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To eliminate certain limitations and exclusions regarding defense articles and requirements regarding security assistance and sales with respect to the Republic of Cyprus.
To eliminate certain limitations and exclusions regarding defense articles and requirements regarding security assistance and sales with respect to the Republic of Cyprus.
Summary
This Act eliminates certain restrictions on defense articles and removes requirements regarding security assistance and sales to the Republic of Cyprus. Specifically, it amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 by removing provisions that limited defense article transfers to Cyprus. It also amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 by removing subsections that imposed requirements on security assistance and certain sales to Cyprus. The effect is to expand the ability of the United States to provide defense articles and security assistance to Cyprus without the previously mandated restrictions.
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- Jan 9, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. · house
- Jan 9, 2025 Introduced in House
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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
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). <all>
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