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Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2024 · Pub. L. 118-47 · sec. 7039(a)

Oversight

Not publicly verifiableCertification
Deadline
Condition on funds or authority
Recurrence
Not stated
Duty holder
Secretary of State
Recipients
Not named in the provision ()
Enacted
Mar. 23, 2024
Location
Division F, Title VII

Appropriations act: its conditions govern fiscal year 2024 funds unless the text says “hereafter.” Later appropriations acts often repeat them.

Statutory Text

(a) Oversight.—For fiscal year 2024, 30 days prior to the initial obligation of funds for the bilateral West Bank and Gaza Program, the Secretary of State shall certify to the Committees on Appropriations that procedures have been established to assure the Comptroller General of the United States will have access to appropriate United States financial information in order to review the uses of United States assistance for the Program funded under the heading “Economic Support Fund” for the West Bank and Gaza.

Verbatim from the enrolled law as published by GovInfo; margin notes and page markers omitted. Pub. L. 118-47 on GovInfo · PDF · text fetched Oct. 17, 2026

How the Date Is Worked Out

  1. Enacted Mar. 23, 2024 (Pub. L. 118-47).
  2. The provision is a condition on funds or authority: the duty arises before the agency acts, so it has no calendar deadline.

Delivery Status

Not publicly verifiable

Public Evidence

  • No public document located that shows delivery.

Evidence Searched

  • GovInfo Congressionally Mandated Reports collection: 1,209 packages listed; titles searched for Middle East terms; 55 State, Defense, Treasury and executive-office summaries checked for citations to Pub. L. 118-47 (0 found) (Oct. 17, 2026)
  • Federal Register API: phrase “UNRWA”: 4 document titles searched (Oct. 17, 2026)
  • MEF hand review: evidence.json, items with a link and a note on what the document shows (Oct. 17, 2026)

A status of “Reported late by GAO, committee or agency” appears only with a linked GAO, committee or agency statement. Reports sent only to committees, or in classified form, leave no public trace; their absence here is not evidence of a missed deadline.

Review

  • Machine-extracted by rule from the public law text; awaiting named human review.

Cite the provision Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, Pub. L. No. 118-47, div. F, § 7039(a), 138 Stat. 460 (2024).

Cite this page Middle East Forum, “Oversight,” Owed to Congress, Nov. 11, 2026, https://bills.meforum.org/owed/m/pl118-47-df-s7039-a.html.