HR 1642
107th Congress
House
Foreign Trade and International Finance
AIDS (Disease)
Access to health care
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
American technical assistance
Bangladesh
Caribbean area
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Debt relief
Developing countries
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Government spending
Haiti
Health
Debt Cancellation for the New Millennium Act
Introduced: April 26, 2001
Introduced by:
Waters, Maxine
Democratic
· California
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 10, 2001
Referred to the Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade.
Apr 26, 2001
Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Apr 26, 2001
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Debt Cancellation for the New Millennium Act - Amends the International Financial Institutions Act to urge the President to commence immediately efforts within the Paris Club of Official Creditors, as well as the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and other appropriate multilateral development institutions, to accomplish certain modifications in the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative, including requiring that: (1) the amount of debt relief provided by the IMF and the World Bank under the Enhanced HIPC Initiative for a HIPC be sufficient to completely cancel 100 percent of the HIPC's debt owed to such institutions; (2) no provision of debt relief under the Initiative be conditioned on any country's implementing a structural adjustment or stabilization program of the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility of the IMF or any other such program operated solely or jointly by the IMF or the World Bank; (3) all HIPCs that are working in good faith to develop and implement their Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) pursuant to the Initiative not be required to make service payments on their debts (ensuring that the savings from such debt relief will be invested in HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention, health care, education, and poverty reduction programs); and (4) the eligibility requirements of the Initiative be revised to make Bangladesh, Haiti, and Nigeria eligible.
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to provide, upon request, for technical assistance to HIPCs regarding compliance with the conditions for debt relief pursuant to the Initiative, including the development and implementation of their PSRPs.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade.
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