3.0.0 1777 2022-11-01T07:02:34Z 2022-11-01T07:02:34Z Senate S 2019-06-11 116 ssfr00 Foreign Relations Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2019-06-11T19:16:50Z Accountability for Sexual and Gender-based Violence as a Tool in Conflict Act of 2019 116 3212 HR 2019-06-28 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. Related bill CRS 2019-06-11 ssfr00 Foreign Relations Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. IntroReferral 2019-06-11 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M000133 Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA] Edward Markey D MA J. N S001181 Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH] Jeanne Shaheen D NH 2019-06-11 True C001035 Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME] Susan Collins R ME M. 2019-06-11 True D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. 2019-09-09 False M001176 Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] Jeff Merkley D OR 2019-09-10 False International Affairs Assault and harassment offenses Conflicts and wars Congressional oversight Crime victims Crimes against women Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad Foreign aid and international relief Foreign property Human rights Military assistance, sales, and agreements Sanctions Sex offenses Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination Violent crime Visas and passports War and emergency powers War crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity International Affairs 00 2019-06-11 Introduced in Senate 2020-03-03T16:48:10Z Accountability for Sexual and Gender-based Violence as a Tool in Conflict Act of 2019

This bill provides for sanctions against foreign persons responsible for conflict-related acts of sexual and gender-based violence.

The President may impose property- and visa-blocking sanctions on foreign persons responsible for sexual and gender-based violence against individuals seeking human rights or attempting to expose illegal activity by government officials.

Foreign government officials and their immediate family members who have been involved in significant corruption involving sexual or gender-based violence shall be ineligible to enter the United States.

The bill also expands existing foreign-assistance-related reporting requirements to include information on conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence.

]]> Accountability for Sexual and Gender-based Violence as a Tool in Conflict Act of 2019 Display Title Accountability for Sexual and Gender-based Violence as a Tool in Conflict Act of 2019 Short Title(s) as Introduced Accountability for Sexual and Gender-based Violence as a Tool in Conflict Act of 2019 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to include in the Annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices a section on conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence, to amend the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act to authorize the President to impose economic sanctions and a visa ban on the leader of an organization that commits sexual or gender-based violence. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s1777is/xml/BILLS-116s1777is.xml 2019-06-11 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.