Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Permanent General Provisions Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1819
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
Introduced: 2019-06-12 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Africa
Alliances
Appropriations
Aviation and airports
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Conflicts and wars
Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Department of State
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Disaster relief and insurance
Egypt
Europe
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign aid and international relief
Foreign loans and debt
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
International monetary system and foreign exchange
International organizations and cooperation
Israel
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Middle East
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Mining
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Multilateral development programs
Natural disasters
Peace Corps
Property tax
Public contracts and procurement
Rule of law and government transparency
Small business
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
Terrorism
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
U.S. and foreign investments
Violent crime
War crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-12
text: 

Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Permanent General Provisions Act of 2019

 
This bill makes permanent various foreign relations-related provisions. These include
 
 
a general requirement that expenditures under certain Department of State contracts for consulting services are made public; 
 
a general prohibition against providing certain types of foreign assistance to a country whose duly elected head of government has been deposed in a military coup d'etat, a country in default of certain U.S. government loans, or a country that supports international terrorism; 
 
a general prohibition against assistance by the Export-Import Bank or the Overseas Private Investment Corporation for the non-U.S. production of a commodity for export that will likely be in surplus and where such surplus will cause substantial injury to U.S. producers; 
 
various requirements relating to how the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) handles funds for certain types of assistance; 
 
a provision generally authorizing aircraft procured for certain State Department programs to be used in any other program or region; 
 
a provision authorizing the extension of the employment of certain USAID personnel for up to four years; 
 
a provision generally requiring certain foreign-relations-related programs to provide timely access to documents to the relevant Inspector General office; and 
 
a provision authorizing assistance to certain countries for such countries to commercially lease certain defense articles from U.S. commercial suppliers. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2019-06-12
text: Introduced in Senate