Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 104 — Venezuela Assistance
§ 9741. Recovering assets stolen from the Venezuelan people
Statutory text
Recovering assets
The President, acting through the Secretary of State and in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, shall advance a coordinated international effort—
to work with foreign governments—
to share financial investigations intelligence, as appropriate;
to block the assets identified pursuant to paragraph (2); and
to provide technical assistance to help governments establish the necessary legal framework to carry out asset forfeitures; and
to carry out special financial investigations to identify and track assets taken from the people and institutions of Venezuela through theft, corruption, money laundering, or other illicit means.
Strategy requirement
In general
Not later than 180 days after , the President, acting through the Secretary of State and in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, shall submit a strategy for carrying out the activities described in subsection (a) to Congress.
Additional elements
The strategy required under paragraph (1) shall—
assess whether the United States or another member of the international community should establish a managed fund to hold the assets identified pursuant to subsection (a)(2) that could be returned to a future democratic government in Venezuela; and
include such recommendations as the President and the Secretary of State consider appropriate for legislative or administrative action in the United States that would be needed to establish and manage the fund described in subparagraph (A).
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Department of Transportation Appropriations Act, 2020
Pub. L. 116–94 div. J title I § 151 · 133 Stat. 2534
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 9741
(Pub. L. 116–94, div. J, title I, § 151, Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 3039.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 116–94, div. J, title I, § 151, Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 3039.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 151. None of the funds provided to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation under the headings “Northeast Corridor Grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation” and “National Network Grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation” may be used to reduce the total number of Amtrak Police Department uniformed officers patrolling on board passenger trains or at stations, facilities or rights-of-way below the staffing level on May 1, 2019.
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