I 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5303 
To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to limit assistance to the 
Palestinian Authority. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 27, 2012 
Mr. ROYCE (for himself, Mr. BERMAN, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, 
Mr. CHABOT, Mr. DEUTCH, Mr. MANZULLO, Mr. POE of Texas, and Mr. 
ROTHMAN of New Jersey) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to limit 
assistance to the Palestinian Authority. 
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 ‘‘Palestinian Peace Pro-
motion and Anti-Incitement Act’’. 
SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
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(1) the Palestinian Authority has not fully lived 
up to its prior agreements with Israel to end incite-
ment; and 
(2) the Palestinian Authority should do more to 
prepare the Palestinian people for peace with Israel. 
SEC. 3. LIMITATION ON ASSISTANCE TO THE PALESTINIAN 
AUTHORITY. 
Chapter 1 of part III of the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961 is amended— 
(1) by redesignating the second section 620J 
(as added by section 651 of Public Law 110–161) 
as section 620M; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 620N. LIMITATION ON ASSISTANCE TO THE PALES-
TINIAN AUTHORITY. 
‘‘(a) PROHIBITION OF FUNDS.—No funds may be 
provided under this Act to the Palestinian Authority. 
‘‘(b) WAIVER.—The prohibition included in sub-
section (a) shall not apply if the President certifies in writ-
ing to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the 
President pro tempore of the Senate, and the Committees 
on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and 
Foreign Relations of the Senate that waiving such prohibi-
tion is important to the national security interests of the 
United States. 
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‘‘(c) REPORT.—Whenever the waiver authority pur-
suant to subsection (b) is exercised, the President shall 
submit to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House 
of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions of the Senate a report detailing the justification for 
the waiver, the purposes for which the funds will be spent, 
and the accounting procedures in place to ensure that the 
funds are properly disbursed. Such report shall also detail 
the steps the Palestinian Authority has taken to arrest 
terrorists, confiscate weapons, and dismantle the terrorist 
infrastructure. 
‘‘(d) CERTIFICATION.—If the President exercises the 
waiver authority under subsection (b), the Secretary of 
State shall certify and report to the Committees on For-
eign Affairs of the House of Representatives and Foreign 
Relations of the Senate prior to the obligation of funds 
that— 
‘‘(1) the Palestinian Authority has established a 
single treasury account for all Palestinian Authority 
financing and all financing mechanisms flow through 
this account, no parallel financing mechanisms exist 
outside of the Palestinian Authority treasury ac-
count, and there is a single comprehensive civil serv-
ice roster and payroll; and 
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‘‘(2) the Palestinian Authority no longer en-
gages in a pattern of incitement against the United 
States or Israel and is engaged in peace preparation 
activities aimed at promoting peace with the Jewish 
State of Israel. 
‘‘(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) 
INCITEMENT.—The 
term 
‘incitement’ 
means any of the following that is sponsored, sup-
ported, or directed by officials or employees of the 
Palestinian Authority or Palestinian Authority-con-
trolled, sponsored, or supported electronic, broad-
cast, and print media, schools, mosques, and institu-
tions: 
‘‘(A) Statements, media, communication, 
or other activities against any religion, eth-
nicity, or nationality. 
‘‘(B) Advocacy, endorsement, or glorifi-
cation of violence, martyrdom, or terrorism. 
‘‘(C) Endorsement, glorification, honor, or 
other memorialization of any person or group 
that has advocated, sponsored, or committed 
acts of terrorism, including the naming after or 
dedication to such person or group of any 
school, community center, camp, stadium, pub-
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lic square, street, land, landmark, waterway, or 
other facility. 
‘‘(2) PEACE
PREPARATION
ACTIVITIES.—The 
term ‘peace preparation activities’ means Arabic-lan-
guage communications and educational activities 
sponsored by the Palestinian Authority, which are 
communicated or administered via electronic, broad-
cast and print media, schools, mosques and state-
ments by government officials that may include the 
following: 
‘‘(A) Public acknowledgments of the State 
of Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state. 
‘‘(B) Firm public commitments to and en-
dorsements of peaceful co-existence with the 
Jewish State of Israel. 
‘‘(C) Production, distribution, and public 
display via all media platforms, schools, 
mosques, educational materials and elsewhere of 
maps that show the State of Israel existing as 
‘Israel’ side-by-side with ‘Palestine’ and halting 
all production, distribution, or public display of 
maps that do not include a state of Israel; and 
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