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118THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 340
To impose sanctions with respect to foreign support for terrorist
organizations, including Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY12, 2023
Mr. M
AST(for himself and Mr. GOTTHEIMER) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition
to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently
determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provi-
sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To impose sanctions with respect to foreign support for ter-
rorist organizations, including Hamas and the Pales-
tinian Islamic Jihad.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Hamas International 4
Financing Prevention Act’’. 5
SEC. 2. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 6
It shall be the policy of the United States— 7
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(1) to prevent Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic 1
Jihad, or any affiliate or successor thereof from ac-2
cessing its international support networks; and 3
(2) to oppose Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic 4
Jihad, or any affiliate or successor thereof from at-5
tempting to use goods, including medicine and dual 6
use items, to smuggle weapons and other materials 7
to further acts of terrorism. 8
SEC. 3. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO FOR-9
EIGN PERSONS AND AGENCIES AND INSTRU-10
MENTALITIES OF FOREIGN STATES SUP-11
PORTING HAMAS, THE PALESTINIAN ISLAMIC 12
JIHAD, OR ANY AFFILIATE OR SUCCESSOR 13
THEREOF. 14
(a) I
DENTIFICATION.— 15
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 16
after the date of the enactment of this Act, and an-17
nually thereafter for a period not to exceed 3 years, 18
the President shall submit to the appropriate con-19
gressional committees a report that identifies each 20
foreign person or agency or instrumentality of a for-21
eign state that the President determines— 22
(A) knowingly assists in, sponsors, or pro-23
vides significant financial or material support 24
for, or financial or other services to or in sup-25
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port of, the terrorist activities of any person de-1
scribed in paragraph (2); or 2
(B) directly or indirectly, knowingly and 3
materially engaged in a significant transaction 4
with any person described in paragraph (2). 5
(2) P
ERSON DESCRIBED .—A person described 6
in this paragraph is a foreign person that the Presi-7
dent determines— 8
(A) is a senior member of Hamas, the Pal-9
estinian Islamic Jihad, or any affiliate or suc-10
cessor thereof; 11
(B) is a senior member of a foreign ter-12
rorist organization designated pursuant to sec-13
tion 219 of the Immigration and Nationality 14
Act (8 U.S.C. 1189) whose members directly or 15
indirectly support the terrorist activities of 16
Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or any 17
affiliate or successor thereof by knowingly en-18
gaging in a significant transaction with, or pro-19
viding financial or material support for Hamas, 20
the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or any affiliate 21
or successor thereof, or any person described in 22
subparagraph (A); or 23
(C) directly or indirectly, supports the ter-24
rorist activities of Hamas, the Palestinian Is-25
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lamic Jihad, or any affiliate or successor there-1
of by knowingly and materially assisting, spon-2
soring, or providing financial or material sup-3
port for, or goods or services to or in support 4
of, Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or 5
any affiliate or successor thereof, or any person 6
described in subparagraph (A) or (B). 7
(3) F
ORM OF REPORT.—Each report required 8
under paragraph (1) shall be submitted in unclassi-9
fied form, but may contain a classified annex. 10
(4) E
XCEPTION.— 11
(A) I
N GENERAL.—The President shall not 12
be required to identify a foreign person or an 13
agency or instrumentality of a foreign state in 14
a report pursuant to paragraph (1)(B) if— 15
(i) the foreign person or agency or in-16
strumentality of a foreign state notifies the 17
United States Government in advance that 18
it proposes to engage in a significant 19
transaction as described in paragraph 20
(1)(B); and 21
(ii) the President determines and noti-22
fies the appropriate congressional commit-23
tees in a classified form not less than 15 24
days prior to the foreign person or agency 25
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or instrumentality of a foreign state engag-1
ing in the significant transaction that the 2
significant transaction is in the national 3
interests of the United States. 4
(B) N
ON-APPLICABILITY.—Subparagraph 5
(A) shall not apply with respect to— 6
(i) an agency or instrumentality of a 7
foreign state which the Secretary of State 8
determines has repeatedly provided support 9
for acts of international terrorism pursu-10
ant to section 1754(c) of the Export Re-11
form Control Act of 2018, section 40 of 12
the Arms Export Control Act, section 13
620A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 14
1961, or any other provision of law; or 15
(ii) any significant transaction de-16
scribed in paragraph (1)(B) that involves, 17
directly or indirectly, a foreign state de-18
scribed in clause (i). 19
(b) I
MPOSITION OFSANCTIONS.— 20
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The President shall impose 21
two or more of the sanctions described in paragraph 22
(2) with respect to a foreign person or an agency or 23
instrumentality of a foreign state identified pursuant 24
to subsection (a). 25
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(2) SANCTIONS DESCRIBED .—The sanctions re-1
ferred to in paragraph (1) are the following: 2
(A) The President may direct the Export- 3
Import Bank of the United States not to give 4
approval to the issuance of any guarantee, in-5
surance, extension of credit, or participation in 6
the extension of credit in connection with the 7
export of any goods or services to the foreign 8
person or agency or instrumentality of the for-9
eign state, and the Export-Import Bank of the 10
United States shall comply with any such direc-11
tion. 12
(B) No sales of any defense articles, de-13
fense services, or design and construction serv-14
ices under the Arms Export Control Act (22 15
U.S.C. 2751 et seq.) may be made to the for-16
eign person or agency or instrumentality of the 17
foreign state. 18
(C) No licenses for export of any item on 19
the United States Munitions List that include 20
the foreign person or agency or instrumentality 21
of the foreign state as a party to the license 22
may be granted. 23
(D) No exports may be permitted to the 24
foreign person or agency or instrumentality of 25
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the foreign state of any goods or technologies 1
controlled for national security reasons under 2
the Export Administration Regulations, except 3
that such prohibition shall not apply to any 4
transaction subject to the reporting require-5
ments of title V of the National Security Act of 6
1947 (50 U.S.C. 413 et seq.; relating to con-7
gressional oversight of intelligence activities). 8
(E) The President shall prohibit any 9
United States financial institution from making 10
loans or providing any credit or financing total-11
ing more than $10,000,000 to the foreign per-12
son or agency or instrumentality of the foreign 13
state, except that this subparagraph shall not 14
apply— 15
(i) to any transaction subject to the 16
reporting requirements of title V of the 17
National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 18
413 et seq.; relating to congressional over-19
sight of intelligence activities); 20
(ii) to the provision of medicines, 21
medical equipment, and humanitarian as-22
sistance; or 23
(iii) to any credit, credit guarantee, or 24
financial assistance provided by the De-25
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partment of Agriculture to support the 1
purchase of food or other agricultural com-2
modities. 3
(F)(i) The President may exercise all pow-4
ers granted to the President by the Inter-5
national Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 6
U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (except that the require-7
ments of section 202 of such Act (50 U.S.C. 8
1701) shall not apply) to the extent necessary 9
to block and prohibit all transactions in all 10
property and interests in property of a foreign 11
person or agency or instrumentality of the for-12
eign state if such property and interests in 13
property are in the United States, come within 14
the United States, or are or come within the 15
possession or control of a United States person. 16
(ii) The penalties provided for in sub-17
sections (b) and (c) of section 206 of the Inter-18
national Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 19
U.S.C. 1705) shall apply to a person that 20
knowingly violates, attempts to violate, con-21
spires to violate, or causes a violation of regula-22
tions promulgated under section 6(b) to carry 23
out clause (i) to the same extent that such pen-24
alties apply to a person that knowingly commits 25
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an unlawful act described in section 206(a) of 1
that Act. 2
(iii) The President may exercise all au-3
thorities provided to the President under sec-4
tions 203 and 205 of the International Emer-5
gency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702 6
and 1704) for purposes of carrying out clause 7
(i). 8
(3) E
XCEPTION.—The President shall not be 9
required to apply sanctions with respect to a foreign 10
person or an agency or instrumentality of a foreign 11
state identified pursuant to subsection (a) if the 12
President certifies in writing to the appropriate con-13
gressional committees that— 14
(A) the foreign person or agency or instru-15
mentality of the foreign state— 16
(i) is no longer carrying out activities 17
or transactions for which the sanctions 18
were imposed pursuant to this subsection; 19
or 20
(ii) has taken and is continuing to 21
take significant verifiable steps toward ter-22
minating the activities or transactions for 23
which the sanctions were imposed pursuant 24
to this subsection; and 25
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(B) the President has received reliable as-1
surances from the foreign person or agency or 2
instrumentality of the foreign state that it will 3
not carry out any activities or transactions for 4
which sanctions may be imposed pursuant to 5
this subsection in the future. 6
(c) W
AIVER.— 7
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The President may waive, 8
on a case-by-case basis and for a period of not more 9
than 180 days, a requirement under subsection (b) 10
to impose or maintain sanctions with respect to a 11
foreign person or agency or instrumentality of a for-12
eign state if the President— 13
(A) determines that the waiver is in the 14
national security interest of the United States; 15
and 16
(B) not less than 30 days before the waiv-17
er takes effect, submits to the appropriate con-18
gressional committees a report on the waiver 19
and the justification for the waiver. 20
(2) R
ENEWAL OF WAIVER .—The President 21
may, on a case-by-case basis, renew a waiver under 22
paragraph (1) for additional periods of not more 23
than 180 days if the President— 24
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(A) determines that the renewal of the 1
waiver is in the national security interest of the 2
United States; and 3
(B) not less than 15 days before the waiv-4
er expires, submits to the appropriate congres-5
sional committees a report on the renewal of 6
the waiver and the justification for the renewal 7
of the waiver. 8
(d) R
ULE OFCONSTRUCTION.—The authority to im-9
pose sanctions under subsection (b) with respect to a for-10
eign person or an agency or instrumentality of a foreign 11
state identified pursuant to subsection (a) is in addition 12
to the authority to impose sanctions under any other pro-13
vision of law with respect to foreign persons or agencies 14
or instrumentalities of foreign states that directly or indi-15
rectly support international terrorism. 16
(e) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 17
(1) F
OREIGN STATE.—The term ‘‘foreign state’’ 18
has the meaning given such term in section 1603(a) 19
of title 28, United States Code. 20
(2) A
GENCY OR INSTRUMENTALITY .—The term 21
‘‘agency or instrumentality’’ has the meaning given 22
such term in section 1603(b) of title 28, United 23
States Code. 24
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(f) EFFECTIVEDATE.—This section shall take effect 1
on the date of the enactment of this Act and apply with 2
respect to activities and transactions described in sub-3
section (a) that are carried out on or after such date of 4
enactment. 5
SEC. 4. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO FOR-6
EIGN GOVERNMENTS THAT PROVIDE MATE-7
RIAL SUPPORT FOR THE TERRORIST ACTIVI-8
TIES OF HAMAS, THE PALESTINIAN ISLAMIC 9
JIHAD, OR ANY AFFILIATE OR SUCCESSOR 10
THEREOF. 11
(a) I
DENTIFICATION.— 12
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 13
after the date of the enactment of this Act, and 14
every 180 days thereafter, the President shall sub-15
mit to the appropriate congressional committees a 16
report that identifies the following: 17
(A) Each government of a foreign coun-18
try— 19
(i) with respect to which the Secretary 20
of State determines has repeatedly pro-21
vided support for acts of international ter-22
rorism pursuant to section 1754(c) of the 23
Export Control Reform Act of 2018, sec-24
tion 40 of the Arms Export Control Act, 25
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section 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act 1
of 1961, or any other provision of law; and 2
(ii) with respect to which the Presi-3
dent determines has provided direct or in-4
direct material support for the terrorist ac-5
tivities of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic 6
Jihad, or any affiliate or successor thereof. 7
(B) Each government of a foreign country 8
that— 9
(i) is not identified under subpara-10
graph (A); and 11
(ii) the President determines engaged 12
in a significant transaction so as to con-13
tribute knowingly and materially to the ef-14
forts by the government of a foreign coun-15
try described in subparagraph (A)(i) to 16
provide direct or indirect material support 17
for the terrorist activities of Hamas, the 18
Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or any affiliate 19
or successor thereof. 20
(2) F
ORM OF REPORT.—Each report submitted 21
under paragraph (1) shall be submitted in unclassi-22
fied form but may contain a classified annex. 23
(b) I
MPOSITION OFSANCTIONS.— 24
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(1) IN GENERAL.—The President shall impose 1
the following sanctions with respect to each govern-2
ment of a foreign country identified pursuant to sub-3
paragraph (A) or (B) of subsection (a)(1): 4
(A) The United States Government shall 5
suspend, for a period of 1 year, United States 6
assistance to the government of the foreign 7
country. 8
(B) The Secretary of the Treasury shall 9
instruct the United States Executive Director 10
to each appropriate international financial insti-11
tution to oppose, and vote against, for a period 12
of 1 year, the extension by such institution of 13
any loan or financial or technical assistance to 14
the government of the foreign country. 15
(C) No item on the United States Muni-16
tions List (established pursuant to section 38 of 17
the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 18
2778)) or the Commerce Control List set forth 19
in Supplement No. 1 to part 774 of title 15, 20
Code of Federal Regulations, may be exported 21
to the government of the foreign country for a 22
period of 1 year. 23
(2) E
XCEPTIONS.—The President shall not be 24
required to apply sanctions with respect to the gov-25
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ernment of a foreign country pursuant to paragraph 1
(1)— 2
(A) with respect to materials intended to 3
be used by United States military or civilian 4
personnel at military facilities in the country; or 5
(B) if the application of such sanctions 6
would prevent the United States from meeting 7
the terms of any status of forces agreement to 8
which the United States is a party. 9
(c) I
MPOSITION OFADDITIONALSANCTIONSWITH 10
R
ESPECT TO FOREIGNGOVERNMENTS IDENTIFIED 11
U
NDERSUBSECTION(a)(1)(A).—The President shall im-12
pose the following additional sanctions with respect to 13
each government of a foreign country identified pursuant 14
to subsection (a)(1)(A): 15
(1) The President shall, pursuant to such regu-16
lations as the President may prescribe, prohibit any 17
transactions in foreign exchange that are subject to 18
the jurisdiction of the United States and in which 19
the government of the foreign country has any inter-20
est. 21
(2) The President shall, pursuant to such regu-22
lations as the President may prescribe, prohibit any 23
transfers of credit or payments between one or more 24
financial institutions or by, through, or to any finan-25
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cial institution, to the extent that such transfers or 1
payments are subject to the jurisdiction of the 2
United States and involve any interest of the govern-3
ment of the foreign country. 4
(d) W
AIVER.— 5
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The President may waive, 6
on a case-by-case basis and for a period of not more 7
than 180 days, a requirement under subsection (b) 8
or (c) to impose or maintain sanctions with respect 9
to a foreign government identified pursuant to sub-10
paragraph (A) or (B) of subsection (a)(1) if the 11
President— 12
(A) determines that the waiver is in the 13
national security interest of the United States; 14
and 15
(B) not less than 30 days before the waiv-16
er takes effect, submits to the appropriate con-17
gressional committees a report on the waiver 18
and the justification for the waiver. 19
(2) R
ENEWAL OF WAIVER .—The President 20
may, on a case-by-case basis, renew a waiver under 21
paragraph (1) for additional periods of not more 22
than 180 days if the President— 23
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(A) determines that the renewal of the 1
waiver is in the national security interest of the 2
United States; and 3
(B) not less than 15 days before the waiv-4
er expires, submits to the appropriate congres-5
sional committees a report on the renewal of 6
the waiver and the justification for the renewal 7
of the waiver. 8
(e) R
ULE OFCONSTRUCTION.—The authority to im-9
pose sanctions under subsection (b) or (c) with respect to 10
each government of a foreign country identified pursuant 11
to subparagraph (A) or (B) of subsection (a)(1) is in addi-12
tion to the authority to impose sanctions under any other 13
provision of law with respect to governments of foreign 14
countries that provide material support to foreign terrorist 15
organizations designated pursuant to section 219 of the 16
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189). 17
(f) T
ERMINATION.—The President may terminate 18
any sanctions imposed with respect to the government of 19
a foreign country pursuant to subsection (b) or (c) if the 20
President determines and notifies the appropriate congres-21
sional committees that the government of the foreign 22
country is no longer carrying out activities or transactions 23
for which the sanctions were imposed and has provided 24
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assurances to the United States Government that it will 1
not carry out the activities or transactions in the future. 2
(g) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—This section shall take effect 3
on the date of the enactment of this Act and apply with 4
respect to activities and transactions described in subpara-5
graph (A) or (B) of subsection (a)(1) that are carried out 6
on or after such date of enactment. 7
SEC. 5. EXEMPTIONS FROM SANCTIONS UNDER SECTIONS 3 8
AND 4 RELATING TO PROVISION OF HUMANI-9
TARIAN ASSISTANCE. 10
(a) S
ANCTIONSUNDERSECTION3.—The following 11
activities shall be exempt from sanctions under section 3: 12
(1) The conduct or facilitation of a transaction 13
for the sale of agricultural commodities, food, medi-14
cine, or medical devices to a foreign person described 15
in section 3(a)(2). 16
(2) The provision of humanitarian assistance to 17
a foreign person described in section 3(a)(2), includ-18
ing engaging in a financial transaction relating to 19
humanitarian assistance or for humanitarian pur-20
poses or transporting goods or services that are nec-21
essary to carry out operations relating to humani-22
tarian assistance or humanitarian purposes. 23
(b) S
ANCTIONSUNDERSECTION4.—The following 24
activities shall be exempt from sanctions under section 4: 25
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(1) The conduct or facilitation of a transaction 1
for the sale of agricultural commodities, food, medi-2
cine, or medical devices to Hamas, the Palestinian 3
Islamic Jihad, or any affiliate or successor thereof 4
described in section 4(a)(1). 5
(2) The provision of humanitarian assistance to 6
Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or any affil-7
iate or successor thereof described in section 4(a)(1), 8
including engaging in a financial transaction relating 9
to humanitarian assistance or for humanitarian pur-10
poses or transporting goods or services that are nec-11
essary to carry out operations relating to humani-12
tarian assistance or humanitarian purposes. 13
SEC. 6. REPORT ON ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES 14
TO DISRUPT GLOBAL FUNDRAISING, FINANC-15
ING, AND MONEY LAUNDERING ACTIVITIES 16
OF HAMAS, THE PALESTINIAN ISLAMIC 17
JIHAD, OR ANY AFFILIATE OR SUCCESSOR 18
THEREOF. 19
(a) R
EPORT.— 20
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 21
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 22
President shall submit to the appropriate congres-23
sional committees a report that includes— 24
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(A) a list of foreign countries that support 1
Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or any 2
affiliate or successor thereof, or in which 3
Hamas maintains important portions of its fi-4
nancial networks; 5
(B) with respect to each foreign country on 6
the list required by subparagraph (A)— 7
(i) an assessment of whether the gov-8
ernment of the country is taking adequate 9
measures to freeze the assets of Hamas, 10
the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or any affil-11
iate or successor thereof within the terri-12
tory of the country; and 13
(ii) in the case of a country the gov-14
ernment of which is not taking adequate 15
measures to freeze the assets of Hamas— 16
(I) an assessment of the reasons 17
that government is not taking ade-18
quate measures to freeze those assets; 19
and 20
(II) a description of measures 21
being taken by the United States Gov-22
ernment to encourage that govern-23
ment to freeze those assets; 24
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(C) a list of foreign countries in which 1
Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or any 2
affiliate or successor thereof, conducts signifi-3
cant fundraising, financing, or money laun-4
dering activities; 5
(D) with respect to each foreign country 6
on the list required by subparagraph (C)— 7
(i) an assessment of whether the gov-8
ernment of the country is taking adequate 9
measures to disrupt the fundraising, fi-10
nancing, or money laundering activities of 11
Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or 12
any affiliate or successor thereof within the 13
territory of the country; and 14
(ii) in the case of a country the gov-15
ernment of which is not taking adequate 16
measures to disrupt those activities— 17
(I) an assessment of the reasons 18
that government is not taking ade-19
quate measures to disrupt those ac-20
tivities; and 21
(II) a description of measures 22
being taken by the United States Gov-23
ernment to encourage that govern-24
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ment to improve measures to disrupt 1
those activities; and 2
(E) a list of foreign countries from which 3
Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or any 4
affiliate or successor thereof, acquires surveil-5
lance equipment, electronic monitoring equip-6
ment, or other means to inhibit communication 7
or political expression in Gaza. 8
(2) F
ORM.—The report required by paragraph 9
(1) shall be submitted in unclassified form to the 10
greatest extent possible, and may contain a classified 11
annex. 12
(b) B
RIEFING.—Not later than 180 days after the 13
date of the enactment of this Act, and every 180 days 14
thereafter for a period not to exceed 3 years, the Secretary 15
of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the heads of 16
other applicable Federal departments and agencies (or 17
their designees) shall provide to the appropriate congres-18
sional committees a briefing on the disposition of the as-19
sets and activities of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic 20
Jihad, or any successor or affiliate thereof related to fund-21
raising, financing, and money laundering worldwide. 22
(c) D
EFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘appro-23
priate congressional committees’’ means— 24
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(1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 1
Committee on Financial Services, and the Perma-2
nent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House 3
of Representatives; and 4
(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the 5
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Af-6
fairs, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of 7
the Senate. 8
SEC. 7. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. 9
(a) R
ULE OFCONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this Act 10
shall be construed to apply to the authorized intelligence 11
activities of the United States. 12
(b) R
EGULATORYAUTHORITY.—The President shall, 13
not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment 14
of this Act, promulgate regulations as are necessary for 15
the implementation of this Act. 16
(c) E
XCEPTIONRELATING TO IMPORTATION OF 17
G
OODS.— 18
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The authorities and require-19
ments to impose sanctions authorized under this Act 20
shall not include the authority or requirement to im-21
pose sanctions on the importation of goods. 22
(2) G
OOD DEFINED.—In this subsection, the 23
term ‘‘good’’ means any article, natural or man- 24
made substance, material, supply or manufactured 25
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product, including inspection and test equipment, 1
and excluding technical data. 2
(d) T
ERMINATION.—This Act shall terminate begin-3
ning— 4
(1) 30 days after the date on which the Presi-5
dent certifies to the appropriate congressional com-6
mittees that Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic 7
Jihad, or any successor or affiliate thereof— 8
(A) are no longer designated as a foreign 9
terrorist organization pursuant to section 219 10
of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 11
U.S.C. 1189); 12
(B) are no longer subject to sanctions pur-13
suant to— 14
(i) Executive Order No. 12947 (Janu-15
ary 23, 1995; relating to prohibiting trans-16
actions with terrorists who threaten to dis-17
rupt the Middle East peace process); and 18
(ii) Executive Order No. 13224 (Sep-19
tember 23, 2001; relating to blocking prop-20
erty and prohibiting transactions with per-21
sons who commit, threaten to commit, or 22
support terrorism); and 23
(C) meet the criteria described in para-24
graphs (1) through (4) of section 9 of the Pal-25
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estinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006 (22 U.S.C. 1
2378b note); or 2
(2) 3 years after the date of the enactment of 3
this Act, 4
whichever occurs earlier. 5
SEC. 8. DEFINITIONS. 6
Except as otherwise provided, in this Act: 7
(1) A
DMITTED.—The term ‘‘admitted’’ has the 8
meaning given such term in section 101(a)(13)(A) of 9
the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 10
1101(a)(13)(A)). 11
(2) A
PPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT -12
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-13
mittees’’ means the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 14
the House of Representatives and the Committee on 15
Foreign Relations of the Senate. 16
(3) F
OREIGN PERSON.—The term ‘‘foreign per-17
son’’ means— 18
(A) an individual who is not a United 19
States person; or 20
(B) a corporation, partnership, or other 21
nongovernmental entity which is not a United 22
States person. 23
(4) M
ATERIAL SUPPORT.—The term ‘‘material 24
support’’ has the meaning given the term ‘‘material 25
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support or resources’’ in section 2339A of title 18, 1
United States Code. 2
(5) P
ERSON.—The term ‘‘person’’ means an in-3
dividual or entity. 4
(6) U
NITED STATES PERSON .—The term 5
‘‘United States person’’ means— 6
(A) a United States citizen or an alien law-7
fully admitted for permanent residence to the 8
United States; or 9
(B) an entity organized under the laws of 10
the United States or of any jurisdiction within 11
the United States, including a foreign branch of 12
such an entity. 13
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