Department of State Policy Provisions Act

This bill updates how the State Department manages foreign policy and aid. It sets new rules for global health programs, adds checks on work with the United Nations, and clarifies how U.S. embassies operate.

It also takes steps to improve safety and transparency, from clearing landmines to tracking illegal guns, and from managing meetings by certain foreign diplomats to clear branding on U.S. aid.

Key points

• Global health changes: Moves U.S. global health aid into country-by-country “compacts” by 2026, with no loans, and excludes some countries (like China, North Korea, and Cuba). It also plans to shift more costs to partner countries by cutting U.S. HIV/AIDS program funding by at least 50% by 2028 .
• United Nations: Orders annual reports on foreign “malign influence” efforts inside the UN, pushes stronger recruiting of Americans for UN jobs with clear metrics and reports, and blocks U.S. funding for the UN Commission of Inquiry on Israel and the Palestinian territories .
• Aid visibility and pandemics: Requires the U.S. flag to be the main brand on all foreign aid projects, and keeps sharing key disease data with the World Health Organization if the U.S. ever withdraws, to protect Americans.
• Embassies and flags: Requires 30 days’ notice to Congress before opening, closing, relocating, or building any U.S. diplomatic post, and limits which flags can fly at State Department sites (U.S., POW/MIA, Hostage and Wrongful Detainee, state/DC, tribal, agency, and foreign national flags).
• Meetings by certain foreign diplomats: For some countries, their diplomats must give the State Department at least 96 hours’ notice before meeting U.S. state or local officials or visiting colleges; the Department must send monthly lists to Congress. These rules last five years.
• Safety and security: Expands support to clear landmines and secure unsafe weapons so people can safely use land again (including help tied to Ukraine), and adds demining and stockpile safety programs in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, with annual reports and briefings. It also works with police in the Americas to grow use of ATF’s eTrace system to track crime guns .
• Tracking China’s activities: Sets up a team of at least 20 Regional China Officers at U.S. embassies to monitor PRC projects and advise partners; this program runs for five years.
• Caribbean and Haiti: Refocuses the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative to fight corruption and hostile foreign influence, requires a multi‑year plan and yearly progress reports, and orders an annual report on ties between Haitian gangs and political and economic elites.