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4	4	STSESSION H. R. 260
5	5	To require a strategy to oppose financial or material support by foreign
6	6	countries and nongovernmental organizations to the Taliban, and for
7	7	other purposes.
8	8	IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
9	9	JANUARY9, 2025
10	10	Mr. B
11	11	URCHETT(for himself, Ms. GREENEof Georgia, Ms. MACE, Mr. BAR-
12	12	RETT, Mr. WEBERof Texas, Mr. BIGGSof Arizona, Mrs. LUNA, Mr.
13	13	C
14	14	RENSHAW, Mr. BUCHANAN, Mr. MCCAUL, Ms. DELACRUZ, Ms.
15	15	B
16	16	OEBERT, Mr. MILLS, Ms. TENNEY, and Mr. NORMAN) introduced the
17	17	following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
18	18	A BILL
19	19	To require a strategy to oppose financial or material support
20	20	by foreign countries and nongovernmental organizations
21	21	to the Taliban, and for other purposes.
22	22	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
23	23	tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
24	24	SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
25	25	This Act may be cited as the ‘‘No Tax Dollars for 4
26	26	Terrorists Act’’. 5
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29	29	•HR 260 IH
30	30	SEC. 2. STRATEGY TO OPPOSE FINANCIAL OR MATERIAL 1
31	31	SUPPORT BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES AND NON-2
32	32	GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS TO THE 3
33	33	TALIBAN. 4
34	34	(a) S
35	35	TATEMENT OFPOLICY.—It is the policy of the 5
36	36	United States— 6
37	37	(1) to oppose the provision of financial or mate-7
38	38	rial support by foreign countries and nongovern-8
39	39	mental organizations to the Taliban, particularly 9
40	40	those countries and organizations that receive 10
41	41	United States-provided foreign assistance; and 11
42	42	(2) to review United States-provided financial 12
43	43	assistance to such foreign countries and nongovern-13
44	44	mental organizations that have provided financial or 14
45	45	material support to the Taliban. 15
46	46	(b) R
47	47	EPORT.—Not later than 30 days after the date 16
48	48	of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall 17
49	49	submit to the appropriate congressional committees a re-18
50	50	port identifying— 19
51	51	(1) foreign countries and nongovernmental or-20
52	52	ganizations that have provided financial or material 21
53	53	support to the Taliban, including— 22
54	54	(A) the amount of United States-provided 23
55	55	foreign assistance each country or organization 24
56	56	receives, if any; 25
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60	60	(B) the amount of financial or material 1
61	61	support each country or organization has pro-2
62	62	vided to the Taliban; and 3
63	63	(C) a description of how the Taliban has 4
64	64	utilized such financial or material support; and 5
65	65	(2) efforts the United States has taken since 6
66	66	August 2021 to oppose foreign countries and non-7
67	67	governmental organizations from providing financial 8
68	68	or material support to the Taliban, particularly 9
69	69	those foreign countries and organizations that re-10
70	70	ceive United States-provided foreign assistance. 11
71	71	(c) S
72	72	TRATEGY ANDREPORTS.— 12
73	73	(1) I
74	74	N GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after 13
75	75	the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 14
76	76	of State shall develop a strategy to discourage for-15
77	77	eign countries and nongovernmental organizations 16
78	78	from providing financial or material support to the 17
79	79	Taliban, including by using United States-provided 18
80	80	foreign assistance to discourage countries and orga-19
81	81	nizations from providing such support to the 20
82	82	Taliban. Not later than 60 days after the date of the 21
83	83	enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall 22
84	84	implement the strategy required by this paragraph. 23
85	85	(2) R
86	86	EPORTS.— 24
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90	90	(A) INITIAL REPORT.—Not later than the 1
91	91	date on which the strategy required by para-2
92	92	graph (1) is completed, the Secretary of State 3
93	93	shall submit to the appropriate congressional 4
94	94	committees a report detailing the strategy and 5
95	95	a plan for its implementation. 6
96	96	(B) S
97	97	UBSEQUENT REPORTS .—Not later 7
98	98	than 180 days after the date on which the 8
99	99	strategy required by paragraph (1) is com-9
100	100	pleted, and every 180 days thereafter, the Sec-10
101	101	retary of State shall submit to the appropriate 11
102	102	congressional committees a report on the imple-12
103	103	mentation of the strategy, including the impact 13
104	104	of the strategy in discouraging foreign countries 14
105	105	and nongovernmental organizations from pro-15
106	106	viding financial or material support to the 16
107	107	Taliban. 17
108	108	SEC. 3. REPORT ON DIRECT CASH ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS 18
109	109	IN AFGHANISTAN. 19
110	110	(a) I
111	111	NGENERAL.—Not later than 60 days after the 20
112	112	date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, 21
113	113	in consultation with the Administrator of the United 22
114	114	States Agency for International Development, shall submit 23
115	115	to the appropriate congressional committees a report on 24
116	116	United States Government-funded direct cash assistance 25
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120	120	programs in Afghanistan during the period beginning on 1
121	121	August 1, 2021, and ending on the date that is 30 days 2
122	122	after the date of enactment of this Act. 3
123	123	(b) M
124	124	ATTERSTOBEINCLUDED.—The report re-4
125	125	quired by subsection (a) shall, with respect to such direct 5
126	126	cash assistance programs, include— 6
127	127	(1) an identification of implementing partners 7
128	128	and recipients; 8
129	129	(2) a description of method of payments; 9
130	130	(3) a description of how and where currency ex-10
131	131	changes occur; 11
132	132	(4) a description of how hawalas are used and 12
133	133	the oversight mechanism in place regarding use of 13
134	134	hawalas to transfer funds; and 14
135	135	(5) a description of how oversight is conducted, 15
136	136	including information on how the Department of 16
137	137	State prevents the Taliban from accessing cash as-17
138	138	sistance under such programs. 18
139	139	(c) H
140	140	AWALADEFINED.—In this section, the term 19
141	141	‘‘hawala’’’ means a system of transferring money through 20
142	142	a network of money lending brokers. 21
143	143	SEC. 4. REPORT ON STATUS OF AFGHAN FUND. 22
144	144	(a) I
145	145	NGENERAL.—Not later than 60 days after the 23
146	146	date of the enactment of this Act, and every 180 days 24
147	147	thereafter, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the 25
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151	151	Administrator of the United States Agency for Inter-1
152	152	national Development and the Secretary of the Treasury, 2
153	153	shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees 3
154	154	a report on the status of the Afghan Fund. 4
155	155	(b) M
156	156	ATTERSTOBEINCLUDED.—The report re-5
157	157	quired by subsection (a) shall include— 6
158	158	(1) a list of Taliban members working at Da 7
159	159	Afghanistan Bank or serving on the Bank’s board; 8
160	160	and 9
161	161	(2) a description of— 10
162	162	(A) the Taliban’s influence over Da Af-11
163	163	ghanistan Bank; 12
164	164	(B) the Afghan Fund’s board of trustees, 13
165	165	including how the Fund’s trustees were vetted 14
166	166	and selected, and what United States agencies 15
167	167	were involved in the vetting and selection proc-16
168	168	ess; 17
169	169	(C) the conditions necessary for funds in 18
170	170	the Afghan Fund to be released to Da Afghani-19
171	171	stan Bank; 20
172	172	(D) how the Afghan Fund’s board of trust-21
173	173	ees will decide on the type and appropriateness 22
174	174	of the Fund’s activities, including what kind of 23
175	175	information will inform the board’s decisions 24
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179	179	and how the board will collect and verify this 1
180	180	information; and 2
181	181	(E) a description of what controls have 3
182	182	been put into place to ensure funds are not di-4
183	183	verted to or misused by the Taliban or other ac-5
184	184	tors when the Fund begins making disburse-6
185	185	ments. 7
186	186	SEC. 5. APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DE-8
187	187	FINED. 9
188	188	In this Act, the term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-10
189	189	mittees’’’ means— 11
190	190	(1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the 12
191	191	Committee on Appropriations of the House of Rep-13
192	192	resentatives; and 14
193	193	(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations and 15
194	194	the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate. 16
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