[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3351 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3351

To prohibit certain transfers of individuals detained at United States 
Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to prohibit funds from being made 
    available for the closure of that Naval Station, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 19, 2016

   Mr. Rubio introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit certain transfers of individuals detained at United States 
Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to prohibit funds from being made 
    available for the closure of that Naval Station, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Keep Terrorists Off the Battlefield 
Act''.

SEC. 2. INDIVIDUAL DETAINED AT GUANTANAMO BAY DEFINED.

    In this Act, the term ``individual detained at Guantanamo Bay'' 
means any individual located at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo 
Bay, Cuba, as of October 1, 2009, who--
            (1) is not a national of the United States (as defined in 
        section 101(a)(22) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
        U.S.C. 1101(a)(22))) or a member of the Armed Forces of the 
        United States; and
            (2) is--
                    (A) in the custody or under the control of the 
                Department of Defense; or
                    (B) otherwise under detention at United States 
                Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON TRANSFER OF INDIVIDUALS DETAINED AT GUANTANAMO 
              BAY, CUBA.

    No amounts appropriated or otherwise made available for any 
department or agency of the United States Government may be used to 
transfer an individual detained at Guantanamo Bay--
            (1) from the custody or control of the Department of 
        Defense to the custody or control of any other department or 
        agency of the United States Government;
            (2) to the custody or control of any country in the Western 
        Hemisphere or any entity within a country in the Western 
        Hemisphere; or
            (3) to any country or entity that does not have laws in 
        effect that, as certified by the United States Government, 
        effectively prohibit acts of terrorism or material support for 
        acts of terrorism.

SEC. 4. PROHIBITION ON FUNDING FOR CLOSURE OF UNITED STATES NAVAL 
              STATION, GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA.

    No amounts appropriated or otherwise made available for any 
department or agency of the United States Government may be used to 
fund activities, envoys, or offices to carry out activities to close 
United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

SEC. 5. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON RETURN OF RELEASED INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE 
              ENGAGED IN TERRORIST ACTIVITY.

    It is the sense of Congress that any individual who was at any time 
an individual detained at Guantanamo Bay and after the individual was 
released from detention at Guantanamo Bay is suspected of or confirmed 
by the United States intelligence community as having re-engaged in 
terrorist activity should immediately be arrested and returned to 
detention at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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