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handle is hein.congrec/cbo3824 and id is 1 raw text is: CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE COST ESTIMATE October 19, 2017 H.R. 3329 Hizballah International Financing Prevention Amendments Act of 2017 As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on September 28, 2017 H.R. 3329 would expand federal sanctions and reporting requirements related to illicit interactions with Hizballah, a foreign terrorist organization based in Lebanon. It would direct the President to identify and impose sanctions on foreign people and entities engaged in fundraising and recruitment activities for Hizballah. The bill also would require the President to apply the sanctions in Executive Order 13581 to affiliated networks of Hizballah. That executive order blocked the U.S. held assets of certain criminal organizations from being transferred, paid, exported, or withdrawn. Finally, federal agencies would be required to develop policies and prepare multiple reports related to Hizballah, including reports on certain diplomatic matters as well as on illicit transactions with foreign financial institutions, cooperation with foreign governments, racketeering, and trafficking in tobacco. Based on an analysis of information from the Administration and the costs of similar activities, CBO estimates that administering the sanctions and implementing the reporting requirements would cost about $1 million over the 2018-2022 period, subject to the availability of appropriated funds. Enacting H.R. 3329 would increase the number of people and entities that would be subject to civil or criminal penalties and the number of people who would be denied visas by the Department of State. Penalties are recorded in the budget as revenues and a portion of those penalties can be spent without further appropriation. Most visa fees are retained by the Department of State and spent without further appropriation, but some fees are deposited in the Treasury as revenues. Pay-as-you-go procedures apply to this legislation because enacting it would affect direct spending and revenues. However, CBO estimates that implementing those sanctions would affect very few additional people or entities and thus have insignificant effects on both revenues and direct spending because of the broad scope of restrictions in existing law and regulation that address illicit activities involving Hizballah.

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