Restore Unalienable Rights Act of 2014

Restore Unalienable Rights Act of 2014 - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (with respect to the authority of the President to use all necessary and appropriate force pursuant to the Authorization for Use of Military Force under P.L. 107-40) to prohibit U.S. Armed Forces from detaining, pending disposition under the law of war, a U.S. citizen or lawful resident alien of the United States who was captured, detained, or arrested in the United States.

Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit an authorization to use military force, a declaration of war, or any similar authority from authorizing the detention without charge or trial of a citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United States apprehended in the United States.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5121 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5121

  To prohibit the indefinite detention of United States citizens and 
            lawful resident aliens, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 16, 2014

Mr. Bentivolio introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the 
     Judiciary and Armed Services, 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 prohibit the indefinite detention of United States citizens and 
            lawful resident aliens, 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 ``Restore Unalienable Rights Act of 
2014''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT OF THE NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT.

    Subsection (b) of section 1021 of the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (10 U.S.C. 801 note) is amended 
to read as follows:
    ``(b) Covered Persons.--A covered person under this section is a 
person--
            ``(1) who--
                    ``(A) planned, authorized, committed, or aided the 
                terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, 
                or harbored those responsible for those attacks; or
                    ``(B) was a part of or substantially supported al-
                Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces that are 
                engaged in hostilities against the United States or its 
                coalition partners, including any person who has 
                committed a belligerent act or has directly supported 
                such hostilities in aid of such enemy forces; and
            ``(2) who is not a United States citizen or lawful resident 
        alien of the United States who was captured, detained, or 
        arrested in the United States.''.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON THE INDEFINITE DETENTION OF CITIZENS AND LAWFUL 
              PERMANENT RESIDENTS.

    Section 4001 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (a) the following:
    ``(b) An authorization to use military force, a declaration of war, 
or any similar authority may not authorize the detention without charge 
or trial of a citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United States 
apprehended in the United States.''.

SEC. 4. APPLICABILITY.

    The amendments made by this Act shall apply with respect to a 
person who is taken into custody or brought under the control of the 
United States after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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