Solidify Iran Sanctions Act of 2025: Overview, Purpose, and Impact

Main Subject: International Affairs

Solidify Iran Sanctions Act of 2025

This bill eliminates a sunset clause in the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996, thereby making the act permanent.

The Iran Sanctions Act requires the President, with some exceptions, to impose sanctions on certain individuals or entities engaged in specified transactions related to Iran's energy sector or Iran's efforts to acquire or develop certain weapons (such as chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons).

Senate Actions

IntroReferral
May. 06 2025	Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

House floor actions Actions

Floor
May. 05 2025	Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1838) DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1800. Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1838-1839: 1) Mr. Mast moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.

IntroReferral

Mar. 03
2025

Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Ways and Means, the Judiciary, and Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Ways and Means, the Judiciary, and Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Ways and Means, the Judiciary, and Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Ways and Means, the Judiciary, and Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Ways and Means, the Judiciary, and Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Library of Congress Actions

Floor
May. 05 2025	Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1838)

IntroReferral
Mar. 03 2025	Introduced in House Introduced in House

House bill HR1800-119

Solidify Iran Sanctions Act of 2025

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