1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Humanitarian Assistance to the Venezuelan People Act of 2019 . 2. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) Venezuela is in the grips of unprecedented political and economic turmoil marked by hyperinflation, soaring crime rates, and an authoritarian President. (2) President Nicolás Maduro and his predecessor have, through authoritarianism, graft, and incompetence, precipitated a massive humanitarian crisis both inside Venezuela and throughout the Western Hemisphere. (3) The Venezuelan gross domestic product is expected to contract for the sixth year in a row in 2019, with the Government defaulting on its external debt and inflation projected to exceed 1 million percent this year. (4) Health outcomes in Venezuela have approached critical levels as food, medicine, and services become increasingly inaccessible, with 11.4 percent of children in Venezuela under 5 years old suffering from moderate or acute malnutrition. (5) Nearly 10 percent of Venezuela’s population of 31 million have fled overseas, with nearly 90 percent of those remaining living in poverty. (6) Venezuelans have lost an average of 19 pounds of weight due to nationwide food shortages since the beginning of the country’s economic crisis. (7) Venezuela is suffering from an 88 percent medicine shortage, with more than 22,000 doctors leaving Venezuela in the past 4 years. (8) The Maduro Government has repeatedly rejected offers of humanitarian assistance, despite the return of once-vanquished diseases like diphtheria and measles, rampant cases of malaria, and the sharp rise in infant and maternal mortality. (9) Venezuela’s rates of homicide and other crimes have risen dramatically over the course of the crisis, with chronic underreporting contributing to an insufficient understanding of the scope of the crisis. 3. Requirement for strategy to provide humanitarian assistance to the people of Venezuela (a) In general Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of