[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3273 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3273

   To prohibit awarding grants to States that arrest certain foreign 
officials in cooperation with the International Criminal Court, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 20, 2025

   Mr. Budd introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To prohibit awarding grants to States that arrest certain foreign 
officials in cooperation with the International Criminal Court, and for 
                            other purposes.

    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 ``American Allies Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. PENALTIES ON STATE OR LOCAL ENFORCEMENT OF ICC ACTIONS.

    (a) Penalties.--Except as provided in subsection (b), if any public 
official, employee, or agent of a State, a territory, or the District 
of Columbia, or any political subdivision thereof, arrests, detains, or 
otherwise deprives the liberty of a current or former foreign 
government official of a member of the North Atlantic Treaty 
Organization or of a government designated as a Major Non-NATO Ally 
based solely on a warrant, indictment, summons, or other process issued 
by the International Criminal Court or cooperates with, or provides 
assistance to, the International Criminal Court in effectuating such an 
arrest or detention, with respect to the fiscal year beginning on the 
first October 1 occurring after the date of enactment of the Act, and 
each fiscal year thereafter, the Attorney General may not award, renew, 
or extend a grant to the State, territory, the District of Columbia, or 
any political subdivision thereof, for a four-year period.
    (b) Waiver Authority.--The Attorney General may waive the 
application of subsection (a) to a grant award if the President 
certifies to the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Foreign 
Relations, and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the 
Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the 
Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives that an act 
described in subsection (a) is essential to the national security 
interests of the United States, including a detailed justification for 
the necessity of the act.
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