[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 965 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 965

  To hold accountable Members of Congress who advocate on behalf of a 
 foreign person or commercial entity for the purpose of influencing or 
seeking a change in a law or regulation of the United States that would 
  ease any restriction on a state sponsor of terrorism, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 17, 2005

Ms. Ros-Lehtinen (for herself, Mr. Lincoln Diaz-Balart of Florida, and 
Mr. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the 
 Committee on International Relations, 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 hold accountable Members of Congress who advocate on behalf of a 
 foreign person or commercial entity for the purpose of influencing or 
seeking a change in a law or regulation of the United States that would 
  ease any restriction on a state sponsor of terrorism, and for other 
                               purposes.

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

SECTION 1. AMENDMENT TO FOREIGN AGENTS REGISTRATION ACT.

    Section 1(c) of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as 
amended (22 U.S.C. 611(c)), is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)(iv), by striking ``and'' after the 
        semicolon;
            (2) in paragraph (2), by striking the period and inserting 
        ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) any Senator or Member of the House of Representatives 
        (including a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to the Congress) 
        who enters into any written agreement with any foreign person 
        to modify any law or regulation of the United States that would 
        result in easing any restriction imposed on any country the 
        government of which has been determined by the Secretary of 
        State, for purposes of section 6(j) of the Export 
        Administration Act of 1979, section 620A of the Foreign 
        Assistance Act of 1961, section 40 of the Arms Export Control 
        Act, or other provision of law, is a government that has 
        repeatedly provided support for acts of international 
        terrorism.''.

SEC. 2. TRADE SANCTIONS REFORM AND EXPORT ENHANCEMENT ACT OF 2000.

    Section 908(a) of the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement 
Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7207(a)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new paragraph:
            ``(4) Certain agreements.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Any agreement or action on 
                behalf of a foreign person which is described in 
                subparagraph (B) shall be deemed to be United States 
                export assistance prohibited under paragraph (1).
                    ``(B) Agreement or action described.--An agreement 
                or action referred to in subparagraph (A) is a written 
                agreement between any United States person, including a 
                Senator or Member of the House of Representatives 
                (including a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to the 
                Congress), and a foreign person or any business 
                concern, or any agent or representative thereof, or 
                action by any such United States person on behalf of 
                such foreign person, concern, agent, or representative, 
                for the purpose of influencing or seeking a change in 
                any law or regulation of the United States that would 
                result in--
                            ``(i) easing any restriction imposed on any 
                        country the government of which has been 
                        determined by the Secretary of State, for 
                        purposes of section 6(j) of the Export 
                        Administration Act of 1979, section 620A of the 
                        Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, section 40 of 
                        the Arms Export Control Act, or other provision 
                        of law, is a government that has repeatedly 
                        provided support for acts of international 
                        terrorism; and
                            ``(ii) a financial benefit accruing to the 
                        foreign person or business concern.''.

SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING ETHICS VIOLATIONS.

    It is the sense of the Congress that any Senator or Member of the 
House of Representatives who enters into any agreement or takes any 
action on behalf of a foreign person which is described in paragraph 
(4)(B) of section 908(a) of the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export 
Enhancement Act of 2000 (as added by section 2 of this Act) should be 
sanctioned under the rules of the Senate or the House of 
Representatives, as the case may be.
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