S.2579
Introduced:
July 9, 2014
113
Second
July 10, 2014
Placed on Senate calendar
This bill would authorize the secretary of state to offer up to $5 m. to any individual with information that leads to the arrest or conviction of the perpetrators of the kidnapping and subsequent killing of 3 Israeli settler teenagers on 6/12/14. The 3 were abducted while hitchhiking home from school in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc near Hebron and their bodies subsequently found on 6/30, approximately 15 miles from where they were last seen. (See the Quarterly Update in JPS 173 for more on the kidnappings and their aftermath.)
It is identical to S. 2577, also of 7/9/14. It is unclear why Sen. Cruz introduced it twice.
No cosponsors.
Last major action: 7/10/14 Read the second time and placed on Senate legislative calendar.