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115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2185 

To require the President to transmit to Congress determinations and certifications of whether foreign financial institutions listed in Attachment 

3 or Attachment 4 to Annex II of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of 

Action have facilitated transactions or provided services for foreign terrorist organizations, sanctioned foreign persons, or Iran’s Revolutionary 

Guard Corps or any of its officials, agents, or affiliates, and for other 

purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 27, 2017 

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

which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 

A BILL 

To require the President to transmit to Congress determinations and certifications of whether foreign financial institutions listed in Attachment 3 or Attachment 4 to Annex 

II of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action have facilitated transactions or provided services for foreign terrorist organizations, sanctioned foreign persons, or Iran’s 

Revolutionary Guard Corps or any of its officials, agents, 

or affiliates, 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. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Iran Sanctions Relief 

3 Review Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. DETERMINATION AND CERTIFICATION OF WHETH5 ER CERTAIN FOREIGN FINANCIAL INSTITU6 TIONS HAVE FACILITATED TRANSACTIONS 

7 OR PROVIDED SERVICES FOR COVERED PER8 SONS. 

9 (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 

10 date of the enactment of this Act, and every 180 days 

11 thereafter for a period not to exceed 5 years, the President 

12 shall— 

13 (1) with respect to each foreign financial insti14 tution, including an Iranian financial institution, 

15 listed in Attachment 3 or Attachment 4 to Annex II 

16 of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, deter17 mine whether the institution has, on or after Janu18 ary 30, 2016, knowingly facilitated a significant 

19 transaction or transactions or provided significant fi20 nancial services for any person described in section 

21 4; and 

22 (2) transmit to the appropriate congressional 

23 committees a certification of each determination 

24 with respect to a foreign financial institution, includ25 ing an Iranian financial institution, made under 

26 paragraph (1). 


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1 (b) FORM.—A certification described in subsection 

2 (a)(2) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may 

3 contain a classified annex. 

4 (c) DETERMINATION OF SIGNIFICANT TRANSACTION

5 OR TRANSACTIONS AND SIGNIFICANT FINANCIAL SERV6 ICES.—For purposes of this section, a transaction or 

7 transactions shall be determined to be significant and fi8 nancial services shall be determined to be significant in 

9 accordance with section 561.404 of title 31, Code of Fed10 eral Regulations. 

11 SEC. 3. DETERMINATION AND CERTIFICATION OF WHETH12 ER CERTAIN FOREIGN PERSONS HAVE SUP13 PORTED COVERED PERSONS. 

14 (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 

15 date of the enactment of this Act, and every 180 days 

16 thereafter for a period not to exceed 5 years, the President 

17 shall— 

18 (1) with respect to each foreign person listed in 

19 Attachment 3 or Attachment 4 to Annex II of the 

20 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, determine 

21 whether the foreign person has, on or after January 

22 30, 2016, knowingly, directly or indirectly, materi23 ally assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, mate24 rial, or technological support for, or goods or servVerDate Sep 11 2014 03:50 Apr 29, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2185.IH H2185

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1 ices in support of any person described in section 4; 

2 and 

3 (2) transmit to the appropriate congressional 

4 committees a certification of each determination 

5 with respect to a foreign person made under para6 graph (1). 

7 (b) FORM.—A determination described in subsection 

8 (a)(2) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may 

9 contain a classified annex. 

10 SEC. 4. COVERED PERSONS. 

11 A person described in this section is— 

12 (1) an organization that is designated by the 

13 Secretary of State as a foreign terrorist organization 

14 pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Na15 tionality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189); 

16 (2) a foreign person the property or interests in 

17 property of which are blocked pursuant to— 

18 (A) Executive Order 13224 (September 23, 

19 2001; relating to blocking property and prohib20 iting transactions with persons who commit, 

21 threaten to commit, or support terrorism); 

22 (B) Executive Order 13382 (June 28, 

23 2005; relating to blocking property of weapons 

24 of mass destruction proliferators and their sup25 porters); 


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1 (C) Executive Order 13094 (July 28, 

2 1998; relating to proliferation of weapons of 

3 mass destruction); 

4 (D) Executive Order 12938 (November 16, 

5 1994; relating to proliferation of weapons of 

6 mass destruction); 

7 (E) Executive Order 13338 (50 U.S.C. 

8 1701 note; relating to blocking property of cer9 tain persons and prohibiting the export of cer10 tain goods to Syria); 

11 (F) Executive Order 13399 (50 U.S.C. 

12 1701 note; relating to blocking property of ad13 ditional persons in connection with the national 

14 emergency with respect to Syria); 

15 (G) Executive Order 13460 (50 U.S.C. 

16 1701 note; relating to blocking property of ad17 ditional persons in connection with the national 

18 emergency with respect to Syria); 

19 (H) Executive Order 13572 (50 U.S.C. 

20 1701 note; relating to blocking property of cer21 tain persons with respect to human rights 

22 abuses in Syria); 

23 (I) Executive Order 13573 (50 U.S.C. 

24 1701 note; relating to blocking property of sen25 ior officials of the Government of Syria); 


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1 (J) Executive Order 13582 (50 U.S.C. 

2 1701 note; relating to blocking property of the 

3 Government of Syria and prohibiting certain 

4 transactions with respect to Syria); 

5 (K) Executive Order 13608 Prohibiting 

6 Certain Transactions With and Suspending 

7 Entry Into the United States of Foreign Sanc8 tions Evaders With Respect to Iran and Syria; 

9 (L) Executive Order 13606 Blocking the 

10 Property and Suspending Entry Into the 

11 United States of Certain Persons With Respect 

12 to Grave Human Rights Abuses by the Govern13 ments of Iran and Syria via Information Tech14 nology; 

15 (M) Executive Order 13553 Blocking 

16 Property of Certain Persons With Respect to 

17 Serious Human Rights Abuses By The Govern18 ment of Iran and Taking Certain Other Ac19 tions; or 

20 (N) any other Iranian person the property 

21 or interests in property of which are blocked 

22 pursuant to the International Emergency Eco23 nomic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.); or 

24 (3)(A) Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps or 

25 any of its officials, agents, or affiliates; or 


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1 (B) a person acting on behalf of or at the direc2 tion of, or owned or controlled by, a person de3 scribed in subparagraph (A). 

4 SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS. 

5 In this Act: 

6 (1) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT7 TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com8 mittees’’ has the meaning given the term in section 

9 14 of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 (Public Law 

10 104–172; 50 U.S.C. 1701 note). 

11 (2) FOREIGN FINANCIAL INSTITUTION.—The 

12 term ‘‘foreign financial institution’’ has the meaning 

13 given such term in section 1010.605 of title 31, 

14 Code of Federal Regulations. 

15 (3) FOREIGN PERSON.—The term ‘‘foreign per16 son’’— 

17 (A) means— 

18 (i) a natural person who is not a 

19 United States person; 

20 (ii) a corporation, partnership, or 

21 other nongovernmental entity which is not 

22 a United States person; or 

23 (iii) any representative, agent or in24 strumentality of, or an individual working 

25 on behalf of a foreign government; but 


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1 (B) does not include a foreign financial in2 stitution, including an Iranian financial institu3 tion, described in section 2(b). 

4 (4) FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.—The 

5 term ‘‘foreign terrorist organization’’ means any or6 ganization designated by the Secretary of State as a 

7 foreign terrorist organization in accordance with sec8 tion 219(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 

9 (8 U.S.C. 1189(a)). 

10 (5) IRANIAN FINANCIAL INSTITUTION.—The 

11 term ‘‘Iranian financial institution’’ has the meaning 

12 given the term in section 104A(d)(3) of the Com13 prehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Di14 vestment Act of 2010 (22 U.S.C. 8513b(d)(3)). 

15 (6) JOINT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF ACTION.— 

16 The term ‘‘Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action’’ 

17 means the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, 

18 agreed to at Vienna July 14, 2015, by Iran and by 

19 the People’s Republic of China, France, Germany, 

20 the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and 

21 the United States, with the High Representative of 

22 the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Secu23 rity Policy, and all implementing materials and 

24 agreements related to the Joint Comprehensive Plan 

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1 gress on July 19, 2015, pursuant to section 135(a) 

2 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended by 

3 the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 

4 (Public Law 114–17; 129 Stat. 201). 

5 (7) PERSON.—The term ‘‘person’’ has the 

6 meaning given the term in section 14 of the Iran 

7 Sanctions Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–172; 50 

8 U.S.C. 1701 note). 

9 (8) UNITED STATES PERSON.—The term 

10 ‘‘United States person’’ has the meaning given the 

11 term in section 14 of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 

12 (Public Law 104–172; 50 U.S.C. 1701 note). 

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