{"format":1,"id":"119-hr-23","congress":119,"number":"H.R. 23","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To impose sanctions with respect to the International Criminal Court engaged in any effort to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute any protected person of the United States and its allies.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To impose sanctions with respect to the International Criminal Court engaged in any effort to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute any protected person of the United States and its allies."},{"type":"Official Title from EH (Engrossed in House) bill text","title":"To impose sanctions with respect to the International Criminal Court engaged in any effort to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute any protected person of the United States and its allies."},{"type":"Short Title(s) from PCS (Placed on Senate Calendar) bill text","title":"Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act"},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2025-01-03","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2025-01-09","vote":{"id":"119-2025-h7","question":"On Passage","title":"Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act","result":"Passed","yea":243,"nay":140,"present":1,"not_voting":50,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll007.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"pending","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"not_yet","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 54 - 45. Record Vote Number: 22. (CR S410)","date":"2025-01-28"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[{"chamber":"senate","date":"2025-01-28","question":"On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed","title":"Motion to Invoke Cloture: Motion to Proceed to H.R. 23","result":"Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected","yea":54,"nay":45,"present":0,"not_voting":1,"kind":"procedural","source":"https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00022.xml"}],"crs_summary":{"date":"2025-01-03","stage":"Introduced in House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill imposes sanctions against foreign persons (individuals and entities) who assist the International Criminal Court (ICC) in investigating, arresting, detaining, or prosecuting certain individuals."},{"k":"p","t":"The bill categorizes as protected persons (1) any U.S. individual, U.S. entity, or person in the United States, unless the United States is a state party to the Rome Statute of the ICC and provides formal consent to ICC jurisdiction; and (2) any foreign person that is a citizen or lawful resident of a U.S. ally that is not a state party to the Rome Statute or has not consented to ICC jurisdiction."},{"k":"p","t":"If the ICC attempts to investigate, arrest, detain or prosecute a protected person, the President must impose visa- and property-blocking sanctions against the foreign persons that engaged in or materially assisted in such actions, as well as against foreign persons owned by, controlled by, or acting on behalf of such foreign persons. The President must also apply visa-blocking sanctions to the immediate family members of those sanctioned."},{"k":"p","t":"Upon enactment, the bill rescinds all funds appropriated for the ICC and prohibits the subsequent use of appropriated funds for the ICC."}],"words":191},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Requires the President to impose property-blocking and visa sanctions on foreign persons who assist International Criminal Court efforts to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute protected persons, and rescinds and bars appropriated funds for the Court.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/23/text/eh#H2987431DBF1346BD88842B846546340C"},{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/23/text/eh#HD847D566BD724321BB83DAD45FFDE964"}]},"core_areas":["Sanctions on foreign persons who assist International Criminal Court actions against protected persons","Rescission of and prohibition on appropriated funds for the International Criminal Court"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Requires the President, within 60 days of enactment and on an ongoing basis, to impose sanctions on foreign persons who engage in, aid, or materially support International Criminal Court efforts to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute a protected person, or who are owned or controlled by or act for such persons.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/23/text/eh#H2987431DBF1346BD88842B846546340C"}},{"text":"Requires the President to use International Emergency Economic Powers Act authorities to block all transactions in property of sanctioned foreign persons that is in the United States or in the possession or control of a United States person.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/23/text/eh#H2987431DBF1346BD88842B846546340C"}},{"text":"Makes sanctioned aliens and their immediate family members inadmissible and ineligible for visas, admission, or parole, and revokes their current visas and entry documentation immediately.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/23/text/eh#H2987431DBF1346BD88842B846546340C"}},{"text":"Requires the President to brief and notify the appropriate congressional committees in writing within 10 days after imposing sanctions, describing the persons sanctioned, their activity, and the sanctions imposed.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/23/text/eh#H2987431DBF1346BD88842B846546340C"}},{"text":"Allows the President to waive sanctions case by case for periods of up to 90 days each, on a report determining the waiver is vital to the national security interests of the United States, and to terminate sanctions on written certification that the Court has ended and permanently closed all such efforts.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/23/text/eh#H2987431DBF1346BD88842B846546340C"}},{"text":"Rescinds amounts appropriated for the International Criminal Court that are available for obligation on the date of enactment, and bars use of appropriated funds for the Court from that date on.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/23/text/eh#HD847D566BD724321BB83DAD45FFDE964"}}],"unexpected":[],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2025-01-09","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/23/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-01","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/23","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/23/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/119-hr-23.png","v":"d558d746d9f3","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 23, 119th Congress: Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act. House: 243 Yea, 140 Nay. Senate: not yet considered. Outcome: Passed House, 9 Jan 2025."}}