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Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019 · Pub. L. 116-92 · sec. 7431(b)

Briefing Required

Not publicly verifiableBriefing
Deadline
One-time deadline passedDec. 6, 2025
Recurrence
Not stated
Duty holder
President
Recipients
House Foreign Affairs; House Financial Services; House Ways and Means; House Judiciary; Senate Foreign Relations; Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; Senate Judiciary (term defined in div. F, sec. 7431)
Enacted
Dec. 20, 2019
Location
Division F, Title LXXIV, Subtitle C

Sec. 7438 set a 5-year sunset; Pub. L. 118-159, sec. 5123, moved it to Dec. 31, 2029; Pub. L. 119-60, sec. 8369(a), repealed the act on Dec. 18, 2025.

The provision as printed in the enrolled law, Pub. L. 116-92
As printed in the enrolled law at 133 Stat. 2298 (PDF page 1102). GPO via GovInfo, public domain.

Statutory Text

(b) Briefing Required.—Not later than 30 days after the President makes a determination described in subsection (a), the President shall provide a briefing to the appropriate congressional committees on the determination and the suspension of sanctions pursuant to the determination.

Verbatim from the enrolled law as published by GovInfo; margin notes and page markers omitted. Pub. L. 116-92 on GovInfo · PDF · text fetched Oct. 17, 2026

How the Date Is Worked Out

  1. Enacted Dec. 20, 2019 (Pub. L. 116-92).
  2. Deadline runs from an event: 30 days after the President makes a determination described in subsection (a).
  3. Triggering event, publicly documented: Secretary of State signed a sec. 7431(a) determination suspending sec. 7412 sanctions for 180 days (Nov. 6, 2025; Department of State, Public Notice 12874, 90 Fed. Reg. 54450 (Nov. 26, 2025)). Nov. 6, 2025 + 30 days = Dec. 6, 2025.
  4. As of Nov. 11, 2026: one-time deadline passed on Dec. 6, 2025.

Delivery Status

Not publicly verifiable

Public Evidence

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. 116-92 (0 found) (Oct. 17, 2026)
  • Federal Register API: phrase “Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act”: 8 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 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020, div. F, tit. LXXIV (Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019), Pub. L. No. 116-92, § 7431(b), 133 Stat. 1198 (2019).

Cite this page Middle East Forum, “Briefing Required,” Owed to Congress, Nov. 11, 2026, https://bills.meforum.org/owed/m/pl116-92-df-s7431-b.html.