Sec. 201. Imposition of sanctions with respect to affiliated networks of Hizballah for transnational criminal activities
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It is the policy of the United States to determine if individuals and entities that are designated by the United States Government on or after the date of the enactment of this Act as being associated with Hizballah are engaged in transnational organized crime or related activities on or after such date of enactment. Section 201 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, on or after the date of the enactment of the Hizballah International Financing Prevention Amendments Act of 2018, impose the sanctions described in subsection
(b)with respect to affiliated networks of Hizballah, including, as appropriate, by reason of significant transnational criminal activities engaged in by such networks. The sanctions described in this subsection are sanctions applicable with respect to Hizballah pursuant to any provision of law, including Executive Order 13581 ( 50 U.S.C. 1701 note; relating to blocking property of transnational criminal organizations) (as such Executive Order was in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of the Hizballah International Financing Prevention Amendments Act of 2018). The President may, for periods not to exceed 180 days, waive the imposition of sanctions under this section if the President certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that such waiver is in the national security interests of the United States. In this section: The term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Ways and Means, the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Financial Services, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives; and the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, the Committee on Appropriations, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate. The term Hizballah has the meaning given such term in section 102(e). . The title heading for title II of the Hizballah International Financing Prevention Act of 2015 is amended to read as follows: . The table of contents for the Hizballah International Financing Prevention Act of 2015 is amended— by striking the item relating to title II and inserting the following: TITLE II—Sanctions and reports relating to narcotics trafficking and significant transnational criminal activities of Hizballah ; and by striking the item relating to section 201 and inserting the following: Sec. 201. Imposition of sanctions with respect to affiliated networks of Hizballah for transnational criminal activities. .
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Imposition of sanctions with respect to affiliated networks of Hizballah for transnational criminal activities
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