Syria Accountability Act

Syria Accountability Act
Long title	Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act
Acronyms (colloquial)	SALSRA
Enacted by	the 108th United States Congress
Legislative history
	Introduced in the House by Eliot Engel (D–NY) on April 12, 2003; Signed into law by President George W. Bush on December 12, 2003;

The Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act (SALSRA,Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 108–175 (text) (PDF)) is a bill of the United States Congress passed into law on December 12, 2003.

The bill's stated purpose is to end what the United States sees as Syrian support for terrorism, to end Syria's presence in Lebanon, which has been in effect since the end of the Lebanese Civil War in 1990, to stop Syria's alleged development of WMDs, to cease Syria's illegal importation of Iraqi oil and to end illegal shipments of military items to anti-US forces in Iraq.

The bill was sponsored by Representative Eliot L. Engel (D) from New York and was introduced April 12, 2003.

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