US Congress · H.R. 298 · In committee

To eliminate certain limitations and exclusions regarding defense articles and requirements regarding security assistance and s...

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Introduced 2025-01-09

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Officially: “To eliminate certain limitations and exclusions regarding defense articles and requirements regarding security assistance and sales with respect to the Republic of Cyprus.” Read the full text

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What it does

This bill eliminates certain statutory restrictions on U.S. security assistance to Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey. For example, the bill eliminates requirements that the President as a condition of transferring defense articles to Cyprus, annually certify to Congress that Cyprus is taking certain actions with regards to money laundering, financial regulatory oversight, and denying refueling and servicing to Russian military vessels; and when requesting certain security assistance funds from Congress for Greece and Turkey, certify that providing such assistance is compatible with specified principl

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1Elimination of requirements concerning the Republic of Cyprus

This section would amend two existing laws that affect the Republic of Cyprus. First, it would change section 1250A of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020, which the bill describes as covering limitations and exclusions on defense articles for Cyprus. It would rename that section's heading from wording about a repeal of a prohibition to wording about a sense of Congress, and it would drop the subsection label and heading that currently mark off subsection (a) ("Sense of Congress"), so the phrase "It is the sense of Congress that" becomes the section's lead-in text rather than a separately labeled subsection. It would then remove subsections (b), (c), and (d) of that section entirely, eliminating the limitations and exclusions on defense articles that those subsections had set out. Second, this section would amend section 620C of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 by removing subsections (d) and (e) of that section, eliminating the requirements regarding security assistance and certain sales that those subsections had set out.

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1. Elimination of requirements concerning the Republic of Cyprus (a) Elimination of limitations and exclusions regarding defense articles Section 1250A of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 ( 22 U.S.C. 2373 note) is amended— (1) in the heading, by striking Repeal of prohibition on and inserting Sense of Congress regarding ; (2) in subsection (a), by striking (a) Sense of Congress .—It is the sense of Congress that— and inserting the following: It is the sense of Congress that— ; and (3) by striking subsections (b), (c), and (d). (b) Elimination of requirements regarding security assistance and certain sales Section 620C of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 ( 22 U.S.C. 2373 ) is amended by striking subsections (d) and (e).

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Where it is

Introduced · 2025-01-09

In the House.

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The numbers

of bills introduced became law in the 118th Congress, 2023 to 2024 (n=16,213)

sponsors, out of 218 needed to pass

Every fact on this page links to its source, starting with the official bill record. Last action: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. (2025-01-09).