Corruption, Overthrowing Rule of Law, and Ruining Ukraine: Putin’s Trifecta Act
Latest action · Sep 21, 2022 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
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.
- IntroducedFeb 25, 2022
- Passed HouseSep 20, 2022
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
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.
Cosponsors 16
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 25, 2022 to Feb 28, 2022; 15 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-VA | Abigail Davis Spanberger | Original | Feb 25, 2022 |
| R-IL | Adam Kinzinger | Original | Feb 25, 2022 |
| R-PA | Brian K. Fitzpatrick | Original | Feb 25, 2022 |
| D-TX | Colin Z. Allred | Original | Feb 25, 2022 |
| D-RI | David N. Cicilline | Original | Feb 25, 2022 |
| D-MN | Dean Phillips | Original | Feb 25, 2022 |
| R-AR | J. French Hill | Original | Feb 25, 2022 |
| R-SC | Joe Wilson | Original | Feb 25, 2022 |
| D-TX | Marc A. Veasey | Original | Feb 25, 2022 |
| R-FL | Maria Elvira Salazar | Original | Feb 25, 2022 |
| R-MI | Peter Meijer | Original | Feb 25, 2022 |
| R-NC | Richard Hudson | Original | Feb 25, 2022 |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Original | Feb 25, 2022 |
| D-CA | Ted Lieu | Original | Feb 25, 2022 |
| D-MA | William R. Keating | Original | Feb 25, 2022 |
| R-UT | John R. Curtis | Feb 28, 2022 |
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 Feb 25, 2022Markup Sep 14, 2022 |
| Senate | Foreign Relations Committee | Referred Sep 21, 2022 |
Actions 11
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 21, 2022Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
- Sep 20, 2022Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 1361, proceedings on H.R. 6846 are considered vacated.
- Sep 20, 2022Passed/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. (consideration: CR H7984-7992; text: CR H7985-7986)
- Sep 19, 2022Mr. Malinowski moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Sep 19, 2022Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7895-7898)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extensions | Debate and remarks E970 | Steve Cohen D-TN | Sep 22, 2022 |
| House | Debate and remarks H7984Text printed H7985 | Steny H. Hoyer D-MD | Sep 20, 2022 |
| House | Debate and remarks H7895–H7898Text printed H7895 | Ann Wagner R-MO, Tom Malinowski D-NJ | Sep 19, 2022 |
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. 168, no. 35, February 25, 2022, page H1148.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| R48195 | Fact Sheet: Congressional Votes in Response to the Russia-Ukraine War | Report | Jan 23, 2026 |
Related bills 4
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HRES 1361 | Providing for consideration of the bill (S. 1098) to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize borrowers to separate joint consolidation loans; and for other purposes. | Related bill | Sep 20, 2022 |
| S 2986 | A bill to require a review of sanctions with respect to Russian kleptocrats and human rights abusers. | Related bill | Oct 7, 2021 |
| HR 4350 | National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 | Related bill | Mar 1, 2022 |
| HR 6422 | Putin Accountability Act | Related bill | Nov 1, 2022 |
Titles 6
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To require a review of sanctions with respect to Russian kleptocrats and human rights abusers.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Corruption, Overthrowing Rule of Law, and Ruining Ukraine: Putin’s Trifecta Act
- CORRUPT Act
- Short Title(s) as Passed House
- Corruption, Overthrowing Rule of Law, and Ruining Ukraine: Putin’s Trifecta Act
- Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text
- CORRUPT Act
- Corruption, Overthrowing Rule of Law, and Ruining Ukraine: Putin’s Trifecta Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: International Affairs.
- Congressional oversight
- Corporate finance and management
- Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
- Europe
- Foreign and international banking
- Foreign and international corporations
- Foreign property
- Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
- Human rights
- International Affairs
- Russia
- Sanctions
- Visas and passports
Text 3
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 21, 2022Referred in Senate
- Sep 20, 2022Engrossed in House
- Feb 25, 2022Introduced 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.
