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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 493 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To prohibit United States cooperation with the International Criminal Court, |
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| 6 | 6 | | the use of the Economic Support Fund to support the Palestinian Au- |
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| 7 | 7 | | thority, and any Federal funding for the ICC. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 9 | 9 | | FEBRUARY10, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. S |
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| 11 | 11 | | ULLIVAN(for himself and Mr. COTTON) introduced the following bill; |
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| 12 | 12 | | which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To prohibit United States cooperation with the International |
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| 15 | 15 | | Criminal Court, the use of the Economic Support Fund |
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| 16 | 16 | | to support the Palestinian Authority, and any Federal |
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| 17 | 17 | | funding for the ICC. |
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| 18 | 18 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 19 | 19 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stop the ICC Act’’. 4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 5 |
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| 23 | 23 | | Congress finds the following: 6 |
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| 24 | 24 | | (1) In 2014, and in each subsequent year, Con-7 |
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| 25 | 25 | | gress has enacted provisions, including section 8 |
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| 28 | 28 | | •S 493 IS |
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| 29 | 29 | | 7041(k)(2)(A)(i)(II) of the Further Consolidated 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law 118–47), pro-2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | hibiting the use of economic support funds for the 3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | Palestinian Authority if the Palestinians initiate an 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | investigation of the International Criminal Court 5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (referred to in this section as the ‘‘ICC’’), or actively 6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | support such an investigation, which subjects Israeli 7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | nationals to an investigation for alleged crimes 8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | against Palestinians. 9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (2) On May 22, 2018, the Palestinian Authority 10 |
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| 39 | 39 | | initiated an International Criminal Court authorized 11 |
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| 40 | 40 | | investigation and have actively supported that inves-12 |
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| 41 | 41 | | tigation, which investigates alleged crimes committed 13 |
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| 42 | 42 | | by Israeli nationals against Palestinians. 14 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (3) According to the ICC, ‘‘[o]n 22 May 2018, 15 |
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| 44 | 44 | | pursuant to articles 13(a) and 14 of the Rome Stat-16 |
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| 45 | 45 | | ute, Palestine referred the Situation in Palestine for 17 |
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| 46 | 46 | | investigation by the Office of the Prosecutor and 18 |
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| 47 | 47 | | specifically requested the Prosecutor ‘to investigate, 19 |
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| 48 | 48 | | in accordance with the temporal jurisdiction of the 20 |
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| 49 | 49 | | Court, past, ongoing and future crimes within the 21 |
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| 50 | 50 | | court’s jurisdiction, committed in all parts of the 22 |
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| 51 | 51 | | territory of the State of Palestine’, specifying that 23 |
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| 52 | 52 | | ‘[t]he State of Palestine comprises the Palestinian 24 |
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| 53 | 53 | | Territory occupied in 1967 by Israel, as defined by 25 |
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| 57 | 57 | | the 1949 Armistice Line, [which] includes the West 1 |
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| 58 | 58 | | Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza 2 |
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| 59 | 59 | | Strip’.’’. 3 |
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| 60 | 60 | | (4) In 2021, the ICC opened an investigation 4 |
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| 61 | 61 | | into the ‘‘Situation in Palestine’’. 5 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (5) On May 20, 2024, the chief prosecutor of 6 |
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| 63 | 63 | | the ICC applied for arrest warrants for Israeli 7 |
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| 64 | 64 | | Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former 8 |
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| 65 | 65 | | Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for a range of of-9 |
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| 66 | 66 | | fenses allegedly committed ‘‘on the territory of the 10 |
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| 67 | 67 | | State of Palestine (in the Gaza strip) from at least 11 |
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| 68 | 68 | | 8 October 2023’’. 12 |
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| 69 | 69 | | (6) On November 21, 2024, the ICC Pre-Trial 13 |
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| 70 | 70 | | Chamber I rejected challenges made by the State of 14 |
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| 71 | 71 | | Israel to— 15 |
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| 72 | 72 | | (A) the ICC’s issuance of arrest warrants 16 |
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| 73 | 73 | | for Prime Minister Netanyahu and former De-17 |
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| 74 | 74 | | fense Minister Gallant; and 18 |
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| 75 | 75 | | (B) the ICC’s jurisdiction on the matter. 19 |
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| 76 | 76 | | (7) On November 21, 2024, the ICC issued ar-20 |
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| 77 | 77 | | rest warrants for Prime Minister Netanyahu and 21 |
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| 78 | 78 | | former Defense Minister Gallant. 22 |
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| 82 | 82 | | SEC. 3. PROHIBITION AGAINST COOPERATION WITH THE 1 |
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| 83 | 83 | | INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT AND SUP-2 |
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| 84 | 84 | | PORT FOR THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY. 3 |
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| 85 | 85 | | (a) P |
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| 86 | 86 | | ROHIBITIONAGAINSTCOOPERATIONWITH THE 4 |
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| 87 | 87 | | ICC.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no of-5 |
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| 88 | 88 | | ficial of the United States may cooperate with the Inter-6 |
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| 89 | 89 | | national Criminal Court with respect to any matter. 7 |
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| 90 | 90 | | (b) F |
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| 91 | 91 | | ULFILLMENT OFSTATUTORYCONDITION.—The 8 |
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| 92 | 92 | | investigation referred to in section 2(a)(2) and the appli-9 |
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| 93 | 93 | | cation for arrests warrants for Israeli officials referred to 10 |
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| 94 | 94 | | in section 2(a)(5)(A) justifies prohibiting the use of eco-11 |
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| 95 | 95 | | nomic support funds for the Palestinian Authority in ac-12 |
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| 96 | 96 | | cordance with section 7041(k)(2)(A)(i)(II) of the Further 13 |
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| 97 | 97 | | Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law 118– 14 |
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| 98 | 98 | | 47). 15 |
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| 99 | 99 | | (c) P |
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| 100 | 100 | | ROHIBITIONAGAINSTUSE OFECONOMICSUP-16 |
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| 101 | 101 | | PORTFUND INGAZA.—None of the funds made available 17 |
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| 102 | 102 | | pursuant to chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance 18 |
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| 103 | 103 | | Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2346 et seq.) may be used to pro-19 |
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| 104 | 104 | | vide support for the Palestinian Authority. 20 |
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| 105 | 105 | | (d) P |
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| 106 | 106 | | ROHIBITIONAGAINSTFUNDING FOR THE 21 |
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| 107 | 107 | | ICC.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no 22 |
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| 108 | 108 | | Federal funds may be— 23 |
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| 109 | 109 | | (1) made available for the ICC; or 24 |
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| 110 | 110 | | (2) used to support any ICC activity, including 25 |
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| 111 | 111 | | submissions of alleged crimes, preliminary investiga-26 |
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| 115 | 115 | | tions, investigations, warrants, surrender or transfer 1 |
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| 116 | 116 | | of accused persons, prosecutions, trials, appeals, or 2 |
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| 117 | 117 | | enforcement of ICC rulings. 3 |
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