Debt Relief and IMF Reform Act of 1999
Official title: To provide the highly indebted poor countries with relief from debts owed to the International Monetary Fund, to end United States participation in and support… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: To provide the highly indebted poor countries with relief from debts owed to the International Monetary Fund, to end United States participation in and support for the Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility of the International Monetary Fund, and to require certain conditions to be met before the International Monetary Fund may sell gold, and for other purposes.
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy.
Prohibits U.S. officers, employees or agents from providing any thing of value to the IMF for the purpose of providing resources to the Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility (ESAF) or other concessional lending facility of the IMF. Amends the Bretton Woods Agreements Act to require the U.S. director of the IMF to use every effort to terminate the ESAF.
Prohibits appropriations for payments to the IMF until it has canceled all debts owed to it by HIPCs and Haiti.
Prohibits the U.S. governor to the IMF from voting for any proposal for any quota increase for the IMF, unless, before the proposal was made, Congress received notice of the proposal and the position of the Executive Branch on it, and Congress has enacted a joint resolution of approval.
- Introduced in House Formatted Text PDF
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2939: Debt Relief and IMF Reform Act of 1999. 106th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HR-2939/
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