(2) UPDATES.—The President shall transmit to 
the appropriate congressional committees an update 
of the list required under paragraph (1) as new in-
formation becomes available. 
(c) SANCTIONS DESCRIBED.—The sanctions to be 
imposed on a foreign person or an agency or instrumen-
tality of a foreign state on the list required under sub-
section (b) are the following: 
(1) BLOCKING OF PROPERTY.—The President 
shall exercise all of the powers granted to the Presi-
dent under the International Emergency Economic 
Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to the extent 
necessary to block and prohibit all transactions in 
property and interests in property of the foreign per-
son or of such agency or instrumentality of a foreign 
state if such property or interests in property are in 
the United States, come within the United States, or 
are or come within the possession or control of a 
United States person. 
(2) ALIENS INELIGIBLE FOR VISAS, ADMISSION, 
OR PAROLE.— 
(A) VISAS, ADMISSION, OR PAROLE.—An 
alien who the Secretary of State or the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security (or a designee of 
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one of such Secretaries) who is a foreign person 
on the list required under subsection (b) is— 
(i) inadmissible to the United States; 
(ii) ineligible to receive a visa or other 
documentation to enter the United States; 
and 
(iii) otherwise ineligible to be admitted 
or paroled into the United States or to re-
ceive any other benefit under the Immigra-
tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et 
seq.). 
(B) CURRENT VISAS REVOKED.— 
(i) IN
GENERAL.—The issuing con-
sular officer, the Secretary of State, or the 
Secretary of Homeland Security (or a des-
ignee of one of such Secretaries) shall re-
voke any visa or other entry documentation 
issued to an alien who is a foreign person 
on the list required under subsection (b) 
regardless of when such visa or other entry 
documentation was issued. 
(ii) EFFECT OF REVOCATION.—A rev-
ocation under clause (i)— 
(I) shall take effect immediately; 
and 
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(II) shall automatically cancel 
any other valid visa or entry docu-
mentation that is in the possession of 
the alien who is the subject of such 
revocation. 
(3) PENALTIES.—The penalties provided for in 
subsections (b) and (c) of section 206 of the Inter-
national Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 
U.S.C. 1705) shall apply to a person that knowingly 
violates, attempts to violate, conspires to violate, or 
causes a violation of regulations promulgated to 
carry out this section to the same extent that such 
penalties apply to a person that knowingly commits 
an unlawful act described in section 206(a) of such 
Act. 
(4) REGULATORY AUTHORITY.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The President may ex-
ercise all authorities provided to the President 
under sections 203 and 205 of the International 
Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 
1702 and 1704) for purposes of carrying out 
this section. 
(B) ISSUANCE
OF
REGULATIONS.—Not 
later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the President shall, promul-
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gate regulations as necessary for the implemen-
tation of this section and the amendments made 
by this section. 
(C) NOTIFICATION
TO
CONGRESS.—Not 
later than ten days before the promulgation of 
regulations under subparagraph (B), the Presi-
dent shall brief the appropriate congressional 
committees on the proposed regulations and the 
provisions of this section that the regulations 
are implementing. 
(5) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this 
section may be construed to limit the authority of 
the President pursuant to the International Emer-
gency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et 
seq.) or any other relevant provision of law. 
(d) WAIVER.—The President may waive the applica-
tion of sanctions under this section for periods not to ex-
ceed 120 days with respect to a foreign person, or an agen-
cy or instrumentality of a foreign state, if the President 
reports to the appropriate congressional committees that 
such waiver is vital to the national security interests of 
the United States. 
(e) EXEMPTIONS.—Any activity subject to the report-
ing requirements under title V of the National Security 
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Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3091 et seq.), or to any authorized 
intelligence activities of the United States. 
SEC. 6. REPORT. 
(a) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit 
to the appropriate congressional committees a report con-
taining a determination on whether each person described 
in subsection (b) meets the criteria described in subpara-
graph (A) or (B) of section 5(b)(1). 
(b) PERSONS DESCRIBED.—The persons described in 
this subsection are the following: 
(1) The Secretary General of Hizballah. 
(2) Members of the Hizballah Politburo. 
(3) Any other senior members of Hizballah or 
other associated entities that the President deter-
mines to be appropriate. 
(4) Any person, or agency or instrumentality of 
a foreign state that the President determines pro-
vides material support to Hizballah that supports its 
use of civilians as human shields. 
(c) FORM OF REPORT; PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.— 
(1) FORM.—The report required under sub-
section (a) shall be submitted in unclassified form, 
but may contain a classified annex. 
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