[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1189 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1189

  To prohibit arms transfers and other military assistance to certain 
 countries unless the President certifies that a state of war does not 
 exist between the country concerned and Israel and that such country 
     has accorded formal recognition to the sovereignty of Israel.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 9, 1995

 Mr. Schumer  introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                  Committee on International Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit arms transfers and other military assistance to certain 
 countries unless the President certifies that a state of war does not 
 exist between the country concerned and Israel and that such country 
     has accorded formal recognition to the sovereignty of Israel.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. RESTRICTION ON MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND ARMS TRANSFERS TO 
              CERTAIN COUNTRIES.

    (a) Restriction.--Except as provided in subsection (b)--
            (1) assistance under chapter 2 or chapter 5 of part II of 
        the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 may not be provided to any 
        country listed in subsection (c);
            (2) defense articles, defense services, and design and 
        construction services may not be sold or otherwise transferred 
        to any country listed in subsection (c) by the United States 
        Government under the Arms Export Control Act; and
            (3) the President may not give his approval for the 
        transfer to any country listed in subsection (c) by another 
        foreign country of any assistance described in paragraph (1), 
        or any defense articles or defense services, previously sold or 
        otherwise transferred to that other foreign country by the 
        United States Government under either the Foreign Assistance 
        Act of 1961 or the Arms Export Control Act.
    (b) Lifting of Restriction.--Subsection (a) shall cease to apply to 
a country listed in subsection (c) if the President certifies to the 
Congress that--
            (1) a state of war does not exist between that country and 
        Israel, and
            (2) that country has accorded formal recognition of Israel.
    (c) Countries Subject to Restriction.--Subsection (a) applies to 
the following countries: Bahrain, Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, 
Libya, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and the United Arab Emirates.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    As used in this Act, the terms ``defense article'', ``defense 
service'', and ``design and construction services'' have the meanings 
given those terms in section 47 of the Arms Export Control Act.
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