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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3045 
To prevent violence in the West Bank and authorize the imposition of sanc-
tions with respect to any foreign person endangering United States 
national security and undermining prospects for a two-state solution 
by committing illegal violent acts. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 28, 2025 
Mr. NADLER (for himself, Mr. SMITH of Washington, and Mr. HIMES) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period 
to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
A BILL 
To prevent violence in the West Bank and authorize the 
imposition of sanctions with respect to any foreign per-
son endangering United States national security and un-
dermining prospects for a two-state solution by commit-
ting illegal violent acts. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘West Bank Violence 
Prevention Act of 2025’’. 
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) The situation in the West Bank—in par-
ticular high levels of extremist settler violence, 
forced displacement of people and villages, and prop-
erty destruction—has reached intolerable levels and 
constitutes a serious threat to the peace, security, 
and stability of the West Bank and Gaza, Israel, 
and the broader Middle East region. 
(2) These actions undermine the foreign policy 
objectives of the United States, including the viabil-
ity of a two-state solution and ensuring Israelis and 
Palestinians can attain equal measures of security, 
prosperity, and freedom. 
(3) They also undermine the security of Israel 
and have the potential to lead to broader regional 
destabilization across the Middle East, threatening 
United States personnel and interests. 
(4) These actions constitute an unusual and ex-
traordinary threat to the national security and for-
eign policy of the United States. 
SEC. 3. SANCTIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The President shall impose sanc-
tions described in subsection (b) with respect to any for-
eign person determined by the President to meet any of 
the following: 
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(1) To be responsible for or complicit in, or to 
have directly or indirectly engaged or attempted to 
engage in any of the following: 
(A) Actions, including directing, enacting, 
implementing, enforcing, or failing to enforce 
policies, that threaten the peace, security, or 
stability of the West Bank. 
(B) Planning, ordering, otherwise direct-
ing, or participating in any of the following ac-
tions affecting the West Bank: 
(i) An act of violence or threat of vio-
lence targeting civilians. 
(ii) Efforts to place civilians in rea-
sonable fear of violence with the purpose or 
effect of necessitating a change of resi-
dence to avoid such violence. 
(iii) Property destruction. 
(iv) Seizure or dispossession of prop-
erty by private actors. 
(2) To be or have been a leader or official of— 
(A) an entity, including any government 
entity, that has engaged in, or whose members 
have engaged in, any of the activities described 
in paragraph (1), (5), or (6) related to the lead-
er’s or official’s tenure; or 
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(B) an entity whose property and interests 
in property are blocked under this Act as a re-
sult of activities relating to the leader’s or offi-
cial’s tenure. 
(3) To have materially assisted, sponsored, or 
provided financial, material, or technological support 
for, or goods or services to or in support of, any per-
son blocked under this Act. 
(4) To be owned or controlled by, or to have 
acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly 
or indirectly, any person whose property and inter-
ests in property are blocked pursuant to subsection 
(b)(1). 
(5) To have committed or have attempted to 
commit, to pose a significant risk of committing, or 
to have participated in training to commit acts of 
terrorism affecting the West Bank. 
(6) To be a leader or official of an entity sanc-
tioned pursuant to paragraph (5). 
(b) SANCTIONS
DESCRIBED.—The sanctions de-
scribed in this subsection are the following: 
(1) ASSET BLOCKING.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—Notwithstanding the 
requirements of section 202 of the International 
Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 
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1701), the President shall exercise all powers 
granted to the President by that Act to the ex-
tent necessary to block and prohibit all trans-
actions in all property and interests in property 
of any foreign person described in subsection 
(a) of this section, if such property and inter-
ests in property are in the United States, come 
within the United States, or are or come within 
the possession or control of a United States 
person, including any foreign branch. 
(B) MATTERS
TO
BE
INCLUDED.—The 
prohibitions in subparagraph (A) include— 
(i) the making of any contribution or 
provision of funds, goods, or services by, 
to, or for the benefit of any person whose 
property and interests in property are 
blocked pursuant to subparagraph (A); and 
(ii) the receipt of any contribution or 
provision of funds, goods, or services from 
any such person. 
(2) VISAS, ADMISSION, OR PAROLE.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—An alien who the Sec-
retary of State or the Secretary of Homeland 
Security (or a designee of one of such Secre-
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taries) knows, or has reason to believe, is de-
scribed in subsection (a) is— 
(i) inadmissible to the United States; 
(ii) ineligible for a visa or other docu-
mentation to enter the United States; and 
(iii) otherwise ineligible to be admitted 
or paroled into the United States or to re-
ceive any other benefit under the Immigra-
tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et 
seq.). 
(B) CURRENT VISAS REVOKED.— 
(i) IN
GENERAL.—The issuing con-
sular officer, the Secretary of State, or the 
Secretary of Homeland Security (or a des-
ignee of one of such Secretaries) shall, in 
accordance with section 221(i) of the Im-
migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1201(i)), revoke any visa or other entry 
documentation issued to an alien described 
in subparagraph (A) regardless of when 
the visa or other entry documentation is 
issued. 
(ii) EFFECT OF REVOCATION.—A rev-
ocation under clause (i)— 
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(I) shall take effect immediately; 
and 
(II) shall automatically cancel 
any other valid visa or entry docu-
mentation that is in the alien’s pos-
session. 
(c) EXCEPTIONS.— 
(1) EXCEPTION
TO
COMPLY
WITH
INTER-
NATIONAL
OBLIGATIONS.—Sanctions under sub-
section (b)(2) shall not apply with respect to the ad-
mission of an alien if admitting or paroling the alien 
into the United States is necessary to permit the 
United States to comply with the Agreement regard-
ing the Headquarters of the United Nations, signed 
at Lake Success June 26, 1947, and entered into 
force November 21, 1947, between the United Na-
tions and the United States, or other applicable 
international obligations. 
(2) EXCEPTION RELATING TO LAW ENFORCE-
MENT OBJECTIVES.—Sanctions under section (b)(2) 
may not be imposed if the Secretary of State or the 
Secretary of Homeland Security, as appropriate, so 
determines, based on a recommendation of the At-
torney General, that the person’s entry would fur-
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ther important United States law enforcement objec-
tives. 
(d) WAIVERS.— 
(1) NATIONAL
SECURITY.—The Secretary of 
State or the Secretary of Homeland Security may 
waive the imposition of sanctions under section 
(b)(2) if the Secretary of State or the Secretary of 
Homeland Security, as appropriate, determines that 
the person’s entry would not be contrary to the in-
terests of the United States. 
(2) PRIOR
NOTICE
INAPPLICABLE.—The Sec-
retary of State or the Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity, as appropriate, may, due to the threat to na-
tional security risks individuals sanctioned under 
this section and their actions pose and because of 
the ability to transfer funds and other assets instan-
taneously, waive prior notice to such persons of 
measures to be taken pursuant to this section as 
such notice would render those measures ineffectual, 
including for those persons whose property and in-
terests in property are blocked or affected by this 
section who might have a constitutional presence in 
the United States. 
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SEC. 4. REPORT. 
Not later than 90 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, and every 90 days thereafter, the Sec-
retary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary 
of State, shall submit to the appropriate congressional 
committees a report on the implementation of this Act, 
including the names of any persons sanctioned by this Act. 
SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act— 
(1) the term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and 
the Committee on Finance of the House of Rep-
resentatives; and 
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations 
and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs of the Senate; 
(2) the term ‘‘entity’’ means a partnership, as-
sociation, trust, joint venture, corporation, group, 
subgroup, or other organization; 
(3) the term ‘‘person’’ means an individual or 
entity; 
(4) the term ‘‘United States person’’ means— 
(A) a United States citizen; 
(B) a permanent resident alien of the 
United States; 
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(C) an entity organized under the laws of 
the United States or of any jurisdiction within 
the United States, including a foreign branch of 
such an entity; or 
(D) a person in the United States; and 
(5) the term ‘‘terrorism’’ means an activity 
that— 
(A) involves a violent act or an act dan-
gerous to human life, property, or infrastruc-
ture; and 
(B) appears to be intended— 
(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian 
population; 
(ii) to influence the policy of a govern-
ment by intimidation or coercion; or 
(iii) to affect the conduct of a govern-
ment by mass destruction, assassination, 
kidnapping, or hostage-taking. 
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