c. United States Information Agency Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987 Partial text of Public Law 99-93 [H.R. 2068], 99 Stat. 405, approved August 16, 1985 AN ACT To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1986 and 1987 for the Department of State, the United States Information Agency, the Board for International Broadcasting, and for other purposes. NOTE.-Deleted sections of this Act amend State Department, USIA, and other foreign affairs legislation and are incorporated in the appropriate acts. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, TITLE I-DEPARTMENT OF STATE TITLE II-UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY SEC. 201. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. In addition to amounts otherwise available for such purposes, there are authorized to be appropriated for the United States Information Agency $887,900,000 for the fiscal year 1986 1 and $887,900,000 for the fiscal year 1987 1a to carry out international information, educational, cultural, and exchange programs under the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961, Reorganization Plan Number 2 of 1977, the Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Act, and other purposes authorized by law. Amounts appropriated under this section are authorized to remain available until expended. 1 The Department of State and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1986 (Title V of Public Law 99-180, 99 Stat. 1167), included for fiscal year 1986 the following appropriations: salaries and expenses-$571,000,000; educational and cultural exchange programs-$128,106,000 (and $9,894,000 for private sector exchange programs); acquisition and construction of radio facilities-$114,000,000; radio broadcasting to Cuba-$10,700,000; Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West-$20,750,000; National Endowment for Democracy$18,000,000. 1 Title V of sec. 101(1) of the Continuing Appropriations Act, 1987, Public Law 99-591, 100 Stat. 3341, included for fiscal year 1987 the following appropriations: salaries and expenses$570,000,000; educational and cultural exchange programs-$135,270,000 (and $9,730,000 for private sector exchange programs); acquisition and construction of radio facilities-$46,000,000; radio broadcasting to Cuba-$11,250,000; Center for Cultural Interchange between East and West-$20,000,000; National Endowment for Democracy-$15,000,000. SEC. 202. MODERNIZATION OF VOICE OF AMERICA. Of the authorizations of appropriations contained in section 201, authorizations of $136,594,000 for the fiscal year 1986 and $136,594,000 for the fiscal year 1987, which shall be available for essential modernization of the facilities and operations of the Voice of America, shall remain available until the appropriations are made and when those amounts are appropriated they are authorized to remain available until expended. SEC. 203. RADIO BROADCASTING TO CUBA. Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated by section 201, not less than $11,500,000 for the fiscal year 1986 and not less than $11,700,000 for the fiscal year 1987 shall be available for the implementation of the Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Act. SEC. 204. FUNDS FOR EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL EXCHANGES. Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated by section 201(1) not less than $128,899,500 for the fiscal year 1986 and not less than $141,996,000 for the fiscal year 1987 shall be available only for grants for the Fulbright Academic Exchange Programs and the International Visitor Program; (2) not less than $4,891,500 for the fiscal year 1986 and not less than $5,479,000 for the fiscal year 1987 shall be available only for grants for the Humphrey Fellowship Program; and (3) $45,400,000 for the fiscal year 1986 and $45,100,000 for the fiscal year 1987 shall be allocated to fund grants and exchanges to Latin America and the Caribbean, and the amounts utilized for programs in Central America shall be obligated in a manner consistent with the recommendations of the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America. SEC. 205. FUNDS FOR WORLDWIDE BOOK PROGRAM INITIATIVE. Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated by section 201, not less than $7,500,000 for each of the fiscal years 1986 and 1987 shall be available only for the worldwide book program initiative. SEC. 206. FUNDS FOR EXCHANGE ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE 1987 PAN AMERICAN GAMES. Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal years 1986 and 1987 by section 201, not less than $1,500,000 for each such fiscal year shall be available only to the Indiana Sports Corporation for exchanges of persons and other exchange-related activities associated with the 1987 Pan American Games to be held in Indianapolis, Indiana. SEC. 207. FUNDS FOR INTERNATIONAL GAMES FOR THE HANDICAPPED. Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1986 by section 201, $3,000,000 shall be available only to reimburse expenses for exchange of athletes, coaches, and officals participating in international games for the handicapped which are conducted in the United States. SEC. 208. BAN ON DOMESTIC ACTIVITIES BY THE USIA. Except as provided in section 501 of the United States Information and Education Exchange Act of 1948 (22 U.S.C. 1461) and this section, no funds authorized to be appropriated to the United Stater tion Agency shall be used to influence public opin ion in the United States, and no program material prepared by the United States Information Agency shall be distributed within the United States. This section shall not apply to programs carried out pursuant to the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2451 et seq.). SEC. 209. PRIVATE SECTOR FUNDING FOR USIA'S PRIVATE SECTOR PROGRAM. (a) LIMITATION ON GRANTS.-No grant shall be made to any organization through the Private Sector Program of the United States Information Agency unless (1) costs equal to at least 15 percent of grants from the United States Information Agency in fiscal year 1986, and (2) costs equal to at least 25 percent of grants from the United States Informaton Agency in fiscal year 1987, for that organization's exchange and exchange-related programs are provided for from non-United States Government sources. (b) EXEMPTION FOR CERTAIN ORGANIZATIONS.-Subsection (a) shall not apply to grantee organizations which have been in existence for less than one year. (c) PROHIBITION ON FUNDING 1985 INTERNATIONAL YOUTH YEAR ACTIVITIES.-No funds from fiscal year 1986 appropriations for the United States Information Agency or for any other United States Government agency shall be available for grants related to 1985 International Youth Year activities. SEC. 210.*** SEC. 211. PROMOTING DEMOCRACY AND AN END TO THE APARTHEID POLICIES IN SOUTH AFRICA. (a) PURPOSE.-It is the purpose of this section to encourage funding for programs that would promote democracy and seek to end the apartheid policies in South Africa, and that would be in addition to the programs for South Africa funded under chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2346 et seq.). (b) USIA GRANTS TO THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY.-It is the sense of the Congress that the Director of the United States Information Agency should make a grant of up to $500,000 for each of the fiscal years 1986 and 1987 to the National Endowment for Democracy (in addition to grants otherwise made by the Director to the Endowment) for use by the Endowment in providing financing for programs that are designated to promote democracy and that seek to end the apartheid policies in South Africa. (c) PROGRAMS DESIGNED TO END THE APARTHEID POLICIES.-The programs funded pursuant to this section shall be programs of support for actions of non-white led community organizations in South Africa to terminate apartheid policies such as (1) removal of black populations from certain geographic areas on account of race or ethnic origin; (2) denationalization of blacks, including any distinctions between the South African citizenships of blacks and whites; (3) residence restrictions based on race or ethnic origin; (4) restrictions on the rights of blacks to seek employment in South Africa and live wherever they find employment in South Africa; and (5) restrictions which make it impossible for black employees and their families to be housed in family accommodations near their place of employment. (d) ELIGIBLE ORGANIZATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA.-Any program funded in accordance with this section, which is to be carried out within South Africa, should be a program which in both its character and organizational sponsorship in South Africa clearly reflects the aspirations of the indigenous majority of South Africans for the establishment of democratic institutions and for an end to the apartheid system of separate development, and should not be a program which is financed or controlled by the Government of South Africa. d. United States Information Agency Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1984 and 1985 Partial text of Public Law 98-164 [H.R. 2915], 97 Stat. 1017, approved November 22, 1983 AN ACT To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1984 and 1985 for the Department of State, the United States Information Agency, the Board for International Broadcasting, the Inter-American Foundation, and the Asia Foundation, to establish the National Endowment for Democracy, and for other purposes. NOTE.-Deleted sections of this Act amend State Department, USIA, and other foreign affairs legislation and are incorporated in the appropriate acts. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, TITLE I-DEPARTMENT OF STATE TITLE II-UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY SHORT TITLE Sec. 201. This title may be cited as the "United States Information Agency Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1984 and 1985". AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS Sec. 202. In addition to the amounts otherwise authorized for such purposes, there are authorized to be appropriated for the United States Information Agency $642,348,000 for the fiscal year 19841 and $806,239,000 for the fiscal year 1985 2 to carry out inter 1 The Department of State and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1984 (title III of Public Law 98-166; 97 Stat. 1097) included $624,565,000 for fiscal year 1984, itemized as follows: salaries and expenses-$471,853,000; educational and cultural exchange programs-$92,900,000; salaries and expenses (special foreign currency program)-$9,800,000; Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange between East and West-$18,362,000; and acquisition and construction of radio facilities-$31,000,000. 2 The Department of State and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1985 (title III of Public Law 98-411; 98 Stat. 1564) included $768,856,000 for fiscal year 1985, itemized as follows: salaries and expenses-$545,856,000; salaries and expenses (special foreign currency program)— $8,000,000; educational and cultural exchange programs-$130,000,000; acquisition and construction of radio facilities-$85,000,000. The Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1985 (title I of Public Law 99-88; 99 Stat. 293), for fiscal year 1985, provided as follows: "EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMS "Of the funds made available under this head in Public Law 98-411, $3,800,000 for the pilot Central American Undergraduate Scholarship program shall remain available until September Continued |