Sec. 8. Prohibition of judgment fund payments to state sponsors of terrorism
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Except as provided in subsection (b), the President and any officer of the United States Government may not use amounts appropriated under section 1304 of title 31, United States Code, or interest accrued on such amounts, to make any payment to a state sponsor of acts of international terrorism. The prohibition set forth in subsection
(a)shall not apply to a specific payment or a specific payee if Congress has passed a joint resolution waiving the application of such prohibition to such payment or payee in accordance with paragraph (2). A joint resolution that is introduced in the Senate shall be referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate . A joint resolution that is introduced in the House of Representatives shall be referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives . If the committee to which a joint resolution is referred does not report such resolution (or an identical resolution) by the end of the 20-day period beginning on the date on which the President submits a request described in subsection (d)(1)(A) to Congress— such committee shall be immediately discharged from further consideration of such resolution; and such resolution shall be placed on the appropriate calendar of the House involved. On or after the third day after the date on which the committee to which a joint resolution is referred has reported the resolution, or the date on which the committee has been discharged under paragraph
(3)from further consideration of the resolution, it is in order for any Member of the respective House to move to proceed to the consideration of the resolution if such Member announced on a previous day to the House concerned the Member’s intention to do so. All points of order against the joint resolution or against the consideration of the resolution are waived. A motion described in subparagraph
(A)is highly privileged in the House of Representatives and is privileged in the Senate and is not debatable. The motion is not subject to amendment, or to a motion to postpone, or to a motion to proceed to the consideration of other business. A motion to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to shall not be in order. If a motion to proceed to the consideration of the joint resolution is agreed to, the respective House shall immediately proceed to consideration of the resolution without intervening motion, order, or other business, and the resolution shall remain the unfinished business of the respective House until disposed. Debate on the joint resolution, and on all debatable motions and appeals in connection with the resolution, shall be limited to not more than 2 hours, which shall be divided equally between those favoring and those opposing the resolution. An amendment to the resolution is not in order. A motion further to limit debate is in order and not debatable. A motion to postpone, or a motion to proceed to the consideration of other business, or a motion to recommit the resolution is not in order. A motion to reconsider the vote by which the resolution is agreed to or disagreed to is not in order. Immediately following the conclusion of the debate on the joint resolution and a single quorum call at the conclusion of the debate if requested in accordance with the rules of the appropriate House, the vote on final passage of the resolution shall occur. In the Senate, adoption of the joint resolution requires an affirmative vote of three-fifths of Senators, duly chosen and sworn. Appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the application of the rules of the Senate or the House of Representatives to the procedure relating to the joint resolution shall be decided without debate. If, before the passage by one House of a joint resolution of that House, that House receives a joint resolution from the other House, the following procedures shall apply: The resolution of the other House shall not be referred to a committee and may not be considered in the House receiving it except in the case of final passage under subclause (II)(bb). With respect to a joint resolution of the House receiving the resolution— the procedure in that House shall be the same as if no resolution had been received from the other House; and the vote on final passage shall be on the resolution of the other House. Upon disposition of the resolution received from the other House, it shall no longer be in order to consider the resolution that originated in the receiving House. This section is enacted by Congress— as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively; as a part of the rules of each House, respectively, but applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in that House in the case of a joint resolution, and supersedes other rules only to the extent that it is inconsistent with such rules; and with full recognition of the constitutional right of either House to change the rules relating to the procedure of that House at any time, in the same manner, and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of that House. In this section: The term joint resolution means a joint resolution of approval that— is introduced during the 10-day period beginning on the date on which the President submits a request to Congress for a limited waiver of the prohibition set forth in subsection (a); does not have a preamble; includes, immediately after the resolving clause, the following: That Congress approves the request submitted by the President on _____ , with the blank line being filled in with the appropriate date; does not include any substantive legislative text other than the text set forth in subparagraph (C); and is titled Joint Resolution approving the request of the President to waive the prohibition against payments to a state sponsor of acts of international terrorism. . The term state sponsor of acts of international terrorism means a country the government of which the Secretary of State has determined has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism for purposes of— section 6(j) of the Export Administration Act of 1979 ( 50 U.S.C. 4605(j) ) (as in effect pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ( 50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq. )); section 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 ( 22 U.S.C. 2371 ); section 40 of the Arms Export Control Act ( 22 U.S.C. 2780 ); or any other provision of law.
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- 50 USC 4605(j)
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Prohibition of judgment fund payments to state sponsors of terrorism
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