Title: To authorize the Attorney General to use forfeited property for remediation purposes when the offenses underlying the forfeitures have a substantial connection to the United States efforts to counter Russian aggression in Ukraine, and for other purposes.
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
This bill authorizes the Department of Justice to retain or transfer certain forfeited property (i.e., property that is forfeited because the underlying offense has a substantial connection to U.S efforts to counter Russian aggression in Ukraine).

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8377 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8377

    To authorize the Attorney General to use forfeited property for 
remediation purposes when the offenses underlying the forfeitures have 
   a substantial connection to the United States efforts to counter 
         Russian aggression in Ukraine, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 14, 2022

Mr. Cartwright introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy 
    and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
    To authorize the Attorney General to use forfeited property for 
remediation purposes when the offenses underlying the forfeitures have 
   a substantial connection to the United States efforts to counter 
         Russian aggression in Ukraine, 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. CIVIL FORFEITURE TO REMEDIATE RUSSIAN FEDERATION HARM IN 
              UKRAINE.

    Section 981(e) of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (6), by striking ``or'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (7), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; or''; and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (7) the following:
            ``(8) in consultation with the Secretary of State and the 
        Secretary of the Treasury, as remediation, including by a 
        transfer pursuant to paragraph (1), when the property is 
        forfeited arising from a violation, which has substantial 
        connection to the United States efforts to counter Russian 
        aggression in Ukraine, of--
                    ``(A) a Federal offense involving money laundering, 
                fraud, bank fraud, wire fraud, foreign official 
                corruption, or other related conduct;
                    ``(B) any license, order, regulation, or 
                prohibition issued under the International Emergency 
                Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), if such 
                remediation is consistent with the Justice for United 
                States Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Act (34 
                U.S.C. 20144 et seq.);
                    ``(C) the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (50 
                U.S.C. 4801 et seq.) or the Arms Export Control Act (22 
                U.S.C. 2751 et seq.);
                    ``(D) section 951, 1028, 1029, 1030, or 2441 of 
                this title;
                    ``(E) the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 
                (22 U.S.C. 611 et seq.); or
                    ``(F) section 5335 of title 31.''.

SEC. 2. CRIMINAL FORFEITURE TO REMEDIATE RUSSIAN FEDERATION HARM IN 
              UKRAINE.

    The Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 801 et seq.) is amended--
            (1) in section 413(i) (21 U.S.C. 853(i))--
                    (A) in paragraph (4), by striking ``and'' at the 
                end;
                    (B) in paragraph (5), by striking the period at the 
                end and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by inserting after paragraph (5) the following:
            ``(6) transfer such property as remediation, as set forth 
        in section 981(e)(8) of title 18, United States Code.''; and
            (2) in section 511(e)(1) (21 U.S.C. 881(e)(1))--
                    (A) in subparagraph (D), by striking ``or'' at the 
                end;
                    (B) in subparagraph (E), by striking the period at 
                the end and inserting ``; or''; and
                    (C) by inserting after subparagraph (E) the 
                following:
                    ``(F) transfer such property as remediation, as set 
                forth in section 981(e)(8) of title 18, United States 
                Code.''.

SEC. 3. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY FORFEITURES TO REMEDIATE RUSSIAN 
              FEDERATION HARM IN UKRAINE.

    Section 9705(h)(1) of title 31, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``or'' at the end;
            (2) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``; or''; and
            (3) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the following:
                    ``(C) transfer any of the property as set forth in 
                section 981(e)(8) of title 18, United States Code.''.
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