Sanctions Lists Harmonization Act

This bill aims to make U.S. sanctions lists line up across agencies. If a person or company is added to one covered sanctions list, the official in charge must alert the officials who run the other covered lists within 30 days. Those officials must start a review within 30 days and decide within 90 days if that person or company should be added to their lists too.

Agencies must send Congress a report within one year of the law taking effect. The report must confirm they followed these steps, explain how they did it, and list any cases where this process led to new additions. It will be unclassified, but can include a classified annex. The covered lists include Treasury’s SDN list, the NS-CMIC list, and the Sectoral Sanctions list; Commerce’s Entity List and Military End User List; and a Defense Department list under section 1260H.

• Who is affected: People and companies on U.S. sanctions lists, and the federal agencies that manage those lists.
• What changes: Faster cross-checking and decisions across lists (30-day notice; 30-day review start; 90-day decision), plus a one-year report to Congress on how it’s working.
• When: Timelines start when someone is added to a covered list; agency reports are due within one year after enactment.