[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1291 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
108th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1291
To authorize the President to impose emergency import restrictions on
archaeological or ethnological materials of Iraq until normalization of
relations between the United States and the Government of Iraq has been
established.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
June 19, 2003
Mr. Grassley (for himself and Mr. Baucus) introduced the following
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance
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A BILL
To authorize the President to impose emergency import restrictions on
archaeological or ethnological materials of Iraq until normalization of
relations between the United States and the Government of Iraq has been
established.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Emergency Protection for Iraqi
Cultural Antiquities Act of 2003''.
SEC. 2. EMERGENCY IMPLEMENTATION OF IMPORT RESTRICTIONS.
(a) Authority.--The President may exercise the authority of the
President under section 304 of the Convention on Cultural Property
Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 2603) with respect to any archaeological
or ethnological material of Iraq as if Iraq were a State Party under
that Act, except that, in exercising such authority, subsection (c) of
such section shall not apply.
(b) Definition.--In this section, the term ``archaeological or
ethnological material of Iraq'' means cultural property of Iraq and
other items of archaeological, historical, cultural, rare scientific,
or religious importance illegally removed from the Iraq National
Museum, the National Library of Iraq, and other locations in Iraq,
since the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 661 of
1990.
SEC. 3. TERMINATION OF AUTHORITY.
The authority of the President under section 2 shall terminate upon
the earlier of--
(1) the date that is 12 months after the date on which the
President certifies to Congress that normalization of relations
between the United States and the Government of Iraq has been
established; or
(2) September 30, 2004.
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