Title: EXPO Act of 2019
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
Expositions Provide Opportunities Act of 2019 or EXPO Act of 2019
This bill authorizes the Department of State to provide funds for a pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai. Before providing such funds, the State Department shall report to Congress on various related topics, including the source of such funds, an analysis of the human rights record of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and a certification that each entity receiving such funds is not violating UAE labor laws or utilizing a victim of trafficking.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4842 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4842

   To authorize the Secretary of State to provide funds for a United 
      States pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 23, 2019

  Mr. Phillips (for himself, Ms. Craig, Mr. Emmer, Mrs. Fletcher, Mr. 
Hagedorn, Ms. McCollum, Mr. Olson, Ms. Omar, Mr. Peterson, Mr. Stauber, 
and Mr. Yoho) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To authorize the Secretary of State to provide funds for a United 
      States pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, 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 ``Expositions Provide Opportunities 
Act of 2019'' or ``EXPO Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. STATE DEPARTMENT AUTHORIZATION FOR PAVILION AT EXPO 2020 DUBAI.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding section 204 of the Admiral James 
W. Nance and Meg Donovan Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal 
Years 2000 and 2001 (22 U.S.C. 2452b), the Secretary of State is 
authorized, subject to subsections (b) and (c) of this section, to 
provide funds for a United States pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai.
    (b) Notification.--No funds made available to the Department of 
State to be used for a pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai may be obligated or 
expended unless the appropriate congressional committees are notified 
not less than 15 days prior to such obligation or expenditure.
    (c) Report.--The Secretary of State may not provide funds for a 
United States pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai unless, not later than the 
date that is 180 days before such pavilion is opened, the Secretary of 
State submits to the appropriate congressional committees a report 
concerning activities relating to such pavilion, including--
            (1) a description of the source of such funds, including 
        any funds reprogrammed or transferred by the Department of 
        State to be made available for such pavilion;
            (2) an estimate of the amount of investment such pavilion 
        could bring to the United States;
            (3) an analysis of the human rights record of the United 
        Arab Emirates; and
            (4) a certification that each entity receiving amounts for 
        a contract, grant, or other agreement to construct, maintain, 
        or otherwise service such pavilion is not in violation of the 
        labor laws of the United Arab Emirates and do not employ, or 
        otherwise utilize, a victim of trafficking (as defined in 
        section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 
        (22 U.S.C. 7102)).
    (d) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--In this section, 
the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' means the following:
            (1) The Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on 
        Appropriations of the House of Representatives.
            (2) The Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on 
        Appropriations of the Senate.
    (e) Sunset.--This section ceases to be effective on September 30, 
2021.
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