This bill requires the Secretary of State to run a one-year pilot that makes the Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of African Affairs and the Coordinator for Counterterrorism send extra notifications to certain congressional committees. The notifications must cover new or existing foreign assistance programs under those officials' authorities when the programs request additional funds beyond what is already available. Each notification must include 14 specific items, such as the program working name, countries, funding amounts, period of performance, whether the program is new or continued, implementing entity, objectives and key activities, consultations with the chief of mission, underspend or overspend status, and any performance improvement plans or extra oversight. The bill names the appropriate committees as the House Foreign Affairs and Appropriations Committees and the Senate Foreign Relations and Appropriations Committees.
If you are a member of one of the listed congressional committees, you would receive more detailed notices about certain foreign assistance programs during the one-year pilot. If you work in the Bureau of African Affairs or the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, your office would need to prepare and send these notifications when requesting additional funds. For program implementers, the bill could mean that Congress will receive more detailed information about the programs that receive extra funding.
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