119-hr1136

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1136 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 1136

 To impose sanctions on foreign persons failing to cooperate with the 
 United States.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 February 7, 2025

 Mr. Ogles introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the 
 Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
 in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
 jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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 A BILL

 To impose sanctions on foreign persons failing to cooperate with the 
 United States.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND PURPOSE.

    (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Make Gaza Great 
Again Act''.

    (b) 

=== Purpose ===
-The purpose of this Act is to specifically ensure the 
cooperation of Middle Eastern states, excluding the State of Israel, in 
offering humanitarian entry to Palestinians from Gaza.

SEC. 2. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS ON FOREIGN PERSONS FAILING TO COOPERATE 
 WITH THE UNITED STATES.

    (a) Imposition of Sanctions.--Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, the President may impose the sanctions described in subsection
            (c) with respect to each foreign person included in the most recent 
list submitted pursuant to subsection

    (b) .

    (b) List of Persons.--

    (1) In general.--Not later than 60 days after the date of 
 enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to the 
 appropriate congressional committees a list of foreign persons 
 charged with representation of a foreign government who have 
 rejected a request from the President to grant humanitarian 
 entry to Palestinians from Gaza.

    (2) Updates of lists.--The President shall submit to the 
 appropriate congressional committees an updated list under 
 paragraph

    (1) --
        (A) not later than 180 days after the date of 
 enactment of this Act and annually thereafter for 5 
 years; or
        (B) as new information becomes available.

    (3) Form.--The list required by paragraph

    (1) shall be 
 submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified 
 annex.
            (c) Sanctions Described.--The sanctions described in this 
subsection are the following:

    (1) Blocking of property.--The President shall exercise all 
 of the powers granted to the President by the International 
 Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (except 
 that the requirements of 

section 202 of such Act shall not 
 apply) to the extent necessary to block and prohibit all 
 transactions in property and interests in property of the 
 person if such property and interests in property are in the 
 United States, come within the United States, or are or come 
 within the possession or control of a United States person.

    (2) Inadmissibility of certain individuals.--
        (A) Ineligibility for visas, admission, or 
 parole.--A foreign person included in the most recent 
 list submitted pursuant to subsection

    (b) is--
            (i) inadmissible to the United States;
            (ii) ineligible to receive a visa or other 
 documentation to enter the United States; and
            (iii) otherwise ineligible to be admitted 
 or paroled into the United States or to receive 
 any other benefit under the Immigration and 
 Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.).
        (B) Current visas revoked.--A foreign person 
 described in subparagraph
        (A) is also subject to the 
 following:
            (i) Revocation of any visa or other entry 
 documentation regardless of when the visa or 
 other entry documentation is or was issued.
            (ii) A revocation under clause
            (i) shall 
 take effect immediately and automatically 
 cancel any other valid visa or entry 
 documentation that is in the foreign person's 
 possession.
            (d) Penalties.--The penalties provided for in subsections

    (b) and
            (c) of 

section 206 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act 
(50 U.S.C. 1705) shall apply to a person who violates, attempts to 
violate, conspires to violate, or causes a violation of regulations 
promulgated to carry out subsection

    (a) to the same extent that such 
penalties apply to a person who commits an unlawful act described in 

section 206

    (a) of that Act.

    (e) Exception To Comply With National Security.--The following 
activities shall be exempt from sanctions under this section:

    (1) Activities subject to the reporting requirements under 
 title V of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3091 et 
 seq.).

    (2) Any authorized intelligence or law enforcement 
 activities of the United States.

    (f) Waiver.--The President may, on a case-by-case basis, waive the 
imposition of any sanction or any requirement under this section if the 
President--

    (1) determines that such a waiver is in the national 
 interest of the United States; and

    (2) not later than 120 days after the date on which the 
 President imposes the sanctions described in subsection

    (a) , 
 and every 120 days thereafter until the date of termination 
 under subsection

    (g) , the President shall submit to the 
 appropriate congressional committees a classified report on the 
 extent to which the President has used the waiver authority 
 under paragraph

    (1) during the period covered by that report.

    (g) Sunset.--The authority to impose sanctions under this section 
shall terminate on the date that is 5 years after the date of enactment 
of this Act.

    (h) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--In this Act, the 
term ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--

    (1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 
 Representatives; and

    (2) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.

SEC. 3. SUSPENSION OF MAJOR NON-NATO ALLY DESIGNATION AND FOREIGN 
 ASSISTANCE.

    (a) In General.--The President may suspend a designation made 
pursuant to 

section 517

    (a)

    (1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 
U.S.C. 2321k

    (a)

    (1) ) and suspend any and all forms of foreign 
assistance, to include security assistance, for any country whose 
government has declined a request by the President to offer 
humanitarian entry to Palestinians from Gaza.

    (b) Termination.--The President may, concurrent with written notice 
to the appropriate congressional committees, terminate any suspension 
made pursuant to subsection

    (a) .

SEC. 4. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.

 Nothing in this Act may be construed to apply to Israel or any 
national of the State of Israel.
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