S 3273 Re-checks Congress.gov for new actions and updates the bill's status, and fills in any sponsors, committees, or related bills that are missing. It does not re-pull sponsors/cosponsors/committees/related — those rarely change — and it skips all work if nothing has changed upstream, so it's cheap to click.
American Allies Protection Act
To prohibit awarding grants to States that arrest certain foreign officials in cooperation with the International Criminal Court, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill restricts federal grants to states and local governments that arrest foreign officials from NATO member countries or U.S.-designated Major Non-NATO Allies based on International Criminal Court warrants or cooperate with the ICC. If a state, territory, or political subdivision conducts such an arrest or provides assistance to the ICC, the Attorney General cannot award, renew, or extend any federal grant to that jurisdiction for a four-year period. The restriction begins with the fiscal year after the bill's enactment and applies each fiscal year thereafter. The Attorney General can waive the grant prohibition if the President certifies to Congress that the ICC-related action is essential to U.S. national security interests and provides detailed justification.
AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.
Sponsor (1)
- Sen. Budd, Ted [R-NC] (R-NC)
Actions (2)
- Nov 20, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. · senate
- Nov 20, 2025 Introduced in Senate
Similar bills (6)
Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.
Full text
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
November 20, 2025
Mr. Budd introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To prohibit awarding grants to States that arrest certain foreign officials in cooperation with the International Criminal Court, 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 “American Allies Protection Act”.
SEC. 2. PENALTIES ON STATE OR LOCAL ENFORCEMENT OF ICC ACTIONS.
(a) Penalties.—Except as provided in subsection (b), if any public official, employee, or agent of a State, a territory, or the District of Columbia, or any political subdivision thereof, arrests, detains, or otherwise deprives the liberty of a current or former foreign government official of a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or of a government designated as a Major Non-NATO Ally based solely on a warrant, indictment, summons, or other process issued by the International Criminal Court or cooperates with, or provides assistance to, the International Criminal Court in effectuating such an arrest or detention, with respect to the fiscal year beginning on the first October 1 occurring after the date of enactment of the Act, and each fiscal year thereafter, the Attorney General may not award, renew, or extend a grant to the State, territory, the District of Columbia, or any political subdivision thereof, for a four-year period.
(b) Waiver Authority.—The Attorney General may waive the application of subsection (a) to a grant award if the President certifies to the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives that an act described in subsection (a) is essential to the national security interests of the United States, including a detailed justification for the necessity of the act. <all>
Comments