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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5557 
To impose sanctions with respect to foreign persons that engage in certain 
transactions relating to Cuba and to impose sanctions with respect to 
human rights abuse and corruption in Cuba, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 12, 2021 
Mr. DONALDS (for himself, Mr. DIAZ-BALART, Mr. GIMENEZ, Mr. MOONEY, 
Ms. SALAZAR, Mr. BABIN, and Ms. MALLIOTAKIS) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and 
in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Rules, for a period 
to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
A BILL 
To impose sanctions with respect to foreign persons that 
engage in certain transactions relating to Cuba and to 
impose sanctions with respect to human rights abuse 
and corruption in Cuba, 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. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Denying Earnings to 
the Military Oligarchy in Cuba and Restricting Activities 
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of the Cuban Intelligence Apparatus Act’’ or the 
‘‘DEMOCRACIA Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS; SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) The Cuban Communist takeover of 1959 es-
tablished in Cuba a one-party authoritarian state of 
the Cuban Communist Party. 
(2) Cuba is a totalitarian state, in which the 
Cuban Communist Party has brutally oppressed the 
people of Cuba for more than 60 years. 
(3) Cuban democracy activists, including Las 
Damas de Blanco (also known as ‘‘Ladies in 
White’’), a group composed of wives and relatives of 
political prisoners, prisoners of conscience, and 
peaceful activists in Cuba, are routinely repressed, 
censured, beaten, and unjustly imprisoned by the 
Cuban Communist Party. 
(4) On July 11, 2021, protesters marched in 
the streets throughout Cuba voicing their opposition 
against the communist regime of Cuba. 
(5) During those protests, Cubans in more than 
40 cities throughout the entire island held dem-
onstrations 
chanting 
‘‘Libertad!’’, 
‘‘Abajo 
la 
Dictadura de Cuba’’ (‘‘Down with the Dictator-
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ship’’), and ‘‘Patria y Vida!’’ (‘‘Homeland and 
Life’’). 
(6) Through those protests, the people of Cuba 
demanded the end to communism in Cuba and ac-
cess to food, medicine, water, and electricity, basic 
needs that the communist system in Cuba cannot 
provide. 
(7) Cubans gathered outside of the head-
quarters of the Cuban Communist Party chanting, 
‘‘Cuba isn’t yours!’’. In a clear message, Cubans ex-
ercised their fundamental God-given rights to peace-
ably assemble, express their political opinions, and 
live free of censorship and oppression and demanded 
the ruling elites, especially the Cuban Communist 
Party, give the power back to the people. 
(8) During the July 11, 2021, protests, the 
Cuban Communist Party deployed a wave of terror 
throughout Cuba by— 
(A) unleashing its secret police and some 
military forces on peaceful protesters and un-
lawfully detained them, including by— 
(i) harassing and threatening people 
in their homes; 
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(ii) abducting and torturing civil soci-
ety leaders and other Cubans peacefully 
exercising their fundamental rights; and 
(iii) detaining more than 800 Cubans 
for peacefully protesting, who have gone 
missing since the protests and demonstra-
tions began, including leaders from Cuban 
civil society groups such as UNPACU, the 
San Isidro Movement, the Ladies in White, 
and religious leaders; and 
(B) in a crude and savage effort to silence 
the Cuban people, cutting internet connectivity 
and mobile services throughout Cuba, which 
prevented the Cuban people from organizing 
and hid from the outside world images and vid-
eos of the oppressive and brutal crackdown. 
(9) In response to these demonstrations and 
protests, the regime blocked access to social media, 
messaging platforms and cellular services, and ar-
rested and detained hundreds of protesters, activists, 
and journalists, according to Cuban human rights 
groups. 
(10) The Human Rights Report on Cuba for 
2020 set forth by the Department of State found 
that Cuba is an authoritarian state. 
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(11) A new constitution ratified in February 
2019 codified that Cuba remains a one-party system 
in which the Cuban Communist Party is the only 
legal political party. Elections in Cuba were neither 
free, fair, nor competitive. 
(12) The Ministry of Interior of Cuba 
(MININT) controls police, internal security forces, 
and the prison system. The National Revolutionary 
Police are the primary law enforcement organization 
of the Ministry. Specialized units of the state secu-
rity branch of the Ministry are responsible for moni-
toring, infiltrating, and suppressing independent po-
litical activity. The national leadership of Cuba, in-
cluding members of the military, maintain effective 
control over the security forces. Members of the se-
curity forces have committed numerous abuses. 
(13) Significant human rights issues in Cuba 
perpetrated by the Communist Party include the fol-
lowing: 
(A) Unlawful or arbitrary killings, includ-
ing extrajudicial killings. 
(B) Forced disappearances. 
(C) Torture and cruel, inhuman, and de-
grading treatment of political dissidents, detain-
ees, and prisoners by security forces. 
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(D) Harsh and life-threatening prison con-
ditions. 
(E) Arbitrary arrests and detentions. 
(F) The detaining of political prisoners. 
(G) Significant problems with the inde-
pendence of the judiciary. 
(H) Arbitrary or unlawful interference 
with privacy. 
(I) Functional lack of freedom of the 
press, as criminal libel laws are used against 
persons who criticize the ruling Communist 
Party of Cuba and that it has engaged in cen-
sorship and internet site blocking. 
(J) Severe limitations on academic and 
cultural freedom. 
(K) Severe restrictions on the right of 
peaceful assembly and denial of freedom of as-
sociation, including refusal to recognize inde-
pendent associations. 
(L) Severe restrictions on religious free-
dom. 
(M) Restrictions on internal and external 
freedom of movement. 
(N) Inability of citizens to change their 
government through free and fair elections. 
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(O) Restrictions on political participation 
to members of the ruling party. 
(P) Corruption within the ruling party, the 
Communist Party of Cuba. 
(Q) Trafficking in persons, including com-
pulsory labor. 
(R) 
Outlawing 
of 
independent 
trade 
unions. 
(14) Many within the high level operatives of 
the Communist Party of Cuba, at the direction of 
their superiors, have committed most human rights 
abuses. As a matter of policy, superiors failed to in-
vestigate or prosecute the individuals who committed 
those abuses. Impunity for the perpetrators has re-
mained widespread. 
(15) The United States Commission on Inter-
national 
Religious 
Freedom 
(USCIRF) 
rec-
ommended in its 2021 Annual Report that the 
United States Government again placed Cuba on the 
special watch list under section 402(b)(1)(A)(iii) of 
the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 
(22 U.S.C. 6442(b)(1)(A)(iii)) and recommended im-
posing sanctions on the Office of Religious Affairs of 
Cuba. 
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(16) In the report specified in paragraph (15), 
the United States Commission on International Reli-
gious Freedom (USCIRF) raised concerns regarding 
the denial in Cuba of religious freedom for human 
rights activists, independent journalists, and pro-
testers, particularly in the wake of demonstrations 
that started on November 13, 2020, calling for 
greater freedom of expression in Cuba. 
(17) Cuba is ground zero for a series of inter-
national and yet unexplained attacks that com-
menced in 2016 on members of the United States 
and Canadian diplomatic community. 
(18) Cuba continues to provide safe harbor for 
adversaries of the United States, including multiple 
fugitives from justice in the United States, including 
William Morales, Charles Hill, Victor Manuel 
Gerena, and Joanne Chesimard, who executed New 
Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster during a rou-
tine traffic stop in May 1973. 
(19) The Trade Sanctions Reform and Export 
Enhancement Act (TSRA) of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7201 
et seq.) prohibits the President from imposing uni-
lateral agricultural or medical sanctions against 
Cuba. 
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(20) The defense, security, and intelligence sec-
tors of Cuba are the primary perpetrators of beat-
ings, 
arrests, 
detainments, 
and 
unjust 
imprisonments of the Cuban people. 
(21) The Cuban Communist Party has a long 
history of racism. 
(22) Many Cubans who suffered the worst 
treatment at the hands of the security forces of the 
Cuban Communist Party are Afro-Cuban, such as 
Dr. O´scar Elı´as Biscet, Jorge Luis Garcı´a Pe´rez, 
Berta Soler, Guillermo Farin˜as, Orlando Zapata 
Tamayo, Luis Manuel Otero Alca´ntara, and Ivan 
Hernandez Carrillo. 
(23) On January 12, 2021, the Department of 
State determined that Cuba has repeatedly provided 
support for acts of international terrorism and was 
designated a state sponsor of terrorism. 
(24) On May 14, 2021, Secretary of State 
Antony Blinken determined and certified to Con-
gress that Cuba is not cooperating fully with United 
States antiterrorism efforts. 
(25) The Cuban Communist Party continues to 
support international terrorist groups such as the 
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) 
and the National Liberation Army (ELN). 
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(26) Commercial engagement with the defense, 
security, and intelligence sectors of Cuba empowers 
the human rights abuses, racism against Afro-Cu-
bans, and support for international terrorism by the 
Cuban Communist Party. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that Congress— 
(1) reaffirms subsection (a) of section 1704 of 
the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992 (CDA) (22 
U.S.C. 6003), which states that the President 
should encourage foreign countries to restrict trade 
and credit relations with Cuba in a manner con-
sistent with the purposes of that Act; and 
(2) urges the President to take immediate steps 
to apply the sanctions described in subsection (b)(1) 
of that section with respect to countries assisting 
Cuba. 
SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It shall be the policy of the United States— 
(1) to support the desire of the people of Cuba 
for freedom and democracy; and 
(2) to work with allies and the international 
community to seek to restrict and reduce the finan-
cial resources of the Cuban dictatorship, which sup-
ports terrorism and perpetrates injustice and human 
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rights abuses against the Cuban people, that being 
the Cuban military, security, and intelligence sec-
tors. 
SEC. 4. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO FOR-
EIGN PERSONS THAT ENGAGE IN CERTAIN 
TRANSACTIONS RELATING TO CUBA. 
(a) IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The President shall impose 
the sanctions described in subsection (b) with re-
spect to a foreign person if the President determines 
that the foreign person, on or after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, knowingly engages in an ac-
tivity described in paragraph (2). 
(2) ACTIVITIES
DESCRIBED.—Except as pro-
vided in paragraph (3), a foreign person engages in 
an activity described in this paragraph if the foreign 
person provides financial, material, or technological 
support to, or engages in a transaction with— 
(A) a covered sector of the Government of 
Cuba, or any entity or individual affiliated with 
such sector (including an immediate adult fam-
ily member of such individual); 
(B) an agency, instrumentality, or other 
entity owned by an entity that is part of or as-
sociated with a covered sector, entity, or indi-
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vidual described in subparagraph (A) in a per-
centage share exceeding 25 percent; 
(C) an individual who is a senior official of 
a covered sector or entity described in subpara-
graph (A) (including an immediate adult family 
member of such individual); 
(D) an agency, instrumentality, or other 
entity operated or controlled by a covered sec-
tor, entity, or individual described in subpara-
graph (A); 
(E) an entity or individual— 
(i) for the purpose of avoiding a fi-
nancial transaction with, or the transfer of 
funds to, an entity or individual specified 
in any of subparagraphs (A) through (D); 
or 
(ii) for the benefit of an entity or indi-
vidual specified in any of subparagraphs 
(A) through (D); 
(F) a foreign person that is a military con-
tractor, mercenary, or a paramilitary force 
knowingly operating in a military, security, or 
intelligence capacity for or on behalf of the 
Government of Cuba; or 
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(G) a foreign person subject to sanctions 
pursuant to the International Emergency Eco-
nomic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) 
(IEEPA) or the Trading with the Enemy Act 
(50 U.S.C. 4301 et seq.) with respect to Cuba 
or any other provision of law that imposes sanc-
tions or other economic restrictions or limita-
tions with respect to Cuba. 
(3) EXCEPTIONS.—The following activities en-
gaged in by a foreign person shall not be considered 
to be activities described in paragraph (2) for pur-
poses of imposing sanctions described in subsection 
(b) with respect to the person: 
(A) The sale of agricultural commodities, 
medicines, and medical devices sold to Cuba 
consistent with the Trade Sanctions Reform 
and Export Enhancement Act of 2000 (TSRA) 
(22 U.S.C. 7201 et seq.). 
(B) A remittance to an immediate family 
member, other than— 
(i) an individual who is a high-level 
member of the Cuban Communist Party; 
or 
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(ii) an individual who is an immediate 
family member of an individual described 
in clause (i). 
(C) A payment in furtherance of the lease 
agreement for, or other financial transactions 
necessary for maintenance and improvements 
of, the military base at Guantanamo Bay, 
Cuba, including any adjacent areas under the 
control or possession of the United States. 
(D) Assistance or support in furtherance 
of democracy-building efforts for Cuba de-
scribed in section 109 of the Cuban Liberty and 
Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 
1996 (22 U.S.C. 6039). 
(E) Customary and routine financial trans-
actions necessary for the maintenance, improve-
ments, or regular duties of the United States 
Embassy in Havana, Cuba, including outreach 
to the pro-democracy opposition. 
(F) Accessing the internet or providing cel-
lular services if the internet and cellular serv-
ices have been restored, are without interference 
from the Cuban regime, and do not include any 
technology, services, or communications backed 
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by the Communist Party of the People’s Repub-
lic of China. 
(4) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of 
Congress that the President should, in making a de-
termination of whether a foreign person engages in 
an activity described in paragraph (2), consider the 
provision of loans, credits, or export credits by the 
person to be a form of significant financial, material, 
or technological support as described in such para-
graph. 
(5) COVERED SECTOR DEFINED.—In this sub-
section, the term ‘‘covered sector’’ means— 
(A) the defense sector; 
(B) the security sector; 
(C) the intelligence sector; or 
(D) any other sector of the Government of 
Cuba beginning 15 days after the date on which 
the President certifies to Congress that such 
sector is involved in carrying out human rights 
abuses or providing support for international 
terrorism. 
(b) SANCTIONS DESCRIBED.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The sanctions to be imposed 
with respect to a foreign person subject to sub-
section (a) are the following: 
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(A) BLOCKING OF PROPERTY.—The Presi-
dent shall exercise all of the powers granted to 
the President under the International Emer-
gency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) (50 
U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) and the Trading with the 
Enemy Act (50 U.S.C. 4301 et seq.) to the ex-
tent necessary to block and prohibit all trans-
actions in property and interests in property of 
the foreign person if such property and inter-
ests 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. 
(B) ALIENS INELIGIBLE FOR VISAS, AD-
MISSION, OR PAROLE.— 
(i) VISAS, ADMISSION, OR PAROLE.— 
An alien who the Secretary of State or the 
Secretary of Homeland Security (or a des-
ignee of one of such Secretaries) knows, or 
has reason to believe, has knowingly en-
gaged in any activity described in sub-
section (a)(2) is— 
(I) inadmissible to the United 
States; 
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(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 receive any other benefit 
under the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act (INA) (8 U.S.C. 1101 et 
seq.). 
(ii) CURRENT VISAS REVOKED.— 
(I) IN
GENERAL.—The issuing 
consular officer, the Secretary of 
State, or the Secretary of Homeland 
Security (or a designee of one of such 
Secretaries) shall, in accordance with 
section 221(i) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (INA) (8 U.S.C. 
1201(i)), revoke any visa or other 
entry documentation issued to an 
alien described in clause (i) regardless 
of when the visa or other entry docu-
mentation is issued. 
(II) EFFECT OF REVOCATION.— 
A revocation under subclause (I)— 
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(aa) shall take effect imme-
diately; and 
(bb) shall automatically can-
cel any other valid visa or entry 
documentation that is in the 
alien’s possession. 
(2) PENALTIES.—The penalties provided for in 
subsections (b) and (c) of section 206 of the Inter-
national Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) 
(50 U.S.C. 1705) shall apply to a person that vio-
lates, attempts to violate, conspires to violate, or 
causes a violation of any regulation, license, or order 
issued to carry out paragraph (1)(A) to the same ex-
tent that such penalties apply to a person that com-
mits an unlawful act described in subsection (a) of 
that section. 
(3) EXCEPTION
TO
COMPLY
WITH
INTER-
NATIONAL
OBLIGATIONS.—Sanctions under para-
graph (1)(B) shall not apply with respect to an alien 
if admitting or paroling the alien into the United 
States is necessary to permit the United States to 
comply with the Agreement regarding the Head-
quarters of the United Nations, signed at Lake Suc-
cess June 26, 1947, and entered into force Novem-
ber 21, 1947, between the United Nations and the 
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United States, or other applicable international obli-
gations. 
(c) IMPLEMENTATION.—The President shall exercise 
all authorities under sections 203 and 205 of the Inter-
national Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) (50 
U.S.C. 1702 and 1704) to carry out this section, except 
that the President— 
(1) shall not issue any general license author-
izing, or otherwise authorize, any activity subject to 
sanctions under subsection (a); and 
(2) shall require any United States person seek-
ing to engage in a financial transaction or transfer 
of funds subject to sanctions under subsection (a) to 
submit a written request to the Office of Foreign 
Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury. 
(d) WAIVER.—The President may waive the applica-
tion of sanctions described in subsection (b) with respect 
to a foreign person for a period of 180 days (and such 
waiver may not be renewed) if the President determines 
and certifies to Congress that such waiver is in the vital 
national security interest of the United States. 
(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) ADMITTED; ALIEN.—The terms ‘‘admitted’’ 
and ‘‘alien’’ have the meanings given those terms in 
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section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(INA) (8 U.S.C. 1101). 
(2) ENTITY.—The term ‘‘entity’’ means a part-
nership, association, trust, joint venture, corpora-
tion, group, subgroup, or other organization. 
(3) FOREIGN PERSON.—The term ‘‘foreign per-
son’’ means a person that is not a United States 
person. 
(4) PERSON.—The term ‘‘person’’ means an in-
dividual or entity. 
(5) 
UNITED
STATES
PERSON.—the 
term 
‘‘United States person’’ means— 
(A) a United States citizen or an alien law-
fully admitted to the United States for perma-
nent residence; 
(B) an entity organized under the laws of 
the United States or any jurisdiction within the 
United States (including any foreign branch of 
such an entity); and 
(C) any person in the United States. 
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SEC. 5. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO 
HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE AND CORRUPTION IN 
CUBA. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The President shall impose the 
sanctions described in subsection (b) with respect to the 
following persons: 
(1) Any foreign person determined by the Sec-
retary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Sec-
retary of State and the Attorney General— 
(A) to be responsible for or complicit in, or 
to have directly or indirectly engaged in, serious 
human rights abuse in Cuba; 
(B) to be a current or former official of 
the Government of Cuba, or a person acting for 
or on behalf of such an official, who is respon-
sible for or complicit in, or has directly or indi-
rectly engaged in— 
(i) corruption, including the misappro-
priation of state assets, the expropriation 
of private assets for personal gain, corrup-
tion related to government contracts or the 
extraction of natural resources, or bribery; 
or 
(ii) the transfer or the facilitation of 
the transfer of the proceeds of corruption; 
or 
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(C) to be or have been a leader or official 
of— 
(i) an entity, including a government 
entity, that has engaged in, or whose mem-
bers have engaged in, any of the activities 
described in subparagraph (A) or (B) re-
lating to the tenure of the leader or offi-
cial; or 
(ii) an entity whose property and in-
terests in property are blocked under sub-
section (b)(1) as a result of activities re-
lated to the tenure of the leader or official; 
(D) to have materially assisted, sponsored, 
or provided financial, material, or technological 
support for, or goods or services to or in sup-
port of— 
(i) any activity described in subpara-
graph (A) or (B) that is conducted by a 
foreign person; 
(ii) any person whose property and in-
terests in property are blocked under sub-
section (b)(1); or 
(iii) any entity, including a govern-
ment entity, that has engaged in, or whose 
members have engaged in, any of the ac-
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tivities described in subparagraph (A) or 
(B) of paragraph (1), if the activity is con-
ducted by a foreign person; 
(E) to have received any contribution or 
provision of funds, goods, or services from any 
person whose property and interests in property 
are blocked under subsection (b)(1); 
(F) to be owned or controlled by, or to 
have acted or purported to act for or on behalf 
of, directly or indirectly, any person whose 
property and interests in property are blocked 
under subsection (b)(1); 
(G) to be under the control of, or to act for 
or on behalf of, the military, intelligence, or se-
curity services or personnel of Cuba; 
(H) to be an official of the Government of 
Cuba who works with the Ministry of Justice or 
the Office of the Attorney General and who vio-
lates due process rights of an individual in 
Cuba; or 
(I) to have attempted to engage in any of 
the activities described in subparagraph (A) or 
(B). 
(2) Members of the Communist Party of Cuba, 
including— 
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(A) members of the Politburo; 
(B) members, department heads, and em-
ployees of the Central Committee; 
(C) secretaries and first secretaries of the 
provincial party central committees; and 
(D) members of the Office of Religious Af-
fairs; 
(3) members of the Council of State; 
(4) members of the Council of Ministers; 
(5) members of the Committees for the Defense 
of the Revolution; 
(6) the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba; 
(7) the Ministry of the Interior of Cuba, includ-
ing the National Revolutionary Police Force; 
(8) the Office of the President of Cuba; and 
(9) the spouse and children of any individual 
subject to sanctions under this section. 
(b) SANCTIONS DESCRIBED.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The sanctions to be imposed 
with respect to a foreign person subject to sub-
section (a) are the following: 
(A) BLOCKING OF PROPERTY.—The Presi-
dent shall exercise all of the powers granted to 
the President under the International Emer-
gency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) (50 
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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 person 
if such property and 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. 
(B) ALIENS INELIGIBLE FOR VISAS, AD-
MISSION, OR PAROLE.— 
(i) VISAS, ADMISSION, OR PAROLE.— 
An alien who the Secretary of State or the 
Secretary of Homeland Security (or a des-
ignee of one of such Secretaries) knows, or 
has reason to believe, has knowingly en-
gaged in any activity described in sub-
section (a)(2) 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 receive any other benefit 
under the Immigration and Nation-
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ality Act (INA) (8 U.S.C. 1101 et 
seq.). 
(ii) CURRENT VISAS REVOKED.— 
(I) IN
GENERAL.—The issuing 
consular officer, the Secretary of 
State, or the Secretary of Homeland 
Security (or a designee of one of such 
Secretaries) shall, in accordance with 
section 221(i) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (INA) (8 U.S.C. 
1201(i)), revoke any visa or other 
entry documentation issued to an 
alien described in clause (i) regardless 
of when the visa or other entry docu-
mentation is issued. 
(II) EFFECT OF REVOCATION.— 
A revocation under subclause (I)— 
(aa) shall take effect imme-
diately; and 
(bb) shall automatically can-
cel any other valid visa or entry 
documentation that is in the 
alien’s possession. 
(2) PENALTIES.—The penalties provided for in 
subsections (b) and (c) of section 206 of the Inter-
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national Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 
U.S.C. 1705) shall apply to a person that violates, 
attempts to violate, conspires to violate, or causes a 
violation of any regulation, license, or order issued 
to carry out paragraph (1)(A) to the same extent 
that such penalties apply to a person that commits 
an unlawful act described in subsection (a) of that 
section. 
(3) EXCEPTION
TO
COMPLY
WITH
INTER-
NATIONAL
OBLIGATIONS.—Sanctions under para-
graph (1)(B) shall not apply with respect to an alien 
if admitting or paroling the alien into the United 
States is necessary to permit the United States to 
comply with the Agreement regarding the Head-
quarters of the United Nations, signed at Lake Suc-
cess June 26, 1947, and entered into force Novem-
ber 21, 1947, between the United Nations and the 
United States, or other applicable international obli-
gations. 
(c) IMPLEMENTATION.—The President shall exercise 
all authorities under sections 203 and 205 of the Inter-
national Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) (50 
U.S.C. 1702 and 1704) to carry out this section, except 
that the President— 
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(1) shall not issue any general license author-
izing, or otherwise authorize, any activity subject to 
sanctions under subsection (a); and 
(2) shall require any United States person seek-
ing to engage in a financial transaction or transfer 
of funds subject to sanctions under subsection (a) to 
submit a written request to the Office of Foreign 
Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury. 
(d) HUMANITARIAN
EXCEPTION.—The President 
may not impose sanctions under this section with respect 
to any person for— 
(1) donating food or agricultural commodities 
to— 
(A) an independent, nongovernmental or-
ganization not controlled by the Government of 
Cuba; or 
(B) individuals in Cuba who are not high- 
level members of the Communist Party of Cuba 
or the immediate family member of any such 
individual; or 
(2) exporting medicines or medical supplies, in-
struments, or equipment that would be permitted 
under section 1705(c) of the Cuban Democracy Act 
of 1992 (CDA) (22 U.S.C. 6004(c)). 
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(e) WAIVER.—The President may waive the applica-
tion of sanctions under this section with respect to a per-
son if the President determines that such a waiver is in 
the national security interests of the United States. 
(f) NO PRIOR NOTICE.—The President, the Sec-
retary of the Treasury, the Secretary of State, and the 
Attorney General, and any other official of the United 
States Government are not required to provide any prior 
notice of a determination made under subsection (a) or 
of any other determination to impose sanctions under this 
section. 
(g) 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 
(INA) (8 U.S.C. 1101). 
(2) ENTITY.—The term ‘‘entity’’ means a part-
nership, association, trust, joint venture, corpora-
tion, group, subgroup, or other organization. 
(3) FOREIGN PERSON.—The term ‘‘foreign per-
son’’ means a person that is not a United States 
person. 
(4) PERSON.—The term ‘‘person’’ means an in-
dividual or entity. 
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(5) 
UNITED
STATES
PERSON.—the 
term 
‘‘United States person’’ means— 
(A) a United States citizen or an alien law-
fully admitted to the United States for perma-
nent residence; 
(B) an entity organized under the laws of 
the United States or any jurisdiction within the 
United States (including any foreign branch of 
such an entity); and 
(C) any person in the United States. 
SEC. 6. TERMINATION OF SANCTIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The authority to impose sanctions 
under sections 4 and 5 shall terminate if— 
(1) the President submits to Congress a deter-
mination and certification that the Government of 
Cuba— 
(A) has legalized all political activity; 
(B) has released all political prisoners and 
allowed for investigations of Cuban prisons by 
appropriate international human rights organi-
zations; 
(C) has dissolved the Department of State 
Security in the Cuban Ministry of the Interior 
in place as of the date of the enactment of this 
Act, including the Committees for the Defense 
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of the Revolution and the Rapid Response Bri-
gades; 
(D) has made public commitments to orga-
nizing free and fair elections for a new govern-
ment— 
(i) to be held in a timely manner with-
in a period not to exceed 18 months after 
such certification; 
(ii) with the participation of multiple 
independent political parties that have full 
access to the media on an equal basis, in-
cluding (in the case of radio, television, or 
other telecommunications media) in terms 
of allotments of time for such access and 
the times of day such allotments are given; 
and 
(iii) to be conducted under the super-
vision of reputable internationally recog-
nized observers, such as the Organization 
of American States, the United Nations, 
and other election monitors; 
(E) has ceased any interference with Radio 
Marti or Television Marti broadcasts; 
(F) has made public commitments to and 
is making demonstrable progress in— 
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(i) establishing an independent judici-
ary; 
(ii) respecting internationally recog-
nized human rights and basic freedoms as 
set forth in the Universal Declaration of 
Human Rights, to which Cuba is a signa-
tory nation; and 
(iii) allowing the establishment of 
independent trade unions as set forth in 
conventions 87 and 98 of the International 
Labor Organization, and allowing the es-
tablishment of independent social, eco-
nomic, and political associations; 
(G) does not include Raul Castro or his 
immediate family; 
(H) has given adequate assurances that it 
will allow the speedy and efficient distribution 
of assistance to the people of Cuba; 
(I) is demonstrably in transition from a 
communist totalitarian dictatorship to a rep-
resentative democracy; 
(J) has made public commitments to and 
is making demonstrable progress in— 
(i) effectively guaranteeing the rights 
of free speech and freedom of the press, in-
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cluding granting permits to privately 
owned media and telecommunications com-
panies to operate in Cuba; 
(ii) permitting the reinstatement of 
citizenship to Cuban-born persons return-
ing to Cuba; 
(iii) assuring the right to private 
property; and 
(iv) taking appropriate steps to return 
to United States citizens, and entities that 
are 50 percent or more beneficially owned 
by United States citizens, property taken 
by the Government of Cuba from such citi-
zens and entities on or after January 1, 
1959, or to provide equitable compensation 
to such citizens and entities for such prop-
erty; 
(K) has extradited or otherwise rendered 
to the United States all persons sought by the 
Department of Justice of the United States for 
crimes committed in the United States; and 
(L) has permitted the deployment through-
out Cuba of independent and unfettered inter-
national human rights monitors; and 
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(2) a joint resolution approving the determina-
tion and certification of the President submitted 
under paragraph (1) is enacted into law in accord-
ance with the procedures described in subsection (b). 
(b) CONGRESSIONAL PROCEDURES.— 
(1) REFERRAL TO COMMITTEES.—Joint resolu-
tions described in subsection (a)(2) that are intro-
duced in the House of Representatives shall be re-
ferred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and 
joint resolutions described in subsection (a)(2) that 
are introduced in the Senate shall be referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Relations. 
(2) PROCEDURES.— 
(A) SENATE.—Any joint resolution de-
scribed in subsection (a)(2) shall be considered 
in the Senate in accordance with the provisions 
of section 601(b) of the International Security 
Assistance and Arms Export Control Act of 
1976 (Public Law 94–329; 90 Stat. 765). 
(B) HOUSE
OF
REPRESENTATIVES.—For 
the purpose of expediting the consideration and 
enactment of a joint resolution described in 
subsection (a)(2), a motion to proceed to the 
consideration of any such joint resolution after 
it has been reported by the appropriate com-
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mittee shall be treated as highly privileged in 
the House of Representatives. 
(C) LIMITATION.—Not more than one joint 
resolution described in subsection (a)(2) may be 
considered in the House of Representatives and 
the Senate during the 6-month period beginning 
on the date on which the President submits to 
Congress a determination and certification 
under subsection (a)(1). 
SEC. 7. PROVISION OF UNRESTRICTED INTERNET SERVICE 
FOR THE PEOPLE OF CUBA. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Effective immediately upon the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall use 
all means possible to provide unrestricted, reliable internet 
service to the people of Cuba that is not censored, blocked, 
or otherwise restricted by the Government of Cuba and 
does not include any technology, services, or communica-
tions backed by the Communist Party of the People’s Re-
public of China. 
(b) NOTIFICATION.—The President shall notify the 
appropriate committees of Congress once an internet con-
nection has been established to provide unrestricted, reli-
able internet service under subsection (a). 
(c) INTERAGENCY TASK FORCE.— 
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Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of 
Representatives. 
Æ 
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