[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2380 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

  2d Session
                                S. 2380

  To provide for international family planning funding for the fiscal 
                   year 2001, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 6, 2000

 Mr. Lautenberg (for himself, Ms. Snowe, Mrs. Boxer, and Mrs. Murray) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                     Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide for international family planning funding for the fiscal 
                   year 2001, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Saving Women's Lives through 
International Family Planning Act of 2000''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds the following:
            (1) International family planning funds provide assistance 
        that saves the lives of women by providing vital reproductive 
        health care, including family planning and maternal health 
        programs that include prenatal, postpartum, HIV/AIDS, and other 
        sexually transmitted disease education that results in safe 
        pregnancies and safe motherhood.
            (2) Each year more than 585,000 women die from 
        complications with pregnancy and childbirth. In addition, each 
        year at least 7,000,000 women suffer serious health problems, 
        and as many as 50,000,000 women suffer some adverse health 
        consequences, after childbirth, many of which could be 
        prevented with safe motherhood practices used in reproductive 
        health programs.
            (3) More than 5,800,000 people were infected with HIV/AIDS 
        in 1998. Without funding from international family planning 
        programs for education and prevention, most governments would 
        not have the resources to combat the physical, social, and 
        economic devastation inflicted by that disease.
            (4) The health of the planet is connected to the health of 
        women and their families. Rapid population growth exacerbates 
        many environmental problems, including air and water pollution, 
        loss of wildlife habitat, fisheries depletion, and climate 
        change--global problems that transcend national boundaries. 
        Family planning programs give women the option to choose the 
        number and spacing of their children, which contributes to 
        slowing global population growth. International family planning 
        improves the ability of families worldwide to manage their 
        lives and their natural resources more sustainably.
            (5) When families have access to family planning resources 
        and are able to space their children, delay the timing of their 
        first child, and have longer intervals between each child, 
        there is a decrease in the risk of mortality in both women and 
        children.
            (6) Voluntary family planning services allow women and men 
        to exercise their fundamental human right to plan the size of 
        their families and ensure that every pregnancy is planned and 
        every child is wanted. Data from around the world provide 
        conclusive evidence that increased access to family planning 
        reduces the incidence of abortion.
            (7) At the International Conference on Population and 
        Development in 1994, it was estimated that making quality 
        family planning and related health services available to all in 
        need of such planning and services would cost $17,000,000,000 
        in the year 2000. The United States and other donor countries 
        agreed to provide \1/3\ of those funds. Based on the size of 
        its economy, the United States share of the total donor 
        population assistance should be almost $1,900,000,000 for 
        fiscal year 2001. While falling short of that funding goal, 
        restoring funding for population assistance to fiscal year 1995 
        levels would be a significant step toward ensuring access to 
        family planning and reproductive health care for couples around 
        the world.
            (8) With world population exceeding 6,000,000,000 people, 
        international family planning providers and related 
        nongovernmental organizations play a critical role in meeting 
        the physical, social, environmental, and economic needs in 
        their societies and in expanding participation in the 
        democratic process. Those organizations should be provided with 
        adequate funding to fully and actively offer the best and most 
        informative care to the citizens involved without restrictions 
        on free speech. United States assistance should be provided to 
        those organizations under the same terms as to the governments 
        involved.

SEC. 3. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND PROGRAMS.

    (a) Funding.--There is authorized to be appropriated, and there is 
appropriated (out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated), for fiscal year 2001 $366,000,000 to carry out the 
provisions of section 301 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and 
section 2 of the United Nations Environment Program Participation Act 
of 1973.
    (b) Availability of Amounts for UNFPA.--Of the amount appropriated 
for fiscal year 2001 to carry out the provisions of law described in 
subsection (a), $35,000,000 shall be made available for the United 
Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

SEC. 4. POPULATION PLANNING ASSISTANCE.

    (a) Funding.--There is authorized to be appropriated, and there is 
appropriated (out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated), for fiscal year 2001 $541,600,000 for population 
planning activities and other population assistance under part I of the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
    (b) Eligibility of Nongovernmental and Multilateral Organizations 
for Population Planning Assistance.--Chapter 1 of part I of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.) is amended by adding at 
the end the following:

``SEC. 130. ELIGIBILITY OF NONGOVERNMENTAL AND MULTILATERAL 
              ORGANIZATIONS FOR POPULATION PLANNING ASSISTANCE.

    ``In determining eligibility of nongovernmental and multilateral 
organizations for population planning assistance or other population 
assistance under this part, the Administrator of the United States 
Agency for International Development may not apply requirements to such 
organizations that are more restrictive than requirements applicable to 
foreign governments for such assistance.''.
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