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7/16/2009--Reported to Senate amended. World Bank International Development Association Replenishment Act of 2009 - (Sec. 2) Defines "greenhouse gas" as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, a perfluorocarbon, or a hydrofluorocarbon.(Sec. 3) Amends the International Financial Institutions Act to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) seek to ensure that multilateral development banks implement greenhouse gas accounting in analyzing the benefits and costs of individual projects, and expand their climate change mitigation activities; and (2) submit a related annual report to the appropriate congressional committees. Expresses the sense of Congress that implementing greenhouse gas accounting includes: (1) calculating net greenhouse gas flows; (2) establishing uniform publicly available calculation techniques; (3) measuring individual project emissions; (4) considering global social costs when evaluating economic cost benefits; and (5) performing greenhouse gas accounting for each project. (Sec. 4) Directs the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Director at the World Bank to: (1) urge the Bank to help countries build capacity to investigate and punish corruption and crime in a manner consistent with well-established law enforcement and judicial norms; and (2) enhance programs that improve recipient countries' ability to prevent and prosecute fraud and corruption. (Sec. 5) Directs the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Director at each multilateral development bank to use U.S. influence to encourage assessments of inspection functions and to strengthen the inspection mechanism where appropriate. (Sec. 6) Directs the Secretary to seek to ensure that multilateral development banks: (1) evaluate the development impact of selected bank projects and financing operations; and (2) use random assignment when feasible in conducting such evaluations. Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) multilateral development banks should evaluate the development impact of selected bank projects and financing operations; (2) such evaluations should focus on building a body of research-proven approaches that have sustained impacts on important development outcomes and use random assignment when feasible; and (3) multilateral development banks should issue an annual report or similar publication. (Sec. 7) Amends the International Development Association Act to authorize the U.S. Governor of the International Development Association to contribute to the 15th replenishment of the Association. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to contribute to the Association for debt relief funding under the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative in the period governed by the 15th replenishment of the Association. Authorizes appropriations. Defines "Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative" as the proposal set out in the G8 Finance Ministers' Communique entitled "Conclusions on Development," done at London, June 11, 2005, and reaffirmed by G8 Heads of State at the Gleneagles Summit on July 8, 2005. (Sec. 8) Directs the Secretary: (1) in coordination with the Secretary of State, the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and other federal agencies to study each agency's role in the formulation of U.S. policy regarding the World Bank Group; and (2) submit a related report to the appropriate congressional committees.

1247716800 2009-07-16 Wed Jan 06 07:46:19 -0600 2010 reported to senate 57228 'act':7 '2009':9 'bank':2 'world':1 'associ':5 'intern':3 'develop':4 'replenish':6 77670 false short introduced 57228 'act':7 '2009':9 'bank':2 'world':1 'associ':5 'intern':3 'develop':4 'replenish':6 72720 false short introduced 57228 'bill':2 'unit':5 'state':6 'associ':17 'author':4 'intern':15 'purpos':21 'develop':16 'resourc':12 'particip':7 'replenish':10 72677 false official calendar 57228 1247716800 Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0500 2009 203424 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 112. K000148 1943-12-11 28460 218 Russell Senate Office Building http://kerry.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm 202-224-8525 John 'd':4 'ma':5 'sen':1 'john':2,6,8 'kerri':3,7,9 M 300060 Kerry John_Kerry Forbes Sen. John Kerry [D, MA] 13053 N00000245 17558 Democrat 202-224-2742 Roman Catholic MA John Kerry 2.17142857142857 http://kerry.senate.gov/ calendar 57228 1247716800 Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0500 2009 203424 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 112. action 57228 1247716800 Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0500 2009 203423 Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Kerry with amendments. With written report No. 111-50. calendar 57228 1241496000 Tue May 05 00:00:00 -0500 2009 193836 Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably. introduced 57228 1241150400 Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0500 2009 193495 action 57228 1241150400 Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0500 2009 193496 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.