I 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 8453 
To provide for the imposition of sanctions with respect to foreign persons 
undermining the Dayton Peace Agreement or threatening the security 
of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 20, 2022 
Mrs. WAGNER (for herself and Ms. WILD) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the 
Committees on Financial Services, and the Judiciary, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee con-
cerned 
A BILL 
To provide for the imposition of sanctions with respect to 
foreign persons undermining the Dayton Peace Agree-
ment or threatening the security of Bosnia and 
Herzegovina, 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 ‘‘Upholding the Dayton 
Peace Agreement Through Sanctions Act’’. 
VerDate Sep 11 2014 
16:41 Jul 25, 2022
Jkt 029200
PO 00000
Frm 00001
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H8453.IH
H8453
pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS
SEC. 2. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It is the policy of the United States— 
(1) to support Bosnia and Herzegovina’s sov-
ereignty, territorial integrity, multi-ethnic character 
and the prosperity of the Republika Srpska entity, 
the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity, 
and the Brcko District within one Bosnia and 
Herzegovina; 
(2) to support Bosnia and Herzegovina’s 
progress towards Euro-Atlantic integration; 
(3) to encourage officials in Bosnia and 
Herzegovina to resume institutional participation at 
all levels of government to advance functionality and 
common-sense reforms for greater prosperity and for 
Bosnia and Herzegovina to obtain European Union 
candidate status; 
(4) to call on Bosnia and Herzegovina to imple-
ment the rulings of the European Court of Human 
Rights; 
(5) to encourage robust participation in the Oc-
tober 2, 2022, general elections in Bosnia and 
Herzegovina; 
(6) to support the robust use of targeted sanc-
tions against persons who undermine the Dayton 
Peace Agreement and democratic institutions, in-
cluding by blocking, boycotting or not recognizing 
VerDate Sep 11 2014 
16:41 Jul 25, 2022
Jkt 029200
PO 00000
Frm 00002
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H8453.IH
H8453
pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS
the results of elections, in Bosnia and Herzegovina 
to support peace and stability in that country; 
(7) to urge the European Union to join the 
United States and United Kingdom in sanctioning 
Milorad Dodik, a member of the Presidency of Bos-
nia and Herzegovina, for his actions that undermine 
the stability and territorial integrity of Bosnia and 
Herzegovina; 
(8) to expose and condemn the Government of 
Russia for its role in fueling instability in Bosnia 
and Herzegovina and undermining the Dayton Peace 
Agreement, the role of the Office of the High Rep-
resentative, and the European Union Force in BiH’s 
Operation Althea; 
(9) to work with other regional States, includ-
ing Serbia and Croatia, to support the territorial in-
tegrity and stability of Bosnia and Herzegovina; and 
(10) to encourage the United States to use its 
voice and vote at the United Nations, the Peace Im-
plementation Council and its Steering Board, and 
other relevant international bodies to support the 
Office of the High Representative. 
VerDate Sep 11 2014 
16:41 Jul 25, 2022
Jkt 029200
PO 00000
Frm 00003
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H8453.IH
H8453
pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS
SEC. 3. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO FOR-
EIGN PERSONS UNDERMINING THE DAYTON 
PEACE AGREEMENT OR THREATENING THE 
SECURITY OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. 
(a) IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS.— 
(1) LIST REQUIRED.—Not later than 30 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, and 
every 90 days thereafter, the President shall submit 
to the appropriate congressional committees a list of 
foreign persons that are determined— 
(A) to be responsible for or complicit in, or 
to have directly or indirectly engaged in, any 
action or policy that threatens the peace, secu-
rity, stability, or territorial integrity of Bosnia 
and Herzegovina, including actions that seek to 
undermine 
the 
authority 
of 
Bosnia 
and 
Herzegovina’s State-level institutions, such as 
forming illegal parallel institutions or actions 
that threaten the Office of the High Represent-
ative; 
(B) to be responsible for or complicit in, or 
to have directly or indirectly engaged in, any 
action or policy that undermines democratic 
processes 
or 
institutions 
in 
Bosnia 
and 
Herzegovina; 
VerDate Sep 11 2014 
16:41 Jul 25, 2022
Jkt 029200
PO 00000
Frm 00004
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H8453.IH
H8453
pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS
subsection (c) with respect to each foreign person 
identified on the list. 
(b) ADDITIONAL MEASURE RELATING TO FACILITA-
TION OF TRANSACTIONS.—The Secretary of the Treasury 
may, 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 on the list required by subsection 
(a)(1). 
(c) SANCTIONS
DESCRIBED.—The sanctions de-
scribed in this subsection 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 
VerDate Sep 11 2014 
16:41 Jul 25, 2022
Jkt 029200
PO 00000
Frm 00007
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H8453.IH
H8453
pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS
or come within the possession or control of a United 
States person. 
(2) ALIENS INADMISSIBLE FOR VISAS, ADMIS-
SION, OR PAROLE.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—An alien on the list re-
quired by subsection (a)(1) is— 
(i) inadmissible to the United States; 
(ii) ineligible for a visa or travel to 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 visa or other 
documentation issued to an alien on the 
list required by subsection (a)(1) shall be 
revoked, regardless of when such visa or 
other documentation is or was issued. 
(ii) EFFECT OF REVOCATION.—A visa 
or other entry documentation revoked 
under clause (i) shall, in accordance with 
section 221(i) of the Immigration and Na-
VerDate Sep 11 2014 
16:41 Jul 25, 2022
Jkt 029200
PO 00000
Frm 00008
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H8453.IH
H8453
pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS
tionality Act (8 U.S.C. 1201(i)), no longer 
be valid for travel to the United States. 
(d) 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 UNITED NA-
TIONS
HEADQUARTERS
AGREEMENT.—Sanctions 
under subsection (c)(2) shall not apply with respect 
to the admission of an alien to the United States if 
the admission of the alien 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, the Convention on Con-
sular Relations, done at Vienna April 24, 1963, and 
entered into force March 19, 1967, or other applica-
ble international obligations. 
(e) WAIVER.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The President may, on a 
case-by-case basis and for periods not to exceed 180 
days each, waive the application of sanctions or re-
VerDate Sep 11 2014 
16:41 Jul 25, 2022
Jkt 029200
PO 00000
Frm 00009
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H8453.IH
H8453
pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS
strictions imposed with respect to a foreign person 
under this section if the President 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. 
(2) SUNSET.—The authority to issue a waiver 
under paragraph (1) shall terminate on the date 
that is 2 years after the date of enactment of this 
Act. 
(f) REGULATIONS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The President shall, not 
later than 180 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, prescribe regulations as necessary for 
the implementation of this Act. 
(2) NOTIFICATION
TO
CONGRESS.—Not later 
than 10 days before the prescription of regulations 
under paragraph (1), the President shall notify the 
appropriate congressional committees regarding the 
proposed regulations and the provisions of this Act 
that the regulations are implementing. 
(g) IMPLEMENTATION.—The President may exercise 
all authorities provided under sections 203 and 205 of the 
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 
U.S.C. 1702 and 1704) to carry out this Act. 
VerDate Sep 11 2014 
16:41 Jul 25, 2022
Jkt 029200
PO 00000
Frm 00010
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H8453.IH
H8453
pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS
(h) PENALTIES.—The penalties provided for in sub-
sections (b) and (c) of section 206 of the International 
Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) shall 
apply to a person that violates, attempts to violate, con-
spires to violate, or causes a violation of regulations pre-
scribed to carry out this Act to the same extent that such 
penalties apply to a person that commits an unlawful act 
described in subsection (a) of such section 206. 
(i) TERMINATION
OF SANCTIONS.—The President 
may terminate the application of sanctions under this sec-
tion with respect to a foreign person if the President deter-
mines and reports to the appropriate congressional com-
mittees not later than 15 days before the termination of 
the sanctions that— 
(1) credible information exists that the foreign 
person did not engage in the activity for which sanc-
tions were imposed; 
(2) the foreign person has been prosecuted ap-
propriately for the activity for which sanctions were 
imposed; or 
(3) the foreign person has credibly dem-
onstrated a significant change in behavior, has paid 
an appropriate consequence for the activity for 
which sanctions were imposed, and has credibly com-
VerDate Sep 11 2014 
16:41 Jul 25, 2022
Jkt 029200
PO 00000
Frm 00011
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H8453.IH
H8453
pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS