Bill Details
Status
Latest action
2025-01-09 - Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Introduced Date
2025-01-09
Policy Area
International Affairs
Committees
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Cosponsors
6
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This bill would remove some existing U.S. restrictions on military equipment, security help, and defense sales involving the Republic of Cyprus. In simple terms, it would make it easier for the United States to provide defense articles and related assistance to Cyprus by deleting several legal limits and special requirements now written into federal law.
- It changes a provision from a previous defense law by removing several parts that currently limit or exclude certain defense items for Cyprus.
- It also removes specific requirements in foreign aid law that apply to security assistance and certain sales connected to Cyprus.
- If enacted, the bill would give the U.S. government more flexibility in dealing with Cyprus on military aid and defense-related sales.
Official Summaries
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 principles that support U.S. policy in the region (e.g., that such security assistance is intended solely for defensive purposes and preserves the balance of military strength among countries of the region).
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 298 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 298
To eliminate certain limitations and exclusions regarding defense
articles and requirements regarding security assistance and sales with
respect to the Republic of Cyprus.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 9, 2025
Ms. Malliotakis (for herself, Ms. Titus, Mr. Bilirakis, and Mr. Pappas)
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on
Foreign Affairs
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A BILL
To eliminate certain limitations and exclusions regarding defense
articles and requirements regarding security assistance and sales with
respect to the Republic of Cyprus.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 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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