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Strengthening US-Caribbean Partnership Act
To provide for the treatment of the Caribbean Community as an international organization for purposes of the International Organizations Immunities Act, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill amends the International Organizations Immunities Act to authorize the President to extend diplomatic privileges and immunities to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). The bill grants the President authority to treat CARICOM in the same manner as other public international organizations in which the United States participates under treaty or Act of Congress. The extension would provide CARICOM with diplomatic status and immunities subject to terms and conditions determined by the President. The bill does not automatically grant these immunities, but rather provides the legal authority for the President to do so at their discretion.
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Sponsor (1)
4 cosponsors
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Joaquin Castro’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- AVANZAR INTERIOR TECHNOLOGIES $6,600
- HARTMAN FOUNDATION $6,600
- GEORGE SALINAS INJURY LAWYERS $4,300
- RX MEDIA $4,300
- CANTU CONSTRUCTION $3,300
Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Joaquin Castro → · Outside spending →
Actions (2)
- Jun 3, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. · house
- Jun 3, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 3, 2025
Mr. Castro of Texas (for himself, Ms. Salazar, Mrs. Cherfilus- McCormick, and Mr. Lawler) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
A BILL
To provide for the treatment of the Caribbean Community as an international organization for purposes of the International Organizations Immunities Act, 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.
This Act may be cited as the “Strengthening US-Caribbean Partnership Act”.
SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF DIPLOMATIC PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES TO THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY.
The International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:
“SEC. 20. EXTENSION OF DIPLOMATIC PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES TO THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY.
“Under such terms and conditions as the President shall determine, the President is authorized to extend the provisions of this title to the Caribbean Community in the same manner, to the same extent, and subject to the same conditions, as it may be extended to a public international organization in which the United States participates pursuant to any treaty or under the authority of any Act of Congress authorizing such participation or making an appropriation for such participation”. <all>
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