U.S. Congress - H.R.2583 Security Assistance Act of 2011
H.R.2583 - Security Assistance Act of 2011
To authorize appropriations for the Department of State for fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes. view all titles (6)
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- Short: Security Assistance Act of 2011 as reported to house.
- Short: Preparing the Palestinian People for Peace Act of 2011 as reported to house.
- Short: Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2012 as reported to house.
- Short: Security Assistance Act of 2011 as introduced.
- Short: Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2012 as introduced.
- Official: To authorize appropriations for the Department of State for fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes. as introduced.
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7/19/2011--Introduced.Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2012 - Authorizes FY2012 appropriations for: (1) the Department of State (Department) for the administration of foreign affairs, (2) international organizations, (3) international peacekeeping, (4) international commissOfficial Summary
7/19/2011--Introduced.Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2012 - Authorizes FY2012 appropriations for:(1) the Department of State (Department) for the administration of foreign affairs,
(2) international organizations,
(3) international peacekeeping,
(4) international commissions,
(5) migration and refugee assistance, and
(6) the National Endowment for Democracy. Revises provisions regarding local guard and protective service contracts in high risk areas abroad. Expresses the sense of Congress regarding:
(1) Israel;
(2) microenterprise programs and development;
(3) boundary, water, and fisheries commissions;
(4) the Arab League boycott of Israel;
(5) religious freedom in Vietnam;
(6) Eritrea's support for armed insurgents in Somalia;
(7) religious minorities in Egypt;
(8) Sudan and South Sudan;
(9) European Union (EU) arms exports to China; and
(10) the Peace Corps. Extends passport surcharge authority. Authorizes the Secretary of State to establish a Tibet Section within the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China, until such time as a U.S. consulate in Tibet is established. Revises Foreign Service member-related provisions. Authorizes appropriations for:
(1) bilateral economic assistance;
(2) the President, for operating expenses, the capital investment fund, and the Office of Inspector General of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID);
(3) the Millennium Challenge Corporation;
(4) the Democracy Fund; and
(5) international broadcasting. Prohibits U.S. economic or development assistance from being provided to a country that does not meet the corruption performance indicator of the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Urges the President to transfer to the Treasury at least 50% of all assets from the liquidation of:
(1) the U.S.-Russia Investment Fund and the Western Newly Independent States Enterprise Fund,
(2) the Baltic-American Enterprise Fund, and
(3) the South African Enterprise Development Fund. Prohibits funds from being made available for:
(1) any foreign nongovernmental organization that promotes or performs abortions, with certain exceptions;
(2) USAID's Office of Budget and Resource Management; and
(3) the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West. Authorizes the President to interdict imports into or exports from Iran with respect to materials, equipment, or technology for nuclear, biological, chemical, missile, or conventional arms programs. Supports the reunification of Cyprus. Limits assistance to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). Calls on Turkey to grant the Ecumenical Patriarchate international recognition and ecclesiastic succession. Security Assistance Act of 2011 - Provides funding for:
(1) the foreign military financing program,
(2) Israel,
(3) Iraq, and
(4) international military education and training. Increases the aggregate value of excess defense articles that may be transferred in a fiscal year. Authorizes the Secretary to establish the Global Security Contingency Fund to provide assistance to strengthen a foreign country's national and regional security interests consistent with U.S. foreign policy interests. Limits international education and training assistance to Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Somalia, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, and Zimbabwe. Increases specified congressional notification thresholds for specified foreign military sales and defense equipment. Makes it an unlawful act to knowingly violate military sales agent or arms export/import provisions under the Arms Export Control Act. Sets forth criminal penalty provisions. Authorizes the Secretary to provide assistance to Israel for the Iron Dome Air Defense Missile System. Conditions security assistance to:
(1) Egypt,
(2) Lebanon,
(3) the Palestinian Authority (PA), and
(4) Yemen. Revises:
(1) conditions for the provision of assistance to Pakistan, and
(2) Pakistan assistance strategy report requirements. Requires that such report be provided to Congress for each of FY2012-FY2014. Directs the Secretary to fully cooperate with audits and information requests from the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR). Authorizes peacekeeping assistance to be used:
(1) to enhance the capacity of foreign civilian security forces, including gendarmes, to participate in peacekeeping operations; and
(2) for programs to disarm and reintegrate former members of foreign terrorist organizations into civilian society. Authorizes appropriations for international peacekeeping activities in Somalia and for a U.S. contribution to the Multinational Force Observers Mission in the Sinai.
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Ros-Lehtinen's committee has already approved a State Department authorization bill, HR 2583, that would withhold funding to Pakistan until State submits a report confirming the Pakistani government is making progress toward certain security goals and
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