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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 226
To require a strategy to oppose financial or material support by foreign
countries and nongovernmental organizations to the Taliban, and for
other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JANUARY23, 2025
Mr. S
HEEHYintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred
to the Committee on Foreign Relations
A BILL
To require a strategy to oppose financial or material support
by foreign countries and nongovernmental organizations
to the Taliban, 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 ‘‘No Tax Dollars for 4
Terrorists Act’’. 5
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 6
In this Act: 7
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(1) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT -1
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-2
mittees’’ means— 3
(A) the Committee on Foreign Relations of 4
the Senate; 5
(B) the Committee on Appropriations of 6
the Senate; 7
(C) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 8
the House of Representatives; and 9
(D) the Committee on Appropriations of 10
the House of Representatives. 11
(2) H
AWALA.—The term ‘‘hawala’’ means a 12
system of transferring money through a network of 13
money lending brokers. 14
SEC. 3. STRATEGY TO OPPOSE FINANCIAL OR MATERIAL 15
SUPPORT BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES AND NON-16
GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS TO THE 17
TALIBAN. 18
(a) S
TATEMENT OFPOLICY.—It is the policy of the 19
United States— 20
(1) to oppose the provision of financial or mate-21
rial support by foreign countries and nongovern-22
mental organizations to the Taliban, particularly 23
countries and organizations that receive United 24
States-provided foreign assistance; and 25
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(2) to review United States-provided financial 1
assistance to foreign countries and nongovernmental 2
organizations that have provided financial or mate-3
rial support to the Taliban. 4
(b) R
EPORT.—Not later than 30 days after the date 5
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall 6
submit a report to the appropriate congressional commit-7
tees that identifies— 8
(1) foreign countries and nongovernmental or-9
ganizations that have provided financial or material 10
support to the Taliban, including— 11
(A) the amount of United States-provided 12
foreign assistance each such country or organi-13
zation receives, if any; 14
(B) the amount of financial or material 15
support each such country or organization has 16
provided to the Taliban; and 17
(C) a description of how the Taliban has 18
utilized such financial or material support; and 19
(2) efforts the United States has taken since 20
August 2021 to oppose foreign countries and non-21
governmental organizations from providing financial 22
or material support to the Taliban, particularly for-23
eign countries and organizations that receive United 24
States-provided foreign assistance. 25
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(c) STRATEGY ANDREPORTS.— 1
(1) S
TRATEGY.— 2
(A) D
EVELOPMENT.—Not later than 30 3
days after the date of the enactment of this 4
Act, the Secretary of State shall develop a 5
strategy to discourage foreign countries and 6
nongovernmental organizations from providing 7
financial or material support to the Taliban, in-8
cluding by using United States-provided foreign 9
assistance to discourage countries and organiza-10
tions from providing such support to the 11
Taliban. 12
(B) I
MPLEMENTATION.—Not later than 60 13
days after the date of the enactment of this 14
Act, the Secretary of State shall implement the 15
strategy developed pursuant to subparagraph 16
(A). 17
(2) R
EPORTS.— 18
(A) I
NITIAL REPORT.—Not later than the 19
date of the completion of the strategy required 20
under paragraph (1), the Secretary of State 21
shall submit a report to the appropriate con-22
gressional committees that details the strategy 23
and the plan for its implementation. 24
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(B) SUBSEQUENT REPORTS .—Not later 1
than 180 days after the completion of the strat-2
egy required under paragraph (1), and every 3
180 days thereafter, the Secretary of State 4
shall submit a report to the appropriate con-5
gressional committees regarding the implemen-6
tation of the strategy, including the impact of 7
the strategy in discouraging foreign countries 8
and nongovernmental organizations from pro-9
viding financial or material support to the 10
Taliban. 11
SEC. 4. REPORT ON DIRECT CASH ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS 12
IN AFGHANISTAN. 13
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Not later than 60 days after the 14
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, 15
in consultation with the Administrator of the United 16
States Agency for International Development, shall submit 17
a report to the appropriate congressional committees that 18
identifies United States Government-funded direct cash 19
assistance programs in Afghanistan during the period be-20
ginning on August 1, 2021, and ending on the date that 21
is 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act. 22
(b) M
ATTERSTOBEINCLUDED.—The report re-23
quired under subsection (a) shall, with respect to such di-24
rect cash assistance programs— 25
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(1) identify implementing partners and recipi-1
ents; 2
(2) describe method of payments; 3
(3) describe how and where currency exchanges 4
occur; 5
(4) describe how hawalas are used and the over-6
sight mechanism in place regarding use of hawalas 7
to transfer funds; and 8
(5) describe how oversight is conducted, includ-9
ing information on how the Department of State 10
prevents the Taliban from accessing cash assistance 11
under such programs. 12
SEC. 5. REPORT ON STATUS OF AFGHAN FUND. 13
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Not later than 60 days after the 14
date of the enactment of this Act, and every 180 days 15
thereafter, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the 16
Administrator of the United States Agency for Inter-17
national Development and the Secretary of the Treasury, 18
shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional 19
committees that describes the status of the Afghan Fund. 20
(b) M
ATTERSTOBEINCLUDED.—The report re-21
quired under subsection (a) shall include— 22
(1) a list of Taliban members who are working 23
at Da Afghanistan Bank or serving on the Bank’s 24
Supreme Council; and 25
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(2) a description of— 1
(A) the Taliban’s influence over Da Af-2
ghanistan Bank; 3
(B) the Afghan Fund’s Board of Trustees, 4
including how the Fund’s trustees were vetted 5
and selected, and what United States agencies 6
were involved in the vetting and selection proc-7
ess; 8
(C) the conditions necessary for funds in 9
the Afghan Fund to be released to Da Afghani-10
stan Bank; 11
(D) how the Afghan Fund’s Board of 12
Trustees will decide on the type and appro-13
priateness of the Fund’s activities, including 14
what kind of information will inform the 15
Board’s decisions and how the Board will col-16
lect and verify this information; and 17
(E) a description of what controls have 18
been put into place to ensure funds are not di-19
verted to or misused by the Taliban or other ac-20
tors when the Fund begins making disburse-21
ments. 22
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