3.0.0 4206 2023-01-11T13:17:00Z 2023-01-11T13:17:00Z House H HR 2009-12-03 111 hsfa00 Foreign Affairs Committee House Standing Referred to 2009-12-03T15:04:20Z Haiti Reforestation Act of 2010 111 1183 S 2010-11-18 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 649. Related bill CRS 2009-12-03 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsfa00 Foreign Affairs Committee 2009-12-03 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2009-12-03 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress M001148 Rep. Meek, Kendrick B. [D-FL-17] Kendrick Meek D FL B. 17 N S001145 Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9] JANICE SCHAKOWSKY D IL D. 9 2009-12-03 True A000014 Rep. Abercrombie, Neil [D-HI-1] NEIL ABERCROMBIE D HI 1 2010-02-03 False International Affairs Caribbean area Foreign aid and international relief Foreign loans and debt Forests, forestry, trees Haiti Latin America International Affairs 00 2009-12-03 Introduced in House 2010-03-12T21:55:09Z Haiti Reforestation Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to offer to enter into agreements with the government of Haiti to provide financial assistance, technology transfers, or capacity building assistance to reduce deforestation and increase reforestation in Haiti.

Directs the Secretary to establish a grant program to carry out such activities.

Amends the the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to: (1) direct the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to invite the government of Haiti to submit a list of areas in which tropical forests are seriously degraded or threatened; and (2) authorize USAID to make grants to nongovernmental organizations to purchase discounted commercial debt of the government of Haiti in exchange for government commitments to restore identified forests or to develop plans for their sustainable use.

]]> Haiti Reforestation Act of 2009 Display Title Haiti Reforestation Act of 2009 Official Title as Introduced To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide assistance to the Government of Haiti to end within 5 years the deforestation in Haiti and restore within 30 years the extent of tropical forest cover in existence in Haiti in 1990, and for other purposes. Introduced in House IH Short Titles as Introduced Haiti Reforestation Act of 2009 Introduced in House 2009-12-03T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111hr4206ih/xml/BILLS-111hr4206ih.xml 2009-12-03 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. 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.