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Strengthening Science Through Diplomacy Act of 2025
To amend the International Organizations Immunities Act to extend certain privileges and immunities to the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
Summary
This bill amends the International Organizations Immunities Act to authorize the President to extend diplomatic privileges and immunities to CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. The privileges and immunities would be extended in the same manner and to the same extent as those granted to other public international organizations in which the United States participates through treaty or congressional authorization. The President would determine the specific terms and conditions under which these privileges and immunities are extended to CERN.
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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)
- Jul 10, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. · house
- Jul 10, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 10, 2025
Mr. Castro of Texas (for himself, Mr. Johnson of South Dakota, and Mr. Foster) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
A BILL
To amend the International Organizations Immunities Act to extend certain privileges and immunities to the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
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 Science Through Diplomacy Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF CERTAIN PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES TO THE CONSEIL EUROPEEN POUR LA RECHERCHE NUCLEAIRE (CERN; THE EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH).
The International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section: “Sec. 21. Under such terms and conditions as the President shall determine, the President is authorized to extend the provisions of this title to the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) 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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