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This resolution recognizes the importance of, and encourages, international education and exchange programs.

Advancing International and Foreign Language Education Act This bill reauthorizes through FY2025 and otherwise revises international education programs. These programs provide grants to institutions of higher education and related entities to (1) enhance instruction in international and foreign language studies, and (2) promote international business skills and education. First, the bill reauthorizes programs related to international and foreign language studies. Specifically, it extends (1) the Graduate and Undergraduate Language and Area Centers and Programs, which include the National Resource Centers program; (2) the Language Resource Centers; (3) the Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Programs; and (4) the American Overseas Research Centers. Next, the bill reauthorizes the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships program. It also revises the program to permit graduate students to receive a stipend for the beginning, intermediate, or advanced study of a foreign language related to the student's area of specialization. Further, the bill extends the Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access program. It also modifies the program, such as by (1) revising the types of available grants, and (2) allowing the Department of Education to establish a national database on international and foreign language education. Finally, the bill reauthorizes programs related to international business skills and education. Specifically, it reauthorizes the Centers for Business Education program. It also reauthorizes the Education and Training program and otherwise makes changes to the program, including by (1) renaming the program; and (2) mandating certain program activities, such as the incorporation of specified programs and studies into professional education and technical training curricula.

Advancing International and Foreign Language Education Act This bill reauthorizes through FY2025 and otherwise revises international education programs. These programs provide grants to institutions of higher education and related entities to (1) enhance instruction in international and foreign language studies, and (2) promote international business skills and education. First, the bill reauthorizes programs related to international and foreign language studies. Specifically, it extends (1) the Graduate and Undergraduate Language and Area Centers and Programs, which include the National Resource Centers program; (2) the Language Resource Centers; (3) the Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Programs; and (4) the American Overseas Research Centers. Next, the bill revises the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships program to permit graduate students to receive a stipend for the beginning, intermediate, or advanced study of a foreign language related to the student's area of specialization. Further, the bill replaces the existing Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access program with an international research and innovation program. Additionally, the bill reauthorizes programs related to international business skills and education. Specifically, it reauthorizes the Centers for International Business Education program. It also reauthorizes the Education and Training program and otherwise makes changes to the program, including by (1) renaming the program; and (2) mandating certain program activities, such as the incorporation of specified programs and studies into professional education and technical training curricula. Finally, the bill permits the Department of Education to prioritize grant applications from minority-serving institutions.

Independence from Credit Policy Act of 2020 This bill limits the types of securities that the Federal Reserve Board may acquire in the open market to gold stock; currency; and direct obligations of the United States, foreign banks, or the International Monetary Fund. The board must exchange all other assets with the Department of the Treasury for direct U.S. obligations of equivalent value.

Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2020 This bill provides FY2020 appropriations for the Department of State, foreign operations, and related programs. The bill provides appropriations to the State Department for * Administration of Foreign Affairs, * International Organizations, and * International Commissions. The bill provides appropriations for Related Agencies and Related Programs, including * the U.S. Agency for Global Media, * the Asia Foundation, * the U.S. Institute of Peace, * the Center for Middle Eastern-Western Dialogue Trust Fund, * the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Program, * the Israeli Arab Scholarship Program, * the East-West Center, and * the National Endowment for Democracy. The bill provides appropriations for Other Commissions, including * the Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad, * the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, * the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, * the Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China, and * the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. The bill provides appropriations to * the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), * the State Department and the President for International Security Assistance, * the President and International Financial Institutions for Multilateral Assistance, and * specified accounts for Overseas Contingency Operations/ Global War on Terrorism. The bill provides appropriations for Bilateral Economic Assistance to * the President; * the State Department; * Independent Agencies, including the Peace Corps, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the Inter-American Foundation, and the U.S. African Development Foundation; and * the Department of the Treasury. The bill provides appropriations for Export and Investment Assistance to * the Export-Import Bank of the United States, * the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, and * the U.S. Trade and Development Agency. The bill sets forth requirements and restrictions for using funds provided by this and other appropriations Acts.

Monetary Metals Tax Neutrality Act of 2019 This bill exempts gains or losses from the sale or exchange of certain coins or bullion from recognition for income tax purposes. The exemption applies to gains or losses from the sale or exchange of (1) gold, silver, platinum, or palladium coins minted and issued by the Department of the Treasury; or (2) refined gold or silver bullion, coins, bars, rounds, or ingots which are valued primarily based on their metal content and not their form.

Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2020 This bill provides FY2020 appropriations for the Department of State, foreign operations, and related programs. The bill provides appropriations to the State Department for * Administration of Foreign Affairs, * International Organizations, and * International Commissions. The bill provides appropriations for Related Agencies and Related Programs, including * the U.S. Agency for Global Media, * the Asia Foundation, * the U.S. Institute of Peace, * the Center for Middle Eastern-Western Dialogue Trust Fund, * the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Program, * the Israeli Arab Scholarship Program, * the East-West Center, and * the National Endowment for Democracy. The bill provides appropriations for Other Commissions, including * the Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad, * the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, * the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, * the Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China, * the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, and * the Western Hemisphere Drug Policy Commission. The bill provides appropriations to * the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), * the State Department and the President for International Security Assistance, * the President and International Financial Institutions for Multilateral Assistance, and * specified accounts for Overseas Contingency Operations/ Global War on Terrorism. The bill provides appropriations for Bilateral Economic Assistance to * the President; * the State Department; * Independent Agencies, including the Peace Corps, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the Inter-American Foundation, and the U.S. African Development Foundation; and * the Department of the Treasury. The bill provides appropriations for Export and Investment Assistance to * the Export-Import Bank of the United States, * the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, and * the U.S. Trade and Development Agency. The bill sets forth requirements and restrictions for using funds provided by this and other appropriations Acts.

Global Electoral Exchange Act of 2019 This bill authorizes the Department of State to establish a Global Electoral Exchange Program to promote sound election-administration practices around the world. The State Department may award grants to qualified, tax-exempt, U.S.-based organizations that have expertise and experience in relevant topics, such as election-system integrity. Grants may be used to design programs to bring relevant individuals, such as election administrators and poll workers, together to study and discuss election procedures. The State Department shall periodically report to Congress on the program's activities.

Global Electoral Exchange Act of 2019 This bill authorizes the Department of State to establish a Global Electoral Exchange Program to promote sound election-administration practices around the world. The State Department may award grants to qualified, tax-exempt, U.S.-based organizations that have expertise and experience in relevant topics, such as election-system integrity. Grants may be used to design programs to bring relevant individuals, such as election administrators and poll workers, together to study and discuss election procedures. The State Department shall periodically report to Congress on the program's activities.

Ensuring Quality Information and Transparency for Abroad-Based Listings on our Exchanges of 2019 or the EQUITABLE Act of 2019 This bill generally restricts the use of a foreign public accounting firm by a foreign issuer of securities. The bill requires certain disclosures from a foreign issuer of securities that uses, for its required audit report to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), a foreign public accounting firm that is not subject to inspection by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. If an issuer uses such a foreign public accounting firm, the issuer is generally prohibited from listing its securities on a national securities exchange. Specifically, an issuer that is not currently listed on an exchange and uses such a firm may not be listed. A currently-listed issuer will be delisted beginning in 2025 if the issuer uses such a firm for three consecutive years.

Robust International Response to Pandemic Act This bill requires each U.S. Executive Director at an international financial institution to take certain actions in support of the global response to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019). Specifically, each U.S. Executive Director at an international financial institution (e.g., the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development or the International Finance Corporation) must (1) seek the suspension of debt service payments to the institution and the relaxation of fiscal targets for certain programs, and (2) oppose programs or loan agreements that would reduce countries' health care spending or other spending related to their responses to COVID-19. Further, the U.S. Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund must support the issuance of Special Drawing Rights (a currency support tool) so that governments may access additional resources to finance their responses to COVID-19.

This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax rule exempting dividends, interest, rents, and royalties received or accrued from certain controlled foreign corporations by a related entity from treatment as foreign holding company income (thus permitting tax deferral of such income).

International Regulatory Cooperation Improvement Act This bill allows the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to incur expenses for incidentals such as meals and transportation when hosting certain foreign officials. The bill also allows the commission to receive assistance such as personnel and support services from other departments and agencies within the federal government and from certain foreign authorities.

Never Again International Outbreak Prevention Act This bill establishes measures related to international accountability for outbreaks of novel viruses and diseases. The Department of State must establish lists of countries based on the procedures and standards each country has implemented to (1) identify outbreaks and monitor diseases, and (2) ensure that novel viruses and diseases are timely reported. The President must take specified action with respect to countries that are deemed capable of implementing such procedures and standards but have not done so. The President may also sanction government officials of such countries. Foreign state sovereign immunity is waived in any case seeking damages against a foreign state for (1) injury or death in the United States caused by a state's failure to abide by such procedures and standards, or (2) intentionally misleading the international community or the World Health Organization (WHO) regarding the outbreak or spread of a health concern that leads to a pandemic. The President must facilitate (1) an international investigation and report on the response to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019), and (2) an international audit of the WHO relating to its actions in response to COVID-19. The U.S. Representative to the United Nations (U.N.) must request that the U.N. (1) review the WHO's response to COVID-19, and (2) recommend actions to improve future responses and ensure WHO accountability for identified failures. The Representative shall seek a global ban on wet markets (markets where animals of uncertified origin and health are sold in unhygienic conditions, dead or alive, for human consumption).

Stop Arming Human Rights Abusers Act This bill imposes certain sanctions on countries that violate international human rights law or international humanitarian law. Specifically, the bill prohibits the provision of security assistance to, the sale or commercial export of arms to, or the exchange of law enforcement with a foreign country that has committed genocide, crimes against humanity, or war crimes. The bill also establishes the U.S. Commission on Atrocity Accountability and Human Rights to review such violations of international human rights law or international humanitarian law and to make policy recommendations with respect to the imposition of sanctions for such violations.

This bill modifies U.S. policy and establishes requirements with respect to knowledge diplomacy (i.e., the role of international science and technology agreements in foreign relations). Specifically, the bill declares it to be U.S. policy that federally supported international science and technology agreements should serve U.S. national security and economic interests. Further, it requires the Department of State to (1) identify vulnerabilities in international cooperation that may place federally funded research at risk, (2) strengthen the security and integrity of U.S. scientific and research collaborations with foreign partners, and (3) encourage the international scientific community to adopt and adhere to U.S. scientific values. The bill also requires the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to submit a biennial report on compliance with U.S. policy across such science and technology agreements.

This bill prohibits a congressional office from appointing an intern who is a citizen of a specified foreign country (e.g., Russia, Iran, North Korea, or China).

Protecting Against International Terrorism Act of 2019 This bill reauthorizes through December 15, 2027, statutory provisions that allow the government to (1) access certain business records for foreign intelligence and international terrorism investigations, and (2) treat individual terrorists as agents of foreign powers in certain instances. The bill also terminates the government's authority to access call records on an ongoing basis as part of foreign intelligence and international terrorism investigations.

Foreign Civil Aviation Authority Assistance Act of 2020 This bill provides Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) support for foreign civil aviation authorities. In addition to the current requirement that the FAA promote and achieve global improvements in the safety, efficiency, and environmental effect of air travel, the bill requires the FAA to engage both bilaterally and multilaterally, including with the International Civil Aviation Organization, to bolster international collaboration, data sharing, and harmonization of international aviation safety requirements. The FAA must seek to expand technical assistance in support of enhancing international aviation safety, and it is authorized to provide technical assistance related to all aviation safety-related training and operational services in connection with bilateral and multilateral agreements. The bill also authorizes support for the implementation of certain recommendations to address pilots' dependency on automation.

This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to limit the scope of downward attribution rules to 50% of stock ownership in applying constructive ownership rules to controlled foreign corporations.

This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to limit the scope of downward attribution rules to 50% of stock ownership in applying constructive ownership rules to controlled foreign corporations.

Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Permanent General Provisions Act of 2019 This bill makes permanent various foreign relations-related provisions. These include * a general requirement that expenditures under certain Department of State contracts for consulting services are made public; * a general prohibition against providing certain types of foreign assistance to a country whose duly elected head of government has been deposed in a military coup d'etat, a country in default of certain U.S. government loans, or a country that supports international terrorism; * a general prohibition against assistance by the Export-Import Bank or the Overseas Private Investment Corporation for the non-U.S. production of a commodity for export that will likely be in surplus and where such surplus will cause substantial injury to U.S. producers; * various requirements relating to how the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) handles funds for certain types of assistance; * a provision generally authorizing aircraft procured for certain State Department programs to be used in any other program or region; * a provision authorizing the extension of the employment of certain USAID personnel for up to four years; * a provision generally requiring certain foreign-relations-related programs to provide timely access to documents to the relevant Inspector General office; and * a provision authorizing assistance to certain countries for such countries to commercially lease certain defense articles from U.S. commercial suppliers.

This concurrent resolution expresses recognition that foreign assistance programs are critically important for promoting U.S. national security, demonstrating the United States' humanitarian spirit, and improving the country's international standing. The resolution also states that the goal should be to spend at least 1% of U.S. gross domestic product each year for nonmilitary foreign assistance.

Office of International Disability Rights Act This bill establishes disability inclusion measures at the Department of State, including the creation of the Office of International Disability Rights. Specifically, the bill establishes the Office of International Disability Rights, which shall coordinate U.S. efforts regarding human rights for people with disabilities and advance the status of people with disabilities in U.S. foreign policy. The bill also requires the State Department to develop and adopt a formal policy for disability inclusion in U.S. foreign assistance programming and disaster response programming. The State Department must take specified steps to prioritize accessibility practices when hiring, recruiting, and assigning civil service employees and foreign service officers with disabilities. Further, the State Department must ensure that embassies, consulates, and their services are accessible to people with disabilities. Additionally, the State Department must require mandatory disability inclusion training for all civil service and foreign service personnel, which shall include country-specific and cultural considerations.