[House Document 116-61]
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116th Congress, 1st Session - - - - - - - - - - House Document 116-61
 
      AN EXECUTIVE ORDER MODERNIZING SANCTIONS TO COMBAT TERRORISM

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                                MESSAGE

                                  from

                     THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

                              transmitting

AN EXECUTIVE ORDER MODERNIZING SANCTIONS TO COMBAT TERRORISM, PURSUANT 
  TO 50 U.S.C. 1703(b); PUBLIC LAW 95-223 SEC. 204(b); (91 STAT. 1627)










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 September 10, 2019.--Message and accompanying papers referred to the 
         Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed

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                         U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE 

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To the Congress of the United States:
    Pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act 
(50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), the National Emergencies Act (50 
U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), the United Nations Participation Act of 
1945 (22 U.S.C. 287c), and section 301 of title 3, United 
States Code, and in view of multiple United Nations Security 
Council resolutions, including Resolution 1373 of September 28, 
2001, Resolution 1526 of January 30, 2004, Resolution 1988 of 
June 17, 2011, Resolution 1989 of June 17, 2011, Resolution 
2253 of December 17, 2015, Resolution 2255 of December 21, 
2015, Resolution 2368 of July 20, 2017, and Resolution 2462 of 
March 28, 2019, I hereby report that I have issued an Executive 
Order (the ``order'') modernizing sanctions to combat 
terrorism.
    I have determined that it is necessary to consolidate and 
enhance sanctions to combat acts of terrorism and threats of 
terrorism by foreign terrorists, acts that are recognized and 
condemned in the above-referenced United Nations Security 
Council resolutions. I have terminated the national emergency 
declared in Executive Order 12947 of January 23, 1995, and 
revoked Executive Order 12947, as amended by Executive Order 
13099 of August 20, 1998. The order builds upon the initial 
steps taken in Executive Order 12947 and takes additional steps 
to deal with the national emergency declared in Executive Order 
13224 of September 23, 2001, with respect to the continuing and 
immediate threat of grave acts of terrorism and threats of 
terrorism committed by foreign terrorists, which include acts 
of terrorism that threaten the Middle East peace process.
    I am enclosing a copy of the order I have issued.

                                                   Donald J. Trump.
    The White House, September 9, 2019.


















                            Executive Order

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               Modernizing Sanctions to Combat Terrorism

    By the authority vested in me as President by the 
Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, 
including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 
U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 
U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), the United Nations Participation Act of 
1945 (22 U.S.C. 287c) (UNPA), and section 301 of title 3, 
United States Code; and in view of multiple United Nations 
Security Council resolutions, including Resolution 1373 of 
September 28, 2001, Resolution 1526 of January 30, 2004, 
Resolution 1988 of June 17, 2011, Resolution 1989 of June 17, 
2011, Resolution 2253 of December 17, 2015, Resolution 2255 of 
December 21, 2015, Resolution 2368 of July 20, 2017, and 
Resolution 2462 of March 28, 2019,
    I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of 
America, find that it is necessary to consolidate and enhance 
sanctions to combat acts of terrorism and threats of terrorism 
by foreign terrorists, acts that are recognized and condemned 
in the above-referenced United Nations Security Council 
resolutions. Accordingly, I hereby terminate the national 
emergency declared in Executive Order 12947 of January 23, 
1995, and revoke Executive Order 12947, as amended by Executive 
Order 13099 of August 20, 1998. In order to build upon the 
initial steps taken in Executive Order 12947, to further 
strengthen and consolidate sanctions to combat the continuing 
threat posed by international terrorism, and in order to take 
additional steps to deal with the national emergency declared 
in Executive Order 13224 of September 23, 2001, with respect to 
the continuing and immediate threat of grave acts of terrorism 
and threats of terrorism committed by foreign terrorists, which 
include acts of terrorism that threaten the Middle East peace 
process, it is hereby ordered as follows:
    Section 1. Section 1 of Executive Order 13224 is hereby 
amended to read as follows:
    ``Section 1. (a) All property and interests in property 
that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the 
United States, or that are or hereafter come within the 
possession or control of any United States person of the 
following persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, 
exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in:
          (i) persons listed in the Annex to this order;
          (ii) foreign persons determined by the Secretary of 
        State, in consultation with the Secretary of the 
        Treasury, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of 
        Homeland Security:
                  (A) to have committed or have attempted to 
                commit, to pose a significant risk of 
                committing, or to have participated in training 
                to commit acts of terrorism that threaten the 
                security of United States nationals or the 
                national security, foreign policy, or economy 
                of the United States; or
                  (B) to be a leader of an entity:
                          (1) listed in the Annex to this 
                        order; or
                          (2) whose property and interests in 
                        property are blocked pursuant to a 
                        determination by the Secretary of State 
                        pursuant to this order;
          (iii) persons determined by the Secretary of the 
        Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, 
        3 the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Attorney 
        General:
                  (A) to be owned, controlled, or directed by, 
                or to have acted or purported to act for or on 
                behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person 
                whose property and interests in property are 
                blocked pursuant to this order;
                  (B) to own or control, directly or 
                indirectly, any person whose property and 
                interests in property are blocked pursuant to 
                this order;
                  (C) to have materially assisted, sponsored, 
                or provided financial, material, or 
                technological support for, or goods or services 
                to or in support of, an act of terrorism as 
                defined in section 3(d) of this order, or any 
                person whose property and interests in property 
                are blocked pursuant to this order;
                  (D) to have participated in training related 
                to terrorism provided by any person whose 
                property and interests in property are blocked 
                pursuant to this order;
                  (E) to be a leader or official of an entity 
                whose property and interests in property are 
                blocked pursuant to:
                          (1) a determination by the Secretary 
                        of the Treasury pursuant to this order; 
                        or
                          (2) subsection (a)(iv) of this 
                        section; or
                  (F) to have attempted or conspired to engage 
                in any of the activities described in 
                subsections (a)(iii)(A) through (E) of this 
                section;
          (iv) persons whose property and interests in property 
        were blocked pursuant to Executive Order 12947, as 
        amended, on or after January 23, 1995, and remained 
        blocked immediately prior to the effective date of this 
        order.
    (b) The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to 
prohibit the opening, and prohibit or impose strict conditions 
on the maintaining, in the United States, of a correspondent 
account or payable-through account of any foreign financial 
institution that the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation 
with the Secretary of State, has determined, on or after the 
effective date of this order, has knowingly conducted or 
facilitated any significant transaction on behalf of any person 
whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant 
to this order.
    (c) The prohibitions in subsections (a) and (b) of this 
section apply except to the extent provided by statutes, or in 
regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that may be issued 
pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding any contract 
entered into or any license or permit granted prior to the 
effective date of this order.''
    Sec. 2. Section 5 of Executive Order 13224 is amended by 
replacing the reference to subsection 1(d) with a reference to 
subsection 1(a)(iii).
    Sec. 3. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to 
impair or otherwise affect:
          (i) the authority granted by law to an executive 
        department or agency, or head thereof; or
          (ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of 
        Management and Budget relating to budgetary, 
        administrative, or legislative proposals.
    (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with 
applicable law and subject to the availability of 
appropriations.
    (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any 
right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law 
or in equity by any party against the United States, its 
departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or 
agents, or any other person.
    Sec. 4. This order is effective at 12:01 a.m. eastern 
daylight time on September 10, 2019.

                                                   Donald J. Trump.
    The White House, September 9, 2019.

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