Stop Funding for Terrorism Act

Stop Funding for Terrorism Act

This bill amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 with respect to requirements the Department of State must meet to rescind any determination that the government of a foreign country:

• has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism; and
• for this reason may not receive assistance under the Act, the Food for Peace Act, the Peace Corps Act, or the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945.

The State Department may rescind such a determination and waive the prohibition on assistance only if, in addition to other existing requirements for rescission and waiver, Congress enacts a joint resolution of approval according to a specified procedure.

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4189 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4189

 To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require congressional 
    approval of rescissions of determinations of countries as state 
  sponsors of terrorism and waivers of prohibitions on assistance to 
              state sponsors of terrorism under that Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 8, 2015

Mr. Fincher (for himself and Mr. Luetkemeyer) introduced the following 
 bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in 
  addition to the Committee on Rules, 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 amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require congressional 
    approval of rescissions of determinations of countries as state 
  sponsors of terrorism and waivers of prohibitions on assistance to 
              state sponsors of terrorism under that Act.

    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 ``Stop Funding for Terrorism Act''.

SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL OF RESCISSIONS OF DETERMINATIONS OF 
              COUNTRIES AS STATE SPONSORS OF TERRORISM AND WAIVERS OF 
              PROHIBITIONS ON ASSISTANCE TO STATE SPONSORS OF TERRORISM 
              UNDER THE FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1961.

    (a) In General.--Section 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
(22 U.S.C. 2371) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(e) Additional Requirements With Respect to Rescissions and 
Waivers.--
            ``(1) Rescissions.--In addition to meeting the requirements 
        of paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (c), a determination 
        made by the Secretary of State under subsection (a) may be 
        rescinded only if Congress, within 45 days after receipt of a 
        report under subsection (c)(2) with respect to a proposed 
        rescission of such determination, enacts a joint resolution the 
        matter after the resolving clause of which is as follows: `That 
        the proposed rescission of the determination under section 
        620A(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 pursuant to the 
        report submitted to the Congress on ___ is hereby approved.', 
        the blank to be completed with the appropriate date.
            ``(2) Waivers.--In addition to meeting the requirements of 
        paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (d), assistance prohibited 
        by subsection (a) may be provided to a country described in 
        that subsection only if Congress, within 45 days after receipt 
        of a report under subsection (d)(2) with respect to a proposed 
        waiver of assistance prohibited by subsection (a), enacts a 
        joint resolution the matter after the resolving clause of which 
        is as follows: `That the proposed waiver of assistance 
        prohibited under section 620A(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act 
        of 1961 pursuant to the report submitted to the Congress on ___ 
        is hereby approved.', the blank to be completed with the 
        appropriate date.
            ``(3) Congressional procedures.--A joint resolution 
        described in paragraph (1) or (2) and introduced within the 
        appropriate 45-day period shall be considered in the Senate and 
        the House of Representatives in accordance with paragraphs (3) 
        through (7) of section 8066(c) of the Department of Defense 
        Appropriations Act (as contained in Public Law 98-473), except 
        that references in such paragraphs to the Committees on 
        Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
        shall be deemed to be references to the Committee on Foreign 
        Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
        Foreign Relations of the Senate, respectively.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) takes 
effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and applies with 
respect to a proposed rescission of a determination of the Secretary of 
State under section 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, or a 
proposed waiver of assistance prohibited by section 620A of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961, that is contained in any report submitted under 
subsection (c)(2) or (d)(2), respectively, of such section on or after 
such date of enactment.
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