MEGOBARI Act

What this does

This bill sets US sanctions and reporting policy toward Georgia. It directs the President, within 90 days, to determine whether covered Georgian officials knowingly engaged in significant corruption, or in acts of violence or intimidation tied to blocking Georgia's Euro-Atlantic integration, and to bar each person found culpable from the United States. Those persons become ineligible for any US visa, admission, or parole, and any visa already issued is revoked. The covered class reaches anyone who served, on or after January 1, 2014, as a member of Georgia's Parliament or a senior party official, officials in leadership positions across law enforcement, intelligence, the judiciary, or local government, and immediate family members who benefited. Separately, for any foreign person the President finds is undermining Georgia's peace, security, sovereignty, or territorial integrity, the President must impose that same entry ban and may also freeze the person's US property under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The President may waive sanctions for national security. The bill orders the Secretary of State to deliver a classified report on Russian intelligence penetration in Georgia within 180 days, with an annex on Chinese influence, and a five-year bilateral strategy within 90 days. The act expires five years after enactment.