HR 3457 · 114th Congress 2015–2017, ended

Justice for Victims of Iranian Terrorism Act

Introduced Sep 9, 2015 Originated House Sponsor Patrick Meehan R-PA

Fact sheet

Latest action · Oct 5, 2015 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

Progress

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IntroducedSep 9, 2015
Passed HouseOct 1, 2015
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Justice for Victims of Iranian Terrorism Act

(Sec. 2) This bill prohibits the President, until Iran has paid each judgment against it, from:

limiting the application of specified sanctions on Iran or refraining from applying them; or
removing a foreign person (including entities) listed in Attachments 3 or 4 to Annex II of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPA) from the list of designated nationals and blocked persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury.

These sanctions are the ones contained in:

sections 4 through 7.9 of Annex II of the JCPA; and
any other agreement related to Iran's nuclear program that includes the United States, commits the United States to take action, or pursuant to which the United States commits or otherwise agrees to take action, regardless of the form it takes, whether a political commitment or otherwise, and regardless of whether the agreement is legally binding or not.

A judgment is any final judgment entered by the courts of the United States or of the states that:

relates to a claim brought against Iran or its political subdivisions, agencies, or instrumentalities and for which the court determined that none of them were immune under specified terrorism exceptions from the court's jurisdiction; and
was entered between April 24, 1996, and the date of the enactment of this Act.

The JCPA is the agreement signed at Vienna on July 14, 2015, by Iran, China, France, Germany, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States, with the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and all related implementing materials and agreements.

Recorded votes 1

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Roll call	Question	Result	Date
House 533	On Passage	Passed251–173	Oct 1, 2015

Cosponsors 118

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Sep 9, 2015 to Oct 1, 2015, with 2 there on the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
R-IN	Jackie Walorski	Original	Sep 9, 2015
R-WI	Sean P. Duffy	Original	Sep 9, 2015
R-KY	Andy Barr		Sep 10, 2015
R-PA	Charles W. Dent		Sep 10, 2015
R-VA	H. Morgan Griffith		Sep 10, 2015
R-NC	Mark Meadows		Sep 10, 2015
R-PA	Michael G. Fitzpatrick		Sep 10, 2015
R-CA	Paul Cook		Sep 10, 2015
R-PA	Ryan A. Costello		Sep 10, 2015
R-TN	Scott DesJarlais		Sep 10, 2015
R-TX	Ted Poe		Sep 10, 2015
R-IN	Todd Rokita		Sep 10, 2015
R-IN	Todd Young		Sep 10, 2015
R-MO	Ann Wagner		Sep 16, 2015
R-GA	Austin Scott		Sep 16, 2015
R-MI	Bill Huizenga		Sep 16, 2015
R-PA	Bill Shuster		Sep 16, 2015
R-AL	Bradley Byrne		Sep 16, 2015
R-OH	David P. Joyce		Sep 16, 2015
R-TN	David P. Roe		Sep 16, 2015
R-TN	Diane Black		Sep 16, 2015
R-WI	F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.		Sep 16, 2015
R-PA	Glenn Thompson		Sep 16, 2015
R-AR	J. French Hill		Sep 16, 2015
R-MO	Jason Smith		Sep 16, 2015
R-MI	John R. Moolenaar		Sep 16, 2015
R-IL	John Shimkus		Sep 16, 2015
R-PA	Keith J. Rothfus		Sep 16, 2015
R-KS	Kevin Yoder		Sep 16, 2015
R-NJ	Leonard Lance		Sep 16, 2015
R-KS	Lynn Jenkins		Sep 16, 2015
R-TX	Michael T. McCaul		Sep 16, 2015
R-TX	Pete Sessions		Sep 16, 2015
R-NY	Peter T. King		Sep 16, 2015
R-OH	Robert E. Latta		Sep 16, 2015
R-TX	Roger Williams		Sep 16, 2015
R-MT	Ryan K. Zinke		Sep 16, 2015
R-PA	Scott Perry		Sep 16, 2015
R-TN	Stephen Lee Fincher		Sep 16, 2015
R-IN	Susan W. Brooks		Sep 16, 2015
R-FL	Thomas J. Rooney		Sep 16, 2015
R-NJ	Thomas MacArthur		Sep 16, 2015
R-PA	Tim Murphy		Sep 16, 2015
R-OK	Tom Cole		Sep 16, 2015
R-MN	Tom Emmer		Sep 16, 2015
R-PA	Tom Marino		Sep 16, 2015
R-GA	Tom Price		Sep 16, 2015
R-FL	Vern Buchanan		Sep 16, 2015
R-NC	Walter B. Jones		Sep 16, 2015
R-IL	Adam Kinzinger		Sep 17, 2015
R-FL	Ander Crenshaw		Sep 17, 2015
R-NY	Christopher P. Gibson		Sep 17, 2015
R-MI	Dan Benishek		Sep 17, 2015
R-CA	Doug LaMalfa		Sep 17, 2015
R-VA	E. Scott Rigell		Sep 17, 2015
R-CA	Jeff Denham		Sep 17, 2015
R-FL	Jeff Miller		Sep 17, 2015
R-MI	Mike Bishop		Sep 17, 2015
R-OH	Patrick J. Tiberi		Sep 17, 2015
R-TX	Randy K. Weber, Sr.		Sep 17, 2015
R-TX	Will Hurd		Sep 17, 2015
R-MI	Candice S. Miller		Sep 18, 2015
R-WA	Cathy McMorris Rodgers		Sep 18, 2015
R-WV	David B. McKinley		Sep 18, 2015
R-NC	George Holding		Sep 18, 2015
R-TX	Kenny Marchant		Sep 18, 2015
R-PA	Lou Barletta		Sep 18, 2015
R-FL	Mario Diaz-Balart		Sep 18, 2015
R-UT	Jason Chaffetz		Sep 24, 2015
R-PA	Joseph R. Pitts		Sep 24, 2015
R-IN	Larry Bucshon		Sep 24, 2015
R-TX	Michael C. Burgess		Sep 24, 2015
R-CO	Mike Coffman		Sep 24, 2015
R-OK	Steve Russell		Sep 24, 2015
R-TX	Bill Flores		Sep 25, 2015
R-LA	Charles W. Boustany, Jr.		Sep 28, 2015
R-NY	Chris Collins		Sep 28, 2015
R-FL	Curt Clawson		Sep 28, 2015
R-CA	Dana Rohrabacher		Sep 28, 2015
R-MI	David A. Trott		Sep 28, 2015
R-CA	Edward R. Royce		Sep 28, 2015
R-MN	John Kline		Sep 28, 2015
R-PA	Mike Kelly		Sep 28, 2015
R-NJ	Rodney P. Frelinghuysen		Sep 28, 2015
R-VA	Barbara Comstock		Sep 29, 2015
R-MO	Billy Long		Sep 29, 2015
R-VA	Bob Goodlatte		Sep 29, 2015
R-OH	Brad R. Wenstrup		Sep 29, 2015
R-KY	Brett Guthrie		Sep 29, 2015
R-AR	Bruce Westerman		Sep 29, 2015
R-FL	Carlos Curbelo		Sep 29, 2015
R-FL	David W. Jolly		Sep 29, 2015
R-WV	Evan H. Jenkins		Sep 29, 2015
R-AL	Gary J. Palmer		Sep 29, 2015
R-MS	Gregg Harper		Sep 29, 2015
R-FL	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen		Sep 29, 2015
R-SC	Jeff Duncan		Sep 29, 2015
R-TX	John Abney Culberson		Sep 29, 2015
R-TX	John R. Carter		Sep 29, 2015
R-TX	Kay Granger		Sep 29, 2015
R-TN	Marsha Blackburn		Sep 29, 2015
R-AZ	Martha McSally		Sep 29, 2015
R-OH	Michael R. Turner		Sep 29, 2015
R-NC	Patrick T. McHenry		Sep 29, 2015
R-LA	Ralph Lee Abraham		Sep 29, 2015
R-FL	Richard B. Nugent		Sep 29, 2015
R-FL	Ron DeSantis		Sep 29, 2015
R-TX	Sam Johnson		Sep 29, 2015
R-CA	Stephen Knight		Sep 29, 2015
R-IA	Steve King		Sep 29, 2015
R-CA	Tom McClintock		Sep 29, 2015
R-MS	Trent Kelly		Sep 29, 2015
R-GA	Barry Loudermilk		Sep 30, 2015
R-FL	Bill Posey		Sep 30, 2015
R-IA	David Young		Sep 30, 2015
R-ND	Kevin Cramer		Sep 30, 2015
R-IL	Peter J. Roskam		Sep 30, 2015
R-IL	Robert J. Dold		Oct 1, 2015

Actions 13

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Oct 5, 2015Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Oct 1, 2015Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H6778-6779)
Oct 1, 2015Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 449. (consideration: CR H6761-6768)
Oct 1, 2015DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.R. 3457.
Oct 1, 2015Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

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Amendments 1

Amendments offered to this bill.

Amendment	Description	Offered by	Status
HAmdt 709	Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 449 the amendment in the nature of a substitute printed in House Report 114-273 is considered as adopted.	Rules Committee	—

Related bills 3

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
HRES 449	Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3457) to prohibit the lifting of sanctions on Iran until the Government of Iran pays the judgments against it for acts of terrorism, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the conference report	Related bill	Oct 1, 2015
S 2086	Justice for Victims of Iranian Terrorism Act	Related bill	Sep 28, 2015
HR 3460	To suspend until January 21, 2017, the authority of the President to waive, suspend, reduce, provide relief from, or otherwise limit the application of sanctions pursuant to an agreement related to the nuclear program of Iran.	Related bill	Jul 14, 2016

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