GUIDE Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The GUIDE Act authorizes a State Department workforce program for international disaster assistance. The Secretary of State, acting through the Under Secretary for Foreign Assistance, may establish a program to recruit, train, and retain specialized disaster assistance professionals for the Bureau of Disaster and Humanitarian Response.
The purpose is to ensure the bureau has enough personnel with the skills and expertise needed to plan, implement, and manage complex international disaster assistance operations. Professionals recruited, trained, or retained through the program must have expertise in relevant areas such as procurement, logistics, public health, nutrition, protection, engineering, and finance. The bill creates authority for a staffing pipeline; it does not itself appropriate a dollar amount.
Who Benefits and How
The Bureau of Disaster and Humanitarian Response benefits from authority to build a specialized professional workforce for complex international disaster operations. International disaster assistance teams benefit from more staff with procurement, logistics, engineering, public health, nutrition, protection, and finance skills. Disaster-affected communities abroad benefit if U.S. assistance can be planned and managed more effectively. Specialized disaster assistance professionals benefit from recruitment, training, and retention opportunities. U.S. diplomatic missions in disaster-affected regions benefit from stronger operational support. Humanitarian implementing partners benefit from better federal capacity to manage assistance.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Secretary of State and Under Secretary for Foreign Assistance must design and administer the program if they use the authority. Bureau workforce managers must recruit, train, and retain specialized personnel. Department of State human resources staff must support hiring, training, and retention processes. Federal taxpayers may bear costs if the program is funded. Existing bureau managers must integrate new specialized professionals into disaster-response operations. Applicants selected for the program must meet specialized skill expectations.
Key Provisions
- Authorizes a State Department program to recruit, train, and retain specialized disaster assistance professionals.
- Places the authority with the Secretary of State acting through the Under Secretary for Foreign Assistance.
- Directs the program toward the Bureau of Disaster and Humanitarian Response.
- Identifies procurement, logistics, public health, nutrition, protection, engineering, and finance as relevant expertise.
- Supports planning, implementation, and management of complex international disaster assistance operations.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Authorizes the Secretary of State, acting through the Under Secretary for Foreign Assistance, to create a program to recruit, train, and retain specialized disaster assistance professionals for the Bureau of Disaster and Humanitarian Response, including experts in procurement, logistics, public health, nutrition, protection, engineering, and finance.
Key Policy Areas
Foreign Assistance, Disaster Response, Federal Workforce
Primary Purpose
Authorizes the Secretary of State, acting through the Under Secretary for Foreign Assistance, to create a program to recruit, train, and retain specialized disaster assistance professionals for the Bureau of Disaster and Humanitarian Response, including experts in procurement, logistics, public health, nutrition, protection, engineering, and finance.
Policy Domains
Bill provisions
Identified Gains
- Bureau of Disaster and Humanitarian Response
- International disaster assistance teams
- Disaster-affected communities abroad
- Specialized disaster assistance professionals
- United States diplomatic missions
- Humanitarian implementing partners
Identified Costs
- Secretary of State staff
- Under Secretary for Foreign Assistance staff
- Bureau workforce managers
- Department of State human resources staff
- Federal taxpayers
- Specialized professional applicants
Sponsors
Young Kim
R-CA | Primary Sponsor
Legislative Progress
ReportedOrdered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute …
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Introduced in House
Mrs. Kim introduced the following bill; which was referred to …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Bureau of Disaster and Humanitarian Response, Department of State human resources staff
Positive-direction: Bureau of Disaster and Humanitarian Response
Negative-direction: Department of State human resources staff
Specialized disaster assistance professionals
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "secretary"
- → Secretary of State
- "under_secretary"
- → Under Secretary for Foreign Assistance
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