SEIZE Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5623 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5623

To authorize the President to treat as stocks of the United States any 
 weapon or materiel seized by the United States while in transit from 
 the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Houthis in the Republic of Yemen.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 30, 2025

Mr. Gottheimer (for himself, Mr. Shreve, Mr. Moskowitz, Mr. McCormick, 
  and Ms. Wasserman Schultz) introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize the President to treat as stocks of the United States any 
 weapon or materiel seized by the United States while in transit from 
 the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Houthis in the Republic of Yemen.

    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 ``Seized Iranian Arms Transfer 
Authorization Act of 2025'' or the ``SEIZE Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. DISPOSITION OF WEAPONS AND MATERIEL IN TRANSIT FROM IRAN TO 
              HOUTHIS IN YEMEN.

    (a) Disposition of Weapons and Materiel.--The President may treat 
as stocks of the United States any weapon or materiel seized by the 
United States while in transit from the Islamic Republic of Iran to the 
Houthis in the Republic of Yemen.
    (b) Drawdown Authority.--Section 506(a) of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2318(a)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new paragraph:
    ``(4) In addition to amounts otherwise specified in this section, 
the President may direct the drawdown of weapons and materiel treated 
as stocks of the United States, seized pursuant to section 2(a) of the 
Seized Iranian Arms Transfer Authorization Act of 2025, to be provided 
to foreign partners.''.
    (c) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the President shall 
submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report that includes 
the following:
            (1) The number of times the President exercised the 
        authority under subsection (a).
            (2) An inventory of the weapons and materiel treated as 
        United States stocks pursuant to such authority.
            (3) An inventory of the weapons and materiel provided to 
        foreign partners pursuant to the authority provided in 
        paragraph (4) of section 506(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act 
        of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2318(a)).
    (d) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this section, 
the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means--
            (1) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
        Foreign Relations of the Senate; and
            (2) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
        Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.
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