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Strengthening Reporting of Actions Taken Against the Normalization of Relations with Israel Act of 2020

Introduced: August 6, 2020 Introduced by: Booker, Cory A. Democratic · New Jersey See on congress.gov
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Strengthening Reporting of Actions Taken Against the Normalization of Relations with Israel Act of 2020

This bill requires the Department of State to include specified information concerning Arab-Israeli relations in the annual Country Report on Human Rights Practices. Such information shall include (1) the status of laws that punish individuals for people-to-people relations with Israelis (i.e., anti-normalization laws); (2) instances of prosecution or extrajudicial retribution against citizens or residents of Arab countries for calling for peace with Israel, visiting Israel, or engaging Israeli citizens in any country; and (3) evidence of steps taken by Arab governments toward permitting or encouraging people-to-people relations between their citizens or residents and Israeli citizens.

What's happening now August 6, 2020

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

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Tillis, Thomas
North Carolina · Oct 22, 2020
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Moran, Jerry
Kansas · Sep 16, 2020
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 4482: Strengthening Reporting of Actions Taken Against the Normalization of Relations with Israel Act of 2020. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-4482/
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"S. 4482: Strengthening Reporting of Actions Taken Against the Normalization of Relations with Israel Act of 2020." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-4482/.
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