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HR 643 108th Congress House

Debt Cancellation for the New Millennium Act

Official title: To urge reforms of the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative, and for other purposes.

Introduced: May 21, 2003 Introduced by: Waters, Maxine Democratic · California See on congress.gov
Foreign Trade and International Finance AIDS (Disease)Access to health careAfrica (Sub-Saharan)Bangladesh
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Caribbean areaCongressCongressional reporting requirementsDebt reliefDeveloping countriesDevelopment credit institutionsEconomics and Public FinanceEducationElementary and secondary educationElementary educationGovernment Operations and PoliticsGovernment publicityHaitiHaiti compilationHealth
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Feb 27, 2003
Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
Feb 5, 2003
Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Feb 5, 2003
Introduced in House
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 Latest action February 27, 2003

Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
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.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 643: Debt Cancellation for the New Millennium Act. 108th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/108-HR-643/
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