US Congress House Bill 1477 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-3)
Status: Engrossed on March 26 2019 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-03-26 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Pending: Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Calls for assessments of Russia's relationship with Venezuela and bars from U.S. entry aliens who have supported Venezuelan security forces on behalf of Russia. The Department of State shall report to Congress an assessment of Russia and Venezuela's security cooperation and the threat it poses to countries in the Western Hemisphere, including the United States. The State Department shall also devise a strategy to counter such a threat. The President shall report to Congress an assessment of the national security risks posed by a potential Russian acquisition of CITGO's U.S. energy infrastructure holdings. CITGO is an energy company owned by Petroleos de Venezuela (PdVSA), a Venezuelan state-owned oil company. A Russian state-owned company has extended a loan to PdVSA, and a default on that loan could result in Russian ownership of CITGO. The bill bars the entry into the United States of aliens who have worked on behalf of Russia to support Venezuelan security forces. It also revokes any current visas belonging to such individuals. The President may waive this bar as to an alien if it is in the national interest of the United States to do so.

Russian-Venezuelan Threat Mitigation Act

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D-FL]	Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart [R-FL]	Rep. Darren Soto [D-FL]	Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell [D-FL]
Rep. Donna Shalala [D-FL]	Rep. Albio Sires [D-NJ]	Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick [R-PA]	Rep. Brad Sherman [D-CA]
Rep. Nicholas Taylor [R-TX]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-03-26	Senate	Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
2019-03-25	House	Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
2019-03-25	House	On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2781-2782)
2019-03-25	House	DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1477.
2019-03-25	House	Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2781-2784)
2019-03-25	House	Mr. Malinowski moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
2019-03-14	House	Committee Agreed to Seek Consideration Under Suspension of the Rules.
2019-03-14	House	Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
2019-03-14	House	Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
2019-02-28	House	Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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.
2019-02-28	House	Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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.
2019-02-28	House	Introduced in House

HB1102 (Related) 2019-02-07 - Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1477/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr1477/BILLS-116hr1477ih.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr1477/BILLS-116hr1477eh.pdf