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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3922 
To impose sanctions with respect to members of the Chinese Communist 
Party and heads of Chinese health agencies relating to the COVID– 
19 pandemic, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 15, 2021 
Mr. WITTMAN (for himself and Ms. STEFANIK) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition 
to the Committees on the Judiciary, Education and Labor, and Energy 
and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speak-
er, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the ju-
risdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To impose sanctions with respect to members of the Chinese 
Communist Party and heads of Chinese health agencies 
relating to the COVID–19 pandemic, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘World Deserves To 
Know Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO CER-
TAIN 
MEMBERS 
OF 
THE 
CHINESE 
COM-
MUNIST PARTY AND HEADS OF CHINESE 
HEALTH 
AGENCIES 
RELATING 
TO 
THE 
COVID–19 PANDEMIC. 
(a) CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY MEMBERS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The President shall impose 
the sanctions described in section 1263 of the Global 
Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (22 
U.S.C. 2656 note) with respect to any foreign per-
son who is an official of the Chinese Communist 
Party that the President determines is knowingly re-
sponsible for, complicit in, or has directly or indi-
rectly engaged in— 
(A) the disappearances of whistleblowers 
and citizen journalists in the People’s Republic 
of China relating to the COVID–19 pandemic; 
or 
(B) the establishment of limits on freedom 
of speech and academic freedom in the People’s 
Republic of China relating to the COVID–19 
pandemic. 
(2) COORDINATION.—The President shall co-
ordinate with the intelligence community for pur-
poses of identifying foreign persons under this sub-
section. 
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(b) CHINESE
HEALTH
AGENCIES
HEADS.—The 
President shall impose the sanctions described in sub-
section (c) with respect to the following foreign persons: 
(1) Gao Fu, also known as George Fu Gao, the 
Director of the Center for Disease Control and Pre-
vention of the People’s Republic of China. 
(2) Ma Xiaowei, Minister of the National 
Health Commission of the People’s Republic of 
China. 
(c) SANCTIONS
DESCRIBED.—The sanctions de-
scribed in this subsection with respect to a foreign person 
are the following: 
(1) BLOCKING OF PROPERTY.—The President 
shall exercise all of the powers granted to the Presi-
dent under the International Emergency Economic 
Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (except that 
the requirements of section 202 of such Act (50 
U.S.C. 1701) shall not apply) to the extent nec-
essary to block and prohibit all transactions in prop-
erty and interests in property of the person if such 
property and interests in property are in the United 
States, come within the United States, or come with-
in the possession or control of a United States per-
son. 
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(2) INADMISSIBILITY TO THE UNITED STATES 
AND REVOCATION OF VISA OR OTHER DOCUMENTA-
TION.— 
(A) INELIGIBILITY FOR VISA, ADMISSION, 
OR PAROLE.—The foreign person 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 re-
ceive any other benefit under the Immigra-
tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et 
seq.). 
(B) CURRENT VISA REVOKED.—The visa 
or other entry documentation of the foreign 
person shall be revoked, regardless of when 
such visa or other entry documentation is or 
was issued. A revocation under this subpara-
graph shall take effect immediately and auto-
matically cancel any other valid visa or entry 
documentation that is in the person’s posses-
sion. 
(d) EXCEPTIONS.— 
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(1) TO COMPLY WITH UNITED NATIONS HEAD-
QUARTERS
AGREEMENT.—Sanctions 
under 
sub-
section (c)(2) shall not apply with respect to a for-
eign person described in subsection (b) if admitting 
or paroling the foreign person 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. 
(2) TO CARRY OUT OR ASSIST LAW ENFORCE-
MENT
ACTIVITIES.—Sanctions under this section 
shall not apply to a foreign person, if admitting or 
paroling the foreign person into the United States is 
necessary to carry out or assist law enforcement ac-
tivity in the United States. 
(e) IMPLEMENTATION; PENALTIES.— 
(1) IMPLEMENTATION.—The President may ex-
ercise all authorities provided under sections 203 
and 205 of the International Emergency Economic 
Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702 and 1704) to carry out 
this section and shall issue such regulations, li-
censes, and orders as are necessary to carry out this 
section. 
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(2) PENALTIES.—Any person that violates, at-
tempts to violate, conspires to violate, or causes a 
violation of this section or any regulation, license, or 
order issued to carry out paragraph (1) shall be sub-
ject to the penalties provided for in subsections (b) 
and (c) of section 206 of the International Emer-
gency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) to the 
same extent as a person that commits an unlawful 
act described in subsection (a) of that section. 
(f) WAIVER.—The President may waive the applica-
tion of sanctions imposed with respect to a foreign person 
under this section if the President— 
(1) determines that a waiver is in the national 
interest of the United States; and 
(2) not later than the date on which such waiv-
er will take effect, submits to the appropriate con-
gressional committees a notice of and justification 
for such waiver. 
(g) TERMINATION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO 
A FOREIGN PERSON.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The President may termi-
nate the application of sanctions imposed with re-
spect to a foreign person under this section if the 
President makes a determination that— 
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(A) credible information exists that the 
person did not engage in the activity for which 
the sanctions were imposed; and 
(B) the person has— 
(i) credibly demonstrated a significant 
change in behavior; and 
(ii) been subject to an appropriate 
consequence for the activity for which the 
sanctions were imposed. 
(2) NOTIFICATION.—Not later than 15 days be-
fore the date on which the application of sanctions 
imposed with respect to a foreign person is termi-
nated under paragraph (1), the Secretary of State 
shall submit to the appropriate congressional com-
mittees a report that— 
(A) describes the evidence and justification 
for the necessity of the termination; and 
(B) explains how the termination of the 
application of sanctions is in the national secu-
rity interests of the United States. 
(h) TERMINATION OF AUTHORITY TO IMPOSE SANC-
TIONS.—The authority to impose sanctions under this sec-
tion with respect to a foreign person described in sub-
section (b) shall terminate on the date on which the Presi-
dent certifies to the appropriate congressional committees 
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that an independent, unimpeded investigation into the po-
tential origin of COVID–19 from the Wuhan Institute of 
Virology has taken place. 
(i) EXCEPTION RELATING
TO IMPORTATION
OF 
GOODS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The authorities and require-
ments to impose sanctions under this section shall 
not include the authority or requirement to impose 
sanctions on the importation of goods. 
(2) GOOD
DEFINED.—In this subsection, the 
term ‘‘good’’ means any article, natural or man- 
made substance, material, supply or manufactured 
product, including inspection and test equipment, 
and excluding technical data. 
SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON NEW CONTRACTS. 
(a) INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—No Federal funds may be 
made available to an institution of higher education 
(as defined in section 102 of the Higher Education 
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002)) that enters into a 
contract with— 
(A) any element or department of the Na-
tional Health Commission of the People’s Re-
public of China; 
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(B) any agency or office that reports to 
the National Health Commission of the People’s 
Republic of China; or 
(C) any Chinese-based entity affiliated 
with the National Health Commission of the 
People’s Republic of China. 
(2) PROGRAM
PARTICIPATION
AGREEMENTS 
UNDER THE HIGHER EDUCATION ACT OF 1965.—Sec-
tion 487(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 1094(a)) is amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
‘‘(30) The institution will not enter into a con-
tract with— 
‘‘(A) any element or department of the Na-
tional Health Commission of the People’s Re-
public of China; 
‘‘(B) any agency or office that reports to 
the National Health Commission of the People’s 
Republic of China; or 
‘‘(C) any Chinese-based entity affiliated 
with the National Health Commission of the 
People’s Republic of China.’’. 
(b) NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.—No Federal 
funds made available to the National Academy of Sciences 
may be used to enter into a contract with— 
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(C) any Chinese-based entity that is affili-
ated with the National Health Commission of 
the People’s Republic of China; 
(2) make publicly available, and submit to the 
Congress, a report on the results of such review; and 
(3) in such report, clearly identify any funds 
described in paragraph (1) that were used for gain 
of function research. 
SEC. 5. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that given Taiwan’s early 
alerting to the global health community on the dangers 
of COVID–19 while senior officials in the Chinese Com-
munist Party downplayed COVID–19 Taiwan should be 
granted observer status in the World Health Assembly 
(WHA). 
SEC. 6. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) ADMITTED; ALIEN.—The terms ‘‘admitted’’ 
and ‘‘alien’’ have the meanings given those terms in 
section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(8 U.S.C. 1001). 
(2) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
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(A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 
Committee on Appropriations, and the Com-
mittee on Financial Services of the House of 
Representatives; and 
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations, 
the Committee on Appropriations, and the 
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban 
Affairs of the Senate. 
(3) FOREIGN PERSON.—The term ‘‘foreign per-
son’’ means a person that is not a United States 
person. 
(4) INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY.—The term 
‘‘intelligence community’’ has the meaning given 
that term in section 3(4) of the National Security 
Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003(4)). 
(5) 
KNOWINGLY.—The 
term 
‘‘knowingly’’ 
means, with respect to conduct, a circumstance, or 
a result, that a person has actual knowledge, or 
should have known, of the conduct, the cir-
cumstance, or the result. 
(6) PERSON.—The term ‘‘person’’ means an in-
dividual or entity. 
(7) 
UNITED
STATES
PERSON.—The 
term 
‘‘United States person’’ means— 
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(A) a United States citizen, an alien law-
fully admitted for permanent residence to the 
United States, or any other individual subject 
to the jurisdiction of the United States; 
(B) an entity organized under the laws of 
the United States or of any jurisdiction within 
the United States, including a foreign branch of 
such entity; or 
(C) any person in the United States. 
Æ 
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