Stop Taxpayer Funding of Hamas Act

Stop Taxpayer Funding of Hamas Act

This bill prohibits obligating or expending U.S. funds in Gaza unless the President makes certain certifications.

Specifically, it prohibits such expenditures unless the President certifies that (1) the funds will not benefit Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, other foreign terrorist organizations, or their members; and (2) all hostages taken by such organizations have been freed. The bill also prohibits obligating or expending funds in Gaza through any United Nations entity or office unless the President certifies that the entity or office is not encouraging or teaching anti-Israel or anti-Semitic ideas or propaganda.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5996 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5996

   To prohibit any direct or indirect United States funding for the 
          territory of Gaza unless certain conditions are met.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 19, 2023

     Mr. Kustoff (for himself, Mr. Lawler, and Mr. Miller of Ohio) 
                     introduced the following bill

                            October 25, 2023

              Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To prohibit any direct or indirect United States funding for the 
          territory of Gaza unless certain conditions are met.

    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 Taxpayer Funding of Hamas 
Act''.

SEC. 2. RESTRICTION ON THE EXPENDITURE FOR FEDERAL FUNDS IN GAZA.

    (a) In General.--No United States Government funds may be obligated 
or expended in the territory of Gaza until after the President 
certifies to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives that--
            (1) such funds can be expended without benefitting any 
        organization or persons that is--
                    (A) a member of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, 
                or any other organization designated by the Secretary 
                of State as a foreign terrorist organization under 
                section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
                U.S.C. 1189); or
                    (B) controlled or influenced by Hamas, Palestinian 
                Islamic Jihad, or any such foreign terrorist 
                organization; and
            (2) all hostages who were taken to Gaza by Hamas, 
        Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or any other organization designated 
        by the Secretary of State as a foreign terrorist organization 
        under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
        U.S.C. 1189) have been freed.
    (b) United Nations Entities.--No United States Government funds may 
be obligated or expended in the territory of Gaza through any United 
Nations entity or office unless the President certifies to the 
congressional committees referred to in subsection (a) that such entity 
or office is not encouraging or teaching anti-Israel or anti-Semitic 
ideas or propaganda.
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