119-hr2071

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2071 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 2071

 To prohibit Federal funds from being made available to international 
 financial institutions for the purposes of financing foreign shrimp 
 farms, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 March 11, 2025

Mr. Nehls (for himself, Mr. Higgins of Louisiana, Mr. Vicente Gonzalez 
 of Texas, Mr. Carter of Louisiana, Ms. Mace, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. 
 Bilirakis, Ms. Letlow, Mrs. Luna, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Rutherford, Mr. 
 Donalds, Mr. Moore of Alabama, Mr. Babin, Mr. Ezell, Mr. Cloud, Mr. 
 Fry, and Mr. Carter of Georgia) introduced the following bill; which 
 was referred to the Committee on Financial Services

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 A BILL

 To prohibit Federal funds from being made available to international 
 financial institutions for the purposes of financing foreign shrimp 
 farms, and for other purposes.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Save Our Shrimpers Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON MAKING FEDERAL FUNDS AVAILABLE TO INTERNATIONAL 
 FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS TO FINANCE FOREIGN SHRIMP FARMS.

 The Secretary of the Treasury shall condition any provision of 
Federal funds to an international financial institution (as defined in 

section 1701
            (c) (2) of the International Financial Institutions Act) on 
the requirement that the funds not be used to finance any activity 
relating to shrimp farming, shrimp processing, or the export of shrimp 
in any foreign country.

SEC. 3. ANNUAL GAO REPORT ON COMPLIANCE BY THE UNITED STATES EXECUTIVE 
 DIRECTORS AT CERTAIN INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS 
 WITH INSTRUCTION TO OPPOSE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL 
 INSTITUTION ASSISTANCE FOR THE PRODUCTION OR EXTRACTION 
 OF EXPORT COMMODITIES OR MINERALS IN SURPLUS ON WORLD 
 MARKETS.

 Within 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act and 
annually thereafter, the Comptroller General shall investigate, and 
submit to the Congress a written report on, the extent to which the 
United States Executive Directors at the institutions specified in 

section 22 of the Export-Import Bank Act Amendments of 1986 have 
carried out the instructions described in such section.
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