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[CITE: 10USC2249a]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                PART IV--SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
 
          CHAPTER 134--MISCELLANEOUS ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
 SUBCHAPTER I--MISCELLANEOUS AUTHORITIES, PROHIBITIONS, AND LIMITATIONS 
                    ON THE USE OF APPROPRIATED FUNDS
 
Sec. 2249a. Prohibition on providing financial assistance to 
        terrorist countries
        
    (a) Prohibition.--Funds available to the Department of Defense may 
not be obligated or expended to provide financial assistance to--
        (1) any country with respect to which the Secretary of State has 
    made a determination under section 6(j)(1)(A) of the Export 
    Administration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 2405(j)(1)(A));
        (2) any country identified in the latest report submitted to 
    Congress under section 140 of the Foreign Relations Authorization 
    Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 (22 U.S.C. 2656f), as providing 
    significant support for international terrorism; or
        (3) any other country that, as determined by the President--
            (A) grants sanctuary from prosecution to any individual or 
        group that has committed an act of international terrorism; or
            (B) otherwise supports international terrorism.

    (b) Waiver.--(1) The President may waive the application of 
subsection (a) to a country if the President determines--
        (A) that it is in the national security interests of the United 
    States to do so; or
        (B) that the waiver should be granted for humanitarian reasons.

    (2) The President shall--
        (A) notify the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
    Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services 
    and the Committee on International Relations of the House of 
    Representatives at least 15 days before the waiver takes effect; and
        (B) publish a notice of the waiver in the Federal Register.

    (c) Definition.--In this section, the term ``international 
terrorism'' has the meaning given that term in section 140(d) of the 
Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 (22 
U.S.C. 2656f(d)).

(Added Pub. L. 104-106, div. A, title XIII, Sec. 1341(a), Feb. 10, 1996, 
110 Stat. 485; amended Pub. L. 105-85, div. A, title X, 
Sec. 1073(a)(40), Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 1902; Pub. L. 106-65, div. A, 
title X, Sec. 1067(1), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 774.)


                               Amendments

    1999--Subsec. (b)(2)(A). Pub. L. 106-65 substituted ``and the 
Committee on Armed Services'' for ``and the Committee on National 
Security''.
    1997--Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 105-85 substituted ``50 U.S.C. App. 
2405(j)(1)(A)'' for ``50 App. 2405(j)''.
