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HR 23 · 119th Congress · HouseOther

Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act

In plain language: This bill cuts off all current and future U.S. government funding to the International Criminal Court (ICC). It requires the President to freeze U.S. assets and impose visa bans on foreign individuals who assist ICC efforts to investigate, arrest, or prosecute U.S. personnel or citizens of non-ICC allied nations such as Israel. Additionally, it bans those individuals' immediate family members from entering the country and cancels any existing U.S. visas they hold.

Provisional: our plain-language summary, pending review.

Provisionalunreviewed: impact, provisions, stakeholders, summary
People affectedThe text applies to foreign persons and their immediate families who assist ICC investigations against protected persons, but does not specify or cap the number of individuals affected.
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Issues

What this bill touches.

Aid & alliances−45

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Who it affects

Who it helps · who it burdens.

Who it helps

  • Protected U.S. and allied personnelGains statutory protection from ICC investigations, arrests, detentions, and prosecutions through mandatory U.S. economic and visa sanctions against foreign persons assisting ICC actions against them (Sec. 3(a), Sec. 5(7)).provisional

Who it burdens

  • Foreign individuals and entities assisting ICC investigations of protected personnelFaces mandatory blocking of all U.S.-based property and financial transactions, visa denials, and revocation of existing U.S. entry visas for assisting ICC investigations or prosecutions against U.S. or non-ICC allied personnel (Sec. 3(a)(1), Sec. 3(b)).provisional
  • Immediate family members of sanctioned foreign individualsSpouses, parents, siblings, and adult children of sanctioned foreign individuals are barred from entering the United States, made ineligible for visas or parole, and have any existing U.S. visas revoked immediately (Sec. 3(a)(2), Sec. 3(b)(2), Sec. 5(5)).provisional

Who opposes it

  • International Criminal CourtLoses all previously appropriated but unspent federal funds, is prohibited from receiving any future U.S. funding, and has its personnel and supporters targeted by U.S. economic and travel sanctions (Sec. 3(a), Sec. 4(a), Sec. 4(b)).provisional

Dollar-level funding (FEC sector totals) is coming in a later phase.

What it does

The provisions, in plain language.

  1. Requires the President to block all U.S.-based property and financial transactions of foreign individuals and entities that assist, support, or act on behalf of International Criminal Court (ICC) efforts to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute U.S. personnel or citizens of non-ICC allied nations.

    Sec. 3(a)(1)provisional
  2. Bars sanctioned foreign individuals and their immediate family members from entering the United States and immediately revokes their existing U.S. visas.

    Sec. 3(a)(2)provisional
  3. Permits the President to waive sanctions for 90-day periods if certified to Congress as vital to U.S. national security.

    Sec. 3(e)provisional
  4. Cancels any previously appropriated and unspent federal funds allocated for the International Criminal Court.

    Sec. 4(a)provisional
  5. Prohibits using future federal appropriations to fund the International Criminal Court.

    Sec. 4(b)provisional

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Timeline

How it moved.

  1. Jan 28, 2025Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 54 - 45. Record Vote Number: 22. (CR S410)
  2. Jan 23, 2025Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure presented in Senate. (CR S307)
  3. Jan 9, 2025Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
  4. Jan 9, 2025On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 243 - 140, 1 Present (Roll no. 7). (text: CR H67-69)
  5. Jan 9, 2025Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 243 - 140, 1 Present (Roll no. 7). (text: CR H67-69)
  6. Jan 3, 2025Introduced in House
  7. Jan 3, 2025Introduced in House

The original text

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Sources & provenance

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