[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 554 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 554

 To amend section 490 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to provide 
  alternative certification procedures for assistance for major drug 
         producing countries and major drug transit countries.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 5, 1999

 Mr. Campbell introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend section 490 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to provide 
  alternative certification procedures for assistance for major drug 
         producing countries and major drug transit countries.

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

SECTION 1. ALTERNATIVE CERTIFICATION PROCEDURES FOR ASSISTANCE FOR 
              MAJOR DRUG PRODUCING AND DRUG TRANSIT COUNTRIES.

    (a) In General.--Section 490 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1990 
(22 U.S.C. 2291j) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(i) Alternative Certification Procedures.--
            ``(1) In general.--In lieu of submitting a certification 
        with respect to a country under subsection (b), the President 
        may submit the certification described in paragraph (2). The 
        President shall submit the certification under such paragraph 
        at the time of the submission of the report required by section 
        489(a).
            ``(2) Certification.--A certification with respect to a 
        country under this paragraph is a certification specifying--
                    ``(A) that the withholding of assistance from the 
                country under subsection (a)(1) and the opposition to 
                assistance to the country under subsection (a)(2) in 
                the fiscal year concerned is not in the national 
                interests of the United States; and
                    ``(B) the conditions which must be met in order to 
                terminate the applicability of paragraph (4) to the 
                country.
            ``(3) Effect of certification in fiscal year of 
        certification.--If the President submits a certification with 
        respect to a country under paragraph (1) for a fiscal year--
                    ``(A) the assistance otherwise withheld from the 
                country pursuant to subsection (a)(1) may be obligated 
                and expended in that fiscal year; and
                    ``(B) the requirement of subsection (a)(2) to vote 
                against multilateral development bank assistance to the 
                country shall not apply to the country in that fiscal 
                year.
            ``(4) Effect of certification in later fiscal years.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Subparagraph (B) shall apply to 
                a country covered by a certification submitted under 
                this subsection during the period beginning on October 
                1 of the year in which the President submits the 
                certification and ending on the date on which the 
                President notifies Congress that the conditions 
                specified with respect to the country under paragraph 
                (2)(B) have been met.
                    ``(B) Prohibition on assistance.--
                            ``(i) Bilateral assistance.--During the 
                        applicability of this subparagraph to a 
                        country, no United States assistance allocated 
                        for the country in the report required by 
                        section 653 may be obligated or expended for 
                        the country.
                            ``(ii) Multilateral assistance.--During the 
                        applicability of this subparagraph to a 
                        country, the Secretary of the Treasury shall 
                        instruct the United States Executive Director 
                        of each multilateral development bank to vote 
                        against any loan or other utilization of the 
                        funds of such institution to or by the country.
            ``(5) Definition.--For purposes of this subsection, the 
        term `multilateral development bank' shall have the meaning 
        given the term in subsection (a)(2).''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--Subsection (a) of such section is 
amended by striking ``subsection (b)'' each place it appears and 
inserting ``subsections (b) and (i)''.
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