Title: A bill to require the imposition of sanctions with respect to Ansarallah and its officials, agents, or affiliates for acts of international terrorism.
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
This bill requires the President to take actions against Ansarallah, the Iran-backed movement in Yemen also known as the Houthis.
Specifically, the President must designate Ansarallah a foreign terrorist organization. The President must also impose sanctions on Ansarallah and any foreign person (individual or entity) that is an official, agent, or affiliate of Ansarallah.
The President must also report to Congress a determination as to whether specified foreign persons are officials, agents, or affiliates of Ansarallah.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3532 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3532

 To require the imposition of sanctions with respect to Ansarallah and 
    its officials, agents, or affiliates for acts of international 
                               terrorism.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 20, 2022

   Mr. Cruz (for himself, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Hagerty, Mr. Rubio, Mr. 
Marshall, Mr. Tillis, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Sasse, and Mr. Cotton) introduced 
the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee 
                          on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the imposition of sanctions with respect to Ansarallah and 
    its officials, agents, or affiliates for acts of international 
                               terrorism.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO ANSARALLAH.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 30 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the President shall--
            (1) designate Ansarallah as a foreign terrorist 
        organization pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and 
        Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189); and
            (2) impose, with respect to Ansarallah and any foreign 
        person the President determines is an official, agent, or 
        affiliate of Ansarallah, the sanctions applicable with respect 
        to a foreign person pursuant to Executive Order 13224 (50 
        U.S.C. 1701 note; relating to blocking property and prohibiting 
        transactions with persons who commit, threaten to commit, or 
        support terrorism).
    (b) Determination Required.--Not later than 30 days after the 
President makes the designation required by paragraph (1) of subsection 
(a) and imposes the sanctions required by paragraph (2) of that 
subsection, the President shall submit to the Committee on Foreign 
Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 
House of Representatives a determination regarding whether the 
following foreign persons are officials, agents, or affiliates of 
Ansarallah:
            (1) Abdul Malik al-Houthi.
            (2) Abd al-Khaliq Badr al-Din al-Houthi.
            (3) Abdullah Yahya al-Hakim.
    (c) Ansarallah Defined.--In this section, the term ``Ansarallah'' 
means the movement known as Ansarallah, the Houthi movement, or any 
other alias.
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