HR 36 · 119th Congress · International Affairs

MEGOBARI Act

Introduced 2025-01-03· Sponsored by Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]· House

Bill Progress

Introduced
Committee
House Vote
4
Senate
5
Enacted
Latest: Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 70.(2025-05-06)

Recorded Votes

PassedHouse · 2025-05-05
Roll #116
Yea 349Nay 42
Democrats
181 Yea·8 Nay
Republicans
168 Yea·34 Nay
PassedHouse · 2025-05-05
Roll #116
Yea 349Nay 42
Democrats
181 Yea·8 Nay
Republicans
168 Yea·34 Nay

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Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Mobilizing and Enhancing Georgia’s Options for Building Accountability, Resilience, and Independence Act or the MEGOBARI Act This bill requires the President to impose sanctions on certain foreign persons, including Georgian government officials, who are undermining Georgia's security or stability. Specifically, the bill requires the President to impose visa-blocking sanctions and authorizes the President to impose property-blocking sanctions on any foreign person the President determines is involved with actions or policies to undermine Georgia's security or stability. Immediate family members of a sanctioned individual are also subject to these sanctions if they benefited from the sanctioned individual's conduct.  The bill also requires the President to impose visa-blocking sanctions on the following foreign persons if the President determines such persons knowingly engaged in significant acts of corruption or acts of violence or intimidation in relation to the blocking of Euro-Atlantic integration in Georgia:  any individual who served as a member of the Georgian parliament or as a senior official of a Georgian political party on or after January 1, 2014; any individua…

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Cosponsors (18)

10 Democrats8 Republicans