Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025
Introduced Feb 18, 2025 by Rep. Michael Lawler
The House passed it. The Senate has to pass it before it can reach the President.
This bill imposes sanctions on certain foreign persons (individuals and entities) that are involved in Iran's petroleum sector as well as certain associated persons. The bill also requires or authorizes actions to facilitate the enforcement of sanctions on Iran.
Specifically, the bill requires the President to impose visa- and property-blocking sanctions on any foreign person that, after the bill's enactment, knowingly engages in any transaction related to the processing, export, or sale of oil, condensates, gas, liquefied natural gas, or other petrochemical products in whole or in part from Iran. The President must also impose sanctions on certain foreign persons associated with a sanctioned individual or entity. For example, the President must sanction the subsidiaries and corporate officers of a sanctioned business.
The bill provides certain exceptions to these sanctions, including specifying that sanctions do not apply to the importation of goods or to conducting or facilitating transactions for humanitarian assistance.
The Department of State must establish an interagency working group that shall seek to establish a multilateral contact group to coordinate international efforts to enforce sanctions on Iran.
Read the full summary on Congress.govSummary by the Congressional Research Service.
No recorded roll-call vote on this bill — it may have passed by voice vote or unanimous consent, which don't record individual votes.
- Mar 17, 2026Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
- Mar 16, 2026The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
- Mar 16, 2026Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Mar 16, 2026On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2500-2501)
- Mar 16, 2026Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2500-2501)
- Mar 16, 2026DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1422.
- Mar 16, 2026Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2500-2503)
- Mar 16, 2026Mrs. Kim moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Jan 12, 2026Motion to place bill on Consensus Calendar filed by Mr. Lawler.
- Apr 9, 2025Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
- Apr 9, 2025Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Feb 18, 2025Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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.
- Feb 18, 2025Introduced in House