[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5237 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5237

   To add joining a foreign terrorist organization or engaging in or 
 supporting hostilities against the United States or its allies to the 
    list of acts for which United States nationals would lose their 
                              nationality.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 6, 2010

 Mr. Altmire (for himself and Mr. Dent) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To add joining a foreign terrorist organization or engaging in or 
 supporting hostilities against the United States or its allies to the 
    list of acts for which United States nationals would lose their 
                              nationality.

    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 ``Terrorist Expatriation Act''.

SEC. 2. LOSS OF NATIONALITY.

    Section 349 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1481) 
is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in each of paragraphs (1) through (6), by 
                striking ``or'' at the end;
                    (B) in paragraph (7), by striking the period at the 
                end and inserting ``; or''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(8)(A) providing material support or resources to a 
        foreign terrorist organization;
            ``(B) engaging in, or purposefully and materially 
        supporting, hostilities against the United States; or
            ``(C) engaging in, or purposefully and materially 
        supporting, hostilities against any country or armed force that 
        is--
                    ``(i) directly engaged along with the United States 
                in hostilities engaged in by the United States; or
                    ``(ii) providing direct operational support to the 
                United States in hostilities engaged in by the United 
                States.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) For purposes of this section--
            ``(1) the term `foreign terrorist organization' means an 
        organization so designated by the Secretary pursuant to section 
        219(a);
            ``(2) the term `hostilities' means any conflict subject to 
        the laws of war; and
            ``(3) the term `material support or resources' has the 
        meaning given the term in section 2339A of title 18, United 
        States Code.''.
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