STOP CCP Act

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. Short title This Act may be cited as the Sanctioning Tyrannical and Oppressive People within the Chinese Communist Party Act STOP CCP Act 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The Hong Kong National Security Law promulgated on July 1, 2020— (A) contravenes the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region that provides in Article 23 that the Legislative Council of Hong Kong shall enact legislation related to national security; (B) violates the People’s Republic of China’s commitments under international law, as defined by the Joint Declaration; and (C) causes severe and irreparable damage to the one country, two systems (2) Repression of ethnic Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China has been ongoing, and was formalized with the Strike Hard Campaign against Violent Terrorism (3) The mass internment of Uyghur and other Muslim ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has been ongoing since April 2017. (4) The People’s Republic of China has conducted a targeted and systemic population-control campaign against ethnic and religious minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region by imposing and implementing coercive population-control practices, including selectively enforcing birth quotas, targeting minority women who are in noncompliance with birth quotas, and subjecting women to coercive measures such as forced birth control, forced sterilization, and forced abortion. (5) On October 6, 2020, 39 countries delivered a cross-regional joint statement to the United States Mission to the United Nations on the human rights abuses on Uyghurs and other minorities for forced birth control including sterilization. (6) On January 19, 2021, the Department of State determined that the People’s Republic of China committed crimes against humanity and genocide against Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, citing forced sterilizations, forced abortions, coerced marriages, and separation of Uyghur children from their families. (7) The Department of State’s 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices affirmed the genocide determination and noted coercive population control measures inflicted on ethnic and religious minority women in China, including forced injections with drugs that cause temporary or permanent end to their menstrual cycles and fertility (8) The United States ratified the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide in 1988, recognizing that imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group (9) Taiwan is a free and prosperous democracy of nearly 24,000,000 people and an important contributor to peace and stability around the world. (10) Section 2(b) of the Taiwan Relations Act ( Public Law 96–8 22 U.S.C. 3301(b) (A) to preserve and promote extensive, close, and friendly commercial, cultural, and other relations between the people of the United States and the people on Taiwan, as well as the people on the China mainland and all other peoples of the Western Pacific area (B) to declare that peace and stability in the area are in the political, security, and economic interests of the United States, and are matters of international concern (C) to make clear that the United States decision to establish diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China rests upon the expectation that the future of Taiwan will be determined by peaceful means (D) to consider any effort to determine the future of Taiwan by other than peaceful means, including by boycotts or embargoes, a threat to the peace and security of the Western Pacific area and of grave concern to the United States (E) to provide Taiwan with arms of a defensive character (F) to maintain the capacity of the United States to resist any resort to force or other forms of coercion that would jeopardize the security, or the social or economic system, of the people on Taiwan (11) Since the election of President Tsai Ing-wen as President of Taiwan in 2016, the Government of the People’s Republic of China has intensified its efforts to pressure Taiwan through diplomatic isolation and military provocations. (12) The rapid modernization of the People’s Liberation Army and recent military maneuvers in and around the Taiwan Strait illustrate a clear threat to Taiwan’s security. 3. Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that members of the Chinese Communist Party, led by General Secretary Xi Jinping, are responsible for violations of Hong Kong’s autonomy, increased aggression against the people of Taiwan, numerous human rights violations against the people of Hong Kong and the people of Taiwan, and acts of repression and genocide against Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. 4. Imposition of sanctions on members of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (a) In general Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall impose the sanctions described in subsection (c) with respect to— (1) each person who is a member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party that the President determines engages in the conduct described in subsection (b); (2) each person who is a member of any successor organization of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party that the President determines engages in the conduct described in subsection (b), in the event that the Central Committee is dissolved; and (3) each person who is an adult family member, including a spouse or an adult family member of the spouse, of a person described in paragraph (1) or paragraph (2). (b) Sanctionable conduct A person engages in the conduct described by this subsection if the person plays a significant role in the development or implementation of government policies or laws that the President determines appear designed to— (1) violate the autonomy of Hong Kong; (2) harass, intimidate, or result in increased aggression towards the people of Taiwan; or (3) contribute to political oppression or violation of human rights of individuals or societal groups within the People’s Republic of China, including Uyghur Muslims. (c) Sanctions described (1) In general The sanctions described in this subsection are the following: (A) Blocking of property The President shall exercise all of the powers granted to the President under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ( 50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq. (B) Aliens ineligible for visas, admission, or parole (i) Visas, admission, or parole An alien who the Secretary of State or the Secretary of Homeland Security (or a designee of one of such Secretaries) knows, or has reason to believe, is described in subsection (a) is— (I) inadmissible to the United States; (II) ineligible to receive a visa or other documentation to enter the United States; and (III) otherwise ineligible to be admitted or paroled into the United States or to receive any other benefit under the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq. (ii) Current visas revoked (I) In general The issuing consular officer, the Secretary of State, or the Secretary of Homeland Security (or a designee of one of such Secretaries) shall, in accordance with section 221(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1201(i) (II) Effect of revocation A revocation under subclause (I) shall take effect immediately and shall automatically cancel any other valid visa or entry documentation that is in the alien’s possession. (2) Exceptions (A) United nations headquarters agreement The sanctions described in paragraph (1)(B) shall not apply with respect to an alien if admitting or paroling the alien into the United States is necessary to permit the United States to comply with the Agreement regarding the Headquarters of the United Nations, signed at Lake Success June 26, 1947, and entered into force November 21, 1947, between the United Nations and the United States, or other applicable international obligations. (B) Exception for intelligence, law enforcement, and national security activities Sanctions under paragraph (1) shall not apply to any authorized intelligence, law enforcement, or national security activities of the United States. (d) Penalties The penalties provided for in subsections (b) and (c) of section 206 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ( 50 U.S.C. 1705 (e) Implementation authority The President may exercise all authorities provided to the President under sections 203 and 205 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702 and 1704) for purposes of carrying out this section. (f) Regulatory authority The President shall, not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, promulgate regulations as necessary for the implementation of this section. (g) Waiver The President may, for one or more periods of not more than 60 days each, waive the application of sanctions or restrictions imposed with respect to a foreign person under this section if the President certifies to the appropriate congressional committees, not later than 15 days before such waiver takes effect, that the waiver is vital to the national security interests of the United States. (h) Termination The President may terminate any sanctions imposed under subsection (a) not fewer than 15 days after the date on which the President provides a written certification to the appropriate congressional committees, and concurrently publishes on a publicly available website of the Federal Government, that— (1) the People’s Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party have— (A) ceased the genocide of the Uyghur Muslim population, including verifiably shutting down all internment camps of Uyghurs and ending the practice of facilitating or supporting Uyghur forced labor and forced sterilization; (B) ceased all forms of threats, military exercises, and aggression toward Taiwan, including through verifiably, and for at least a period of one year, having not conducted any breach of Taiwan’s air space, territorial waters, or land mass, by any military or intelligence personnel associated with the People’s Republic of China or the Chinese Communist Party, or any agency or instrumentality thereof; (C) ceased the undermining of the autonomy of Hong Kong, including through respecting the terms of the Sino-British Joint Declaration, and reversing all steps taken to interfere with the democratic process and governance of Hong Kong; and (D) ceased efforts to steal the intellectual property of United States persons; or (2) the sanctioned person has— (A) affirmatively renounced membership in the Chinese Communist Party; and (B) taken affirmative steps to denounce or remediate the conduct forming the basis for imposition of the sanction. (i) Sunset of waiver and license authorities The President’s authority to issue waivers or licenses with respect to sanctions required by subsection (a), including pursuant to sections 203 and 205 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702 and 1704), shall terminate on the date that is 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act. (j) Appropriate congressional committees defined In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees (1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives; and (2) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate. September 12, 2024 Reported from the Committee on Foreign Affairs September 12, 2024 Committee on the Judiciary

Summary: Sanctioning Tyrannical and Oppressive People within the Chinese Communist Party Act or the STOP CCP ActThis bill requires the President to impose visa- and property-blocking sanctions on any member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee whom the President determines plays a significant role in developing or implementing policies that (1) violate the autonomy of Hong Kong; (2) harass or intimidate the people of Taiwan; or (3) contribute to the oppression of individuals or groups in China, including Uyghur Muslims. The President must also impose sanctions on the adult family members of such sanctioned persons.The President may waive the sanctions for renewable periods of up to 60 days by certifying to Congress that the waiver is vital to U.S. national security interests.The President may terminate any sanctions imposed after certifying to Congress that China's government and the CCP have ceasedthe genocide of the Uyghur Muslim population; all threats, military exercises, and aggression toward Taiwan;undermining the autonomy of Hong Kong; andany efforts to steal the intellectual property of U.S. persons.The President may also terminate sanctions after certifying to Congress that the sanctioned person has renounced membership in the CCP and taken steps to denounce or remediate the conduct for which sanctions were imposed.Any certifications related to termination of sanctions must also be publicly available on a federal government website.