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Global Health, Empowerment and Rights Act

To prohibit the application of certain restrictive eligibility requirements to foreign nongovernmental organizations with respect to the provision of assistance under part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.

Introduced Jan 28, 2025

Latest action (Jan 28, 2025) Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

Referred to
Foreign Relations Committee
Policy area
International Affairs
Issues
Foreign PolicyHealthcare

Summary
  • Allows foreign nongovernmental organizations to receive U.S. foreign assistance even if they provide health or medical services using their own funds, as long as those services are legal in the country where they operate.
  • Requires that foreign nongovernmental organizations receiving U.S. assistance face the same rules on advocacy and lobbying activities as U.S. nongovernmental organizations receiving that assistance.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
42 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Jeanne Shaheen’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • THEGROUP $16,200
  • BLINK TECH INC. $13,200
  • PARKER MEGGITT $7,725
  • INSIGHT $7,600
  • FAROS PROPERTIES $6,600

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Jeanne Shaheen → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Jan 28, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. · senate
  2. Jan 28, 2025 Introduced in Senate

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 764 — Global Health, Empowerment and Rights Act · Introduced Jan 28, 2025 · Cong. 119 84%
  • S 313 — Stop Funding Global Terrorists Act of 2025 · Introduced Jan 29, 2025 · Cong. 119 76%
  • S 250 — Protecting Life in Foreign Assistance Act · Introduced Jan 24, 2025 · Cong. 119 75%
  • S 2180 — Global Respect Act of 2025 · Introduced Jun 26, 2025 · Cong. 119 74%
  • S 1340 — Aid Accountability Act of 2025 · Introduced Apr 8, 2025 · Cong. 119 73%
  • HR 8057 — Reach Every Mother and Child Act of 2022 · Introduced Jun 14, 2022 · Cong. 117 73%

Full text

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

January 28, 2025

Mrs. Shaheen (for herself, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Warnock, Mr. Durbin, Ms. Cortez Masto, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. Welch, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Reed, Mr. Blumenthal, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Kaine, Ms. Rosen, Mr. Schatz, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Hickenlooper, Mr. King, Mr. Padilla, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Booker, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Coons, Mr. Ossoff, Mr. Sanders, Ms. Warren, Ms. Slotkin, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. Wyden, Ms. Smith, Mr. Kelly, Mr. Markey, Mr. Lujan, Ms. Alsobrooks, Mr. Warner, Ms. Hassan, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Schumer, and Mr. Gallego) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

A BILL

To prohibit the application of certain restrictive eligibility requirements to foreign nongovernmental organizations with respect to the provision of assistance under part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Global Health, Empowerment and Rights Act”.

SEC. 2. ASSISTANCE FOR FOREIGN NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS UNDER PART I OF THE FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1961.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, regulation, or policy, in determining eligibility for assistance authorized under part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.), foreign nongovernmental organizations—

(1) shall not be ineligible for such assistance solely on the basis of health or medical services, including counseling and referral services, provided by such organizations with non- United States Government funds if such services do not violate the laws of the country in which they are being provided and would not violate United States Federal law if provided in the United States; and

(2) shall not be subject to requirements relating to the use of non-United States Government funds for advocacy and lobbying activities other than those that apply to United States nongovernmental organizations receiving assistance under part I of such Act. <all>

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