[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8907 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8907

To direct the Secretary of State to establish a unit within the Office 
   of the Inspector General to audit United States contributions to 
 multilateral and international organizations, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 9, 2020

 Mr. Bergman (for himself, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Mr. Crenshaw, 
and Mr. Johnson of Louisiana) introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of State to establish a unit within the Office 
   of the Inspector General to audit United States contributions to 
 multilateral and international organizations, 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 ``International Spending Transparency 
Act''.

SEC. 2. AUDIT OF UNITED STATES CONTRIBUTIONS TO MULTILATERAL AND 
              INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 30 days after the date of the 
enactment of this section, the Secretary shall establish within the 
Office of Audits of the Office of the Inspector General of the 
Department of State a unit to be known as the ``Unit to Audit US 
Contributions to Multilateral and International Organizations''.
    (b) Annual Audit.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than December 31 of each year, 
        the unit established pursuant to subsection (a) shall submit to 
        the Secretary an audit of United States contributions to 
        multilateral and international organizations during the 
        immediately preceding fiscal year.
            (2) Elements.--Each audit under paragraph (1) shall include 
        the following:
                    (A) Information relating to--
                            (i) the aggregate amount of United States 
                        contributions to recipient multilateral and 
                        international organizations;
                            (ii) the amount of contributions spent on 
                        administrative costs in comparison to projects; 
                        and
                            (iii) the purposes for each such 
                        contribution.
                    (B) An analysis relating to--
                            (i) whether each such organization achieved 
                        the purpose for the contributions;
                            (ii) fraud, waste, or abuse of such 
                        contributions by each such organization; and
                            (iii) whether the contributions received by 
                        each such organization were in turn provided 
                        directly or indirectly to--
                                    (I) the People's Republic of China;
                                    (II) the Russian Federation;
                                    (III) the Islamic Republic of Iran;
                                    (IV) the Democratic People's 
                                Republic of Korea;
                                    (V) the Bolivarian Republic of 
                                Venezuela;
                                    (VI) the Syrian Arab Republic; or
                                    (VII) an organization designated as 
                                a foreign terrorist organization 
                                pursuant to section 219 of the 
                                Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
                                U.S.C. 1189).
                    (C) Information relating to the challenges of 
                citizens of the United States seeking employment in the 
                United Nations.
                    (D) Information relating to the whistleblower 
                protection standards of multilateral and international 
                organizations receiving contributions.
    (c) Report.--Not later than 30 days after the receipt of each audit 
under subsection (a), the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate 
congressional committees a report based on the information and analysis 
in each such audit.
    (d) Limitation.--No additional appropriations are authorized to 
carry out this section, which shall be carried out using amounts 
otherwise authorized to be appropriated to the Department of State.
    (e) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--the term 
        ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
                    (A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the House 
                of Representatives; and
                    (B) the Committee on Foreign Relations in the 
                Senate.
            (2) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of State.
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