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118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1132 
To require publicly available information relating to sanctions to be both 
user-friendly and consolidated on a publicly accessible website, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 21, 2023 
Mr. KEATING (for himself, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. COHEN, and 
Ms. SALAZAR) 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 require publicly available information relating to sanctions 
to be both user-friendly and consolidated on a publicly 
accessible website, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Transparent and Ac-
cessible Sanctions Coordinating Office Act’’ or the 
‘‘TASCO Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress as follows: 
(1) The United States will increasingly use 
sanctions as an important foreign policy tool in hold-
ing accountable malign actors in the international 
community and to compel state and non-state actors 
to conform to international norms. 
(2) The increasing volume of data related to 
United States sanctions will become more crucial in 
determining its efficacy. 
(3) The data related to United States sanctions 
must be centralized and regularly managed. 
(4) Data from various departments and agen-
cies must be aggregated and updated, including 
travel sanctions, financial sanctions, trade sanctions, 
and export controls. Although various agencies will 
still maintain their jurisdiction over implementing 
these various sanctions, one office must be respon-
sible for compiling and displaying such data in an 
easily accessible format. Various systems handing 
such data should interface and automatically update 
such data in regular and frequent intervals. 
(5) The United States will make available this 
critical data related to United States sanctions to in-
dividuals, academic institutions, media outlets, and 
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non-governmental organizations, conducting analysis 
on sanctions programs through an online platform. 
SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF TRANSPARENT AND ACCES-
SIBLE SANCTIONS COORDINATING OFFICE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The President shall take such 
steps as may be necessary to ensure that all materials re-
lating to the imposition of sanctions, including guidance, 
lists of sanctioned persons, and procedures relating to gen-
eral and specific licenses, are made available in a consoli-
dated, machine-readable database. 
(b) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established in the ex-
ecutive branch of the Federal Government the Trans-
parent and Accessible Sanctions Coordinating Office 
(‘‘TASCO’’), which shall be responsible for carrying out 
the duties described in subsection (d). 
(c) DIRECTOR AND STAFF.— 
(1) APPOINTMENT.—The head of the TASCO 
shall be a Director appointed by the Secretary of 
State. The position of Director shall be a career po-
sition in the civil service. 
(2) STAFF.—The Director of the TASCO may 
appoint personnel as the Director considers appro-
priate. 
(3) APPLICABILITY OF CERTAIN CIVIL SERVICE 
LAWS.—The Director and the staff of the TASCO 
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shall be appointed subject to the provisions of title 
5, United States Code, governing appointments 
made in the competitive service, and shall be paid in 
accordance with the provisions of chapter 51 and 
subchapter III of chapter 53 of that title relating to 
classification and General Schedule Pay rates. 
(d) DUTIES.— 
(1) DATABASE.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 180 
days after the enactment of this Act, the Direc-
tor of the TASCO shall establish a publicly 
available, downloadable, searchable, sortable, 
and machine-readable database of individuals 
and entities subject to United States sanctions. 
Such database shall be published on a publicly 
available website of the TASCO. 
(B) STANDARDIZED
FORMAT.—In devel-
oping the database under subparagraph (A), 
the Director of the TASCO, in consultation 
with each covered Federal actor, shall establish 
a standardized format for the compilation, stor-
age, and display of all data included in such 
database. 
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(C) REQUIRED CONSOLIDATION OF SANC-
TIONS
LISTS.—The database under subpara-
graph (A) shall include the following— 
(i) The List of Specially Designated 
Nationals and Blocked Persons maintained 
by the Office of Foreign Asset Control of 
the Department of the Treasury. 
(ii) The Entity List maintained by the 
Bureau of Industry and Security of the 
Department of Commerce. 
(iii) Individuals or entities subject to 
sanctions maintained and enforced by the 
Office of Economic Sanctions Policy and 
Implementation of the Department of 
State. 
(iv) Any other individual or entity 
subject to sanctions imposed under United 
States law, including sanctions relating to 
ineligibility for visas or other authorization 
to enter the United States. 
(D) MINIMUM DATA ATTRIBUTE REQUIRE-
MENTS.—The Director of the TASCO shall en-
sure that the data for each sanction included in 
the database under subparagraph (A) includes, 
at a minimum, the following: 
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(i) The name, and any alias, of the 
sanctioned individual or entity (including 
an aircraft or vessel). 
(ii) The country of origin or citizen-
ship of such individual or entity. 
(iii) The industry type, if applicable. 
(iv) The position of the individual in 
their organization, if applicable. 
(v) The reason for sanction, including 
but not limited to the criminal violation or 
malign act. 
(vi) The date of sanction. 
(vii) The region of sanction and if 
available, address of registration. 
(viii) If available, any unique tax iden-
tification number. 
(ix) The type of sanctions, including 
but not limited to travel, financial, and/or 
trade. 
(x) Harmonized System code, if appli-
cable. 
(xi) Any other data attribute relevant 
to the notification and reporting of sanc-
tions activities. 
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(E) MAINTENANCE
OF
CURRENCY
OF 
DATABASE AND WEBSITE.—Beginning not later 
than 90 days after the date of the establish-
ment of the database under subparagraph (A), 
and not later than 30 days after the entry into 
force of any new statutory authority or Execu-
tive order relating to new or additional sanc-
tions, the Director of the TASCO shall update 
the database, and the website on which the 
database is published. 
(F) COORDINATION.—In carrying out this 
paragraph, the Director of the TASCO shall co-
ordinate, as appropriate, with covered Federal 
actors. 
(2) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than one 
year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of State, acting through the Director of 
the TASCO and in consultation with each covered 
Federal actor, shall submit to the appropriate con-
gressional committees a report on the transparency 
and accessibility of the database under subpara-
graph (A) and the website on which the database is 
published. Such report shall identify the following: 
(A) The number of individual users who 
have accessed the database through the website. 
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(B) Any technical actions that have been 
taken to ensure the accessibility and trans-
parency of data available on the database. 
(C) Any stakeholder engagement that has 
been conducted to ensure that all relevant par-
ties, including those with decision-making au-
thority, members of the business community, 
and other members of civil society, may effec-
tively access such data. 
(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and 
the Committee on Financial Services of the 
House of Representatives; and 
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations 
and the Committee on Finance of the Senate. 
(2) CIVIL SERVICE.—The term ‘‘civil service’’ 
has the meaning given that term in section 2101 of 
title 5, United States Code. 
(3) COVERED
FEDERAL
ACTOR.—The term 
‘‘covered Federal actor’’ means the following: 
(A) The Secretary of State. 
(B) The Secretary of the Treasury. 
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(C) The Secretary of Commerce. 
(D) The head of any other Federal depart-
ment or agency relevant to the imposition or 
enforcement of United States sanctions. 
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