[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 712 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 712

  To require certain entities receiving United States funds from the 
 International Fund for Ireland to comply with the MacBride Principles.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 2, 1993

  Mr. Engel introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require certain entities receiving United States funds from the 
 International Fund for Ireland to comply with the MacBride Principles.

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

SECTION 1. COMPLIANCE WITH MACBRIDE PRINCIPLES REQUIRED FOR RECIPIENTS 
              OF UNITED STATES FUNDS FROM INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR 
              IRELAND.

    (a) In General.--No entity in Northern Ireland and Ireland shall be 
eligible to receive any United States funds from the International Fund 
for Ireland during a fiscal year unless such entity is in compliance 
with the MacBride Principles with respect to those employees during 
such year.
    (b) MacBride Principles Defined.--For purposes of this section, the 
term ``MacBride Principles'' means the following principles:
            (1) Eliminating religious discrimination in managerial, 
        supervisory, administrative, clerical, and technical jobs and 
        significantly increasing the representation in such jobs of 
        individuals from underrepresented religious groups.
            (2) Providing adequate security for the protection of 
        minority employees at the workplace.
            (3) Banning provocative sectarian and political emblems 
        from the workplace.
            (4) Advertising publicly all job openings and undertaking 
        special recruitment efforts to attract applicants from 
        underrepresented religious groups.
            (5) Establishing layoff, recall, and termination procedures 
        which do not favor particular religious groupings.
            (6) Providing equal employment for all employees, including 
        implementing equal and nondiscriminatory terms and conditions 
        of employment for all employees, and abolishing job 
        reservations, apprenticeship restrictions, and differential 
        employment criteria, which discriminate on the basis of 
        religion or ethnic origin.
            (7) Developing training programs that will prepare 
        substantial numbers of minority employees for managerial, 
        supervisory, administrative, clerical, and technical jobs, 
        including--
                    (A) expanding existing programs and forming new 
                programs to train, upgrade, and improve the skills of 
                all categories of minority employees;
                    (B) creating on-the-job training programs and 
                facilities to assist minority employees to advance to 
                higher paying jobs requiring greater skills; and
                    (C) establishing and expanding programs to enable 
                minority employees to further their education and 
                skills at recognized education facilities.
            (8) Establishing procedures to assess, identify, and 
        actively recruit minority individuals with potential for 
        further advancement, and identifying those minority individuals 
        who have high management potential and enrolling them in 
        accelerated management programs.
            (9) Appointing a senior management staff member to oversee 
        compliance with the principles described in this subsection.
    (c) Definitions.--As used in this section--
            (1) the term ``United States funds'' means any funds 
        contributed by the United States to the International Fund for 
        Ireland; and
            (2) the term ``International Fund for Ireland'' means the 
        fund described in section 8(2) of the Anglo-Irish Agreement 
        Support Act of 1986.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    Section 1(a) shall apply with respect to funds available from the 
International Fund for Ireland during fiscal years beginning on or 
after October 1, 1993.

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