I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2081 
To amend the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 
2012 to modify the requirement to impose sanctions with respect to 
the provision of specialized financial messaging services to the Central 
Bank of Iran and other sanctioned Iranian financial institutions, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 6, 2017 
Mr. ZELDIN (for himself and Mr. SCHWEIKERT) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition 
to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Financial Services, 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 amend the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human 
Rights Act of 2012 to modify the requirement to impose 
sanctions with respect to the provision of specialized 
financial messaging services to the Central Bank of Iran 
and other sanctioned Iranian financial institutions, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. MODIFICATION OF REQUIREMENT TO IMPOSE 
SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE PROVI-
SION 
OF 
SPECIALIZED 
FINANCIAL 
MES-
SAGING SERVICES TO THE CENTRAL BANK 
OF IRAN AND OTHER SANCTIONED IRANIAN 
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 220(c) of the Iran Threat 
Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012 (22 
U.S.C. 8726(c)) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraph (2) as para-
graph (3); 
(2) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘paragraph (2)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘paragraph (3)’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘the President may im-
pose’’ and all that follows and inserting ‘‘the 
President shall impose sanctions pursuant to 
that section, the International Emergency Eco-
nomic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), or 
paragraph (2) of this subsection with respect to 
the person.’’; and 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (1) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(2) EXCLUSION
FROM
THE
UNITED
STATES 
AND REVOCATION OF VISA OR OTHER DOCUMENTA-
TION.— 
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‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The sanctions de-
scribed in this paragraph are, in the case of an 
alien determined by the President to be a senior 
executive or member of the board of directors 
of a person described in paragraph (1), denial 
of a visa to, and exclusion from the United 
States of, the alien, and revocation in accord-
ance with section 221(i) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1201(i)), of any visa 
or other documentation of the alien. 
‘‘(B) DEFINITION.—In this paragraph, the 
term ‘alien’ has the meaning given such term in 
section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act (8 U.S.C. 1101).’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
subsection (a) take effect on the date of the enactment 
of this Act and apply with respect to any person that en-
gages in any of the activities described in paragraph (1) 
of section 220(c) of the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria 
Human Rights Act of 2012 on or after such date of enact-
ment. 
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SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON WAIVER OF SANCTIONS WITH RE-
SPECT TO THE PROVISION OF SPECIALIZED 
FINANCIAL MESSAGING SERVICES TO THE 
CENTRAL BANK OF IRAN AND OTHER SANC-
TIONED IRANIAN FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
President, on or after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, may not waive the requirement to impose sanctions 
under section 220(c) of the Iran Threat Reduction and 
Syria Human Rights Act of 2012 (as amended by section 
1 of this Act). 
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