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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6089 
To clarify that section 107 of the Countering America’s Adversaries Through 
Sanctions Act applies sanctions with respect to unmanned combat aerial 
vehicles following a 2019 change by the United Nations providing addi-
tional clarity to the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 30, 2021 
Mr. MCCAUL (for himself, Mr. MEEKS, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, and 
Mr. DEUTCH) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the 
Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To clarify that section 107 of the Countering America’s 
Adversaries Through Sanctions Act applies sanctions 
with respect to unmanned combat aerial vehicles fol-
lowing a 2019 change by the United Nations providing 
additional clarity to the United Nations Register of Con-
ventional Arms. 
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. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stop Iranian Drones 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) A July 15, 2013, United Nations General 
Assembly Report on the continuing operation of the 
United Nations Register of Conventional Arms and 
its further development (document A/68/140) states 
in paragraph 45, ‘‘The Group noted the discussion 
of the 2006 Group that category IV already covered 
armed unmanned aerial vehicles and of the 2009 
Group on a proposal to include a new category for 
such vehicles. The Group reviewed proposals for pro-
viding greater clarity to category IV.’’. 
(2) Section 107 of the Countering America’s 
Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (22 U.S.C. 
9406), enacted August 2, 2017, requires the Presi-
dent to impose sanctions on any person that the 
President determines ‘‘knowingly engages in any ac-
tivity that materially contributes to the supply, sale, 
or transfer directly or indirectly to or from Iran, or 
for the use in or benefit of Iran, of any battle tanks, 
armored combat vehicles, large caliber artillery sys-
tems, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, 
missiles or missile systems, as defined for the pur-
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pose of the United Nations Register of Conventional 
Arms, or related materiel, including spare parts’’. 
(3) In 2019, the United Nations formally 
changed the heading of category IV of the United 
Nations Register of Conventional Arms to ‘‘combat 
aircraft and unmanned combat aerial vehicles’’. 
SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It shall be the policy of the United States to prevent 
Iran and Iranian-aligned terrorist and militia groups from 
acquiring unmanned aerial vehicles, including commer-
cially available component parts, that can be used in at-
tacks against United States persons and partner nations. 
SEC. 4. AMENDMENT TO COUNTERING AMERICA’S ADVER-
SARIES THROUGH SANCTIONS ACT RELATING 
TO SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO IRAN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 107 of the Countering 
America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (22 U.S.C. 
9406) is amended— 
(1) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘EN-
FORCEMENT OF ARMS EMBARGOS’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘SANCTIONS
WITH
RESPECT
TO
MAJOR 
CONVENTIONAL ARMS’’; and 
(2) in subsection (a)(1), by inserting ‘‘or un-
manned combat aerial vehicles’’ after ‘‘combat air-
craft’’. 
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(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
for the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanc-
tions Act is amended by striking the item relating to sec-
tion 107 and inserting the following: 
‘‘Sec. 107. Sanctions with respect to major conventional arms.’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section take effect on the date of the enactment of 
this Act and apply with respect to any person that know-
ingly engages in any activity that materially contributes 
to the supply, sale, or transfer directly or indirectly to or 
from Iran, or for the use in or benefit of Iran, of any 
unmanned combat aerial vehicles, as defined for the pur-
pose of the United Nations Register of Conventional 
Arms, before, on, or after such date of enactment. 
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