Title: Iran Human Rights Accountability Act of 2018
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
Iran Human Rights Accountability Act of 2018
This bill amends the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 with respect to the list of sanctionable Iranian government officials or persons acting on behalf of such government who are responsible for or complicit in certain human rights abuses to include as sanctionable activities human rights abuses committed against U.S. citizens or legal permanent resident aliens.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5330 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5330

To provide for the imposition of sanctions on persons who are officials 
     of the Government of Iran or persons acting on behalf of that 
Government who are responsible for or complicit in human rights abuses 
committed against citizens of the United States or United States legal 
                       permanent resident aliens.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 19, 2018

Mr. Cicilline introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the 
 Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Financial Services, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for the imposition of sanctions on persons who are officials 
     of the Government of Iran or persons acting on behalf of that 
Government who are responsible for or complicit in human rights abuses 
committed against citizens of the United States or United States legal 
                       permanent resident aliens.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Iran Human Rights Accountability Act 
of 2018''.

SEC. 2. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS ON PERSONS WHO ARE OFFICIALS OF THE 
              GOVERNMENT OF IRAN OR PERSONS ACTING ON BEHALF OF THAT 
              GOVERNMENT WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OR COMPLICIT IN HUMAN 
              RIGHTS ABUSES COMMITTED AGAINST CITIZENS OF THE UNITED 
              STATES OR UNITED STATES LEGAL PERMANENT RESIDENT ALIENS.

    (a) In General.--Section 105(b)(1) of the Comprehensive Iran 
Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 (22 U.S.C. 
8514(b)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``the date of the enactment of this Act'' 
        and inserting ``the date of the enactment of the Iran Human 
        Rights Accountability Act of 2018''; and
            (2) by inserting ``or against citizens of the United States 
        or United States legal permanent resident aliens,'' after 
        ``June 12, 2009,''.
    (b) Conforming and Clerical Amendments.--The Comprehensive Iran 
Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 (22 U.S.C. 8501 
et seq.) is amended--
            (1) in the heading of section 105, by inserting at the end 
        before the period the following: ``or against citizens of the 
        united states or united states legal permanent resident 
        aliens''; and
            (2) in the table of contents, by amending the item relating 
        to section 105 to read as follows:

``Sec. 105. Imposition of sanctions on certain persons who are 
                            responsible for or complicit in human 
                            rights abuses committed against citizens of 
                            Iran or their family members after the June 
                            12, 2009, elections in Iran or against 
                            citizens of the United States or United 
                            States legal permanent resident aliens.''.
    (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 the commission of serious human rights abuses described in section 
105 of the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment 
Act of 2010 on or after such date of enactment.
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