S.Amdt. 4500

SA 4500. Mr. RISCH (for himself, Mr. Portman, Mr. Cruz, Mr. Barrasso,
Mr. Johnson, and Mr. Cotton) submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be
proposed to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal
year 2022 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for
military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of
Energy, 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 D of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1237. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO NORD
STREAM 2.

(a) Imposition of Sanctions.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 15 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the President shall--
(A) impose sanctions under paragraph (2) with respect to--
(i) any entity responsible for planning, construction, or
operation of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline or a successor
entity; and
(ii) any other corporate officer of or principal
shareholder with a controlling interest in an entity
described in clause (i); and

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(B) impose sanctions under paragraph (3) with respect to
any entity responsible for planning, construction, or
operation of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline or a successor
entity.
(2) Ineligibility for visas, admission, or parole of
identified persons and corporate officers.--
(A) In general.--
(i) Visas, admission, or parole.--An alien described in
paragraph (1)(A) is--

(I) inadmissible to the United States;
(II) ineligible to receive a visa or other documentation to
enter the United States; and
(III) otherwise ineligible to be admitted or paroled into
the United States or to receive any other benefit under the
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.).

(ii) Current visas revoked.--

(I) In general.--The visa or other entry documentation of
an alien described in paragraph (1)(A) shall be revoked,
regardless of when such visa or other entry documentation is
or was issued.
(II) Immediate effect.--A revocation under subclause (I)
shall--

(aa) take effect immediately; and
(bb) automatically cancel any other valid visa or entry
documentation that is in the alien's possession.
(3) Blocking of property of identified persons.--The
President shall exercise all powers granted to the President
by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C.
1701 et seq.) to the extent necessary to block and prohibit
all transactions in all property and interests in property of
an entity described in paragraph (1)(B) if such property and
interests in property are in the United States, come within
the United States, or are or come within the possession or
control of a United States person.
(4) Implementation; penalties.--
(A) Implementation.--The President may exercise all
authorities provided to the President under sections 203 and
205 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50
U.S.C. 1702 and 1704) to carry out this subsection.
(B) Penalties.--A person that violates, attempts to
violate, conspires to violate, or causes a violation of this
subsection or any regulation, license, or order issued to
carry out this subsection shall be subject to the penalties
set forth in subsections (b) and (c) of section 206 of the
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705)
to the same extent as a person that commits an unlawful act
described in subsection (a) of that section.
(5) Exceptions.--
(A) Exception for intelligence, law enforcement, and
national security activities.--Sanctions under this
subsection shall not apply to any authorized intelligence,
law enforcement, or national security activities of the
United States.
(B) Exception to comply with united nations headquarters
agreement.--Sanctions under this subsection shall not apply
with respect to the admission of an alien to the United
States if the admission of the alien is necessary to permit
the United States to comply with the Agreement regarding the
Headquarters of the United Nations, signed at Lake Success
June 26, 1947, and entered into force November 21, 1947,
between the United Nations and the United States, the
Convention on Consular Relations, done at Vienna April 24,
1963, and entered into force March 19, 1967, or other
applicable international obligations.
(C) Exception relating to importation of goods.--
(i) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of
this subsection, the authorities and requirements to impose
sanctions under this subsection shall not include the
authority or a requirement to impose sanctions on the
importation of goods.
(ii) Good defined.--In this subparagraph, the term ``good''
means any article, natural or man-made substance, material,
supply or manufactured product, including inspection and test
equipment, and excluding technical data.
(6) Sunset.--The authority to impose sanctions under this
subsection shall terminate on the date that is 5 years after
the date of the enactment of this Act.
(7) Definitions.--In this subsection:
(A) Admission; admitted; alien.--The terms ``admission'',
``admitted'', and ``alien'' have the meanings given those
terms in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act
(8 U.S.C. 1101).
(B) United states person.--The term ``United States
person'' means--
(i) a United States citizen or an alien lawfully admitted
for permanent residence to the United States;
(ii) an entity organized under the laws of the United
States or any jurisdiction within the United States,
including a foreign branch of such an entity; or
(iii) any person within the United States.
(b) Repeal of National Interest Waiver Under Protecting
Europe's Energy Security Act of 2019.--Section 7503 of the
Protecting Europe's Energy Security Act of 2019 (title LXXV
of Public Law 116-92; 22 U.S.C. 9526 note) is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)(1)(C), by striking ``subsection (i)''
and inserting ``subsection (h)'';
(2) by striking subsection (f);
(3) by redesignating subsections (g) through (k) as
subsections (f) through (j), respectively; and
(4) in subsection (i), as redesignated by paragraph (3), by
striking ``subsection (h)'' and inserting ``subsection (g)''.
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