Bill Details
HR.525 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-01-16 - Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Introduced Date
2025-01-16
Policy Area
International Affairs
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This bill would let the President stop U.S. aid to Honduras if the Honduran government refuses to host U.S. military or civilian personnel at Soto Cano Air Base. It says that once U.S. personnel are pulled out because of that refusal, the President may suspend all assistance to Honduras, including aid tied to the long-standing military assistance agreement between the two countries.
- The bill focuses on Honduras’s decision about hosting U.S. personnel at Soto Cano Air Base.
- If U.S. military and civilian staff are moved out because Honduras will not allow them to stay, the President could cut off all U.S. assistance to Honduras.
- The aid that could be suspended includes money and support under the 1954 military assistance agreement and any later changes to that agreement.
Official Summaries
Honduras Obstinately Neglects Defense and Risks Alienating Security Act or HONDURAS Act
This bill authorizes the President to suspend all assistance to Honduras if U.S. military and civilian personnel redeploy from Soto Cano Air Base as the result of the Honduran government's refusal to host such personnel at the base.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 525 Introduced in House (IH)]
<DOC>
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 525
To prohibit funding to the Government of the Republic of Honduras.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 16, 2025
Mr. Ogles (for himself and Ms. Salazar) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
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A BILL
To prohibit funding to the Government of the Republic of Honduras.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Honduras Obstinately Neglects
Defense and Risks Alienating Security Act'' or ``HONDURAS Act''.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF FUNDING.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, beginning after the
redeployment of United States military and civilian personnel from Soto
Cano Air Base in Honduras as a result of the refusal or unwillingness
of the Government of the Republic of Honduras to host such personnel,
the President is authorized to suspend all assistance to the Republic
of Honduras, to include any assistance extended under the May 20, 1954,
bilateral military assistance agreement between the United States and
Honduras and any subsequent amendments to that agreement.
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