Title: To prohibit Russian participation in the G7, and for other purposes.
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
This bill prohibits the use of federal funds to support or facilitate Russia's participation in a proceeding of the Group of Seven (a group consisting of the seven largest major advanced economies, as determined by the International Monetary Fund) or to reconstitute the Group of Eight to include Russia. (Russia was disinvited from the Group of Eight in 2014 after it occupied parts of Ukraine, including the Crimea region.)
This prohibition shall terminate after

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8259 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8259

  To prohibit Russian participation in the G7, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 15, 2020

   Mr. Meeks (for himself, Mr. Connolly, Mr. Keating, Mr. Cohen, Ms. 
    Kaptur, Mr. Trone, Mr. Deutch, Mr. Cicilline, Mr. Hastings, Mr. 
Kinzinger, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mrs. Wagner, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, 
 Mr. Suozzi, and Mr. Ted Lieu of California) introduced the following 
      bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit Russian participation in the G7, 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. PROHIBITION ON RUSSIAN PARTICIPATION IN THE G7.

    (a) Limitation.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no 
Federal funds are authorized to be appropriated, obligated, or expended 
to take any action to support or facilitate--
            (1) the participation of Russia in a Group of Seven 
        proceeding; or
            (2) the reconstitution of the Group of Eight to include 
        Russia.
    (b) Termination.--Subsection (a) shall cease to have any force or 
effect after the date on which--
            (1) the Secretary of State and the Director of National 
        Intelligence, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland 
        Security and the Director of the Federal Bureau of 
        Investigation, certify to the appropriate congressional 
        committees and leadership that the Government of Russia, and 
        all persons acting as an agent of or otherwise on behalf of 
        such government, has halted all interference in United States 
        elections or elections of the other members of the Group of 
        Seven, members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and 
        the European Union, and other allies and partners;
            (2) the Secretary of State, in consultation with the 
        Director of National Intelligence, determines and certifies to 
        the appropriate congressional committees and leadership that 
        the Government of Russia, and all persons acting as an agent of 
        or otherwise on behalf of such government, has--
                    (A) ended its illegal occupation of Crimea and is 
                fully complying with its commitments under the Minsk 
                agreement with respect to Eastern Ukraine;
                    (B) ended its illegal occupation of South Ossetia 
                and Abkhazia and will support efforts for the 
                reintegration of these regions with the Republic of 
                Georgia; and
                    (C) withdrawn its troops and armaments from 
                Transnistria and fully respects Moldova's sovereignty 
                and territorial integrity; and
            (3) the Director of National Intelligence, in consultation 
        with the heads of any other appropriate executive departments 
        and agencies, shall provide the appropriate congressional 
        committees and leadership an assessment on the support by the 
        Government of Russia, and all persons acting as an agent of or 
        otherwise on behalf of such government, for Taliban linked 
        militants, including--
                    (A) the provision of defense articles, defense 
                services, or technology (as such terms are defined and 
                described in the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 
                2751 et seq.)) or financial assistance for purposes 
                that undermine or run counter to the principles agreed 
                upon in the Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan 
                entered into on February 29, 2020;
                    (B) financial transactions, including transactions 
                made through the hawala system, between the individuals 
                and entities of the Government of Russia, or 
                individuals or entities acting in connection with that 
                government, to Taliban-linked militants, other 
                militants with connections to Afghanistan, and their 
                intermediaries; and
                    (C) any alleged program created to incentivize the 
                killing of American and NATO coalition soldiers by the 
                Government of Russia or any other foreign government.
    (c) Appropriate Congressional Committees and Leadership.--In this 
section, the term ``appropriate congressional committees and 
leadership'' means--
            (1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Permanent Select 
        Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on Homeland Security, 
        and the Speaker, the majority leader, and the minority leader 
        of the House of Representatives; and
            (2) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Select 
        Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on Homeland Security, 
        and the majority leader and the minority leader of the Senate.
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