republic-os/legal/us/code/title-22/chapter-96a/section-8924.md

type, title, description, jurisdiction, corpus, kind, title_number, title_name, chapter_number, chapter_name, section, citation, status, release_point, release_date, source, source_url, source_identifier, source_file, source_hash, raw_snapshot_hash, text_hash, retrieved_at, confidence, tags

type	title	description	jurisdiction	corpus	kind	title_number	title_name	chapter_number	chapter_name	section	citation	status	release_point	release_date	source	source_url	source_identifier	source_file	source_hash	raw_snapshot_hash	text_hash	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
LegalText	22 U.S.C. § 8924	Sanctions on Russian and other foreign financial institutions	us	united_states_code	code_section	22	FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE	96A	UKRAINE FREEDOM SUPPORT	8924	22 U.S.C. § 8924	current	119-100	2026-06-26	official	https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc22@119-100.zip	/us/usc/t22/s8924	data/legal/raw/us/code/title-22/usc22.xml	f7714c16ccef2c8c7a9912b2d7cc29c6efbe30349f5fc9823fd8a91b9305fc8f	b9c63ede722f5e0bf8eabfe9029e06e312ab9bcfd95c4d1424ed515baff1df83	5d1d77d5449f6f5c4fc3df5da64263249a5cb9235b00b43b0a389965993c2603	2026-07-04	official	legal us-code

22 U.S.C. § 8924 - Sanctions on Russian and other foreign financial institutions

Text

(a) Facilitation of certain defense- and energy-related transactions The President shall impose, unless the President determines that it is not in the national interest of the United States to do so, the sanction described in subsection (c) with respect to a foreign financial institution that the President determines knowingly engages, on or after August 2, 2017, in significant transactions involving activities described in subparagraph (A)(ii) or (B) of section 8923(a)(2) of this title or paragraph (1) or (3) of section 8923(b) of this title for persons with respect to which sanctions are imposed under section 8923 of this title.

(b) Facilitation of financial transactions on behalf of specially designated nationals The President shall impose, unless the President determines that it is not in the national interest of the United States to do so, the sanction described in subsection (c) with respect to a foreign financial institution if the President determines that the foreign financial institution has, on or after the date that is 30 days after August 2, 2017, knowingly facilitated a significant financial transaction on behalf of any Russian person included on the list of specially designated nationals and blocked persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury, pursuant to—

(1) this chapter;

(2) Executive Order No. 13660 (79 Fed. Reg. 13,493), 13661 (79 Fed. Reg. 15,535), or 13662 (79 Fed. Reg. 16,169); or

(3) any other Executive order addressing the crisis in Ukraine.

(c) Sanction described The sanction described in this subsection is, with respect to a foreign financial institution, a prohibition on the opening, and a prohibition or the imposition of strict conditions on the maintaining, in the United States of a correspondent account or a payable-through account by the foreign financial institution.

(d) National security waiver The President may waive the application of sanctions under this section with respect to a foreign financial institution if the President—

(1) determines that the waiver is in the national security interest of the United States; and

(2) submits to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the determination and the reasons for the determination.

(e) Notification to Congress on imposition of sanctions The President shall notify the appropriate congressional committees in writing not later than 15 days after imposing sanctions with respect to a foreign financial institution under subsection (a) or (b).

(f) Implementation; penalties (1) Implementation The President may exercise all authorities provided under sections 1702 and 1704 of title 50 to carry out the purposes of this section.

(2) Penalties The penalties provided for in subsections (b) and (c) of section 1705 of title 50 shall apply to a person that violates, attempts to violate, or conspires to violate, or causes a violation of, subsection (a) or (b) of this section, or an order or regulation prescribed under either such subsection, to the same extent that such penalties apply to a person that commits an unlawful act described in section 1705(a) of title 50.

(g) Termination This section, and sanctions imposed under this section, shall terminate on the date on which the President submits to the appropriate congressional committees the certification described in section 8923(i) of this title.

(Pub. L. 113–272, § 5, Dec. 18, 2014, 128 Stat. 2958; Pub. L. 115–44, title II, §§ 226, 229(b), Aug. 2, 2017, 131 Stat. 910, 915.)

Notes

Termination of SectionFor termination of section, see subsection (g) of this section.

Editorial Notes

References in TextExecutive Order No. 13660, referred to in subsec. (b)(2), is Ex. Ord. No. 13660, Mar. 6, 2014, 79 F.R. 13493, which is listed in a table under section 1701 of Title 50, War and National Defense. Executive Order No. 13661, referred to in subsec. (b)(2), is Ex. Ord. No. 13661, Mar. 16, 2014, 79 F.R. 15535, which is listed in a table under section 1701 of Title 50, War and National Defense. Executive Order No. 13662, referred to in subsec. (b)(2), is Ex. Ord. No. 13662, Mar. 20, 2014, 79 F.R. 16169, which is listed in a table under section 1701 of Title 50, War and National Defense.

Amendments2017—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 115–44, § 226(1), substituted “shall impose, unless the President determines that it is not in the national interest of the United States to do so,” for “may impose” and “on or after August 2, 2017” for “on or after December 18, 2014”. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 115–44, § 226(2), in introductory provisions, substituted “shall impose, unless the President determines that it is not in the national interest of the United States to do so,” for “may impose” and “on or after the date that is 30 days after August 2, 2017” for “on or after the date that is 180 days after December 18, 2014”. Subsecs. (e), (f). Pub. L. 115–44, § 229(b)(1), (2), added subsec. (e) and redesignated former subsec. (e) as (f). Former subsec. (f) redesignated (g). Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 115–44, § 229(b)(1), (3), redesignated subsec. (f) as (g) and substituted “section 8923(i)” for “section 8923(h)”.