US Congress Senate Bill 2649 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on July 23 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-07-23 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Pending: Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Declares that, for purposes of U.S. law and for activities undertaken within the jurisdiction of the United States, no verdict, order, warrant, or writ issued by the government of Egypt or any court, administrative tribunal, or other Egyptian authority relating to the legal charges, trial proceedings, and convictions issued by the Cairo Criminal Court on June 4, 2013, in Public Prosecution Case No. 1110 for the Year 2012 against 43 staff of five international nongovernmental organizations shall be considered a conviction, and no person named in such verdict, order, warrant, or writ shall be considered to have been charged, accused, found guilty, or convicted. States that it is U.S. policy to recognize any related legal charges, trial proceedings, and convictions as being politically motivated and invalid.

A bill to provide certain legal relief from politically motivated charges by the Government of Egypt.

Sen. Lindsey Graham [R-SC]	Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]	Sen. Tim Kaine [D-VA]	Sen. Mark Kirk [R-IL]
Sen. John McCain [R-AZ]	Sen. Rand Paul [R-KY]	Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-07-23	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/2649/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/s2649/BILLS-113s2649is.pdf