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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. 

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 

A BILL 

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

and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Uyghur Human Rights 

5 Sanctions Review Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. DETERMINATION OF WHETHER CERTAIN CHINESE 

2 ENTITIES MEET CRITERIA FOR IMPOSITION 

3 OF SANCTIONS. 

4 (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 60 days after the 

5 date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the 

6 Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and 

7 the Attorney General, shall— 

8 (1) determine whether any entity specified in 

9 subsection (b)— 

10 (A) is responsible for or complicit in, or 

11 has directly or indirectly engaged in, serious 

12 human rights abuses against Uyghurs or other 

13 predominantly Muslim ethnic groups in the 

14 Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the 

15 People’s Republic of China; or 

16 (B) meets the criteria for the imposition of 

17 sanctions under— 

18 (i) the Global Magnitsky Human 

19 Rights Accountability Act (22 U.S.C. 

20 10101 et seq.); 

21 (ii) section 6 of the Uyghur Human 

22 Rights Policy Act of 2020 (Public Law 

23 116–145; 22 U.S.C. 6901 note); 

24 (iii) section 105, 105A, 105B, or 

25 105C of the Comprehensive Iran Sanc26 tions, Accountability, and Divestment Act 


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1 of 2010 (22 U.S.C. 8514, 8514a, 8514b, 

2 and 8514c); 

3 (iv) Executive Order 13818 (50 

4 U.S.C. 1701 note; relating to blocking the 

5 property of persons involved in serious 

6 human rights abuse or corruption), as 

7 amended on or after the date of the enact8 ment of this Act; or 

9 (v) Executive Order 13553 (50 U.S.C. 

10 1701 note; relating to blocking property of 

11 certain persons with respect to serious 

12 human rights abuses by the Government of 

13 Iran and taking certain other actions), as 

14 amended on or after the date of the enact15 ment of this Act; 

16 (2) if the Secretary of the Treasury determines 

17 under paragraph (1) that an entity is responsible for 

18 or complicit in, or has directly or indirectly engaged 

19 in, serious human rights abuses described in sub20 paragraph (A) of that paragraph or meets the cri21 teria for the imposition of sanctions described in 

22 subparagraph (B) of that paragraph, the Secretary 

23 shall include the entity on the list of specially des24 ignated nationals and blocked persons maintained by 

25 the Office of Foreign Assets Control; and 


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1 (3) submit to Congress a report on that deter2 mination that includes the reasons for the deter3 mination. 

4 (b) ENTITIES SPECIFIED.—An entity specified in this 

5 subsection is any of the following: 

6 (1) Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology 

7 Co., Ltd. 

8 (2) Shenzhen Huada Gene Technology Co., 

9 Ltd. (BGI Group). 

10 (3) Tiandy Technologies Co., Ltd. 

11 (4) Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co., Ltd. 

12 (5) China Electronics Technology Group Co. 

13 (6) Zhejiang Uniview Technologies Co., Ltd. 

14 (7) Alibaba Group Holding, Ltd. 

15 (8) Baidu, Inc. 

16 (9) ByteDance Ltd. 

17 (10) China TransInfo Technology Co., Ltd. 

18 (c) FORM OF REPORT.—The report required by sub19 section (a)(3) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but 

20 may include a classified annex. 

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