Bill · H.R. 6196· House(119-HR-6196)
Locally Led Development and Humanitarian Response Act
- Introduced
- 11/20/2025
- Last activity
- 3/26/2026 — Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 36 - 10.
- Sponsored by
- Sara Jacobs
- Cosponsors
- - 1 - 2
- Introduced
What this bill would do
The Locally Led Development and Humanitarian Response Act aims to shift United States foreign assistance toward a model that prioritizes local leadership and partnerships. It directs the relevant foreign assistance agency to increase direct funding to local entities and simplify access to resources. The bill encourages agencies to allow more flexibility in program design, staffing, and funding through various new authorities. It also seeks to reduce administrative barriers by allowing the use of local languages and different accounting standards. Finally, the Act mandates several reports to Congress to ensure progress and oversight of these new initiatives.
Yes· 3 of 7
Does this make it easier to run a small business?+6
The bill reduces administrative barriers for local entities by allowing more flexible accounting standards and simplified registration processes.
Does this send more money or help to other countries?+5
The bill expands the mechanism for delivering assistance by emphasizing direct funding to local partners and diversifying award types.
Does this make what the government does easier for the public to see?+4
The bill mandates several reports to Congress to ensure progress and oversight of the new local leadership initiatives.
The opposite
No question was scored the opposite.
Who it would affect, and how
Potential Positive Impacts for People
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Increased local control over assistance: The bill aims to enable local communities to lead their own priorities, project design, and implementation (Section 3, Paragraph 4).
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Improved access for local partners: The Act seeks to simplify and increase access to foreign assistance resources for local partners in the humanitarian and development sectors (Section 4, Paragraph a, 2).
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Reduced language barriers: The agency is authorized to accept applications and proposals in languages other than English to ease the burden on local actors (Section 6, Paragraph a).
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Financial support for local growth: The bill explores offering matching grants and in-kind contributions to help local partners generate new resources of their own (Section 4, Paragraph a, 4).
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Easier financial administration: Local partners may benefit from an increased de minimis indirect cost rate and the ability to use national or international accounting principles instead of U.S. GAAP (Section 7, Paragraph a and d).
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Greater efficiency through competition: The agency may award contracts limited to local entities to help deliver programs more sustainably or quickly (Section 7, Paragraph c).
Potential Negative Impacts for People
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Increased complexity for oversight: While intended to help, the move toward more flexible, multi-year, and tiered funding requires the agency to strengthen oversight of capacity-strengthening components (Section 4, Paragraph a, 9 and 13).
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Potential for delayed registration: While the bill allows for a 180-day delay in obtaining a unique entity identifier to assist local partners, this is a temporary measure before the end of an award's period of performance (Section 7, Paragraph b).
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Limits on competitive scope: The authority to limit competition to local entities is restricted to awards not exceeding $25,000,000 and cannot exceed 10 percent of the agency's total appropriated amounts (Section 7, Paragraph c).
Groups and Interests Ranking
Every group the model scored this bill for, from -10 to +10. Hover a score for the reason it gave.
- Demographic And Interest Groups
- Good For Low Income Households+3Good For Rural Residents+2Good For Urban Residents+2
- Economy And Finance
- Improves Small Business Support+6
- National Security And Foreign Policy
- Increases Foreign Aid+5
- Governance And Ideology
- Improves Government Transparency+4
- Social Issues And Justice
- Improves Poverty Reduction+3
- 3/26/2026
- Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 36 - 10.
- 3/3/2026
- 2 Cosponsors added.
- 11/20/2025
- Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
- 1 Cosponsor added.
- Introduced in House
Young KimRepublican · California
Michael LawlerRepublican · New York
Brad ShermanDemocrat · California