Protecting Europe’s Energy Security Clarification Act of 2020

Protecting Europe's Energy Security Clarification Act of 2020

This bill expands existing sanctions on foreign individuals and entities that engage in certain activities relating to the construction of the Nord Stream 2 and TurkStream energy pipelines.

Current law generally imposes visa- and property-blocking sanctions on foreign individuals and entities that knowingly took actions such as selling or leasing vessels that engaged in pipe laying related to the pipelines. Under this bill, the President shall also impose sanctions on foreign individuals and entities that engage in other specified activities, such as (1) providing underwriting services or insurance for such vessels, or (2) installing welding equipment for such vessels.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7361 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7361

    To clarify and expand sanctions applicable with respect to the 
   construction of the Nord Stream 2 or TurkStream pipeline projects.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 25, 2020

Mr. Kinzinger (for himself, Mr. Turner, Mr. Gallego, Ms. Stefanik, Mr. 
  Heck, Mr. Womack, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Bishop of Utah, and Ms. Kaptur) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for 
a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
    To clarify and expand sanctions applicable with respect to the 
   construction of the Nord Stream 2 or TurkStream pipeline projects.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting Europe's Energy Security 
Clarification Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION AND EXPANSION OF SANCTIONS RELATING TO 
              CONSTRUCTION OF NORD STREAM 2 OR TURKSTREAM PIPELINE 
              PROJECTS.

    (a) In General.--Subsection (a)(1) of section 7503 of the 
Protecting Europe's Energy Security Act of 2019 (title LXXV of Public 
Law 116-92; 22 U.S.C. 9526 note) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``or pipelaying 
        activities'' after ``pipe-laying''; and
            (2) in subparagraph (B)--
                    (A) in clause (i)--
                            (i) by inserting ``, or facilitated the 
                        sale, lease, or provision of,'' after 
                        ``provided''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``; or'' and inserting a 
                        semicolon;
                    (B) in clause (ii), by striking the period at the 
                end and inserting a semicolon; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(iii) provided underwriting services or 
                        insurance or reinsurance for those vessels; or
                            ``(iv) provided services or facilities for 
                        technology upgrades or installation of welding 
                        equipment for, or retrofitting or tethering of, 
                        those vessels.''.
    (b) Definitions.--Subsection (i) of such section is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph (6); and
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following:
            ``(5) Pipe-laying activities.--The term `pipe-laying 
        activities' means activities that facilitate pipe-laying, 
        including site preparation, trenching, surveying, placing 
        rocks, stringing, bending, welding, coating, lowering of pipe, 
        and backfilling.''.
    (c) Interim Report Required.--
            (1) In general.--As soon as practicable and not later than 
        90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
        Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of the 
        Treasury, shall submit a report on the matters required by 
        subsection (a) of section 7503 of the Protecting Europe's 
        Energy Security Act of 2019 (22 U.S.C. 9526 note), as amended 
        by this section, with respect to the period--
                    (A) beginning on the later of--
                            (i) the date of the enactment of this Act; 
                        or
                            (ii) the date of the most recent submission 
                        of a report required by such section 7503; and
                    (B) ending on the date on which the report required 
                by this subparagraph is submitted.
            (2) Treatment.--A report submitted pursuant to paragraph 
        (1) shall be--
                    (A) submitted to the same committees as a report 
                submitted under subsection (a) of such section 7503; 
                and
                    (B) otherwise treated as a report submitted under 
                such subsection (a) for purposes of all authorities 
                granted by such section pursuant to such a report.
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