[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3199 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3199

   To prohibit statutory sanctions relief by the United States with 
 respect to Iran unless the Senate provides its advice and consent to 
        ratification of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 23, 2015

   Mr. Brat (for himself, Mr. Grothman, Mr. Messer, and Mr. Palmer) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                            Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To prohibit statutory sanctions relief by the United States with 
 respect to Iran unless the Senate provides its advice and consent to 
        ratification of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

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

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON STATUTORY SANCTIONS RELIEF BY THE UNITED 
              STATES WITH RESPECT TO IRAN UNLESS THE SENATE PROVIDES 
              ITS ADVICE AND CONSENT TO RATIFICATION OF THE JOINT 
              COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF ACTION.

    (a) Prohibition.--Notwithstanding section 135 of the Atomic Energy 
Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2160e), as added by section 2 of the Iran 
Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 (Public Law 114-17; 129 Stat. 
201), or any other provision of law, action involving any measure of 
statutory sanctions relief by the United States may not be taken unless 
the Senate provides its advice and consent to ratification of the Joint 
Comprehensive Plan of Action under article II, section 2 of the United 
States Constitution.
    (b) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Action involving any measure of statutory sanctions 
        relief by the united states.--The term ``action involving any 
        measure of statutory sanctions relief by the United States'' 
        has the meaning given the term in section 135(c)(3) of the 
        Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2160e(c)(3)).
            (2) Joint comprehensive plan of action.--The term ``Joint 
        Comprehensive Plan of Action'' means the Joint Comprehensive 
        Plan of Action, signed at Vienna July 14, 2015, by Iran and by 
        the People's Republic of China, France, Germany, the Russian 
        Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States, with the 
        High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs 
        and Security Policy, and all implementing materials and 
        agreements related to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
    (c) Effective Date.--This section takes effect on the date of the 
enactment of this Act and applies with respect to action involving any 
measure of statutory sanctions relief by the United States provided 
before, on, or after such date of enactment.
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