{"format":1,"id":"119-hr-36","congress":119,"number":"H.R. 36","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Mobilizing and Enhancing Georgia’s Options for Building Accountability, Resilience, and Independence Act","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To counter the influence of the Chinese Communist Party, the Iranian Regime, and the Russian Federation in the nation of Georgia.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To counter the influence of the Chinese Communist Party, the Iranian Regime, and the Russian Federation in the nation of Georgia."},{"type":"Display Title","title":"MEGOBARI Act"},{"type":"Official Title from EH (Engrossed in House) bill text","title":"To counter the influence of the Chinese Communist Party, the Iranian Regime, and the Russian Federation in the nation of Georgia."},{"type":"Short Title(s) from PCS (Placed on Senate Calendar) bill text","title":"Mobilizing and Enhancing Georgia’s Options for Building Accountability, Resilience, and Independence Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) from PCS (Placed on Senate Calendar) bill text","title":"MEGOBARI Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"Mobilizing and Enhancing Georgia’s Options for Building Accountability, Resilience, and Independence Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"MEGOBARI Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"MEGOBARI Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Mobilizing and Enhancing Georgia’s Options for Building Accountability, Resilience, and Independence Act"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2025-01-03","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2025-05-05","vote":{"id":"119-2025-h116","question":"On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass","title":"MEGOBARI Act","result":"Passed","yea":349,"nay":42,"present":0,"not_voting":42,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll116.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"pending","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"not_yet","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 70.","date":"2025-05-06"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2025-01-03","stage":"Introduced in House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Mobilizing and Enhancing Georgia’s Options for Building Accountability, Resilience, and Independence Act or the MEGOBARI Act"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill requires the President to impose sanctions on certain foreign persons, including Georgian government officials, who are undermining Georgia's security or stability."},{"k":"p","t":"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."},{"k":"p","t":"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:"},{"k":"li","t":"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;","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"any individual who is serving as an official in a leadership position on behalf of the Georgian government; and","d":1},{"k":"li","t":"any immediate family member of such officials who benefited from their conduct.","d":1},{"k":"p","t":"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."}],"words":248},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Requires the President to determine whether certain people have acted against Georgia's stability or Euro-Atlantic integration and to impose visa sanctions on them, and requires reports and a strategy on United States relations with Georgia.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 6","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/36/text/eh#H75EABF0645A24B3BB6A64465CE18E0E9"},{"label":"Sec. 5","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/36/text/eh#H8A12F1B9A329463DB1D10B2D8AE98AEA"}]},"core_areas":["Visa and property-blocking sanctions on foreign persons connected to Georgia","Reports and a 5-year strategy on United States relations with Georgia","Conditional security cooperation and exchanges with Georgia"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Requires the President, within 90 days of enactment, to determine whether certain foreign persons, including members of Georgia's Parliament since January 1, 2014 and current leadership officials of the Georgian government, knowingly engaged in significant acts of corruption or acts of violence or intimidation in relation to the blocking of Euro-Atlantic integration in Georgia.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 6","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/36/text/eh#H75EABF0645A24B3BB6A64465CE18E0E9"}},{"text":"Makes each foreign person with an affirmative determination inadmissible and ineligible for a visa, revokes their current visas, and lets the President waive these sanctions case by case on stated grounds.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 6","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/36/text/eh#H75EABF0645A24B3BB6A64465CE18E0E9"}},{"text":"Authorizes property-blocking sanctions and requires visa sanctions for foreign persons the President determines are responsible for actions intended to undermine the peace, security, stability, sovereignty, or territorial integrity of Georgia.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 6","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/36/text/eh#H75EABF0645A24B3BB6A64465CE18E0E9"}},{"text":"Requires a classified report within 180 days on Russian intelligence elements in Georgia, with an annex on Chinese influence, and a 5-year strategy for bilateral relations with Georgia within 90 days.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 5","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/36/text/eh#H8A12F1B9A329463DB1D10B2D8AE98AEA"}},{"text":"States that, once the President certifies Georgia has shown significant and sustained progress toward democracy and Euro-Atlantic integration, the Secretary of State should seek to enhance people-to-people contacts and academic exchanges with Georgia.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 7","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/36/text/eh#HBA9670D7B59240A199EFFF476DCFF98E"}},{"text":"Ends the force and effect of the Act 5 years after the date of enactment.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 8","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/36/text/eh#H51EE25EA17AE41B8A4AB5D39BA849456"}}],"unexpected":[{"category":"selective_carve_out","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/36/text/eh#H75EABF0645A24B3BB6A64465CE18E0E9"},"heading":"Sanctions","effect":"Exempts certain kinds of activity from the sanctions: intelligence activities, actions needed to meet UN Headquarters Agreement or other international obligations, transactions for agricultural commodities, food, medicine, medical devices or humanitarian aid, and imports of goods from the property-blocking requirement.","amount":null,"quote":"The requirement to block and prohibit all transactions in all property and interests in property under this section shall not include the authority or a requirement to impose sanctions on the importation of goods."}]}],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2025-05-05","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/36/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-09-29","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/36","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/36/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/119-hr-36.png","v":"1509960b201b","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 36, 119th Congress: Mobilizing and Enhancing Georgia’s Options for Building Accountability, Resilience, and Independence Act. House: 349 Yea, 42 Nay. Senate: not yet considered. Outcome: Passed House, 5 May 2025."}}