[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5139 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5139

  To provide for the International Organizations Immunities Act to be 
    extended to the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and 
      Herzegovina and the International Civilian Office in Kosovo.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 26, 2010

  Mr. Berman introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide for the International Organizations Immunities Act to be 
    extended to the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and 
      Herzegovina and the International Civilian Office in Kosovo.

    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 ``Extending Immunities to the Office 
of the High Representative and the International Civilian Office in 
Kosovo Act of 2010''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IMMUNITIES ACT.

    The International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288 et 
seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

``SEC. 17. OFFICE OF THE HIGH REPRESENTATIVE IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 
              AND THE INTERNATIONAL CIVILIAN OFFICE IN KOSOVO; 
              EXTENSION OF PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES.

    ``The provisions of this title may be extended to the Office of the 
High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina (and to its officers and 
employees) or the International Civilian Office in Kosovo (and to its 
officers and employees) in the same manner, to the same extent, and 
subject to the same conditions, as they may be extended to a public 
international organization in which the United States participates 
pursuant to any treaty or under the authority of any Act of Congress 
authorizing such participation or making an appropriation for such 
participation. Any such extension may provide for the provisions of 
this title to extend to officers and employees of the Office of the 
High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, or officers and 
employees of the International Civilian Office in Kosovo, even after 
that Office has been dissolved.''.
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