119-s2667

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
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[S. 2667 Introduced in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 2667

 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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 August 1, 2025

Mr. Booker (for himself, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Reed, Mr. Coons, Mr. Bennet, 
and Mr. Warner) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
 referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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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. SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO ACTIONS THREATENING PEACE, SECURITY, 
 OR STABILITY OF THE WEST BANK.

    (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 
 directing, enacting, implementing, planning, ordering, 
 participating in, enforcing, or failing to enforce policies 
 that would prevent, actions that threaten the peace, security, 
 or stability of the West Bank, including the following:
        (A) An act of violence targeting civilians.
        (B) A threat of violence targeting civilians with 
 the intent to coerce or intimidate.
            (C) Efforts to place civilians in reasonable fear 
 of violence with the purpose or effect of necessitating 
 a change of residence to avoid such violence.
            (D) Destruction by private persons of physical 
 property, without the consent of the owner, that 
 renders the property unusable, a residence 
 uninhabitable, or agricultural land unworkable.
        (E) Seizure or dispossession of property by private 
 persons.

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

    (1) or

    (5) related to the leader's or official's tenure; or
        (B) an entity the property and interests in 
 property of which are blocked under this section 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 the property and 
 interests in property of which are blocked under this section.

    (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 the property and interests in property of which are 
 blocked under this section.

    (5) To have committed or have attempted to commit, or to 
 have participated in training to commit, acts of terrorism 
 targeting the West Bank.

    (6) To be a leader or official of an entity subject to 
 sanctions under 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) , 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.
        (B) Matters to be included.--A prohibition on 
 transactions under subparagraph
        (A) includes--
            (i) the making of any contribution or 
 provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, 
 or for the benefit of any person the property 
 and interests in property of which 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) Ineligibility for visas, admission, or parole.--
        (A) Visas, admission, or parole.--An alien 
 described in subsection

    (a) shall be--
            (i) inadmissible to the United States;
            (ii) ineligible to receive 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 visa or other entry 
 documentation of an alien described in 
 subsection

    (a) shall be revoked, regardless of 
 when such visa or other entry documentation is 
 or was issued.
            (ii) Immediate effect.--A revocation under 
 clause
            (i) shall--
            (I) take effect immediately; and
            (II) automatically cancel any other 
 valid visa or entry documentation that 
 is in the possession of the alien.
            (c) Exceptions.--

    (1) Authorized intelligence activities.--Sanctions under 
 this section shall not apply with respect to any activity 
 subject to the reporting requirements under title V of the 
 National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3091 et seq.) or any 
 authorized intelligence activities of the United States.

    (2) Humanitarian assistance.--Sanctions under this section 
 shall not apply to--
        (A) the conduct or facilitation of a transaction 
 for the provision of agricultural commodities, food, 
 medicine, medical devices, or humanitarian assistance, 
 or for humanitarian purposes; or
        (B) transactions that are necessary for or related 
 to the activities described in clause
            (i) .

    (3) Exception to comply with international obligations and 
 for law enforcement.--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--
        (A) 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; or
        (B) would further important United States law 
 enforcement objectives.
            (d) National Security Waiver.--The President may waive the 
imposition of sanctions under this section with respect to a foreign 
person if the President determines that the waiver is in the national 
security interests of the United States.

    (e) Termination of Sanctions.--The President may terminate the 
application of sanctions under this section with respect to a foreign 
person if the President certifies to the appropriate congressional 
committees that--

    (1) the person--
        (A) is not engaging in the activity that was the 
 basis for such sanctions; or
        (B) has taken significant, verifiable steps toward 
 stopping the activity that was the basis for such 
 sanctions; and

    (2) the President has received reliable assurances that the 
 person will not knowingly engage in any activity subject to 
 sanctions in the future.

    (f) Implementation; Penalties.--

    (1) Implementation.--The President may exercise all 
 authorities provided under sections 203 and 205 of the 
 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702 and 
 1704) to carry out this section.

    (2) Penalties.--A person that violates, attempts to 
 violate, conspires to violate, or causes a violation of this 
 section or any regulation, license, or order issued to carry 
 out this section shall be subject to the penalties set forth in 
 subsections

    (b) and
            (c) of 

section 206 of the International 
 Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) to the same 
 extent as a person that commits an unlawful act described in 
 subsection

    (a) of that section.

    (g) Report Required.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, and every 180 days thereafter, the President 
shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that 
includes--

    (1) an assessment of the implementation of this section, 
 including--
        (A) the names of any persons that have been 
 designated for the imposition of sanctions under this 
 section;
        (B) a description of the sanctions considered and 
 imposed with respect to each such person; and
            (C) a description of the activity each such person 
 engaged in that was the basis for the sanctions;

    (2) a list of persons for which the imposition of sanctions 
 was waived under subsection
            (d) and a detailed, specific 
 description of the activity each such person engaged in that 
 would have been the basis for imposing sanctions but for the 
 waiver;

    (3) a description of the circumstances in the West Bank 
 relating to acts of violence against civilians and private 
 property and an assessment of whether any of such acts of 
 violence were against United States persons or property owned 
 by United States persons; and

    (4) a description of the actions the United States 
 Government and regional partners are taking to reduce violence 
 against civilians and the destruction of private property in 
 the West Bank.

    (h) 

=== Definitions. ===
-In this section:

    (1) Admission; admitted; alien; etc.--The terms 
 ``admission'', ``admitted'', ``alien'', and ``lawfully admitted 
 for permanent residence'' have the meanings given those terms 
 in 

section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
 1101).

    (2) Agricultural commodity.--The term ``agricultural 
 commodity'' has the meaning given that term in 

section 102 of 
 the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 5602).

    (3) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
 ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
        (A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the 
 Committee on Financial Services of the House of 
 Representatives; and
        (B) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the 
 Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the 
 Senate.

    (4) Entity.--The term ``entity'' means a partnership, 
 association, trust, joint venture, corporation, group, 
 subgroup, or other organization.

    (5) Medical device.--The term ``medical device'' has the 
 meaning given the term ``device'' in 

section 201 of the Federal 
 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 321).

    (6) Medicine.--The term ``medicine'' has the meaning given 
 the term ``drug'' in 

section 201 of the Federal Food, Drug, and 
 Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 321).

    (7) Person.--The term ``person'' means an individual or 
 entity.

    (8) United states person.--The term ``United States 
 person'' means--
        (A) a United States citizen or an alien lawfully 
 admitted for permanent residence to the United States;
        (B) an entity organized under the laws of the 
 United States or any jurisdiction within the United 
 States, including a foreign branch of such an entity; 
 or
            (C) any person in the United States.

    (9) Terrorism.--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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