S. 721 (110th): Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act of 2007

Introduced:
Mar 01, 2007 (110th Congress, 2007–2009)
Sponsor:
Sen. Michael Enzi [R-WY]
Status:
Died (Referred to Committee)

The bill’s title was written by the bill’s sponsor. S. stands for Senate bill.

(About Ads | Go Ad-Free for $5)
Status

This bill was introduced on March 1, 2007, in a previous session of Congress, but was not enacted.

Progress
Introduced Mar 01, 2007
Referred to Committee Mar 01, 2007
Cosponsors
24 cosponsors (19D, 4R, 1I) (show)
Committees

Senate Foreign Relations

The committee chair determines whether a bill will move past the committee stage.

Full Title

A bill to allow travel between the United States and Cuba.

Summary

No summaries available.

Text

Read Bill Text »

Last updated Mar 01, 2007.
4 pages

Primary Source

View on THOMAS (The Library of Congress)

GovTrack gets most information from THOMAS, which is updated generally one day after events occur. Activity since the last update may not be reflected here.

Citation

Click a format for a citation suggestion:

GovTrack’s Bill Summary

We don’t have a summary available yet.

Library of Congress Summary

The summary below was written by the Congressional Research Service, which is a nonpartisan division of the Library of Congress.

3/1/2007--Introduced.
Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act of 2007 - Prohibits the President from regulating or prohibiting travel to or from Cuba by U.S. citizens or legal residents, or any of the transactions ordinarily incident to such travel, and any regulation restricting or prohibiting such travel shall have no effect, relating to:
(1) accompanied personal baggage;
(2) payment of living expenses and the acquisition of personal-use goods or services;
(3) travel arrangements;
(4) nonscheduled air, sea, or land voyage transactions, (such provision does not permit the carriage of articles other than accompanied baggage into Cuba or the United States); and
(5) normal banking transactions.
States that such provision shall not:
(1) apply in time of war or armed hostilities between the United States and Cuba, or of imminent danger to the public health or the physical safety of U.S. travelers; and
(2) authorize U.S. importation of personal consumption goods acquired in Cuba.

House Republican Conference Summary

The summary below was written by the House Republican Conference, which is the caucus of Republicans in the House of Representatives.

No summary available.

House Democratic Caucus Summary

The House Democratic Caucus does not provide summaries of bills.

So, yes, we display the House Republican Conference’s summaries when available even if we do not have a Democratic summary available. That’s because we feel it is better to give you as much information as possible, even if we cannot provide every viewpoint.

We’ll be looking for a source of summaries from the other side in the meanwhile.

The bill contains the following citations to other parts of U.S. law:

United States Code

The United States Code is the compilation of permanent laws enacted by Congress. Temporary and other non-permanent laws do not appear in the United States Code. (About half of the United States Code is the law itself, called positive law. The other half is merely a compilation of the laws but has no legal significance.)