Sec. 6448. Report on all comprehensive sanctions imposed on foreign governments
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Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States, in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the head of any other relevant Federal department or agency that the Comptroller General determines necessary, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on all comprehensive sanctions imposed on de jure or de facto governments of foreign countries, and all comprehensive sanctions imposed on non-state actors that exercise significant de facto governmental control over a foreign civilian population, under any provision of law. The report required by subsection
(a)shall include— an assessment of the effect of sanctions imposed on the government of each foreign country and each non-state actor that exercises significant de facto governmental control over a foreign civilian population described in subsection
(a)on— the ability of civilian population of the country to access water, food, sanitation, and public health services, including all humanitarian aid and supplies related to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of COVID–19; the changes to the general mortality rate, maternal mortality rate, life expectancy, and literacy; the extent to which there is an increase in refugees or migration to or from the country or an increase in internally displaced people in the country; the degree of international compliance and non-compliance of the country; and the licensing of transactions to allow access to essential goods and services to vulnerable populations, including the number of licenses applied for, approved, or denied and reasons why such licenses were denied, and average time to receive a decision; and a description of the purpose of sanctions imposed on the government of each foreign country and each non-state actor that exercises significant de facto governmental control over a foreign civilian population described in subsection
(a)and the required legal or political authority, including— an assessment of United States national security; an assessment of whether the stated foreign policy goals of the sanctions are being met; the degree of international support or opposition to the sanctions; and an assessment of such sanctions on United States businesses, consumers, and financial institutions. The report required by subsection
(a)shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a classified annex. The unclassified portion of the report shall be published on a publicly-available website of the Government of the United States. In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Financial Services, and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives; and the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and the Committee on Finance of the Senate.