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H.R. 36 (119th): Mobilizing and Enhancing Georgia’s Options for Building Accountability, Resilience, and Independence Act or the MEGOBARI Act

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 individual who is serving as an official in a leadership position on behalf of the Georgian government; and any immediate family member of such officials who benefited from their conduct. Additionally, for the purpose of potential imposition of sanctions under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the President must determine whether there are foreign persons who, on or after the bill's enactment, have engaged in (1) significant corruption in Georgia, or (2) acts to undermine Georgia's security or stability.

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The MEGOBARI Act requires the President to impose visa-blocking sanctions on foreign persons determined to be undermining Georgia's security or stability, and authorizes property-blocking sanctions on them. Immediate family members who benefited from a sanctioned person's conduct are also covered. It requires visa-blocking sanctions on certain current and former Georgian parliamentarians, senior party officials, and government leaders, along with their benefiting family members, if they knowingly engaged in significant corruption or violence or intimidation to block Euro-Atlantic integration. It also directs the President to determine whether foreign persons have engaged in significant corruption in Georgia or in acts undermining Georgia's security or stability, for potential sanctions under IEEPA.

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Theological note: The measure bears on the civil authority's duty to restrain corruption, intimidation, and violence that oppress a people and subvert lawful order, a concern consistent with the call in Romans 13 for rulers to act against wrongdoing and with general equity in protecting the vulnerable from abuse of power. Whether sanctions are the wise instrument, and how they fit broader diplomacy, is a prudential question that Scripture does not settle directly.

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Roll 116 · 5-May-2025 6:56 PM · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass · Passed

Yea 349 · Nay 42 · Other 42

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