S.Amdt. 1759

SA 1759. Mr. KIRK submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities
of the Department of Defense and for military construction, to
prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle C of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1242. REPORT ON USE BY IRAN OF FUNDS MADE AVAILABLE
THROUGH SANCTIONS RELIEF.

(a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, and every 180 days thereafter, the
Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Director
of National Intelligence, shall submit to the appropriate
congressional committees a report assessing the following:
(1) The monetary value of any direct or indirect forms of
sanctions relief that Iran has received since the Joint Plan
of Action first entered into effect.

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(2) How Iran has used funds made available through
sanctions relief, including the extent to which any such
funds have facilitated the ability of Iran--
(A) to provide support for--
(i) any individual or entity designated for the imposition
of sanctions for activities relating to international
terrorism pursuant to an Executive order or by the Office of
Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury on
or before the enactment of this Act;
(ii) any organization designated by the Secretary of State
as a foreign terrorist organization under section 219(a) of
the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189(a)) on or
before the enactment of this Act; or
(iii) any other terrorist organization, including Hamas,
Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or the regime of Bashar
al-Assad in Syria;
(B) to advance the efforts of Iran or any other country to
develop nuclear weapons or ballistic missiles overtly or
covertly; or
(C) to commit any violation of the human rights of the
people of Iran.
(3) The extent to which any senior officials of the
Government of Iran have diverted any funds from sanctions
relief into their personal accounts.
(b) Form of Reports.--Each report required by subsection
(a) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include
a classified annex.
(c) Definitions.--In this section:
(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'' means the Joint Plan of Action, signed at Geneva
November 24, 2013, by Iran and by France, Germany, the
Russian Federation, the People's Republic of China, the
United Kingdom, and the United States, and all implementing
materials and agreements related to the Joint Plan of Action,
including the technical understandings reached on January 12,
2014, the extension thereto agreed to on July 18, 2014, and
the extension thereto agreed to on November 24, 2014.
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