International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1980

(Measure indefinitely postponed in Senate, H.R. 6942 passed in lieu)

International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1980 - =Title I: Military and Related Assistance Programs= - Amends the Arms Export Control Act to prohibit personnel performing defense services from giving training and advice that may engage U.S. personnel in combat activities (currently prohibited from giving training, advice, or other assistance regarding combat activities). Requires the President to report to Congress if significant hostilities involve a country in which U.S. personnel are performing defense services.

Authorizes the President to enter into agreements for cooperative reciprocal training with Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.

Repeals current provisions which require ten percent of the principal amount of arms sales guarantees to be reserved, effective October 1, 1980. Provides for the present reserve to remain available. Directs the President to report to Congress whenever the reserve falls below a specified amount. Credits amounts received from foreign governments and international organizations for claims to such reserve after claims based on such guarantees have been paid. Requires annual reports to Congress concerning such reserve.

Authorizes appropriations for foreign military sales for fiscal year 1981. Stipulates that credits and loan guarantees may be made only to the extent provided in advance in appropriations acts. Establishes separate ceilings on the total amount of credit and of loan guarantees authorized to be extended for fiscal year 1981. Increases the amount earmarked for Israel. Makes a specified amount available only for the costs of relocating Israeli forces from the Sinai. Earmarks a specified amount for Korea. Exempts Israel from specified credit and loan guarantee restrictions for fiscal year 1981. Releases Israel from a specified amount of its contractual liability to repay the United States. Grants a ten year grace period before Egypt, the Sudan, Greece, and Turkey are required, and Somalia may be required, to begin repayment of the principal of loans guaranteed to finance credit sales of defense articles and services.

Repeals: (1) the ceiling on arms sales which require an export license; and (2) time limits by which the President must report to Congress concerning certain applications for an export license. Provides for a congressional veto of a proposed export license unless the President states that an emergency exists.

Authorizes the President to require exporters to keep the President informed of arms sale negotiations. Requires that information on licensed commercial exports be included in the annual Arms Sales Proposal. Directs the President to report to Congress concerning the transfer to third countries of specified defense articles and services before consenting to such transfer.

Directs the President to review the current U.S. Munitions List and recommend to Congress which items should be removed from license controls for exports to non-Communist countries because of their civilian application. Expresses the sense of the Senate that items should be removed from such controls under the Arms Export Control Act and transferred to controls under the Export Administration Act if they: (1) are not specifically designed for military uses; (2) do not contain sensitive technology; (3) are not related to nuclear weapons development or delivery; or (4) otherwise do not warrant continued export control under the Arms Export Control Act.

Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to furnish military assistance to friendly countries or international organizations by transferring authorized funds for specified recipients to be used to meet obligations of such recipients for payment for arms sales under the Arms Export Control Act. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 for military assistance with specified limitations on amounts for Portugal, Spain, Sudan, and the Philippines. Increases the aggregate value of the drawdown of defense articles from Defense Department stocks, defense services, and military education and training authorized in emergencies. Extends the authority to furnish military assistance until September 30, 1982 or for five years after such assistance is authorized.

Decreases the value of additions of defense articles to stockpiles in foreign countries during fiscal year 1981. Revises the list of foreign countries to which the President is authorized to assign members of the U.S. Armed Forces to manage security assistance programs by deleting Iran and Kuwait and adding Egypt. Permits the number of defense attaches performing overseas management functions to exceed by up to six the number of attaches authorized on December 31, 1979.

Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 for international military education and training. Includes the additional costs of furnishing such training within the definition of "value".

Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 for peacekeeping operations. Repeals the provision creating the Middle East special requirements fund.

Permits the President to make sales, extend credit, or issue guarantees under the Arms Export Control Act, as well as furnish assistance, without regard to statutory limitations if the President notifies the appropriate congressional committees that to do so is vital to U.S. security.

Prohibits the use of funds authorized by this title for military assistance to Nicaragua.

Directs the President to revoke the licenses for the export of any gas turbine engine cores for use in Iraqi navy frigates.

Amends the Export Administration Act to include the Senate Foreign Relations Committee among those committees which must be notified before export licenses may be approved for exports to countries supporting international terrorism. Requires such notification of Congress be given 30 days before approval of a license. Revises the characteristics of exports requiring such notification to include goods which have a potential military capability, could be a significant part of an article having military capability, or would contribute to the military potential of such a country (currently applies to those exports which would make a significant contribution to the military potential of such country).

=Title II: Economic Support Fund= - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1981 for the Economic Support Fund. Earmarks specified amounts for Egypt and Israel, all of which are to be provided on a grant basis (currently two-thirds are provided on a grant basis). Earmarks specified amounts for: (1) development programs on the West Bank and in Gaza; (2) Southern Africa programs (repeals current restrictions); (3) Cyprus relief; (4) Turkey (two-thirds to be provided on a grant basis); (5) Portugal; and (6) Sudan.

Directs the President to report to specified congressional committees every 60 days concerning implementation of the Declaration of Rights portion of the agreement signed at Lancaster House, London, England, if assistance is given to Zimbabwe.

Authorizes a specified portion of appropriated funds to be used in emergencies when U.S. national interests urgently require economic support to promote economic or political stability.

Exempts construction projects in Egypt, described in materials to Congress for fiscal years 1980 and 1981, from restrictions on the maximum amount of assistance which may be furnished without the express approval of Congress.

=Title III: Development Assistance Programs= - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1981 for: (1) agriculture, rural development, and nutrition; (2) population planning and health programs (with a specified amount for population activities of the World Health Organization and the United Nations); (3) education and human resources development; (4) development of indigenous energy resources; (5) environmental programs; (6) Sahel development program; (7) international organizations and programs (with a specified amount for the U.N. Environmental Program); and (8) reimbursable development programs.

Revises the congressional policy regarding the use of private and voluntary organizations and cooperatives in overseas development to urge simplified procedures for the approval of programs to be carried out by such organizations. Stipulates that prohibitions on assistance to countries shall not be construed to prohibit the continuation of assistance to such organizations. Directs the President to take into consideration whether such continued support is in the U.S. national interest and to report to Congress regarding the reasons.

Decreases the amount due and payable during fiscal year 1981 to the United States from relatively least developed countries on development loans.

Permits expenses for orderly termination of programs to include funds to enable students abroad to complete their training.

Directs the Administrator of the Agency for International Development to encourage the ongoing work of private voluntary organizations to deal with world hunger problems abroad. Urges the Administrator to assist such organizations engaged in facilitating public discussion of hunger and related issues.

=Title IV: Other Assistance Programs= - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1981 for: (1) American schools and hospitals abroad; (2) international narcotics control (with specified amounts of Pakistani currencies and credits available for assistance to Pakistan in addition to funds otherwise available); and (3) international disaster assistance.

Authorizes the use of funds appropriated for Colombia to stop the drug traffic for fixed-wing aircraft and other aviation services essential to the Colombian anti-narcotics enforcement program.

Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should: (1) support relief operations in East Timor; (2) assist in reuniting families separated by recent developments in East Timor; (3) encourage Indonesia to allow access to East Timor by international journalists; and (4) reaffirm U.S. policy and increase funds to support the goal of reducing postharvest losses of food in developing countries.

=Title V: Peace Corps= - Amends the Peace Corps Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1981 for the Peace Corps and for any necessary increases. Increases the maximum amount authorized to meet unforeseen emergencies.

Amends the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 to delete provisions providing for: (1) an Associate Director for International Operations within ACTION; (2) Peace Corps representatives on the National Voluntary Service Advisory Council; and (3) advice and review by such Council of the Peace Corps.

=Title VI: Miscellaneous Provisions= - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to allow foreign assistance funds to be used to procure agricultural products outside the United States when the domestic price is less than parity if the commodity can not reasonably be procured in the United States in fulfillment of the objectives of a particular assistance program.

Prohibits the use of foreign aid for procurement of construction or engineering services from advanced developing countries which are internationally competitive.

Replaces the Auditor General with an Inspector General. Makes such Inspector General responsible for security activities, as well as audit and investigative activities, of the agency administering development assistance and, to the extent requested, the U.S. International Development Cooperation Agency. Gives the Inspector General subpoena power. Sets forth additional duties of the Inspector General. Authorizes the Inspector General to investigate employee complaints concerning the U.S. International Development Cooperation Agency. Exempts the Administrator of foreign aid programs from overseas personnel ceilings established under the Monitoring Overseas Direct Employment policy with regard to staffing field offices for the Inspector General.

Directs the Chairman of the Development Coordination Committee to include in the annual report to Congress information concerning the dollar value and the percentage of the gross national product of assistance provided by member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development or the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.

Permits economic support funds to be used to pay shipping differentials resulting from the use of U.S.-flag vessels.

Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 for the operating expenses for administering the international development programs.

Directs the President to report to Congress concerning: (1) leases of defense property to foreign governments for more than six months; (2) the military capabilities and deployment of Soviet military personnel in Cuba; and (3) Soviet military assistance to Cuban armed forces.

Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to authorize the President to transfer up to 15 percent of the funds available between titles of such Act.

Directs the President to take into account a country's position with respect to the U.S. proposed boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympic games in Moscow in determining the levels of assistance to such country.

Considers Cubans arriving in the United States between January 1, 1980, and June 16, 1980, as refugees for the sole purpose of qualifying State and local governments for Federal assistance. Directs the President to report to Congress on: (1) whether Cubans and Haitians arriving in the United States after March 17, 1980, shall be designated as having refugee status pursuant to the Refugee Act of 1980; (2) costs of resettling such persons; and (3) proposals for the Federal Government to assume a greater share of such costs.

Exempts specified exports of uranium depleted in the isotope 235 from the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978, when such exports are subject to controls pursuant to the Arms Export Control Act or the Export Administration Act of 1979.

Urges the President to secure greater international cooperation with respect to the resettlement of the Cubans which have fled or are attempting to flee Cuba. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should seek the discussion of such situation in an appropriate international forum.

Prohibits assistance to military or paramilitary operations in Angola unless the President determines that such assistance is in the U.S. national security interests. Requires the President to report the amounts of and reasons for such assistance to specified congressional committees if such determination is issued.

Prohibits the use of authorized funds for the acquisition of any agricultural or banking enterprise in El Salvador.

Authorizes the President to arrange for the assumption of loans to the Caribbean Development Bank by the member recipients.

=Title VII: Reduction of Authorization= - Reduces the aggregate amount of authorizations of appropriations by a specified amount excepting those for the Economic Support Fund and for operating expenses of the international development programs.

=Title VIII:= - Asserts that the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the seizure of Americans are fundamentally inconsistent with international law. Declares that the formulation of effective actions to resolve such issues should be of the highest priority at the Venice Summit. Requests the President to report the results of such deliberations to Congress.