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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2346
To require the imposition of sanctions on the Popular Resistance Committees
and other associated entities, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH25, 2025
Mr. S
HERMAN(for himself, Mr. KUSTOFF, Mr. SCHNEIDER, Mr. MCCAUL,
Ms. M
CBRIDE, and Mr. LAWLER) introduced the following bill; which was
referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the
Committee on the Judiciary, 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
A BILL
To require the imposition of sanctions on the Popular Resist-
ance Committees and other associated entities, and for
other purposes.
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 ‘‘Accountability for Ter-4
rorist Perpetrators of October 7th Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. IMPOSITION OF TERRORISM SANCTIONS WITH RE-1
SPECT TO THE POPULAR RESISTANCE COM-2
MITTEES. 3
(a) F
INDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 4
(1) Since its founding in 2000 during the sec-5
ond intifada, the Popular Resistance Committees 6
(referred to as the ‘‘PRC’’) has regularly carried out 7
terror attacks against Israelis, Americans, and Pal-8
estinians. 9
(2) The PRC’s ranks include former operatives 10
from Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the 11
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, all of 12
which are designated by the United States as foreign 13
terrorist organizations. 14
(3) The PRC carried out an attack in 2003 on 15
a United States diplomatic convoy that injured a 16
diplomat and killed 3 security guards from the 17
United States. The PRC has also carried out the 18
2004 murder of a pregnant Israeli woman and her 19
4 daughters, aged 11, 9, 7 and 2, and the executions 20
of Palestinians, including the former Palestinian Au-21
thority Gaza security chief. 22
(4) The PRC has been the third-largest terror 23
group in the Gaza strip, after Hamas and Pales-24
tinian Islamic Jihad, since as early as 2011. 25
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(5) On October 7, 2023, Hamas, Palestinian Is-1
lamic Jihad, and the Popular Resistance Committees 2
terrorists launched a massive, unprovoked war on 3
Israel by air, land, and sea, including firing thou-4
sands of rockets, resulting in the deaths of 1,200 in-5
nocent Israelis, Americans, and others, the abduc-6
tion of 250 hostages, and widespread torture and 7
sexual violence. 8
(6) On October 7, 2023, the PRC issued a 9
statement claiming responsibility for participating in 10
the terrorist attack against Israel alongside Hamas 11
and their affiliates, including the kidnap of IDF sol-12
diers, and posted photos of items taken from soldiers 13
killed and captured by the group as evidence. 14
(7) On October 8, 2023, the PRC issued a 15
statement claiming responsibility for dispatching ka-16
mikaze drones during the attack on Israel. 17
(b) I
NGENERAL.—On and after the date that is 90 18
days after the date of enactment of this Act, the President 19
shall impose the measures described in subsection (d) with 20
respect to— 21
(1) the Popular Resistance Committees; 22
(2) any foreign person that is an official, agent, 23
or affiliate of a foreign person described in para-24
graph (1); 25
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(3) any foreign person that is owned or con-1
trolled by a foreign person described in paragraph 2
(1) or (2); and 3
(4) any current or future armed organization 4
the President determines is operating under the um-5
brella of the Popular Resistance Committees or any 6
other person described in this subsection. 7
(c) S
ANCTIONSDESCRIBED.—The sanctions de-8
scribed in this subsection are the following: 9
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The sanctions described in 10
this subsection are the following: 11
(A) B
LOCKING OF PROPERTY .—The Presi-12
dent shall exercise all of the powers granted to 13
the President under the International Emer-14
gency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et 15
seq.) to the extent necessary to block and pro-16
hibit all transactions in property and interests 17
in property of the person if such property and 18
interests in property are in the United States, 19
come within the United States, or are or come 20
within the possession or control of a United 21
States person. 22
(B) A
LIENS INADMISSABLE FOR VISAS , AD-23
MISSION, OR PAROLE.— 24
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(i) VISAS, ADMISSION, OR PAROLE.— 1
An alien who the Secretary of State or the 2
Secretary of Homeland Security (or a des-3
ignee of one of such Secretaries) knows, or 4
has reason to believe, is described in sub-5
section (b) is— 6
(I) inadmissible to the United 7
States; 8
(II) ineligible to receive a visa or 9
other documentation to enter the 10
United States; and 11
(III) otherwise ineligible to be 12
admitted or paroled into the United 13
States or to receive any other benefit 14
under the Immigration and Nation-15
ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.). 16
(ii) C
URRENT VISAS REVOKED .— 17
(I) I
N GENERAL.—The issuing 18
consular officer, the Secretary of 19
State, or the Secretary of Homeland 20
Security (or a designee of one of such 21
Secretaries) shall, in accordance with 22
section 221(i) of the Immigration and 23
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1201(i)), 24
revoke any visa or other entry docu-25
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mentation issued to an alien described 1
in clause (i) regardless of when the 2
visa or other entry documentation is 3
issued. 4
(II) E
FFECT OF REVOCATION .— 5
A revocation under subclause (I) shall 6
take effect immediately and shall 7
automatically cancel any other valid 8
visa or entry documentation that is in 9
the alien’s possession. 10
(2) E
XCEPTIONS.— 11
(A) U
NITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS 12
AGREEMENT.—The sanctions described in para-13
graph (1)(B) shall not apply with respect to an 14
alien if admitting or paroling the alien into the 15
United States is necessary to permit the United 16
States to comply with the Agreement regarding 17
the Headquarters of the United Nations, signed 18
at Lake Success June 26, 1947, and entered 19
into force November 21, 1947, between the 20
United Nations and the United States, or other 21
applicable international obligations. 22
(B) E
XCEPTION FOR INTELLIGENCE , LAW 23
ENFORCEMENT, AND NATIONAL SECURITY AC -24
TIVITIES.—Sanctions under paragraph (1) shall 25
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not apply to any authorized intelligence, law en-1
forcement, or national security activities of the 2
United States. 3
(d) P
ENALTIES.—The penalties provided for in sub-4
sections (b) and (c) of section 206 of the International 5
Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) shall 6
apply to a person that violates, attempts to violate, con-7
spires to violate, or causes a violation of this section, regu-8
lations promulgated to carry out this section, or the sanc-9
tions imposed pursuant to this section to the same extent 10
that such penalties apply to a person that commits an un-11
lawful act described in section 206(a) of that Act. 12
(e) I
MPLEMENTATION AUTHORITY.—The President 13
may exercise all authorities provided to the President 14
under sections 203 and 205 of the International Emer-15
gency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702 and 1704) 16
for purposes of carrying out this section. 17
(f) W
AIVER.—The President may, for one or more 18
periods of not more than 180 days each, waive the applica-19
tion of sanctions or restrictions imposed with respect to 20
a foreign person under this section if the President cer-21
tifies to the appropriate congressional committees, not 22
later than 15 days before such waiver takes effect, that 23
the waiver is vital to the national security interests of the 24
United States. 25
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(g) TERMINATION.—Sanctions under this section 1
may be terminated with respect to any foreign person if 2
the President certifies to the appropriate congressional 3
committees that— 4
(1) such foreign person is no longer engaging in 5
acts of terrorism, as such term is defined for pur-6
poses of Executive Order No. 13224 (relating to 7
blocking property and prohibiting transactions with 8
persons who commit, threaten to commit, or support 9
terrorism); or 10
(2) with respect to a foreign person that is an 11
entity, such entity has disbanded. 12
SEC. 3. REPORT ON THE DESIGNATION OF THE LION’S DEN 13
AND THE POPULAR RESISTANCE COMMIT-14
TEES AS SPECIALLY DESIGNATED GLOBAL 15
TERRORISTS. 16
(a) F
INDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 17
(1) Since its founding in 2022, Lion’s Den has 18
carried out a number of terror attacks including 19
over 61 shooting attacks against Israeli soldiers and 20
civilians. 21
(2) The group’s ranks include former operatives 22
from Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the 23
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, all of 24
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which are designated foreign terrorist organizations 1
(FTO). 2
(3) Lion’s Den receives funds from designated 3
FTOs Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. 4
(b) I
NITIALREPORT.— 5
(1) R
EPORT REQUIRED .—Not later than 90 6
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 7
Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate 8
committees of Congress— 9
(A) a detailed report on whether— 10
(i) the Lion’s Den meets the criteria 11
for designation as a Specially Designated 12
Global Terrorist pursuant to Executive 13
Order No. 13224 (relating to blocking 14
property and prohibiting transactions with 15
persons who commit, threaten to commit, 16
or support terrorism) and the criteria for 17
designation as a foreign terrorist organiza-18
tion as set forth in section 219 of the Im-19
migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 20
1189); and 21
(ii) the Popular Resistance Commit-22
tees meet as a Specially Designated Global 23
Terrorist pursuant to Executive Order No. 24
13224; and 25
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(B) if the Secretary reaches a negative de-1
termination with respect to any of the entities 2
listed in subparagraph (A), a detailed justifica-3
tion as to which criteria have not been met. 4
(2) F
ORM.—The report required by paragraph 5
(1) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may 6
include a classified annex. 7
(c) O
NGOINGDETERMINATIONS REQUIRED.—Not 8
later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this 9
Act, and every 2 years thereafter, the Secretary of State 10
shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress 11
a report that— 12
(1) identifies each new entity operating under 13
the umbrella of the Popular Resistance Committees 14
or any successor of the Popular Resistance Commit-15
tees; 16
(2) includes a determination whether each such 17
entity meets the criteria— 18
(A) for designation as a Specially Des-19
ignated Global Terrorist pursuant to Executive 20
Order No. 13224 (relating to blocking property 21
and prohibiting transactions with persons who 22
commit, threaten to commit, or support ter-23
rorism); 24
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(B) for designation as a foreign terrorist 1
organization as set forth in section 219 of the 2
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 3
1189); or 4
(C) for the imposition of sanctions under 5
section 2 of this Act; and 6
(3) if the Secretary reaches a negative deter-7
mination pursuant to any subparagraph of para-8
graph (2) with respect to any of the entities identi-9
fied pursuant to paragraph (1), a detailed justifica-10
tion as to which criteria for such designation or im-11
position have not been met. 12
SEC. 4. APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS DE-13
FINED. 14
In this Act, the term ‘‘appropriate committees of 15
Congress’’ means— 16
(1) the Committee on Foreign Relations and 17
the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate; and 18
(2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the 19
Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Rep-20
resentatives. 21
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