Iran Responsible Reporting Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-5394
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Boyle, Brendan F. [D-PA-13]
Introduced: 2018-03-22
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Asia

China

Congressional oversight

Corporate finance and management

Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad

Europe

European Union

Foreign and international corporations

Human rights

India

Iran

Middle East

Sanctions

Terrorism

Trade restrictions
Latest action: action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-03-22
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Iran Responsible Reporting Act of 2018</b></p> <p>This bill amends the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012 to require that reports on diplomatic efforts concerning Iran include information about efforts by other countries to sanction Iran for human rights violations and support for terrorist organizations, including Hamas and Hezbollah.</p> <p>The Department of State may host an annual summit with Iran's major trading partners to identify and take appropriate actions regarding front companies and funding mechanisms of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps. </p> <p>(Major trading partners of Iran are European Union member countries, China, India, and other countries that have a trade relationship with Iran exceeding $500 million in the most recent calendar year for which data is available.) </p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5394 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 22, 2018 Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs A BILL To amend the reporting requirements under the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Iran Responsible Reporting Act of 2018 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Iran’s Qods Force, a special unit of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, remains Iran’s primary vehicle to conduct terrorism and destabilize its neighbors. (2) Experts speculate that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps controls between 20 and 40 percent of the Iranian economy. (3) The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action went into effect in January 2016, resulting in relief of sanctions for significant parts of the Iranian economy, with some direct benefit to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps-linked Iranian entities. (4) As Iranian money flows into the international financial system as a result of relief of sanctions under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, it is in the critical interest of the United States to support the ongoing work of the Financial Action Task Force in comprehending and deterring Iranian corruption, particularly Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps ownership, from infecting global financial systems. 3. Amendment to reporting requirement under the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012 Section 102(b)(1) of the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012 ( 22 U.S.C. 8712(b)(1) ) is amended by adding at the end before the semicolon the following: , particularly the policy set forth in paragraph (1)(A)(i) and the policy set forth in paragraph (1)(A)(iii) . 4. Summit (a) In general The Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of the Treasury, is authorized to host a summit on an annual basis with major trading partners of Iran for the purpose of identifying and taking appropriate actions with respect to front companies and funding mechanisms of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps. (b) Definition In this section, the term major trading partners of Iran means— (1) member countries of the European Union, the People’s Republic of China, and India; and (2) other countries that have a trade relationship with Iran that exceeds $500,000,000 in the most recent calendar year for which data is available.