[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 157 (Wednesday, September 28, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5308]
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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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