US Congress Senate Bill 2060 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-4)
Status: Introduced on November 2 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2018-02-12 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 307.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Burma Human Rights and Freedom Act of 2018 This bill authorizes assistance to victims of the military's ethnic cleansing campaign targeting the Rohingya people in Rakhine State, Burma (Myanmar), as well as technical assistance to investigate and prosecute crimes related to ethnic cleansing in Rakhine State. The bill imposes restrictions on international financial institution assistance, security cooperation, and trade. It calls on the President to determine whether specified individuals should be included in the list of specially designated nationals and blocked persons maintained by the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control. The Departments of State and the Treasury and the U.S. Agency for International Development shall submit to Congress an assistance strategy to promote broad-based economic development in Burma.

Burma Human Rights and Freedom Act of 2018

Sen. John McCain [R-AZ]	Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]	Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]	Sen. Todd Young [R-IN]
Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]	Sen. Marco Rubio [R-FL]	Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]
Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI]	Sen. Tim Kaine [D-VA]	Sen. Chris Van Hollen [D-MD]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]
Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ]	Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. Susan Collins [R-ME]
Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]	Sen. Claire McCaskill [D-MO]	Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]
Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]	Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]	Sen. Maria Cantwell [D-WA]	Sen. Christopher Murphy [D-CT]
Sen. Kamala Harris [D-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-12	Senate	Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 307.
2018-02-12	Senate	Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Corker with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
2018-02-07	Senate	Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
2017-11-02	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

HB4223 (Related) 2017-11-02 - Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, the Judiciary, Armed Services, and Ways and Means, 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.
SB3696 (Same As) 2018-11-29 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/2060/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s2060/BILLS-115s2060is.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s2060/BILLS-115s2060rs.pdf