[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3237 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3237

 To require the Secretary of State to withhold certain assistance for 
Honduras until the President certifies to Congress that the Government 
   of Honduras has settled all known commercial disputes with United 
                            States citizens.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 13, 2017

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Secretary of State to withhold certain assistance for 
Honduras until the President certifies to Congress that the Government 
   of Honduras has settled all known commercial disputes with United 
                            States citizens.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. LIMITATION ON ASSISTANCE TO HONDURAS.

    (a) In General.--Of the amounts made available to the Secretary of 
State for assistance for Honduras for fiscal year 2017, $50,000,000 may 
not be obligated or expended by the Secretary until the date on which 
the President certifies to Congress that the Government of Honduras has 
settled all commercial disputes with United States citizens that were 
filed before the date of enactment of this Act, including disputes 
relating to the confiscation of real property.
    (b) Commercial Dispute; Confiscation of Real Property.--For 
purposes of subsection (a), the terms ``commercial dispute'' and 
``confiscation of real property'' have the meanings given those terms 
for purposes of the certification required under section 
7045(a)(4)(B)(xii) of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017 (Public 
Law 115-31).
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