text: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
  
      This Act may be cited as the ``Houthis and Iran Sanctions 
  Accountability Act of 2017''.
  
  SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
  
      Congress finds the following:
              (1) On April 2015, the United Nations Security Council 
          adopted United Nations Security Council Resolution 2216 by 14 
          affirmative votes to none against, with one abstention (by the 
          Russian Federation), imposing sanctions on individuals 
          undermining the stability of Yemen, and demanded that the 
          Houthis withdraw from all areas seized during the latest 
          conflict, relinquish arms seized from military and security 
          institutions, cease all actions falling exclusively within the 
          authority of the legitimate Government of Yemen, and fully 
          implement previous Security Council resolutions.
              (2) On May 16, 2012, the Obama administration issued 
          Executive Order 13611 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note; relating to 
          Blocking Property of Persons Threatening the Peace, Security, 
          or Stability of Yemen), imposing sanctions on persons that 
          ``have engaged in acts that directly or indirectly threaten the 
          peace, security, or stability of Yemen, such as acts that 
          obstruct the implementation of the agreement of November 23, 
          2011, between the Government of Yemen and those in opposition 
          to it, which provides for a peaceful transition of power in 
          Yemen, or that obstruct the political process in Yemen''.
              (3) On November 10, 2014, the Obama administration 
          designated the leadership of the Iranian-supported Houthi 
          insurgent group, and their ally former Yemeni President Ali 
          Abdullah Saleh, for imposition of sanctions under Executive 
          Order 13611.
              (4) Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps has transferred 
          increasingly sophisticated weapons systems to the Houthis, who 
          have in turn shot missiles into Saudi Arabia from positions in 
          northern Yemen, including a missile in November 2017 that 
          targeted Riyadh International Airport. In response, Ambassador 
          Nikki Haley called on ``the United Nations and international 
          partners to take necessary action to hold the Iranian regime 
          accountable for these violations''.
              (5) In addition to weapons, Iran is reportedly providing 
          Afghan and Shi'ite Arab specialists, including Hizballah, to 
          train Houthi units and act as logistical advisers.
              (6) The Iranian-supported Houthis have attacked coalition 
          or coalition-affiliated maritime targets multiple times, a 
          United States Navy ship twice, and other shipping, forcing the 
          United States to respond with a combination of diplomacy and 
          calibrated military strikes against three radar facilities in 
          Houthi-controlled territory.
  
  SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY.
  
      It shall be the policy of the United States to condemn Iranian 
  activities in Yemen in violation of United Nations Security Council 
  Resolution 2216 (2015), and call on all responsible countries to take 
  appropriate and necessary measures against the Government of Iran, 
  including the interdiction of Iranian weapons to the Houthis, and the 
  bilateral and multilateral application of sanctions against Iran for 
  its violations of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2216.
  
  SEC. 4. CONTINUATION IN EFFECT OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO YEMEN.
  
      (a) In General.--United States sanctions with respect to Yemen 
  provided for in Executive Order 13611 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note; relating to 
  Blocking Property of Persons Threatening the Peace, Security, or 
  Stability of Yemen), as in effect on the day before the date of the 
  enactment of this Act, shall remain in effect.
      (b) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be 
  construed to limit the authority of the President pursuant to the 
  International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.).
  
  SEC. 5. DETERMINATIONS WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN IRANIAN PERSONS.
  
      (a) Determinations.--
              (1) In general.--The President shall, not later than 45 
          days after the date of the enactment of this Act, determine 
          whether the Iranian persons listed in paragraph (2) are 
          responsible for engaging in activities described in section 1 
          of Executive Order 13611 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note; relating to 
          Blocking Property of Persons Threatening the Peace, Security, 
          or Stability of Yemen).
              (2) Iranian persons listed.--The Iranian persons listed in 
          this paragraph are the following:
                      (A) Members of the Supreme National Security 
                  Council.
                      (B) The Minister of Intelligence and Security.
                      (C) The Commander of the Iran's Revolutionary Guard 
                  Corps.
                      (D) The Commander of the Iran's Revolutionary Guard 
                  Corps, Qods Force.
                      (E) The Minister of Defense.
                      (F) Minister of Foreign Affairs.
                      (G) Any other Iranian person that the President 
                  determines is appropriate.
              (3) Report.--
                      (A) In general.--The President shall submit to the 
                  appropriate congressional committees a report that 
                  contains--
                              (i) the determinations made under paragraph 
                          (1) together with the reasons for those 
                          determinations; and
                              (ii) an identification of the Iranian 
                          persons that the President determines are 
                          responsible for engaging in activities 
                          described in section 1(c) of Executive Order 
                          13611.
                      (B) Form.--A report submitted under subparagraph 
                  (A) shall be submitted in unclassified form but may 
                  contain a classified annex.
      (b) Imposition of Sanctions.--The President shall impose the 
  sanctions described in section 1 of Executive Order 13611 with respect 
  to each Iranian person identified in the report submitted to the 
  appropriate congressional committees under subsection (a)(3).
      (c) Definitions.--In this section:
              (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
          ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
                      (A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee 
                  on Ways and Means, and the Committee on Financial 
                  Services of the House of Representatives; and
                      (B) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the 
                  Committee on Finance, and the Committee on Banking, 
                  Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate.
              (2) Entity.--The term ``entity''--
                      (A) means a partnership, association, corporation, 
                  or other organization, group, or subgroup; and
                      (B) includes a governmental entity.
  
  SEC. 6. SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN FOREIGN PERSONS.
  
      (a) In General.--Beginning on and after the date that is 120 days 
  after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall impose 
  the sanctions described in subsection (c) on a person described in 
  subsection (b).
      (b) Persons Described.--A person described in this subsection is a 
  foreign person that the President determines knowingly provides 
  significant financial, material, or technological support for--
              (1) Ansar Allah in Yemen;
              (2) a person designated pursuant to an applicable Executive 
          order;
              (3) a person that the President determines is in violation 
          of an applicable United Nations Security Council resolution;
              (4) an Iranian person identified in the report submitted to 
          the appropriate congressional committees under section 5(a)(3); 
          or
              (5) a foreign person owned or controlled by a foreign 
          person described in paragraphs (1) through (4).
      (c) Imposition of Sanctions.--The sanctions to be imposed on a 
  person described in subsection (b) are the following:
              (1) In general.--The President shall exercise all of the 
          powers granted to the President under the International 
          Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to the 
          extent necessary to block and prohibit all transactions in 
          property and interests in property of the person if such 
          property and interests in property are in the United States, 
          come within the United States, or are or come within the 
          possession or control of a United States person.
              (2) Aliens ineligible for visas, admission, or parole.--
                      (A) In general.--An alien who the Secretary of 
                  State or the Secretary of Homeland Security determines 
                  is a foreign person described in subsection (b) is--
                              (i) inadmissible to the United States;
                              (ii) ineligible to receive a visa or other 
                          documentation to enter the United States; and
                              (iii) otherwise ineligible to be admitted 
                          or paroled into the United States or to receive 
                          any other benefit under the Immigration and 
                          Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.).
                      (B) Current visas revoked.--
                              (i) In general.--Any visa or other 
                          documentation issued to an alien who is a 
                          foreign person described in subsection (b), 
                          regardless of when such visa or other 
                          documentation was issued, shall be revoked and 
                          such alien shall be denied admission to the 
                          United States.
                              (ii) Effect of revocation.--A revocation 
                          under clause (i)--
                                      (I) shall take effect immediately; 
                                  and
                                      (II) shall automatically cancel any 
                                  other valid visa or documentation that 
                                  is in the possession of the alien who 
                                  is the subject of such revocation.
              (3) Exception to comply with united nations headquarters 
          agreement.--Sanctions under paragraph (2) shall not apply to an 
          alien if admitting the alien into the United States is 
          necessary to permit the United States to comply with the 
          Agreement regarding the Headquarters of the United Nations, 
          signed at Lake Success June 26, 1947, and entered into force 
          November 21, 1947, between the United Nations and the United 
          States, or other applicable international obligations.
              (4) Penalties.--The penalties provided for in subsections 
          (b) and (c) of section 206 of the International Emergency 
          Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) shall apply to a person 
          that knowingly violates, attempts to violate, conspires to 
          violate, or causes a violation of regulations promulgated under 
          subsection (f) to carry out paragraph (1) of this subsection to 
          the same extent that such penalties apply to a person that 
          commits an unlawful act described in section 206(a) of such 
          Act.
      (d) Implementation Authority.--The President may exercise all 
  authorities provided to the President under sections 203 and 205 of the 
  International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702 and 1704) 
  for purposes of carrying out this Act.
      (e) Regulatory Authority.--The President shall, not later than 120 
  days after the date of the enactment of this Act, promulgate 
  regulations as necessary for the implementation of this Act.
      (f) Definitions.--In this section:
              (1) Admitted; alien.--The terms ``admitted'' and ``alien'' 
          have meanings given those terms in section 101 of the 
          Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101).
              (2) Applicable executive order.--The term ``applicable 
          Executive order'' means--
                      (A) Executive Order 13611 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note; 
                  relating to Blocking Property of Persons Threatening 
                  the Peace, Security, or Stability of Yemen); or
                      (B) any Executive order adopted on or after the 
                  date of the enactment of this Act, to the extent that 
                  such Executive order authorizes the imposition of 
                  sanctions on persons for conduct with respect to Yemen.
              (3) Applicable united nations security council 
          resolution.--The term ``applicable United Nations Security 
          Council resolution'' means--
                      (A) United Nations Security Council Resolution 
                  2216; or
                      (B) any United Nations Security Council resolution 
                  adopted on or after the date of the enactment of this 
                  Act that authorizes the imposition of sanctions on 
                  persons for conduct with respect to Yemen.
              (4) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
          ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
                      (A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee 
                  on Ways and Means, the Committee on the Judiciary, and 
                  the Committee on Financial Services of the House of 
                  Representatives; and
                      (B) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the 
                  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and 
                  the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate.
              (5) Entity.--The term ``entity''--
                      (A) means a partnership, association, corporation, 
                  or other organization, group, or subgroup; and
                      (B) includes a governmental entity.
              (6) Foreign person.--The term ``foreign person'' means--
                      (A) an individual who is not a United States person 
                  or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence 
                  into the United States; or
                      (B) a corporation, partnership, or other entity 
                  which is not a United States person.
              (7) Person.--The term ``person'' means an individual or 
          entity.
              (8) United states person.--The term ``United States 
          person'' means a United States citizen, permanent resident 
          alien, entity organized under the laws of the United States 
          (including foreign branches), or a person in the United States.
  
  SEC. 7. REPORT ON IRANIAN ACTIVITIES IN YEMEN.
  
      (a) Report.--Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment 
  of this Act, and every 180 days thereafter for a period not to exceed 5 
  years, the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional 
  committees a report on Iranian activities in Yemen.
      (b) Matters To Be Included.--The report required by subsection (a) 
  shall include a description of the following:
              (1) Iran's support for certain Yemeni militias or political 
          parties, including weapons, financing, training, and other 
          forms of material support including media and communications 
          support.
              (2) A list of referrals to the relevant United Nations 
          Security Council sanctions committees by the United States 
          Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
      (c) Form.--The President may submit the report required by 
  subsection (a) in classified form if the President determines that it 
  is necessary for the national security interests of the United States 
  to do so.
      (d) Definition.--In this section, the term ``appropriate 
  congressional committees'' means--
              (1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on 
          Armed Services, the Committee on Ways and Means, and the 
          Committee on Financial Services of the House of 
          Representatives; and
              (2) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on 
          Armed Services, the Committee on Finance, and the Committee on 
          Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate.
target: Houthis and Iran Sanctions Accountability Act of 2017 This bill continues certain sanctions blocking the property of persons threatening the peace or stability of Yemen. The President shall:   determine and report to Congress whether certain Iranian persons are threatening Yemen's peace or stability, and if so, impose property blocking sanctions against each identified person; and  impose property blocking and visa sanctions on foreign persons or entities that knowingly provide significant financial, material, or technological support for Ansar Allah in Yemen (also known as the Houthis) and certain other persons and entities.  
feat_title: Houthis and Iran Sanctions Accountability Act of 2017