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(B) the date that is 30 days after the date on which 
the President certifies to Congress that— 
(i) the Government of the Russian Federation has 
ceased its destabilizing activities with respect to the 
sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine; and 
(ii) such termination in the national interests of 
the United States. 
(2) TRANSITION RULES.— 
(A) CONTINUATION
OF
CERTAIN
AUTHORITIES.—Any 
authorities exercised before the termination date under 
paragraph (1) to impose sanctions with respect to a foreign 
person under this section may continue to be exercised 
on and after that date if the President determines that 
the continuation of those authorities is in the national 
interests of the United States. 
(B) APPLICATION
TO
ONGOING
INVESTIGATIONS.—The 
termination date under paragraph (1) shall not apply to 
any investigation of a civil or criminal violation of this 
section or any regulation, license, or order issued to carry 
out this section, or the imposition of a civil or criminal 
penalty for such a violation, if— 
(i) the violation occurred before the termination 
date; or 
(ii) the person involved in the violation continues 
to be subject to sanctions pursuant to subparagraph 
(A). 
(f) EXCEPTIONS.— 
(1) EXCEPTIONS FOR AUTHORIZED INTELLIGENCE AND LAW 
ENFORCEMENT AND NATIONAL SECURITY ACTIVITIES.—This sec-
tion shall not apply with respect to activities subject to the 
reporting requirements under title V of the National Security 
Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3091 et seq.) or any authorized intel-
ligence, law enforcement, or national security activities of the 
United States. 
(2) EXCEPTION
TO
COMPLY
WITH
INTERNATIONAL
AGREE-
MENTS.—Sanctions under subsection (b)(2) may not apply with 
respect to the admission of an alien to the United States 
if such admission is necessary to comply with the obligations 
of the United States under the Agreement regarding the Head-
quarters 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 the Convention 
on Consular Relations, done at Vienna April 24, 1963, and 
entered into force March 19, 1967, or other international obliga-
tions. 
(3) HUMANITARIAN EXEMPTION.—The President shall not 
impose sanctions under this section with respect to any person 
for conducting or facilitating a transaction for the sale of agri-
cultural commodities, food, medicine, or medical devices or for 
the provision of humanitarian assistance. 
(4) EXCEPTION RELATING TO IMPORTATION OF GOODS.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—The requirement or authority to 
impose sanctions under this section shall not include the 
authority or a requirement to impose sanctions on the 
importation of goods.
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(B) GOOD DEFINED.—In this paragraph, the term ‘‘good’’ 
means any article, natural or manmade substance, mate-
rial, supply, or manufactured product, including inspection 
and test equipment, and excluding technical data. 
(g) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) The terms ‘‘admission’’, ‘‘admitted’’, ‘‘alien’’, and ‘‘law-
fully admitted for permanent residence’’ have the meanings 
given those terms in section 101 of the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101). 
(2) The term ‘‘foreign person’’ means an individual or entity 
that is not a United States person. 
(3) The term ‘‘knowingly’’, with respect to conduct, a cir-
cumstance, or a result, means that a person has actual knowl-
edge, or should have known, of the conduct, the circumstance, 
or the result. 
(4) The term ‘‘United States person’’ means— 
(A) a United States citizen or an alien lawfully 
admitted for permanent residence to the United States; 
(B) an entity organized under the laws of the United 
States or any jurisdiction within the United States, 
including a foreign branch of such an entity; or 
(C) any person in the United States. 
SEC. 5591. RENEGOTIATION OF COMPACTS OF FREE ASSOCIATION. 
(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress as follows: 
(1) The United States shares deep ties, history and interests 
with the Freely Associated States of the Republic of the Mar-
shall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau and 
continues a special, unique and mutually beneficial relationship 
with them under the decades-old Compacts of Free Association. 
(2) Under the Compacts, the United States has undertaken 
the responsibility and obligation to provide and ensure the 
security and defense of the Freely Associated States. 
(3) The Compacts are critical to the national security of 
the United States and its allies and partners and are the 
bedrock of the United States role in the Pacific. 
(4) Renewal of key provisions of the Compacts, now being 
renegotiated with each nation, is critical for regional security. 
(5) Maintaining and strengthening the Compacts supports 
both United States national security and the United States 
responsibility for the security and defense of the Freely Associ-
ated States. 
(b) BRIEFING
ON RENEGOTIATIONS.—Not later than 90 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, 
in coordination with the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary 
of the Interior, shall brief the following committees on the status 
of the renegotiations of the Compacts of Free Association described 
in subsection (a) and opportunities to expand its support for the 
renegotiations: 
(1) The congressional defense committees. 
(2) The Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee 
on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives. 
(3) The Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee 
on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate.
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SEC. 5592. SECRETARY OF STATE ASSISTANCE FOR PRISONERS IN 
ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN. 
(a) STATEMENT OF POLICY.—It is the policy of the United States 
that— 
(1) the Islamic Republic of Iran should allow the United 
Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights 
in the Islamic Republic of Iran unimpeded access to facilitate 
the full implementation of the mandate of the United Nations 
Special Rapporteur, including— 
(A) investigating alleged violations of human rights 
that are occurring or have occurred both within prisons 
and elsewhere; 
(B) transmitting urgent appeals and letters to the 
Islamic Republic of Iran regarding alleged violations of 
human rights; and 
(C) engaging with relevant stakeholders in the Islamic 
Republic of Iran and the surrounding region; 
(2) the Islamic Republic of Iran should immediately end 
violations of the human rights of political prisoners or persons 
imprisoned for exercising the right to freedom of speech, 
including— 
(A) torture; 
(B) denial of access to health care; and 
(C) denial of a fair trial; 
(3) all prisoners of conscience and political prisoners in 
the Islamic Republic of Iran should be unconditionally and 
immediately released; 
(4) all diplomatic tools of the United States should be 
invoked to ensure that all prisoners of conscience and political 
prisoners in the Islamic Republic of Iran are released, including 
raising individual cases of particular concern; and 
(5) all officials of the government of the Islamic Republic 
of Iran who are responsible for human rights abuses in the 
form of politically motivated imprisonment should be held to 
account, including through the imposition of sanctions pursuant 
to the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (22 
U.S.C. 10101 et seq.) and other applicable statutory authorities 
of the United States. 
(b) ASSISTANCE
FOR PRISONERS.—The Secretary of State is 
authorized to continue to provide assistance to civil society organiza-
tions that support prisoners of conscience and political prisoners 
in the Islamic Republic of Iran, including organizations that— 
(1) work to secure the release of such prisoners; 
(2) document violations of human rights with respect to 
such prisoners; 
(3) support international advocacy to raise awareness of 
issues relating to such prisoners; 
(4) support the health, including mental health, of such 
prisoners; and 
(5) provide post-incarceration assistance to enable such 
prisoners to resume normal lives, including access to education, 
employment, or other forms of reparation. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘political prisoner’’ means a person who has 
been detained or imprisoned on politically motivated grounds. 
(2) The term ‘‘prisoner of conscience’’ means a person who—
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(A) is imprisoned or otherwise physically restricted 
solely in response to the peaceful exercise of the human 
rights of such person; and 
(B) has not used violence or advocated violence or 
hatred. 
SEC. 5593. IRAN NUCLEAR WEAPONS CAPABILITY AND TERRORISM 
MONITORING ACT OF 2022. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be cited as the ‘‘Iran 
Nuclear Weapons Capability and Terrorism Monitoring Act of 2022’’. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) an Islamic Republic of Iran that possesses a nuclear 
weapons capability would be a serious threat to the national 
security of the United States, Israel, and other allies and part-
ners; 
(2) the Islamic Republic of Iran has been less than coopera-
tive with international inspectors from the International Atomic 
Energy Agency and has obstructed their ability to inspect facili-
ties as well as data and recordings collected by surveillance 
equipment across Iran; 
(3) the Islamic Republic of Iran continues to advance mis-
sile and drone programs, which are a threat to the national 
security of the United States, Israel, and other allies and part-
ners; 
(4) the Islamic Republic of Iran continues to support proxies 
in the Middle East in a manner that— 
(A) undermines the sovereignty of regional govern-
ments; 
(B) threatens the safety of United States citizens; 
(C) threatens United States allies and partners; and 
(D) directly undermines the national security interests 
of the United States; 
(5) the Islamic Republic of Iran has engaged in assassina-
tion plots against former United States officials and has been 
implicated in plots to kidnap United States citizens within 
the United States; 
(6) the Islamic Republic of Iran is engaged in unsafe and 
unprofessional maritime activity that threatens the movement 
of naval vessels of the United States and the free flow of 
commerce through strategic maritime chokepoints in the Middle 
East and North Africa; 
(7) the Islamic Republic of Iran has delivered hundreds 
of armed drones to the Russian Federation, which will enable 
Vladimir Putin to continue the assault against Ukraine in 
direct opposition of the national security interests of the United 
States; and 
(8) the United States must— 
(A) ensure that the Islamic Republic of Iran does not 
acquire a nuclear weapons capability; 
(B) protect against aggression from the Islamic 
Republic of Iran manifested through its missiles and drone 
programs; and 
(C) counter regional and global terrorism of the Islamic 
Republic of Iran in a manner that minimizes the threat 
posed by state and non-state actors to the interests of 
the United States. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: