[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4498 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4498

   To prohibit military assistance to countries that engage in arms 
 transfers and activities with respect to Iran, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 30, 2017

  Mr. Crist (for himself and Mr. Bilirakis) introduced the following 
      bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To prohibit military assistance to countries that engage in arms 
 transfers and activities with respect to Iran, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``No Arms Sales to Iran Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231 (2015) 
        which endorses implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan 
        of Action also provides restrictions on ballistic missile-
        related transfers to or activities with Iran absent case-by-
        case approval by the United Nations Security Council.
            (2) Iran has conducted at least three ballistic missile 
        tests since implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of 
        Action in 2015.
            (3) Iran continues to pursue a policy of destabilization 
        throughout the Middle East, relying on proxies and direct 
        military engagement to challenge United States partners and 
        threaten Israel.
            (4) Various countries have reportedly proposed arms 
        transfers to or activities with Iran despite Iran's ongoing 
        regional aggression.

SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) arms transfers to or activities with Iran would empower 
        Iran to further destabilize the region and would undermine core 
        objectives of regional peace; and
            (2) the Secretary of State, through bilateral engagement 
        and multilateral fora, should diplomatically engage with the 
        governments of countries that have reportedly proposed arms 
        transfers to or activities with Iran and with other United 
        Nations Security Council member states in order to prevent such 
        transfers or activities.

SEC. 4. REPORT.

    Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
and annually thereafter, the Secretary of State shall submit to 
Congress a report on each covered activity or transfer, and the 
diplomatic responses of the United States to each such covered activity 
or transfer, that is proposed during the one-year period preceding the 
date of the submission of the report.

SEC. 5. PROHIBITION ON MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO COUNTRIES THAT ENGAGE IN 
              ARMS TRANSFERS AND ACTIVITIES WITH RESPECT TO IRAN.

    (a) In General.--Subject to subsection (c), and effective beginning 
on the date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this 
Act--
            (1) no military assistance, including military assistance 
        furnished under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, the Arms 
        Export Control Act, or any other provision of law, may be 
        provided to a county that engages in any covered activity or 
        transfer; and
            (2) no license may be granted to export an item on the 
        United States Munitions List under section 38 of the Arms 
        Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2778) or any other provision of 
        law to any country that engages in any covered activity or 
        transfer.
    (b) Waiver.--The President may waive the prohibitions under 
subsections (a) on a case-by-case basis with respect to a particular 
country if the President determines and reports to the appropriate 
congressional committees that it is important to the national interest 
of the United States to do so.

SEC. 6. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
        ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means--
                    (A) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee 
                on Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Appropriations 
                of the House of Representatives; and
                    (B) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee 
                on Foreign Relations, and the Committee on 
                Appropriations of the Senate.
            (2) Covered transfer or activity.--The term ``covered 
        activity or transfer'' means any arms transfer to or activity 
        with Iran described in paragraphs 2, 4, and 5 of Annex B of 
        United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231 (2015) with 
        respect to which a country has sought approval by the United 
        Nations Security Council under such Resolution.
            (3) Joint comprehensive plan of action.--The term ``Joint 
        Comprehensive Plan of Action'' means the Joint Comprehensive 
        Plan of Action, agreed to 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, 
        and transmitted by the President to Congress on July 19, 2015, 
        pursuant to section 135(a) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as 
        amended by the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 
        (Public Law 114-17; 129 Stat. 201).
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