HR 6897 United States House · 117th Congress

PUPPETS Act of 2022

Summary

Preventing Usurpation of Power and Privileges by Extralegal Territories' Sedition Act of 2022 or the PUPPETS Act of 2022 This bill designates specified entities as foreign terrorist organizations and specially designated global terrorist organizations. The bill also prohibits the Department of Defense from taking any action that implies recognition of the sovereignty of such entities over territory or airspace claimed by the governments of Ukraine, Moldova, or Georgia. Entities subject to this bill include any entities holding themselves out to be the governments of any region of Ukraine that was not elected through elections in 2019 or 2020, the Pridnestrovian Moldovian Republic, the Republic of South Ossetia, or the Republic of Abkhazia.

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2022

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Introduced Mar 2, 2022 Last action Nov 1, 2022

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Committee

Nov 1, 2022

Committee

Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.

lower

Mar 3, 2022

Committee

Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.

lower

Mar 3, 2022

Committee

Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.

lower

Mar 2, 2022

Committee

Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Armed Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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.

lower

Mar 2, 2022

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Introduced in House

lower

1 primary · 3 co-sponsors