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Burma Human Rights and Freedom Act of 2018

Introduced: November 2, 2017 See on congress.gov

Everywhere this bill has been 5 steps

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Became law

Feb 12, 2018

Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 307.

Feb 12, 2018

Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Corker with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.

Feb 7, 2018

Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.

Nov 2, 2017

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

Nov 2, 2017

Introduced in Senate

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Burma Human Rights and Freedom Act of 2017

This bill authorizes assistance to victims of the military's ethnic cleansing campaign targeting the Rohingya people in Rakhine State, Burma (Myanmar), as well as technical assistance to investigate and prosecute crimes related to ethnic cleansing in Rakhine State.

The bill imposes restrictions on international financial institution assistance, security cooperation, and trade. It calls on the President to determine whether specified individuals should be included in the list of specially designated nationals and blocked persons maintained by the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control.

The Departments of State and the Treasury and the U.S. Agency for International Development shall submit to Congress an assistance strategy to promote broad-based economic development in Burma.

What's happening now February 12, 2018

Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 307.

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