Prohibiting Assistance to the Taliban Act

Bill: 117-hr-5164
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Gimenez, Carlos A. [R-FL-26]
Introduced: 2021-09-03
Policy area: International Affairs
Latest action: action_date: 2021-09-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-09-03
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Prohibiting Assistance to the Taliban Act</strong></p> <p>This bill prohibits using federal funds for foreign assistance to the Taliban, either directly or indirectly.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5164 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 3, 2021 Mr. Gimenez (for himself, Mr. Cawthorn , Miss González-Colón , Ms. Malliotakis , Mr. Budd , Mr. Biggs , Mr. Good of Virginia , Mr. Guest , Mr. Carter of Georgia , and Ms. Tenney ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs A BILL To prohibit Federal assistance from being made available to the Taliban, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Prohibiting Assistance to the Taliban Act . 2. Prohibition on Federal assistance to the Taliban Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Federal funds may be made available in the form of foreign assistance— (1) to the Taliban; (2) to any person that the Secretary of State reasonably believes would fail to prevent such assistance from being made available to or for the benefit of the Taliban; or (3) that has the effect of benefitting or otherwise supporting terrorist activities by the Taliban.