3.0.0 5713 2023-01-13T04:50:46Z 2023-01-13T04:50:46Z House H HR 2006-06-29 109 hsfa00 Foreign Affairs Committee House Standing Referred to 2006-06-29T14:00:15Z 2006-06-29 Referred to the House Committee on International Relations. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsfa00 Foreign Affairs Committee 2006-06-29 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2006-06-29 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress H001022 Rep. Hyde, Henry J. [R-IL-6] HENRY HYDE R IL J. 6 N International Affairs Appropriations Congress Congress and foreign policy Congressional reporting requirements Economics and Public Finance Government Operations and Politics United Nations United Nations finances Voting International Affairs 00 2006-06-29 Introduced in House 2006-09-21T14:41:55Z United Nations Budget Reform Act of 2006 - States that it shall be U.S. policy to use its influence at the United Nations to pursue: (1) General Assembly adoption of formal procedures for the use of weighted voting in the General Assembly with respect to the adoption of regularly assessed budgets for biennial periods (the proportionate value of a member's vote to be equal to such member's assessed budget contribution); and (2) U.N. adoption of formal procedures that prohibit passage of a regularly assessed budget for a biennial period without first obtaining the unanimous consent of all members.

Provides that if the United Nations adopts such a budget without unanimous consent the United States shall appropriate, but withhold from expenditure, 25% of its budget contributions which shall be available for release to the United Nations until the earlier of five years or until the Secretary of State certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that the United Nations is in compliance with this Act (such funds to revert to the United States if there is no certification).

]]> United Nations Budget Reform Act of 2006 Display Title United Nations Budget Reform Act of 2006 Official Title as Introduced To pursue a policy of weighted voting with respect to the budgets of the United Nations. Introduced in House IH Short Titles as Introduced United Nations Budget Reform Act of 2006 Introduced in House 2006-06-29T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109hr5713ih/xml/BILLS-109hr5713ih.xml 2006-06-29 Referred to the House Committee on International Relations. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.