[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3045 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 3045
To prevent violence in the West Bank and authorize the imposition of
sanctions with respect to any foreign person endangering United States
national security and undermining prospects for a two-state solution by
committing illegal violent acts.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 28, 2025
Mr. Nadler (for himself, Mr. Smith of Washington, and Mr. Himes)
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
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A BILL
To prevent violence in the West Bank and authorize the imposition of
sanctions with respect to any foreign person endangering United States
national security and undermining prospects for a two-state solution by
committing illegal violent acts.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``West Bank Violence Prevention Act of
2025''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The situation in the West Bank--in particular high
levels of extremist settler violence, forced displacement of
people and villages, and property destruction--has reached
intolerable levels and constitutes a serious threat to the
peace, security, and stability of the West Bank and Gaza,
Israel, and the broader Middle East region.
(2) These actions undermine the foreign policy objectives
of the United States, including the viability of a two-state
solution and ensuring Israelis and Palestinians can attain
equal measures of security, prosperity, and freedom.
(3) They also undermine the security of Israel and have the
potential to lead to broader regional destabilization across
the Middle East, threatening United States personnel and
interests.
(4) These actions constitute an unusual and extraordinary
threat to the national security and foreign policy of the
United States.
SEC. 3. SANCTIONS.
(a) In General.--The President shall impose sanctions described in
subsection (b) with respect to any foreign person determined by the
President to meet any of the following:
(1) To be responsible for or complicit in, or to have
directly or indirectly engaged or attempted to engage in any of
the following:
(A) Actions, including directing, enacting,
implementing, enforcing, or failing to enforce
policies, that threaten the peace, security, or
stability of the West Bank.
(B) Planning, ordering, otherwise directing, or
participating in any of the following actions affecting
the West Bank:
(i) An act of violence or threat of
violence targeting civilians.
(ii) Efforts to place civilians in
reasonable fear of violence with the purpose or
effect of necessitating a change of residence
to avoid such violence.
(iii) Property destruction.
(iv) Seizure or dispossession of property
by private actors.
(2) To be or have been a leader or official of--
(A) an entity, including any government entity,
that has engaged in, or whose members have engaged in,
any of the activities described in paragraph (1), (5),
or (6) related to the leader's or official's tenure; or
(B) an entity whose property and interests in
property are blocked under this Act as a result of
activities relating to the leader's or official's
tenure.
(3) To have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided
financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or
services to or in support of, any person blocked under this
Act.
(4) To be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or
purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly,
any person whose property and interests in property are blocked
pursuant to subsection (b)(1).
(5) To have committed or have attempted to commit, to pose
a significant risk of committing, or to have participated in
training to commit acts of terrorism affecting the West Bank.
(6) To be a leader or official of an entity sanctioned
pursuant to paragraph (5).
(b) Sanctions Described.--The sanctions described in this
subsection are the following:
(1) Asset blocking.--
(A) In general.--Notwithstanding the requirements
of section 202 of the International Emergency Economic
Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701), the President shall
exercise all powers granted to the President by that
Act to the extent necessary to block and prohibit all
transactions in all property and interests in property
of any foreign person described in subsection (a) of
this section, if such property and interests in
property are in the United States, come within the
United States, or are or come within the possession or
control of a United States person, including any
foreign branch.
(B) Matters to be included.--The prohibitions in
subparagraph (A) include--
(i) the making of any contribution or
provision of funds, goods, or services by, to,
or for the benefit of any person whose property
and interests in property are blocked pursuant
to subparagraph (A); and
(ii) the receipt of any contribution or
provision of funds, goods, or services from any
such person.
(2) Visas, admission, or parole.--
(A) In general.--An alien who the Secretary of
State or the Secretary of Homeland Security (or a
designee of one of such Secretaries) knows, or has
reason to believe, is described in subsection (a) is--
(i) inadmissible to the United States;
(ii) ineligible for a visa or other
documentation to enter the United States; and
(iii) otherwise ineligible to be admitted
or paroled into the United States or to receive
any other benefit under the Immigration and
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.).
(B) Current visas revoked.--
(i) In general.--The issuing consular
officer, the Secretary of State, or the
Secretary of Homeland Security (or a designee
of one of such Secretaries) shall, in
accordance with section 221(i) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C.
1201(i)), revoke any visa or other entry
documentation issued to an alien described in
subparagraph (A) regardless of when the visa or
other entry documentation is issued.
(ii) Effect of revocation.--A revocation
under clause (i)--
(I) shall take effect immediately;
and
(II) shall automatically cancel any
other valid visa or entry documentation
that is in the alien's possession.
(c) Exceptions.--
(1) Exception to comply with international obligations.--
Sanctions under subsection (b)(2) shall not apply with respect
to the admission of an alien if admitting or paroling the alien
into the United States is necessary to permit the United States
to comply with the Agreement regarding the Headquarters of the
United Nations, signed at Lake Success June 26, 1947, and
entered into force November 21, 1947, between the United
Nations and the United States, or other applicable
international obligations.
(2) Exception relating to law enforcement objectives.--
Sanctions under section (b)(2) may not be imposed if the
Secretary of State or the Secretary of Homeland Security, as
appropriate, so determines, based on a recommendation of the
Attorney General, that the person's entry would further
important United States law enforcement objectives.
(d) Waivers.--
(1) National security.--The Secretary of State or the
Secretary of Homeland Security may waive the imposition of
sanctions under section (b)(2) if the Secretary of State or the
Secretary of Homeland Security, as appropriate, determines that
the person's entry would not be contrary to the interests of
the United States.
(2) Prior notice inapplicable.--The Secretary of State or
the Secretary of Homeland Security, as appropriate, may, due to
the threat to national security risks individuals sanctioned
under this section and their actions pose and because of the
ability to transfer funds and other assets instantaneously,
waive prior notice to such persons of measures to be taken
pursuant to this section as such notice would render those
measures ineffectual, including for those persons whose
property and interests in property are blocked or affected by
this section who might have a constitutional presence in the
United States.
SEC. 4. REPORT.
Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act,
and every 90 days thereafter, the Secretary of the Treasury, in
consultation with the Secretary of State, shall submit to the
appropriate congressional committees a report on the implementation of
this Act, including the names of any persons sanctioned by this Act.
SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act--
(1) the term ``appropriate congressional committees''
means--
(A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the
Committee on Finance of the House of Representatives;
and
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the
Senate;
(2) the term ``entity'' means a partnership, association,
trust, joint venture, corporation, group, subgroup, or other
organization;
(3) the term ``person'' means an individual or entity;
(4) the term ``United States person'' means--
(A) a United States citizen;
(B) a permanent resident alien of the United
States;
(C) an entity organized under the laws of the
United States or of any jurisdiction within the United
States, including a foreign branch of such an entity;
or
(D) a person in the United States; and
(5) the term ``terrorism'' means an activity that--
(A) involves a violent act or an act dangerous to
human life, property, or infrastructure; and
(B) appears to be intended--
(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian
population;
(ii) to influence the policy of a
government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii) to affect the conduct of a government
by mass destruction, assassination, kidnapping,
or hostage-taking.
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