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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1324 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1324

To require a determination of whether certain Chinese entities meet the 
   criteria for the imposition of sanctions, and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 1, 2023

 Mr. Pfluger introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the 
 Judiciary, Financial Services, and Ways and Means, 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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                                 A BILL

 
To require a determination of whether certain Chinese entities meet the 
   criteria for the imposition of sanctions, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Uyghur Human Rights Sanctions Review 
Act''.

SEC. 2. DETERMINATION OF WHETHER CERTAIN CHINESE ENTITIES MEET CRITERIA 
              FOR IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 60 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation 
with the Secretary of State and the Attorney General, shall--
            (1) determine whether any entity specified in subsection 
        (b)--
                    (A) is responsible for or complicit in, or has 
                directly or indirectly engaged in, serious human rights 
                abuses against Uyghurs or other predominantly Muslim 
                ethnic groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 
                of the People's Republic of China; or
                    (B) meets the criteria for the imposition of 
                sanctions under--
                            (i) the Global Magnitsky Human Rights 
                        Accountability Act (22 U.S.C. 10101 et seq.);
                            (ii) section 6 of the Uyghur Human Rights 
                        Policy Act of 2020 (Public Law 116-145; 22 
                        U.S.C. 6901 note);
                            (iii) section 105, 105A, 105B, or 105C of 
                        the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, 
                        Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 (22 
                        U.S.C. 8514, 8514a, 8514b, and 8514c);
                            (iv) Executive Order 13818 (50 U.S.C. 1701 
                        note; relating to blocking the property of 
                        persons involved in serious human rights abuse 
                        or corruption), as amended on or after the date 
                        of the enactment of this Act; or
                            (v) Executive Order 13553 (50 U.S.C. 1701 
                        note; relating to blocking property of certain 
                        persons with respect to serious human rights 
                        abuses by the Government of Iran and taking 
                        certain other actions), as amended on or after 
                        the date of the enactment of this Act;
            (2) if the Secretary of the Treasury determines under 
        paragraph (1) that an entity is responsible for or complicit 
        in, or has directly or indirectly engaged in, serious human 
        rights abuses described in subparagraph (A) of that paragraph 
        or meets the criteria for the imposition of sanctions described 
        in subparagraph (B) of that paragraph, the Secretary shall 
        include the entity on the list of specially designated 
        nationals and blocked persons maintained by the Office of 
        Foreign Assets Control; and
            (3) submit to Congress a report on that determination that 
        includes the reasons for the determination.
    (b) Entities Specified.--An entity specified in this subsection is 
any of the following:
            (1) Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd.
            (2) Shenzhen Huada Gene Technology Co., Ltd. (BGI Group).
            (3) Tiandy Technologies Co., Ltd.
            (4) Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co., Ltd.
            (5) China Electronics Technology Group Co.
            (6) Zhejiang Uniview Technologies Co., Ltd.
            (7) Alibaba Group Holding, Ltd.
            (8) Baidu, Inc.
            (9) ByteDance Ltd.
            (10) China TransInfo Technology Co., Ltd.
    (c) Form of Report.--The report required by subsection (a)(3) shall 
be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.
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