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S.269 - Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act of 2015114th Congress (2015-2016) |
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| Sponsor: | Sen. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL] (Introduced 01/27/2015) |
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| Committees: | Senate - Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs |
| Latest Action: | 01/27/2015 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. |
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[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
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[S. 269 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
114th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 269
To expand sanctions imposed with respect to Iran and to impose
additional sanctions with respect to Iran, and for other purposes.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
January 27, 2015
Mr. Kirk (for himself, Mr. Menendez, Mr. McConnell, Mr. Schumer, Ms.
Ayotte, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Coats, Mr. Peters, Mr. Rubio, Mr. Manchin,
Mr. Graham, Mr. Donnelly, Mr. Cruz, Mr. Casey, Mr. Burr, and Mr. Blunt)
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
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A BILL
To expand sanctions imposed with respect to Iran and to impose
additional sanctions with respect to Iran, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Nuclear Weapon
Free Iran Act of 2015''.
(b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as
follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Definitions.
Sec. 3. Sense of Congress.
TITLE I--CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW OF AGREEMENTS WITH, ECONOMIC SANCTIONS
RELIEF PROVIDED TO, IRAN
Sec. 101. Transmission to Congress of agreements with Iran and
assessment reports with respect to such
agreements.
Sec. 102. Period for review by Congress of long-term comprehensive
solution.
TITLE II--EXPANSION AND IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS
Sec. 201. Effective dates for staged imposition of sanctions if long-
term comprehensive solution not reached.
Sec. 202. Termination of suspension of sanctions.
Sec. 203. Applicability of sanctions with respect to petroleum
transactions.
Sec. 204. Ineligibility for exception to certain sanctions for
countries that do not reduce purchases of
petroleum from Iran or of Iranian origin to
a de minimis level.
Sec. 205. Identification of, and imposition of sanctions with respect
to, certain Iranian individuals.
Sec. 206. Imposition of sanctions with respect to transactions in
foreign currencies with or for certain
sanctioned persons.
Sec. 207. Imposition of sanctions with respect to ports, special
economic zones, and strategic sectors of
Iran.
Sec. 208. Waiver of sanctions.
TITLE III--GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 301. Exception for Afghanistan reconstruction.
Sec. 302. Exception for import restrictions.
Sec. 303. Applicability to certain intelligence activities.
Sec. 304. Applicability to certain natural gas projects.
Sec. 305. Rule of construction with respect to the use of force against
Iran.
Sec. 306. Sense of Congress on increased staffing for agencies involved
in the implementation and enforcement of
sanctions against Iran.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term
``appropriate congressional committees'' has the meaning given
that term in section 14 of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996
(Public Law 104-172; 50 U.S.C. 1701 note).
(2) Joint plan of action.--The term ``Joint Plan of
Action''--
(A) means the Joint Plan of Action, signed at
Geneva November 24, 2013, by Iran and the P5-plus-1
countries; and
(B) includes all implementing materials and
agreements related to the Joint Plan of Action,
including the technical understandings reached on
January 12, 2014, the extension agreed to on July 19,
2014, the extension agreed to on November 24, 2014, and
any extension that is agreed to on or after the date of
the enactment of this Act and is transmitted to the
appropriate congressional committees pursuant to
section 101.
(3) Long-term comprehensive solution.--The term ``long-term
comprehensive solution'' means any comprehensive agreement,
including a framework agreement or political agreement,
regarding the nuclear program of Iran as described in the Joint
Plan of Action, without regard to whether or not one or more
countries other than the United States and Iran are parties to
the agreement, and all implementing materials and technical
understandings related to that comprehensive agreement.
(4) P5-plus-1 countries.--The term ``P5-plus-1 countries''
means the United States, France, the Russian Federation, the
People's Republic of China, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS.
It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) it is the policy of the United States that the
Government of Iran will not be allowed to develop or otherwise
acquire a nuclear weapon capability;
(2) all instruments of power and influence of the United
States should remain on the table to prevent the Government of
Iran from developing or otherwise acquiring a nuclear weapon
capability;
(3) a long-term comprehensive solution with Iran will be
most sustainable over the long term if the President consults
and coordinates closely with Congress to implement a strategy
that decisively ends any nuclear threat from Iran;
(4) the Government of Iran does not have an absolute or
inherent right to enrichment and reprocessing capabilities and
technologies under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of
Nuclear Weapons, done at Washington, London, and Moscow July 1,
1968, and entered into force March 5, 1970 (commonly referred
to as the ``Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty'');
(5) the goal of international negotiations with Iran, led
by the United States, should be to conclude a long-term
comprehensive solution with parameters that will--
(A) reverse the development of Iran's illicit
nuclear infrastructure, including enrichment and
reprocessing capabilities and facilities, the heavy
water reactor and production plant at Arak, and any
nuclear weapon components and technology, such that
Iran is precluded from a nuclear breakout capability
and prevented from pursuing both uranium and plutonium
pathways to a nuclear weapon;
(B) bring Iran into compliance with all United
Nations Security Council resolutions related to Iran's
nuclear program, including Resolutions 1696 (2006),
1737 (2006), 1747 (2007), 1803 (2008), 1835 (2008), and
1929 (2010), with a view toward bringing to a
satisfactory conclusion the Security Council's
consideration of matters relating to the nuclear
program of Iran;
(C) resolve all issues of past and present concern
with the International Atomic Energy Agency, including
possible military dimensions of the nuclear program of
Iran, and give inspectors access to personnel,
documents, and facilities involved, at any point, with
nuclear or nuclear weapons-related activities of Iran;
(D) permit on-site and short-notice inspection,
verification, and monitoring of all declared and
suspect facilities in Iran, including installation and
use of any compliance verification equipment requested
by the International Atomic Energy Agency, such that
any effort by Iran to produce a nuclear weapon will be
quickly detected;
(E) require that Iran fully implement and comply
with--
(i) the Agreement between Iran and the
International Atomic Energy Agency for the
Application of Safeguards in Connection with
the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear
Weapons, done at Vienna June 19, 1973 (commonly
referred to as the ``Comprehensive Safeguards
Agreement'');
(ii) modified Code 3.1 of the Subsidiary
Arrangements to the Agreement between Iran and
the International Atomic Energy Agency for the
Application of Safeguards in Connection with
the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear
Weapons; and
(iii) ratification and implementation of
the Protocol Additional to the Agreement
between Iran and the International Atomic
Energy Agency for the Application of Safeguards
in Connection with the Treaty on the Non-
Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, done at
Vienna December 18, 2003 (commonly referred to
as the ``Additional Protocol''); and
(F) require that Iran implement measures in
addition to the Additional Protocol that include
verification by the International Atomic Energy Agency
of Iran's centrifuge research, development, and
manufacturing facilities, including raw materials and
components, and Iran's uranium mines, mills, and
processing facilities;
(6) the United States should continue to impose sanctions
on the Government of Iran and its proxies for their continuing
sponsorship of terrorism;
(7) the United States should continue to impose sanctions
on the Government of Iran and Iranian persons for--
(A) ongoing abuses of human rights; and
(B) actions in support of the regime of Bashar al-
Assad in Syria; and
(8) the United States should continue to impose sanctions
on the Government of Iran and other governments and persons for
the procurement, sale, or transfer of technology, services, or
goods that support the development or acquisition of weapons of
mass destruction or the means of delivery of those weapons.
TITLE I--CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW OF AGREEMENTS WITH, ECONOMIC SANCTIONS
RELIEF PROVIDED TO, IRAN
SEC. 101. TRANSMISSION TO CONGRESS OF AGREEMENTS WITH IRAN AND
ASSESSMENT REPORTS WITH RESPECT TO SUCH AGREEMENTS.
(a) Transmission of Agreements.--Not later than 5 days after
entering into a long-term comprehensive solution or any agreement to
extend the Joint Plan of Action entered into after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the President shall transmit to the appropriate
congressional committees--
(1) the text of the agreement;
(2) a verification assessment report of the Secretary of
State prepared under subsection (b) with respect to the
agreement; and
(3) an economic sanctions relief assessment report of the
Secretary of the Treasury prepared under subsection (c) with
respect to the agreement.
(b) Verification Assessment Report.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary of State shall, in
consultation with the Director of National Intelligence,
prepare, with respect to each agreement described in subsection
(a), a report assessing the extent to which the Secretary will
be able to verify that Iran is complying with its obligations
under the agreement.
(2) Assumptions.--In preparing a report under paragraph (1)
with respect to an agreement described in subsection (a), the
Secretary shall assume that Iran could--
(A) use all measures not expressly prohibited by
the agreement to conceal activities that violate its
obligations under the agreement; and
(B) alter or deviate from standard practices in
order to impede efforts to verify that Iran is
complying with those obligations.
(c) Economic Sanctions Relief Assessment Report.--The Secretary of
the Treasury shall, in consultation with the Director of National
Intelligence, prepare, with respect to each agreement described in
subsection (a), a report assessing the extent to which the economy of
Iran--
(1) has, as of the date of the report, directly and
indirectly benefited from sanctions relief pursuant to the
Joint Plan of Action; and
(2) is likely, over the course of the agreement, to
directly and indirectly benefit from proposed sanctions relief,
including enhanced trade and market opportunities, pursuant to
the agreement.
(d) Form of Reports.--Each report under subsection (b) or (c) shall
be transmitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified
annex.
