[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1905 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1905

 To expand the categories of forfeited property available to remediate 
   harms to Ukraine from Russian aggression, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 8, 2023

 Mr. Manchin (for himself, Mr. Graham, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Rounds, and 
Ms. Murkowski) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
 To expand the categories of forfeited property available to remediate 
   harms to Ukraine from Russian aggression, 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 ``Transferring Illicit Assets to 
Ukraine Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF FORFEITED PROPERTY AVAILABLE TO REMEDIATE HARMS TO 
              UKRAINE FROM RUSSIAN AGGRESSION.

    (a) In General.--Subsection (c) of section 1708 of the Additional 
Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023 (division M of Public Law 
117-328) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2), by striking ``which property 
        belonged'' and all that follows and inserting the following: 
        ``which property--
                    ``(A) belonged to, was possessed by, or was 
                controlled by a person subject to sanctions imposed by 
                the United States with respect to the Russian 
                Federation under any provision of law;
                    ``(B) was involved in an act in violation of--
                            ``(i) any sanction described in 
                        subparagraph (A); or
                            ``(ii) any restriction on the export, 
                        reexport, or in-country transfer of items 
                        imposed by the United States under the Export 
                        Administration Regulations, or any restriction 
                        on the export, reexport, or retransfer of 
                        defense articles under the International 
                        Traffic in Arms Regulations under subchapter M 
                        of chapter I of title 22, Code of Federal 
                        Regulations, with respect to--
                                    ``(I) the Russian Federation, 
                                Belarus, the Crimea, or the so-called 
                                Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republic 
                                regions of Ukraine;
                                    ``(II) any person in any such 
                                country or region on a restricted 
                                parties list; or
                                    ``(III) any person located in any 
                                other country that has been added to a 
                                restricted parties list in connection 
                                with the malign conduct of the Russian 
                                Federation in Ukraine, including the 
                                annexation of the Crimea region of 
                                Ukraine in March 2014 and the invasion 
                                beginning in February 2022 of Ukraine, 
                                as substantially enabled by Belarus; or
                    ``(C) was involved in any related conspiracy, 
                scheme, or other Federal offense arising from the 
                actions of, or doing business with or acting on behalf 
                of, the Russian Federation, Belarus, or the Crimea, or 
                the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republic 
                regions of Ukraine.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) The term `Export Administration Regulations' has the 
        meaning given that term in section 1742 of the Export Control 
        Reform Act of 2018 (50 U.S.C. 4801).
            ``(4) The term `restricted parties list' means any of the 
        following lists maintained by the Bureau of Industry and 
        Security:
                    ``(A) The Entity List set forth in Supplement No. 4 
                to part 744 of the Export Administration Regulations.
                    ``(B) The Denied Persons List maintained pursuant 
                to section 764.3(a)(2) of the Export Administration 
                Regulations.
                    ``(C) The Unverified List set forth in Supplement 
                No. 6 to part 744 of the Export Administration 
                Regulations.''.
    (b) Semiannual Reports.--Such section is further amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections 
        (d) and (e), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
    ``(c) Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of 
the Transferring Illicit Assets to Ukraine Act of 2023, and every 180 
days thereafter, the Attorney General, in consultation with the 
Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of State, shall submit to 
the appropriate congressional committees a report on--
            ``(1) transfers made under subsection (a) during the 180 
        days preceding submission of the report; and
            ``(2) progress made in remediating the harms of Russian 
        aggression towards Ukraine as a result of such transfers.''.
    (c) Plan Required.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 30 days after the date of 
        the enactment of this Act, the Attorney General, in 
        consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and the 
        Secretary of State, shall submit to the appropriate 
        congressional committees a plan for using the authority 
        provided by section 1708 of the Additional Ukraine Supplemental 
        Appropriations Act, 2023, as amended by this section.
            (2) Appropriate congressional committees defined.--In this 
        section, the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' has 
        the meaning given that term by section 1708 of the Additional 
        Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023, as amended by 
        this section.
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