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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 3 | 3 | | 2 |
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| 4 | 4 | | DSESSION S. 3814 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To prohibit actions that would authorize conduct of official United States |
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| 6 | 6 | | Government business in the Gaza Strip or the West Bank. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | FEBRUARY27, 2024 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. C |
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| 10 | 10 | | RUZ(for himself, Mr. COTTON, Mr. RUBIO, and Mr. HAGERTY) intro- |
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| 11 | 11 | | duced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Com- |
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| 12 | 12 | | mittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To prohibit actions that would authorize conduct of official |
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| 15 | 15 | | United States Government business in the Gaza Strip |
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| 16 | 16 | | or the West Bank. |
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| 17 | 17 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 19 | 19 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 20 | 20 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Terminating Unlawful 4 |
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| 21 | 21 | | Negligence and Nullifying Exemptions and Licenses to 5 |
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| 22 | 22 | | Sanctions Act of 2024’’ or the ‘‘TUNNELS Act of 2024’’. 6 |
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| 25 | 25 | | •S 3814 IS |
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| 26 | 26 | | SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON ACTIONS THAT WOULD AUTHOR-1 |
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| 27 | 27 | | IZE CONDUCT OF OFFICIAL UNITED STATES 2 |
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| 28 | 28 | | GOVERNMENT BUSINESS IN THE GAZA STRIP 3 |
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| 29 | 29 | | OR THE WEST BANK. 4 |
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| 30 | 30 | | (a) I |
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| 31 | 31 | | NGENERAL.—Beginning on the date of the en-5 |
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| 32 | 32 | | actment of this Act, the President may not take any action 6 |
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| 33 | 33 | | described in subsection (c) if taking such action would au-7 |
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| 34 | 34 | | thorize the conduct of the official business of the United 8 |
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| 35 | 35 | | States Government by employees, grantees, or contractors 9 |
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| 36 | 36 | | thereof in the West Bank or Gaza Strip that would other-10 |
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| 37 | 37 | | wise be prohibited by the Global Terrorism Sanctions Reg-11 |
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| 38 | 38 | | ulations under part 594 of title 31, Code of Federal Regu-12 |
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| 39 | 39 | | lations (as in effect on December 20, 2022), or the For-13 |
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| 40 | 40 | | eign Terrorist Organizations Sanctions Regulations under 14 |
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| 41 | 41 | | part 597 of that title (as in effect on the date of the enact-15 |
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| 42 | 42 | | ment of this Act). 16 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (b) A |
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| 44 | 44 | | PPLICATION TOEXISTINGACTIONS.—Any ac-17 |
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| 45 | 45 | | tion described in subsection (c) that was taken before the 18 |
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| 46 | 46 | | date of the enactment of this Act is rescinded. 19 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (c) A |
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| 48 | 48 | | CTIONSDESCRIBED.—An action described in 20 |
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| 49 | 49 | | this subsection is an action that reduces the application 21 |
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| 50 | 50 | | of the Global Terrorism Sanctions Regulations under part 22 |
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| 51 | 51 | | 594 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect 23 |
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| 52 | 52 | | on December 20, 2022), or the Foreign Terrorist Organi-24 |
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| 53 | 53 | | zations Sanctions Regulations under part 597 of that title 25 |
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| 56 | 56 | | •S 3814 IS |
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| 57 | 57 | | (as in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act), 1 |
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| 58 | 58 | | including— 2 |
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| 59 | 59 | | (1) any termination or waiver of the application 3 |
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| 60 | 60 | | of sanctions; 4 |
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| 61 | 61 | | (2) any licensing action; or 5 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (3) any removal of any person from the list of 6 |
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| 63 | 63 | | specially designated nationals and blocked persons 7 |
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| 64 | 64 | | maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control 8 |
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| 65 | 65 | | of the Department of the Treasury. 9 |
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