IIB 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2037 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JULY 16, 2019 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 
AN ACT 
To encourage accountability for the murder of Washington 
Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. 
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 ‘‘Saudi Arabia Human 
Rights and Accountability Act of 2019’’. 
SEC. 2. REPORT ON INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY ASSESS-
MENT RELATING TO THE KILLING OF WASH-
INGTON 
POST 
COLUMNIST 
JAMAL 
KHASHOGGI. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National 
Intelligence shall submit to the appropriate congressional 
committees a report consisting of— 
(1) a determination and presentation of evi-
dence with respect to the advance knowledge and 
role of any current or former official of the Govern-
ment of Saudi Arabia or any current or former sen-
ior Saudi political figure over the directing, ordering, 
or tampering of evidence in the killing of Wash-
ington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi; and 
(2) a list of foreign persons that the Director 
of National Intelligence has high confidence— 
(A) were responsible for, or complicit in, 
ordering, controlling, or otherwise directing an 
act or acts contributing to or causing the death 
of Jamal Khashoggi; 
(B) knowingly and materially assisted, 
sponsored, or provided financial, material, or 
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technological support for, or goods or services 
in support of, an activity described in subpara-
graph (A); or 
(C) impeded the impartial investigation of 
the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, including 
through the tampering of evidence relating to 
the investigation. 
(b) FORM.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The report required by sub-
section (a) shall be submitted in unclassified form, 
but may include a classified annex. 
(2) NAMES OF FOREIGN PERSONS LISTED.— 
The name of each foreign person listed in the report 
described in subsection (a)(2) shall be included in 
the unclassified portion of the report unless the Di-
rector of National Intelligence determines that such 
disclosure would undermine United States intel-
ligence sources and methods or threaten the national 
security interests of the United States. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
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(A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and 
the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence 
of the House of Representatives; and 
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations 
and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the 
Senate. 
(2) KNOWINGLY.—The term ‘‘knowingly’’, with 
respect to conduct, a circumstance, or a result, 
means that a person has actual knowledge, or should 
have known, of the conduct, the circumstance, or the 
result. 
SEC. 3. SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO FOREIGN PERSONS 
THAT ENGAGE IN ACTIVITIES DESCRIBED IN 
SECTION 2(a)(2). 
(a) IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS.—On and after the 
date that is 120 days after the date of the enactment of 
this Act, the sanctions described in subsection (b) shall 
be imposed with respect to each foreign person listed in 
the report described in section 2(a)(2). 
(b) SANCTIONS DESCRIBED.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The sanctions described in 
this subsection are the following: 
(A) INELIGIBILITY FOR VISAS AND ADMIS-
SION TO THE UNITED STATES.— 
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