Sec. 7038.
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The terms and conditions of section 7048 of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2019 (division F of Public Law 116–6 ), except subsections (a), (c), (d), (g), (i), and (k), shall remain in effect during fiscal year 2020. Of the funds appropriated under the heading Contributions to International Organizations in title 1 and International Organizations and Programs in title V of this Act that are available for contributions to the United Nations (including the Department of Peacekeeping Operations), any United Nations agency, or the Organization of American States, 15 percent may not be obligated for such organization, department, or agency until the Secretary of State determines and reports to the Committees on Appropriations that the organization, department, or agency is— posting on a publicly available website, consistent with privacy regulations and due process, regular financial and programmatic audits of such organization, department, or agency, and providing the United States Government with necessary access to such financial and performance audits; effectively implementing and enforcing policies and procedures which meet or exceed best practices in the United States for the protection of whistleblowers from retaliation, including— protection against retaliation for internal and lawful public disclosures; legal burdens of proof; statutes of limitation for reporting retaliation; access to binding independent adjudicative bodies, including shared cost and selection external arbitration; and results that eliminate the effects of proven retaliation, including provision for the restoration of prior employment; and effectively implementing and enforcing policies and procedures on the appropriate use of travel funds, including restrictions on first class and business class travel.
The restrictions imposed by or pursuant to paragraph
(1)may be waived on a case- by-case basis if the Secretary of State determines and reports to the Committees on Appropriations that such waiver is necessary to avert or respond to a humanitarian crisis. The report required by paragraph
(1)shall be posted on the Department of State website not later than 7 days following submission to the Committees on Appropriations. With the exception of organizations from which the United States has withdrawn, funds appropriated by this Act and prior Acts making appropriations for the Department of State, foreign operations, and related programs under the heading Contributions to International Organizations shall be made available for payment of the full United States assessment to the United Nations regular budget at 22 percent for 2019, 2020, and 2021, as agreed to by the Department of State in A/RES/73/271 on December 22, 2018: , That funds shall be made available for the full United States assessment for other international organizations funded under this heading unless otherwise provided for by this Act or another provision of law. Provided Funds appropriated by this Act and prior Acts making appropriations for the Department of State, foreign operations, and related programs under the heading Contributions for International Peacekeeping Activities shall be made available for payment of United States assessed contributions to United Nations peacekeeping operations at not less than 25 percent of the total of all assessed contributions for peacekeeping operations, pursuant to section 404(b)(2) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 ( Public Law 103–236 ). Not later than 45 days after enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations detailing the amount of funds available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2020 for contributions to any organization, department, agency, or program within the United Nations system or any international program that are withheld from obligation or expenditure due to any provision of law: , That the Secretary shall update such report each time additional funds are withheld by operation of any provision of law: Provided , That the reprogramming of any withheld funds identified in such report, including updates thereof, shall be subject to prior consultation with, and the regular notification procedures of, the Committees on Appropriations. Provided further Subject to the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations, funds appropriated by this Act which are returned or not made available due to the implementation of subsection (a), the third proviso under the heading Contributions for International Peacekeeping Activities in title I of this Act, or section 307(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 ( 22 U.S.C. 2227(a) ), shall remain available for obligation until September 30, 2021: , That the requirement to withhold funds for programs in Burma under section 307(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 shall not apply to funds appropriated by this Act. Provided
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