[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 89 (Thursday, June 4, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3827-S3828]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1759. Mr. KIRK submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense and for military construction, to 
prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle C of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1242. REPORT ON USE BY IRAN OF FUNDS MADE AVAILABLE 
                   THROUGH SANCTIONS RELIEF.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, and every 180 days thereafter, the 
     Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Director 
     of National Intelligence, shall submit to the appropriate 
     congressional committees a report assessing the following:
       (1) The monetary value of any direct or indirect forms of 
     sanctions relief that Iran has received since the Joint Plan 
     of Action first entered into effect.

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       (2) How Iran has used funds made available through 
     sanctions relief, including the extent to which any such 
     funds have facilitated the ability of Iran--
       (A) to provide support for--
       (i) any individual or entity designated for the imposition 
     of sanctions for activities relating to international 
     terrorism pursuant to an Executive order or by the Office of 
     Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury on 
     or before the enactment of this Act;
       (ii) any organization designated by the Secretary of State 
     as a foreign terrorist organization under section 219(a) of 
     the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189(a)) on or 
     before the enactment of this Act; or
       (iii) any other terrorist organization, including Hamas, 
     Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or the regime of Bashar 
     al-Assad in Syria;
       (B) to advance the efforts of Iran or any other country to 
     develop nuclear weapons or ballistic missiles overtly or 
     covertly; or
       (C) to commit any violation of the human rights of the 
     people of Iran.
       (3) The extent to which any senior officials of the 
     Government of Iran have diverted any funds from sanctions 
     relief into their personal accounts.
       (b) Form of Reports.--Each report required by subsection 
     (a) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include 
     a classified annex.
       (c) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
     ``appropriate congressional committees'' has the meaning 
     given that term in section 14 of the Iran Sanctions Act of 
     1996 (Public Law 104-172; 50 U.S.C. 1701 note).
       (2) Joint plan of action.--The term ``Joint Plan of 
     Action'' means the Joint Plan of Action, signed at Geneva 
     November 24, 2013, by Iran and by France, Germany, the 
     Russian Federation, the People's Republic of China, the 
     United Kingdom, and the United States, and all implementing 
     materials and agreements related to the Joint Plan of Action, 
     including the technical understandings reached on January 12, 
     2014, the extension thereto agreed to on July 18, 2014, and 
     the extension thereto agreed to on November 24, 2014.
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