Pub. L. 100-418, tit. IV, subtit. C, sec. 4310 (as amended)

MINIMUM LEVEL OF FOOD ASSISTANCE.

Year: 2018Length: 195 wordsOfficial source
SEC. 4310. [7 U.S.C. 1691 note] MINIMUM LEVEL OF FOOD ASSISTANCE. (a) Annual Minimum.—It is the sense of Congress that— (1) the United States should maintain its historic proportion of food assistance constituting one-third of all United States foreign economic assistance; and (2) accordingly, the total amount of food assistance made available to foreign countries under the Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1691 et seq.) and section 416(b) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1431(b)) should not be less than one-third of the total amount of foreign economic assistance provided for each fiscal year. (b) Definition.—For purposes of this section, the term “foreign economic assistance” includes— (1) assistance under chapter 1 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.), the Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1691 et seq.), section 416(b) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1431(b)), or any other law authorizing economic assistance for foreign countries; and (2) United States contributions to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Development Association, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank, or any other multilateral development bank.
Cross-references to the US Code
7 U.S.C. 1691 note
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