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No Iranian Energy Act

To provide for the imposition of sanctions with respect to the importation of natural gas from Iran by the Government of Iraq.

Introduced Apr 1, 2025

Latest action (Apr 1, 2025) Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Ways and Means, Oversight and Government Reform, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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Judiciary Committee Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ways and Means Committee Financial Services Committee Foreign Affairs Committee
Policy area
International Affairs
Issues
Foreign Policy

Summary

This bill amends the Iran Freedom and Counter-Proliferation Act of 2012 to extend existing sanctions to Iranian natural gas transactions. The amendments make sanctions applicable to the sale, supply, or transfer of natural gas to or from Iran. The bill expresses the sense of Congress that the United States should target Iran's emerging gas industry for the imposition of sanctions.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
21 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to August Pfluger’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • NULL $47,234
  • EXECUTIVE $25,100
  • OWNER $23,150
  • NOT IN WORKFORCE $22,585
  • CEO $22,300

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for August Pfluger → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Apr 1, 2025 Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Ways and Means, Oversight and Government Reform, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. · house
  2. Apr 1, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 2570 — Maximum Pressure Act · Introduced Apr 1, 2025 · Cong. 119 74%
  • HR 2468 — No Sanctions Relief for Terrorists Act · Introduced Mar 27, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • HR 2658 — Free Iraq from Iran Act · Introduced Apr 3, 2025 · Cong. 119 67%
  • HR 4155 — Fight Russian Energy Exploitation (FREE) Act · Introduced Apr 2, 2014 · Cong. 113 66%
  • S 2087 — No War Against Iran Act · Introduced Jun 17, 2025 · Cong. 119 65%
  • HR 3760 — Export American Natural Gas Act of 2013 · Introduced Jan 10, 2014 · Cong. 113 64%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Apr 1, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

April 1, 2025

Mr. Pfluger (for himself, Mr. Nunn of Iowa, Mr. Van Drew, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Bilirakis, Mr. Latta, Mr. Cline, Mrs. Wagner, Mr. Fallon, Mr. Schmidt, Mr. Rulli, Mr. Begich, Mr. Messmer, Mr. Kustoff, Ms. Tenney, Mr. McGuire, and Mr. Goldman of Texas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Ways and Means, Oversight and Government Reform, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

A BILL

To provide for the imposition of sanctions with respect to the importation of natural gas from Iran by the Government of Iraq.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “No Iranian Energy Act”.

SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

It is the sense of Congress that the United States should target Iran’s emerging gas industry for the imposition of sanctions.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON IRANIAN NATURAL GAS.

The Iran Freedom and Counter-Proliferation Act of 20212 is amended as follows:

(1) In section 1244 (22 U.S.C. 8803) by amending subsection

(h) to read as follows:

“(h) Applicability of Sanctions to Natural Gas.—Except as provided in section 1254, this section shall apply to the sale, supply, or transfer to or from Iran of natural gas.”.

(2) In section 1247 (22 U.S.C. 8806) by amending subsection

(e) to read as follows:

“(e) Applicability of Sanctions to Natural Gas.—Except as provided in section 1254, this section shall apply to the sale, supply, or transfer to or from Iran of natural gas.”. <all>

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