S.Amdt. 5776

SA 5776. Mr. CRUZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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 F of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1276. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO ANSARALLAH.

(a) In General.--Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall--

(1) designate Ansarallah as a foreign terrorist organization pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189); and

(2) impose, with respect to Ansarallah and any foreign person the President determines is an official, agent, or affiliate of Ansarallah, the sanctions applicable with respect to a foreign person pursuant to Executive Order 13224 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note; relating to blocking property and prohibiting transactions with persons who commit, threaten to commit, or support terrorism).

(b) Determination Required.--Not later than 30 days after the President makes the designation required by paragraph (1) of subsection (a) and imposes the sanctions required by paragraph (2) of that subsection, the President shall submit to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives a determination regarding whether the following foreign persons are officials, agents, or affiliates of Ansarallah:

(1) Abdul Malik al-Houthi.

(2) Abd al-Khaliq Badr al-Din al-Houthi.

(3) Abdullah Yahya al-Hakim.

(c) Ansarallah Defined.--In this section, the term “Ansarallah” means the movement known as Ansarallah, the Houthi movement, or any other alias.