To prohibit the President from waiving, suspending, reducing, providing relief from, or otherwise limiting the application of sanctions pursuant to an agreement related to the nuclear program of Iran.

SA 2656. Mr. McCONNELL (for himself, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Perdue, Mr.
Blunt, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Boozman, Mr. Toomey, Mr. Rubio, Mrs. Ernst, Mr.
McCain, Mr. Hatch, Mr. Lee, Mr. Isakson, Mr. Rounds, Mr. Scott, Mr.
Vitter, Mrs. Fischer, Mr. Kirk, Mr. Moran, Mr. Cochran, Mr. Barrasso,
Mr. Corker, Mr. Shelby, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Tillis, Mrs.
Capito, Mr. Coats, and Mr. Cruz) submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed to amendment SA 2640 proposed by Mr. McConnell to the joint
resolution H.J. Res. 61, amending the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to
exempt employees with health coverage under TRICARE or the Veterans
Administration from being taken into account for purposes of
determining the employers to which the employer mandate applies under
the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; as follows:

Strike line 3 and all that follows and insert the
following:

SECTION 1. REMOVAL OF AUTHORITY TO WAIVE, SUSPEND, REDUCE,
PROVIDE RELIEF FROM, OR OTHERWISE LIMIT THE
APPLICATION OF SANCTIONS PURSUANT TO AN
AGREEMENT RELATED TO THE NUCLEAR PROGRAM OF
IRAN.

(a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, the President may not--
(1) waive, suspend, reduce, provide relief from, or
otherwise limit the application of sanctions described in
subsection (b) or refrain from applying any such sanctions;
or
(2) remove a foreign person listed in Attachment 3 or
Attachment 4 to Annex II of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of
Action from the list of specially designated nationals and
blocked persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Asset
Control of the Department of the Treasury.
(b) Sanctions Described.--The sanctions described in this
subsection are--
(1) the sanctions described in sections 4 through 7.9 of
Annex II of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action; and
(2) the sanctions described in any other agreement related
to the nuclear program of Iran that includes the United
States, commits the United States to take action, or pursuant
to which the United States commits or otherwise agrees to
take action, regardless of the form it takes, whether a
political commitment or otherwise, and regardless of whether
it is legally binding.
(c) Exception.--The prohibitions under subsection (a) shall
not apply if the Islamic Republic of Iran--
(1) has released Jason Rezaian, Robert Levinson, Saeed
Abedini, and Amir Hekmati to the custody of the United
States; and
(2) formally recognizes the State of Israel as a sovereign
and independent state.
(d) Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Defined.--In this
section, the term ``Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action''
means the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, signed at
Vienna on July 14, 2015, by Iran and by the People's Republic
of China, France, Germany, the Russian Federation, the United
Kingdom and the United States, with the High Representative
of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security
Policy, and all implementing materials and agreements related
to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
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