3.0.0 488 2025-12-31T23:26:35Z 2025-12-31T23:26:35Z Senate S S 2025-02-06 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/488 ssfr00 Foreign Relations Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2025-02-06T23:20:13Z 2025-02-06 ssfr00 Foreign Relations Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. IntroReferral 2025-02-06 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S001217 Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL] Rick Scott R FL N T000278 Sen. Tuberville, Tommy [R-AL] Tommy Tuberville R AL 2025-02-06 True M001244 Sen. Moody, Ashley [R-FL] Ashley Moody R FL 2025-10-27 False International Affairs International Affairs 2025-05-06T13:56:27Z

00 2025-02-06 Introduced in Senate 2025-12-31T23:22:34Z <p><strong>Denying Earnings to the Military Oligarchy in Cuba and Restricting Activities of the Cuban Intelligence Apparatus Act or the DEMOCRACIA Act</strong></p><p>This bill provides for asset- and visa-blocking sanctions for conduct relating to Cuba. It also establishes an interagency task force to facilitate access to uncensored internet in Cuba.</p><p>The President must sanction foreign persons that engage in a transaction with or provide financial, material, or technological&nbsp;support to certain entities or individuals, including</p><ul><li>specified Cuban government sectors (e.g., the defense sector);</li><li>any other government sector that the President certifies is involved in human rights abuses or terrorism;</li><li>foreign persons that are military contractors or mercenaries operating on behalf of the Cuban government; or</li><li>foreign persons that violate laws restricting trade with Cuba.</li></ul><p>Other individuals or entities the President must sanction include</p><ul><li>foreign persons responsible for or complicit in human rights abuses in Cuba;</li><li>Cuban officials responsible for or complicit in corruption; and</li><li>members of Cuba's Communist Party.</li></ul><p>The bill provides certain exceptions to these sanctions&nbsp;and the President may waive the sanctions in the interest of U.S. national security. The President may not license sanctionable conduct. U.S. persons seeking to engage in a sanctionable financial transaction must submit a written request to the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control.</p><p>The authority to impose sanctions under this bill ends when the President certifies that the Cuban government has taken specified steps to promote political rights and freedoms&nbsp;and Congress enacts a joint resolution approving the&nbsp;certification.</p>

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