119-hr3045

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3045 Introduced in House

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 3045

 To prevent violence in the West Bank and authorize the imposition of 
sanctions with respect to any foreign person endangering United States 
national security and undermining prospects for a two-state solution by 
 committing illegal violent acts.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 April 28, 2025

 Mr. Nadler (for himself, Mr. Smith of Washington, and Mr. Himes) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for 
a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
 committee concerned

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 A BILL

 To prevent violence in the West Bank and authorize the imposition of 
sanctions with respect to any foreign person endangering United States 
national security and undermining prospects for a two-state solution by 
 committing illegal violent acts.

 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 ``West Bank Violence Prevention Act of 
2025''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

 Congress makes the following findings:

    (1) The situation in the West Bank--in particular high 
 levels of extremist settler violence, forced displacement of 
 people and villages, and property destruction--has reached 
 intolerable levels and constitutes a serious threat to the 
 peace, security, and stability of the West Bank and Gaza, 
 Israel, and the broader Middle East region.

    (2) These actions undermine the foreign policy objectives 
 of the United States, including the viability of a two-state 
 solution and ensuring Israelis and Palestinians can attain 
 equal measures of security, prosperity, and freedom.

    (3) They also undermine the security of Israel and have the 
 potential to lead to broader regional destabilization across 
 the Middle East, threatening United States personnel and 
 interests.

    (4) These actions constitute an unusual and extraordinary 
 threat to the national security and foreign policy of the 
 United States.

SEC. 3. SANCTIONS.

    (a) In General.--The President shall impose sanctions described in 
subsection

    (b) with respect to any foreign person determined by the 
President to meet any of the following:

    (1) To be responsible for or complicit in, or to have 
 directly or indirectly engaged or attempted to engage in any of 
 the following:
        (A) Actions, including directing, enacting, 
 implementing, enforcing, or failing to enforce 
 policies, that threaten the peace, security, or 
 stability of the West Bank.
        (B) Planning, ordering, otherwise directing, or 
 participating in any of the following actions affecting 
 the West Bank:
            (i) An act of violence or threat of 
 violence targeting civilians.
            (ii) Efforts to place civilians in 
 reasonable fear of violence with the purpose or 
 effect of necessitating a change of residence 
 to avoid such violence.
            (iii) Property destruction.
            (iv) Seizure or dispossession of property 
 by private actors.

    (2) To be or have been a leader or official of--
        (A) an entity, including any government entity, 
 that has engaged in, or whose members have engaged in, 
 any of the activities described in paragraph

    (1) ,

    (5) , 
 or

    (6) related to the leader's or official's tenure; or
        (B) an entity whose property and interests in 
 property are blocked under this Act as a result of 
 activities relating to the leader's or official's 
 tenure.

    (3) To have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided 
 financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or 
 services to or in support of, any person blocked under this 
 Act.

    (4) To be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or 
 purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, 
 any person whose property and interests in property are blocked 
 pursuant to subsection

    (b)

    (1) .

    (5) To have committed or have attempted to commit, to pose 
 a significant risk of committing, or to have participated in 
 training to commit acts of terrorism affecting the West Bank.

    (6) To be a leader or official of an entity sanctioned 
 pursuant to paragraph

    (5) .

    (b) Sanctions Described.--The sanctions described in this 
subsection are the following:

    (1) Asset blocking.--
        (A) In general.--Notwithstanding the requirements 
 of 

section 202 of the International Emergency Economic 
 Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701), the President shall 
 exercise all powers granted to the President by that 
 Act to the extent necessary to block and prohibit all 
 transactions in all property and interests in property 
 of any foreign person described in subsection

    (a) of 
 this section, if such property and interests in 
 property are in the United States, come within the 
 United States, or are or come within the possession or 
 control of a United States person, including any 
 foreign branch.
        (B) Matters to be included.--The prohibitions in 
 subparagraph
        (A) include--
            (i) the making of any contribution or 
 provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, 
 or for the benefit of any person whose property 
 and interests in property are blocked pursuant 
 to subparagraph
        (A) ; and
            (ii) the receipt of any contribution or 
 provision of funds, goods, or services from any 
 such person.

    (2) Visas, admission, or parole.--
        (A) In general.--An alien who the Secretary of 
 State or the Secretary of Homeland Security (or a 
 designee of one of such Secretaries) knows, or has 
 reason to believe, is described in subsection

    (a) is--
            (i) inadmissible to the United States;
            (ii) ineligible for a visa or other 
 documentation to enter the United States; and
            (iii) otherwise ineligible to be admitted 
 or paroled into the United States or to receive 
 any other benefit under the Immigration and 
 Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.).
        (B) Current visas revoked.--
            (i) In general.--The issuing consular 
 officer, the Secretary of State, or the 
 Secretary of Homeland Security (or a designee 
 of one of such Secretaries) shall, in 
 accordance with 

section 221
            (i) of the 
 Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
 1201
            (i) ), revoke any visa or other entry 
 documentation issued to an alien described in 
 subparagraph
        (A) regardless of when the visa or 
 other entry documentation is issued.
            (ii) Effect of revocation.--A revocation 
 under clause
            (i) --
            (I) shall take effect immediately; 
 and
            (II) shall automatically cancel any 
 other valid visa or entry documentation 
 that is in the alien's possession.
            (c) Exceptions.--

    (1) Exception to comply with international obligations.--
 Sanctions under subsection

    (b)

    (2) shall not apply with respect 
 to the admission of an alien if admitting or paroling the alien 
 into the United States is necessary to permit the United States 
 to comply with the Agreement regarding the Headquarters of the 
 United Nations, signed at Lake Success June 26, 1947, and 
 entered into force November 21, 1947, between the United 
 Nations and the United States, or other applicable 
 international obligations.

    (2) Exception relating to law enforcement objectives.--
 Sanctions under section

    (b)

    (2) may not be imposed if the 
 Secretary of State or the Secretary of Homeland Security, as 
 appropriate, so determines, based on a recommendation of the 
 Attorney General, that the person's entry would further 
 important United States law enforcement objectives.
            (d) Waivers.--

    (1) National security.--The Secretary of State or the 
 Secretary of Homeland Security may waive the imposition of 
 sanctions under section

    (b)

    (2) if the Secretary of State or the 
 Secretary of Homeland Security, as appropriate, determines that 
 the person's entry would not be contrary to the interests of 
 the United States.

    (2) Prior notice inapplicable.--The Secretary of State or 
 the Secretary of Homeland Security, as appropriate, may, due to 
 the threat to national security risks individuals sanctioned 
 under this section and their actions pose and because of the 
 ability to transfer funds and other assets instantaneously, 
 waive prior notice to such persons of measures to be taken 
 pursuant to this section as such notice would render those 
 measures ineffectual, including for those persons whose 
 property and interests in property are blocked or affected by 
 this section who might have a constitutional presence in the 
 United States.

SEC. 4. REPORT.

 Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
and every 90 days thereafter, the Secretary of the Treasury, in 
consultation with the Secretary of State, shall submit to the 
appropriate congressional committees a report on the implementation of 
this Act, including the names of any persons sanctioned by 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 Finance of the House of Representatives; 
 and
        (B) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the 
 Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the 
 Senate;

    (2) the term ``entity'' means a partnership, association, 
 trust, joint venture, corporation, group, subgroup, or other 
 organization;

    (3) the term ``person'' means an individual or entity;

    (4) the term ``United States person'' means--
        (A) a United States citizen;
        (B) a permanent resident alien of the United 
 States;
            (C) an entity organized under the laws of the 
 United States or of any jurisdiction within the United 
 States, including a foreign branch of such an entity; 
 or
            (D) a person in the United States; and

    (5) the term ``terrorism'' means an activity that--
        (A) involves a violent act or an act dangerous to 
 human life, property, or infrastructure; and
        (B) appears to be intended--
            (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian 
 population;
            (ii) to influence the policy of a 
 government by intimidation or coercion; or
            (iii) to affect the conduct of a government 
 by mass destruction, assassination, kidnapping, 
 or hostage-taking.
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