Corruption, Overthrowing Rule of Law, and Ruining Ukraine: Putin's Trifecta Act or CORRUPT Act
This bill requires the President to report to Congress, within 30 days of this bill's enactment, a determination as to whether specified Russian persons meet the criteria to be subject to sanctions under laws that authorize sanctions relating to corruption or human rights violations.
Russian persons specified in this bill include businessperson Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich, Minister of Health Mikhail Albertovich Murashko, and First Deputy Premier Andrey Removich Belousov.
[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6846 Introduced in House (IH)]
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117th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 6846
To require a review of sanctions with respect to Russian kleptocrats
and human rights abusers.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 25, 2022
Mr. Malinowski (for himself, Mr. Keating, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Cohen,
Ms. Salazar, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Meijer, Mr. Allred, Mr. Hudson, Mr.
Veasey, Mr. Hill, Ms. Spanberger, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Mr.
Cicilline, Mr. Kinzinger, and Mr. Lieu) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
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A BILL
To require a review of sanctions with respect to Russian kleptocrats
and human rights abusers.
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 ``Corruption, Overthrowing Rule of
Law, and Ruining Ukraine: Putin's Trifecta Act'' or ``CORRUPT Act''.
SEC. 2. REVIEW OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO RUSSIAN KLEPTOCRATS AND
HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSERS.
(a) Determination With Respect to Imposition of Sanctions.--Not
later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the
President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a
determination, including a detailed justification, of whether any
person listed in subsection (b) meets the criteria for the imposition
of sanctions under provisions of law that authorize the imposition of
sanctions relating to corruption or human rights violations.
(b) Persons Listed.--The persons listed in this subsection, which
include Russian persons and current and former Russian government
officials, are the following:
(1) Roman Abramovich, businessman.
(2) Denis Bortnikov, Deputy President and Chairman of the
Management Board of VTB Bank.
(3) Andrey Kostin, President and Chairman of the Management
Board of VTB Bank.
(4) Dmitry Patrushev, Minister of Agriculture.
(5) Igor Shuvalov, Chairman of the State Development
Corporation VEB.
(6) Alisher Usmanov, businessman.
(7) Oleg Deripaska, businessman.
(8) Alexei Miller, Chairman of the Management Committee of
Gazprom.
(9) Igor Sechin, Chairman of the Management Board of
Rosneft.
(10) Gennady Timchenko, businessman.
(11) Nikolai Tokarev, Chairman of Transneft.
(12) Andrey Vorobyev, Governor of the Moscow Region XIII.
(13) Mikhail Murashko, Minister of Health.
(14) Vladimir Solovyev, media personality.
(15) Alexander Bastrykin, Head of the Investigative
Committee.
(16) Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the Federal Security
Service (FSB).
(17) Konstantin Ernst, Chief Executive Officer of Channel
One TV station.
(18) Victor Gavrilov, Head of the Department of Transport
of the Economic Security Service.
(19) Dmitry Ivanov, Head of Chelyabinsk FSB.
(20) Alexander Kalashnikov, Director of the Federal
Penitentiary Service (FSIN).
(21) Sergei Kirienko, First Deputy Head of the Presidential
Administration.
(22) Elena Morozova, Judge of Khimki District Court.
(23) Denis Popov, Chief Prosecutor of Moscow.
(24) Margarita Simonyan, Editor-in-Chief of RT.
(25) Igor Yanchuk, Head of the Khimki Police Department.
(26) Victor Zolotov, Director of the National Guard.
(27) Alexander Beglov, Governor of St. Petersburg.
(28) Yuri Chaika, former Prosecutor General.
(29) Andrei Kartapolov, Deputy Defense Minister.
(30) Pavel Krasheninnikov, Parliamentarian and former
Justice Minister.
(31) Mikhail Mishustin, Prime Minister of Russia.
(32) Ella Pamfilova, Head of Central Electoral Commission.
(33) Dmitry Peskov, Presidential Press Secretary.
(34) Sergei Sobyanin, Mayor of Moscow.
(35) Anton Vaino, Head of the Presidential Administration.
(c) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--In this section,
the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
(1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on
Financial Services of the House of Representatives; and
(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Mr. Malinowski moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7895-7898)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6846.
At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 1361, proceedings on H.R. 6846 are considered vacated.
Passed/agreed to in House: Pursuant to section 2 of H. Res. 1361, and the motion offered by Mr. Hoyer, the following bills passed under suspension of the rules: H.R. 1433, as amended; H.R. 4009, as amended; H.R. 4358, as amended; H.R. 6265; H.R. 6846, as amended; H.R. 7240, as amended; H.R. 7338, as amended; H.R. 8453, as amended; H.R. 8503, as amended; and H.R. 8520, as amended; and the following resolution was agreed to under suspension of the rules: H. Res. 558, as amended.
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Pursuant to section 2 of H. Res. 1361, and the motion offered by Mr. Hoyer, the following bills passed under suspension of the rules: H.R. 1433, as amended; H.R. 4009, as amended; H.R. 4358, as amended; H.R. 6265; H.R. 6846, as amended; H.R. 7240, as amended; H.R. 7338, as amended; H.R. 8453, as amended; H.R. 8503, as amended; and H.R. 8520, as amended; and the following resolution was agreed to under suspension of the rules: H. Res. 558, as amended. (consideration: CR H7984-7992; text: CR H7985-7986)
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.