,,ii  #aagth ,,congress  #ast ,session  
,s4 #ccah  ,,in ,,the ,,senate ,,of     
,,the ,,united ,,states  ,december #f1  
#bjba,mr4 ,cotton 7for himself1 ,mr4    
,young1 ,mr4 ,cramer1 ,mr4 ,rubio1 ,mr4 
,braun1 ,mrs4 ,blackburn1 ,mr4 ,scott of
 ,florida1 ,mr4 ,marshall1 ,mr4 ,cruz1  
,mr4 ,daines1 ,mr4 ,blunt1 ,mr4         
,hagerty1 and ,mr4 ,graham7 introduced  
the following bill2 which was read twice
 and referred to the ,committee on      
,banking1 ,housing1 and ,urban ,affairs 
,a ,,bill  ,to deter foreign financial  
institutions from providing banking     
services for the benefit of foreign     
terrorist organizations and from        
facilitating or promoting payments for  
acts of terrorism4  #a4 ,short title    
,this ,act may be cited as the ,taylor  
,force ,martyr ,payment ,prevention ,act
 of #bjba4  #b4 ,findings2 sense of     
,congress  7a7 ,findings ,congress makes
 the following findings3 7#a7 ,banks in 
nominally friendly jurisdictions evade  
,united ,states anti-terrorism sanctions

 by avoiding an official presence in the
 ,united ,states1 and continue to       
knowingly provide banking services1     
including dollar-denominated            
transactions1 for terrorist             
organizations that target ,united       
,states nationals for murder4  7#b7     
,such flouting of anti-terrorism        
financial regulations is only possible  
through the maintenance or use of       
correspondent accounts at ,united       
,states banks for the benefit of        
terrorist organizations4  7b7 ,sense of 
,congress ,it is the sense of ,congress 
that under authority granted by section 
#ecah;,a of title #ca1 ,united ,states  
,code1 as amended by section #c1 the    
,secretary of the ,treasury should--    
7#a7 find foreign financial institutions
 that flout anti-terrorism financial    
regulations to be of primary money      
laundering concern2 and  7#b7 prohibit  
the maintenance or use of correspondent 
accounts in the ,united ,states by such 
institutions4  #c4 ,consideration of    

facilitation of terrorism in designating
 institutions1 accounts1 and            
transactions as of primary money        
laundering concern ,section             
#ecah;,a7c77#b77;,b7 of title #ca1      
,united ,states ,code1 is amended-- 7#a7
 in the matter preceding clause 7i71 by 
striking all #c and inserting all of the
 preceding2  7#b7 in clause 7ii71 by    
striking 2 and and inserting a          
semicolon2 and  7#c7 by adding at the   
end the following3  7iv7 notwithstanding
 clause 7ii71 the extent to which such  
institutions knowingly provide1 or cause
 other financial institutions to        
provide1 financial services 7including  
personal banking services7 to the entity
 described in subsection 7a7 of section 
#eid4cai of title #ca1 ,code of ,federal
 ,regulations 7or a successor           
regulation71 or persons described in    
subsection 7b7 of that section2 and  7v7
 the extent to which such institutions1 
transactions1 or types of accounts are  
used to facilitate or promote payments  

for acts of terrorism described in      
section #ajjd7;a77#a77;,b7 of the       
,taylor ,force ,act 7#bb ,u4,s4,c4      
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