Sec. 101. Mandatory sanctions with respect to fundraising and recruitment activities for Hizballah
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Section 101 of the Hizballah International Financing Prevention Act of 2015 ( Public Law 114–102 ; 50 U.S.C. 1701 note) is amended to read as follows: The President shall impose the sanctions described in subsection
(b)with respect to any foreign person that the President determines knowingly assists, sponsors, or, provides significant financial, material, or technological support for— Bayt al-Mal, Jihad al-Bina, the Islamic Resistance Support Association, the Foreign Relations Department of Hizballah, the External Security Organization of Hizballah, or any successor or affiliate thereof; al-Manar TV, al Nour Radio, or the Lebanese Media Group, or any successor or affiliate thereof; a foreign person determined by the President to be engaged in fundraising or recruitment activities for Hizballah; or a foreign person owned or controlled by a foreign person described in paragraph (1), (2), or (3). The sanctions described in this subsection are the following: The exercise of all powers granted to the President by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ( 50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (except that the requirements of section 202 of such Act ( 50 U.S.C. 1701 ) shall not apply) to the extent necessary to block and prohibit all transactions in all property and interests in property of a foreign person determined by the President to be subject to subsection
(a)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. An alien who the President determines is subject to subsection
(a)is— inadmissible to the United States; ineligible to receive a visa or other documentation to enter the United States; and 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.). The issuing consular officer, the Secretary of State, or the Secretary of Homeland Security shall revoke any visa or other entry documentation issued to an alien who the President determines is subject to subsection (a), regardless of when issued. A revocation under subclause
(I)shall take effect immediately and shall automatically cancel any other valid visa or entry documentation that is in the possession of the alien. The penalties provided for in subsections
(b)and
(c)of section 206 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ( 50 U.S.C. 1705 ) shall apply to a person that violates, attempts to violate, conspires to violate, or causes a violation of regulations prescribed under paragraph (1)(A) to the same extent that such penalties apply to a person that commits an unlawful act described in subsection
(a)of such section 206. The President may exercise all authorities provided under sections 203 and 205 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ( 50 U.S.C. 1702 and 1704) to carry out this section. The President may, for periods not to exceed 180 days, waive the imposition of sanctions under this section with respect to a foreign person or foreign persons if the President certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that such waiver is in the national security interests of the United States. Before a waiver under paragraph
(1)takes effect with respect to a foreign person, the President shall notify and brief the appropriate congressional committees on the status of the involvement of the foreign person in activities described in subsection (a). Not later than 90 days after the issuance of a waiver under paragraph
(1)with respect to a foreign person, and every 120 days thereafter while the waiver remains in effect, the President shall brief the appropriate congressional committees on the status of the involvement of the foreign person in activities described in subsection (a). Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of the Hizballah International Financing Prevention Amendments Act of 2017 , and every 180 days thereafter, the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that lists the foreign persons that the President has credible evidence knowingly assists, sponsors, or provides significant financial, material, or technological support for the foreign persons described in paragraph (1), (2), (3), or
(4)of subsection (a). In this section: The terms admitted and alien have meanings given those terms in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1101 ). The term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Ways and Means, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives; and the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate. The term entity means a partnership, association, corporation, or other organization, group, or subgroup. The term fundraising or recruitment activities includes online fundraising and other online commercial activities, or other means of such fundraising, recruitment, and retention, as determined by the President. The term Hizballah has the meaning given such term in section 102(f). The term person means an individual or entity. The term United States person means a United States citizen, permanent resident alien, entity organized under the laws of the United States (including foreign branches), or a person in the United States. . The table of contents for the Hizballah International Financing Prevention Act of 2015 is amended by striking the item relating to section 101 and inserting the following new item: Sec. 101. Mandatory sanctions with respect to fundraising and recruitment activities for Hizballah. .
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