H.R. 36 (119th)Bill Overview

MEGOBARI Act

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Introduced
Jan 3, 2025
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Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 70.

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01 · The brief

<p><strong>Mobilizing and Enhancing Georgia’s Options for Building Accountability, Resilience, and Independence Act or the MEGOBARI Act</strong></p><p>This bill requires the President to impose sanctions on certain foreign persons, including Georgian government officials, who are undermining Georgia's security or stability.</p><p>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.&nbsp;</p><p>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:&nbsp;</p><ul><li>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;</li><li>any individual who is serving as an official in a leadership position on behalf of the Georgian government; and</li><li>any immediate family member of such officials who benefited from their conduct.</li></ul><p>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.</p>

Passage79/100

This bill has already passed one chamber, which is a stronger signal than introduction alone but still leaves another major hurdle ahead.

CredibilityPartial

How solid the drafting looks.

Contention62/100

The main political fault lines are not fully surfaced yet, so coalition durability is still unclear.

02 · What it does

Who stands to gain, and who may push back.

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03 · Why people split

Why the argument around this bill splits.

The main political fault lines are not fully surfaced yet, so coalition durability is still unclear.
Progressive

The main political fault lines are not fully surfaced yet, so coalition durability is still unclear.

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Centrist

The main political fault lines are not fully surfaced yet, so coalition durability is still unclear.

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Conservative

The main political fault lines are not fully surfaced yet, so coalition durability is still unclear.

Unclear
04 · Can it pass?

The path through Congress.

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Reached or meaningfully advanced

Committee

Reached or meaningfully advanced

Floor

Still ahead

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Passage likelihood79/100

This bill has already passed one chamber, which is a stronger signal than introduction alone but still leaves another major hurdle ahead.

Why this could stall
  • The next hurdle is reproducing that support in the other chamber.
05 · Recent votes

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06 · Go deeper

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The main political fault lines are not fully surfaced yet, so coalition durability is still unclear.

This bill has already passed one chamber, which is a stronger signal than introduction alone but still leaves another major hurdle ahead.

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