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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 10642 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 10642
To provide for the imposition of sanctions with respect to settlements
in the West Bank and Gaza, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
October 1, 2026
Mr. Castro of Texas (for himself, Ms. Dean of Pennsylvania, Mr. Beyer,
Mr. Casar, Ms. Jacobs, Ms. Scanlon, Mr. Huffman, Mr. Tran, Ms. Balint,
Ms. Tokuda, Ms. Velazquez, Mr. Carter of Louisiana, Mr. Tonko, Ms.
Kamlager-Dove, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Doggett, Ms. Schakowsky,
Ms. Jayapal, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Casten, Ms. Randall, Ms. Salinas, Mr.
Frost, Mr. Lynch, Mr. DeSaulnier, Mr. Khanna, Ms. Hoyle of Oregon, Mrs.
Grijalva, Ms. McDonald Rivet, Ms. Stansbury, Mr. Deluzio, Mr. Takano,
Ms. Escobar, Mr. Carbajal, Ms. DeLauro, Ms. Mejia, Ms. Simon, Mr.
Thompson of Mississippi, Ms. Dexter, Mr. Carson, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, and
Mr. Quigley) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the
Judiciary, Financial Services, and Ways and Means, for a period to be
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration
of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee
concerned
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A BILL
To provide for the imposition of sanctions with respect to settlements
in the West Bank and Gaza, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Stop the
Settlements Act'' or the ``STS Act''.
(b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as
follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Sanctions on activities in support of Israeli settlements or
outposts in the West Bank or Gaza.
Sec. 3. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network guidance concerning
activities related to Israeli settlements
or outposts in the West Bank or Gaza.
Sec. 4. Prohibition on trade in Israeli goods from Israeli settlements
or outposts in the West Bank or Gaza.
Sec. 5. Sunset.
SEC. 2. SANCTIONS ON ACTIVITIES IN SUPPORT OF ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS OR
OUTPOSTS IN THE WEST BANK OR GAZA.
(a) Mandatory Sanctions.--The President shall impose the sanctions
described in subsection (c) with respect to any foreign person that the
President determines--
(1) to have been responsible for or complicit in, or to
have directly or indirectly engaged or attempted to engage in--
(A) the construction of any Israeli settlements or
outposts in the West Bank or Gaza on or after September
30, 2026;
(B) the investment in or construction of
infrastructure in the West Bank or Gaza designed to
facilitate the establishment of new Israeli settlements
or outposts or expansion of existing Israeli
settlements or outposts; or
(C) construction or development of settlements in
the settlement area known as ``E1'', within the Maale
Adumim settlement municipal zone;
(2) to have facilitated the transfer of Israeli civilian
population into Israeli settlements or outposts on or after
September 30, 2026; or
(3) to have been a leader or official of--
(A) any entity, including any government entity,
that has engaged in, or whose members have engaged in,
any of the activities described in paragraphs (1) and
(2); or
(B) any entity whose property and interests in
property are blocked under this Act.
(b) Discretionary Sanctions.--The President may impose the
sanctions described in subsection (c) with respect to any foreign
person the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the
Secretary of State, determines--
(1) to have participated in activities related to the
financing, planning, construction, expansion, or maintenance of
Israeli settlements or outposts that the President determines
undermines the viability of a future Palestinian state;
(2) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided
financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or
services to or in support of, any person with respect to which
sanctions have been imposed under this Act; or
(3) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or
purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly,
any person with respect to which sanctions have been imposed
under this Act.
(c) Sanctions Described.--The sanctions described in this
subsection are the following:
(1) Asset blocking.--Notwithstanding the requirements of
section 202 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act
(50 U.S.C. 1701), the President may exercise all powers granted
to the President by that Act to the extent necessary to block
and prohibit all transactions in all property and interests in
property of the foreign person if such property and interests
in property are in the United States, come within the United
States, or are or come within the possession or control of a
United States person.
(2) Visas, admission, or parole.--
(A) In general.--A foreign national who the
Secretary of State or the Secretary of Homeland
Security (or a designee of one of such Secretaries)
knows, or has reason to believe, is a foreign person
described in subsection (a) or (b) is--
(i) inadmissible to the United States;
(ii) ineligible for a visa or other
documentation to enter the United States; and
(iii) otherwise ineligible to be admitted
or paroled into the United States or to receive
any other benefit under the Immigration and
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.).
(B) Current visas revoked.--
(i) In general.--The issuing consular
officer, the Secretary of State, or the
Secretary of Homeland Security (or a designee
of one of such Secretaries) shall, in
accordance with section 221(i) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C.
1201(i)), revoke any visa or other entry
documentation issued to a foreign national
described in subparagraph (A) regardless of
when the visa or other entry documentation is
issued.
(ii) Effect of revocation.--A revocation
under clause (i)--
(I) shall take effect immediately;
and
(II) shall automatically cancel any
other valid visa or entry documentation
that is in the foreign national's
possession.
(d) Exceptions.--
(1) Exception to comply with international obligations.--
Sanctions under subsection (c)(2) shall not apply with respect
to the admission of an alien if admitting or paroling the alien
into the United States is necessary to permit the United States
to comply with the Agreement regarding the Headquarters of the
United Nations, signed at Lake Success June 26, 1947, and
entered into force November 21, 1947, between the United
Nations and the United States, or other applicable
international obligations.
(2) Exception for intelligence, law enforcement, and
national security activities.--Sanctions under this section
shall not apply to any authorized intelligence, law
enforcement, or national security activities of the United
States.
(3) Exception for humanitarian assistance.--Sanctions under
this section shall not apply to--
(A) the conduct or facilitation of a transaction
for the provision of agricultural commodities, food,
medicine, medical devices, humanitarian assistance, or
for humanitarian purposes; or
(B) transactions that are necessary for, or
ordinarily incident to, the activities described in
subparagraph (A).
(e) Implementation; Penalties.--
(1) Implementation.--The President may exercise all
authorities provided to the President under sections 203 and
205 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50
U.S.C. 1702 and 1704) to carry out this section.
(2) Penalties.--The penalties provided for in subsections
(b) and (c) of section 206 of the International Emergency
Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) shall apply to a person
that violates, attempts to violate, conspires to violate, or
causes a violation of regulations promulgated to carry out this
section to the same extent that such penalties apply to a
person who commits an unlawful act described in section 206(a)
of that Act.
(f) Waiver.--
(1) In general.--The President may, on a case-by-case
basis, waive for a period of not more than 12 months the
application of sanctions imposed with respect to a foreign
person under this section if the President--
(A) certifies to the appropriate congressional
committees, not later than 15 days before such waiver
is to take effect, that the waiver is vital to the
national security interests of the United States; and
(B) includes in such certification information
describing--
(i) the foreign person to which the waiver
applies; and
(ii) the activities that the foreign person
has engaged in.
(2) Subsequent renewal of waiver.--The President may, at
the conclusion of the period of a waiver under paragraph (1),
renew the waiver for one additional period not to exceed 12
months if the President determines for such renewal that, in
accordance with the requirements of subparagraphs (A) and (B)
of paragraph (1), it is appropriate to do so.
(g) Report.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment
of this Act, and every 180 days thereafter, the President shall submit
to the appropriate congressional committees a report that includes--
(1) an assessment of the implementation of this section
including--
(A) the names of any foreign persons that have been
designated for the imposition of sanctions under this
Act;
(B) a description of the sanctions considered and
imposed with respect to each such person; and
(C) a description of the activity each such person
has engaged in that was the basis for the sanctions;
(2) a list of foreign persons for which the imposition of
sanctions were waived under subsection (f) and a detailed,
specific description of the activity each such person engaged
in that would have been the basis for imposing sanctions but
for the waiver;
(3) a description of the status of Israeli settlement and
outpost expansion in the West Bank or Gaza;
(4) an assessment of to what extent United States persons,
including United States financial institutions and financial
services providers, provided materials or services to construct
or expand settlements and outposts, or facilitate such
construction or expansion; and
(5) a description of the actions that the United States
Government and regional partners are taking to protect the
viability of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza.
(h) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term
``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
(A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House
of Representatives; and
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the
Senate.
(2) Foreign person.--The term ``foreign person'' means--
(A) any individual who is not a United States
person; or
(B) any entity that is not organized under the laws
of the United States or of any jurisdiction within the
United States, including a foreign financial
institution, corporation, partnership, association,
trust, joint venture, organization, or any other legal
entity.
SEC. 3. FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK GUIDANCE CONCERNING
ACTIVITIES RELATED TO ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS OR OUTPOSTS IN
THE WEST BANK OR GAZA.
(a) In General.--Not later than 120 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement
Network, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Foreign
Assets Control, shall issue guidance to financial institutions relating
to the activities described in sections 2(a) and 2(b).
(b) Update.--The Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement
Network shall update the guidance required by subsection (a) not less
than every 180 days after the date of the issuance of the initial
guidance required by subsection (a).
SEC. 4. PROHIBITION ON TRADE IN ISRAELI GOODS FROM ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS
OR OUTPOSTS IN THE WEST BANK OR GAZA.
(a) In General.--Beginning on the date that is 120 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, no goods produced or manufactured
wholly or in part in any Israeli settlements or outposts in the West
Bank or Gaza may be imported into the United States.
(b) List.--The President shall develop and continually update a
list that includes the Israeli settlements or outposts in the West Bank
or Gaza for purposes of the prohibition in subsection (a).
(c) Exception for Personal Baggage.--
(1) In general.--The prohibition in subsection (a) shall
not apply to goods imported into the United States as
accompanied baggage by an individual arriving in the United
States, if such goods--
(A) are for the personal use of the individual,
including for use as a bona fide gift; and
(B) are not in commercial quantities and are not
imported for sale or resale.
(2) Unaccompanied shipments.--The exception under paragraph
(1) shall not apply to goods sent by mail, express courier, or
any other means of shipment not accompanying the individual.
(d) Regulations.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the head of each relevant Federal department and
agency shall promulgate such regulations as are necessary to implement
this section.
SEC. 5. SUNSET.
This Act shall terminate on the date that is 10 years after the
date of the enactment of this Act.
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