Enhancing North Korea Humanitarian Assistance Act of 2026

This bill would require the Treasury Department, within 90 days, to change North Korea sanctions rules so that groups providing humanitarian aid no longer file reports before their activities and instead report afterward. It would require Treasury and Commerce to stop treating personal computers and related equipment used by nonprofit aid groups as "luxury goods" that need export licenses. Treasury would issue guidance on the humanitarian exception for banks, shippers, and others. The State Department would direct the U.S. representative at the United Nations to push for longer and simpler UN humanitarian exemptions. Treasury and State would regularly report or brief Congress on denied or delayed aid licenses, exemption requests, and requests to travel to North Korea.

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Sponsors

• Edward J. Markey Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors