Sec. 102. Limitation on assistance to other countries
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Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds made available to any Federal department or agency may be used to provide foreign assistance to any country unless the government of such country provides assurances in writing to the head of the Federal department or agency that the government of such country will not provide assistance (other than assistance described in paragraph (2)) to a covered country. The limitation on foreign assistance in paragraph
(1)shall not apply to agricultural commodities, medicine, medical devices, or emergency international disaster assistance. The head of such Federal department or agency shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a copy of the assurances described in paragraph
(1)as soon as practicable after the date on which the government of the country provides the assurances to the head of such Federal department or agency. A country that provides foreign assistance to a covered country in violation of subsection
(a)shall be ineligible to receive further foreign assistance during the period— beginning on the date on which the head of the Federal department or agency determines the violation occurred; and ending on the date that is not less than 5 years but not more than 12 years after the date described in subparagraph (A). The head of such Federal department or agency shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a notification containing the name of the country that is ineligible to receive further foreign assistance as determined under this subsection and the time period of ineligibility for such foreign assistance as determined under this subsection. The President may waive, for a period of 120 days, the limitation on foreign assistance in subsection
(a)with respect to providing humanitarian assistance to a country specified in subsection
(a)if— prior to waiving such prohibition, the President submits to Congress a report that contains a determination of the President that the people residing within the country— have been affected by a natural disaster, limited to fire, famine, earthquake, drought, hurricane, typhoon, tsunami, tropical storm, flood, landslide and debris flow, widespread disease, or volcano eruption; or face imminent threat from exposure to radioactive or toxic elements due to the failure of any power source or other machinery directly involved with radioactive or toxic material; and the humanitarian assistance to be provided will not be provided to or through the government of the country. At the end of the 120-day waiver period specified in paragraph (1), the President may extend the waiver for additional 90-day periods if the President submits, not less than 10 days prior to the start of each 90-day period, a comprehensive status report to the appropriate congressional committees on— the extent to which further humanitarian assistance is needed; the manner in which the humanitarian assistance has been administered; and the effectiveness of the humanitarian assistance. The aggregate value of humanitarian assistance provided under this subsection in any fiscal year may not exceed $50,000,000. This section takes effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and applies with respect to funds made available to any Federal department or agency for any fiscal year after fiscal year 2013.