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[CITE: 22USC6085]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
     CHAPTER 69A--CUBAN LIBERTY AND DEMOCRATIC SOLIDARITY (LIBERTAD)
 
SUBCHAPTER III--PROTECTION OF PROPERTY RIGHTS OF UNITED STATES NATIONALS
 
Sec. 6085. Effective date


(a) In general

    Subject to subsections (b) and (c) of this section, this subchapter 
and the amendments made by this subchapter shall take effect on August 
1, 1996.

(b) Suspension authority

                      (1) Suspension authority

        The President may suspend the effective date under subsection 
    (a) of this section for a period of not more than 6 months if the 
    President determines and reports in writing to the appropriate 
    congressional committees at least 15 days before such effective date 
    that the suspension is necessary to the national interests of the 
    United States and will expedite a transition to democracy in Cuba.

                     (2) Additional suspensions

        The President may suspend the effective date under subsection 
    (a) of this section for additional periods of not more than 6 months 
    each, each of which shall begin on the day after the last day of the 
    period during which a suspension is in effect under this subsection, 
    if the President determines and reports in writing to the 
    appropriate congressional committees at least 15 days before the 
    date on which the additional suspension is to begin that the 
    suspension is necessary to the national interests of the United 
    States and will expedite a transition to democracy in Cuba.

(c) Other authorities

                           (1) Suspension

        After this subchapter and the amendments of this subchapter have 
    taken effect--
            (A) no person shall acquire a property interest in any 
        potential or pending action under this subchapter; and
            (B) the President may suspend the right to bring an action 
        under this subchapter with respect to confiscated property for a 
        period of not more than 6 months if the President determines and 
        reports in writing to the appropriate congressional committees 
        at least 15 days before the suspension takes effect that such 
        suspension is necessary to the national interests of the United 
        States and will expedite a transition to democracy in Cuba.

                     (2) Additional suspensions

        The President may suspend the right to bring an action under 
    this subchapter for additional periods of not more than 6 months 
    each, each of which shall begin on the day after the last day of the 
    period during which a suspension is in effect under this subsection, 
    if the President determines and reports in writing to the 
    appropriate congressional committees at least 15 days before the 
    date on which the additional suspension is to begin that the 
    suspension is necessary to the national interests of the United 
    States and will expedite a transition to democracy in Cuba.

                          (3) Pending suits

        The suspensions of actions under paragraph (1) shall not affect 
    suits commenced before the date of such suspension, and in all such 
    suits, proceedings shall be had, appeals taken, and judgments 
    rendered in the same manner and with the same effect as if the 
    suspension had not occurred.

(d) Rescission of suspension

    The President may rescind any suspension made under subsection (b) 
or (c) of this section upon reporting to the appropriate congressional 
committees that doing so will expedite a transition to democracy in 
Cuba.

(Pub. L. 104-114, title III, Sec. 306, Mar. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 821.)

                       References in Text

    This subchapter, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (c)(1), was in the 
original ``this title'', meaning title III of Pub. L. 104-114, Mar. 12, 
1996, 110 Stat. 814, which enacted this subchapter and sections 1643l 
and 1643m of this title and amended section 1611 of Title 28, Judiciary 
and Judicial Procedure. For complete classification of title III to the 
Code, see Tables.
