[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 568 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 568

  To require the Secretary of Commerce to certify, before removing an 
 entity from the entity list, that the entity is no longer involved in 
    activities contrary to the national security or foreign policy 
 interests of the United States and that removing the entity from the 
      list does not pose a threat to allies of the United States.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 3, 2021

  Mr. Scott of Florida (for himself, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Hawley, and Mr. 
Rubio) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 
        to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the Secretary of Commerce to certify, before removing an 
 entity from the entity list, that the entity is no longer involved in 
    activities contrary to the national security or foreign policy 
 interests of the United States and that removing the entity from the 
      list does not pose a threat to allies of the United States.

    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 ``Entity List Verification Act''.

SEC. 2. CERTIFICATION REQUIRED TO REMOVE ENTITIES FROM ENTITY LIST.

    The Secretary of Commerce may not remove any entity from the entity 
list maintained by the Bureau of Industry and Security and set forth in 
Supplement No. 4 to part 744 of title 15, Code of Federal Regulations, 
until the Secretary certifies to Congress that--
            (1) the entity is no longer reasonably believed to be 
        involved, or to be becoming involved, in activities contrary to 
        national security or foreign policy interests of the United 
        States; and
            (2) removing the entity from the entity list does not pose 
        a threat to allies of the United States.
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