Official Summaries

Standing Against Houthi Aggression Act

This bill requires (1) the Department of State to designate Ansarallah, the Iran-backed movement in Yemen also known as the Houthis, as a foreign terrorist organization; and (2) the President to impose property- and visa-blocking sanctions with respect to Ansarallah and any foreign person who is a member, agent, or affiliate of, or owned or controlled by, Ansarallah.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 159 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 159

To designate Ansarallah as a foreign terrorist organization and impose 
        certain sanctions on Ansarallah, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 21, 2025

  Mr. Daines (for himself, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Sheehy, Mr. 
Budd, Mr. Cornyn, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Hoeven, Mr. Ricketts, Mr. Crapo, 
 Ms. Lummis, Mrs. Capito, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Schmitt, Mrs. Fischer, Mr. 
Scott of Florida, Mrs. Britt, Ms. Collins, Mr. Cassidy, and Ms. Ernst) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                     Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
To designate Ansarallah as a foreign terrorist organization and impose 
        certain sanctions on Ansarallah, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Standing Against Houthi Aggression 
Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) It was reported by Reuters on March 21, 2017, that 
        Iran, a designated state sponsor of terror, sent advanced 
        weapons and military advisers to assist and support Yemen's 
        Ansarallah, commonly referred to as the ``Houthis''.
            (2) On January 19, 2021, the Trump Administration 
        designated Ansarallah as a foreign terrorist organization and a 
        specially designated global terrorist.
            (3) On February 16, 2021, Secretary of State Blinken 
        revoked the designation of Ansarallah as a foreign terrorist 
        organization pursuant to section 219(a)(6)(A) of the 
        Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189(a)(6)(A)).
            (4) On March 7, 2021, an Ansarallah drone strike had been 
        intercepted by Saudi Arabia, which targeted an oil storage yard 
        at Ras Tanura.
            (5) On March 19, 2021, another Ansarallah drone strike hit 
        a Riyadh oil refinery, which caused a fire that was brought 
        under control.
            (6) After the March 19, 2021, attack, Ansarallah proclaimed 
        that they launched six drones at a Saudi Aramco facility, and 
        vowed to continue operations against Saudi Arabia as long as 
        ``its aggression against Yemen would continue''.

SEC. 3. DESIGNATION AS FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION; IMPOSITION OF 
              SANCTIONS.

    (a) Designation as Foreign Terrorist Organization.--Not later than 
90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
State shall designate Ansarallah as a foreign terrorist organization 
pursuant to section 219(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1189(a)).
    (b) Imposition of Sanctions.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
        the enactment of this Act, the President shall impose the 
        sanctions described in paragraph (2) with respect to--
                    (A) Ansarallah; and
                    (B) any foreign person that is a member, agent, or 
                affiliate of, or owned or controlled by, Ansarallah.
            (2) Sanctions described.--The sanctions described in this 
        paragraph are--
                    (A) sanctions applicable with respect to a foreign 
                person pursuant to Executive Order 13224 (50 U.S.C. 
                1701 note; relating to blocking property and 
                prohibiting transactions with persons who commit, 
                threaten to commit, or support terrorism); and
                    (B) sanctions described in Executive Order 13780 (8 
                U.S.C. 1182 note; relating to protecting the Nation 
                from foreign terrorist entry into the United States), 
                as in effect on January 19, 2021, with respect to 
                nationals of Yemen.
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