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118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6066 
To prohibit funding to international organizations that provide resources 
or other support to foreign terrorist organizations, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 25, 2023 
Ms. TENNEY (for herself and Mr. BACON) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To prohibit funding to international organizations that pro-
vide resources or other support to foreign terrorist orga-
nizations, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Halting Appropriations 
for Terrorist-supporting Institutions that Knowingly pro-
vide Valued Assets to Hamas and Hezbollah Act’’ or the 
‘‘HATIKVAHH Act’’. 
SEC. 2. CERTIFICATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, and every 180 days 
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thereafter, the Secretary of State shall, with respect to 
each international organization operating in Gaza or 
Judea and Samaria to which the United States Govern-
ment provides funding, submit to the appropriate congres-
sional committees a written certification of whether the 
organization complies with each of the following require-
ments: 
(1) The organization does not provide resources 
or other support to a specified foreign terrorist orga-
nization or its members, directly or indirectly. 
(2) The organization does not cooperate or 
work with a specified foreign terrorist organization 
or its members, directly or indirectly. 
(3) The organization does not employ or con-
tract with a member of a specified foreign terrorist 
organization, directly or indirectly. 
(4) The organization does not openly support or 
celebrate a specified foreign terrorist organization or 
a member of a foreign terrorist organization. 
(5) No official, employee, consultant, con-
tractor, subcontractor, representative, or affiliate of 
the organization— 
(A) is a member of, is affiliated with, or 
has any ties to a specified foreign terrorist or-
ganization; 
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(B) has advocated, planned, sponsored, or 
engaged in any terrorist activity; or 
(C) has called for violence against Ameri-
cans. 
(6) No infrastructure or resources of the orga-
nization are being used by a specified foreign ter-
rorist organization or any member thereof— 
(A) for terrorist activities, such as oper-
ations, planning, training, recruitment, fund-
raising, indoctrination, communications, sanc-
tuary, storage of weapons or other materials; or 
(B) as an access point to any underground 
tunnel network, or any other terrorist-related 
purposes. 
(7) The organization is subject to comprehen-
sive financial audits by an internationally recognized 
third-party independent auditing firm that has im-
plemented an effective system of vetting, as deter-
mined by the Secretary of the Treasury, and over-
sight to prevent the use, receipt, or diversion of any 
resources by any foreign terrorist organization or 
members thereof. 
(8) The organization does not provide funds or 
loans to another organization that is— 
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(A) a member of, is affiliated with, or has 
any ties to a specified foreign terrorist organi-
zation; or 
(B) otherwise engaged in terrorist activi-
ties. 
(9) The organization does not hold an account 
or other affiliations with financial institutions that 
the United States considers or believes to be 
complicit in money laundering or terrorist financing. 
(b) NOTIFICATIONS; SUSPENSION OF FUNDING.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—If the Secretary of State 
submits a written certification to the appropriate 
congressional committees under subsection (a) with 
respect to an international organization indicating 
that the Secretary has determined that the organiza-
tion is not complying with the requirements de-
scribed in paragraphs (1) through (9) of subsection 
(a), the Secretary of State shall provide a written 
notification thereof to the organization which shall 
include the reasons for such determination. 
(2) SUSPENSION
OF
FUNDING.—If the Sec-
retary of State submits a second consecutive written 
certification to the appropriate congressional com-
mittees under subsection (a) with respect to an 
international organization described in paragraph 
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(1) indicating that the Secretary has determined 
that the organization is not complying with the re-
quirements described in paragraphs (1) through (9) 
of subsection (a), the United States Government 
shall suspend providing further assistance to the or-
ganization until such time as the Secretary submits 
a subsequent written certification to the appropriate 
congressional committees indicating that the organi-
zation is complying with such requirements. 
(3) PUBLICATION IN FEDERAL REGISTER.—The 
Secretary of State shall publish in the Federal Reg-
ister a notification with respect to the suspension of 
funding to any international organization under 
paragraph (2). 
SEC. 3. REPORT. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary 
of State shall submit to the appropriate congressional 
committees a report describing the actions being taken to 
implement a comprehensive plan for urging other coun-
tries to withhold funds to any international organization 
that is prohibited from receiving funding from the United 
States by reason of the limitation provided for in section 
2(b). 
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SEC. 4. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION. 
The Secretary of State shall consider each United 
Nations agency to be a separate international organization 
for purposes of applying the provisions of 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 Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives; and 
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations 
and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate; and 
(2) the term ‘‘specified foreign terrorist organi-
zation’’ means— 
(A) Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic 
Jihad, Palestine Liberation Front, Popular 
Front for the Liberation of Palestine, or the 
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps; or 
(B) any other organization— 
(i) designated as a foreign terrorist 
organization by the Secretary of State in 
accordance with section 219(a) of the Im-
migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1189(a)); and 
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(ii) operating in Gaza or Judea and 
Samaria. 
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