HR4490Passed House
PARTNER Act
Introduced
In Committee
Passed One Chamber
4
Passed Both5
Signed into Law119th
Congress
2025-07-17
Introduced
8
Cosponsors
HR
ⓘType
Sponsor
Joaquin Castro
Democrat · TX · Representative
Votes with party: 98.0% (586 recorded votes)
Full profile: /officials/C001091
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Cosponsors (8)
Members who have signed on to support this bill since introduction. Source: Congress.gov.
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Latest Action
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Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
2025-09-03
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Committee Activity
Currently in
- Senate Committee on Foreign RelationsReferred To · 2025-09-03
- House Committee on Foreign AffairsMarkup By · 2025-07-22
Previously
- House Committee on Foreign AffairsReferred To · 2025-07-17
Plain-English Summary
Providing Appropriate Recognition and Treatment Needed to Enhance Relations Act or the PARTNER Act This bill authorizes the President to extend diplomatic immunities and privileges provided by the International Organizations Immunities Act, including immunity from certain lawsuits and exemption from property taxes, to specified international regional and research organizations. Specifically, the bill authorizes the President to extend these immunities and privileges to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a regional organization with 10 members including Brunei, Indonesia, Singapore, and Vietnam; the Pacific Islands Forum, a regional organization with 18 members including Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea; the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), a regional organization with 15 members and 6 associate members including Barbados, Grenada, Jamaica, and Saint Lucia; and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), an international research organization focused on particle physics. The bill also authorizes the President to extend to the permanent observer mission of the African Union to the United Nations the privileges and immunities provided to permanent missions to the United Nations of member states.
Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.
Subjects
International Affairs
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