Leverage to Enhance Effective Diplomacy Act of 2017 or the LEED Act This bill directs the President to: (1) impose property-blocking sanctions against the North Korean government, business entities that trade with North Korea, including specified Chinese entities, and affiliated persons or entities; (2) prohibit the opening, and strictly control the maintaining in the United States, of correspondent or payable-through accounts by a foreign financial institution that assisted in the importation, sale, or transfer of North Korean goods or services; and (3) impose specified sanctions against a person that imports, purchases, or transfers goods or services from the North Korean government or from such entities or affiliates. The North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 is amended to extend assistance for human rights and democracy programs. The bill prescribes reporting requirements with respect to North Korea's ballistic missile and missile fuel program. The Department of State shall: (1) brief Congress on the status of U.S. diplomatic engagement with North Korea and of detained U.S. citizens, and (2) develop a diplomatic strategy to end the transfer of rocket fuels and chemical precursors to North Korea. The State Department may reduce its diplomatic presence in, and terminate or reduce foreign assistance to, countries that are not cooperating with diplomatic and economic efforts to isolate North Korea.
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Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Corker with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. Without written report.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 279.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Corker with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. Without written report.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 279.
Arms control and nonproliferationAsiaBank accounts, deposits, capitalChinaComputer security and identity theftCongressional oversightDetention of personsDiplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroadForeign aid and international reliefForeign and international bankingForeign and international corporationsForeign laborForeign propertyFreedom of informationHuman rightsIntelligence activities, surveillance, classified informationInternational exchange and broadcastingInternational organizations and cooperationMilitary assistance, sales, and agreementsMilitary education and trainingNorth KoreaNuclear weaponsPresidents and presidential powers, Vice PresidentsSanctionsTechnology transfer and commercializationTrade restrictionsTrade secrets and economic espionageUnited NationsWar and emergency powers
LEED Act
USA115th CongressS-1901| Senate
| Updated: 12/7/2017
Leverage to Enhance Effective Diplomacy Act of 2017 or the LEED Act This bill directs the President to: (1) impose property-blocking sanctions against the North Korean government, business entities that trade with North Korea, including specified Chinese entities, and affiliated persons or entities; (2) prohibit the opening, and strictly control the maintaining in the United States, of correspondent or payable-through accounts by a foreign financial institution that assisted in the importation, sale, or transfer of North Korean goods or services; and (3) impose specified sanctions against a person that imports, purchases, or transfers goods or services from the North Korean government or from such entities or affiliates. The North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 is amended to extend assistance for human rights and democracy programs. The bill prescribes reporting requirements with respect to North Korea's ballistic missile and missile fuel program. The Department of State shall: (1) brief Congress on the status of U.S. diplomatic engagement with North Korea and of detained U.S. citizens, and (2) develop a diplomatic strategy to end the transfer of rocket fuels and chemical precursors to North Korea. The State Department may reduce its diplomatic presence in, and terminate or reduce foreign assistance to, countries that are not cooperating with diplomatic and economic efforts to isolate North Korea.
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Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Corker with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. Without written report.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 279.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Corker with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. Without written report.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 279.
Arms control and nonproliferationAsiaBank accounts, deposits, capitalChinaComputer security and identity theftCongressional oversightDetention of personsDiplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroadForeign aid and international reliefForeign and international bankingForeign and international corporationsForeign laborForeign propertyFreedom of informationHuman rightsIntelligence activities, surveillance, classified informationInternational exchange and broadcastingInternational organizations and cooperationMilitary assistance, sales, and agreementsMilitary education and trainingNorth KoreaNuclear weaponsPresidents and presidential powers, Vice PresidentsSanctionsTechnology transfer and commercializationTrade restrictionsTrade secrets and economic espionageUnited NationsWar and emergency powers