Title: IRGC Terrorist Designation Act
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
IRGC Terrorist Designation Act
This bill expresses the sense of Congress that Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) meets the criteria for designation as a foreign terrorist organization and should be so designated by the Department of State.
State shall report to Congress on whether the IRGC meets such criteria and, if not, on which criteria have not been met.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 67 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 67

To direct the Secretary of State to submit to Congress a report on the 
designation of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist 
                 organization, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 9, 2017

 Mr. Cruz (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of State to submit to Congress a report on the 
designation of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist 
                 organization, and for other purposes.

    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 ``IRGC Terrorist Designation Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORT ON DESIGNATION OF IRAN'S REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS AS A 
              FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.

    (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps meets the criteria for 
        designation as a foreign terrorist organization as set forth in 
        section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
        1189); and
            (2) the Secretary of State should designate Iran's 
        Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization 
        under such section 219.
    (b) Report.--
            (1) Report required.--Not later than 30 days after the date 
        of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in 
        consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, shall 
        submit to the appropriate committees of Congress--
                    (A) a detailed report on whether Iran's 
                Revolutionary Guard Corps meets the criteria for 
                designation as a foreign terrorist organization as set 
                forth in section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality 
                Act (8 U.S.C. 1189); and
                    (B) if the Secretary determines that Iran's 
                Revolutionary Guard Corps does not meet the criteria 
                set forth under such section 219, a detailed 
                justification as to which criteria have not been met.
            (2) Form.--The report required by paragraph (1) shall--
                    (A) be submitted in unclassified form, but may 
                include a classified annex; and
                    (B) be made available only in electronic form and 
                shall not be printed, except if a printed copy is 
                requested by an office of the legislative branch.
            (3) Appropriate committees of congress defined.--In this 
        subsection, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' 
        means--
                    (A) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee 
                on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, the Committee 
                on Foreign Relations, the Committee on the Judiciary, 
                the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
                Affairs, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of 
                the Senate; and
                    (B) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee 
                on Financial Services, the Committee on Foreign 
                Affairs, the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee 
                on Homeland Security, and the Permanent Select 
                Committee on Intelligence of the House of 
                Representatives.
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