U.S. Congress legislation · 119th Congress
HB1114: L’Ouverture Economic Development Plan for Haiti Act of 2025
Status: In committee, September 2, 2026
To authorize the establishment of a Haitian American Enterprise Fund for Haiti, and for other purposes.
What the bill says
To authorize the establishment of a Haitian American Enterprise Fund for Haiti, and for other purposes.
From the introduced text, February 7, 2025:
A BILL To authorize the establishment of a Haitian American Enterprise Fund for Haiti, and for other purposes. SECTION 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the L'Ouverture Economic Development Plan for Haiti Act of 2025 . SECTION 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 because Haiti's independence ended chattel slavery in its land and perceived it as a threat because it became the world's first Black republic. (3) After its independence, Haiti was made to pay an indemnity to France, its former colonial power, beginning in 1825, for breaking away from slavery, which amounts to at least $21,000,000,000 today, setting the stage …
Sponsors
- Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D, HD-FL-20) · primary sponsor
- Janice Schakowsky (D, HD-009)
- Jonathan Jackson (D, HD-001)
- Maxwell Frost (D, HD-FL-10)
- Yvette Clarke (D, HD-009)
- Michael Lawler (R, HD-017)
- Frederica Wilson (D, HD-FL-24)
- Maria Salazar (R, HD-FL-27)
- Daniel Goldman (D, 10)
- Diana DeGette (D, HD-001)
- Wesley Bell (D, HD-001)
Latest actions
- : ASSUMING FIRST SPONSORSHIP - Mr. Jackson (IL) asked unanimous consent that he may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of H.R. 1114, a bill originally introduced by Representative Cherfilus-McCormick, for the purpose of adding cosponsors and requesting reprintings pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII. Agreed to without objection.
- : 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.
- : Introduced in House
Subjects: Rule of law and government transparency, Multilateral development programs, Infrastructure development, Haiti, Economic development, Caribbean area, Public-private cooperation, Human rights
Common questions
- What is HB1114?
- HB1114 is a bill in Congress (119th Congress): L’Ouverture Economic Development Plan for Haiti Act of 2025.
- What does HB1114 do?
- In its own words: To authorize the establishment of a Haitian American Enterprise Fund for Haiti, and for other purposes.
- What is the status of HB1114?
- In committee as of September 2, 2026. Latest action: ASSUMING FIRST SPONSORSHIP - Mr. Jackson (IL) asked unanimous consent that he may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of H.R. 1114, a bill originally introduced by Representative Cherfilus-McCormick, for the purpose of adding cosponsors and requesting reprintings pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII. Agreed to without objection. (September 2, 2026).
- Who sponsored HB1114?
- Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D, HD-FL-20), with 10 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for HB1114?
- On the Congress website: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1114
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