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 PUBLIC LAW 104-107—FEB. 12, 1996 110 STAT. 707 of section 401 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1969, $1,675,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 1997: Provided, That of the amount appropriated under this heading, up to $20,000,000 may be made available for the Inter-American Foundation and shall be apportioned directly to that agency: Provided further. That of the amount appropriated under this heading, up to $11,500,000 may be made available for the African Development Foundation and shall be apportioned directly to that agency: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated under title II of this Act that are administered by the Agency for International Development and made available for family planning assistance, not less than 65 percent shall be made available directly to the agency's central Office of Population and shall be programmed by that office for family planning activities: Provided further. That the President shall seek to ensure that funds made available under this heading for sub-Saharan Africa are in substantially the same proportion to the total amount appropriated and made available by this Act for development assistance as the proportion of funds made available for development assistance for sub-Saharan Africa was to the total amount appropriated for development assistance in Public Law 103-306: Provided further, That up to $25,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading may be made available for necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 667 of the Foreign Assistance Act: Provided further. That the President shall seek to ensure that the percentage of funds made available under this heading for the activities of private and voluntary organizations and cooperatives is at least equal to the percentage of funds made available pursuant to corresponding authorities in law for the activities of private and voluntary organizations and cooperatives in fiscal year 1995: Provided further That none of the funds made available in this Act nor any unobligated balances from prior appropriations may be made available to any organization or program which, as determined by the President of the United States, supports or participates in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization: Provided further. That none of the funds made available under this heading may be used to pay for the performance of abortion as a method of family planning or to motivate or coerce any person to practice abortions; and that in order to reduce reliance on abortion in developing nations, funds shall be available only to voluntary family planning projects which offer, either directly or through referral to, or information about access to, a broad range of family planning methods and services: Provided further. That in awarding grants for natural family planning under section 104 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 no applicant shall be discriminated against because of such applicant's religious or conscientious commitment to offer only natural family planning; and, additionally, all such applicants shall comply with the requirements of the previous proviso: Provided further. That for purposes of this or any other Act authorizing or appropriating funds for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs, the term "motivate", as it relates to family planning assistance, shall not be construed to prohibit the provision, consistent with local law, of information or counseling about all pregnancy options: Provided further. That nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to alter any existing statutory prohibitions against abortion under section 104 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961: Provided further. That, notwithstanding section 109 of President. Africa. President. Voluntary organizations. Abortion. Sterilization.

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