[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6044 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6044

  To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to prohibit the United 
States Agency for International Development from procuring manufactured 
  articles to provide disaster relief assistance or emergency relief 
assistance in a foreign country unless the articles are manufactured in 
 such foreign country or in certain circumstances in the United States 
                          or third countries.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 30, 2010

Mr. Latta (for himself, Mr. Fortenberry, Mr. Burton of Indiana, and Mr. 
  Manzullo) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to prohibit the United 
States Agency for International Development from procuring manufactured 
  articles to provide disaster relief assistance or emergency relief 
assistance in a foreign country unless the articles are manufactured in 
 such foreign country or in certain circumstances in the United States 
                          or third countries.

    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 ``American Manufacturing Disaster 
Relief Act of 2010''.

SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION OF CERTAIN BUY AMERICAN REQUIREMENTS TO DISASTER 
              RELIEF ASSISTANCE AND EMERGENCY RELIEF ASSISTANCE UNDER 
              THE FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1961.

    (a) In General.--Section 604 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
(22 U.S.C. 2354) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsection:
    ``(h) Clarification of Certain Buy American Requirements.--
            ``(1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
        Administrator may not procure a manufactured article to provide 
        disaster relief assistance or emergency relief assistance in a 
        foreign country unless the article is manufactured in such 
        foreign country.
            ``(2) Exceptions.--
                    ``(A) For u.s.-manufactured articles.--If the 
                Administrator determines that satisfactory quality and 
                sufficient quantity of the article described in 
                paragraph (1) cannot be procured as and when needed, 
                the Administrator may procure an article manufactured 
                in the United States to provide disaster relief 
                assistance or emergency relief assistance in such 
                foreign country.
                    ``(B) For other manufactured articles.--If the 
                Administrator determines that satisfactory quality and 
                sufficient quantity of the article described in 
                paragraph (A) cannot be procured as and when needed, 
                the Administrator may procure an article manufactured 
                in any other country to provide disaster relief 
                assistance or emergency relief assistance in such 
                foreign country.
            ``(3) Consistency with international agreements.--No 
        provision of this subsection shall apply to the extent the 
        Administrator, in consultation with the United States Trade 
        Representative, determines that it is inconsistent with United 
        States obligations under an international agreement.
            ``(4) Definitions.--In this subsection--
                    ``(A) the term `Administrator' means the 
                Administrator of the United States Agency for 
                International Development;
                    ``(B) the term `disaster relief assistance' means 
                assistance under chapter 9 of part I of this Act;
                    ``(C) the term `emergency relief assistance' means 
                assistance under part I of this Act to address an 
                urgent situation in which a population is in imminent 
                danger of increased malnutrition and mortality as a 
                result of food shortages; and
                    ``(D) the term `manufactured' means, with respect 
                to a country, the article has been manufactured in such 
                country substantially all from articles, materials, or 
                supplies mined, produced, or manufactured, as the case 
                may be, in such country.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section takes 
effect 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act and applies 
to any contract entered into on or after that date for the procurement 
of articles to which such amendment applies.
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