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    <item congress="118" measure-type="hr" measure-number="8046" measure-id="id118hr8046" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2024-04-17" update-date="2025-09-04">
        <title>Rosatom Sanctions Enforcement Act</title>
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            <action-date>2024-04-17</action-date>
            <action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Rosatom Sanctions Enforcement Act</strong></p><p>This bill requires the President to take actions against Russian nuclear suppliers (e.g., Rosatom). (Rosatom is Russia's state nuclear power conglomerate.)</p><p>Specifically, the bill requires the President to impose property-blocking sanctions on Rosatom and others, including foreign persons involved in&nbsp;Rosatom’s construction of nuclear reactors.</p><p>Additionally, the President must submit to Congress a strategy to (1) replace Rosatom and other Russian nuclear suppliers with those from the United States and U.S. allies and partners, and (2) effect a permanent&nbsp;decoupling from the Russian nuclear industry. Within 60 days of submitting this strategy, the President must issue a directive prohibiting U.S. persons from engaging in any significant transaction with&nbsp;Rosatom and others involved with&nbsp;Rosatom.</p><p>The bill also requires the President to prescribe regulations to prohibit or impose strict conditions with respect to certain financial accounts held by foreign financial institutions.</p><p>The bill allows the President to waive the aforementioned sanctions under specified circumstances.</p><p>The President must, within 60 days of receiving a request from Congress, determine whether a person or foreign financial institution described in the request meets the criteria to be subject to sanctions imposed in two specified regulations relating to Russia. The President must submit a report to Congress stating whether the President imposed or intends to impose sanctions on persons or institutions described in the request from Congress.</p><p>The President must also pause the issuance of export licenses granted under a civil nuclear cooperation agreement with Russia until certain conditions are met.</p>]]></summary-text>
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