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118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 585 

To require a determination of whether certain Chinese entities meet the 

criteria for the imposition of sanctions, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MARCH 1, 2023 

Mr. RUBIO introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 

to the Committee on Foreign Relations 

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’’. 

6 SEC. 2. DETERMINATION OF WHETHER CERTAIN CHINESE 

7 ENTITIES MEET CRITERIA FOR IMPOSITION 

8 OF SANCTIONS. 

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

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


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1 Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and 

2 the Attorney General, shall— 

3 (1) determine whether any entity specified in 

4 subsection (b)— 

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

6 has directly or indirectly engaged in, serious 

7 human rights abuses against Uyghurs or other 

8 predominantly Muslim ethnic groups in the 

9 Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the 

10 People’s Republic of China; or 

11 (B) meets the criteria for the imposition of 

12 sanctions under— 

13 (i) the Global Magnitsky Human 

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

15 10101 et seq.); 

16 (ii) section 6 of the Uyghur Human 

17 Rights Policy Act of 2020 (Public Law 

18 116–145; 22 U.S.C. 6901 note); 

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

20 105C of the Comprehensive Iran Sanc21 tions, Accountability, and Divestment Act 

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

23 and 8514c); 

24 (iv) Executive Order 13818 (50 

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


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1 property of persons involved in serious 

2 human rights abuse or corruption), as 

3 amended on or after the date of the enact4 ment of this Act; or 

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

6 1701 note; relating to blocking property of 

7 certain persons with respect to serious 

8 human rights abuses by the Government of 

9 Iran and taking certain other actions), as 

10 amended on or after the date of the enact11 ment of this Act; 

12 (2) if the Secretary of the Treasury determines 

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

14 or complicit in, or has directly or indirectly engaged 

15 in, serious human rights abuses described in sub16 paragraph (A) of that paragraph or meets the cri17 teria for the imposition of sanctions described in 

18 subparagraph (B) of that paragraph, the Secretary 

19 shall include the entity on the list of specially des20 ignated nationals and blocked persons maintained by 

21 the Office of Foreign Assets Control; and 

22 (3) submit to Congress a report on that deter23 mination that includes the reasons for the deter24 mination. 


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

2 subsection is any of the following: 

3 (1) Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology 

4 Co., Ltd. 

5 (2) Shenzhen Huada Gene Technology Co., 

6 Ltd. (BGI Group). 

7 (3) Tiandy Technologies Co., Ltd. 

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

9 (5) China Electronics Technology Group Co. 

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

11 (7) Alibaba Group Holding, Ltd. 

12 (8) Baidu, Inc. 

13 (9) ByteDance Ltd. 

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

15 (c) FORM OF REPORT.—The report required by sub16 section (a)(3) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but 

17 may include a classified annex. 

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