[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1243 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1243

 To require the President to notify the Congress of certain arms sales 
 to Saudi Arabia until certain outstanding commercial disputes between 
    United States nationals and the Government of Saudi Arabia are 
                               resolved.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 15, 1995

  Mr. Andrews (for himself and Mr. Deutsch) introduced the following 
  bill; which was referred to the Committee on International Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the President to notify the Congress of certain arms sales 
 to Saudi Arabia until certain outstanding commercial disputes between 
    United States nationals and the Government of Saudi Arabia are 
                               resolved.

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

SECTION 1. NOTIFICATION OF ARMS SALES.

    Until the certification under section 2 is submitted to the 
Congress, section 36(b)(1) of the Arms Export Control Act shall be 
applied to sales to Saudi Arabia by substituting in the first sentence 
``$10,000,000'' for ``$50,000,000'', ``$50,000,000'' for 
``$200,000,000'', and ``$2,000,000'' for ``$14,000,000''.

SEC. 2. CERTIFICATION.

    Section 1 shall cease to apply if and when the Secretary of State 
certifies and reports in writing to the Congress that the unpaid claims 
of American firms against the Government of Saudi Arabia that--
            (1) are described in the June 30, 1993, report by the 
        Secretary of Defense pursuant to section 9140(c) of the 
        Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1993 (Public Law 102-
        396; 106 Stat. 1939), or
            (2) are otherwise outstanding before the date of the 
        enactment of this Act and have been litigated fully in the 
        courts of Saudi Arabia but in the opinion of the Secretary of 
        State have not been resolved in accordance with standards of 
        fairness as determined by the Secretary of State,
including the additional claims noticed by the Department of Commerce 
on page 2 of that report, have been resolved satisfactorily.
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