Global Peacebuilding Act

Bill: 116-hr-5948
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Omar, Ilhan [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2020-02-21
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Appropriations

Conflicts and wars

Defense spending

Department of Defense

Department of State

Foreign aid and international relief

Military operations and strategy

Public-private cooperation
Latest action: action_date: 2020-02-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-02-21
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Global Peacebuilding Act</b></p> <p>This bill authorizes the Department of Defense to transfer a certain amount of funds to the Department of State to increase U.S. contributions to multilateral, public-private, or locally led civil society peacebuilding initiatives. </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5948 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 21, 2020 Ms. Omar introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations A BILL To authorize the transfer of funds made available for overseas contingency operations to increase United States contributions to overseas civilian peacebuilding programs worldwide, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Global Peacebuilding Act . 2. Transfer of funds Of the amounts made available in fiscal year 2021 to conduct overseas contingency operations, the Secretary of Defense is authorized to transfer $5,000,000,000 to the Secretary of State, to be made available to increase United States contributions to multilateral, public-private, or locally led civil society peacebuilding initiatives.