Venezuela Advancing Liberty, Opportunity, and Rights Act of 2025

Short title— This Act may be cited as the “Venezuela Advancing Liberty, Opportunity, and Rights Act of 2025” or the “VALOR Act of 2025”.

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

to seek a peaceful transition to democracy in Venezuela through support for the people of Venezuela, and the use of the full range of diplomatic tools, including the careful application of sanctions directed at the regime of Nicolas Maduro and any nondemocratic successor government;

to seek the cooperation of other democratic countries in supporting a transition described in paragraph (1);

to stop the evasion of United States sanctions on the Maduro regime and to seek the speedy termination of any remaining military, security, or technical assistance, subsidies, or other forms of assistance to the Maduro regime and any nondemocratic successor government from the government of any other country, including the governments of the Republic of Cuba, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Russian Federation, and the People’s Republic of China;

to maintain sanctions on the Maduro regime so long as it continues to refuse to move toward democratization and greater respect for internationally recognized human rights; and

to be prepared to reduce the sanctions imposed with respect to Venezuela in carefully calibrated ways in response to demonstrable progress toward democratization in Venezuela as described in paragraph (1).

the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate; and

the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives.