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by inserting after the items relating to section 1262 
the following: 
‘‘Sec. 1262A. Sense of Congress.’’. 
(c) IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Subsection (a) of section 
1263 of the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Ac-
countability Act (Subtitle F of title XII of Public 
Law 114–328; 22 U.S.C. 2656 note) is amended to 
read as follows: 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The President may impose the 
sanctions described in subsection (b) with respect to any 
foreign person that the President determines, based on 
credible information— 
‘‘(1) is responsible for or complicit in, or has di-
rectly or indirectly engaged in, serious human rights 
abuse; 
‘‘(2) is a current or former government official, 
or a person acting for or on behalf of such an offi-
cial, who is responsible for or complicit in, or has di-
rectly or indirectly engaged in— 
‘‘(A) corruption, including— 
‘‘(i) the misappropriation of state as-
sets; 
‘‘(ii) the expropriation of private as-
sets for personal gain; 
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‘‘(iii) corruption related to government 
contracts or the extraction of natural re-
sources; or 
‘‘(iv) bribery; or 
‘‘(B) the transfer or facilitation of the 
transfer of the proceeds of corruption; 
‘‘(3) is or has been a leader or official of— 
‘‘(A) an entity, including a government en-
tity, that has engaged in, or whose members 
have engaged in, any of the activities described 
in paragraph (1) or (2) during the tenure of the 
leader or official; or 
‘‘(B) an entity whose property and inter-
ests in property are blocked pursuant to this 
section as a result of activities during the ten-
ure of the leader or official; 
‘‘(4) has materially assisted, sponsored, or pro-
vided financial, material, or technological support 
for, or goods or services to or in support of— 
‘‘(A) an activity described in paragraph (1) 
or (2) that is conducted by a foreign person; 
‘‘(B) a person whose property and inter-
ests in property are blocked pursuant to this 
section; or 
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‘‘(C) an entity, including a government en-
tity, that has engaged in, or whose members 
have engaged in, an activity described in para-
graph (1) or (2) conducted by a foreign person; 
or 
‘‘(5) is owned or controlled by, or has acted or 
been purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or 
indirectly, a person whose property and interests in 
property are blocked pursuant to this section.’’. 
(2) CONSIDERATION
OF
CERTAIN
INFORMA-
TION.—Subsection (c)(2) of such section is amended 
by striking ‘‘violations of human rights’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘corruption and human rights abuses’’. 
(3) 
REQUESTS
BY
CONGRESS.—Subsection 
(d)(2) of such section is amended— 
(A) in subparagraph (A)— 
(i) in the subparagraph heading, by 
striking ‘‘HUMAN
RIGHTS
VIOLATIONS’’ 
and inserting ‘‘SERIOUS
HUMAN
RIGHTS 
ABUSE’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘described in para-
graph (1) or (2) of subsection (a)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘described in subsection (a) relat-
ing to serious human rights abuse’’; and 
(B) in subparagraph (B)— 
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