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Code · BILL · 119th Congress · H.R. 1422 (Engrossed in House) — To impose sanctions with respect to persons engaged in significant transactions related or incidental to the processi... · Sec. 5

Sec. 5. Definitions

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In this Act: The terms admitted and alien have the meanings given those terms in section 101(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1101(a) ). The term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate; and the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives.
The term foreign person means a person that is not a United States person, including the government of a foreign country. The term knowingly , with respect to conduct, a circumstance, or a result, means that a person has actual knowledge, or should have known, of the conduct, the circumstance, or the result. The terms property and interest in property have the meanings given the terms property and property interest , respectively, in section 560.325 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, as in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act.
The term United States person means any United States citizen, permanent resident alien, entity organized under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within the United States (including foreign branches), or any person in the United States.
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