Sec. 7033.
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Funds appropriated by this Act under the heading Diplomatic Programs shall be made available for the Office of International Religious Freedom, Department of State, including for support staff at not less than the amounts specified for such office in the table under such heading in the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated Act). Funds appropriated by this Act under the headings Democracy Fund , Economic Support Fund , and International Broadcasting Operations shall be made available for international religious freedom programs and funds appropriated by this Act under the headings International Disaster Assistance and Migration and Refugee Assistance shall be made available for humanitarian assistance for vulnerable and persecuted religious minorities: , That funds made available by this Act under the headings Provided Economic Support Fund and Democracy Fund pursuant to this section shall be the responsibility of the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, in consultation with other relevant United States Government officials, and shall be subject to prior consultation with the Committees on Appropriations.
Funds appropriated by this Act and prior Acts making appropriations for the Department of State, foreign operations, and related programs under the heading Economic Support Fund may be made available notwithstanding any other provision of law for assistance for ethnic and religious minorities in Iraq and Syria. Section 7033(e) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2017 (division J of Public 115–31) shall continue in effect during fiscal year 2020.