Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1981 - Title I: Multilateral Economic Assistance - Appropriates funds for fiscal year 1981 to the President for contributions to the: (1) Inter-American Development Bank; (2) International Bank for Reconstruction and Development; (3) International Development Association; (4) Asian Development Bank; (5) African Development Fund; (6) African Development Bank; and (7) other international organizations and programs. Specifies the maximum amount of callable capital stock to which the U.S. Governors of such Banks may subscribe.
Title II: Bilateral Economic Assistance - Makes fiscal year 1981 appropriations to the following: (1) International Development Cooperation Agency; (2) Agency for International Development for agriculture, rural development, and nutrition, population, health, education and human resources development, technical assistance, energy, research, reconstruction, and selected development problems, loan allocation, scientific and technical cooperation programs, American schools and hospitals abroad, international disaster assistance, Sahel development program, payment to the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund, overseas training and special development activities (foreign currency program), economic support fund, peacekeeping operations, Agency operating expenses, and international narcotics control; (3) Inter-American Foundation; (4) Overseas Private Investment Corporation with limitations on the amounts of direct and guaranteed loans; (5) ACTION for the Peace Corps; and (6) Department of State for migration and refugee assistance, the U.S. Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund, and special assistance to Cuban and Haitian entrants.
Title III: Military Assistance - Appropriates fiscal year 1981 funds to the President for: (1) military assistance; (2) international military education and training; and (3) foreign military credit sales with limitations on the amounts of direct and guaranteed loans. Prohibits making available any of such funds to Haiti.
Title IV: Export-Import Bank of the United States - Authorizes the Export-Import Bank to make expenditures without regard to fiscal year limitations, unless otherwise specified. Prohibits expenditures for nuclear exports to any country, other than a nuclear weapons State, that has detonated a nuclear explosive after enactment of this Act. Specifies limitations on the amounts of direct and guaranteed loans and on administrative expenses and entertainment allowances.
Title V: General Provisions - Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for: (1) financing construction of any water or related land resource development project which has not met specified standards; (2) pensions for persons who have served in the armed forces of any recipient country; (3) procurement contracts which do not permit termination for U.S. convenience; (4) dues of any member of the United Nations; (5) the transfer of appropriated funds among international lending organizations; (6) financing nuclear exports or providing nuclear training assistance to foreign nationals; (7) assisting countries to violate human rights; (8) assistance to Mozambique (unless it would further U.S. foreign policy interests), Angola, Cambodia, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam, or Syria; (9) obligation under an appropriations account to which they were not appropriated without prior congressional approval; (10) unauthorized publicity purposes within the United States; (11) obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless otherwise permitted; (12) assistance to countries which are more than one year in default on loans payments to the United States; (13) international financial institutions which do not make available information concerning loans or documents to the U.S. representatives; (14) any government which aids or abets international terrorism; (15) assisting the production of commodities for export, if such commodities will likely be in surplus on world markets and will cause substantial injury to U.S. producers; and (16) the obligation of specified funds for programs not justified or in excess of the amount justified without prior congressional notification.
Limits the use of appropriated funds for: (1) obligation during the last month of availability; and (2) official residence expenses, entertainment expenses, and representation allowances of the Agency for International Development.
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive directors of specified international financial institutions to oppose assistance for the production of export commodities in surplus on world markets and which will cause substantial injury to U.S. producers.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Appropriations.
Reported to House from the Committee on Appropriations, H. Rept. 96-1207.
Reported to House from the Committee on Appropriations, H. Rept. 96-1207.
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