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(i) Inadmissibility to the United 
States. 
(ii) Ineligibility to receive a visa or 
other documentation to enter the United 
States. 
(iii) Ineligibility to otherwise be ad-
mitted or paroled into the United States or 
to receive any other benefit under the Im-
migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1101 et seq.). 
(B) CURRENT VISAS REVOKED.— 
(i) Revocation of any visa or other 
entry documentation regardless of when 
the visa or other entry documentation is or 
was issued. 
(ii) A revocation under clause (i) 
shall— 
(I) take effect immediately; and 
(II) automatically cancel any 
other valid visa or entry documenta-
tion that is in the foreign person’s 
possession. 
(2) EXCEPTION
TO
COMPLY
WITH
INTER-
NATIONAL
OBLIGATIONS.—Sanctions under para-
graph (1) shall not apply with respect to a foreign 
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person if admitting or paroling the person into the 
United States is necessary to permit the United 
States to comply with the Agreement regarding the 
Headquarters of the United Nations, signed at Lake 
Success June 26, 1947, and entered into force No-
vember 21, 1947, between the United Nations and 
the United States, or other applicable international 
obligations. 
(3) WAIVER IN THE INTEREST OF NATIONAL 
SECURITY.—The President may waive the applica-
tion of this section with respect to a foreign person 
who is A–1 visa eligible and who is present in or 
seeking admission into the United States for pur-
poses of official business if the President determines 
and transmits to the appropriate congressional com-
mittees written notice and justification not later 
than 15 days before the granting of such waiver, 
that such a waiver is in the national security inter-
ests of the United States. 
(c) SUSPENSION OF SANCTIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The President may suspend 
in whole or in part the imposition of sanctions other-
wise required under this section for periods not to 
exceed 180 days if the President certifies to the ap-
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propriate congressional committees that the fol-
lowing criteria have been met in Saudi Arabia: 
(A) The Government of Saudi Arabia has 
released any individual who is a journalist, 
blogger, human rights defender, advocate for 
religious liberty, or civil society activist detained 
by the Government of Saudi Arabia. 
(B) The Government of Saudi Arabia is 
cooperating in outstanding criminal proceedings 
in the United States in which a Saudi citizen or 
national departed from the United States while 
the citizen or national was awaiting trial or sen-
tencing for a criminal offense committed in the 
United States. 
(C) The Government of Saudi Arabia is re-
fraining from the obstruction of the free expres-
sion of opinion and restriction of individuals 
from engaging in public criticism of the political 
sphere. 
(D) The Government of Saudi Arabia has 
made verifiable commitments to cease the prac-
tice of harming citizens of Saudi Arabia con-
ducting peaceful dissent, whether or not those 
citizens reside in Saudi Arabia, including en-
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forced repatriation, disappearance, arrest, im-
prisonment, or harassment. 
(E) The Government of Saudi Arabia has 
taken verifiable steps to hold accountable Saudi 
violators of human rights, whether or not those 
violations took place in Saudi Arabia. 
(F) The Government of Saudi Arabia has 
taken verifiable steps to repeal any law or regu-
lation that requires Saudi women to obtain ap-
proval from a male guardian in order to leave 
the country. 
(G) The Government of Saudi Arabia— 
(i) has made public the names of all 
individuals under prosecution for the mur-
der of Jamal Khashoggi and associated 
crimes and the details of the charges such 
individuals face; 
(ii) has made public the trial pro-
ceedings and all evidence against the ac-
cused; 
(iii) has invited international, inde-
pendent experts to monitor the trials; 
(iv) has made public details of efforts 
to 
establish 
the 
location 
of 
Mr. 
Khashoggi’s remains and associated find-
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ings and returned his body to his family; 
and 
(v) has made public the rationale for 
why ten of the individuals initially detained 
were later released without charge. 
(H) The Government of Saudi Arabia has 
disbanded any units of its intelligence or secu-
rity apparatus dedicated to the forced repatri-
ation of dissidents in other countries. 
(I) The Government of Saudi Arabia is co-
operating with efforts to investigate the murder 
of Jamal Khashoggi being conducted by law en-
forcement authorities in the United States and 
Turkey, or by the United Nations. 
(2) REPORT.—Accompanying the certification 
described in paragraph (1), the President shall sub-
mit to the appropriate congressional committees a 
report that contains a detailed description of Saudi 
Arabia’s adherence to the criteria described in the 
certification. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) ADMITTED; ALIEN.—The terms ‘‘admitted’’ 
and ‘‘alien’’ have the meanings given those terms in 
section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(8 U.S.C. 1101). 
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(2) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 
Committee on the Judiciary, and the Perma-
nent Select Committee on Intelligence of the 
House of Representatives; and 
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations, 
the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Select 
Committee on Intelligence of the Senate. 
(3) FOREIGN PERSON.—The term ‘‘foreign per-
son’’ has the meaning given such term in section 
595.304 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations (as 
in effect on the day before the date of the enactment 
of this Act), except that such term does not include 
an entity (as such term is described in such section). 
(4) FOREIGN PERSON WHO IS A–1 VISA ELIGI-
BLE.—The term ‘‘foreign person who is A–1 visa eli-
gible’’ 
means 
an 
alien 
described 
in 
section 
101(a)(15)(A)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(A)(i)). 
(5) 
UNITED
STATES
PERSON.—The 
term 
‘‘United States person’’ means— 
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(A) a United States citizen or an alien law-
fully admitted for permanent residence to the 
United States; or 
(B) an entity organized under the laws of 
the United States or any jurisdiction within the 
United States, including a foreign branch of 
such an entity. 
SEC. 4. REPORT ON SAUDI ARABIA’S HUMAN RIGHTS 
RECORD. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, 
in accordance with section 502B(c) of the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2304(c)), shall submit to the 
appropriate congressional committees report in writing 
that— 
(1) includes the information required under 
paragraph (1) of such section 502B(c) with respect 
to Saudi Arabia; 
(2) describes the extent to which officials of the 
Government of Saudi Arabia, including members of 
the military or security services, are responsible for 
or complicit in gross violations of internationally rec-
ognized human rights, including violations of the 
human rights of journalists, bloggers, human rights 
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defenders, and those who support women’s rights or 
religious freedom; 
(3) describes violations of human rights in 
Saudi Arabia by officials of the Government of 
Saudi Arabia, including against journalists, bloggers, 
human rights defenders, and civil society activists; 
(4) describes United States actions to address 
Saudi violations of human rights, including against 
journalists, bloggers, human rights defenders, and 
civil society activists, including demands for clem-
ency review of these cases; 
(5) describes any intolerant content in edu-
cational materials published by Saudi Arabia’s Min-
istry of Education that are used in schools both in-
side Saudi Arabia and at schools throughout the 
world; and 
(6) describes United States actions to encour-
age Saudi Arabia to retrieve and destroy materials 
with intolerant material and revise teacher manuals 
and retrain teachers to reflect changes in edu-
cational materials and promote tolerance. 
(b) FORM.—The report required by subsection (a) 
shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include 
a classified annex. 
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(c) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DE-
FINED.—In the section, the term ‘‘appropriate congres-
sional committees’’ means— 
(1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the 
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the 
House of Representatives; and 
(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations and 
the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate. 
SEC. 5. DETERMINATION OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS. 
The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of 
complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, 
shall be determined by reference to the latest statement 
titled ‘‘Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation’’ for this 
Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional Record 
by the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, pro-
vided that such statement has been submitted prior to the 
vote on passage. 
Passed the House of Representatives July 15, 2019. 
Attest: 
CHERYL L. JOHNSON, 
Clerk. 
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