L’Ouverture Economic Development Plan for Haiti Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 1114 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1114 To authorize the establishment of a Haitian American Enterprise Fund for Haiti, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 7, 2025 Mrs. Cherfilus-McCormick (for herself, Ms. Schakowsky, and Mr. Jackson of Illinois) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To authorize the establishment of a Haitian American Enterprise Fund for Haiti, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``L'Ouverture Economic Development Plan for Haiti Act of 2025''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) The General Secretariat of the Organization of the American States stated in 2022, ``The international community, international financial institutions, the multilateral system, and the international financial community of donor countries must make a decision: whether they want to industrialize Haiti sufficiently to ensure work for nine million Haitians, or whether it is economically more profitable to continue absorbing Haitian migrants and let host countries accommodate them as and how they can and in such economic conditions as they can offer.''. (2) Rather than building upon the ongoing lucrative trade relations with a newly independent Republic of Haiti in 1804, the United States decided to impose a trade embargo on the nascent state in 1806