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Iran Human Rights Sanctions Act

Introduced: February 23, 2010 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 8 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 26, 2010
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
Mar 8, 2010
Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
Feb 23, 2010
Referred to House Judiciary
Feb 23, 2010
Referred to House Ways and Means
Feb 23, 2010
Referred to House Financial Services
Feb 23, 2010
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Ways and Means, and 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.
Feb 23, 2010
Referred to House Foreign Affairs
Feb 23, 2010
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Iran Human Rights Sanctions Act - Directs the President to impose visa entry and financial sanctions on a person determined to be complicit in human rights abuses committed against Iranian citizens or their family members on or after June 12, 2009, regardless of whether such abuses occurred in Iran.

Requires that: (1) the list of such persons required by this Act be made available to the public and posted on the Department of the Treasury and the Department of State websites; and (2) the President consider data obtained by other countries and nongovernmental organizations that monitor Iran's human rights abuses in preparing such list.

Authorizes the President to: (1) not apply such sanctions in order to permit U.S. compliance with the Agreement between the United Nations and the United States of America regarding the Headquarters of the United Nations and other international agreements; and (2) waive such sanctions if in the U.S. national interest.

Terminates sanctions upon presidential certification to Congress that the government of Iran has: (1) released all political prisoners; (2) ceased its practices of violence and abuse of Iranian citizens engaging in peaceful political activity; and (3) conducted a transparent investigation into the killings and abuse of peaceful political activists in Iran and prosecuted those individuals responsible.

What's happening now April 26, 2010

Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.

 Related & companion bills 2
  • HR 4649 Related bill Iran Human Rights Sanctions Act
  • S 3022 Related bill Iran Human Rights Sanctions Act
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 6
 Cosponsors 9
All 9 Democratic 9
D
Costa, Jim
California · Apr 22, 2010
 D
Titus, Dina
Nevada · Mar 24, 2010
 D
Sánchez, Linda T.
California · Mar 17, 2010
 D
Nadler, Jerrold
New York · Mar 16, 2010
 D
Peters, Gary C.
Michigan · Mar 16, 2010
 D
Quigley, Mike
Illinois · Mar 16, 2010
 D
Schakowsky, Janice D.
Illinois · Mar 16, 2010
 D
Johnson, Henry C. "Hank"
Georgia · Mar 2, 2010
 D
McGovern, James P.
Massachusetts · Mar 2, 2010
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4647: Iran Human Rights Sanctions Act. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-4647/
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