[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1784 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1784

   To terminate certain sanctions with respect to India and Pakistan.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 12, 1999

 Mr. Pallone introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committee 
  on Banking and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To terminate certain sanctions with respect to India and Pakistan.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. TERMINATION OF CERTAIN SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO INDIA AND 
              PAKISTAN.

    (a) India and Pakistan.--Effective on the date of the enactment of 
this Act, the sanctions contained in the following provisions of law 
shall not apply to India and Pakistan, with respect to any grounds for 
the imposition of sanctions under those provisions arising before such 
date of enactment:
            (1) Section 101 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 
        2799aa).
            (2) Section 102 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 
        2799aa-1).
            (3) Section 2(b)(4) of the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 
        (12 U.S.C. 635(b)(4)).
    (b) Certain Persons.--Effective on the date of the enactment of 
this Act, the sanctions contained in sections 821 and 824 of the 
Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Act (22 U.S.C. 3201 note) shall not 
apply to any person, with respect to any grounds for the imposition of 
sanctions under those provisions arising before such date of enactment, 
relating to the detonation by India or Pakistan of nuclear explosive 
devices.
    (c) Statutory Construction.--Nothing in this Act prohibits the 
imposition of sanctions by the President under any provision of law 
specified in subsections (a) and (b) by reason of any grounds for the 
imposition of sanctions under that provision of law arising on or after 
the date of the enactment of this Act.

SEC. 2. REPEALS.

    The India-Pakistan Relief Act of 1988 (title IX of the Agriculture, 
Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 1999, as contained in section 101(a) of Public Law 
105-277), is repealed.
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