I 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4411 
To prevent Hezbollah and associated entities from gaining access to 
international financial and other institutions, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 7, 2014 
Mr. MEADOWS (for himself, Mr. SCHNEIDER, Mr. ROYCE, and Mr. ENGEL) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case 
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
committee concerned 
A BILL 
To prevent Hezbollah and associated entities from gaining 
access to international financial and other institutions, 
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 ‘‘Hezbollah Inter-
national Financing Prevention Act of 2014’’. 
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TITLE I—PREVENTION OF AC-
CESS 
BY 
HEZBOLLAH 
TO 
INTERNATIONAL 
FINANCIAL 
AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS 
SEC. 101. FINDINGS; STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) The United States Government holds 
Hezbollah responsible for the largest number of 
American deaths overseas by a terrorist organization 
prior to the attacks of September 11, 2001, includ-
ing a number of attacks on and hostage takings tar-
geting Americans in Lebanon during the 1980s, in-
cluding the bombing of the United States Embassy 
in Beirut in April 1983, and the bombing of the 
United States Marine barracks in October 1983. 
(2) Hezbollah’s operations outside of Lebanon, 
including its participation in bombings of Israeli and 
Jewish institutions in Argentina during the 1990s, 
recent support to Shiite insurgents in Iraq, recent 
attacks and attempted attacks in Europe, Southeast 
Asia, and elsewhere, and extensive international 
operational, logistical, and financial networks have 
rendered it a capable and deadly adversary with 
global reach. 
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(3) Hezbollah has been designated as a terrorist 
organization by the United States since 1995, and 
remains on foreign terrorist organization and Spe-
cially Designated Terrorist lists. 
(4) In March 2013, a Cypriot court convicted a 
Hezbollah member for participation in a criminal or-
ganization, planning to commit a crime and money 
laundering. In July 2013, the Bulgarian government 
concluded that Hezbollah was responsible for the 
2012 Burgas bombing, which killed six people. 
(5) In July 2013, the European Union des-
ignated the military wing of Hezbollah as a terrorist 
organization. The designation helps to facilitate Eu-
ropean law enforcement agencies’ actions against 
Hezbollah’s fundraising, logistical activity, and ter-
rorist plotting on European soil. 
(6) In July 2013, the Gulf Cooperation Council, 
consisting of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, 
Oman and the United Arab Emirates, declared 
Hezbollah a terrorist organization. 
(7) Hezbollah continues to provide material as-
sistance, including assuming a combat role, in Syria, 
and aids the Government of Iran and the Govern-
ment of Syria in their human rights and other 
abuses perpetrated against the Syrian people. 
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(8) An estimated 5,000 Hezbollah fighters are 
supporting the Assad regime in Syria by fighting on 
his behalf and by providing military training, advice 
and logistical support to regime forces. 
(9) Hezbollah continues to serve as a proxy of 
Iran, in its effort to target the United States and its 
allies and interests. 
(10) Hezbollah’s global logistics and financial 
network serves as a lifeline to the organization, and 
enables it to consolidate power within Lebanon and 
provides it with the capabilities to perpetrate com-
plex attacks internationally. 
(11) Hezbollah has evolved into a significant 
drug smuggling organization, and also engages in 
other serious criminal activity, including money 
laundering, 
counterfeiting 
pharmaceuticals, 
and 
trade in conflict diamonds. 
(12) In April 2013, the Department of the 
Treasury blacklisted two Lebanese exchange houses, 
Kassem Rmeiti & Co. and Halawi Exchange Co., for 
laundering drug profits for Hezbollah, and stated 
that Hezbollah was operating like ‘‘an international 
drug cartel’’. 
(13) In 2009, the Department of the Treasury 
blacklisted the Lebanese Canadian Bank as a pri-
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mary money laundering concern, alleging that it is 
part of a drug trafficking network that profited 
Hezbollah by moving approximately $200,000,000 
per month. 
(14) The Department of Justice reports that 29 
of the 63 organizations on its FY 2010 Consolidated 
Priority Organization Targets list, which includes 
the most significant international drug trafficking 
organizations (DTOs) threatening the United States, 
were associated with terrorist groups. There is con-
cern about Hezbollah’s drug and criminal activities, 
as well as indications of links between al-Qa‘ida in 
the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb and the drug 
trade. 
(15) Al-Manar, the Lebanese satellite television 
station affiliated with Hezbollah broadcasting from 
Beirut, Lebanon, was designated as a Specially Des-
ignated Global Terrorist entity in 2004, but con-
tinues to be carried by international broadcasting 
agents. 
(16) Hezbollah continues to present a threat to 
the United States and its allies and interests. 
(b) STATEMENT OF POLICY.—It shall be the policy 
of the United States to— 
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