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House Bill 8907
116th Congress(2019-2020)
International Spending Transparency Act
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H. R. 8907 (Introduced-in-House)


116th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 8907


To direct the Secretary of State to establish a unit within the Office of the Inspector General to audit United States contributions to multilateral and international organizations, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

December 9, 2020

Mr. Bergman (for himself, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Mr. Crenshaw, and Mr. Johnson of Louisiana) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

A BILL

To direct the Secretary of State to establish a unit within the Office of the Inspector General to audit United States contributions to multilateral and international organizations, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the “International Spending Transparency Act”.

SEC. 2. Audit of United States contributions to multilateral and international organizations.

(a) In general.—Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this section, the Secretary shall establish within the Office of Audits of the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of State a unit to be known as the “Unit to Audit US Contributions to Multilateral and International Organizations”.

(b) Annual audit.—

(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than December 31 of each year, the unit established pursuant to subsection (a) shall submit to the Secretary an audit of United States contributions to multilateral and international organizations during the immediately preceding fiscal year.

(2) ELEMENTS.—Each audit under paragraph (1) shall include the following:

(A) Information relating to—

(i) the aggregate amount of United States contributions to recipient multilateral and international organizations;

(ii) the amount of contributions spent on administrative costs in comparison to projects; and

(iii) the purposes for each such contribution.

(B) An analysis relating to—

(i) whether each such organization achieved the purpose for the contributions;

(ii) fraud, waste, or abuse of such contributions by each such organization; and

(iii) whether the contributions received by each such organization were in turn provided directly or indirectly to—

(I) the People’s Republic of China;

(II) the Russian Federation;

(III) the Islamic Republic of Iran;

(IV) the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea;

(V) the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela;

(VI) the Syrian Arab Republic; or

(VII) an organization designated as a foreign terrorist organization pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189).

(C) Information relating to the challenges of citizens of the United States seeking employment in the United Nations.

(D) Information relating to the whistleblower protection standards of multilateral and international organizations receiving contributions.

(c) Report.—Not later than 30 days after the receipt of each audit under subsection (a), the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report based on the information and analysis in each such audit.

(d) Limitation.—No additional appropriations are authorized to carry out this section, which shall be carried out using amounts otherwise authorized to be appropriated to the Department of State.

(e) Definitions.—In this section:

(1) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES.—the term “appropriate congressional committees” means—

(A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the House of Representatives; and

(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations in the Senate.

(2) SECRETARY.—The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of State.