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Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 · Pub. L. 104-172 · sec. 8(b)

Libya

Not publicly verifiableCertification
Deadline
No deadline in text
Recurrence
Not stated
Duty holder
President
Recipients
Senate Finance; Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; Senate Foreign Relations; House Ways and Means (term defined in sec. 14)
Enacted
Aug. 5, 1996
Location
Whole act

Text shown as enacted in 1996. Later laws, including Pub. L. 111-195 and 112-158, amended the act; Pub. L. 114-277, sec. 2, moved the sunset in sec. 13(b) to Dec. 31, 2026; Pub. L. 119-111, sec. 201 (Sept. 18, 2026), moved it to Dec. 31, 2031.

Statutory Text

(b) Libya.--The requirement under section 5(b) to impose sanctions shall no longer have force or effect with respect to Libya if the President determines and certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that Libya has fulfilled the requirements of United Nations Security Council Resolution 731, adopted January 21, 1992, United Nations Security Council Resolution 748, adopted March 31, 1992, and United Nations Security Council Resolution 883, adopted November 11, 1993.

Verbatim from the enrolled law as published by GovInfo; margin notes and page markers omitted. Pub. L. 104-172 on GovInfo · PDF · text fetched Oct. 17, 2026

How the Date Is Worked Out

  1. Enacted Aug. 5, 1996 (Pub. L. 104-172).
  2. The provision states no deadline, so none is shown.

Delivery Status

Not publicly verifiable

Public Evidence

  • No public document located that shows delivery.

Evidence Searched

  • GovInfo Congressionally Mandated Reports collection: 1,209 packages listed; titles searched for Middle East terms; 55 State, Defense, Treasury and executive-office summaries checked for citations to Pub. L. 104-172 (0 found) (Oct. 17, 2026)
  • Federal Register API: phrase “Iran Sanctions Act of 1996”: 60 document titles searched (Oct. 17, 2026)
  • MEF hand review: evidence.json, items with a link and a note on what the document shows (Oct. 17, 2026)

A status of “Reported late by GAO, committee or agency” appears only with a linked GAO, committee or agency statement. Reports sent only to committees, or in classified form, leave no public trace; their absence here is not evidence of a missed deadline.

Review

  • Machine-extracted by rule from the public law text; awaiting named human review.

Cite the provision Iran Sanctions Act of 1996, Pub. L. No. 104-172, § 8(b), 110 Stat. 1541 (1996).

Cite this page Middle East Forum, “Libya,” Owed to Congress, Nov. 11, 2026, https://bills.meforum.org/owed/m/pl104-172-s8-b.html.