United States · Bill · HR
H.R. 8038 (118th)
21st Century Peace through Strength Act
Introduced
17 April 2024
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Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 1160, H.R. 8038 is laid on the table.
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Summary
21st Century Peace through Strength Act This bill establishes law on various foreign policy matters. For example, the bill requires the President to impose property-blocking sanctions on foreign persons (i.e., individuals and entities) associated with transnational criminal organizations that traffic fentanyl; authorizes the President to seize and transfer certain Russian sovereign assets to fund Ukrainian war compensation or reconstruction; prohibits entities in the United States from distributing, updating, or maintaining a website or application operated by ByteDance, Ltd., TikTok, or certain other entities; prohibits data brokers from providing personally identifiable sensitive data of U.S. persons to foreign adversary countries; imposes property-, docking-, and visa-blocking sanctions on foreign persons operating ports, ships, and refineries supporting Iranian petroleum exports; imposes property- and visa-blocking sanctions on foreign persons supporting Iranian missile programs and on certain Iranian leaders; imposes property-blocking sanctions on foreign states providing material support to Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad; requires the United States to regulate exports of certain foreign-produced items related to Iran; extends the authority of the President to impose sanctions on foreign persons using human shields; imposes property- and visa-blocking sanctions on foreign persons involved in the trafficking of captagon; requires U.S. financial institutions to close certain accounts related to Iranian leaders and the Department of the Treasury to seek the closure of such accounts in foreign financial institutions; and prohibits U.S. financial institutions from opening or maintaining certain accounts with Chinese financial institutions that support Iranian petroleum exports.
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Introduced in House (text)
Passed House
summary · EN · 20 April 2024
Introduced in House (text)
Introduced in House · EN · 17 April 2024
Introduced in House (PDF)
Introduced in House · EN · 17 April 2024
Introduced in House
summary · EN · 17 April 2024
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- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8038
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8038