[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1291 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1291

 To authorize the President to impose emergency import restrictions on 
archaeological or ethnological materials of Iraq until normalization of 
relations between the United States and the Government of Iraq has been 
                              established.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 19, 2003

  Mr. Grassley (for himself and Mr. Baucus) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
 To authorize the President to impose emergency import restrictions on 
archaeological or ethnological materials of Iraq until normalization of 
relations between the United States and the Government of Iraq has been 
                              established.

    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 ``Emergency Protection for Iraqi 
Cultural Antiquities Act of 2003''.

SEC. 2. EMERGENCY IMPLEMENTATION OF IMPORT RESTRICTIONS.

    (a) Authority.--The President may exercise the authority of the 
President under section 304 of the Convention on Cultural Property 
Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 2603) with respect to any archaeological 
or ethnological material of Iraq as if Iraq were a State Party under 
that Act, except that, in exercising such authority, subsection (c) of 
such section shall not apply.
    (b) Definition.--In this section, the term ``archaeological or 
ethnological material of Iraq'' means cultural property of Iraq and 
other items of archaeological, historical, cultural, rare scientific, 
or religious importance illegally removed from the Iraq National 
Museum, the National Library of Iraq, and other locations in Iraq, 
since the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 661 of 
1990.

SEC. 3. TERMINATION OF AUTHORITY.

    The authority of the President under section 2 shall terminate upon 
the earlier of--
            (1) the date that is 12 months after the date on which the 
        President certifies to Congress that normalization of relations 
        between the United States and the Government of Iraq has been 
        established; or
            (2) September 30, 2004.
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