H.R. 2194 - Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010

Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010

H.R. 2194 — 111^th Congress (2009–2010)

Summary

To amend the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 to enhance United States diplomatic efforts with respect to Iran by expanding economic sanctions against Iran. (by CRS)

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Title

To amend the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 to enhance United States diplomatic efforts with respect to Iran by expanding economic sanctions against Iran.

Other Titles

• Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act of 2009
• Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act of 2009
• Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act of 2009
• Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2009

Sponsor

Howard Berman

Co-Sponsors

• Grace Napolitano
• Larry Kissell
• Edward Markey
• Jeff Miller
• Lynn Jenkins
• Lynn Westmoreland
• Shelley Capito
• John Mica
• Bob Filner
• Mark Kirk
• John Salazar
• Roy Blunt
• Robert Aderholt
• Timothy Bishop
• Zachary Space
• Dean Heller
• Peter King
• R. Miller
• Sheila Jackson-Lee
• Peter Sessions
• Bill Posey
• Cathy McMorris Rodgers
• Eric Cantor
• Frederick Upton
• Baron Hill
• Carolyn McCarthy
• Paul Broun
• Jerrold Nadler
• Nathan Deal
• Mark Schauer
• Lamar Smith
• Rodney Frelinghuysen
• Judy Biggert
• Raymond Green
• Barton Gordon
• Jim Costa
• Jared Polis
• Glenn Thompson
• Betsy Markey
• Artur Davis
• Michael Simpson
• Tom Price
• Raul Grijalva
• Yvette Clarke
• John Culberson
• George Radanovich
• Tim Holden
• Dave Reichert
• John Linder
• Dennis Moore
• J. Forbes
• Steve Driehaus
• Michael Arcuri
• Greg Walden
• Christopher Carney
• Marcia Fudge
• Heath Shuler
• Christopher Smith
• Jason Chaffetz
• Brett Guthrie
• Eliot Engel
• C. Thompson
• Pete Olson
• Nita Lowey
• John Gingrey
• Charles Melancon
• Mark Souder
• Michael Rogers
• Debbie Wasserman Schultz
• Lincoln Davis
• Robert Wexler
• Sam Farr
• Alcee Hastings
• Kevin McCarthy
• John Boehner
• Randy Neugebauer
• Kathy Castor
• Gary Peters
• Edward Royce
• Howard McKeon
• Dennis Cardoza
• Jackie Speier
• Allyson Schwartz
• Devin Nunes
• Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
• Robert Goodlatte
• Mary Fallin
• Judy Chu
• John Fleming
• Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
• Jesse Jackson
• Parker Griffith
• Michael Capuano
• Adam Smith
• Candice Miller
• John Boccieri
• Dina Titus
• Clifford Stearns
• Adam Schiff
• Ed Perlmutter
• Darrell Issa
• Robert Latta
• Tom Cole
• Adrian Smith
• Walter Herger
• Anna Eshoo
• Daniel Lipinski
• Harry Teague
• Joe Barton
• Martin Heinrich
• Jerry Lewis
• Gary Ackerman
• Henry Brown
• Thaddeus McCotter
• Bill Cassidy
• John Boozman
• Jason Altmire
• Patrick Tiberi
• Michael Michaud
• William Shuster
• Michael McMahon
• Jerry McNerney
• James Marshall
• Leonard Lance
• Thomas Rooney
• Timothy Walz
• Edolphus Towns
• John McHugh
• F. Sensenbrenner
• Diana DeGette
• Rob Bishop
• Kurt Schrader
• Ted Poe
• Addison Wilson
• Gus Bilirakis
• Rush Holt
• Todd Tiahrt
• Sue Myrick
• Tim Murphy
• Charles Gonzalez
• Dan Burton
• Ike Skelton
• Linda Sánchez
• Steve Scalise
• Tom McClintock
• Dale Kildee
• John Shimkus
• Chaka Fattah
• Jim Jordan
• David Wu
• Sanford Bishop
• Donald Payne
• Ron Klein
• Gabrielle Giffords
• Spencer Bachus
• Suzanne Kosmas
• John Sullivan
• Peter Visclosky
• Steven LaTourette
• Laura Richardson
• Doris Matsui
• Timothy Ryan
• Ciro Rodriguez
• John Kline
• Ander Crenshaw
• Jeffrey Fortenberry
• Elton Gallegly
• Rodney Alexander
• Charles Dent
• Samuel Johnson
• Roscoe Bartlett
• John Carter
• Mike Coffman
• John Spratt
• Jerry Costello
• Jim Gerlach
• Paul Tonko
• Lucille Roybal-Allard
• James Langevin
• Robert Andrews
• Jo Bonner
• Erik Paulsen
• Charles Wilson
• Loretta Sanchez
• Jo Ann Emerson
• Gary Miller
• Harry Mitchell
• Walter Minnick
• Corrine Brown
• Ben Chandler
• Allen Boyd
• Dennis Rehberg
• Virginia Brown-Waite
• Joe Courtney
• Alan Grayson
• Steve King
• Daniel Maffei
• Frank Pallone
• Gerald Connolly
• Joe Donnelly
• Melissa Bean
• Ken Calvert
• Henry Johnson
• Dana Rohrabacher
• Gregg Harper
• John Tanner
• Rosa DeLauro
• Bobby Bright
• Joseph Crowley
• John Yarmuth
• Kendrick Meek
• Mary Bono Mack
• Samuel Graves
• Jane Harman
• Michele Bachmann
• Steven Rothman
• Michael Castle
• Barney Frank
• Brian Bilbray
• Travis Childers
• K. Conaway
• Harold Rogers
• John Hall
• Steve Kagen
• Phil Hare
• Lee Terry
• Howard Coble
• Anthony Weiner
• Al Green
• Steve Israel
• Carolyn Maloney
• Scott Murphy
• C. W. Young
• Joseph Pitts
• James Himes
• Jeb Hensarling
• Louise Slaughter
• John Shadegg
• Michael Turner
• Bobby Rush
• Aaron Schock
• Janice Schakowsky
• Thomas Latham
• Jim Matheson
• Dan Boren
• Peter Welch
• Virginia Foxx
• Lincoln Diaz-Balart
• William Clay
• John Barrow
• Stephen Buyer
• Thomas Edwards
• Russ Carnahan
• Jean Schmidt
• Frank Kratovil
• Jerry Moran
• Adam Putnam
• Anh Cao
• Patrick McHenry
• Jim Cooper
• Rick Larsen
• Steny Hoyer
• Timothy Johnson
• Mary Jo Kilroy
• Frank Lucas
• Ann Kirkpatrick
• Bob Etheridge
• Zach Wamp
• Steve Austria
• Vern Buchanan
• Christopher Van Hollen
• Niki Tsongas
• Doc Hastings
• Joe Baca
• Steve Cohen
• Frank LoBiondo
• Albio Sires
• Danny Davis
• Daniel Lungren
• Jack Kingston
• Donald Young
• Bob Inglis
• Brad Sherman
• Betty Sutton
• Scott Garrett
• John Sarbanes
• Phil Roe
• Bill Foster
• Christopher Lee
• Bart Stupak
• Michael Honda
• John Adler
• James Barrett
• Brian Higgins
• Marsha Blackburn
• Robert Brady
• Paul Hodes
• Susan Davis
• Elijah Cummings
• Mike Pence
• Louis Gohmert
• Leonard Boswell
• Paul Ryan
• Eric Massa
• Peter Hoekstra
• John Lewis
• Kevin Brady
• Patrick Kennedy
• Glenn Nye
• Charles Boustany
• Shelley Berkley
• Michael McCaul
• Sander Levin
• David Scott
• Brad Ellsworth
• Trent Franks
• Mike Ross
• Luis Gutiérrez
• Michael Doyle
• Christopher Murphy
• Henry Waxman
• Mario Diaz-Balart
• Duncan Hunter
• John Larson
• Kay Granger
• Todd Platts
• Michael Rogers
• Mike Quigley
• John Campbell
• Peter DeFazio
• Frank Wolf
• Emanuel Cleaver
• Doug Lamborn
• C.A. Ruppersberger
• Connie Mack
• William Pascrell
• Peter Roskam
• Deborah Halvorson
• Rob Wittman
• Blaine Luetkemeyer
• Donald Manzullo
• Patrick Murphy
• Kenny Marchant

Subjects

• International affairs
• Alliances
• Arms control and nonproliferation
• Congressional oversight
• Corporate finance and management
• Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
• Employee benefits and pensions
• Europe
• European Union
• Financial services and investments
• Foreign and international banking
• Foreign and international corporations
• Government investigations
• Human rights
• International monetary system and foreign exchange
• International organizations and cooperation
• Iran
• Israel
• Lebanon
• Licensing and registrations
• Middle East
• Military assistance and sales, agreements, alliances
• Nuclear power
• Nuclear weapons
• Oil and gas
• Presidents and presidential powers
• Public contracts and procurement
• Religion
• Sanctions
• Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
• State and local finance
• Technology transfer and commercialization
• Terrorism
• Trade restrictions
• Travel and tourism
• U.S. and foreign investments
• United Nations
• Visas and passports

Related Bills

• H.R. 2475 (111^th) : Foreign Relations Authorization and Reform Act, Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011
• S. 908 (111^th) : Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act
• S. 2799 (111^th) : Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2009

Major Actions

Introduced	4/30/2009
Referred to Committee
Amendments (1 proposed)
Passed House	12/15/2009
Passed Senate	3/11/2010
Passed Senate	6/24/2010
Signed by President	7/01/2010

Bill History

• All Votes
• All Actions
• Amendments

	Chamber/Committee	Motion	Date	Result
select this vote	House	On Passage - House - H.R. 2194 Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act of 2009 - Under Suspension of the Rules	12/15/2009	This bill PASSED the House 412 voted YES 12 voted NO 6 voted present/not voting
select this vote	Senate	Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.	3/11/2010	PASSED by voice vote
select this vote	Senate	Amendment SA 3466 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.	3/11/2010	PASSED by voice vote
select this vote	House	On Motion to Instruct Conferees: H.R. 2194 Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act	4/22/2010	This motion PASSED the House 403 voted YES 11 voted NO 13 voted present/not voting
currently selected	House	H.R. 2194 Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act (under suspension of the rules)	6/24/2010	This motion PASSED the House 408 voted YES 8 voted NO 16 voted present/not voting
select this vote	Senate	On the Conference Report - Senate - Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 2194	6/24/2010	This bill PASSED the Senate 99 voted YES 0 voted NO 1 voted present/not voting

	Action	Date	Description
	Introduced	4/30/2009
		4/30/2009	Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Oversight and Government Reform, and 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.
		4/30/2009	Referred to House Foreign Affairs
		4/30/2009	Referred to House Financial Services
		4/30/2009	Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
		4/30/2009	Referred to House Ways and Means
		4/30/2009	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1033-1034)
		10/28/2009	Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
	Put on a legislative calendar	10/28/2009	Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
		11/19/2009	House Committee on Financial Services Granted an extension for further consideration ending not later than Dec. 4, 2009.
		11/19/2009	Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Foreign Affairs. H. Rept. 111-342, Part I.
		11/19/2009	House Committee on Oversight and Government Granted an extension for further consideration ending not later than Dec. 4, 2009.
		11/19/2009	House Committee on Ways and Means Granted an extension for further consideration ending not later than Dec. 4, 2009.
		12/04/2009	Committee on Financial Services discharged.
		12/04/2009	Committee on Oversight and Government discharged.
		12/04/2009	House Committee on Ways and Means Granted an extension for further consideration ending not later than Dec. 11, 2009.
		12/11/2009	Committee on Ways and Means discharged.
	Put on a legislative calendar	12/11/2009	Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 217.
		12/15/2009	Mr. Berman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
		12/15/2009	Considered under suspension of the rules.
		12/15/2009	DEBATE - The House proceeded with sixty minutes of debate on H.R. 2194.
		12/15/2009	At the conclusion of debate, the chair put the question on the motion to suspend the rules. Mr. Berman objected to the vote on the grounds that a quorum was not present. Further proceedings on the motion were postponed. The point of no quorum was withdrawn.
		12/15/2009	Considered as unfinished business.
select this vote	House Vote on Passage	12/15/2009	On Passage - House - H.R. 2194 Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act of 2009 - Under Suspension of the Rules
		12/16/2009	Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
		3/11/2010	Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
		3/11/2010	Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.
select this vote	Senate Vote on Passage	3/11/2010	Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
		3/11/2010	Senate insists on its amendment, asks for a conference, appoints conferees Dodd; Kerry; Lieberman; Menendez; Shelby; Bennett; Lugar.
		3/11/2010	Message on Senate action sent to the House.
		3/11/2010	Amendment SA 3466 proposed by Senator Kaufman for Senator Dodd.
select this vote	Vote	3/11/2010	Amendment SA 3466 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
		4/22/2010	Mr. Berman asked unanimous consent that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference.
		4/22/2010	On motion that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference Agreed to without objection.
		4/22/2010	Ms. Ros-Lehtinen moved that the House instruct conferees.
		4/22/2010	The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the Ros-Lehtinen motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 2194. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the managers on the part of the House to insist on the provisions of H.R. 2194 as passed by the House on December 15, 2009 and to complete their work and present a conference report and joint explanatory statement by no later than May 28, 2010.
		4/22/2010	DEBATE - The House resumed debate on the Ros-Lehtinen motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 2194.
		4/22/2010	The previous question on the motion that the House instruct conferees was ordered without objection.
		4/22/2010	POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Ros-Lehtinen motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 2194, the Chair put the question on the motion and by voice vote, announced that the ayes had prevailed. Ms. Ros-Lehtinen demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the motion to instruct conferees until later in the legislative day.
		4/22/2010	Considered as unfinished business.
		4/22/2010	The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Foreign Affairs for consideration of the House bill and the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Berman, Ackerman, Sherman, Crowley, Scott (GA), Costa, Klein (FL), Ros-Lehtinen, Burton (IN), Royce, and Pence.
		4/22/2010	The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Financial Services for consideration of secs. 3 and 4 of the House bill, and secs. 101-103, 106, 203, and 401 of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Frank (MA), Meeks (NY), and Garrett (NJ).
		4/22/2010	The Speaker appointed conferees - from the Committee on Ways and Means for consideration of secs. 3 and 4 of the House bill, and secs. 101-103 and 401 of the Senate amendment, and modifications committed to conference: Levin, Tanner, and Camp.
select this vote	Vote	4/22/2010	On Motion to Instruct Conferees: H.R. 2194 Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act
		4/28/2010	Conference held.
		6/23/2010	Conference report H. Rept. 111-512 filed.
		6/23/2010	Conferees agreed to file conference report.
		6/24/2010	Conference report considered in Senate, notwithstanding the receipt of the official papers, by Unanimous Consent.
		6/24/2010	Conference papers: Senate report and manager's statement and official papers held at the desk in Senate.
		6/24/2010	Message on Senate action sent to the House.
		6/24/2010	Mr. Berman moved to suspend the rules and agree to the conference report, H. Rept. 111-512.
		6/24/2010	DEBATE - By unanimous consent the House proceeded with fifty minutes of debate on the conference report to accompany H.R. 2194.
		6/24/2010	POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the conference report to accompany H.R. 2194, the Chair put the question on adoption of the motion to suspend the rules and agree to the conference report, and announced by voice vote that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Berman demanded the yeas and nays and pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
		6/24/2010	The House proceeded to consider the conference report H.Rept. 111-512 as unfinished business.
		6/24/2010	Motions to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
	Presented to President	6/24/2010	Cleared for White House.
currently selected	Vote	6/24/2010	H.R. 2194 Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act (under suspension of the rules)
select this vote	Senate Vote on Passage	6/24/2010	On the Conference Report - Senate - Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 2194
	Presented to President	6/28/2010	Presented to President.
	Signed	7/01/2010	Signed by President.
	Enacted	7/01/2010	Became Public Law No: 111-195.

	Number	Sponsor	Date Offered	Status
select this vote	S. Amdt. 3466	Dodd, Christopher [D-CT]	March 11, 2010	Passed by voice vote on March 10, 2010.
	In the nature of a substitute. Show amendment details