(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of State, in consultation with the heads of 
other appropriate United States departments and 
agencies, shall submit to the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a re-
port outlining a strategy to implement the policy de-
scribed in subsection (a). 
(2) COMPONENTS.—The report required under 
paragraph (1) shall include the following: 
(A) A detailed assessment of Russian 
disinformation and propaganda efforts across 
all media platforms targeting Georgia. 
(B) An assessment of Georgia’s capabilities 
to deter and combat such Russian efforts and 
to support the freedom of the press. 
(C) A detailed strategy coordinated across 
all relevant United States departments and 
agencies to enhance Georgia’s capabilities to 
deter and combat such Russian efforts. 
(3) FORM.—The report required by paragraph 
(1) shall be submitted in unclassified form but may 
contain a classified annex. 
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SEC. 104. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON FREE TRADE AGREE-
MENT WITH GEORGIA. 
It is the sense of Congress that the United States 
Trade Representative should make progress toward nego-
tiations with Georgia to enter a bilateral free trade agree-
ment with Georgia. 
TITLE II—SANCTIONS 
PROVISIONS 
SEC. 
201. 
IMPOSITION 
OF 
SANCTIONS 
ON 
PERSONS 
COMPLICIT IN OR RESPONSIBLE FOR SERI-
OUS HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES, INCLUDING 
RIGHT TO LIFE IN GEORGIAN REGIONS OF 
ABKHAZIA AND TSKHINVALI REGION/SOUTH 
OSSETIA OCCUPIED BY RUSSIA. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The President shall impose on a 
foreign person the sanctions described in subsection (b) 
if the President determines, based on credible information, 
that such foreign person, on or after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act— 
(1) is responsible for, complicit in, or respon-
sible for ordering, controlling, or otherwise directing 
the commission of serious human rights abuses in 
Georgian regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali Re-
gion/South Ossetia forcibly occupied by the Russian 
Federation; 
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(2) is materially assisting, sponsoring, or pro-
viding significant financial, material, or technological 
support for, or goods or services to, a foreign person 
described in paragraph (1); or 
(3) is owned or controlled by a foreign person, 
or is acting on behalf of a foreign person, described 
in paragraph (1). 
(b) SANCTIONS
DESCRIBED.—The sanctions de-
scribed in this subsection are the following: 
(1) ASSET BLOCKING.—The exercise of all pow-
ers granted to the President by the International 
Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 
et seq.) to the extent necessary to block and prohibit 
all transactions in all property and interests in prop-
erty of a person determined by the President to be 
a person described in subsection (a) if such property 
and interests in property are in the United States, 
come within the United States, or are or come with-
in the possession or control of a United States per-
son, including by taking any of the actions described 
in paragraph (1) of section 203(a) of such Act (50 
U.S.C. 1702(a)). 
(2) EXCLUSION
FROM
THE
UNITED
STATES 
AND REVOCATION OF VISA OR OTHER DOCUMENTA-
TION.— 
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(A) IN GENERAL.—In the case of an alien 
determined by the President to be a person de-
scribed in subsection (a), denial of a visa to, 
and exclusion from the United States of, such 
alien, and revocation in accordance with section 
221(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(8 U.S.C. 1201(i)), of any visa or other docu-
mentation of such alien. 
(B) EXCEPTION TO COMPLY WITH UNITED 
NATIONS
HEADQUARTERS
AGREEMENT
AND 
LAW
ENFORCEMENT
OBJECTIVES.—Sanctions 
under subparagraph (A) shall not apply to an 
individual if admitting such individual into the 
United States would further important law en-
forcement objectives or is necessary to permit 
the United States to comply with the Agree-
ment regarding the Headquarters of the United 
Nations, signed at Lake Success June 26, 
1947, and entered into force November 21, 
1947, between the United Nations and the 
United States, or other applicable international 
obligations of the United States. 
(c) WAIVER.—The President may waive the applica-
tion of sanctions under subsection (b) with respect to a 
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person if the President determines that such a waiver is 
important to the national interests of the United States. 
(d) IMPLEMENTATION; PENALTIES.— 
(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 subsection (b)(1). 
(2) PENALTIES.—A person that violates, at-
tempts to violate, conspires to violate, or causes a 
violation of subsection (b)(1) or any regulation, li-
cense, or order issued to carry out such subsection 
shall be subject to the penalties specified in sub-
sections (b) and (c) of section 206 of the Inter-
national Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 
U.S.C. 1705) to the same extent as a person that 
commits an unlawful act described in subsection (a) 
of such section. 
(e) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than 60 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act and at least 
once every 180 days thereafter for a period not to exceed 
two years, the President, in consultation with the Sec-
retary of the Treasury, shall transmit to Congress a de-
tailed report with respect to persons that have been deter-
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mined to have engaged in activities described in subsection 
(a). 
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