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Subtitle B—Sanctions and Policy 
Coordination With Respect to 
Burma 
SEC. 6521. DEFINITIONS. 
In this title: 
(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). 
(2) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Foreign Relations 
and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs of the Senate; and 
(B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and 
the Committee on Financial Services of the 
House of Representatives. 
(3) 
CORRESPONDENT
ACCOUNT; 
PAYABLE- 
THROUGH ACCOUNT.—The terms ‘‘correspondent ac-
count’’ and ‘‘payable-through account’’ have the 
meanings given those terms in section 5318A of title 
31, United States Code. 
(4) FOREIGN
FINANCIAL
INSTITUTION.—The 
term ‘‘foreign financial institution’’ has the meaning 
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of that term as determined by the Secretary of the 
Treasury by regulation. 
(5) FOREIGN PERSON.—The term ‘‘foreign per-
son’’ means a person that is not a United States 
person. 
(6) KNOWINGLY.—The term ‘‘knowingly’’, with 
respect to conduct, a circumstance, or a result, 
means that a person has actual knowledge, or should 
have known, of the conduct, the circumstance, or the 
result. 
(7) PERSON.—The term ‘‘person’’ means an in-
dividual or entity. 
(8) SUPPORT.—The term ‘‘support’’, with re-
spect to the Burmese military, means to knowingly 
have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided fi-
nancial, material, or technological support for, or 
goods or services to or in support of the Burmese 
military. 
(9) 
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 
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United States, including a foreign branch of 
such an entity; or 
(C) any person in the United States. 
SEC. 6522. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO 
HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES AND PERPETRATION 
OF A COUP IN BURMA. 
(a) MANDATORY SANCTIONS.—Not later than 60 
days after the enactment of this Act, the President shall 
impose the sanctions described in subsection (d) with re-
spect to any foreign person that the President deter-
mines— 
(1) knowingly operates as a senior official or in 
a significant capacity in the defense sector of the 
Burmese economy; 
(2) leading up to, during, and since the Feb-
ruary 2021 coup is responsible for or has directly 
and knowingly engaged in— 
(A) actions or policies that undermine 
democratic processes or institutions in Burma; 
(B) actions or policies that threaten the 
peace, security, or stability of Burma; 
(C) actions or policies that prohibit, limit, 
or penalize the exercise of freedom of expression 
or assembly by people in Burma, or that limit 
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access to print, online, or broadcast media in 
Burma; or 
(D) the arbitrary detention or torture of 
any person in Burma or other serious human 
rights abuse in Burma; 
(3) is a senior leader of— 
(A) the Burmese military or security forces 
of Burma, or any successor entity to any of 
such forces; 
(B) the State Administration Council, the 
military-appointed cabinet at the level of Dep-
uty Minister or higher, or a military-appointed 
minister of a Burmese state or region; or 
(C) an entity that has engaged in any ac-
tivity described in paragraph (2) leading up to, 
during, and after the February 2021 coup; 
(4) knowingly operates— 
(A) any entity that is a state-owned eco-
nomic enterprise under Burmese law (other 
than the entity specified in subsection (c)) that 
benefits the Burmese military, including the 
Myanma Gems Enterprise; or 
(B) any entity controlled in whole or in 
part by an entity described in subparagraph 
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(A), or a successor to such an entity, that bene-
fits the Burmese military; 
(5) knowingly and materially violates, attempts 
to violate, conspires to violate, or has caused or at-
tempted to cause a violation of any license, order, 
regulation, or prohibition contained in or issued pur-
suant to Executive Order 14014 or this Act; 
(6) to be a spouse or adult child of any person 
described in any of paragraphs (1) through (5); or 
(7) to be owned or controlled by, and to act for 
or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, a person that 
has engaged in the activity described, as the case 
may be, in any of paragraphs (1) through (6). 
(b) ADDITIONAL MEASURE RELATING TO FACILITA-
TION OF TRANSACTIONS.—The Secretary of the Treasury 
shall, in consultation with the Secretary of State, prohibit 
or impose strict conditions on the opening or maintaining 
in the United States of a correspondent account or pay-
able-through account by a foreign financial institution 
that the President determines has, on or after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, knowingly conducted or fa-
cilitated a significant transaction or transactions on behalf 
of a foreign person sanctioned based on subsection (a). 
(c) ADDITIONAL SANCTIONS.—Beginning on the date 
that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this 
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Act, the President shall impose the sanctions described in 
subsection (d) with respect to the Myanma Oil and Gas 
Enterprise. 
(d) SANCTIONS DESCRIBED.—The sanctions that 
may be imposed with respect to a foreign person described 
in subsection (a) are the following: 
(1) PROPERTY
BLOCKING.—Notwithstanding 
the requirements of section 202 of the International 
Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701), 
the President may exercise of all powers granted to 
the President by that Act to the extent necessary to 
block and prohibit all transactions in all 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. 
(2) FOREIGN EXCHANGE.—The President may, 
pursuant to such regulations as the President may 
prescribe, prohibit any transactions in foreign ex-
change that are subject to the jurisdiction of the 
United States and in which the foreign person has 
any interest. 
(3) VISAS, ADMISSION, OR PAROLE.— 
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(ii) EFFECT OF REVOCATION.—A rev-
ocation under subclause (i)— 
(I) shall take effect immediately; 
and 
(II) shall automatically cancel 
any other valid visa or entry docu-
mentation that is in the alien’s pos-
session. 
(e) EXCEPTIONS.— 
(1) EXCEPTION FOR INTELLIGENCE, LAW EN-
FORCEMENT, 
AND
NATIONAL
SECURITY
ACTIVI-
TIES.—Sanctions under this section shall not apply 
to any authorized intelligence, law enforcement, or 
national security activities of the United States. 
(2) EXCEPTION
TO
COMPLY
WITH
INTER-
NATIONAL
OBLIGATIONS.—Sanctions under sub-
section (d)(3) shall not apply with respect to the ad-
mission of an alien if admitting or paroling the alien 
into the United States is necessary to permit the 
United States to comply with the Agreement regard-
ing the Headquarters of the United Nations, signed 
at Lake Success June 26, 1947, and entered into 
force November 21, 1947, between the United Na-
tions and the United States, or other applicable 
international obligations. 
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(3) EXCEPTION RELATING TO THE PROVISION 
OF
HUMANITARIAN
ASSISTANCE.—Sanctions under 
this section may not be imposed with respect to 
transactions or the facilitation of transactions for— 
(A) the sale of agricultural commodities, 
food, medicine, or medical devices to Burma; 
(B) the provision of humanitarian assist-
ance to the people of Burma; 
(C) financial transactions relating to hu-
manitarian assistance or for humanitarian pur-
poses in Burma; or 
(D) transporting goods or services that are 
necessary to carry out operations relating to 
humanitarian assistance or humanitarian pur-
poses in Burma. 
(f) WAIVER.—The President may, on a case-by-case 
basis and for periods not to exceed 180 days each, waive 
the application of sanctions or restrictions imposed with 
respect to a foreign person under this section if the Presi-
dent certifies to the appropriate congressional committees 
not later than 15 days before such waiver is to take effect 
that the waiver is vital to the national security interests 
of the United States. 
(g) IMPLEMENTATION; PENALTIES.— 
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(1) IMPLEMENTATION.—The President may ex-
ercise all authorities provided to the President under 
sections 203 and 205 of the International Emer-
gency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702 and 
1704) to carry out this section. 
(2) 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 violates, 
attempts to violate, conspires to violate, or causes a 
violation of regulations promulgated under section 
403(b) to carry out paragraph (1)(A) to the same 
extent that such penalties apply to a person that 
commits an unlawful act described in section 206(a) 
of that Act. 
(h) REPORT.—Not later than 60 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act and annually thereafter for 
8 years, the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation 
with the Secretary of State and the heads of other United 
States Government agencies, as appropriate, shall submit 
to the appropriate congressional committees a report 
that— 
(1) sets forth the plan of the Department of the 
Treasury for ensuring that property blocked pursu-
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ant to subsection (a) or Executive Order 14014 re-
mains blocked; 
(2) describes the primary sources of income to 
which the Burmese military has access and that the 
United States has been unable to reach using sanc-
tions authorities; 
(3) makes recommendations for how the sources 
of income described in paragraph (2) can be reduced 
or blocked; 
(4) evaluates the implications of imposing sanc-
tions on the Burmese-government owned Myanmar 
Oil and Gas Enterprise, including a determination 
with respect to the extent to which sanctions on 
Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise would advance the 
interests of the United States in Burma; and 
(5) assesses the impact of the sanctions im-
posed pursuant to the authorities under this Act on 
the Burmese people and the Burmese military. 
SEC. 6523. CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENT FOR REMOVAL 
OF CERTAIN PERSONS FROM THE LIST OF 
SPECIALLY DESIGNATED NATIONALS AND 
BLOCKED PERSONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—On or after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the President may not remove a person 
described in subsection (b) from the list of specially des-
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ignated nationals and blocked persons maintained by the 
Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the 
Treasury (commonly referred to as the ‘‘SDN list’’) until 
the President submits to the appropriate congressional 
committees a certification described in subsection (c) with 
respect to the person. 
(b) PERSONS DESCRIBED.—A person described in 
this subsection is a foreign person included in the SDN 
list for violations of part 525 of title 31, Code of Federal 
Regulations, or any other regulations imposing sanctions 
on or related to Burma. 
(c) CERTIFICATION DESCRIBED.—A certification de-
scribed in this subsection, with respect to a person de-
scribed in subsection (b), is a certification that the person 
has not knowingly assisted in, sponsored, or provided fi-
nancial, material, or technological support for, or financial 
or other services to or in support of— 
(1) terrorism or a terrorist organization; 
(2) a significant foreign narcotics trafficker (as 
defined in section 808 of the Foreign Narcotics 
Kingpin Designation Act (21 U.S.C. 1907)); 
(3) a significant transnational criminal organi-
zation under Executive Order 13581 (50 U.S.C. 
note; relating to blocking property of transnational 
criminal organizations); or 
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