No New Burma Funds Act This bill requires the U.S. Executive Director at the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) to advocate and vote for a continued pause on IBRD disbursements and new financing commitments to Burma unless the Department of the Treasury determines this is not in the national interest. The IBRD is one of the two major lending facilities of the World Bank and provides loans, guarantees, risk management products, and advisory services to middle-income countries and some creditworthy low-income countries. The World Bank paused disbursements and new financ
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1Short title
This section would give the Act the short title "No New Burma Funds Act."
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1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the No New Burma Funds Act .
2Continuation of pause on World Bank disbursements and commitments to Burma
This section would require the Secretary of the Treasury to direct the United States Executive Director at the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the World Bank) to use the United States' voice and vote to keep in place the Bank's existing pause on disbursements and on making new financing commitments to the Government of Burma. That pause began after a military coup overthrew Burma's democratically elected government in 2021. The Secretary of the Treasury could stop directing the Executive Director to maintain the pause if the Secretary determines that continuing the pause is not in the public interest.
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2. Continuation of pause on World Bank disbursements and commitments to Burma
The Secretary of the Treasury shall direct the United States Executive Director at the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to use the voice and vote of the United States to continue the pause by the Bank on disbursements and the making of new financing commitments to the Government of Burma, which was initiated after a military coup overthrew the democratically elected Government of Burma in 2021, unless the Secretary of the Treasury determines that it is not in the public interest to do so.
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of bills that passed one chamber became law in the 118th Congress, 2023 to 2024 (n=939)
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