To require a report on payments provided to the Taliban and congressional review of agreements signed with the Taliban.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6617 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6617

      To require a report on payments provided to the Taliban and 
      congressional review of agreements signed with the Taliban.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 6, 2023

   Mr. Buck introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
      To require a report on payments provided to the Taliban and 
      congressional review of agreements signed with the Taliban.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REPORT ON PAYMENTS PROVIDED TO THE TALIBAN.

    Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Administrator of the 
United States Agency for International Development, shall submit to the 
appropriate congressional committees a report on the total amounts and 
types of payments, including payments of fees, taxes, rent, and other 
similar payments, provided by entities receiving United States-provided 
funds to the Taliban during the period beginning on August 1, 2021, and 
ending 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act.

SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW OF AGREEMENTS SIGNED WITH THE TALIBAN.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 15 days after the date on which an 
entity receiving United States-provided funds enters into an agreement 
with the Taliban, the Secretary of State, in coordination with the 
Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
Development, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a 
copy of the agreement.
    (b) Report on Prior Agreements With the Taliban.--Not later than 90 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
State, in coordination with the Administrator of the United States 
Agency for International Development, shall submit to the appropriate 
congressional committees a report that includes a copy of each 
agreement entered into between an entity receiving United States-
provided funds and the Taliban from August 31, 2021, until such date of 
enactment.
    (c) Agreement Defined.--In this section, the term ``agreement'' 
includes memoranda of understanding and other manifestations of mutual 
assent.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act--
            (1) the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' 
        means--
                    (A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the 
                Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
                Representatives; and
                    (B) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the 
                Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and
            (2) the term ``entity receiving United States-provided 
        funds''--
                    (A) means any agency, fund, program, or 
                organization that--
                            (i) carries out humanitarian or 
                        developmental assistance operations or other 
                        charitable activities in Afghanistan; and
                            (ii) receives funding from the United 
                        States Government; and
                    (B) includes any organization or other entity of 
                the United Nations.
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