H.R. 36 · Passed House · International Affairs

MEGOBARI Act

Sponsor: Joe Wilson (R-SC)

What it does

• Requires visa-blocking sanctions, and authorizes property-blocking sanctions, on any foreign person the President finds involved in actions or policies that undermine Georgia's security or stability.
• Extends those sanctions to immediate family members who benefited from the sanctioned person's conduct.
• Requires visa-blocking sanctions on Georgian lawmakers, party officials since 2014, and current leaders who used significant corruption, violence, or intimidation to block Euro-Atlantic integration.
• Applies those sanctions to immediate family members who benefited from such officials' conduct.

Official summary

Mobilizing and Enhancing Georgia’s Options for Building Accountability, Resilience, and Independence Act or the MEGOBARI Act This bill requires the President to impose sanctions on certain foreign persons, including Georgian government officials, who are undermining Georgia's security or stability. Specifically, the bill requires the President to impose visa-blocking sanctions and authorizes the President to impose property-blocking sanctions on any foreign person the President determines is involved with actions or policies to undermine Georgia's security or stability. Immediate family members of a sanctioned individual are also subject to these sanctions if they benefited from the sanctioned individual's conduct. The bill also requires the President to impose visa-blocking sanctions on the following foreign persons if the President determines such persons knowingly engaged in significant acts of corruption or acts of violence or intimidation in relation to the blocking of Euro-Atlantic integration in Georgia: any individual who served as a member of the Georgian parliament or as a senior official of a Georgian political party on or after January 1, 2014; any individual who is…

Latest action

May 6, 2025: Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 70.

Committee: House Judiciary