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‘‘(ii) operate in the United States. 
‘‘(9) NONPROFIT COMPUTER REFURBISHER.—The term ‘non-
profit computer refurbisher’ means a nonprofit organization 
that— 
‘‘(A) primarily works to improve access to information 
and communication technology in their mission to bridge 
the digital divide; and 
‘‘(B) operates in the United States. 
‘‘(10) NONPROFIT
ORGANIZATION.—The term ‘nonprofit 
organization’ means an organization that is described under 
section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and 
is exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of such Code. 
‘‘(11) REPAIRABLE.—The term ‘repairable’ means property 
that is unusable in its current state but can be economically 
repaired. 
‘‘(12) SECONDARY SCHOOL.—The term ‘secondary school’ has 
the meaning given that term in section 8101 of the Elementary 
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 
‘‘(13) SENIOR.—The term ‘senior’ means an individual who 
is 65 years of age or older. 
‘‘(14) SENIOR IN NEED.—The term ‘senior in need’ means 
a senior who experiences cultural, social, or geographical isola-
tion that— 
‘‘(A) restricts the ability of the senior to perform normal 
daily tasks; or 
‘‘(B) threatens the capacity of the senior to live 
independently. 
‘‘(15) STATE AGENCY FOR SURPLUS PROPERTY.—The term 
‘State agency for surplus property’ has the meaning given the 
term ‘state agency’ under section 549(a). 
‘‘(16) STUDENT.—The term ‘student’ means any individual 
enrolled in an educational institution, but not a public or pri-
vate child care center. 
‘‘(17) SURPLUS COMPUTER OR TECHNOLOGY EQUIPMENT.— 
The term ‘surplus computer or technology equipment’ means 
computer or technology equipment that is property described 
under section 549(b)(2). 
‘‘(18) TECHNOLOGY
EQUIPMENT.—The term ‘technology 
equipment’ means any physical asset related to a computer 
or information technology, including any peripheral component, 
tablet, communication device (such as a router, server, or cell 
phone), printer, scanner, uninterruptible power source, cable, 
or connection. 
‘‘(19) VETERAN.—The term ‘veteran’ has the meaning given 
that term in section 101 of title 38.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of sections for chapter 
5 of title 40, United States Code, is amended by inserting after 
the item relating to section 549 the following: 
‘‘549a. Donation of personal property through nonprofit refurbishers.’’.
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DIVISION AA—FINANCIAL SERVICES 
MATTERS 
TITLE I—REGISTRATION FOR INDEX- 
LINKED ANNUITIES 
SEC. 
101. 
PARITY 
FOR 
REGISTERED 
INDEX-LINKED 
ANNUITIES 
REGARDING REGISTRATION RULES. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) COMMISSION.—The term ‘‘Commission’’ means the Secu-
rities and Exchange Commission. 
(2) INVESTMENT
COMPANY.—The term ‘‘investment com-
pany’’ has the meaning given the term in section 3 of the 
Investment Company Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a–3). 
(3) MARKET VALUE ADJUSTMENT.—The term ‘‘market value 
adjustment’’ means, with respect to a registered index-linked 
annuity, after an early withdrawal or contract discontinuance— 
(A) an adjustment to the value of that annuity based 
on calculations using a predetermined formula; or 
(B) a change in interest rates (or other factor, as deter-
mined by the Commission) that apply to that annuity. 
(4) PURCHASER.—The term ‘‘purchaser’’ means a purchaser 
of a registered index-linked annuity. 
(5) REGISTERED INDEX-LINKED ANNUITY.—The term ‘‘reg-
istered index-linked annuity’’ means an annuity— 
(A) that is deemed to be a security; 
(B) that is registered with the Commission in accord-
ance with section 5 of the Securities Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 
77e); 
(C) that is issued by an insurance company that is 
subject to the supervision of— 
(i) the insurance commissioner or bank commis-
sioner of any State; or 
(ii) any agency or officer performing like functions 
as a commissioner described in clause (i); 
(D) that is not issued by an investment company; and 
(E) the returns of which— 
(i) are based on the performance of a specified 
benchmark index or rate (or a registered exchange 
traded fund that seeks to track the performance of 
a specified benchmark index or rate); and 
(ii) may be subject to a market value adjustment 
if amounts are withdrawn before the end of the period 
during which that market value adjustment applies. 
(6) SECURITY.—The term ‘‘security’’ has the meaning given 
the term in section 2(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 (15 
U.S.C. 77b(a)). 
(b) RULES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Commission shall propose, and, 
not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this 
Act, the Commission shall prepare and finalize, new or amended 
rules, as appropriate, to establish a new form in accordance 
with paragraph (2) on which an issuer of a registered index- 
linked annuity may register that registered index-linked
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annuity, subject to conditions the Commission determines 
appropriate, which may include requiring the issuer to take 
the steps described in section 240.12h–7(e) of title 17, Code 
of Federal Regulations, or any successor regulation, with 
respect to the registered index-linked annuity. 
(2) DESIGN
OF
FORM.—In developing the form required 
to be established under paragraph (1), the Commission shall— 
(A) design the form to ensure that a purchaser using 
the form receives the information necessary to make 
knowledgeable decisions, taking into account— 
(i) the availability of information; 
(ii) the knowledge and sophistication of that class 
of purchasers; 
(iii) the complexity of the registered index-linked 
annuity; and 
(iv) any other factor the Commission determines 
appropriate; 
(B) engage in investor testing; and 
(C) incorporate the results of the testing required under 
subparagraph (B) in the design of the form, with the goal 
of ensuring that key information is conveyed in terms 
that a purchaser is able to understand. 
(c) TREATMENT
IF RULES NOT PREPARED
AND FINALIZED
IN 
A TIMELY MANNER.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—If, as of the date that is 18 months 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Commission has 
failed to prepare and finalize the rules required under sub-
section (b)(1), any registered index-linked annuity may be reg-
istered on the form described in section 239.17b of title 17, 
Code of Federal Regulations, or any successor regulation. 
(2) PREPARATION.—A registration described in paragraph 
(1) shall be prepared pursuant to applicable provisions of the 
form described in that paragraph. 
(3) TERMINATION.—This subsection shall terminate upon 
the establishment by the Commission of the form described 
in subsection (b). 
(d) RULES
OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section may 
be construed to— 
(1) limit the authority of the Commission to— 
(A) determine the information to be requested in the 
form described in subsection (b); or 
(B) extend the eligibility for the form described in 
subsection (b) to a product that is similar to, but is not, 
a registered index-linked annuity; or 
(2) preempt any State law, regulation, rule, or order. 
TITLE II—MASIH ALINEJAD HUNT ACT 
OF 2022 
SEC. 201. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Masih Alinejad Harassment 
and Unlawful Targeting Act of 2022’’ or the ‘‘Masih Alinejad HUNT 
Act of 2022’’.
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SEC. 202. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds that the Government of the Islamic Republic 
of Iran surveils, harasses, terrorizes, tortures, abducts, and murders 
individuals who peacefully defend human rights and freedoms in 
Iran, and innocent entities and individuals considered by the 
Government of Iran to be enemies of that regime, including United 
States citizens on United States soil, and takes foreign nationals 
hostage, including in the following instances: 
(1) In 2021, Iranian intelligence agents were indicted for 
plotting to kidnap United States citizen, women’s rights activist, 
and journalist Masih Alinejad, from her home in New York 
City, in retaliation for exercising her rights under the First 
Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Iranian 
agents allegedly spent at least approximately half a million 
dollars to capture the outspoken critic of the authoritarianism 
of the Government of Iran, and studied evacuating her by 
military-style speedboats to Venezuela before rendition to Iran. 
(2) Prior to the New York kidnapping plot, Ms. Alinejad’s 
family in Iran was instructed by authorities to lure Ms. Alinejad 
to Turkey. In an attempt to intimidate her into silence, the 
Government of Iran arrested 3 of Ms. Alinejad’s family members 
in 2019, and sentenced her brother to 8 years in prison for 
refusing to denounce her. 
(3) According to Federal prosecutors, the same Iranian 
intelligence network that allegedly plotted to kidnap Ms. 
Alinejad is also targeting critics of the Government of Iran 
who live in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United 
Arab Emirates. 
(4) In 2021, an Iranian diplomat was convicted in Belgium 
of attempting to carry out a 2018 bombing of a dissident rally 
in France. 
(5) In 2021, a Danish high court found a Norwegian citizen 
of Iranian descent guilty of illegal espionage and complicity 
in a failed plot to kill an Iranian Arab dissident figure in 
Denmark. 
(6) In 2021, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) 
appealed to the United Nations to protect BBC Persian 
employees in London who suffer regular harassment and 
threats of kidnapping by Iranian government agents. 
(7) In 2021, 15 militants allegedly working on behalf of 
the Government of Iran were arrested in Ethiopia for plotting 
to attack citizens of Israel, the United States, and the United 
Arab Emirates, according to United States officials. 
(8) In 2020, Iranian agents allegedly kidnapped United 
States resident and Iranian-German journalist Jamshid 
Sharmahd, while he was traveling to India through Dubai. 
Iranian authorities announced they had seized Mr. Sharmahd 
in ‘‘a complex operation’’, and paraded him blindfolded on state 
television. Mr. Sharmahd is arbitrarily detained in Iran, alleg-
edly facing the death penalty. In 2009, Mr. Sharmahd was 
the target of an alleged Iran-directed assassination plot in 
Glendora, California. 
(9) In 2020, the Government of Turkey released counterter-
rorism files exposing how Iranian authorities allegedly collabo-
rated with drug gangs to kidnap Habib Chabi, an Iranian- 
Swedish activist for Iran’s Arab minority. In 2020, the Govern-
ment of Iran allegedly lured Mr. Chabi to Istanbul through
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a female agent posing as a potential lover. Mr. Chabi was 
then allegedly kidnapped from Istanbul, and smuggled into 
Iran where he faces execution, following a sham trial. 
(10) In 2020, a United States-Iranian citizen and an Iranian 
resident of California pleaded guilty to charges of acting as 
illegal agents of the Government of Iran by surveilling Jewish 
student facilities, including the Hillel Center and Rohr Chabad 
Center at the University of Chicago, in addition to surveilling 
and collecting identifying information about United States citi-
zens and nationals who are critical of the Iranian regime. 
(11) In 2019, 2 Iranian intelligence officers at the Iranian 
consulate in Turkey allegedly orchestrated the assassination 
of Iranian dissident journalist Masoud Molavi Vardanjani, who 
was shot while walking with a friend in Istanbul. Unbeknownst 
to Mr. Molavi, his ‘‘friend’’ was in fact an undercover Iranian 
agent and the leader of the killing squad, according to a Turkish 
police report. 
(12) In 2019, around 1,500 people were allegedly killed 
amid a less than 2 week crackdown by security forces on 
anti-government protests across Iran, including at least an 
alleged 23 children and 400 women. 
(13) In 2019, Iranian operatives allegedly lured Paris-based 
Iranian journalist Ruhollah Zam to Iraq, where he was 
abducted, and hanged in Iran for sedition. 
(14) In 2019, a Kurdistan regional court convicted an Ira-
nian female for trying to lure Voice of America reporter Ali 
Javanmardi to a hotel room in Irbil, as part of a foiled Iranian 
intelligence plot to kidnap and extradite Mr. Javanmardi, a 
critic of the Government of Iran. 
(15) In 2019, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents visited 
the rural Connecticut home of Iran-born United States author 
and poet Roya Hakakian to warn her that she was the target 
of an assassination plot orchestrated by the Government of 
Iran. 
(16) In 2019, the Government of the Netherlands accused 
the Government of Iran of directing the assassination of Iranian 
Arab activist Ahmad Mola Nissi, in The Hague, and the assas-
sination of another opposition figure, Reza Kolahi Samadi, who 
was murdered near Amsterdam in 2015. 
(17) In 2018, German security forces searched for 10 alleged 
spies who were working for Iran’s al-Quds Force to collect 
information on targets related to the local Jewish community, 
including kindergartens. 
(18) In 2017, Germany convicted a Pakistani man for 
working as an Iranian agent to spy on targets including a 
former German lawmaker and a French-Israeli economics pro-
fessor. 
(19) In 2012, an Iranian American pleaded guilty to con-
spiring with members of the Iranian military to bomb a popular 
Washington, DC, restaurant with the aim of assassinating the 
ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the United States. 
(20) In 1996, agents of the Government of Iran allegedly 
assassinated 5 Iranian dissident exiles across Turkey, Pakistan, 
and Baghdad, over a 5-month period that year. 
(21) In 1992, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of 
the United Kingdom expelled 2 Iranians employed at the Ira-
nian Embassy in London and a third Iranian on a student
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visa amid allegations they were plotting to kill Indian-born 
British American novelist Salman Rushdie, pursuant to the 
fatwa issued by then supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah 
Ruhollah Khomeini. 
(22) In 1992, 4 Iranian Kurdish dissidents were assas-
sinated at a restaurant in Berlin, Germany, allegedly by Iranian 
agents. 
(23) In 1992, singer, actor, poet, and gay Iranian dissident 
Fereydoun Farrokhzad was found dead with multiple stab 
wounds in his apartment in Germany. His death is allegedly 
the work of Iran-directed agents. 
(24) In 1980, Ali Akbar Tabatabaei, a leading critic of 
Iran and then president of the Iran Freedom Foundation, was 
murdered in front of his Bethesda, Maryland, home by an 
assassin disguised as a postal courier. The Federal Bureau 
of Investigation had identified the ‘‘mailman’’ as Dawud 
Salahuddin, born David Theodore Belfield. Mr. Salahuddin was 
working as a security guard at an Iranian interest office in 
Washington, DC, when he claims he accepted the assignment 
and payment of $5,000 from the Government of Iran to kill 
Mr. Tabatabaei. 
(25) Other exiled Iranian dissidents alleged to have been 
victims of the Government of Iran’s murderous extraterritorial 
campaign include Shahriar Shafiq, Shapour Bakhtiar, and 
Gholam Ali Oveissi. 
(26) Iranian Americans face an ongoing campaign of intimi-
dation both in the virtual and physical world by agents and 
affiliates of the Government of Iran, which aims to stifle 
freedom of expression and eliminate the threat Iranian authori-
ties believe democracy, justice, and gender equality pose to 
their rule. 
SEC. 203. DEFINITIONS. 
In this title: 
(1) ADMISSION; ADMITTED; ALIEN.—The terms ‘‘admission’’, 
‘‘admitted’’, and ‘‘alien’’ have the meanings given those terms 
in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1101). 
(2) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES.—The term 
‘‘appropriate congressional committees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban 
Affairs, the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary, and the Select Committee on Intel-
ligence of the Senate; and 
(B) the Committee on Financial Services, the Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on the Judiciary, 
and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of 
the House of Representatives. 
(3) 
CORRESPONDENT
ACCOUNT; 
PAYABLE-THROUGH 
ACCOUNT.—The terms ‘‘correspondent account’’ and ‘‘payable- 
through account’’ have the meanings given those terms in sec-
tion 5318A of title 31, United States Code. 
(4) FOREIGN
FINANCIAL
INSTITUTION.—The term ‘‘foreign 
financial institution’’ has the meaning of that term as deter-
mined by the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to section 
104(i) of the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, 
and Divestment Act of 2010 (22 U.S.C. 8513(i)).
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(5) FOREIGN PERSON.—The term ‘‘foreign person’’ means 
any individual or entity that is not a United States person. 
(6) UNITED STATES PERSON.—The term ‘‘United States per-
son’’ means— 
(A) a United States citizen or an alien lawfully 
admitted for permanent residence to the United States; 
or 
(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. 
SEC. 204. REPORT AND IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT 
TO PERSONS WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OR COMPLICIT 
IN ABUSES TOWARD DISSIDENTS ON BEHALF OF THE 
GOVERNMENT OF IRAN. 
(a) REPORT REQUIRED.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in consulta-
tion with the Secretary of the Treasury, the Director of National 
Intelligence, and the Attorney General, shall submit to the 
appropriate congressional committees a report that— 
(A) includes a detailed description and assessment of— 
(i) the state of human rights and the rule of law 
inside Iran, including the treatment of marginalized 
individuals and communities in Iran; 
(ii) actions taken by the Government of Iran during 
the year preceding submission of the report to target 
and silence dissidents both inside and outside of Iran 
who advocate for human rights inside Iran; 
(iii) the methods used by the Government of Iran 
to target and silence dissidents both inside and outside 
of Iran; and 
(iv) the means through which the Government of 
Iran finances efforts to target and silence dissidents 
both inside and outside of Iran and the amount of 
that financing; 
(B) identifies foreign persons working as part of the 
Government of Iran or acting on behalf of that Government 
or its proxies that are involved in harassment and surveil-
lance and that the Secretary of State may also, as appro-
priate, determine, in consultation with the Secretary of 
the Treasury, are knowingly responsible for, complicit in, 
or involved in ordering, conspiring, planning, or imple-
menting the surveillance, harassment, kidnapping, illegal 
extradition, imprisonment, torture, killing, or assassina-
tion, on or after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
of citizens of Iran (including citizens of Iran of dual nation-
ality) or citizens of the United States, inside or outside 
Iran, who seek— 
(i) to expose illegal or corrupt activity carried out 
by officials of the Government of Iran; or 
(ii) to obtain, exercise, defend, or promote the 
human rights of individuals, including members of 
marginalized communities, in Iran; and 
(C) includes, for each foreign person identified under 
subparagraph (B), a clear explanation for why the foreign 
person was so identified.
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(2) UPDATES OF REPORT.—The report required by paragraph 
(1) shall be updated, and the updated version submitted to 
the appropriate congressional committees, during the 10-year 
period following the date of the enactment of this Act— 
(A) not less frequently than annually; and 
(B) with respect to matters relating to the identification 
of foreign persons under paragraph (1)(B), on an ongoing 
basis as appropriate. 
(3) FORM OF REPORT.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Each report required by paragraph 
(1) and each update required by paragraph (2) shall be 
submitted in unclassified form but may include a classified 
annex. 
(B) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The Secretary of State shall 
post the unclassified portion of each report required by 
paragraph (1) and each update required by paragraph (2) 
on a publicly available internet website of the Department 
of State. 
(b) IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS.—In the case of a foreign person 
identified under paragraph (1)(B) of subsection (a) in the most 
recent report or update submitted under that subsection, the Presi-
dent shall impose the sanctions described in subsection (c), pursuant 
to this section or an appropriate Executive authority. 
(c) SANCTIONS DESCRIBED.—The sanctions described in this sub-
section are the following: 
(1) BLOCKING OF PROPERTY.—The President shall exercise 
all powers granted to the President by the International Emer-
gency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to the 
extent necessary to block and prohibit all transactions in all 
property and interests in property of a foreign person described 
in subsection (a)(1)(B) if such property and interests in property 
are in the United States, come within the United States, or 
are or come within the possession or control of a United States 
person. 
(2) INADMISSIBILITY OF CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS .— 
(A) INELIGIBILITY FOR VISAS AND ADMISSION TO THE 
UNITED STATES.—In the case of a foreign person described 
in subsection (a)(1)(B) who is an individual, the individual 
is— 
(i) inadmissible to the United States; 
(ii) ineligible to receive a visa or other documenta-
tion to enter the United States; and 
(iii) otherwise ineligible to be admitted or paroled 
into the United States or to receive any other benefit 
under the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1101 et seq.). 
(B) CURRENT VISAS REVOKED.— 
(i) IN
GENERAL.—The visa or other entry docu-
mentation of an individual described in subparagraph 
(A) shall be revoked, regardless of when such visa 
or other entry documentation is or was issued. 
(ii) IMMEDIATE EFFECT.—A revocation under clause 
(i) shall— 
(I) take effect immediately; and 
(II) automatically cancel any other valid visa 
or entry documentation that is in the individual’s 
possession.
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SEC. 205. REPORT AND IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT 
TO FOREIGN FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS CONDUCTING 
SIGNIFICANT TRANSACTIONS WITH PERSONS RESPON-
SIBLE FOR OR COMPLICIT IN ABUSES TOWARD DIS-
SIDENTS ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT OF IRAN. 
(a) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not earlier than 30 days and not later 
than 60 days after the Secretary of State submits to the appropriate 
congressional committees a report required by section 204(a), the 
Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of 
State, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees 
a report that identifies any foreign financial institution that know-
ingly conducts a significant transaction with a foreign person identi-
fied in the report submitted under section 204(a) on or after the 
date on which the foreign person is identified in that report. 
(b) IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS.—The Secretary of the Treasury 
may prohibit the opening, or prohibit or impose strict conditions 
on the maintaining, in the United States of a correspondent account 
or a payable-through account by a foreign financial institution 
identified under subsection (a). 
SEC. 206. EXCEPTIONS; WAIVERS; IMPLEMENTATION. 
(a) EXCEPTIONS.— 
(1) EXCEPTION FOR INTELLIGENCE, LAW ENFORCEMENT, AND 
NATIONAL SECURITY ACTIVITIES.—Sanctions under sections 204 
and 205 shall not apply to any authorized intelligence, law 
enforcement, or national security activities of the United States. 
(2) EXCEPTION
TO
COMPLY
WITH
UNITED
NATIONS
HEAD-
QUARTERS AGREEMENT.—Sanctions under section 204(c)(2) shall 
not apply with respect to the admission of an individual to 
the United States if the admission of the individual is necessary 
to permit the United States to comply with the Agreement 
regarding the Headquarters 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, 
the Convention on Consular Relations, done at Vienna April 
24, 1963, and entered into force March 19, 1967, or other 
applicable international obligations. 
(b) NATIONAL INTERESTS WAIVER.—The President may waive 
the application of sanctions under section 204 with respect to a 
person if the President— 
(1) determines that the waiver is in the national interests 
of the United States; and 
(2) submits to the appropriate congressional committees 
a report on the waiver and the reasons for the waiver. 
(c) IMPLEMENTATION; PENALTIES.— 
(1) IMPLEMENTATION.—The President may exercise all 
authorities provided to the President under sections 203 and 
205 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 
U.S.C. 1702 and 1704) to carry out this title. 
(2) PENALTIES.—A person that violates, attempts to violate, 
conspires to violate, or causes a violation of section 204(c)(1) 
or 205(b) or any regulation, license, or order issued to carry 
out either such section shall be subject to the penalties set 
forth in subsections (b) and (c) of section 206 of the Inter-
national Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) 
to the same extent as a person that commits an unlawful 
act described in subsection (a) of that section.