S.Amdt. 607Senate111th Congress (2009-2011)

To require that amounts appropriated for the United Nations Population Fund are not used by organizations which support coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.

Submitted March 2, 2009

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Senate amendment not agreed to: Amendment SA 607 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 39 - 55. Record Vote Number: 81.

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Senate amendment not agreed to: Amendment SA 607 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 39 - 55. Record Vote Number: 81.

March 5, 2009

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Roll call votes on amendments in Senate: Amendment SA 607 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 39 - 55. Record Vote Number: 81.

March 5, 2009

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Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S2789, S2790-2795)

March 5, 2009

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Amendment SA 607 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 39 - 55. Record Vote Number: 81.

March 5, 2009

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Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S2728, S2754; text as modified: CR S2754)

March 4, 2009

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Senate amendment proposed (on the floor): Amendment SA 607 proposed by Senator Wicker.(consideration: CR S2674-2675, S2678; text: CR S2674)

March 3, 2009

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Amendment SA 607 proposed by Senator Wicker. (consideration: CR S2674-2675, S2678; text: CR S2674) To require that amounts appropriated for the United Nations Population Fund are not used by organizations which support coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.

March 3, 2009

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Senate amendment submitted

March 2, 2009

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SA 607. Mr. WICKER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill H.R. 1105, making omnibus appropriations for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 927, strike line 14 and all that follows through
page 929, line 20, and insert the following:
(b) Availability of Funds.--Funds appropriated under the
heading ``International Organizations and Programs'' in this
Act that are available for UNFPA and are not made available
for UNFPA because of the operation of any provision of law,
shall be transferred to the ``Global Health and Child
Survival'' account and shall be made available for family
planning, maternal, and reproductive health activities,
subject to the regular notification procedures of the
Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.
(c) Prohibition on Use of Funds in China.--None of the
funds made available under ``International Organizations and
Programs'' may be made available for the UNFPA for a country
program in the People's Republic of China.
(d) Conditions on Availability of Funds.--Amounts made
available under ``International Organizations and Programs''
for fiscal year 2006 for the UNFPA may not be made available
to UNFPA unless--
(1) the UNFPA maintains amounts made available to the UNFPA
under this section in an account separate from other accounts
of the UNFPA;
(2) the UNFPA does not commingle amounts made available to
the UNFPA under this section with other sums; and
(3) the UNFPA does not fund abortions.
(e) Report to Congress and Dollar-for-Dollar Withholding of
Funds.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 4 months after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall
submit a report to the Committee on Appropriations of the
Senate and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives indicating the amount of funds that the UNFPA
is budgeting for the year in which the report is submitted
for a country program in the People's Republic of China.
(2) Deduction.--If a report submitted under paragraph (1)
indicates that the UNFPA plans to spend funds for a country
program in the People's Republic of China in the year covered
by the report, the amount of such funds that the UNFPA plans
to spend in the People's Republic of China shall be deducted
from the funds made available to the UNFPA after March 1 for
obligation for the remainder of the fiscal year in which the
report is submitted.
(f) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section may be
construed to limit the authority of the President to deny
funds to any organization by reason of the application of
another provision of this Act or any other provision of law.
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