[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4413 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4413

   To prohibit the use of funds to provide assistance to the Pacific 
    Islands Forum Fisheries Agency under the Agreement Between the 
  Government of the United States of America and the Pacific Islands 
            Forum Fisheries Agency, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 1, 2016

Mr. Hunter (for himself and Mr. Vargas) introduced the following bill; 
         which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To prohibit the use of funds to provide assistance to the Pacific 
    Islands Forum Fisheries Agency under the Agreement Between the 
  Government of the United States of America and the Pacific Islands 
            Forum Fisheries Agency, 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 ``Fairness to United States Distant 
Water Fishermen Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO THE 
              PACIFIC ISLANDS FORUM FISHERIES AGENCY UNDER THE 
              AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF 
              AMERICA AND THE PACIFIC ISLANDS FORUM FISHERIES AGENCY.

    (a) Prohibition.--Funds made available to carry out chapter 4 of 
part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2346 et seq.; 
relating to Economic Support Fund) may not be used to provide 
assistance to the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency under the 
Agreement Between the Government of the United States of America and 
the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency.
    (b) Effective Date.--This section takes effect on the date of the 
enactment of this Act and applies with respect to funds made available 
for any fiscal year--
            (1) in which a notice of intent to withdraw from the Treaty 
        on Fisheries Between the Governments of Certain Pacific Island 
        States and the Government of the United States of America, done 
        at Port Moresby on April 2, 1987, is submitted by the United 
        States in accordance with Article 12.6 of such Treaty; or
            (2) in which such Treaty is not in effect with respect to 
        the United States for any part of such fiscal year.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON ASSISTANCE TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES THAT ARE PARTIES 
              TO THE SOUTH PACIFIC FORUM FISHERIES AGENCY CONVENTION.

    Funds made available to carry out chapter 5 of part II of the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2347 et seq.; relating to 
International Military Education and Training) or any other provision 
of law for fiscal years 2016 and 2017 may not be used to provide 
assistance to any foreign country that is a party to the South Pacific 
Forum Fisheries Agency Convention, signed at Honiara on July 10, 1979.
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