S.Amdt. 96

• Mr. Cruz submitted this amendment to be proposed to the bill H.R. 23.
• The purpose of the underlying bill is to impose sanctions with respect to the International Criminal Court if it engages in any effort to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute any protected person of the United States and its allies.
• The amendment aims to change the bill by replacing a portion of the text starting on page 4, line 21 through page 5, line 5.

Changes Added to the Bill

• It adds sanctions described in subsection (b)(1) with respect to the International Criminal Court.
• It adds a prohibition on the opening or the maintaining in the United States of a correspondent or payable-through account by any foreign financial institution determined by the President to have knowingly conducted or facilitated a significant transaction or transactions on behalf of the International Criminal Court or any person whose property is blocked under subsection (b)(1).
• It describes the sanctions for a foreign person described in subsection (a) as property blocking, requiring the President to exercise all of the powers granted by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to the extent necessary to block and prohibit all transactions in all property and interests in property of any foreign person described in paragraph (1) or (3) of subsection (a) if such property and interests are involved.