HR 4490
Passed a chamber
Authorizes the President to extend legal privileges and immunities under the International Organizations Immunities Act to four more international groups and to the African Union's mission to the United Nations in New York.
Official title: PARTNER Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
17-JUL-2025
Referred
17-JUL-2025
Approved by committee
22-JUL-2025
Passed
02-SEP-2025
Senate
Received
03-SEP-2025
- Lets the President extend International Organizations Immunities Act privileges to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, CERN, the Pacific Islands Forum, and the Caribbean Community, on terms the President sets.
- Extends to the African Union's permanent observer mission to the United Nations in New York, and its members, the privileges that UN member state missions and their members receive, subject to corresponding conditions and obligations.
- Applies the same conditions that apply to other public international organizations in which the United States participates.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (17-JUL-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 02-SEP-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Foreign Affairs Committee (House)
- Foreign Relations Committee (Senate)
International Affairs
■ 5 D■ 3 R
3 Republicans