Venezuela Emergency Relief, Democracy Assistance, and Development Act of 2019

S. 1025 · 116th Congress · Apr 3, 2019 · Lineage

A BILL

To provide humanitarian relief to the Venezuelan people and Venezuelan migrants, to advance a constitutional and democratic solution to Venezuela’s political crisis, to address Venezuela’s economic reconstruction, to combat public corruption, narcotics trafficking, and money laundering, and for other purposes.

Section 1 Short titles; table of contents

(a)

Short titles— This Act may be cited as the “Venezuela Emergency Relief, Democracy Assistance, and Development Act of 2019” or the “VERDAD Act of 2019”.

(b)

Table of contents— The table of contents for this Act is as follows:

Sec. 2 Defined term

In this Act, the term Maduro regime means any ministry, agency, political subdivision, or instrumentality of the Government of Venezuela, including the Central Bank of Venezuela and Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., any branch of the Venezuelan armed forces, and any person owned or controlled by, or acting for or on behalf of, the Government of Venezuela that remain under the control of Nicolás Maduro or the subsequent control of a person that comes to power through any means other than—

(1)

a free, fair, and transparent democratic election that is monitored by credible international observers; or

(2)

the appointment by Venezuela’s democratically elected National Assembly of an Interim President with a mandate to convene elections described in paragraph (1); and

(3)

a negotiation process described in section 103.

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Apr 3, 2019viewing Reported in Senate Mr. Menendez (for himself, Mr. Rubio, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Cruz, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Kaine, Mr. Young, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Graham, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Coons, Mr. Cassidy, Mr. Hawley, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Carper, and Mr. Gardner) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations See what changed
Apr 3, 2019 Introduced in Senate Mr. Menendez (for himself, Mr. Rubio, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Cruz, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Kaine, Mr. Young, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Graham, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Coons, Mr. Cassidy, and Mr. Hawley) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

Venezuela Emergency Relief, Democracy Assistance, and Development Act of 2019

Section 1 Short titles; table of contents

Sec. 2 Defined term

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