Title: Constraining Human Rights Offenders in the Middle East Act
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
Constraining Human Rights Offenders in the Middle East Act or the CHROME Act
This bill prohibits the President from taking any action relating to the reentry of the United States into the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) unless the President makes specified certifications.
The JCPOA is an agreement, signed by Iran and several other world powers (including the United States), that places restrictions on Iran's nuclear program in exchange for certain sanctions relief. The United States withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018.
The bill prohibits the President from taking action to rejoin the JCPOA unless the President certifies to Congress that no sanctions waived or suspended pursuant to that reentry will operate to the benefit of (1) a designated foreign terrorist organization or its members, or (2) any individual or entity of the Iranian government that has engaged in gross violations of human rights.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1231 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1231

      To prohibit the reentry of the United States into the Joint 
    Comprehensive Plan of Action unless the President makes certain 
        certifications relating to Iran, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 23, 2021

  Mr. Tony Gonzales of Texas introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
      To prohibit the reentry of the United States into the Joint 
    Comprehensive Plan of Action unless the President makes certain 
        certifications relating to Iran, 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 ``Constraining Human Rights Offenders 
in the Middle East Act'' or the ``CHROME Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON REENTRY INTO THE JCPOA.

    The President may not take any action relating to the re-entry of 
the United States into the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action signed at 
Vienna on July 14, 2015, by Iran and by France, Germany, the Russian 
Federation, the People's Republic of China, the United Kingdom, and the 
United States (including all implementing materials and agreements 
related to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), unless the 
President certifies to Congress each of the following:
            (1) No waiver or suspension of a sanction waived or 
        suspended pursuant to such re-entry will operate to the 
        benefit, directly or indirectly, of any organization or any 
        member of an organization designated as a foreign terrorist 
        organization under section 219 of the Immigration and 
        Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189).
            (2) No waiver or suspension of a sanction waived or 
        suspended pursuant to such re-entry will operate to the 
        benefit, directly or indirectly, of any individual or entity of 
        the Government of Iran that has engaged in the gross violation 
        of human rights, such as the commission of torture, the killing 
        of peaceful protestors, or the persecution of homosexual 
        persons.
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