Venezuela Democratic Transition Act

This bill would require the Secretary of State to develop and submit to Congress a strategy for supporting a new presidential election in Venezuela in 2026 and a transition to democracy. The strategy would update a 2020 State Department framework, set benchmarks, assess Venezuelan institutions and political prisoners, and require monthly reports to certain congressional committees, including on energy-related negotiations. The bill would also require the President to block U.S.-based property of Venezuelan persons found complicit in gross human rights violations in Venezuela and to bar them from entering the United States. It includes exceptions for humanitarian transactions, intelligence activities, and United Nations obligations, and allows the President to waive sanctions for national security reasons or after a democratic transition is certified.

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Sponsors

• Tim Kaine Democrat sponsor
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