S3740-119

In Committee

Save the Kurds Act

119th Congress Introduced Jan 29, 2026

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Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, Save the Kurds Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting financial institutions, investors, and borrowers. The main policy domain is Finance, Defense, Immigration.

Who Benefits and How

financial institutions, investors, and borrowers may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.

Who Bears the Burden and How

federal implementing agencies, financial institutions, investors, and borrowers may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section S1: 1. Short title; table of contents This Act may be cited as the Save the Kurds Act. The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
  • Section idcb6adc440a1d4954a3ef98b34be11867: 2. Definitions In this Act: The terms admission, admitted, alien, and lawfully admitted for permanent residence have the meanings given those terms in section...
  • Section id03ef7cdb19e64363b46ff38a0de4c456: 3. Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that— the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces made significant contributions to the elimination of the ISIS...
  • Section id77f93b311eb84b2db301e64f721c5da5: 101. Redesignation of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham as a foreign terrorist organization Upon the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall designate...
  • Section id6d89764d54b9463eab18f4f4e8c330d6: 201. Authority to terminate state sponsor of terrorism designation of Syria; congressional review Subject to subsection (b), the President may terminate the...

Evidence Chain:

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At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, Save the Kurds Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting financial institutions, investors, and borrowers.

Key Policy Areas

Finance, Defense, Immigration

Primary Purpose

This bill, Save the Kurds Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting financial institutions, investors, and borrowers.

Policy Domains

Finance Defense Immigration

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • financial institutions, investors, and borrowers
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financial institutions, investors, and borrowers: ,
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • financial institutions, investors, and borrowers
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financial institutions, investors, and borrowers: ,

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Jan 29, 2026

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, …

Jan 29, 2026

Introduced in Senate

Jan 29, 2026

Mr. Graham (for himself and Mr. Blumenthal) introduced the following …

Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Finance Defense Immigration
Actor Mappings
"the_commission"
→ The commission identified in the operative section
"secretary_of_treasury"
→ Secretary of the Treasury

Key Definitions

Terms defined in this bill

1 term
"state sponsor of terrorism" §idcb6adc440a1d4954a3ef98b34be11867

a country the government of which the Secretary of State has determined has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism for purposes of— section 1754(c)(1)(A)(i) of the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (50 U.S.C. 4813(c)(1)(A)(i))

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