Promoting Human Flourishing in Foreign Assistance Act
This bill restricts how nonmilitary foreign assistance funds can be used by prohibiting organizations from supporting abortion, gender ideology, or discriminatory equity ideology outside the United States. It requires recipients of these funds to agree not to provide or promote these specific activities, mandates that U.S. organizations keep their foreign aid programs physically and financially separate from such work, and allows the Secretary of State to require foreign governments to place funds in segregated accounts to prevent misuse. The legislation defines prohibited concepts narrowly, such as defining sex strictly by biological classification and limiting exceptions for abortion to cases where a woman's life is in immediate danger. While the rules apply to foreign and international organizations receiving U.S. aid, U.S.-based nonprofits are exempt from the ban on providing these services domestically but must still ensure their foreign-funded projects do not engage in them.
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Jun 2026
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Introduced Jun 23, 2026
Last action Jun 23, 2026
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Jun 23, 2026
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
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Jun 23, 2026
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upper
1 primary · 11 co-sponsors
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Ted Budd
RRepublican
Co
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Darline Graham
RRepublican
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David McCormick
RRepublican
Co
James C. Justice
RRepublican
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James E. Risch
RRepublican
Co
James Lankford
RRepublican
Co
Jim Banks
RRepublican
Co
Lindsey Graham
RRepublican
Co
Marsha Blackburn
RRepublican
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Pete Ricketts
RRepublican
Co
Roger F. Wicker
RRepublican
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