{"format":1,"id":"119-hr-4423","congress":119,"number":"H.R. 4423","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"No New Burma Funds Act","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To continue the pause on disbursements and new financing commitments to the Government of Burma.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To continue the pause on disbursements and new financing commitments to the Government of Burma."},{"type":"Display Title","title":"No New Burma Funds Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"No New Burma Funds Act"},{"type":"Official Title from EH (Engrossed in House) bill text","title":"To continue the pause on disbursements and new financing commitments to the Government of Burma."},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Reported to House","title":"No New Burma Funds Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"No New Burma Funds Act"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2025-07-15","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2025-12-01","vote":{"id":"119-2025-h307","question":"On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended","title":"No New Burma Funds Act","result":"Passed","yea":385,"nay":0,"present":0,"not_voting":46,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll307.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"pending","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"not_yet","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.","date":"2025-12-02"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2025-09-08","stage":"Reported to House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"No New Burma Funds Act"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill requires the U.S. Executive Director at the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) to advocate and vote for a continued pause on IBRD disbursements and new financing commitments to Burma unless the Department of the Treasury determines this is not in the national interest."},{"k":"p","t":"The IBRD is one of the two major lending facilities of the World Bank and provides loans, guarantees, risk management products, and advisory services to middle-income countries and some creditworthy low-income countries. The World Bank paused disbursements and new financing to Burma after a 2021 military coup in that country."}],"words":102},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Director at the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to use the United States' voice and vote to continue the Bank's pause on disbursements and new financing commitments to the Government of Burma.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4423/text/eh#H0A2739A54C7044A1BF3A2E4B0FB09894"}]},"core_areas":["U.S. position at the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development on financing for the Government of Burma"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Provides that the Act may be cited as the \"No New Burma Funds Act\".","cite":{"label":"Sec. 1","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4423/text/eh#H46EBB44C00DA43A6B1C17F54FE5D1936"}},{"text":"Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to direct the U.S. Executive Director at the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to use the voice and vote of the United States to continue the Bank's pause on disbursements to the Government of Burma.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4423/text/eh#H0A2739A54C7044A1BF3A2E4B0FB09894"}},{"text":"Requires the same direction to cover the Bank's pause on making new financing commitments to the Government of Burma.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4423/text/eh#H0A2739A54C7044A1BF3A2E4B0FB09894"}},{"text":"Describes the pause as the one initiated after a military coup overthrew the democratically elected Government of Burma in 2021.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4423/text/eh#H0A2739A54C7044A1BF3A2E4B0FB09894"}},{"text":"Ends the direction if the Secretary of the Treasury determines that it is not in the national interest to continue the pause.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4423/text/eh#H0A2739A54C7044A1BF3A2E4B0FB09894"}}],"unexpected":[],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2025-12-01","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4423/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-12","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4423","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4423/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/119-hr-4423.png","v":"b05c65292ad7","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 4423, 119th Congress: No New Burma Funds Act. House: 385 Yea, 0 Nay. Senate: not yet considered. Outcome: Passed House, 1 Dec 2025."}}