North American Development Bank Improvement Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-267
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2019-01-29
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Air quality

Congressional oversight

Energy storage, supplies, demand

Foreign loans and debt

Latin America

Mexico

Motor vehicles

Multilateral development programs

North America

Oil and gas

Performance measurement

Pipelines

Roads and highways

Solid waste and recycling

Water quality

Water use and supply
Latest action: action_date: 2019-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-01-29
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>North American Development Bank Improvement Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill authorizes the Department of the Treasury to provide a capital increase for the North American Development Bank, a financial institution the United States and Mexico created to develop infrastructure that protect the environment along their shared border.</p> <p>Treasury may subscribe to and purchase 150,000 shares of the bank's capital stock, to the extent that funds are appropriated for such a purpose. </p> <p>Treasury shall support projects related to water pollution and conservation, waste treatment, natural gas and energy security, expanding land border crossings, and reducing pollution related to such traffic. It shall also support developing various performance measures at the bank and report to Congress about its progress imposing such measures. <br> </p> <p><br> </p> </p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 267 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 29, 2019 Mr. Cornyn (for himself, Mrs. Feinstein , Ms. McSally , and Ms. Sinema ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations A BILL To provide for a general capital increase for the North American Development Bank, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the North American Development Bank Improvement Act of 2019 . 2. General capital increase Part 2 of subtitle D of title V of Public Law 103–182 ( 22 U.S.C. 290m et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: 547. First capital increase (a) Subscription authorized The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to subscribe on behalf of the United States to, and make payment for, 150,000 additional shares of the capital stock of the Bank. (b) Limitation Any subscription by the United States to the capital stock of the Bank shall be effective only to such extent and in such amounts as are provided in advance in appropriations Acts. . 3. Policy goals (a) In general In addition to projects within the mission and scope of the North American Development Bank on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act and pursuant to section 2 of article II of the Charter, the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct the representatives of the United States to the Board of Directors of the Bank to use the voice and vote of the United States to support the financing of projects related to— (1) environmental infrastructure relating to water pollution, wastewater treatment, water conservation, municipal solid waste, and related matters; (2) natural gas, including natural gas pipelines and combined cycle power plants, with major emphasis on cross-border energy distribution and consumption and the energy security of the United States and Mexico; and (3) the expansion or new construction of international land border crossings to help facilitate the flow of goods and people across the international land border between the United States and Mexico while reducing wait times at border crossings and improving air quality by reducing pollution related to vehicular and commercial traffic. (b) Charter defined In this section, the term Charter means the Agreement Concerning the Establishment of a Border Environment Cooperation Commission and a North American Development Bank, signed at Washington and Mexico November 16 and 18, 1993, and entered into force January 1, 1994 (TIAS 12516), between the United States and Mexico. 4. Efficiencies and streamlining The Secretary of the Treasury shall direct the representatives of the United States to the Board of Directors of the North American Development Bank to use the voice and vote of the United States to seek to require the Bank to develop and implement efficiency improvements to streamline and accelerate the project certification and financing process, including through initiatives such as single certifications for revolving facilities, programmatic certification of similar groups of small projects, expansion of internal authority to approve qualified projects below certain monetary thresholds, and expedited certification for public sector projects subject to lender bidding processes. 5. Performance measures (a) In general The Secretary of the Treasury shall direct the representatives of the United States to the Board of Directors of the North American Development Bank to use the voice and vote of the United States to seek to require the Bank to develop performance measures that— (1) demonstrate how projects and financing approved by the Bank are meeting the Bank’s mission and providing added value to the region near the international land border between the United States and Mexico; and (2) are reviewed and updated not less frequently than annually. (b) Report to Congress The Secretary of the Treasury shall submit to Congress, with the submission to Congress of the budget of the President for a fiscal year under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, a report on progress in imposing the performance measures described in subsection (a).