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Global Peacebuilding Act

H.R. 5948 · 116th Congress · Feb 21, 2020 · Lineage

A BILL

To authorize the transfer of funds made available for overseas contingency operations to increase United States contributions to overseas civilian peacebuilding programs worldwide, and for other purposes.

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the “Global Peacebuilding Act”.

2. Transfer of funds

Of the amounts made available in fiscal year 2021 to conduct overseas contingency operations, the Secretary of Defense is authorized to transfer $5,000,000,000 to the Secretary of State, to be made available to increase United States contributions to multilateral, public-private, or locally led civil society peacebuilding initiatives.