Title: Iran Sanctions Relief Review Act
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
Iran Sanctions Relief Review Act
This bill requires the President to transmit to Congress every six months for five years determinations and certifications of whether, on or after January 30, 2016: (1) specified foreign financial institutions, including Iranian financial institutions, have facilitated significant transactions or provided services for foreign terrorist organizations, sanctioned foreign persons, or Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps or any of its officials, agents, or affiliates; and (2) specified foreign persons have knowingly materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services for, any such persons or entities.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2185 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2185

  To require the President to transmit to Congress determinations and 
  certifications of whether foreign financial institutions listed in 
  Attachment 3 or Attachment 4 to Annex II of the Joint Comprehensive 
 Plan of Action have facilitated transactions or provided services for 
foreign terrorist organizations, sanctioned foreign persons, or Iran's 
     Revolutionary Guard Corps or any of its officials, agents, or 
                  affiliates, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 27, 2017

  Mr. Pittenger (for himself and Mr. Zeldin) introduced the following 
      bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the President to transmit to Congress determinations and 
  certifications of whether foreign financial institutions listed in 
  Attachment 3 or Attachment 4 to Annex II of the Joint Comprehensive 
 Plan of Action have facilitated transactions or provided services for 
foreign terrorist organizations, sanctioned foreign persons, or Iran's 
     Revolutionary Guard Corps or any of its officials, agents, or 
                  affiliates, 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 ``Iran Sanctions Relief Review Act''.

SEC. 2. DETERMINATION AND CERTIFICATION OF WHETHER CERTAIN FOREIGN 
              FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS HAVE FACILITATED TRANSACTIONS OR 
              PROVIDED SERVICES FOR COVERED PERSONS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, and every 180 days thereafter for a period not 
to exceed 5 years, the President shall--
            (1) with respect to each foreign financial institution, 
        including an Iranian financial institution, listed in 
        Attachment 3 or Attachment 4 to Annex II of the Joint 
        Comprehensive Plan of Action, determine whether the institution 
        has, on or after January 30, 2016, knowingly facilitated a 
        significant transaction or transactions or provided significant 
        financial services for any person described in section 4; and
            (2) transmit to the appropriate congressional committees a 
        certification of each determination with respect to a foreign 
        financial institution, including an Iranian financial 
        institution, made under paragraph (1).
    (b) Form.--A certification described in subsection (a)(2) shall be 
submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a classified annex.
    (c) Determination of Significant Transaction or Transactions and 
Significant Financial Services.--For purposes of this section, a 
transaction or transactions shall be determined to be significant and 
financial services shall be determined to be significant in accordance 
with section 561.404 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations.

SEC. 3. DETERMINATION AND CERTIFICATION OF WHETHER CERTAIN FOREIGN 
              PERSONS HAVE SUPPORTED COVERED PERSONS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, and every 180 days thereafter for a period not 
to exceed 5 years, the President shall--
            (1) with respect to each foreign person listed in 
        Attachment 3 or Attachment 4 to Annex II of the Joint 
        Comprehensive Plan of Action, determine whether the foreign 
        person has, on or after January 30, 2016, knowingly, directly 
        or indirectly, materially assisted, sponsored, or provided 
        financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or 
        services in support of any person described in section 4; and
            (2) transmit to the appropriate congressional committees a 
        certification of each determination with respect to a foreign 
        person made under paragraph (1).
    (b) Form.--A determination described in subsection (a)(2) shall be 
submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a classified annex.

SEC. 4. COVERED PERSONS.

    A person described in this section is--
            (1) an organization that is designated by the Secretary of 
        State as a foreign terrorist organization pursuant to section 
        219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189);
            (2) a foreign person the property or interests in property 
        of which are blocked pursuant to--
                    (A) Executive Order 13224 (September 23, 2001; 
                relating to blocking property and prohibiting 
                transactions with persons who commit, threaten to 
                commit, or support terrorism);
                    (B) Executive Order 13382 (June 28, 2005; relating 
                to blocking property of weapons of mass destruction 
                proliferators and their supporters);
                    (C) Executive Order 13094 (July 28, 1998; relating 
                to proliferation of weapons of mass destruction);
                    (D) Executive Order 12938 (November 16, 1994; 
                relating to proliferation of weapons of mass 
                destruction);
                    (E) Executive Order 13338 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note; 
                relating to blocking property of certain persons and 
                prohibiting the export of certain goods to Syria);
                    (F) Executive Order 13399 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note; 
                relating to blocking property of additional persons in 
                connection with the national emergency with respect to 
                Syria);
                    (G) Executive Order 13460 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note; 
                relating to blocking property of additional persons in 
                connection with the national emergency with respect to 
                Syria);
                    (H) Executive Order 13572 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note; 
                relating to blocking property of certain persons with 
                respect to human rights abuses in Syria);
                    (I) Executive Order 13573 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note; 
                relating to blocking property of senior officials of 
                the Government of Syria);
                    (J) Executive Order 13582 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note; 
                relating to blocking property of the Government of 
                Syria and prohibiting certain transactions with respect 
                to Syria);
                    (K) Executive Order 13608 Prohibiting Certain 
                Transactions With and Suspending Entry Into the United 
                States of Foreign Sanctions Evaders With Respect to 
                Iran and Syria;
                    (L) Executive Order 13606 Blocking the Property and 
                Suspending Entry Into the United States of Certain 
                Persons With Respect to Grave Human Rights Abuses by 
                the Governments of Iran and Syria via Information 
                Technology;
                    (M) Executive Order 13553 Blocking Property of 
                Certain Persons With Respect to Serious Human Rights 
                Abuses By The Government of Iran and Taking Certain 
                Other Actions; or
                    (N) any other Iranian person the property or 
                interests in property of which are blocked pursuant to 
                the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 
                U.S.C. 1701 et seq.); or
            (3)(A) Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps or any of its 
        officials, agents, or affiliates; or
            (B) a person acting on behalf of or at the direction of, or 
        owned or controlled by, a person described in subparagraph (A).

SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
        ``appropriate congressional committees'' has the meaning given 
        the term in section 14 of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 
        (Public Law 104-172; 50 U.S.C. 1701 note).
            (2) Foreign financial institution.--The term ``foreign 
        financial institution'' has the meaning given such term in 
        section 1010.605 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations.
            (3) Foreign person.--The term ``foreign person''--
                    (A) means--
                            (i) a natural person who is not a United 
                        States person;
                            (ii) a corporation, partnership, or other 
                        nongovernmental entity which is not a United 
                        States person; or
                            (iii) any representative, agent or 
                        instrumentality of, or an individual working on 
                        behalf of a foreign government; but
                    (B) does not include a foreign financial 
                institution, including an Iranian financial 
                institution, described in section 2(b).
            (4) Foreign terrorist organization.--The term ``foreign 
        terrorist organization'' means any organization designated by 
        the Secretary of State as a foreign terrorist organization in 
        accordance with section 219(a) of the Immigration and 
        Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189(a)).
            (5) Iranian financial institution.--The term ``Iranian 
        financial institution'' has the meaning given the term in 
        section 104A(d)(3) of the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, 
        Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 (22 U.S.C. 
        8513b(d)(3)).
            (6) Joint comprehensive plan of action.--The term ``Joint 
        Comprehensive Plan of Action'' means the Joint Comprehensive 
        Plan of Action, agreed to at Vienna July 14, 2015, by Iran and 
        by the People's Republic of China, France, Germany, the Russian 
        Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States, with the 
        High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs 
        and Security Policy, and all implementing materials and 
        agreements related to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, 
        and transmitted by the President to Congress on July 19, 2015, 
        pursuant to section 135(a) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as 
        amended by the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 
        (Public Law 114-17; 129 Stat. 201).
            (7) Person.--The term ``person'' has the meaning given the 
        term in section 14 of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 (Public 
        Law 104-172; 50 U.S.C. 1701 note).
            (8) United states person.--The term ``United States 
        person'' has the meaning given the term in section 14 of the 
        Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-172; 50 U.S.C. 1701 
        note).
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