text: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
  
      This Act may be cited as the ``Food and Medicine for the World Act 
  of 1999''.
  
  SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT OF CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL OF ANY NEW UNILATERAL 
                AGRICULTURAL SANCTION.
  
      (a) Definitions.--
              (1) Agricultural commodity.--The term ``agricultural 
          commodity'' has the meaning given the term in section 402 of 
          the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 
          (7 U.S.C. 1732).
              (2) Agricultural program.--The term ``agricultural 
          program'' means--
                      (A) any program administered through the 
                  Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 
                  1954 (Public Law 480; 7 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.);
                      (B) any program administered through section 416 of 
                  the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1431);
                      (C) any commercial sale of agricultural commodities 
                  or agricultural products, including plant nutrient 
                  materials; or
                      (D) any export financing (including credits or 
                  credit guarantees) for agricultural commodities or 
                  agricultural products.
              (3) New unilateral agricultural sanction.--The term ``new 
          unilateral agricultural sanction'' means any prohibition, 
          restriction, or condition on carrying out an agricultural 
          program with respect to a foreign country or foreign entity 
          that is imposed by the United States on or after the date of 
          enactment of this Act for reasons of foreign policy or national 
          security, except in a case in which the United States imposes 
          the measure pursuant to a multilateral regime and the other 
          member countries of that regime have agreed to impose 
          substantially equivalent measures.
              (4) New unilateral sanction with respect to medicine, 
          medical supplies, or medical equipment.--The term ``new 
          unilateral sanction with respect to medicine, medical supplies, 
          or medical equipment'' means any prohibition, restriction, or 
          condition on trade in, or the provision of assistance 
          consisting of, medicine, medical supplies, or medical equipment 
          with respect to a foreign country or foreign entity that is 
          imposed by the United States on or after the date of enactment 
          of this Act for reasons of foreign policy or national security, 
          except in a case in which the United States imposes the measure 
          pursuant to a multilateral regime and the other member 
          countries of that regime have agreed to impose substantially 
          equivalent measures.
              (5) Session day of congress.--The term ``session day of 
          Congress'' means any day on which a House of Congress is in 
          session.
      (b) Restriction.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law and 
  subject to subsection (c), the President may not impose a new 
  unilateral agricultural sanction against a foreign country, or a new 
  unilateral sanction with respect to medicine, medical supplies, or 
  medical equipment against a foreign country, unless--
              (1) not less than 60 days before the sanction is proposed 
          to be imposed, the President submits a report to Congress 
          that--
                      (A) describes the activity proposed to be 
                  prohibited, restricted, or conditioned; and
                      (B) describes the actions by the foreign country 
                  that justify the sanction; and
              (2) Congress enacts a joint resolution stating the approval 
          of Congress for the report submitted under paragraph (1).
      (c) Exception.--Notwithstanding subsection (b), the President may 
  impose a sanction described in that subsection--
              (1) against a foreign country with respect to which--
                      (A) Congress has enacted a declaration of war; or
                      (B) the President has proclaimed a state of 
                  national emergency; or
              (2) to the extent that the sanction would prohibit, 
          restrict, or condition the provision or use of any commodity, 
          product, medicine, supply, or equipment that is controlled on 
          the United States Munitions List under section 38 of the Arms 
          Export Control Act or the Commerce Control List under the 
          Export Administration Act of 1979.
      (d) Congressional Priority Procedures.--
              (1) Joint resolution defined.--For the purpose of 
          subsection (b)(2), ``joint resolution'' means only a joint 
          resolution introduced within 10 session days of Congress after 
          the date on which the report of the President under subsection 
          (b)(1) is received by Congress, the matter after the resolving 
          clause of which is as follows: ``That Congress approves the 
          report of the President pursuant to section 2(b)(1) of the Food 
          and Medicine for the World Act of 1999, transmitted on 
          ______________.'', with the blank completed with the 
          appropriate date.
              (2) Referral of report.--The report described in subsection 
          (b)(1) shall be referred to the appropriate committee or 
          committees of the House of Representatives and to the 
          appropriate committee or committees of the Senate.
              (3) Referral of joint resolution to committee.--A joint 
          resolution introduced in the House of Representatives shall be 
          referred to the Committee on International Relations of the 
          House of Representatives. A joint resolution introduced in the 
          Senate shall be referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 
          of the Senate. Such a joint resolution may not be reported 
          before the eighth session day of Congress after its 
          introduction.
              (4) Discharge from committee.--If the committee of either 
          House to which a joint resolution is referred has not reported 
          the joint resolution (or an identical joint resolution) at the 
          end of 30 session days of Congress after its introduction, the 
          committee shall be discharged from further consideration of the 
          joint resolution and the joint resolution shall be placed on 
          the appropriate calendar of the House in which it was 
          introduced.
              (5) Floor consideration.--
                      (A) Motion to proceed.--When the committee to which 
                  a joint resolution is referred has reported, or has 
                  been deemed to be discharged (under paragraph (4)) from 
                  further consideration of, a joint resolution, 
                  notwithstanding any rule or precedent of the 
  Senate, including Rule 22, it is at any time thereafter in order (even 
  though a previous motion to the same effect has been disagreed to) for 
  any Member of the respective House to move to proceed to the 
  consideration of the joint resolution, and all points of order against 
  the joint resolution (and against consideration of the joint 
  resolution) are waived. The motion is highly privileged in the House of 
  Representatives and is privileged in the Senate and is not debatable. 
  The motion is not subject to amendment, or to a motion to postpone, or 
  to a motion to proceed to the consideration of other business. A motion 
  to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to 
  shall not be in order. If a motion to proceed to the consideration of 
  the joint resolution is agreed to, the joint resolution shall remain 
  the unfinished business of the respective House until disposed of.
                      (B) Debate on the joint resolution.--Debate on the 
                  joint resolution, and on all debatable motions and 
                  appeals in connection therewith, shall be limited to 
                  not more than ten hours, which shall be divided equally 
                  between those favoring and those opposing the joint 
                  resolution. A motion further to limit debate is in 
                  order and not debatable. An amendment to, or a motion 
                  to postpone, or a motion to proceed to the 
                  consideration of other business, or a motion to 
                  recommit the joint resolution is not in order. A motion 
                  to reconsider the vote by which the joint resolution is 
                  agreed to or disagreed to is not in order.
                      (C) Vote on final passage.--Immediately following 
                  the conclusion of the debate on a joint resolution, and 
                  a single quorum call at the conclusion of the debate if 
                  requested in accordance with the rules of the 
                  appropriate House, the vote on final passage of the 
                  joint resolution shall occur.
                      (D) Appeals of rulings.--Appeals from the decisions 
                  of the Chair relating to the application of the rules 
                  of the Senate or the House of Representatives, as the 
                  case may be, to the procedure relating to a joint 
                  resolution described in paragraph (1) shall be decided 
                  without debate.
              (6) Treatment of other house's joint resolution.--If, 
          before the passage by one House of Congress of a joint 
          resolution of that House, that House receives from the other 
          House a joint resolution, then the following procedures shall 
          apply:
                      (A) Referral of joint resolutions of sending 
                  house.--The joint resolution of the sending House shall 
                  not be referred to a committee in the receiving House.
                      (B) Procedures in receiving house.--With respect to 
                  a joint resolution of the House receiving the joint 
                  resolution--
                              (i) the procedure in that House shall be 
                          the same as if no joint resolution had been 
                          received from the sending House; but
                              (ii) the vote on final passage shall be on 
                          the joint resolution of the sending House.
                      (C) Disposition of joint resolutions of receiving 
                  house.--Upon disposition of the joint resolution 
                  received from the other House, it shall no longer be in 
                  order to consider the joint resolution originated in 
                  the receiving House.
              (7) Procedures after action by both the house and senate.--
          If the House receiving a joint resolution from the other House 
          after the receiving House has disposed of a joint resolution 
          originated in that House, the action of the receiving House 
          with regard to the disposition of the joint resolution 
          originated in that House shall be deemed to be the action of 
          the receiving House with regard to the joint resolution 
          originated in the other House.
              (8) Status of procedures.--This subsection is enacted by 
          Congress--
                      (A) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the 
                  Senate and House of Representatives, respectively, and 
                  as such it is deemed a part of the rules of each House, 
                  respectively, but applicable only with respect to the 
                  procedure to be followed in that House in the case of a 
                  joint resolution described in paragraph (1), and it 
                  supersedes other rules only to the extent that it is 
                  inconsistent with such rules; and
                      (B) with full recognition of the constitutional 
                  right of either House to change the rules (so far as 
                  relating to the procedure of that House) at any time, 
                  in the same manner and to the same extent as in the 
                  case of any other rule of that House.
target: Food and Medicine for the World Act of 1999 - Prohibits, with specified exceptions, the President from imposing a new unilateral agricultural sanction, or a new unilateral sanction with respect to medicine, medical supplies, or medical equipment, against a foreign country, unless: (1) not less than 60 days before the sanction is proposed to be imposed, the President makes a specified report to Congress; and (2) Congress enacts a joint resolution approving the report.
feat_title: Food and Medicine for the World Act of 1999