[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6066 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6066

    To prohibit funding to international organizations that provide 
resources or other support to foreign terrorist organizations, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 25, 2023

 Ms. Tenney (for herself and Mr. Bacon) introduced the following bill; 
         which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
    To prohibit funding to international organizations that provide 
resources or other support to foreign terrorist organizations, 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 ``Halting Appropriations for 
Terrorist-supporting Institutions that Knowingly provide Valued Assets 
to Hamas and Hezbollah Act'' or the ``HATIKVAHH Act''.

SEC. 2. CERTIFICATION.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, and every 180 days thereafter, the Secretary of 
State shall, with respect to each international organization operating 
in Gaza or Judea and Samaria to which the United States Government 
provides funding, submit to the appropriate congressional committees a 
written certification of whether the organization complies with each of 
the following requirements:
            (1) The organization does not provide resources or other 
        support to a specified foreign terrorist organization or its 
        members, directly or indirectly.
            (2) The organization does not cooperate or work with a 
        specified foreign terrorist organization or its members, 
        directly or indirectly.
            (3) The organization does not employ or contract with a 
        member of a specified foreign terrorist organization, directly 
        or indirectly.
            (4) The organization does not openly support or celebrate a 
        specified foreign terrorist organization or a member of a 
        foreign terrorist organization.
            (5) No official, employee, consultant, contractor, 
        subcontractor, representative, or affiliate of the 
        organization--
                    (A) is a member of, is affiliated with, or has any 
                ties to a specified foreign terrorist organization;
                    (B) has advocated, planned, sponsored, or engaged 
                in any terrorist activity; or
                    (C) has called for violence against Americans.
            (6) No infrastructure or resources of the organization are 
        being used by a specified foreign terrorist organization or any 
        member thereof--
                    (A) for terrorist activities, such as operations, 
                planning, training, recruitment, fundraising, 
                indoctrination, communications, sanctuary, storage of 
                weapons or other materials; or
                    (B) as an access point to any underground tunnel 
                network, or any other terrorist-related purposes.
            (7) The organization is subject to comprehensive financial 
        audits by an internationally recognized third-party independent 
        auditing firm that has implemented an effective system of 
        vetting, as determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, and 
        oversight to prevent the use, receipt, or diversion of any 
        resources by any foreign terrorist organization or members 
        thereof.
            (8) The organization does not provide funds or loans to 
        another organization that is--
                    (A) a member of, is affiliated with, or has any 
                ties to a specified foreign terrorist organization; or
                    (B) otherwise engaged in terrorist activities.
            (9) The organization does not hold an account or other 
        affiliations with financial institutions that the United States 
        considers or believes to be complicit in money laundering or 
        terrorist financing.
    (b) Notifications; Suspension of Funding.--
            (1) In general.--If the Secretary of State submits a 
        written certification to the appropriate congressional 
        committees under subsection (a) with respect to an 
        international organization indicating that the Secretary has 
        determined that the organization is not complying with the 
        requirements described in paragraphs (1) through (9) of 
        subsection (a), the Secretary of State shall provide a written 
        notification thereof to the organization which shall include 
        the reasons for such determination.
            (2) Suspension of funding.--If the Secretary of State 
        submits a second consecutive written certification to the 
        appropriate congressional committees under subsection (a) with 
        respect to an international organization described in paragraph 
        (1) indicating that the Secretary has determined that the 
        organization is not complying with the requirements described 
        in paragraphs (1) through (9) of subsection (a), the United 
        States Government shall suspend providing further assistance to 
        the organization until such time as the Secretary submits a 
        subsequent written certification to the appropriate 
        congressional committees indicating that the organization is 
        complying with such requirements.
            (3) Publication in federal register.--The Secretary of 
        State shall publish in the Federal Register a notification with 
        respect to the suspension of funding to any international 
        organization under paragraph (2).

SEC. 3. REPORT.

    Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of State shall submit to 
the appropriate congressional committees a report describing the 
actions being taken to implement a comprehensive plan for urging other 
countries to withhold funds to any international organization that is 
prohibited from receiving funding from the United States by reason of 
the limitation provided for in section 2(b).

SEC. 4. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.

    The Secretary of State shall consider each United Nations agency to 
be a separate international organization for purposes of applying the 
provisions of this Act.

SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act--
            (1) the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' 
        means--
                    (A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the 
                Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
                Representatives; and
                    (B) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the 
                Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and
            (2) the term ``specified foreign terrorist organization'' 
        means--
                    (A) Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, 
                Palestine Liberation Front, Popular Front for the 
                Liberation of Palestine, or the Iranian Revolutionary 
                Guard Corps; or
                    (B) any other organization--
                            (i) designated as a foreign terrorist 
                        organization by the Secretary of State in 
                        accordance with section 219(a) of the 
                        Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
                        1189(a)); and
                            (ii) operating in Gaza or Judea and 
                        Samaria.
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