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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3460 

To suspend until January 21, 2017, the authority of the President to waive, 

suspend, reduce, provide relief from, or otherwise limit the application 

of sanctions pursuant to an agreement related to the nuclear program 

of Iran. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 

Mr. ROSKAM introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, the Judiciary, Oversight and Government Reform, and 

Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 

Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within 

the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To suspend until January 21, 2017, the authority of the 

President to waive, suspend, reduce, provide relief from, 

or otherwise limit the application of sanctions pursuant 

to an agreement related to the nuclear program of Iran. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SUSPENSION OF AUTHORITY TO WAIVE, SUS2 PEND, REDUCE, PROVIDE RELIEF FROM, OR 

3 OTHERWISE LIMIT THE APPLICATION OF 

4 SANCTIONS PURSUANT TO AN AGREEMENT 

5 RELATED TO THE NUCLEAR PROGRAM OF 

6 IRAN. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi8 sion of law, prior to January 21, 2017, the President may 

9 not— 

10 (1) waive, suspend, reduce, provide relief from, 

11 or otherwise limit the application of sanctions de12 scribed in subsection (b) or refrain from applying 

13 any such sanctions; or 

14 (2) remove a foreign person listed in Attach15 ment 3 or Attachment 4 to Annex II of the Joint 

16 Comprehensive Plan of Action from the list of spe17 cially designated nationals and blocked persons 

18 maintained by the Office of Foreign Asset Control of 

19 the Department of the Treasury. 

20 (b) SANCTIONS DESCRIBED.—The sanctions de21 scribed in this subsection are— 

22 (1) the sanctions described in sections 4 

23 through 7.9 of Annex II of the Joint Comprehensive 

24 Plan of Action; and 

25 (2) the sanctions described in any other agree26 ment related to the nuclear program of Iran that inVerDate Sep 11 2014 00:41 Sep 10, 2015 Jkt 049200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H3460.IH H3460

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1 cludes the United States, commits the United States 

2 to take action, or pursuant to which the United 

3 States commits or otherwise agrees to take action, 

4 regardless of the form it takes, whether a political 

5 commitment or otherwise, and regardless of whether 

6 it is legally binding or not. 

7 (c) JOINT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF ACTION DE8 FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘Joint Comprehensive 

9 Plan of Action’’ means the Joint Comprehensive Plan of 

10 Action, signed at Vienna on July 14, 2015, by Iran and 

11 by the People’s Republic of China, France, Germany, the 

12 Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United 

13 States, with the High Representative of the European 

14 Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and all im15 plementing materials and agreements related to the Joint 

16 Comprehensive Plan of Action. 

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