[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5303 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5303

To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to limit assistance to the 
                         Palestinian Authority.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 27, 2012

 Mr. Royce (for himself, Mr. Berman, Mr. Engel, Mr. Burton of Indiana, 
Mr. Chabot, Mr. Deutch, Mr. Manzullo, Mr. Poe of Texas, and Mr. Rothman 
of New Jersey) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to limit assistance to the 
                         Palestinian Authority.

    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 ``Palestinian Peace Promotion and 
Anti-Incitement Act''.

SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) the Palestinian Authority has not fully lived up to its 
        prior agreements with Israel to end incitement; and
            (2) the Palestinian Authority should do more to prepare the 
        Palestinian people for peace with Israel.

SEC. 3. LIMITATION ON ASSISTANCE TO THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY.

    Chapter 1 of part III of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 is 
amended--
            (1) by redesignating the second section 620J (as added by 
        section 651 of Public Law 110-161) as section 620M; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 620N. LIMITATION ON ASSISTANCE TO THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY.

    ``(a) Prohibition of Funds.--No funds may be provided under this 
Act to the Palestinian Authority.
    ``(b) Waiver.--The prohibition included in subsection (a) shall not 
apply if the President certifies in writing to the Speaker of the House 
of Representatives, the President pro tempore of the Senate, and the 
Committees on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and 
Foreign Relations of the Senate that waiving such prohibition is 
important to the national security interests of the United States.
    ``(c) Report.--Whenever the waiver authority pursuant to subsection 
(b) is exercised, the President shall submit to the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Foreign Relations of the Senate a report detailing the justification 
for the waiver, the purposes for which the funds will be spent, and the 
accounting procedures in place to ensure that the funds are properly 
disbursed. Such report shall also detail the steps the Palestinian 
Authority has taken to arrest terrorists, confiscate weapons, and 
dismantle the terrorist infrastructure.
    ``(d) Certification.--If the President exercises the waiver 
authority under subsection (b), the Secretary of State shall certify 
and report to the Committees on Foreign Affairs of the House of 
Representatives and Foreign Relations of the Senate prior to the 
obligation of funds that--
            ``(1) the Palestinian Authority has established a single 
        treasury account for all Palestinian Authority financing and 
        all financing mechanisms flow through this account, no parallel 
        financing mechanisms exist outside of the Palestinian Authority 
        treasury account, and there is a single comprehensive civil 
        service roster and payroll; and
            ``(2) the Palestinian Authority no longer engages in a 
        pattern of incitement against the United States or Israel and 
        is engaged in peace preparation activities aimed at promoting 
        peace with the Jewish State of Israel.
    ``(e) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) Incitement.--The term `incitement' means any of the 
        following that is sponsored, supported, or directed by 
        officials or employees of the Palestinian Authority or 
        Palestinian Authority-controlled, sponsored, or supported 
        electronic, broadcast, and print media, schools, mosques, and 
        institutions:
                    ``(A) Statements, media, communication, or other 
                activities against any religion, ethnicity, or 
                nationality.
                    ``(B) Advocacy, endorsement, or glorification of 
                violence, martyrdom, or terrorism.
                    ``(C) Endorsement, glorification, honor, or other 
                memorialization of any person or group that has 
                advocated, sponsored, or committed acts of terrorism, 
                including the naming after or dedication to such person 
                or group of any school, community center, camp, 
                stadium, public square, street, land, landmark, 
                waterway, or other facility.
            ``(2) Peace preparation activities.--The term `peace 
        preparation activities' means Arabic-language communications 
        and educational activities sponsored by the Palestinian 
        Authority, which are communicated or administered via 
        electronic, broadcast and print media, schools, mosques and 
        statements by government officials that may include the 
        following:
                    ``(A) Public acknowledgments of the State of 
                Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state.
                    ``(B) Firm public commitments to and endorsements 
                of peaceful co-existence with the Jewish State of 
                Israel.
                    ``(C) Production, distribution, and public display 
                via all media platforms, schools, mosques, educational 
                materials and elsewhere of maps that show the State of 
                Israel existing as `Israel' side-by-side with 
                `Palestine' and halting all production, distribution, 
                or public display of maps that do not include a state 
                of Israel; and
                    ``(D) renouncing any and all future rights or 
                claims to commit acts of violence against Israel.''.
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