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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1710 
To impose sanctions with respect to the system of compensation of the 
Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority that 
supports acts of terrorism. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 27, 2025 
Mr. LAWLER
(for himself, Mr. MOSKOWITZ, Ms. TENNEY, and Mr. 
GOTTHEIMER) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Fi-
nancial Services, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To impose sanctions with respect to the system of compensa-
tion of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the 
Palestinian Authority that supports acts of terrorism. 
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 ‘‘PLO and PA Terror 
Payments Accountability Act of 2025’’. 
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS; STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following find-
ings: 
(1) The Palestine Liberation Organization and 
the Palestinian Authority provide hundreds of mil-
lions of dollars per year in payments, salaries, and 
benefits to terrorists and the families of terrorists as 
part of a system compensation that incentivizes, en-
courages, rewards, and supports acts of terrorism. 
(2) The Palestine Liberation Organization and 
the Palestinian Authority policies, laws, and regula-
tions that direct, authorize, enact, facilitate, and im-
plement a system of compensation in support of acts 
of terrorism require payments, salaries, and benefits 
to terrorists including those who are members and 
part of organizations designated as foreign terrorist 
organizations by the Secretary of State under sec-
tion 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1189), including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, 
that receive direct support including financial and 
military assistance from Iran, the leading state 
sponsor of terrorism in the world. 
(3) In 2018, Congress passed the Taylor Force 
Act (title X of division S of Public Law 115–141; 
132 Stat. 1143) into law that calls on the Palestine 
Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Author-
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ity to end their system of compensation that 
incentivizes, encourages, rewards, and supports acts 
of terrorism and restricts United States assistance 
‘‘that directly benefits the Palestinian Authority’’ 
unless the Secretary of State certifies to Congress 
that the Palestine Liberation Organization and the 
Palestinian Authority have met specific conditions 
including terminating that system of compensation 
and revoking the policies, laws, and regulations that 
authorize and implement the system of compensa-
tion. 
(4) Despite the enactment of the Taylor Force 
Act, the Palestine Liberation Organization and the 
Palestinian Authority have continued their system of 
compensation that incentivizes, encourages, rewards, 
and supports acts of terrorism. 
(5) On October 7, 2023, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, 
and other Gaza-based terrorist organizations at-
tacked Israel on Shabbat and during the Jewish hol-
iday of Simchat Torah, committing the deadliest at-
tack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust. 
(6) On October 7, 2023, Hamas fired thou-
sands of rockets into Israel, deliberately targeting 
Israeli civilians, and thousands of terrorists invaded 
Israeli communities—massacring, raping, torturing, 
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decapitating, burning alive, seriously injuring, and 
kidnapping Israelis and Americans, including men, 
women, children, babies, and grandparents, and in-
cluding Holocaust survivors, with children being 
murdered in front of their parents and parents being 
murdered in front of their children. 
(7) On October 7, 2023, Hamas murdered more 
than 1,200 who were mostly civilians, and kidnapped 
more than 240, including Israeli and American men, 
women, children, babies, and grandparents, and took 
them to Gaza as hostages. 
(b) STATEMENT OF POLICY.—It shall be the policy 
of the United States to hold the Palestine Liberation Or-
ganization and the Palestinian Authority accountable in-
cluding through the imposition of sanctions for providing 
payments, salaries, and benefits to terrorists and the fami-
lies of terrorists as part of a system compensation that 
incentivizes, encourages, rewards, and supports acts of 
terrorism. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) ACT OF TERRORISM.—The term ‘‘act of ter-
rorism’’— 
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(A) means an act of international ter-
rorism (as defined in section 2331 of title 18, 
United States Code); and 
(B) includes the meanings given the terms 
‘‘terrorist activity’’ and ‘‘engage in terrorist ac-
tivity’’ by section 212(a)(3)(B) of the Immigra-
tion 
and 
Nationality 
Act 
(8 
U.S.C. 
1182(a)(3)(B)). 
(2) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and 
the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of 
Representatives; and 
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations 
and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs of the Senate. 
(3) FOREIGN PERSON.—The term ‘‘foreign per-
son’’ means any person or entity that is not a 
United States person. 
(4) KNOWINGLY.—The term ‘‘knowingly’’, with 
respect to conduct, a circumstance, or a result, 
means that a person had actual knowledge, or 
should have known, of the conduct, the cir-
cumstance, or the result. 
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(5) SYSTEM
OF
COMPENSATION.—The term 
‘‘system of compensation’’, with respect to the Pales-
tinian Authority and the Palestinian Liberation Or-
ganization, means the payments described in sub-
paragraph (B) of section 1004(a)(1) of the Taylor 
Force Act (22 U.S.C. 2378c–1) and the system of 
compensation described in subparagraph (C) of that 
section. 
(6) 
UNITED
STATES
PERSON.—The 
term 
‘‘United States person’’ means— 
(A) a United States citizen or an alien law-
fully admitted for permanent residence to the 
United States; 
(B) an entity organized under the laws of 
the United States or any jurisdiction within the 
United States, including a foreign branch of 
such an entity; or 
(C) a person in the United States. 
SEC. 4. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS ON CERTAIN FOREIGN 
PERSONS SUPPORTING TERRORISM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, and an ongoing basis 
thereafter, the President shall impose the sanctions de-
scribed in subsection (b) on— 
(1) any foreign person that— 
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(A) has served in a position as a represent-
ative, minister, official, or employee of the Pal-
estine Liberation Organization, the Palestinian 
Authority, or any other foreign person that has 
directed, authorized, been responsible for, mate-
rially assisted with, enacted, implemented, or 
otherwise facilitated the Palestine Liberation 
Organization and the Palestinian Authority sys-
tem of compensation supporting acts of ter-
rorism; or 
(B) has provided payments, salaries, and 
benefits to terrorists and the families of terror-
ists as part of the Palestine Liberation Organi-
zation and the Palestinian Authority system of 
compensation supporting acts of terrorism; 
(2) any entity that directly or indirectly has op-
erated, ordered, controlled, directed, or otherwise fa-
cilitated the Palestine Liberation Organization and 
the Palestinian Authority system of compensation 
supporting acts of terrorism including the Commis-
sion of Prisoners and Released Prisoners, the Insti-
tute for the Care of the Families of the Martyrs and 
the Wounded, the Palestine National Fund, National 
Association of the Families of the Martyrs of Pal-
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estine, or any successor, agency, instrumentality, or-
ganization, or affiliated entities thereof; or 
(3) any foreign person that has knowingly pro-
vided significant financial, technological, or material 
support and resources support to, or knowingly en-
gaged in a significant transaction with a foreign per-
son described in subparagraph (1) or (2). 
(b) SANCTIONS DESCRIBED.—The sanctions that 
shall be imposed with respect to a foreign person described 
in subsection (a) are the following: 
(1) BLOCKING OF PROPERTY.—The President 
shall exercise all of the powers granted to the Presi-
dent under the International Emergency Economic 
Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to the extent 
necessary to block and prohibit all transactions in 
property and interests in property of the foreign per-
son if such property and interests 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. 
(2) INELIGIBILITY FOR VISAS, ADMISSION, OR 
PAROLE.— 
(A) VISAS, ADMISSION, OR PAROLE.—An 
alien described in subsection (a) is— 
(i) inadmissible to the United States; 
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(ii) ineligible to receive a visa or other 
documentation 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.—An alien described 
in subsection (a) is subject to revocation of 
any visa or other entry documentation re-
gardless of when the visa or other entry 
documentation is or was issued. 
(ii) IMMEDIATE
EFFECT.—A revoca-
tion under clause (i) shall— 
(I) take effect immediately; and 
(II) automatically cancel any 
other valid visa or entry documenta-
tion that is in the alien’s possession. 
(iii) PENALTIES.—The penalties pro-
vided for in subsections (b) and (c) of sec-
tion 206 of the International Emergency 
Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) 
shall apply to a person that violates, at-
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tempts to violate, conspires to violate, or 
causes a violation of this section or any 
regulations promulgated to carry out this 
section to the same extent that such pen-
alties apply to a person that commits an 
unlawful act described in section 206(a) of 
that Act. 
(c) CONGRESSIONAL REQUESTS.—Not later than 30 
days after receiving a request from the chairman or rank-
ing member of one of the appropriate congressional com-
mittees with respect to whether a person meets the criteria 
of a person described in subsection (a), the President 
shall— 
(1) determine if the person meets such criteria; 
and 
(2) submit a classified or unclassified report to 
the chairman or ranking member, that submitted the 
request with respect to that determination that in-
cludes a statement of whether or not the President 
imposed or intends to impose sanctions with respect 
to the person. 
(d) IMPLEMENTATION; REGULATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The President may exercise 
all authorities provided under sections 203 and 205 
of the International Emergency Economic Powers 
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Act (50 U.S.C. 1702 and 1704) for purposes of car-
rying out this section. 
(2) REGULATIONS.—Not later than 60 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
President shall issue such regulations or other guid-
ance as may be necessary for the implementation of 
this section. 
(e) DEFINITION.—In this section: 
(1) MATERIAL SUPPORT OR RESOURCES.—The 
term ‘‘material support or resources’’ has the mean-
ing given that term in section 2339A(b) of title 18, 
United States Code. 
SEC. 5. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO FI-
NANCIAL INSTITUTIONS THAT FACILITATE 
TRANSACTIONS SUPPORTING TERRORISM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, and on an ongoing basis 
thereafter, the President shall impose the sanctions de-
scribed in subsection (c) with respect to each foreign fi-
nancial institution that engages in the activities described 
in subsection (b). 
(b) ACTIVITIES DESCRIBED.—A foreign financial in-
stitution engages in an activity described in this subsection 
if the institution— 
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(1) processes, participates in, facilitates, or pro-
vides a transaction that are payments, salaries, or 
benefits, or any other conduct described in section 
4(a); or 
(2) knowingly conducted or facilitated any sig-
nificant financial transaction with any foreign per-
son subject to sanctions under section 4(a). 
(c) SANCTIONS DESCRIBED.—The President shall 
prohibit the opening, and prohibit or impose strict condi-
tions on the maintaining, in the United States of a cor-
respondent account or a payable-through account by a for-
eign financial institution described in subsection (a). 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) 
CORRESPONDENT
ACCOUNT; 
PAYABLE- 
THROUGH ACCOUNT.—The terms ‘‘correspondent ac-
count’’ and ‘‘payable-through account’’ have the 
meanings given those terms in section 5318A of title 
31, United States Code. 
(2) FOREIGN
FINANCIAL
INSTITUTION.—The 
term ‘‘foreign financial institution’’ has the meaning 
of that term as determined by the Secretary of the 
Treasury pursuant to section 104(i) of the Com-
prehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Di-
vestment Act of 2010 (22 U.S.C. 8513(i)). 
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SEC. 6. TERMINATION. 
The provisions of this Act shall have no force or effect 
only if the Secretary of State certifies in writing to the 
appropriate congressional committees that the Palestine 
Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority 
system of compensation providing payments, salaries, and 
benefits to terrorists and the families of terrorists that 
incentivizes, encourages, rewards, and supports acts of 
terrorism as described in this Act, has ceased to be in ef-
fect and is no longer taking place. 
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