text: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
  
      This Act may be cited as the ``International Anti-Corruption Act of 
  1999''.
  
  SEC. 2. LIMITATIONS ON FOREIGN ASSISTANCE.
  
      (a) Report and Certification.--
              (1) In general.--Not later than March 1 of each year, the 
          President shall submit to the appropriate committees a 
          certification described in paragraph (2) and a report for each 
          country that received foreign assistance under part I of the 
          Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 during the fiscal year. The 
          report shall describe the extent to which each such country is 
          making progress with respect to the following economic 
          indicators:
                      (A) Implementation of comprehensive economic 
                  reform, based on market principles, private ownership, 
                  equitable treatment of foreign private investment, 
                  adoption of a legal and policy framework necessary for 
                  such reform, protection of intellectual property 
                  rights, and respect for contracts.
                      (B) Elimination of corrupt trade practices by 
                  private persons and government officials.
                      (C) Moving toward integration into the world 
                  economy.
              (2) Certification.--The certification described in this 
          paragraph means a certification as to whether, based on the 
          economic indicators described in subparagraphs (A) through (C) 
          of paragraph (1), each country is--
                      (A) conducive to United States business;
                      (B) not conducive to United States business; or
                      (C) hostile to United States business.
      (b) Limitations on Assistance.--
              (1) Countries hostile to united states business.--
                      (A) General limitation.--Beginning on the date the 
                  certification described in subsection (a) is 
                  submitted--
                              (i) none of the funds made available for 
                          assistance under part I of the Foreign 
                          Assistance Act of 1961 (including unobligated 
                          balances of prior appropriations) may be made 
                          available for the government of a country that 
                          is certified as hostile to United States 
                          business pursuant to such subsection (a); and
                              (ii) the Secretary of the Treasury shall 
                          instruct the United States Executive Director 
                          of each multilateral development bank to vote 
                          against any loan or other utilization of the 
                          funds of such institution to or by any country 
                          with respect to which a certification described 
                          in clause (i) has been made.
                      (B) Duration of limitations.--Except as provided in 
                  subsection (c), the limitations described in clauses 
                  (i) and (ii) of subparagraph (A) shall apply with 
                  respect to a country that is certified as hostile to 
                  United States business pursuant to subsection (a) until 
                  the President certifies to the appropriate committees 
                  that the country is making significant progress in 
                  implementing the economic indicators described in 
                  subsection (a)(1) and is no longer hostile to United 
                  States business.
              (2) Countries not conducive to united states business.--
                      (A) Probationary period.--A country that is 
                  certified as not conducive to United States business 
                  pursuant to subsection (a), shall be considered to be 
                  on probation beginning on the date of such 
                  certification.
                      (B) Required improvement.--Unless the President 
                  certifies to the appropriate committees that the 
                  country is making significant progress in implementing 
                  the economic indicators described in subsection (a) and 
                  is committed to being conducive to United States 
                  business, beginning on the first day of the fiscal year 
                  following the fiscal year in which a country is 
                  certified as not conducive to United States business 
                  pursuant to subsection (a)(2)--
                              (i) none of the funds made available for 
                          assistance under part I of the Foreign 
                          Assistance Act of 1961 (including unobligated 
                          balances of prior appropriations) may be made 
                          available for the government of such country; 
                          and
                              (ii) the Secretary of the Treasury shall 
                          instruct the United States Executive Director 
                          of each multilateral development bank to vote 
                          against any loan or other utilization of the 
                          funds of such institution to or by any country 
                          with respect to which a certification described 
                          in subparagraph (A) has been made.
                      (C) Duration of limitations.--Except as provided in 
                  subsection (c), the limitations described in clauses 
                  (i) and (ii) of subparagraph (B) shall apply with 
                  respect to a country that is certified as not conducive 
                  to United States business pursuant to subsection (a) 
                  until the President certifies to the appropriate 
                  committees that the country is making significant 
                  progress in implementing the economic indicators 
                  described in subsection (a)(1) and is conducive to 
                  United States business.
      (c) Exceptions.--
              (1) National security interest.--Subsection (b) shall not 
          apply with respect to a country described in subsection (b) (1) 
          or (2) if the President determines with respect to such country 
          that making such funds available is important to the national 
          security interest of the United States. Any such determination 
          shall cease to be effective 6 months after being made unless 
          the President determines that its continuation is important to 
          the national security interest of the United States.
              (2) Other exceptions.--Subsection (b) shall not apply with 
          respect to--
                      (A) assistance to meet urgent humanitarian needs 
                  (including providing food, medicine, disaster, and 
                  refugee relief);
                      (B) democratic political reform and rule of law 
                  activities;
                      (C) the creation of private sector and 
                  nongovernmental organizations that are independent of 
                  government control; and
                      (D) the development of a free market economic 
                  system.
  
  SEC. 3. TOLL-FREE NUMBER.
  
      The Secretary of Commerce shall make available a toll-free 
  telephone number for reporting by members of the public and United 
  States businesses on the progress that countries receiving foreign 
  assistance are making in implementing the economic indicators described 
  in section 2(a)(1). The information obtained from the toll-free 
  telephone reporting shall be included in the report required by section 
  2(a).
  
  SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.
  
      In this Act:
              (1) Appropriate committees.--The term ``appropriate 
          committees'' means the Committee on International Relations of 
          the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign 
          Relations of the Senate.
              (2) Multilateral development bank.--The term ``multilateral 
          development bank'' means the International Bank for 
          Reconstruction and Development, the International Development 
          Association, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and 
          Development.
target: Requires a report to accompany such certification describing the extent to which each such country is making progress in: (1) implementing comprehensive economic reform, based on market principles, private ownership, and other specified economic indicators; (2) eliminating corrupt trade practices by private persons and government officials; and (3) moving toward integration into the world economy.
  Instructs the Secretary of Commerce to make a toll-free telephone number available for progress reports on countries receiving foreign assistance and implementing specified economic indicators.
feat_title: International Anti-Corruption Act of 1999