Title: CRUCIAL Act of 2021
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
Circumspectly Reducing Unintended Consequences Impairing Alliances and Leadership Act of 2021 or the CRUCIAL Act of 2021
This bill establishes requirements relating to the President's ability to impose sanctions on individuals or entities that engage in a significant transaction with the defense or intelligence sectors of Russia's government if the transaction involves a member of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue. (The dialogue is a coalition comprised of the governments of the United States, Japan, India, and Australia.)
Specifically, before imposing such sanctions for a transaction involving a member of the dialogue, the President must certify to Congress that the government in question is not participating in the dialogue on security matters that are critical to U.S. strategic interests.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3119 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3119

 To require the President to certify to Congress that a member of the 
 Quadrilateral Security Dialogue is not participating in quadrilateral 
 cooperation between Australia, India, Japan, and the United States on 
security matters that are critical to United States strategic interests 
before imposing sanctions under section 231 of the Countering America's 
Adversaries Through Sanctions Act with respect to a transaction of that 
                                member.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 28, 2021

  Mr. Cruz (for himself, Mr. Young, and Mr. Marshall) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                  Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the President to certify to Congress that a member of the 
 Quadrilateral Security Dialogue is not participating in quadrilateral 
 cooperation between Australia, India, Japan, and the United States on 
security matters that are critical to United States strategic interests 
before imposing sanctions under section 231 of the Countering America's 
Adversaries Through Sanctions Act with respect to a transaction of that 
                                member.

    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 ``Circumspectly Reducing Unintended 
Consequences Impairing Alliances and Leadership Act of 2021'' or the 
``CRUCIAL Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENT FOR IMPOSING SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT 
              TO MEMBERS OF QUADRILATERAL SECURITY DIALOGUE.

    Section 231 of the Countering America's Adversaries Through 
Sanctions Act (22 U.S.C. 9525) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
    ``(g) Special Rule for Members of Quadrilateral Security 
Dialogue.--
            ``(1) In general.--During the 10-year period beginning on 
        the date of the enactment of the Circumspectly Reducing 
        Unintended Consequences Impairing Alliances and Leadership Act 
        of 2021, the President may not impose sanctions under this 
        section with respect to a significant transaction described in 
        subsection (a) engaged in by the government of a member of the 
        Quadrilateral Security Dialogue unless, before imposing such 
        sanctions, the President certifies to the appropriate 
        congressional committees that that government is not 
        participating in quadrilateral cooperation between Australia, 
        India, Japan, and the United States on security matters that 
        are critical to United States strategic interests.
            ``(2) Member of the quadrilateral security dialogue 
        defined.--In this subsection, the term `member of the 
        Quadrilateral Security Dialogue' means Australia, India, Japan, 
        or the United States.''.
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