The original Title XII legislation and the 2000 amendment : a side-by-side comparison

106-373 is the first major amendment to Title XII of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 since the Title"s passage in December 1975 as part of the International Development and Food Assistance Act of 1975 (P.L. 94-161). The side-by-side comparison of original Title XII legislation with the 2000 amendment in the present document provides a full text comparison of the 1975 Title (as amended) with the final legislation (second column). The language highlighted in blue in the first column is language deleted in the Title. The language highlighted in green in the second column is the new language (P.L. 106-373). Among the numerous additions to the Title, the amended Title XII: (1) broadens the goals of the Title to include ensuring food security, human health, agricultural growth, trade expansion, and the wise and sustainable use of natural resources; (2) broadens the U.S. land- grant university community to include its public and private partners; (3) calls for "a coordinated program to increase world food and fiber production, agricultural trade, and responsible management of natural resources" through a global network of U.S. universities, international agricultural research centers, and other international research entities, as well as the facilitation of participation by the broader U.S. university community in programs of multilateral banks and agencies that receive U.S. funds; and (4) seeks to "generally engage the United States university community more extensively in the agricultural research, trade, and development initiatives undertaken outside the United States". The amended Title also adds Native American land-grant colleges to its definition of universities eligible and provides definitions for "public and private partners of universities", "agriculture", and "agriculturists". (Author abstract, modified)