[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5948 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5948

    To authorize the transfer of funds made available for overseas 
   contingency operations to increase United States contributions to 
   overseas civilian peacebuilding programs worldwide, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 21, 2020

   Ms. Omar introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Appropriations

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                                 A BILL


 
    To authorize the transfer of funds made available for overseas 
   contingency operations to increase United States contributions to 
   overseas civilian peacebuilding programs worldwide, 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 ``Global Peacebuilding Act''.

SEC. 2. TRANSFER OF FUNDS.

    Of the amounts made available in fiscal year 2021 to conduct 
overseas contingency operations, the Secretary of Defense is authorized 
to transfer $5,000,000,000 to the Secretary of State, to be made 
available to increase United States contributions to multilateral, 
public-private, or locally led civil society peacebuilding initiatives.
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