[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6979 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6979

 To support a review of surcharge policy at the International Monetary 
                                 Fund.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 8, 2022

  Mr. Garcia of Illinois (for himself and Ms. Jayapal) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial 
                                Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To support a review of surcharge policy at the International Monetary 
                                 Fund.

    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 ``Stop Onerous Surcharges Act''.

SEC. 2. UNITED STATES SUPPORT FOR A REVIEW OF SURCHARGE POLICY AT THE 
              INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND.

    The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States 
Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (in this section 
referred to as the ``IMF'') to use the vote and the voice of the United 
States at the IMF to support--
            (1) an immediate review by the IMF of the surcharge 
        policies of the IMF; and
            (2) a suspension of the imposition or collection of 
        surcharge payments while the review is underway.
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