HR 1692 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

Sudan Peace, Security, and Accountability Act of 2013

Introduced Apr 24, 2013 Originated House Sponsor James P. McGovern D-MA

Latest action · Jun 14, 2013 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.

Progress

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IntroducedApr 24, 2013
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Sudan Peace, Security, and Accountability Act of 2013 - Directs the President to develop and transmit to Congress a comprehensive strategy to end serious human rights violations in Sudan and to promote comprehensive peace and democratic reform. Requires the strategy to include an interagency plan along with a description of the resources and additional personnel required for the diplomatic, economic, intelligence, and military activities to be undertaken to address and end human rights violations, strengthen democratic institutions, and expand democratic participation and governance, including capacity building of Sudanese civil society, political parties, and nongovernmental organizations seeking peaceful democratic change.

Requires a description of: (1) the options for expanding U.S. diplomatic engagement with countries with close political or economic relations with Sudan, including China, Russia, Qatar, Egypt, and other traditional allies and multilateral organizations; and (2) the manner in which sanctions against Sudan or Sudanese individuals will be more effectively enforced, including by providing adequate resources and personnel to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) within the Department of the Treasury, prioritizing the enforcement of Sudan sanctions within OFAC, and mandating increased collection of intelligence information on Sudanese targets of sanctions.

Directs the President to impose specified visa, development assistance, security assistance, property, credit, financial assistance, export, cultural, or scientific sanctions on any person or government that: (1) supported or assisted Sudan in the commission of serious human rights violations in Sudan, including by selling, leasing, or otherwise transferring military equipment to Sudan or providing property, goods, technology, services, or other support in the amount of $500,000 or more that directly and significantly contributes to Sudan committing or assisting in the commission of serious human rights violations; (2) is interfering or has interfered with the delivery of humanitarian aid to Sudan; (3) is impeding the peace process or threatening the stability of any part of Sudan or the region; or (4) failed to execute an International Criminal Court arrest warrant against any Sudanese official if such person or government had the jurisdictional authority to execute the warrant and failed to make the arrest without reasonable justification.

Prohibits the imposition of sanctions or other prohibitions on any government or person that is: (1) acting on behalf of the government of South Sudan in connection with the shipment or payment for oil from South Sudan or the advancement of peace between Sudan and South Sudan, or (2) providing humanitarian aid to Sudan.

Amends: (1) the Comprehensive Peace in Sudan Act of 2004 to make its asset and visa sanctions applicable to Sudan, and (2) the Darfur Peace and Accountability Act of 2006 to impose such sanctions on Janjaweed commanders and coordinators threatening peace and stability in Sudan.

Terminates sanctions upon certification by the President that specified conditions have been met.

Cosponsors 112

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 24, 2013 to Sep 9, 2014; 27 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
R-IL	Aaron Schock	Original	Apr 24, 2013
D-IN	André Carson	Original	Apr 24, 2013
D-CA	Barbara Lee	Original	Apr 24, 2013
D-MN	Betty McCollum	Original	Apr 24, 2013
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush	Original	Apr 24, 2013
D-CA	Brad Sherman	Original	Apr 24, 2013
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney	Original	Apr 24, 2013
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen	Original	Apr 24, 2013
D-RI	David N. Cicilline	Original	Apr 24, 2013
D-MD	Donna F. Edwards	Original	Apr 24, 2013
D-MA	Edward J. Markey	Original	Apr 24, 2013
R-VA	Frank R. Wolf	Original	Apr 24, 2013
D-WI	Gwen Moore	Original	Apr 24, 2013
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.	Original	Apr 24, 2013
D-VA	James P. Moran	Original	Apr 24, 2013
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky	Original	Apr 24, 2013
D-CO	Jared Polis	Original	Apr 24, 2013
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.	Original	Apr 24, 2013
D-CA	Karen Bass	Original	Apr 24, 2013
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano	Original	Apr 24, 2013
D-ME	Michael H. Michaud	Original	Apr 24, 2013
R-TX	Michael T. McCaul	Original	Apr 24, 2013
D-NC	Mike McIntyre	Original	Apr 24, 2013
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio	Original	Apr 24, 2013
D-VT	Peter Welch	Original	Apr 24, 2013
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva	Original	Apr 24, 2013
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay	Original	Apr 24, 2013
D-CA	Maxine Waters		Apr 25, 2013
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		Apr 25, 2013
D-NC	David E. Price		May 6, 2013
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		May 6, 2013
D-CA	Henry A. Waxman		May 6, 2013
D-CA	Janice Hahn		May 6, 2013
D-MA	John F. Tierney		May 6, 2013
D-CA	Lois Capps		May 6, 2013
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		May 6, 2013
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici		May 6, 2013
D-PA	Allyson Y. Schwartz		May 7, 2013
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		May 7, 2013
D-NJ	Rush Holt		May 9, 2013
D-TN	Steve Cohen		May 9, 2013
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne, Jr.		May 14, 2013
D-CT	James A. Himes		May 14, 2013
D-WA	Jim McDermott		May 14, 2013
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke		May 14, 2013
D-IN	Peter J. Visclosky		May 15, 2013
D-CT	Joe Courtney		May 16, 2013
D-CT	John B. Larson		May 16, 2013
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		May 22, 2013
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		May 22, 2013
D-GA	John Lewis		May 22, 2013
D-NY	Steve Israel		May 22, 2013
D-CA	Michael M. Honda		May 23, 2013
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Jun 3, 2013
D-MD	Steny H. Hoyer		Jun 11, 2013
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Jun 14, 2013
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Jun 18, 2013
I-AZ	Kyrsten Sinema		Jun 20, 2013
D-CA	Jared Huffman		Jun 25, 2013
D-CA	George Miller		Jun 27, 2013
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Jun 27, 2013
D-NY	Timothy H. Bishop		Jun 27, 2013
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Jun 27, 2013
D-CA	Juan Vargas		Jun 28, 2013
D-FL	Lois Frankel		Jun 28, 2013
D-TX	Beto O'Rourke		Jul 8, 2013
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		Jul 8, 2013
D-NM	Michelle Lujan Grisham		Jul 8, 2013
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch		Jul 8, 2013
D-NJ	Albio Sires		Jul 9, 2013
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly		Jul 9, 2013
D-WI	Mark Pocan		Jul 10, 2013
D-MA	Joseph P. Kennedy III		Jul 11, 2013
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith		Jul 17, 2013
R-PA	Joseph R. Pitts		Jul 19, 2013
D-OH	Joyce Beatty		Jul 19, 2013
D-IL	Bradley Scott Schneider		Jul 22, 2013
R-CA	Dana Rohrabacher		Jul 22, 2013
R-NC	Mark Meadows		Jul 22, 2013
R-VA	Robert J. Wittman		Jul 22, 2013
D-NY	Joseph Crowley		Jul 30, 2013
D-CA	Julia Brownley		Jul 30, 2013
D-CT	Elizabeth H. Esty		Aug 1, 2013
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Sep 10, 2013
R-AL	Spencer Bachus		Sep 10, 2013
D-MI	Sander M. Levin		Sep 20, 2013
D-CA	Alan S. Lowenthal		Sep 25, 2013
D-CA	Sam Farr		Oct 10, 2013
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett		Oct 12, 2013
D-NY	Carolyn McCarthy		Oct 29, 2013
D-MA	William R. Keating		Oct 29, 2013
D-FL	Corrine Brown		Nov 13, 2013
R-CA	Ken Calvert		Nov 13, 2013
R-AZ	David Schweikert		Nov 21, 2013
D-MA	Niki Tsongas		Dec 5, 2013
R-AZ	Matt Salmon		Dec 12, 2013
D-CA	Gloria Negrete McLeod		Dec 19, 2013
D-CO	Ed Perlmutter		Jan 9, 2014
R-LA	Bill Cassidy		Jan 14, 2014
R-MO	Billy Long		Jan 27, 2014
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz		Feb 4, 2014
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson		Feb 4, 2014
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel		Feb 25, 2014
D-FL	Patrick Murphy		Feb 25, 2014
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		Feb 25, 2014
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		Mar 6, 2014
D-MA	Katherine M. Clark		Mar 6, 2014
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Mar 12, 2014
D-NY	Hakeem S. Jeffries		Mar 24, 2014
D-MO	Emanuel Cleaver		Mar 26, 2014
D-TX	Gene Green		Sep 9, 2014
D-MN	Keith Ellison		Sep 9, 2014

Committees 4

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Foreign Affairs Committee	Referred Apr 24, 2013
House	Financial Services Committee	Referred Apr 24, 2013
House	Oversight and Government Reform Committee	Referred Apr 24, 2013
House	Judiciary Committee	Referred Apr 24, 2013
	Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee	Referred Jun 14, 2013

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Jun 14, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
Apr 24, 2013Introduced in House
Apr 24, 2013Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Oversight and Government Reform, and 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.

In the Congressional Record 3

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

Where	In the Record	Members	Date
House	Debate and remarks H4497	Rob Woodall R-GA	May 20, 2014
House	Debate and remarks H4578	James P. McGovern D-MA	Jul 17, 2013
House	Debate and remarks H2253Lists H2298H.R. 1692–1720Summaries H2254	James P. McGovern D-MA	Apr 24, 2013

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

[Pages H5347-H5349] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] By Mr. NEUGEBAUER: H.J. Res. 57. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Constitutional Amendments Article V The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate. ADDITIONAL SPONSORS Under clause 7 of rule XII, sponsors were added to public bills and resolutions as follows: H.R. 60: Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois. H.R. 148: Mr. Enyart. H.R. 182: Mr. Sires. H.R. 183: Mr. Enyart. H.R. 262: Mr. Heck of Nevada and Mr. Schock. H.R. 279: Mr. Ruiz. H.R. 281: Ms. Kaptur. H.R. 292: Mr. George Miller of California. H.R. 301: Mr. Gardner and Mr. Wittman. H.R. 310: Mr. Kilmer. H.R. 362: Mr. George Miller of California. H.R. 363: Mr. George Miller of California. H.R. 366: Ms. Jenkins and Mr. Schneider. H.R. 419: Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania. H.R. 460: Mr. Perlmutter. H.R. 474: Mr. Ellison. H.R. 485: Ms. Tsongas. H.R. 491: Mr. Sherman. H.R. 508: Mr. Quigley, Mr. Barber, and Mr. Gibson. H.R. 523: Mr. Smith of Missouri. H.R. 525: Mr. Ryan of Ohio. H.R. 533: Mr. Cartwright and Mr. DeFazio. H.R. 543: Mr. George Miller of California. H.R. 574: Mr. Clay. H.R. 578: Mr. Womack. H.R. 580: Mr. Cartwright. H.R. 620: Mr. Ellison. H.R. 621: Mr. Barletta. H.R. 647: Mr. Pascrell, Mrs. Miller of Michigan, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Ms. Fudge, Mr. McDermott, and Mr. Neal. H.R. 679: Mr. Scott of Virginia. H.R. 685: Ms. Moore, Mr. Price of Georgia, Mr. Al Green of Texas, Mr. Kilmer, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Lowey, and Mr. Womack. H.R. 690: Mr. Barletta and Mr. Walden. H.R. 702: Mr. Cohen and Mr. Langevin. H.R. 720: Mr. Cartwright. H.R. 724: Mr. Swalwell of California. H.R. 755: Ms. Esty. H.R. 792: Mr. Gowdy. H.R. 795: Mr. Stockman. H.R. 846: Mr. Nunnelee, Mr. Courtney, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Kline, Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas, Ms. Fudge, Mr. Stutzman, and Mr. Pocan. H.R. 920: Mr. Gallego. H.R. 938: Mr. Thornberry. H.R. 961: Mr. Bera of California. H.R. 975: Mr. Price of North Carolina. H.R. 1001: Mr. Bishop of New York and Mr. Cole. H.R. 1014: Mr. Rothfus. H.R. 1015: Mr. Huffman, Mr. Bachus, and Mr. Barletta. H.R. 1020: Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, Mr. Renacci, and Mr. Womack. H.R. 1024: Ms. Clarke, Mrs. Miller of Michigan, and Ms. Kuster. H.R. 1074: Ms. DeGette. H.R. 1091: Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas, Mr. Goodlatte, and Mr. Massie. H.R. 1094: Mr. Bera of California and Mr. Serrano. H.R. 1105: Mr. Matheson and Mr. Bachus. H.R. 1146: Mr. McHenry. H.R. 1175: Ms. Bass. H.R. 1176: Mr. Wittman. H.R. 1237: Mr. Stivers. H.R. 1249: Mr. Griffin of Arkansas. H.R. 1250: Mr. Courtney, Mrs. Miller of Michigan, and Ms. Esty. H.R. 1252: Mr. Cook, Mr. Runyan, and Mr. Pearce. H.R. 1276: Mrs. Miller of Michigan, Mr. Fortenberry, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. Farr, and Mrs. Capps. H.R. 1318: Ms. Sewell of Alabama, Mr. Neal, and Mr. Clay. H.R. 1327: Ms. McCollum. H.R. 1346: Mr. Lowenthal. H.R. 1354: Mr. Kilmer. H.R. 1389: Ms. Frankel of Florida and Ms. Esty. H.R. 1416: Mr. Israel and Mr. Wilson of South Carolina. H.R. 1428: Mr. Gerlach. H.R. 1476: Mr. Bentivolio. H.R. 1518: Ms. Pingree of Maine. H.R. 1526: Mr. Coffman. H.R. 1563: Ms. Wilson[...]

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H5348.

CRS reports 2

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Cite it 2

Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.

Product	Title	Kind	Published
R43957	Sudan Archived	Report	May 26, 2015
R43655	U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit: Frequently Asked Questions and Background Archived	Report	Jul 31, 2014

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To require the development of a comprehensive strategy to end serious human rights violations in Sudan, to create incentives for governments and persons to end support of and assistance to the Government of Sudan, to reinvigorate genuinely comprehensive peace efforts in Sudan, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Sudan Peace, Security, and Accountability Act of 2013

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Apr 24, 2013Introduced in House

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