1820 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1820

To authorize appropriations for certain cooperative projects among the 
    United States, Israel, and developing countries, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 18, 2019

    Ms. Frankel (for herself and Mr. Weber of Texas) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize appropriations for certain cooperative projects among the 
    United States, Israel, and developing countries, 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 ``United States-Israel International 
Development Cooperation Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. STATEMENT OF POLICY AND MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING.

    (a) Statement of Policy.--It should be the policy of the United 
States Agency for International Development to seek to partner with 
Israel in order to advance common goals across a wide variety of 
sectors, including for projects relating to--
            (1) energy, agriculture, and food security;
            (2) democracy, human rights, and governance;
            (3) economic growth and trade; and
            (4) education, environment, global health, water, and 
        sanitation.
    (b) Memorandum of Understanding.--The Administrator of the United 
States Agency for International Development is authorized to enter into 
a memorandum of understanding with the appropriate officials of the 
Government of Israel in order to enhance coordination between the two 
countries on advancing the common goals described in subsection (a)(1) 
through (a)(4) with a focus on strengthening mutual ties and 
cooperation with other countries throughout the world.

SEC. 3. COOPERATIVE PROJECTS AMONG THE UNITED STATES, ISRAEL, AND 
              DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.

    Section 106(f) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 
2151d) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(f) There is authorized to be appropriated $2,000,000 for each of 
fiscal years 2020 through 2024 to finance cooperative projects among 
the United States, Israel, and developing countries that identify and 
support local solutions to address sustainability challenges relating 
to water resources, agriculture, and energy storage, including for the 
following activities:
            ``(1) Establishing public-private partnerships.
            ``(2) Supporting the identification, research, development 
        testing, and scaling of innovations that focus on populations 
        that are vulnerable to environmental and resource-scarcity 
        crises, such as subsistence farming communities.
            ``(3) Seed or transition-to-scale funding, publicity and 
        marketing promotional support, or mentorship and partnership 
        brokering support.
            ``(4) Acceleration of demonstrations or applications of 
        local solutions to sustainability challenges, or the further 
        refinement, testing, or implementation of innovations that have 
        previously effectively addressed sustainability challenges.''.
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