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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2346 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To require the imposition of sanctions on the Popular Resistance Committees |
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| 6 | 6 | | and other associated entities, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | MARCH25, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. S |
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| 10 | 10 | | HERMAN(for himself, Mr. KUSTOFF, Mr. SCHNEIDER, Mr. MCCAUL, |
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| 11 | 11 | | Ms. M |
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| 12 | 12 | | CBRIDE, and Mr. LAWLER) introduced the following bill; which was |
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| 13 | 13 | | referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the |
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| 14 | 14 | | Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined |
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| 15 | 15 | | by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall |
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| 16 | 16 | | within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned |
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| 17 | 17 | | A BILL |
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| 18 | 18 | | To require the imposition of sanctions on the Popular Resist- |
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| 19 | 19 | | ance Committees and other associated entities, and for |
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| 20 | 20 | | other purposes. |
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| 21 | 21 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 22 | 22 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 23 | 23 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 24 | 24 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Accountability for Ter-4 |
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| 25 | 25 | | rorist Perpetrators of October 7th Act’’. 5 |
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| 29 | 29 | | SEC. 2. IMPOSITION OF TERRORISM SANCTIONS WITH RE-1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | SPECT TO THE POPULAR RESISTANCE COM-2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | MITTEES. 3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (a) F |
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| 33 | 33 | | INDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (1) Since its founding in 2000 during the sec-5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | ond intifada, the Popular Resistance Committees 6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (referred to as the ‘‘PRC’’) has regularly carried out 7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | terror attacks against Israelis, Americans, and Pal-8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | estinians. 9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (2) The PRC’s ranks include former operatives 10 |
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| 40 | 40 | | from Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the 11 |
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| 41 | 41 | | Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, all of 12 |
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| 42 | 42 | | which are designated by the United States as foreign 13 |
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| 43 | 43 | | terrorist organizations. 14 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (3) The PRC carried out an attack in 2003 on 15 |
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| 45 | 45 | | a United States diplomatic convoy that injured a 16 |
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| 46 | 46 | | diplomat and killed 3 security guards from the 17 |
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| 47 | 47 | | United States. The PRC has also carried out the 18 |
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| 48 | 48 | | 2004 murder of a pregnant Israeli woman and her 19 |
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| 49 | 49 | | 4 daughters, aged 11, 9, 7 and 2, and the executions 20 |
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| 50 | 50 | | of Palestinians, including the former Palestinian Au-21 |
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| 51 | 51 | | thority Gaza security chief. 22 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (4) The PRC has been the third-largest terror 23 |
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| 53 | 53 | | group in the Gaza strip, after Hamas and Pales-24 |
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| 54 | 54 | | tinian Islamic Jihad, since as early as 2011. 25 |
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| 58 | 58 | | (5) On October 7, 2023, Hamas, Palestinian Is-1 |
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| 59 | 59 | | lamic Jihad, and the Popular Resistance Committees 2 |
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| 60 | 60 | | terrorists launched a massive, unprovoked war on 3 |
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| 61 | 61 | | Israel by air, land, and sea, including firing thou-4 |
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| 62 | 62 | | sands of rockets, resulting in the deaths of 1,200 in-5 |
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| 63 | 63 | | nocent Israelis, Americans, and others, the abduc-6 |
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| 64 | 64 | | tion of 250 hostages, and widespread torture and 7 |
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| 65 | 65 | | sexual violence. 8 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (6) On October 7, 2023, the PRC issued a 9 |
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| 67 | 67 | | statement claiming responsibility for participating in 10 |
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| 68 | 68 | | the terrorist attack against Israel alongside Hamas 11 |
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| 69 | 69 | | and their affiliates, including the kidnap of IDF sol-12 |
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| 70 | 70 | | diers, and posted photos of items taken from soldiers 13 |
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| 71 | 71 | | killed and captured by the group as evidence. 14 |
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| 72 | 72 | | (7) On October 8, 2023, the PRC issued a 15 |
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| 73 | 73 | | statement claiming responsibility for dispatching ka-16 |
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| 74 | 74 | | mikaze drones during the attack on Israel. 17 |
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| 75 | 75 | | (b) I |
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| 76 | 76 | | NGENERAL.—On and after the date that is 90 18 |
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| 77 | 77 | | days after the date of enactment of this Act, the President 19 |
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| 78 | 78 | | shall impose the measures described in subsection (d) with 20 |
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| 79 | 79 | | respect to— 21 |
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| 80 | 80 | | (1) the Popular Resistance Committees; 22 |
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| 81 | 81 | | (2) any foreign person that is an official, agent, 23 |
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| 82 | 82 | | or affiliate of a foreign person described in para-24 |
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| 83 | 83 | | graph (1); 25 |
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| 87 | 87 | | (3) any foreign person that is owned or con-1 |
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| 88 | 88 | | trolled by a foreign person described in paragraph 2 |
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| 89 | 89 | | (1) or (2); and 3 |
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| 90 | 90 | | (4) any current or future armed organization 4 |
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| 91 | 91 | | the President determines is operating under the um-5 |
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| 92 | 92 | | brella of the Popular Resistance Committees or any 6 |
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| 93 | 93 | | other person described in this subsection. 7 |
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| 94 | 94 | | (c) S |
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| 95 | 95 | | ANCTIONSDESCRIBED.—The sanctions de-8 |
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| 96 | 96 | | scribed in this subsection are the following: 9 |
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| 97 | 97 | | (1) I |
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| 98 | 98 | | N GENERAL.—The sanctions described in 10 |
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| 99 | 99 | | this subsection are the following: 11 |
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| 100 | 100 | | (A) B |
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| 101 | 101 | | LOCKING OF PROPERTY .—The Presi-12 |
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| 102 | 102 | | dent shall exercise all of the powers granted to 13 |
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| 103 | 103 | | the President under the International Emer-14 |
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| 104 | 104 | | gency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et 15 |
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| 105 | 105 | | seq.) to the extent necessary to block and pro-16 |
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| 106 | 106 | | hibit all transactions in property and interests 17 |
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| 107 | 107 | | in property of the person if such property and 18 |
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| 108 | 108 | | interests in property are in the United States, 19 |
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| 109 | 109 | | come within the United States, or are or come 20 |
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| 110 | 110 | | within the possession or control of a United 21 |
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| 111 | 111 | | States person. 22 |
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| 112 | 112 | | (B) A |
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| 113 | 113 | | LIENS INADMISSABLE FOR VISAS , AD-23 |
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| 114 | 114 | | MISSION, OR PAROLE.— 24 |
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| 118 | 118 | | (i) VISAS, ADMISSION, OR PAROLE.— 1 |
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| 119 | 119 | | An alien who the Secretary of State or the 2 |
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| 120 | 120 | | Secretary of Homeland Security (or a des-3 |
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| 121 | 121 | | ignee of one of such Secretaries) knows, or 4 |
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| 122 | 122 | | has reason to believe, is described in sub-5 |
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| 123 | 123 | | section (b) is— 6 |
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| 124 | 124 | | (I) inadmissible to the United 7 |
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| 125 | 125 | | States; 8 |
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| 126 | 126 | | (II) ineligible to receive a visa or 9 |
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| 127 | 127 | | other documentation to enter the 10 |
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| 128 | 128 | | United States; and 11 |
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| 129 | 129 | | (III) otherwise ineligible to be 12 |
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| 130 | 130 | | admitted or paroled into the United 13 |
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| 131 | 131 | | States or to receive any other benefit 14 |
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| 132 | 132 | | under the Immigration and Nation-15 |
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| 133 | 133 | | ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.). 16 |
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| 134 | 134 | | (ii) C |
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| 135 | 135 | | URRENT VISAS REVOKED .— 17 |
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| 136 | 136 | | (I) I |
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| 137 | 137 | | N GENERAL.—The issuing 18 |
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| 138 | 138 | | consular officer, the Secretary of 19 |
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| 139 | 139 | | State, or the Secretary of Homeland 20 |
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| 140 | 140 | | Security (or a designee of one of such 21 |
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| 141 | 141 | | Secretaries) shall, in accordance with 22 |
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| 142 | 142 | | section 221(i) of the Immigration and 23 |
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| 143 | 143 | | Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1201(i)), 24 |
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| 144 | 144 | | revoke any visa or other entry docu-25 |
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| 148 | 148 | | mentation issued to an alien described 1 |
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| 149 | 149 | | in clause (i) regardless of when the 2 |
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| 150 | 150 | | visa or other entry documentation is 3 |
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| 151 | 151 | | issued. 4 |
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| 152 | 152 | | (II) E |
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| 153 | 153 | | FFECT OF REVOCATION .— 5 |
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| 154 | 154 | | A revocation under subclause (I) shall 6 |
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| 155 | 155 | | take effect immediately and shall 7 |
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| 156 | 156 | | automatically cancel any other valid 8 |
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| 157 | 157 | | visa or entry documentation that is in 9 |
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| 158 | 158 | | the alien’s possession. 10 |
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| 159 | 159 | | (2) E |
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| 160 | 160 | | XCEPTIONS.— 11 |
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| 161 | 161 | | (A) U |
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| 162 | 162 | | NITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS 12 |
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| 163 | 163 | | AGREEMENT.—The sanctions described in para-13 |
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| 164 | 164 | | graph (1)(B) shall not apply with respect to an 14 |
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| 165 | 165 | | alien if admitting or paroling the alien into the 15 |
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| 166 | 166 | | United States is necessary to permit the United 16 |
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| 167 | 167 | | States to comply with the Agreement regarding 17 |
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| 168 | 168 | | the Headquarters of the United Nations, signed 18 |
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| 169 | 169 | | at Lake Success June 26, 1947, and entered 19 |
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| 170 | 170 | | into force November 21, 1947, between the 20 |
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| 171 | 171 | | United Nations and the United States, or other 21 |
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| 172 | 172 | | applicable international obligations. 22 |
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| 173 | 173 | | (B) E |
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| 174 | 174 | | XCEPTION FOR INTELLIGENCE , LAW 23 |
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| 175 | 175 | | ENFORCEMENT, AND NATIONAL SECURITY AC -24 |
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| 176 | 176 | | TIVITIES.—Sanctions under paragraph (1) shall 25 |
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| 180 | 180 | | not apply to any authorized intelligence, law en-1 |
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| 181 | 181 | | forcement, or national security activities of the 2 |
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| 182 | 182 | | United States. 3 |
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| 183 | 183 | | (d) P |
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| 184 | 184 | | ENALTIES.—The penalties provided for in sub-4 |
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| 185 | 185 | | sections (b) and (c) of section 206 of the International 5 |
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| 186 | 186 | | Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) shall 6 |
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| 187 | 187 | | apply to a person that violates, attempts to violate, con-7 |
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| 188 | 188 | | spires to violate, or causes a violation of this section, regu-8 |
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| 189 | 189 | | lations promulgated to carry out this section, or the sanc-9 |
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| 190 | 190 | | tions imposed pursuant to this section to the same extent 10 |
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| 191 | 191 | | that such penalties apply to a person that commits an un-11 |
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| 192 | 192 | | lawful act described in section 206(a) of that Act. 12 |
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| 193 | 193 | | (e) I |
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| 194 | 194 | | MPLEMENTATION AUTHORITY.—The President 13 |
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| 195 | 195 | | may exercise all authorities provided to the President 14 |
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| 196 | 196 | | under sections 203 and 205 of the International Emer-15 |
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| 197 | 197 | | gency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702 and 1704) 16 |
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| 198 | 198 | | for purposes of carrying out this section. 17 |
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| 199 | 199 | | (f) W |
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| 200 | 200 | | AIVER.—The President may, for one or more 18 |
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| 201 | 201 | | periods of not more than 180 days each, waive the applica-19 |
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| 202 | 202 | | tion of sanctions or restrictions imposed with respect to 20 |
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| 203 | 203 | | a foreign person under this section if the President cer-21 |
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| 204 | 204 | | tifies to the appropriate congressional committees, not 22 |
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| 205 | 205 | | later than 15 days before such waiver takes effect, that 23 |
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| 206 | 206 | | the waiver is vital to the national security interests of the 24 |
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| 207 | 207 | | United States. 25 |
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| 211 | 211 | | (g) TERMINATION.—Sanctions under this section 1 |
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| 212 | 212 | | may be terminated with respect to any foreign person if 2 |
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| 213 | 213 | | the President certifies to the appropriate congressional 3 |
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| 214 | 214 | | committees that— 4 |
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| 215 | 215 | | (1) such foreign person is no longer engaging in 5 |
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| 216 | 216 | | acts of terrorism, as such term is defined for pur-6 |
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| 217 | 217 | | poses of Executive Order No. 13224 (relating to 7 |
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| 218 | 218 | | blocking property and prohibiting transactions with 8 |
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| 219 | 219 | | persons who commit, threaten to commit, or support 9 |
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| 220 | 220 | | terrorism); or 10 |
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| 221 | 221 | | (2) with respect to a foreign person that is an 11 |
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| 222 | 222 | | entity, such entity has disbanded. 12 |
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| 223 | 223 | | SEC. 3. REPORT ON THE DESIGNATION OF THE LION’S DEN 13 |
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| 224 | 224 | | AND THE POPULAR RESISTANCE COMMIT-14 |
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| 225 | 225 | | TEES AS SPECIALLY DESIGNATED GLOBAL 15 |
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| 226 | 226 | | TERRORISTS. 16 |
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| 227 | 227 | | (a) F |
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| 228 | 228 | | INDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 17 |
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| 229 | 229 | | (1) Since its founding in 2022, Lion’s Den has 18 |
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| 230 | 230 | | carried out a number of terror attacks including 19 |
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| 231 | 231 | | over 61 shooting attacks against Israeli soldiers and 20 |
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| 232 | 232 | | civilians. 21 |
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| 233 | 233 | | (2) The group’s ranks include former operatives 22 |
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| 234 | 234 | | from Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the 23 |
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| 235 | 235 | | Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, all of 24 |
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| 239 | 239 | | which are designated foreign terrorist organizations 1 |
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| 240 | 240 | | (FTO). 2 |
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| 241 | 241 | | (3) Lion’s Den receives funds from designated 3 |
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| 242 | 242 | | FTOs Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. 4 |
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| 243 | 243 | | (b) I |
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| 244 | 244 | | NITIALREPORT.— 5 |
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| 245 | 245 | | (1) R |
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| 246 | 246 | | EPORT REQUIRED .—Not later than 90 6 |
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| 247 | 247 | | days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 7 |
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| 248 | 248 | | Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate 8 |
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| 249 | 249 | | committees of Congress— 9 |
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| 250 | 250 | | (A) a detailed report on whether— 10 |
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| 251 | 251 | | (i) the Lion’s Den meets the criteria 11 |
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| 252 | 252 | | for designation as a Specially Designated 12 |
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| 253 | 253 | | Global Terrorist pursuant to Executive 13 |
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| 254 | 254 | | Order No. 13224 (relating to blocking 14 |
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| 255 | 255 | | property and prohibiting transactions with 15 |
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| 256 | 256 | | persons who commit, threaten to commit, 16 |
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| 257 | 257 | | or support terrorism) and the criteria for 17 |
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| 258 | 258 | | designation as a foreign terrorist organiza-18 |
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| 259 | 259 | | tion as set forth in section 219 of the Im-19 |
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| 260 | 260 | | migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 20 |
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| 261 | 261 | | 1189); and 21 |
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| 262 | 262 | | (ii) the Popular Resistance Commit-22 |
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| 263 | 263 | | tees meet as a Specially Designated Global 23 |
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| 264 | 264 | | Terrorist pursuant to Executive Order No. 24 |
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| 269 | 269 | | (B) if the Secretary reaches a negative de-1 |
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| 270 | 270 | | termination with respect to any of the entities 2 |
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| 271 | 271 | | listed in subparagraph (A), a detailed justifica-3 |
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| 272 | 272 | | tion as to which criteria have not been met. 4 |
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| 273 | 273 | | (2) F |
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| 274 | 274 | | ORM.—The report required by paragraph 5 |
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| 275 | 275 | | (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may 6 |
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| 276 | 276 | | include a classified annex. 7 |
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| 277 | 277 | | (c) O |
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| 278 | 278 | | NGOINGDETERMINATIONS REQUIRED.—Not 8 |
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| 279 | 279 | | later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this 9 |
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| 280 | 280 | | Act, and every 2 years thereafter, the Secretary of State 10 |
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| 281 | 281 | | shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress 11 |
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| 282 | 282 | | a report that— 12 |
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| 283 | 283 | | (1) identifies each new entity operating under 13 |
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| 284 | 284 | | the umbrella of the Popular Resistance Committees 14 |
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| 285 | 285 | | or any successor of the Popular Resistance Commit-15 |
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| 286 | 286 | | tees; 16 |
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| 287 | 287 | | (2) includes a determination whether each such 17 |
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| 288 | 288 | | entity meets the criteria— 18 |
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| 289 | 289 | | (A) for designation as a Specially Des-19 |
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| 290 | 290 | | ignated Global Terrorist pursuant to Executive 20 |
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| 291 | 291 | | Order No. 13224 (relating to blocking property 21 |
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| 292 | 292 | | and prohibiting transactions with persons who 22 |
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| 293 | 293 | | commit, threaten to commit, or support ter-23 |
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| 294 | 294 | | rorism); 24 |
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| 298 | 298 | | (B) for designation as a foreign terrorist 1 |
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| 299 | 299 | | organization as set forth in section 219 of the 2 |
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| 300 | 300 | | Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 3 |
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| 301 | 301 | | 1189); or 4 |
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| 302 | 302 | | (C) for the imposition of sanctions under 5 |
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| 303 | 303 | | section 2 of this Act; and 6 |
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| 304 | 304 | | (3) if the Secretary reaches a negative deter-7 |
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| 305 | 305 | | mination pursuant to any subparagraph of para-8 |
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| 306 | 306 | | graph (2) with respect to any of the entities identi-9 |
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| 307 | 307 | | fied pursuant to paragraph (1), a detailed justifica-10 |
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| 308 | 308 | | tion as to which criteria for such designation or im-11 |
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| 309 | 309 | | position have not been met. 12 |
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| 310 | 310 | | SEC. 4. APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS DE-13 |
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| 311 | 311 | | FINED. 14 |
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| 312 | 312 | | In this Act, the term ‘‘appropriate committees of 15 |
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| 313 | 313 | | Congress’’ means— 16 |
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| 314 | 314 | | (1) the Committee on Foreign Relations and 17 |
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| 315 | 315 | | the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate; and 18 |
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| 316 | 316 | | (2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the 19 |
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| 317 | 317 | | Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Rep-20 |
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| 318 | 318 | | resentatives. 21 |
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