The Stop Arming Terrorists Act is a proposed Act of Congress that was originally sponsored by United States Representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district Tulsi Gabbard and United States Senator for Kentucky Rand Paul in early 2017 to prohibit the use of United States Government funds to provide assistance to Al Qaeda, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and to countries supporting those organizations, and for other purposes. As of November 2017, 14 other lawmakers out of 435 United States House of Representatives have co-sponsored Gabbard's House bill. Paul's Senate version of the bill, on the other hand, has zero cosponsors. On December 20, 2019, the Senate passed S. 1790, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 became law with § 1228 stating:PROHIBITION ON PROVISION OF WEAPONS AND OTHER FORMS OF SUPPORT TO CERTAIN ORGANIZATIONS. None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2020 may be used to knowingly provide weapons or any other form of support to Al Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Jabhat Fateh al Sham, Hamas, Hizballah, Palestine Islamic Jihad, al-Shabaab, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or any individual or group affiliated with any such organization. H.R.608 - Stop Arming Terrorists Act On January 23, 2017, Tulsi Gabbard sponsored the House version of the bill: "To prohibit the use of United States Government funds to provide assistance to Al Qaeda, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and to countries supporting those organizations, and for other purposes." There were six original co-sponsors including North Carolina Republican Walter B. Jones Jr. and Virginia Republican and Army veteran Thomas Garrett. Six days prior, Gabbard had tweeted: "The practice of spending taxpayer dollars to fund counterproductive regime change wars must end. It is long overdue we pass the Stop Arming Terrorists Act to prevent terrorist groups like al-Qaeda or state sponsors like Saudi Arabia from receiving cash, weapons, or intelligence." Cosponsors S.532 - Stop Arming Terrorists Act On March 6, 2017, Rand Paul introduced the Senate version of the bill. It did not gather any co-sponsors. Incorporation into the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 On June 13, 2019, Gabbard secured inclusion of a provision into the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) "to prohibit