[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2667 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2667

  To prohibit the exercise of any waiver of the imposition of certain 
   sanctions with respect to Iran unless the President certifies to 
 Congress that the waiver will not result in the provision of funds to 
   the Government of Iran for activities in support of international 
 terrorism, to develop nuclear weapons, or to violate the human rights 
                         of the people of Iran.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 24, 2014

    Mr. Kirk (for himself, Ms. Ayotte, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Isakson, Mr. 
  Roberts, Mr. Hatch, and Mr. Hoeven) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit the exercise of any waiver of the imposition of certain 
   sanctions with respect to Iran unless the President certifies to 
 Congress that the waiver will not result in the provision of funds to 
   the Government of Iran for activities in support of international 
 terrorism, to develop nuclear weapons, or to violate the human rights 
                         of the people of Iran.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Iranian Sanctions Relief 
Certification Act of 2014''.

SEC. 2. CERTIFICATION REQUIRED FOR EXERCISE OF CERTAIN WAIVERS OF 
              PROVISIONS OF LAW IMPOSING SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO 
              IRAN.

    (a) In General.--On and after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, the President may not exercise a waiver specified in subsection 
(b) in connection with the extension of the terms of the Joint Plan of 
Action beyond July 20, 2014, unless the President certifies to Congress 
before the waiver takes effect and every 60 days thereafter that any 
funds made available to the Government of Iran as a result of the 
waiver will not facilitate the ability of that Government--
            (1) to provide support for--
                    (A) any individual or entity designated for the 
                imposition of sanctions for activities relating to 
                international terrorism pursuant to an Executive order 
                or by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the 
                Department of the Treasury before July 22, 2014;
                    (B) any organization designated by the Secretary of 
                State as a foreign terrorist organization under section 
                219(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
                1189(a)) before July 22, 2014; or
                    (C) any other terrorist organization, including 
                Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the 
                regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria;
            (2) to advance the efforts of Iran or any other country to 
        develop nuclear weapons or ballistic missiles overtly or 
        covertly; or
            (3) to commit any violation of the human rights of the 
        people of Iran.
    (b) Waivers Specified.--A waiver specified in this subsection is 
any of the following:
            (1) A waiver provided for under section 4(c) or 9(c) of the 
        Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-172; 50 U.S.C. 1701 
        note) to the imposition of sanctions under section 5(a)(7) of 
        that Act.
            (2) A waiver provided for under paragraph (5) of section 
        1245(d) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
        Year 2012 (22 U.S.C. 8513a(d)) to the imposition of sanctions 
        under paragraph (1) of that section.
            (3) A waiver provided for under subsection (e) of section 
        302 of the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 
        2012 (22 U.S.C. 8742) to the identification of foreign persons 
        under subsection (a) of that section.
            (4) A waiver provided for under subsection (i) of section 
        1244 of the Iran Freedom and Counter-Proliferation Act of 2012 
        (22 U.S.C. 8803) to the imposition of sanctions under 
        subsection (c) of that section.
    (c) Joint Plan of Action Defined.--In this section, the term 
``Joint Plan of Action'' means the Joint Plan of Action, signed at 
Geneva November 24, 2013, by Iran and by France, Germany, the Russian 
Federation, the People's Republic of China, the United Kingdom, and the 
United States.
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