SEC. 3. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS ON CERTAIN INDIVID-
UALS 
WHO 
ARE 
COMPLICIT 
IN 
HUMAN 
RIGHTS ABUSES COMMITTED AGAINST NA-
TIONALS OF VIETNAM OR THEIR FAMILY 
MEMBERS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subsection 
(d), the President shall impose sanctions described in sub-
section (c) with respect to each individual on the list re-
quired by subsection (b). 
(b) LIST OF INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE COMPLICIT IN 
CERTAIN HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the President 
shall submit to the appropriate congressional com-
mittees a list of individuals who are nationals of 
Vietnam that the President determines are complicit 
in human rights abuses committed against nationals 
of Vietnam or their family members, regardless of 
whether such abuses occurred in Vietnam. 
(2) UPDATES
OF
LIST.—The President shall 
submit to the appropriate congressional committees 
an updated list under paragraph (1) as new infor-
mation becomes available and not less frequently 
than annually. 
(3) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The list required 
by paragraph (1) shall be made available to the pub-
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lic and posted on the Web sites of the Department 
of the Treasury and the Department of State. 
(4) CONSIDERATION
OF
DATA
FROM
OTHER 
COUNTRIES
AND
NONGOVERNMENTAL
ORGANIZA-
TIONS.—In preparing the list required by paragraph 
(1), the President shall consider data already ob-
tained by other countries and nongovernmental orga-
nizations, including organizations in Vietnam, that 
monitor the human rights abuses of the Government 
of Vietnam. 
(c) SANCTIONS
DESCRIBED.—The sanctions de-
scribed in this subsection are the following: 
(1) PROHIBITION ON ENTRY AND ADMISSION TO 
THE UNITED STATES.—An individual whose name 
appears on the list required by subsection (b)(1) 
may not— 
(A) be admitted to, enter, or transit 
through the United States; 
(B) receive any lawful immigration status 
in the United States under the immigration 
laws, including any relief under the Convention 
Against Torture; or 
(C) file any application or petition to ob-
tain such admission, entry, or status. 
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(2) FINANCIAL
SANCTIONS.—The President 
shall impose sanctions authorized pursuant to sec-
tion 203 of the International Emergency Economic 
Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702) with respect to an in-
dividual whose name appears on the list required by 
subsection (b)(1), including blocking of the property 
of, and restricting or prohibiting financial trans-
actions and the exportation and importation of prop-
erty by, the individual. 
(d) EXCEPTIONS TO COMPLY WITH INTERNATIONAL 
AGREEMENTS.—The President may, by regulation, au-
thorize exceptions to the imposition of sanctions under this 
section to permit the United States to comply with the 
Agreement between the United Nations and the United 
States of America regarding the Headquarters of the 
United Nations, signed June 26, 1947, and entered into 
force November 21, 1947, and other applicable inter-
national agreements. 
(e) TERMINATION OF SANCTIONS.—The provisions of 
this section shall cease to have force and effect on the date 
on which the President determines and certifies to the ap-
propriate congressional committees that the Government 
of Vietnam has— 
(1) unconditionally released all political pris-
oners; 
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(2) ceased its practices of violence, unlawful de-
tention, torture, and abuse of citizens of Vietnam 
while engaging in peaceful political activity; and 
(3) conducted a transparent investigation into 
the killings, arrest, and abuse of peaceful political 
activists in Vietnam and prosecuted those respon-
sible. 
(f) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Finance, the Com-
mittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Af-
fairs, and the Committee on Foreign Relations 
of the Senate; and 
(B) the Committee on Ways and Means, 
the Committee on Financial Services, and the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 
Representatives. 
(2) CONVENTION
AGAINST
TORTURE.—The 
term ‘‘Convention Against Torture’’ means the 
United Nations Convention Against Torture and 
Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or 
Punishment, done at New York on December 10, 
1984. 
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(3) 
IMMIGRATION
LAWS; 
NATIONAL.—The 
terms ‘‘immigration laws’’ and ‘‘national’’ have the 
meanings given those terms in section 101 of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101). 
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