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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 3190
To amend the Burma Unified through Rigorous Military Accountability Act
of 2022 to extend the sunset, to require a determination with respect
to the imposition of sanctions on certain persons of Burma, and for
other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY5, 2025
Mr. H
UIZENGA(for himself, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mrs. WAGNER, and Mr.
M
OULTON) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Ju-
diciary, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To amend the Burma Unified through Rigorous Military
Accountability Act of 2022 to extend the sunset, to re-
quire a determination with respect to the imposition of
sanctions on certain persons of Burma, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Bringing Real Ac-2
countability Via Enforcement in Burma Act’’ or the 3
‘‘BRAVE Burma Act’’. 4
SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF SUNSET. 5
Section 5574 of the Burma Unified through Rigorous 6
Military Accountability Act of 2022 (subtitle E of title LV 7
of division E of the James M. Inhofe National Defense 8
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023; 22 U.S.C. 10225) 9
is amended by striking ‘‘8 years’’ and inserting ‘‘10 10
years’’. 11
SEC. 3. MODIFICATIONS TO REPORTING REQUIREMENT. 12
Section 5571(e) of the James M. Inhofe National De-13
fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (22 U.S.C. 14
10222(e)) is amended to read as follows: 15
‘‘(e) A
SSESSMENT AND REPORT ON SANCTIONS 16
W
ITHRESPECT TOBURMESEPERSONS.— 17
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 18
after the date of the enactment of this Act, and an-19
nually thereafter for 7 years, the President shall de-20
termine whether the following persons meet the cri-21
teria for sanctions described under subsection (a) or 22
under Executive Order 14014 (86 Fed. Reg. 9429; 23
relating to blocking property with respect to the sit-24
uation in Burma): 25
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‘‘(A) Any Burmese state-owned enterprise 1
described in subsection (c)(1). 2
‘‘(B) Myanma Economic Bank. 3
‘‘(C) Any foreign person that the President 4
determines operates in the jet fuel sector of the 5
Burmese economy, including through activities 6
such as the provision of financial services or the 7
importation, exportation, reexportation, sale, 8
supply, trade, storage, or transport, directly or 9
indirectly, of jet fuel in Burma. 10
‘‘(2) R
EPORT REQUIRED .—Upon making the 11
determination required by paragraph (1), the Presi-12
dent shall submit to the appropriate congressional 13
committees a report on the assessment. 14
‘‘(3) F
ORM OF REPORT.—The report required 15
by paragraph (2) shall be submitted in unclassified 16
form but may include a classified annex.’’. 17
SEC. 4. LIMITATION OF SHAREHOLDING BENEFITTING THE 18
STATE ADMINISTRATION COUNCIL OF 19
BURMA. 20
(a) I
NGENERAL.—The Secretary of the Treasury 21
shall instruct the United States Executive Director at the 22
International Monetary Fund to use the voice and vote 23
of the United States, when assessing potential changes to 24
any shareholding formula in connection with a governance 25
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review of the Fund, to limit, as appropriate, an increase 1
to the shareholding of Burma if the country is subject to 2
the rule of the State Administration Council. 3
(b) W
AIVER.—The President of the United States 4
may waive the application of subsection (a) upon certifying 5
to the Committee on Financial Services of the House of 6
Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations 7
of the Senate that the waiver is important to the national 8
interest of the United States, with a detailed explanation 9
of the reasons therefor. 10
SEC. 5. UNITED STATES SPECIAL ENVOY FOR BURMA. 11
(a) I
NGENERAL.—The President shall appoint, by 12
and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a Special 13
Envoy for Burma, who shall have the rank and status of 14
ambassador and who shall be responsible for coordinating 15
all aspects of United States policy with respect to Burma. 16
(b) C
ENTRALOBJECTIVE.—The Special Envoy 17
should develop a comprehensive strategy for the implemen-18
tation of the full range of United States diplomatic capa-19
bilities to promote the restoration of peace and a civilian- 20
led democratic government in Burma. 21
(c) D
UTIES ANDRESPONSIBILITIES.—The Special 22
Envoy shall also— 23
(1) coordinate the sanctions policies of the 24
United States under the Burma Unified through 25
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Rigorous Military Accountability Act of 2022 (22 1
U.S.C. 10201 et seq.) and other relevant statutory 2
authorities across relevant Federal departments and 3
agencies; 4
(2) develop and implement a comprehensive 5
international effort to impose and enforce multilat-6
eral sanctions with respect to Burma; 7
(3) lead interagency United States Government 8
efforts, including efforts of the Chief of Mission in 9
Burma, the Ambassador to ASEAN, the Ambas-10
sador to Bangladesh, the Ambassador to India, and 11
the United States Permanent Representative to the 12
United Nations, relating to— 13
(A) identifying opportunities to coordinate 14
with and exert pressure on the governments of 15
the People’s Republic of China and the Russian 16
Federation to cease or curtail support for the 17
Burmese military; 18
(B) working with like-minded partners to 19
impose a coordinated arms embargo on the 20
Burmese military and targeted sanctions on the 21
economic interests of the Burmese military, in-22
cluding through the introduction and adoption 23
of a United Nations Security Council resolu-24
tion; 25
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(C) engaging Burmese civil society, democ-1
racy advocates, ethnic nationality representative 2
groups, and organizations or groups rep-3
resenting the resistance and revolutionary 4
movement, as well as officials elected in 2020 5
such as the Committee Representing the 6
Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, the National Unity Gov-7
ernment, the National Unity Consultative 8
Council, the Ethnic Resistance Revolutionary 9
Organizations, and their designated representa-10
tives; 11
(D) encouraging the United Nations Inde-12
pendent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar 13
to incorporate accountability mechanisms in re-14
lation to the atrocities against Rohingya and 15
other ethnic groups, to take further steps to 16
make its leadership and membership ethnically 17
diverse, and to incorporate measures to enhance 18
ethnic reconciliation and national unity into its 19
policy agenda; 20
(E) assisting efforts by the relevant United 21
Nations Special Procedures to secure the re-22
lease of all political prisoners in Burma, pro-23
mote respect for human rights, seek account-24
ability, and encourage dialogue; 25
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(F) working with the governments of 1
India, Bangladesh, and other countries as ap-2
propriate to address challenges in Western 3
Burma, including issues related to atrocity 4
crimes, refugees and displaced persons, cross- 5
border humanitarian assistance and trade, traf-6
ficking in persons, illicit trafficking of narcotics 7
and weapons, or other transnational threats to 8
regional peace and security; and 9
(G) supporting nongovernmental organiza-10
tions operating in Burma and neighboring 11
countries working to restore civilian democratic 12
rule to Burma, address the urgent humani-13
tarian needs of the people of Burma, and build 14
resilience against malign foreign influence in 15
support of the military regime; 16
(4) coordinate all streams of United States as-17
sistance to the people of Burma until such time as 18
the United States normalizes diplomatic relations 19
with Burma; 20
(5) provide timely input for reporting on the 21
impacts of the implementation of the Burma Unified 22
through Rigorous Military Accountability Act of 23
2022 on the Burmese military and the people of 24
Burma; and 25
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(6) report to and coordinate with Congress. 1
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