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115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2081 

To amend the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 

2012 to modify the requirement to impose sanctions with respect to 

the provision of specialized financial messaging services to the Central 

Bank of Iran and other sanctioned Iranian financial institutions, and 

for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 6, 2017 

Mr. ZELDIN (for himself and Mr. SCHWEIKERT) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition 

to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Financial Services, 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 amend the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human 

Rights Act of 2012 to modify the requirement to impose 

sanctions with respect to the provision of specialized 

financial messaging services to the Central Bank of Iran 

and other sanctioned Iranian financial institutions, and 

for other purposes. 

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. MODIFICATION OF REQUIREMENT TO IMPOSE 

2 SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE PROVI3 SION OF SPECIALIZED FINANCIAL MES4 SAGING SERVICES TO THE CENTRAL BANK 

5 OF IRAN AND OTHER SANCTIONED IRANIAN 

6 FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 220(c) of the Iran Threat 

8 Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012 (22 

9 U.S.C. 8726(c)) is amended— 

10 (1) by redesignating paragraph (2) as para11 graph (3); 

12 (2) in paragraph (1)— 

13 (A) by striking ‘‘paragraph (2)’’ and in14 serting ‘‘paragraph (3)’’; and 

15 (B) by striking ‘‘the President may im16 pose’’ and all that follows and inserting ‘‘the 

17 President shall impose sanctions pursuant to 

18 that section, the International Emergency Eco19 nomic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), or 

20 paragraph (2) of this subsection with respect to 

21 the person.’’; and 

22 (3) by inserting after paragraph (1) the fol23 lowing: 

24 ‘‘(2) EXCLUSION FROM THE UNITED STATES

25 AND REVOCATION OF VISA OR OTHER DOCUMENTA26 TION.— 

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1 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The sanctions de2 scribed in this paragraph are, in the case of an 

3 alien determined by the President to be a senior 

4 executive or member of the board of directors 

5 of a person described in paragraph (1), denial 

6 of a visa to, and exclusion from the United 

7 States of, the alien, and revocation in accord8 ance with section 221(i) of the Immigration and 

9 Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1201(i)), of any visa 

10 or other documentation of the alien. 

11 ‘‘(B) DEFINITION.—In this paragraph, the 

12 term ‘alien’ has the meaning given such term in 

13 section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality 

14 Act (8 U.S.C. 1101).’’. 

15 (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 

16 subsection (a) take effect on the date of the enactment 

17 of this Act and apply with respect to any person that en18 gages in any of the activities described in paragraph (1) 

19 of section 220(c) of the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria 

20 Human Rights Act of 2012 on or after such date of enact21 ment. 

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1 SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON WAIVER OF SANCTIONS WITH RE2 SPECT TO THE PROVISION OF SPECIALIZED 

3 FINANCIAL MESSAGING SERVICES TO THE 

4 CENTRAL BANK OF IRAN AND OTHER SANC5 TIONED IRANIAN FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS. 

6 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 

7 President, on or after the date of the enactment of this 

8 Act, may not waive the requirement to impose sanctions 

9 under section 220(c) of the Iran Threat Reduction and 

10 Syria Human Rights Act of 2012 (as amended by section 

11 1 of this Act). 

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