2019 US Code
Title 22 - Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 73 - International Religious Freedom
Subchapter III - Presidential Actions
Part A - Targeted Responses to Violations of Religious Freedom Abroad
Sec. 6447 - Presidential waiver

Subject to subsection (c), the President may waive, for a single, 180-day period, the application of any of the actions described in paragraphs (9) through (15) of section 6445(a) of this title (or commensurate action in substitution thereto) with respect to a country, if the President determines and so reports to the appropriate congressional committees that—

Subject to subsection (c), the President may waive, for any additional specified period of time after the 180-day period described in subsection (a), the application of any of the actions described in paragraphs (9) through (15) of section 6445(a) of this title (or a commensurate substitute action) with respect to a country, if the President determines and reports to the appropriate congressional committees that—

Not later than the date of the exercise of a waiver under subsection (a) or (b), the President shall notify the appropriate congressional committees of the waiver or the intention to exercise the waiver, together with a detailed justification thereof.

It is the sense of Congress that—

(Pub. L. 105–292, title IV, §407, Oct. 27, 1998, 112 Stat. 2808; Pub. L. 114–281, title III, §304, Dec. 16, 2016, 130 Stat. 1435.)

This chapter, referred to in subsecs. (a)(1) and (d)(1), was in the original "this Act", meaning Pub. L. 105–292, Oct. 27, 1998, 112 Stat. 2787, known as the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 6401 of this title and Tables.

2016—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 114–281, §304(1)(A), (B), in introductory provisions, substituted "subsection (c)" for "subsection (b)" and inserted ", for a single, 180-day period," after "may waive".

Subsec. (a)(1) to (3). Pub. L. 114–281, §304(1)(C), (D), redesignated pars. (2) and (3) as (1) and (2), respectively, and struck out former par. (1) which read as follows: "the respective foreign government has ceased the violations giving rise to the Presidential action;".

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 114–281, §304(3), added subsec. (b). Former subsec. (b) redesignated (c).

Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 114–281, §304(2), (4), redesignated subsec. (b) as (c) and inserted "or (b)" after "subsection (a)".

Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 114–281, §304(5), added subsec. (d).