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<distribution-code display="yes">II</distribution-code><calendar>Calendar No. 243</calendar><congress>119th CONGRESS</congress><session>1st Session</session><legis-num>S. 2918</legis-num><current-chamber>IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES</current-chamber><action><action-date date="20250919" legis-day="20250916">September 19 (legislative day, September 16), 2025</action-date><action-desc><sponsor name-id="S316">Mr. Whitehouse</sponsor> (for himself, <cosponsor name-id="S323">Mr. Risch</cosponsor>, <cosponsor name-id="S324">Mrs. Shaheen</cosponsor>, <cosponsor name-id="S153">Mr. Grassley</cosponsor>, <cosponsor name-id="S341">Mr. Blumenthal</cosponsor>, <cosponsor name-id="S293">Mr. Graham</cosponsor>, <cosponsor name-id="S318">Mr. Wicker</cosponsor>, <cosponsor name-id="S330">Mr. Bennet</cosponsor>, <cosponsor name-id="S287">Mr. Cornyn</cosponsor>, <cosponsor name-id="S432">Mr. Gallego</cosponsor>, <cosponsor name-id="S275">Ms. Cantwell</cosponsor>, and <cosponsor name-id="S266">Mr. Crapo</cosponsor>) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the <committee-name committee-id="SSFR00">Committee on Foreign Relations</committee-name></action-desc></action><action stage="Reported-in-Senate"><action-date date="20251030">October 30, 2025</action-date><action-desc>Reported by <sponsor name-id="S323">Mr. Risch</sponsor>, without amendment</action-desc></action><legis-type>A BILL</legis-type><official-title>To amend the Rebuilding Economic Prosperity and Opportunity for Ukrainians Act to improve the implementation of the seizure of Russian sovereign assets for the benefit of Ukraine, and for other purposes.</official-title></form><legis-body><section id="id080095757c674b61814628a576911283" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>REPO for Ukrainians Implementation Act of 2025</short-title></quote> or the <quote><short-title>REPO Implementation Act of 2025</short-title></quote>.</text></section><section id="id9ac781057f894aa2b3c9272335581a41"><enum>2.</enum><header>Recognition of Porto Declaration of Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 101(a) of the Rebuilding Economic Prosperity and Opportunity for Ukrainians Act (division F of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/118/50">Public Law 118–50</external-xref>; <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/9521">22 U.S.C. 9521</external-xref> note) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id156157b5bcc549e98930116173e1742d"><paragraph id="id8af53d1a117341f6bbd317679ff55c30"><enum>(10)</enum><text>Every member of the European Union, including Belgium, and all but one member of the G7, are also participating states of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id6ebc9f6d3f9e4890992c2dca330c75f4"><enum>(11)</enum><text>On July 3, 2025, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe adopted unanimously in plenary session the Porto Declaration, which <quote>[c]alls on OSCE participating States to unlock the full value of an estimated U.S. $300 billion in Russian sovereign assets frozen across the region by repurposing the underlying principal, in sizeable increments and on a regular and timely schedule, for Ukraine until the Russian Federation ends its aggression and agrees to compensate Ukraine for damages directly resulting from the war</quote>.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section" id="idf59ec5e76ab9458285b76423e3fd8258"><enum>3.</enum><header>Transfer of assets to Ukraine Support Fund</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 104(b)(2) of the Rebuilding Economic Prosperity and Opportunity for Ukrainians Act (division F of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/118/50">Public Law 118–50</external-xref>; <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/9521">22 U.S.C. 9521</external-xref> note) is amended—</text><paragraph id="id0ec797b4c0a649d6baebd331bbadd2f3"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the heading, by striking <quote><header-in-text style="OLC" level="paragraph">Vesting</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text style="OLC" level="subparagraph">Status of assets</header-in-text></quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id93931096dd124745bb04163a8405ce63"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>For funds confiscated</quote> and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id811d871c21c04170ba9838dbc5d9ae0d"><subparagraph id="id565917109eb14784b1570209ab850d3c"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Vesting of confiscated funds</header><text>For funds confiscated</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph id="id3f967aaa41c94e6a9034d2f6d79c786f"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd8fac2ff0d684b9b9797cd9f83a12b74"><subparagraph id="idbab8db42462645909a0ec2bb72f24eb6"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Transfer of funds not confiscated</header><text>For the purpose of placing Russian aggressor state sovereign assets into an interest-bearing account, the President may transfer such funds into the Ukraine Support Fund without confiscating such funds.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section><section id="idb5604fb60ca54306802b1cc2ae9dd2b9"><enum>4.</enum><header>Investment of amounts in Ukraine Support Fund</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idac8764dc9d114178a1abc1ce991473e4"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 104(d) of the Rebuilding Economic Prosperity and Opportunity for Ukrainians Act (division F of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/118/50">Public Law 118–50</external-xref>; <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/9521">22 U.S.C. 9521</external-xref> note) is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf5f5505dec1f41739a32b0e8292cdd30"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id57bddcc38c4d40318460eac2a42710b4"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>of any funds</quote> and inserting the following: “of—</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4be6178a41534bbdb439592ed461d4de"><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide6173d0abb3c439fba67a44bf1230217"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any funds</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id315bd18eb82f4e8997cbdb278aa2089c"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id5f422973d61c49ea9d44bd76382e7cea"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idefc8dd7f5f5a45ff8f07bede30da9313"><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3883743b875c4c0d829d1f22ffbcf3ca"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any amounts that may be credited to the account under paragraph (3).</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf3f5f0b94158428aaa6d778b3c3b6b26"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id817ba7d55b2845fd9d148bdb8b5dc66b"><paragraph id="idbc793a68c6724cd88b7478fbb1c6a3bf"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Investment of amounts</header><subparagraph id="id3fc93d8de1d24fcf904b6d37de3a200d"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Investment of amounts</header><text>The Secretary of the Treasury shall invest such portion of the account established under paragraph (1) as is not required to meet current withdrawals in interest-bearing obligations of the United States or in obligations guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the United States.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id8b4984e683e34351a9e0f0310763ed68"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Interest and proceeds</header><text>The interest on, and the proceeds from the sale or redemption of, any obligations held in the account established under paragraph (1) shall be credited to and form a part of the account.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ide0cdda2227254f1db452f24ddbd12d65"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Implementation</header><text>The President shall ensure that funds in the Ukraine Support Fund established under section 104(d) of the Rebuilding Economic Prosperity and Opportunity for Ukrainians Act are invested as required by paragraph (3) of that section, as added by subsection (a), by not later than the date that is 45 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section><section id="id7f8b781a9f3e4f9f888f6d24e1f2b013"><enum>5.</enum><header>Quarterly obligation of funds in Ukraine Support Fund to benefit Ukraine</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6a5fb8ff3c1741b29eda7f27fbd2c629"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 104(f) of the Rebuilding Economic Prosperity and Opportunity for Ukrainians Act (division F of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/118/50">Public Law 118–50</external-xref>; <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/9521">22 U.S.C. 9521</external-xref> note) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id07df6123e1104cf69afd57c39fdcc71b"><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida1bef9698d9f496aa6a0929b7c864f86"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Quarterly obligations</header><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="iddb90e92483064a35a9fb7e6f383ad81c"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not less frequently than every 90 days while funds remain in the Ukraine Support Fund, the Secretary of State may obligate and expend, from the Fund, an amount that is not less than $250,000,000 (except as provided by subparagraph (B)) for the purpose of providing assistance to Ukraine under this subsection.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id15fdc3d12b4d4e08b856e97045e13494"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Final amounts in Fund</header><text>When less than $250,000,000 remains in the Fund, the Secretary of State may obligate and expend the remaining amount for the purpose of providing assistance to Ukraine under this subsection.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="id354408b79d1f4bc09c0b8ea9a0fded26"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Implementation</header><text>It is the sense of Congress that the President should ensure that the first obligation of amounts pursuant to paragraph (4) of section 104(f) of the Rebuilding Economic Prosperity and Opportunity for Ukrainians Act, as added by subsection (a), occurs not later than the date that is 60 days after the date on which Russian sovereign assets are deposited in the Ukraine Support Fund.</text></subsection></section><section id="id84e4584ee71f4fde875ecf1aaeba0433"><enum>6.</enum><header>Engagement with certain foreign countries</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7ac3aec5a82e467d890b47cdd63fedaa"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Title II of the Rebuilding Economic Prosperity and Opportunity for Ukrainians Act (division F of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/118/50">Public Law 118–50</external-xref>; <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/9521">22 U.S.C. 9521</external-xref> note) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0dc907d4b95c447e997f6ebcd19bf830"><section id="id5e58a16ae2f042469589cbf5f7a6fa54"><enum>109.</enum><header>Engagement with foreign countries</header><subsection id="id4034617a6cb24228a360f2466b1b4d19"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Reports required</header><paragraph id="id288feb9a682547968eded2b0de4259a1"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Covered country report</header><text>Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of the <short-title>REPO for Ukrainians Implementation Act of 2025</short-title>, the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report specifying—</text><subparagraph id="idc696c83aef6043e0a78eb29b0b14ac95"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the covered countries in which Russian sovereign assets are located;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idfd2273bbc9d14b2fa3b65c2c697eff9e"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the amount of such assets in each such country; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id04f811192744429b803f718ca8bae5eb"><enum>(C)</enum><text>a description of such assets, including—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id82ea33363b7a4e129d7b9647066feaad"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether or not such assets are frozen, blocked, or immobilized; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4f91f3a9c1bb47d1a4bc863b456a6e16"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether or not such assets are accruing interest.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idf0c7a1c1bdce4a8ea176cec7ebf5a64f"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Report on non-covered countries</header><text>Not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment of the <short-title>REPO for Ukrainians Implementation Act of 2025</short-title>, the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report specifying—</text><subparagraph id="id548601d5fc444f38b7d4103faba44728"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the foreign countries that are not covered countries in which Russian sovereign assets are located;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id8ed205d8b0a343aab10b20c8d8ae0fc8"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the amount of such assets in each such country; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id4f1e10589aaa41b9801721de67363eb1"><enum>(C)</enum><text>a description of such assets, including—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd86dded1481043e0bb2948a5e3291015"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether or not such assets are frozen, blocked, or immobilized; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idda8631dfd9f64eae8dcf4e0eb580a6a7"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whether or not such assets are accruing interest.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id2fb36a515fb14836a54d9cd767898cf2"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Form</header><text>The reports required by paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be submitted in unclassified form but may include a classified annex.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id20d2181803f248999cd19cb8228d904b"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Sense of Congress on engagement</header><text>Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of the <short-title>REPO for Ukrainians Implementation Act of 2025</short-title>, the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of the Treasury, should commence a robust, sustained, diplomatic effort to persuade the government of each covered country to begin repurposing, on a quarterly basis, an amount that is not less than 5 percent of the Russian sovereign assets located in that country for the benefit of Ukraine.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5fcc6ff1cb2146dfb7279ca92452edac"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Covered country defined</header><text>In this section, the term <term>covered country</term> means Australia and any country that is a member of the G7 or the European Union, other than the United States.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb6fe6737d9ff4815a09cb395183035eb"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The table of contents in section 1 of the Rebuilding Economic Prosperity and Opportunity for Ukrainians Act (division F of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/118/50">Public Law 118–50</external-xref>; <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/9521">22 U.S.C. 9521</external-xref> note) is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 108 the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="idc21fc6c6-01dc-4f6f-84d7-299a6feb0fd3"><toc><toc-entry level="section" idref="id5e58a16ae2f042469589cbf5f7a6fa54">Sec. 109. Engagement with foreign countries.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section><section id="idd05bd00e1103427fa3774455a47c11ba"><enum>7.</enum><header>Modification of judicial review provision</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 104(k) of the Rebuilding Economic Prosperity and Opportunity for Ukrainians Act (division F of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/118/50">Public Law 118–50</external-xref>; <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/9521">22 U.S.C. 9521</external-xref> note) is amended by striking <quote>this section</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>this division</quote>.</text></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section" id="id8fa98e77e9d64397b71ee1a4214ba1ac"><enum>8.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Technical corrections</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Rebuilding Economic Prosperity and Opportunity for Ukrainians Act (division F of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/118/50">Public Law 118–50</external-xref>; <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/9521">22 U.S.C. 9521</external-xref> note) is amended—</text><paragraph id="id6fd17b79cbe64f159f849f8aee49911d"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in section 2(2), by striking <quote>paragraph (7)</quote> and inserting <quote>paragraph (6)</quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb9ccb8b21138477fb4d5625756645712"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in section 101(a)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id060a6d62f5f148d49b7fb8a7db653ec4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (4), by striking <quote>deplore[d]</quote> and inserting <quote>[d]eplore[d]</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id7f3a09802c9c4c77bd6fb0c0260e18a4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (6), in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>a resolution</quote> and inserting <quote>Resolution ES–11/5</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2889f3a4998a4cbb8ace57bdf86efd94"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in section 102(6), by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8bfb0161c3554add807a7ef755c9b0e6"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in section 103(a), in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking <quote>section 104(j)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 104(l)</quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida827290ef89c4c999556ff1a55e9fd40"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in section 104—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="iddfbf31ba45eb4d68bdeda7042afcd3e8"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a), by striking <quote>section 501.603(b)(ii)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 501.603(b)(1)(ii)</quote>;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id303fecc7b6a0465aabb1310b931be278"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (d)(2), by striking <quote>accounts</quote> and inserting <quote>account</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf0759d51f01944a4abc215bc2395b3a8"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in subsection (f)(1), by striking <quote>Funds</quote> and inserting <quote>funds</quote>; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id62b45a99f615479bb07fc5aff6c6867c"><enum>(6)</enum><text>in section 105—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide063dec01acb4a41b757e88d01aa665b"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subsection (a), in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking <quote>section 104(c)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 104(d)</quote>;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4e4157e3f0f84052aafae6b07d7a1c3b"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subsection (b), by striking <quote>section 104(f)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 104(g)</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id452e9788d746439186439ff4c38ab040" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in subsection (f), by striking <quote>subsection (c)(2)</quote> and inserting <quote>subsection (c)</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></section></legis-body><endorsement><action-date date="20251030">October 30, 2025</action-date><action-desc>Reported without amendment</action-desc></endorsement></bill> 

