I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1141 
To strengthen sanctions against the Government of Syria, to establish a 
program to support a transition to a democratically elected government 
in Syria and the restoration of sovereignty and democratic rule in Leb-
anon, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 8, 2005 
Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN (for herself, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. MACK, Mrs. 
JO ANN DAVIS of Virginia, Mr. BOOZMAN, and Ms. BERKLEY) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on International 
Relations, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Ways 
and Means, and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently de-
termined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To strengthen sanctions against the Government of Syria, 
to establish a program to support a transition to a 
democratically elected government in Syria and the res-
toration of sovereignty and democratic rule in Lebanon, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Lebanon and Syria Liberation Act’’.
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Definitions. 
TITLE I—STRENGTHENING OF INTERNATIONAL SANCTIONS 
AGAINST SYRIA 
Sec. 101. Declarations of policy. 
Sec. 102. Codification of existing sanctions. 
Sec. 103. Sanctions against certain persons. 
Sec. 104. Sanctions against certain foreign countries. 
Sec. 105. Diplomatic efforts. 
Sec. 106. Report on assistance to, and commerce with, Syria. 
TITLE II—ASSISTANCE TO SUPPORT DEMOCRACY IN SYRIA AND 
SOVEREIGNTY AND DEMOCRACY IN LEBANON 
Sec. 201. Declarations of policy. 
Sec. 202. Assistance to support a transition to democracy in Syria and restora-
tion of sovereign democratic governance in Lebanon. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on International Rela-
tions and the Committee on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives; and 
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations 
and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate. 
(2) PERSON.—The term ‘‘person’’ means any 
United States or foreign individual, partnership, cor-
poration, or other form of association, or any of 
their successor entities, parents or subsidiaries.
(3) SYRIA.—The term ‘‘Syria’’ includes any 
agency or instrumentality of Syria. 
(4) UNITED
STATES
ASSISTANCE.—The term 
‘‘United States assistance’’ means— 
(A) any assistance under the Foreign As-
sistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2251 et seq.), 
other than urgent humanitarian assistance or 
medicine; 
(B) sales and assistance under the Arms 
Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.); 
(C) financing by the Commodity Credit 
Corporation for export sales of agricultural 
commodities; and 
(D) financing under the Export-Import 
Bank Act of 1945 (12 U.S.C. 635 et seq.). 
TITLE 
I—STRENGTHENING 
OF 
INTERNATIONAL 
SANCTIONS 
AGAINST SYRIA 
SEC. 101. DECLARATIONS OF POLICY. 
Congress makes the following declarations of policy: 
(1) The actions of the Government of the Syr-
ian Arab Republic, including its support for ter-
rorism, its development of long-range missiles and 
weapons of mass destruction programs and capabili-
ties, its continued occupation of the Lebanese Re-