[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 127 (Thursday, July 27, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S4529]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 537. Mr. CRUZ (for himself and Mr. Tillis) submitted an amendment 
intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2018 for military activities of the 
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense 
activities of the Department of Energy, 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. ___. REPORT ON ILLICIT ACTIVITIES OF CERTAIN IRANIAN 
                   PERSONS.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, and every 60 days thereafter, the 
     Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Director of 
     National Intelligence, the Secretary of the Treasury, the 
     Secretary of Commerce, and the Secretary of State, shall 
     submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report 
     that includes the following:
       (1) A list of each person listed, or required to be listed, 
     in Attachment 3 to Annex II of the Joint Comprehensive Plan 
     of Action that has, on or after the date of the 
     implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and 
     before the date of the report, knowingly facilitated, 
     participated or assisted in, engaged in, directed, or 
     provided material support for activities described in 
     subsection (b).
       (2) A description of the activity described in subsection 
     (b) engaged in by each person on the list required by 
     paragraph (1).
       (3) An assessment of the extent to which the activity 
     described in subsection (b) engaged in by each person on the 
     list required by paragraph (1) involves the provision or 
     delivery of financial, material, or technological support 
     to--
       (A) the Government of Iran;
       (B) Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps;
       (C) any person with respect to which sanctions have been 
     imposed under any provision of law imposing sanctions with 
     respect to Iran; or
       (D) any person that directly, or indirectly through one or 
     more intermediaries, is controlled by, or is under common 
     control with, an entity described in subparagraph (A), (B), 
     or (C).
       (b) Activities Described.--An activity described in this 
     subsection is any of the following:
       (1) An act of international terrorism.
       (2) The proliferation of nuclear or ballistic missile 
     technology or spare parts.
       (3) Illicit arms sales.
       (4) Significant activities undermining cybersecurity.
       (5) Violations of export controls.
       (6) Financial crimes.
       (7) Transnational organized crime, including drug and human 
     trafficking.
       (c) Determination and Public Availability.--To the maximum 
     extent practicable, the list required by subsection (a)(1) 
     shall be made available to the public and posted on a 
     publicly available Internet website of the Department of 
     Defense, the Department of State, the Department of the 
     Treasury, or the Department of Commerce.
       (d) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Act of international terrorism.--The term ``act of 
     international terrorism'' includes--
       (A) an act of torture, extrajudicial killing, aircraft 
     sabotage, or hostage taking, as those terms are defined in 
     section 1605A(h) of title 28, United States Code; and
       (B) providing material support or resources, as defined in 
     section 2339A of title 18, United States Code, for an act 
     described in subparagraph (A).
       (2) Appropriate committees of congress.--The term 
     ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means--
       (A) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, the Committee on Foreign 
     Relations, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the 
     Senate; and
       (B) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Financial Services, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the 
     Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of 
     Representatives.
       (3) Knowingly.--The term ``knowingly'' 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).
       (4) Joint comprehensive plan of action.--The term ``Joint 
     Comprehensive Plan of Action'' means the Joint Comprehensive 
     Plan of Action, agreed to at Vienna on 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.
       (5) Person.--The term ``person'' means an individual or 
     entity.
       (6) Significant activities undermining cybersecurity.--The 
     term ``significant activities undermining cybersecurity'' 
     includes--
       (A) significant efforts to--
       (i) deny access to or degrade, disrupt, or destroy an 
     information and communications technology system or network; 
     or
       (ii) exfiltrate information from such a system or network 
     without authorization;
       (B) significant destructive malware attacks;
       (C) significant denial or service activities; and
       (D) such other significant activities undermining 
     cybersecurity as may be specified in regulations prescribed 
     to implement this section.
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