Title: Israeli Annexation Non-Recognition Act
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
Israeli Annexation Non-Recognition Act
This bill prohibits a federal department or agency from recognizing, or implying recognition of, any claim by Israel of sovereignty over any part of the occupied West Bank in violation of international humanitarian law or customary international law.
Further, it prohibits the use of certain federal funds to support specified activities in West Bank territory that has been unilaterally annexed by Israel or to facilitate or support such annexation. The Department of State must make an annual certification regarding any obligation or expenditure of such funds to Israel for these purposes.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8050 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8050

    To prohibit United States Government recognition of the Israeli 
Government's claim of sovereignty over the occupied West Bank, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 14, 2020

Ms. McCollum (for herself, Ms. Tlaib, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Ms. Pressley, 
    Mr. Pocan, Ms. Omar, and Mr. Carson of Indiana) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
    To prohibit United States Government recognition of the Israeli 
Government's claim of sovereignty over the occupied West Bank, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Israeli Annexation Non-Recognition 
Act''.

SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) unilateral annexation of any part of the occupied West 
        Bank by the Government of Israel--
                    (A) is a flagrant violation of international law 
                and a prohibited act of aggression under Article 2(4) 
                of the UN Charter;
                    (B) is contrary to the values of the American 
                people and the long-standing policy of the United 
                States to support and promote equality, human rights, 
                and dignity for both Palestinians and Israelis; and
                    (C) undermines United States national security 
                interests in the Middle East as well as diplomatic 
                efforts by the United States and the international 
                community to achieve a just and lasting peace between 
                Israel and the Palestinian people;
            (2) promoting human rights, human dignity, and democratic 
        rights for all Palestinians and Israelis are foreign policy 
        priorities of the United States;
            (3) the United States rejects any undemocratic system or 
        act of aggression in which Israel unilaterally exercises 
        permanent rule over a Palestinian people denied self-
        determination and human rights; and
            (4) any annexation of the occupied West Bank by the 
        Government of Israel is condemned by Congress as the illegal 
        annexation of occupied territory and should not be recognized 
        as legitimate by the United States.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION AGAINST UNITED STATES RECOGNITION OF THE ISRAELI 
              GOVERNMENT'S CLAIM OF SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE WEST BANK.

    (a) Statement of Policy.--It is the policy of the United States not 
to recognize any claim by the Government of Israel of sovereignty over 
any part of the occupied West Bank including its airspace.
    (b) Prohibition.--No Federal department or agency may take any 
action or extend any assistance in a manner that extends or implies 
United States recognition of such a claim of sovereignty in violation 
of international humanitarian law or customary international law.
    (c) Waiver.--
            (1) In general.--The President may waive the prohibition in 
        subsection (b) on a case-by-case basis beginning 30 days after 
        the date on which the President certifies to Congress that such 
        waiver is vital to the national security interests of the 
        United States.
            (2) Joint resolution of disapproval.--A waiver certified 
        pursuant to paragraph (1) shall not take effect if, during the 
        30-day period described in paragraph (1), there is enacted a 
        joint resolution disapproving such waiver.
    (d) Funding Limitation.--No Federal funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available to the ``Foreign military financing program'' account, 
or otherwise authorized to be appropriated or made available to carry 
out section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2763), may be 
made available to deploy or support the deployment of personnel, 
training, services, lethal materials, equipment, facilities, logistics, 
transportation, or any other activity in territory in the West Bank 
unilaterally annexed by Israel, or to facilitate or support the 
unilateral annexation of such territory.
    (e) Certification.--Not later than September 30, 2021, and annually 
thereafter, the Secretary of State shall certify to the Committee on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Appropriations of the Senate one of the following with respect to the 
preceding fiscal year:
            (1) A certification that none of the funds obligated or 
        expended in the previous fiscal year for assistance to the 
        Government of Israel have been used by such Government to 
        support personnel, training, lethal materials, equipment, 
        facilities, logistics, transportation or any other activity 
        that supports or is associated with any of the activities 
        prohibited under subsection (d).
            (2) A certification that funds obligated or expended in the 
        previous fiscal year have supported or been associated with an 
        activity prohibited under subsection (d), along with a report 
        describing in detail the amount of such funds used by the 
        Government of Israel in violation of such subsection and each 
        activity supported by such funds.
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