[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5164 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5164

    To prohibit Federal assistance from being made available to the 
                    Taliban, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 3, 2021

   Mr. Gimenez (for himself, Mr. Cawthorn, Miss Gonzalez-Colon, Ms. 
Malliotakis, Mr. Budd, Mr. Biggs, Mr. Good of Virginia, Mr. Guest, Mr. 
Carter of Georgia, and Ms. Tenney) introduced the following bill; which 
            was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
    To prohibit Federal assistance from being made available to the 
                    Taliban, 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 ``Prohibiting Assistance to the 
Taliban Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON FEDERAL ASSISTANCE TO THE TALIBAN.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Federal funds may be 
made available in the form of foreign assistance--
            (1) to the Taliban;
            (2) to any person that the Secretary of State reasonably 
        believes would fail to prevent such assistance from being made 
        available to or for the benefit of the Taliban; or
            (3) that has the effect of benefitting or otherwise 
        supporting terrorist activities by the Taliban.
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