[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1823 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1823

To prohibit United States assistance for the Palestinian Authority and 
   for programs, projects, and activities in the West Bank and Gaza.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 11, 2003

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit United States assistance for the Palestinian Authority and 
   for programs, projects, and activities in the West Bank and Gaza.

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

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON UNITED STATES ASSISTANCE FOR THE PALESTINIAN 
              AUTHORITY AND THE WEST BANK AND GAZA.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, United States 
assistance may not be provided directly or indirectly to the 
Palestinian Authority (or to any successor or related entity) or for 
programs, projects, and activities in the West Bank or Gaza unless the 
President determines and certifies to the Committee on International 
Relations of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign 
Relations of the Senate that--
            (1) the leadership of the Palestinian Authority--
                    (A) has publicly renounced violence as a means of 
                political expression; and
                    (B) has taken all actions within its capacity to 
                bring an end to the violence which commenced in early 
                October 2000 in the West Bank and Gaza; and
            (2) the violence in the West Bank and Gaza has subsided.
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