{"format":1,"id":"118-hr-340","congress":118,"number":"H.R. 340","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Hamas and Other Palestinian Terrorist Groups International Financing Prevention Act","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To impose sanctions with respect to foreign support for terrorist organizations, including Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To impose sanctions with respect to foreign support for terrorist organizations, including Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad."},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Hamas and Other Palestinian Terrorist Groups International Financing Prevention Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) from PCS (Placed on Senate Calendar) bill text","title":"Hamas and Other Palestinian Terrorist Groups International Financing Prevention Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Hamas International Financing Prevention Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"Hamas and Other Palestinian Terrorist Groups International Financing Prevention Act"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2023-01-12","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2023-11-01","vote":{"id":"118-2023-h561","question":"On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended","title":"Hamas and Other Palestinian Terrorist Groups International Financing Prevention Act","result":"Passed","yea":363,"nay":46,"present":0,"not_voting":23,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2023/roll561.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"na","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"na","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 237.","date":"2023-11-06"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2023-11-01","stage":"Passed House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Hamas and Other Palestinian Terrorist Groups International Financing Prevention Act"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill imposes sanctions targeting Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, the Lion's Den, and any affiliate or successor groups."},{"k":"p","t":"The President must impose property-blocking sanctions on foreign persons that knowingly (1) provide certain types of support (such as significant financial or technological support) for acts of terrorism, or (2) engage in a significant transaction with a senior member of the targeted groups or with a senior member of a foreign terrorist organization providing support to the targeted groups."},{"k":"p","t":"The President must also impose measures on foreign states that (1) provide significant material and financial support for acts of international terrorism, (2) provide significant material support to the targeted groups, or (3) engage in significant transactions that materially contribute to the terrorist activities of the targeted groups. The President must bar these governments for one year from receiving U.S. assistance and exports of controlled munitions and other items. The Department of the Treasury must instruct U.S. leadership of international financial institutions to oppose providing assistance to an identified government for one year."},{"k":"p","t":"The bill provides for certain exceptions and waivers, such as for transactions that would serve vital U.S. national interests."},{"k":"p","t":"The President must periodically report to Congress on specified topics related to the targeted groups, such as the groups' assets and activities and a list of foreign states that conduct significant fundraising, financing, or money laundering activities for the groups."}],"words":242},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Requires the President to impose sanctions on foreign persons and measures on foreign states that support acts of terrorism or Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, the Lion's Den, or their affiliates or successors, and to report to Congress on the financing of those groups.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/340/text/eh#H09C4DC615924462DA4B309D8426EC762"},{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/340/text/eh#H215D67C7575D4C389D14638672439E17"},{"label":"Sec. 5","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/340/text/eh#H1D9C08D8A9364DACB3D3C85E1D8047C3"}]},"core_areas":["Property-blocking sanctions on foreign persons supporting terrorism","Measures against foreign states supporting Hamas and other named groups","Presidential reports on fundraising, financing and money laundering by the named groups"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Requires the President to block property under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of foreign persons who knowingly give significant support for acts of terrorism or engage in a significant transaction with a senior member of the named groups.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/340/text/eh#H09C4DC615924462DA4B309D8426EC762"}},{"text":"Allows the President to waive sanctions on a foreign person case by case for up to 180 days, on submitting a written determination to the appropriate congressional committees 15 days beforehand that the waiver is in the vital national security interests of the United States.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/340/text/eh#H09C4DC615924462DA4B309D8426EC762"}},{"text":"Requires the President to suspend United States assistance to a foreign state for at least 1 year if it knowingly provides significant material or financial support for international terrorism or significant material support to the named groups.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/340/text/eh#H215D67C7575D4C389D14638672439E17"}},{"text":"Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the United States Executive Director to each appropriate international financial institution to oppose and vote against loans or assistance to that state's government for 1 year.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/340/text/eh#H215D67C7575D4C389D14638672439E17"}},{"text":"Requires the President to report to the appropriate congressional committees 90 days after enactment and every 180 days thereafter, including lists of foreign states that support the named groups or host their fundraising, financing or money laundering.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 5","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/340/text/eh#H1D9C08D8A9364DACB3D3C85E1D8047C3"}},{"text":"Ends the Act on the earlier of 7 years after enactment or 30 days after the President certifies that specified designations and sanctions on the named groups have ended.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 7","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/340/text/eh#HF22334229F7248F9BB28E17AF4F6D395"}}],"unexpected":[{"category":"selective_carve_out","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/340/text/eh#H9F2E9471499C4FCE9C2DD43AC6FCFFD1"},"heading":"Exception relating to importation of goods","effect":"Excludes the importation of goods from the sanctions authorized or required under the Act.","amount":null,"quote":"The authorities and requirements to impose sanctions authorized under this Act shall not include the authority or requirement to impose sanctions on the importation of goods."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/340/text/eh#H215D67C7575D4C389D14638672439E17"},"heading":"Imposition of measures with respect to foreign states providing support to Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other Palestinian terrorist organizations","effect":"Lets the President exempt a foreign state from the measures where they would block a status of forces agreement, and exempts activity under the National Security Act of 1947 reporting rules and authorized intelligence activities. It also allows a humanitarian aid waiver.","amount":null,"quote":"Measures under this section shall not apply with respect to any activity subject to the reporting requirements under title V of the National Security Act of 1947"}]}],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2023-11-01","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/340/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-02","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/340","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/340/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/118-hr-340.png","v":"d3346b173cff","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 340, 118th Congress: Hamas and Other Palestinian Terrorist Groups International Financing Prevention Act. House: 363 Yea, 46 Nay. Outcome: Passed House, 1 Nov 2023."}}