I 
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6626 
To take certain actions with respect to Saudi Arabia in response to the 
shootings that occurred at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida on 
December 6, 2019. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 6, 2023 
Mr. GAETZ introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, 
and Armed 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 take certain actions with respect to Saudi Arabia in 
response to the shootings that occurred at Naval Air 
Station Pensacola in Florida on December 6, 2019. 
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 ‘‘Saudi Arabia Decem-
ber 6, 2019, Anti-Terror and Accountability Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) Trust between the Kingdom of Saudi Ara-
bia and the United States has been eroded by the 
devastating humanitarian costs of the war in Yemen, 
the kidnappings and shakedowns of royals and other 
businessmen in the Riyadh Ritz-Carlton, the murder 
of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and the torture of 
women activists seeking equal rights. 
(2) Fifteen of the September 11, 2001, 
attackers were Saudi citizens, nationals, or of Saudi 
descent and some of these individuals had direct as-
sistance from the Saudi Government for training, 
logistical support, and radicalization. 
(3) Mohammed Alshamrani, a 21-year-old sec-
ond lieutenant in the Royal Saudi Air Force who 
was radicalized by al-Qa‘ida in the Arabian Penin-
sula (AQAP) and Osama bin Laden’s teachings of 
Wahhabiism, fatally shot Cameron Walters, 21, Mo-
hammed Sameh Haitham, 19, Joshua Kaleb Wat-
son, 23, and wounded eight others, including two 
sheriff’s deputies, at Naval Air Station Pensacola in 
Florida on December 6, 2019, in an act of 
unprovoked and cowardly terror. 
(4) Al-Shamrani was a Trojan Horse sent by 
his country, Saudi Arabia, and the Saudi authorities 
were negligent in properly screening Al-Shamrani. 
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(5) The Saudi Government had an obligation to 
report Al-Shamrani’s anti-American social media 
posts prior to his enrollment in a joint military 
training program at Naval Air Station Pensacola. 
(6) The Saudi Government was derelict in mon-
itoring and reporting Al-Shamrani’s radicalization, 
and on failed in their promise to compensate the vic-
tims of Al-Shamrani’s terrorist attack. 
SEC. 3. PROHIBITIONS ON ASSISTANCE TO SAUDI ARABIA. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—None of the funds available to the 
Department of Defense or any other Federal agency may 
be used to— 
(1) support the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen or 
any other Saudi-led proxy wars; or 
(2) carry out any military officer exchange pro-
grams with Saudi Arabia. 
(b) EXPORT CONTROLS.—Notwithstanding the Ex-
port Control Reform Act of 2018, the President shall pro-
hibit the export of munitions containers, weapon support, 
support equipment, spare and repair parts, technical and 
logistical support services, and related elements of 
logistical and program support to Saudi Arabia. 
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SEC. 4. COMPENSATION FOR VICTIMS. 
Section 404(c) of the Justice for United States Vic-
tims of State Sponsored Terrorism Act (34 U.S.C. 20144) 
is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (2)— 
(A) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘or’’ 
at the end and inserting; 
(B) in subparagraph (C), by striking the 
period at the end and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end, the following: 
‘‘(D) $10,000,000 for a victim as defined 
under 40 CFR § 170.305 (or an immediate 
family member of a victim if the victim is de-
ceased, whether or not as direct result of the 
shooting) of the shooting by Mohammed 
Alshamrani at Naval Air Station Pensacola in 
Florida on December 6, 2019.’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (3)(A), by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘(iii) Not later than one year after 
the date of enactment of the Saudi Arabia 
December 6, 2019, Anti-Terror and Ac-
countability Act, for a claim described in 
paragraph (2)(D).’’. 
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SEC. 5. FUNDING FOR COMPENSATION FOR VICTIMS. 
Section 404(e)(5) of the Justice for United States 
Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Act (34 U.S.C. 
20144(e)(5)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘Fund’’ and inserting ‘‘Fund— 
’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘out of any’’ and inserting ‘‘(A) 
out of any’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end, the following new sub-
paragraph: 
‘‘(B) $1,000,000,000 to be derived from 
unobligated balances of amounts appropriated 
for security assistance for Ukraine in fiscal year 
2024 and to remain available until expended to 
carry out subsection (c)(2)(D) and for other 
purposes of the fund. Any unused funds are 
made available to all victim eligible for damages 
under 34 U.S.C. 20144.’’. 
Æ 
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