Stop the Killing in Syria Act
Latest action · Dec 21, 2020 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1193)
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedDec 10, 2020
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Stop the Killing in Syria Act
This bill requires the President to impose visa- and property-blocking sanctions against specified persons that assist or support Syria in malign activities and crimes against its own people, and it requires the Department of State to submit a strategy for removing the al-Assad regime from power and achieving a transition to a free and democratic Syria. Further, the bill prohibits any federal department or agency from recognizing any Syrian government led by Bashar al-Assad or the legitimacy of Bashar al-Assad as President of Syria.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 3
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Dec 10, 2020 |
| House | Financial Services Committee | Referred Dec 10, 2020 |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Dec 10, 2020 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 21, 2020Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1193)
- Dec 10, 2020Introduced in House
- Dec 10, 2020Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Lists H7148H.R. 8931–8951 | — | Dec 10, 2020 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 166, no. 209, December 10, 2020, page H7148.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To impose additional sanctions with respect to Syria, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Stop the Killing in Syria Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: International Affairs.
- Africa
- Asia
- Aviation and airports
- China
- Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
- Conflicts and wars
- Congressional oversight
- Correctional facilities and imprisonment
- Customs enforcement
- Detention of persons
- Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
- Disaster relief and insurance
- Economic development
- Egypt
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Family relationships
- Financial services and investments
- Firearms and explosives
- Foreign aid and international relief
- Foreign and international banking
- Foreign and international corporations
- Foreign property
- Fraud offenses and financial crimes
- Government information and archives
- Health facilities and institutions
- Human rights
- Infrastructure development
- International Affairs
- Iran
- Iraq
- Jordan
- Kuwait
- Lebanon
- Licensing and registrations
- Middle East
- Military operations and strategy
- Militias and paramilitary groups
- Oil and gas
- Oman
- Political parties and affiliation
- Protest and dissent
- Qatar
- Racial and ethnic relations
- Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
- Religion
- Russia
- Sanctions
- Smuggling and trafficking
- Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
- Syria
- Tariffs
- Telephone and wireless communication
- Turkey
- U.S. and foreign investments
- United Arab Emirates
- United Nations
- Violent crime
- War crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity
- Women's rights
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 10, 2020Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
