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114TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 3351 

To prohibit certain transfers of individuals detained at United States Naval 

Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to prohibit funds from being made 

available for the closure of that Naval Station, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016 

Mr. RUBIO introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 

to the Committee on Armed Services 

A BILL 

To prohibit certain transfers of individuals detained at 

United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 

to prohibit funds from being made available for the closure of that Naval Station, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Keep Terrorists Off 

5 the Battlefield Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. INDIVIDUAL DETAINED AT GUANTANAMO BAY DE2 FINED. 

3 In this Act, the term ‘‘individual detained at Guanta4 namo Bay’’ means any individual located at United States 

5 Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as of October 1, 

6 2009, who— 

7 (1) is not a national of the United States (as 

8 defined in section 101(a)(22) of the Immigration 

9 and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(22))) or a 

10 member of the Armed Forces of the United States; 

11 and 

12 (2) is— 

13 (A) in the custody or under the control of 

14 the Department of Defense; or 

15 (B) otherwise under detention at United 

16 States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 

17 SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON TRANSFER OF INDIVIDUALS DE18 TAINED AT GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA. 

19 No amounts appropriated or otherwise made avail20 able for any department or agency of the United States 

21 Government may be used to transfer an individual de22 tained at Guantanamo Bay— 

23 (1) from the custody or control of the Depart24 ment of Defense to the custody or control of any 

25 other department or agency of the United States 

26 Government; 


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1 (2) to the custody or control of any country in 

2 the Western Hemisphere or any entity within a 

3 country in the Western Hemisphere; or 

4 (3) to any country or entity that does not have 

5 laws in effect that, as certified by the United States 

6 Government, effectively prohibit acts of terrorism or 

7 material support for acts of terrorism. 

8 SEC. 4. PROHIBITION ON FUNDING FOR CLOSURE OF 

9 UNITED STATES NAVAL STATION, GUANTA10 NAMO BAY, CUBA. 

11 No amounts appropriated or otherwise made avail12 able for any department or agency of the United States 

13 Government may be used to fund activities, envoys, or of14 fices to carry out activities to close United States Naval 

15 Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 

16 SEC. 5. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON RETURN OF RELEASED IN17 DIVIDUALS WHO HAVE ENGAGED IN TER18 RORIST ACTIVITY. 

19 It is the sense of Congress that any individual who 

20 was at any time an individual detained at Guantanamo 

21 Bay and after the individual was released from detention 

22 at Guantanamo Bay is suspected of or confirmed by the 

23 United States intelligence community as having re-en24 gaged in terrorist activity should immediately be arrested 


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1 and returned to detention at United States Naval Station, 

2 Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 

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