[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3460 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3460


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 15, 2015

                                Received

                             July 14, 2016

     Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 AN ACT


 
 To suspend until January 21, 2017, the authority of the President to 
  waive, suspend, reduce, provide relief from, or otherwise limit the 
   application of sanctions pursuant to an agreement related to the 
                        nuclear program of Iran.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SUSPENSION OF AUTHORITY TO WAIVE, SUSPEND, REDUCE, PROVIDE 
              RELIEF FROM, OR OTHERWISE LIMIT THE APPLICATION OF 
              SANCTIONS PURSUANT TO AN AGREEMENT RELATED TO THE NUCLEAR 
              PROGRAM OF IRAN.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, prior 
to January 21, 2017, the President may not--
            (1) waive, suspend, reduce, provide relief from, or 
        otherwise limit the application of sanctions described in 
        subsection (b) or refrain from applying any such sanctions; or
            (2) remove a foreign person listed in Attachment 3 or 
        Attachment 4 to Annex II of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of 
        Action from the list of specially designated nationals and 
        blocked persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Asset 
        Control of the Department of the Treasury.
    (b) Sanctions Described.--The sanctions described in this 
subsection are--
            (1) the sanctions described in sections 4 through 7.9 of 
        Annex II of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action; and
            (2) the sanctions described in any other agreement related 
        to the nuclear program of Iran that includes the United States, 
        commits the United States to take action, or pursuant to which 
        the United States commits or otherwise agrees to take action, 
        regardless of the form it takes, whether a political commitment 
        or otherwise, and regardless of whether it is legally binding 
        or not.
    (c) Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Defined.--In this section, 
the term ``Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action'' means the Joint 
Comprehensive Plan of Action, signed 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.

            Passed the House of Representatives September 11, 2015.

            Attest:

                                                 KAREN L. HAAS,

                                                                 Clerk.