[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 600 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 600

  To prohibit the use of funds to seek membership in the World Health 
 Organization or to provide assessed or voluntary contributions to the 
                       World Health Organization.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 22, 2025

 Mr. Arrington (for himself, Mr. Crenshaw, Mr. Estes, and Mr. Steube) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                            Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit the use of funds to seek membership in the World Health 
 Organization or to provide assessed or voluntary contributions to the 
                       World Health Organization.

    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 ``WHO is Accountable Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS TO SEEK MEMBERSHIP IN THE WORLD 
              HEALTH ORGANIZATION OR TO PROVIDE ASSESSED OR VOLUNTARY 
              CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no 
funds available to any Federal department or agency may be used to seek 
membership by the United States in the World Health Organization or to 
provide assessed or voluntary contributions to the World Health 
Organization until such time as the Secretary of State certifies to 
Congress that the World Health Organization meets the conditions 
described in subsection (b).
    (b) Conditions Described.--The conditions described in this 
subsection are the following:
            (1) The World Health Organization has adopted meaningful 
        reforms to ensure that humanitarian assistance is not 
        politicized and is to be provided to those with the most need.
            (2) The World Health Organization is not under the control 
        or significant malign influence of the Chinese Communist Party.
            (3) The World Health Organization is not involved in a 
        coverup of the Chinese Communist Party's response to the COVID-
        19 pandemic.
            (4) The World Health Organization grants observer status to 
        Taiwan.
            (5) The World Health Organization does not divert 
        humanitarian or medical supplies to Iran, North Korea, or 
        Syria.
            (6) The World Health Organization has put in place 
        mechanisms to increase transparency and accountability in its 
        operations and eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse.
            (7) The World Health Organization has ceased all funding 
        for, engagement in, and messaging with respect to certain 
        controversial and politically charged issues that are non-
        germane to the World Health Organization's directive, 
        including--
                    (A) so-called ``gender identity'' and harmful 
                rhetoric relating to ``gender affirming care'';
                    (B) climate change; and
                    (C) access to abortion.
            (8) The World Health Organization has agreed that as a 
        condition of membership by the United States in the World 
        Health Organization, no directive issued by the World Health 
        Organization may be considered to be legally binding on any 
        United States citizen or individual State.
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