- No clear beneficiaries surfaced yet.
MEGOBARI Act
Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 70.
<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. </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: </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>
This bill has already passed one chamber, which is a stronger signal than introduction alone but still leaves another major hurdle ahead.
How solid the drafting looks.
The main political fault lines are not fully surfaced yet, so coalition durability is still unclear.
Who stands to gain, and who may push back.
- No clear downsides surfaced yet.
Why the argument around this bill splits.
The main political fault lines are not fully surfaced yet, so coalition durability is still unclear.
The main political fault lines are not fully surfaced yet, so coalition durability is still unclear.
The main political fault lines are not fully surfaced yet, so coalition durability is still unclear.
The main political fault lines are not fully surfaced yet, so coalition durability is still unclear.
The path through Congress.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Still ahead
Still ahead
Still ahead
This bill has already passed one chamber, which is a stronger signal than introduction alone but still leaves another major hurdle ahead.
- The next hurdle is reproducing that support in the other chamber.
Recent votes on the bill.
Passed
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass
Go deeper than the headline read.
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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