H.R. 3045

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

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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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