[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5185 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5185

To maintain in effect certain sanctions imposed with respect to Iraq in 
    the event of a termination of the applicable declared national 
                   emergency, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 11, 2023

  Mr. Crane introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To maintain in effect certain sanctions imposed with respect to Iraq in 
    the event of a termination of the applicable declared national 
                   emergency, 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. CONTINUATION OF SANCTIONS IMPOSED.

    Notwithstanding any termination of the national emergency declared 
by the finding of the President on May 22, 2003, in Executive Order 
13303 (68 Fed. Reg. 31929; relating to protecting the development fund 
for Iraq and certain other property in which Iraq has an interest), 
including a statutory termination taking effect on or after the date of 
this Act--
            (1) no person included in the List of Specially Designated 
        Nationals and Blocked Persons maintained by the Office of 
        Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury under 
        the ``IRAQ2'' or ``IRAQ3'' programs may be removed from such 
        List solely as a result of such termination; and
            (2) no sanction imposed with respect to a person described 
        in paragraph (1) may be waived solely as a result of such 
        termination.
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