North Korea Sanctions and Diplomatic Nonrecognition Act of 2015
Latest action · Mar 30, 2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 8, 2015
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
North Korea Sanctions and Diplomatic Nonrecognition Act of 2015
Continues diplomatic, economic, and military sanctions against the government of North Korea as a supporter of international terrorism until the President certifies to Congress that North Korea:
- is no longer engaged in the illegal transfer of missile or nuclear technology, particularly to Iran, Syria, or Burma;
- is not assisting foreign terrorist organizations, engaged in counterfeiting U.S. currency, or engaged in illicit narcotics traffic;
- has returned the last remains of Reverend Kim Dong-shik to the United States;
- has released abducted Japanese nationals and surviving Korean War prisoners of war;
- has undertaken specified actions regarding family reunification, penal reforms, refugee access, and religious organization communications; and
- is no longer engaged in cyber-attacks against the United States, its government, infrastructure, entities, or citizens, or those of its allies.
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of State should redesignate North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism.
Finds that the United States did not grant diplomatic recognition to North Korea upon its establishment as a client regime of the former Soviet Union in 1948.
Continues diplomatic nonrecognition of North Korea until such benchmarks have been met.
Directs the President, given North Korea's third nuclear weapons test on February 12, 2013, in violation of U.N. Security Council Resolutions 1695, 1718, 1874, and 2087 to instruct the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations to use U.S. influence to secure adoption of a Security Council resolution condemning North Korea's action as a violation of such Resolutions and requiring implementation of comprehensive sanctions and an inspection regime against North Korea.
Cosponsors 20
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 8, 2015 to Jan 12, 2016; 4 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-VA | Gerald E. Connolly | Original | Jan 8, 2015 |
| R-AZ | Matt Salmon | Original | Jan 8, 2015 |
| R-OH | Steve Chabot | Original | Jan 8, 2015 |
| R-TX | Ted Poe | Original | Jan 8, 2015 |
| R-TX | Randy K. Weber, Sr. | Jan 9, 2015 | |
| R-FL | Carlos Curbelo | Jan 12, 2015 | |
| R-TX | Michael C. Burgess | Jan 13, 2015 | |
| R-TX | Pete Olson | Jan 13, 2015 | |
| R-FL | Gus M. Bilirakis | Jan 14, 2015 | |
| R-FL | Curt Clawson | Jan 21, 2015 | |
| R-WI | Reid J. Ribble | Jan 21, 2015 | |
| R-MN | John Kline | Jan 28, 2015 | |
| R-CA | Darrell Issa | Feb 11, 2015 | |
| R-VA | J. Randy Forbes | Feb 24, 2015 | |
| R-SC | Joe Wilson | Feb 24, 2015 | |
| R-GA | Austin Scott | Apr 14, 2015 | |
| R-TN | Scott DesJarlais | May 22, 2015 | |
| R-OH | Bill Johnson | Jul 13, 2015 | |
| R-NJ | Thomas MacArthur | Jul 22, 2015 | |
| R-TX | Sam Johnson | Jan 12, 2016 |
Committees 2
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 Jan 8, 2015 |
| East Asia and Pacific Subcommittee | Referred Feb 11, 2015 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Jan 8, 2015 |
| Trade Subcommittee | Referred Mar 30, 2015 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 30, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
- Feb 11, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.
- Jan 8, 2015Introduced in House
- Jan 8, 2015Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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 2
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.
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
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 161, no. 3, January 8, 2015, page H155.
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R43865 | North Korea: Back on the State Sponsors of Terrorism List? Archived | Report | Jan 21, 2015 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To continue restrictions against and prohibit diplomatic recognition of the Government of North Korea, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- North Korea Sanctions and Diplomatic Nonrecognition Act of 2015
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: International Affairs.
- Arms control and nonproliferation
- Asia
- Burma
- Computer security and identity theft
- Conflicts and wars
- Congressional oversight
- Currency
- Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
- Drug trafficking and controlled substances
- Foreign aid and international relief
- Human rights
- International Affairs
- International law and treaties
- Iran
- Japan
- Middle East
- News media and reporting
- North Korea
- Nuclear weapons
- Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
- Sanctions
- South Korea
- Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
- Syria
- Terrorism
- Trade restrictions
- United Nations
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 8, 2015Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
