SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO THREATS TO CURRENT OR FORMER UNITED STATES OFFICIALS.

SEC. 6. [50 U.S.C. 1701 note] SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO THREATS TO CURRENT OR FORMER UNITED STATES OFFICIALS. (a) In General.—On and after the date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this division, the President shall impose the sanctions described in subsection (b) with respect to any foreign person the President determines has, on or after such date of enactment, ordered, directed, or taken material steps to carry out any use of violence or has attempted or threatened to use violence against any current or former official of the Government of the United States. (b) Sanctions Described.—The sanctions described in this subsection are the following: (1) Inadmissibility to united states.—In the case of a foreign person who is an individual— (A) ineligibility to receive a visa to enter the United States or to be admitted to the United States; or (B) if the individual has been issued a visa or other documentation, revocation, in accordance with section 221(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1201(i)), of the visa or other documentation. (2) Blocking of property.—The blocking, in accordance with the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), of all transactions in all property and interests in property of a foreign person if such property and interests in property are in the United States, come within the United States, or are or come within the possession or control of a United States person. (c) Enforcement of Blocking of Property.—A person that violates, attempts to violate, conspires to violate, or causes a violation of a sanction described in subsection (b)(2) that is imposed by the President or any regulation, license, or order issued to carry out such a sanction shall be subject to the penalties set forth in subsections (b) and (c) of section 206 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) to the same extent as a person that commits an unlawful act described in subsection (a) of that section. (d) Waiver.—The President may waive the application of sanctions under this section for renewable periods not to exceed 180 days if the President— (1) determines that such a waiver is in the vital national security interests of the United States; and (2) not less than 15 days before the granting of the waiver, submits to the appropriate congressional committees a notice of and justification for the waiver. (e) Termination and Sunset.— (1) Termination of sanctions.—The President may terminate the application of sanctions under this section with respect to a person if the President determines and reports to the appropriate congressional committees not later than 15 days before the termination of the sanctions that— (A) credible information exists that the person did not engage in the activity for which sanctions were imposed; (B) the person has credibly demonstrated a significant change in behavior, has paid an appropriate consequence for the activity for which sanctions were imposed, and has credibly committed to not engage in an activity described in subsection (a) in the future; or (C) the termination of the sanctions is in the vital national security interests of the United States. (2) Sunset.—The requirement to impose sanctions under this section shall terminate on the date that is 4 years after the date of the enactment of this division. (f) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.—In this section, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means— (1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on the Judiciary; and (2) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on the Judiciary.