# 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.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: anti_corruption. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: family_policy. Category: children. Lane tag: command.
Lane: foreign_policy. Category: war_peace. Lane tag: prudential.
Lane: georgia. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: sanctions. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: unclear. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: good. A yea supports the bill. A nay is the penalized direction when the tag is scored as a protection. A yea on a credit tag is a credit.
Roll 116: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill directly targets significant official corruption and acts of violence or intimidation aimed at blocking a nation's democratic and Euro-Atlantic path, and it authorizes sanctions to restrain those harms. This is a restraint of named wrongdoing rather than an advancement of it. The foreign-policy instrument carries some prudential uncertainty, but the direction of the measure is clear enough for a high-level judgment.
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.

## Recorded votes

Roll 116: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Yea 349 · Nay 42 · Other 42.

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