[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 157 (Wednesday, September 28, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5308]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5826. Mr. RISCH (for himself and Mr. Menendez) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. 
Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the 
bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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 B of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1226. STOP IRANIAN DRONES ACT.

       (a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the ``Stop 
     Iranian Drones Act''.
       (b) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
       (1) A July 15, 2013, United Nations General Assembly Report 
     on the continuing operation of the United Nations Register of 
     Conventional Arms and its further development (document A/68/
     140) states in paragraph 45, ``The Group noted the discussion 
     of the 2006 Group that category IV already covered armed 
     unmanned aerial vehicles and of the 2009 Group on a proposal 
     to include a new category for such vehicles. The Group 
     reviewed proposals for providing greater clarity to category 
     IV.''.
       (2) Section 107 of the Countering America's Adversaries 
     Through Sanctions Act (22 U.S.C. 9406), enacted August 2, 
     2017, requires the President to impose sanctions on any 
     person that the President determines ``knowingly engages in 
     any activity that materially contributes to the supply, sale, 
     or transfer directly or indirectly to or from Iran, or for 
     the use in or benefit of Iran, of any battle tanks, armored 
     combat vehicles, large caliber artillery systems, combat 
     aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, missiles or missile 
     systems, as defined for the purpose of the United Nations 
     Register of Conventional Arms, or related materiel, including 
     spare parts''.
       (3) In 2019, the United Nations formally changed the 
     heading of category IV of the United Nations Register of 
     Conventional Arms to ``combat aircraft and unmanned combat 
     aerial vehicles''.
       (c) Statement of Policy.--It shall be the policy of the 
     United States to prevent Iran and Iranian-aligned terrorist 
     and militia groups from acquiring unmanned aerial vehicles, 
     including commercially available component parts, that can be 
     used in attacks against United States persons and partner 
     nations.
       (d) Amendment to Countering America's Adversaries Through 
     Sanctions Act Relating to Sanctions With Respect to Iran.--
       (1) In general.--Section 107 of the Countering America's 
     Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (22 U.S.C. 9406) is 
     amended--
       (A) in the section heading, by striking ``enforcement of 
     arms embargos'' and inserting ``sanctions with respect to 
     major conventional arms''; and
       (B) in subsection (a)(1), by inserting ``or unmanned combat 
     aerial vehicles'' after ``combat aircraft''.
       (2) Clerical amendment.--The table of contents for the 
     Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act is 
     amended by striking the item relating to section 107 and 
     inserting the following:

``Sec. 107. Sanctions with respect to major conventional arms.''.
       (3) Effective date.--The amendments made by this subsection 
     take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and 
     apply with respect to any person that knowingly engages in 
     any activity that materially contributes to the supply, sale, 
     or transfer directly or indirectly to or from Iran, or for 
     the use in or benefit of Iran, of any unmanned combat aerial 
     vehicles, as defined for the purpose of the United Nations 
     Register of Conventional Arms, before, on, or after such date 
     of enactment.
       (e) Report to Identify Iranian Persons That Have Attacked 
     United States Citizens Using Unmanned Combat Aerial 
     Vehicles.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, and every 180 days thereafter, the 
     Secretary of State shall submit to the Committee on Foreign 
     Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
     of the House of Representatives a report that identifies, for 
     the period specified in paragraph (2), any Iranian person 
     that has attacked a United States citizen using an unmanned 
     combat aerial vehicle, as defined for the purpose of the 
     United Nations Register of Conventional Arms.
       (2) Period specified.--The period specified in this 
     paragraph is--
       (A) for the initial report, the period--
       (i) beginning on the date that is 10 years before the date 
     such report is submitted; and
       (ii) ending on the date such report is submitted; and
       (B) for the second or a subsequent report, the period--
       (i) beginning on the date the preceding report was 
     submitted; and
       (ii) ending on the date such second or subsequent report is 
     submitted.
       (3) Designation of persons as foreign terrorist 
     organizations.--
       (A) In general.--The President shall designate any person 
     identified in a report submitted under subsection (a) as a 
     foreign terrorist organization under section 219 of the 
     Immigration and Naturalization Act (8 U.S.C. 1189).
       (B) Revocation.--The President may not revoke a designation 
     made under subparagraph (A) until the date that is 10 years 
     after the date of such designation.
       (4) Iranian person defined.--In this subsection, the term 
     ``Iranian person''--
       (A) means an entity organized under the laws of Iran or 
     otherwise subject to the jurisdiction of the Government of 
     Iran; and
       (B) includes the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
       (f) Determination of Budgetary Effects.--The budgetary 
     effects of this section, for the purpose of complying with 
     the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, shall be determined 
     by reference to the latest statement titled ``Budgetary 
     Effects of PAYGO Legislation'' for this section, submitted 
     for printing in the Congressional Record by the Chairman of 
     the House Budget Committee, provided that such statement has 
     been submitted prior to the vote on passage.
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