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117TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 6686 

To provide for the imposition of sanctions on members of the National 

Communist Party Congress of the People’s Republic of China, and for 

other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 9, 2022 

Mrs. MCCLAIN (for herself, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. ROGERS of 

Alabama, Mr. BANKS, Mr. WENSTRUP, Mr. BUCHANAN, Mr. CLYDE, Mr. 

RODNEY DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. GIMENEZ, Ms. HERRELL, Mr. HIGGINS

of Louisiana, Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio, Mr. LAMBORN, Mr. MCKINLEY, 

Mrs. MILLER of Illinois, Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS, Mr. PALAZZO, Mr. 

STEUBE, Mr. MANN, Mrs. CAMMACK, Mr. CAWTHORN, Mr. STAUBER, 

Mr. HERN, and Mr. BABIN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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 provide for the imposition of sanctions on members of 

the National Communist Party Congress of the People’s 

Republic of China, 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, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Sanctioning Tyrannical 

3 and Oppressive People within the Chinese Communist 

4 Party Act’’ or the ‘‘STOP CCP Act’’. 

5 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

6 Congress finds the following: 

7 (1) The Hong Kong National Security Law pro8 mulgated on July 1, 2020— 

9 (A) contravenes the Basic Law of the 

10 Hong Kong Special Administrative Region that 

11 provides in Article 23 that the Legislative 

12 Council of Hong Kong shall enact legislation re13 lated to national security; 

14 (B) violates the People’s Republic of Chi15 na’s commitments under international law, as 

16 defined by the Joint Declaration; and 

17 (C) causes severe and irreparable damage 

18 to the ‘‘one country, two systems’’ principle and 

19 further erodes global confidence in the People’s 

20 Republic of China’s commitment to inter21 national law. 

22 (2) Repression of ethnic Muslim minorities in 

23 the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the 

24 People’s Republic of China has been ongoing, and 

25 was formalized with the ‘‘Strike Hard Campaign 

26 against Violent Terrorism’’ that began in 2014. 


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1 (3) The mass internment of Uyghur and other 

2 Muslim ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur 

3 Autonomous Region has been ongoing since April 

4 2017. 

5 (4) The People’s Republic of China has con6 ducted a targeted and systemic population-control 

7 campaign against ethnic and religious minorities in 

8 the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region by impos9 ing and implementing coercive population-control 

10 practices, including selectively enforcing birth 

11 quotas, targeting minority women who are in non12 compliance with birth quotas, and subjecting women 

13 to coercive measures such as forced birth control, 

14 forced sterilization, and forced abortion. 

15 (5) On October 6, 2020, 39 countries delivered 

16 a cross-regional joint statement to the United States 

17 Mission to the United Nations on the human rights 

18 abuses on Uyghurs and other minorities for forced 

19 birth control including sterilization. 

20 (6) On January 19, 2021, the Department of 

21 State determined that the People’s Republic of 

22 China committed crimes against humanity and geno23 cide against Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious 

24 minority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autono25 mous Region, citing forced sterilizations, forced 


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1 abortions, coerced marriages, and separation of 

2 Uyghur children from their families. 

3 (7) The Department of State’s 2020 Country 

4 Reports on Human Rights Practices affirmed the 

5 genocide determination and noted coercive popu6 lation control measures inflicted on ethnic and reli7 gious minority women in China, including forced in8 jections with ‘‘drugs that cause temporary or perma9 nent end to their menstrual cycles and fertility’’. 

10 (8) The United States ratified the United Na11 tions Convention on the Prevention and Punishment 

12 of Genocide in 1988, recognizing that ‘‘imposing 

13 measures intended to prevent births within the 

14 group’’ with intent to destroy a group in whole or 

15 part is an act that constitutes genocide. 

16 (9) Taiwan is a free and prosperous democracy 

17 of nearly 24,000,000 people and an important con18 tributor to peace and stability around the world. 

19 (10) Section 2(b) of the Taiwan Relations Act 

20 (Public Law 96–8; 22 U.S.C. 3301(b)) states that it 

21 is the policy of the United States— 

22 (A) ‘‘to preserve and promote extensive, 

23 close, and friendly commercial, cultural, and 

24 other relations between the people of the United 

25 States and the people on Taiwan, as well as the 


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1 people on the China mainland and all other peo2 ples of the Western Pacific area’’; 

3 (B) ‘‘to declare that peace and stability in 

4 the area are in the political, security, and eco5 nomic interests of the United States, and are 

6 matters of international concern’’; 

7 (C) ‘‘to make clear that the United States 

8 decision to establish diplomatic relations with 

9 the People’s Republic of China rests upon the 

10 expectation that the future of Taiwan will be 

11 determined by peaceful means’’; 

12 (D) ‘‘to consider any effort to determine 

13 the future of Taiwan by other than peaceful 

14 means, including by boycotts or embargoes, a 

15 threat to the peace and security of the Western 

16 Pacific area and of grave concern to the United 

17 States’’; 

18 (E) ‘‘to provide Taiwan with arms of a de19 fensive character’’; and 

20 (F) ‘‘to maintain the capacity of the 

21 United States to resist any resort to force or 

22 other forms of coercion that would jeopardize 

23 the security, or the social or economic system, 

24 of the people on Taiwan’’. 


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1 (11) Since the election of President Tsai Ing2 wen as President of Taiwan in 2016, the Govern3 ment of the People’s Republic of China has intensi4 fied its efforts to pressure Taiwan through diplo5 matic isolation and military provocations. 

6 (12) The rapid modernization of the People’s 

7 Liberation Army and recent military maneuvers in 

8 and around the Taiwan Strait illustrate a clear 

9 threat to Taiwan’s security. 

10 SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 

11 It is the sense of Congress that the Chinese Com12 munist Party, led by General Secretary Xi Jinping, has 

13 committed numerous human rights violations against the 

14 people of Hong Kong and the people of Taiwan, as well 

15 as genocide against Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang 

16 Uyghur Autonomous Region. 

17 SEC. 4. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS ON MEMBERS OF THE 

18 NATIONAL COMMUNIST PARTY CONGRESS OF 

19 THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. 

20 (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after the 

21 date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall im22 pose sanctions under subsection (b) with respect to— 

23 (1) a person who is or was a member of any 

24 National Communist Party Congress of the People’s 

25 Republic of China; and 


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1 (2) any person who is an adult family member, 

2 including a spouse or adult family member, of a per3 son described in paragraph (1). 

4 (b) SANCTIONS DESCRIBED.— 

5 (1) IN GENERAL.—The sanctions described in 

6 this subsection are the following: 

7 (A) BLOCKING OF PROPERTY.—The Presi8 dent shall exercise all of the powers granted to 

9 the President under the International Emer10 gency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et 

11 seq.) to the extent necessary to block and pro12 hibit all transactions in property and interests 

13 in property of the person if such property and 

14 interests in property are in the United States, 

15 come within the United States, or are or come 

16 within the possession or control of a United 

17 States person. 

18 (B) ALIENS INELIGIBLE FOR VISAS, AD19 MISSION, OR PAROLE.— 

20 (i) VISAS, ADMISSION, OR PAROLE.— 

21 An alien who the Secretary of State or the 

22 Secretary of Homeland Security (or a des23 ignee of one of such Secretaries) knows, or 

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1 gaged in any activity described in sub2 section (a) is— 

3 (I) inadmissible to the United 

4 States; 

5 (II) ineligible to receive a visa or 

6 other documentation to enter the 

7 United States; and 

8 (III) otherwise ineligible to be 

9 admitted or paroled into the United 

10 States or to receive any other benefit 

11 under the Immigration and Nation12 ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.). 

13 (ii) CURRENT VISAS REVOKED.— 

14 (I) IN GENERAL.—The issuing 

15 consular officer, the Secretary of 

16 State, or the Secretary of Homeland 

17 Security (or a designee of one of such 

18 Secretaries) shall, in accordance with 

19 section 221(i) of the Immigration and 

20 Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1201(i)), 

21 revoke any visa or other entry docu22 mentation issued to an alien described 

23 in clause (i) regardless of when the 

24 visa or other entry documentation is 

25 issued. 


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1 (II) EFFECT OF REVOCATION.— 

2 A revocation under subclause (I) shall 

3 take effect immediately and shall 

4 automatically cancel any other valid 

5 visa or entry documentation that is in 

6 the alien’s possession. 

7 (2) EXCEPTIONS.— 

8 (A) UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS

9 AGREEMENT.—The sanctions described under 

10 paragraph (1)(B) shall not apply with respect 

11 to an alien if admitting or paroling the alien 

12 into the United States is necessary to permit 

13 the United States to comply with the Agree14 ment regarding the Headquarters of the United 

15 Nations, signed at Lake Success June 26, 

16 1947, and entered into force November 21, 

17 1947, between the United Nations and the 

18 United States, or other applicable international 

19 obligations. 

20 (B) EXCEPTION FOR INTELLIGENCE, LAW

21 ENFORCEMENT, AND NATIONAL SECURITY AC22 TIVITIES.—Sanctions under paragraph (1) shall 

23 not apply to any authorized intelligence, law en24 forcement, or national security activities of the 

25 United States. 


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1 (C) EXCEPTION RELATING TO IMPORTA2 TION OF GOODS.— 

3 (i) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding 

4 any other provision of this section, the au5 thorities and requirements to impose sanc6 tions under this section shall not include 

7 the authority or a requirement to impose 

8 sanctions on the importation of goods. 

9 (ii) GOOD DEFINED.—In this subpara10 graph, the term ‘‘good’’ means any article, 

11 natural or man-made substance, material, 

12 supply or manufactured product, including 

13 inspection and test equipment, and exclud14 ing technical data. 

15 (c) PENALTIES.—The penalties provided for in sub16 sections (b) and (c) of section 206 of the International 

17 Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) shall 

18 apply to a person that violates, attempts to violate, con19 spires to violate, or causes a violation of regulations pro20 mulgated to carry out this section or the sanctions im21 posed pursuant to this section to the same extent that 

22 such penalties apply to a person that commits an unlawful 

23 act described in section 206(a) of that Act. 

24 (d) IMPLEMENTATION AUTHORITY.—The President 

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1 under sections 203 and 205 of the International Emer2 gency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702 and 1704) 

3 for purposes of carrying out this section. 

4 (e) REGULATORY AUTHORITY.—The President shall, 

5 not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment 

6 of this Act, promulgate regulations as necessary for the 

7 implementation of this section. 

8 (f) WAIVER.—The President shall have the authority 

9 to waive the sanctions required by subsection (a) for re10 newable periods of 30 days, if the President provides a 

11 written certification to the appropriate congressional com12 mittees, which shall also be made publicly available on a 

13 website maintained by the Federal Government, that the 

14 People’s Republic of China and the Chinese Communist 

15 Party have— 

16 (1) ceased the genocide of the Uyghur Muslim 

17 population, including verifiably shutting down all in18 ternment camps of Uyghurs and ending the practice 

19 of facilitating or supporting Uyghur forced labor and 

20 forced sterilization; 

21 (2) ceased all forms of threats, military exer22 cises, and aggression toward Taiwan, including 

23 through verifiably, and for at least a period of one 

24 year, having not conducted any breach of Taiwan’s 

25 air space, territorial waters, or land mass, by any 


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1 military or intelligence personnel associated with the 

2 People’s Republic of China or the Chinese Com3 munist Party, or any agent or instrumentality there4 of; 

5 (3) ceased the undermining of the autonomy of 

6 Hong Kong, including through respecting the terms 

7 of the Sino-British Joint Declaration, and reversing 

8 all steps taken to interfere with the democratic proc9 ess and governance of Hong Kong; and 

10 (4) ceased efforts to steal the intellectual prop11 erty of United States persons. 

12 (g) SUNSET OF WAIVER AND LICENSE AUTHORI13 TIES.—The President’s authority to issue waivers or li14 censes with respect to sanctions required by subsection (a) 

15 or pursuant to sections 203 and 205 of the International 

16 Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702 and 

17 1704) with regard to sanctions required by subsection (a) 

18 shall cease to apply beginning on the date that is 2 years 

19 after the date of enactment of this Act. 

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