[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2204 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2204

To prohibit contracting with persons that have business operations with 
               the Maduro regime, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 10, 2019

 Mr. Waltz (for himself and Mr. Diaz-Balart) introduced the following 
   bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit contracting with persons that have business operations with 
               the Maduro regime, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Venezuelan Contracting Restriction 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON CONTRACTING WITH PERSONS THAT HAVE BUSINESS 
              OPERATIONS WITH THE MADURO REGIME.

    (a) Prohibition.--The head of an executive agency may not enter 
into a contract for the procurement of goods or services with any 
person that has business operations with an authority of the government 
of Venezuela that is not recognized as the legitimate government of 
Venezuela by the United States Government.
    (b) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Business operations.--The term ``business operations'' 
        means engaging in commerce in any form, including acquiring, 
        developing, maintaining, owning, selling, possessing, leasing, 
        or operating equipment, facilities, personnel, products, 
        services, personal property, real property, or any other 
        apparatus of business or commerce.
            (2) Executive agency.--The term ``executive agency'' has 
        the meaning given the term in section 133 of title 41, United 
        States Code.
            (3) Person.--The term ``person'' means--
                    (A) a natural person, corporation, company, 
                business association, partnership, society, trust, or 
                any other nongovernmental entity, organization, or 
                group;
                    (B) any governmental entity or instrumentality of a 
                government, including a multilateral development 
                institution (as defined in section 1701(c)(3) of the 
                International Financial Institutions Act (22 U.S.C. 
                262r(c)(3))); and
                    (C) any successor, subunit, parent entity, or 
                subsidiary of, or any entity under common ownership or 
                control with, any entity described in subparagraph (A) 
                or (B).
    (c) Applicability.--This section shall apply with respect to any 
contract entered into on or after the date of the enactment of this 
section.
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