1. Short title This Act may be cited as the OFAC Outreach and Engagement Capabilities Enhancement Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The Office of Foreign Assets Control is the United States Government agency responsible for administering and enforcing economic sanctions programs, primarily against countries and groups of individuals, such as terrorists and narcotics traffickers. (2) All United States persons must comply with OFAC regulations, including all United States citizens and permanent resident aliens regardless of where they are located, all persons and entities within the United States, all United States incorporated entities and their foreign branches. In the cases of certain programs, foreign subsidiaries owned or controlled by United States companies also must comply. Certain programs also require foreign persons in possession of United States-origin goods to comply. (3) While the sanctions announcements are themselves notice of the requirements placed on all United States persons, OFAC conducts additional outreach through its compliance office, serving as OFAC’s primary liaison to the private sector and operating OFAC’s public hotline for sanctions-related questions and the conduct of civil investigations for potential sanctions violations. (4) While many industries, such as large multinational financial institutions and industrial firms, have sophisticated sanctions departments to manage compliance with the strict-liability mandates from OFAC and to enact practices to defend their business’ sales and supply chains from abuse by sanctions-designated bad actors, many smaller entities and industries, do not. (5) According to the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s 2021 Sanctions Review, Sanctions are only as effective as their implementation, especially with regard to communication and engagement. In order to better calibrate the use of this tool, Treasury needs to communicate and coordinate more effectively with stakeholders affected by the use of financial sanctions. Treasury can