I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4830 
To expand the imposition of sanctions under the Uyghur Human Rights 
Policy Act of 2020 with respect to human rights abuses in the Xinjiang 
Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China and to 
counter the genocidal policies of the Government of the People’s Republic 
of China, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AUGUST 1, 2025 
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey (for himself, Mr. MOOLENAAR, and Mr. SUOZZI) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Fi-
nancial Services, Ways and Means, Oversight and Government Reform, 
House Administration, and Armed Services, for a period to be subse-
quently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To expand the imposition of sanctions under the Uyghur 
Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 with respect to human 
rights abuses in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Re-
gion of the People’s Republic of China and to counter 
the genocidal policies of the Government of the People’s 
Republic of China, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Uyghur Genocide Accountability and Sanctions Act of 
2025’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Expansion of sanctions under Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 
2020. 
Sec. 3. Denial of United States entry for individuals complicit in forced abor-
tions or forced sterilizations. 
Sec. 4. Physical and psychological support for Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other 
ethnic groups. 
Sec. 5. Preservation of cultural, religious, and linguistic heritage of ethnic and 
religious groups oppressed by the People’s Republic of China. 
Sec. 6. Determination of whether actions of certain Chinese entities meet cri-
teria for imposition of sanctions. 
Sec. 7. Countering propaganda from the People’s Republic of China about 
genocide and crimes against humanity. 
Sec. 8. Documenting atrocities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. 
Sec. 9. Prohibition on certain United States Government agency contracts. 
Sec. 10. Strategy to address allegations of forced organ harvesting in the 
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. 
Sec. 11. Information on detained family members of United States citizens in 
the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. 
Sec. 12. Report on the national security implications of procurement of seafood 
originating or processed in the People’s Republic of China. 
Sec. 13. Prohibition on procurement and commissary sales of seafood origi-
nating or processed in the People’s Republic of China. 
SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF SANCTIONS UNDER UYGHUR HUMAN 
RIGHTS POLICY ACT OF 2020. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 6 of the Uyghur Human 
Rights Policy Act of 2020 (Public Law 116–145; 22 
U.S.C. 6901 note) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) in the matter preceding subpara-
graph 
(A), 
by 
striking 
‘‘persons 
in 
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Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region’’ and 
inserting ‘‘persons residing in the Xinjiang 
Uyghur Autonomous Region or members 
of those groups in countries outside of the 
People’s Republic of China’’; and 
(ii) by inserting after subparagraph 
(F) the following: 
‘‘(G) Systematic rape, coercive abortion, 
forced sterilization, or involuntary contraceptive 
implantation policies and practices. 
‘‘(H) Human trafficking for the purpose of 
organ removal. 
‘‘(I) Forced separation of children from 
their parents to be placed in boarding schools. 
‘‘(J) Forced deportation or refoulement to 
the People’s Republic of China.’’; 
(B) by redesignating paragraph (2) as 
paragraph (3); and 
(C) by inserting after paragraph (1) the 
following: 
‘‘(2) 
ADDITIONAL
MATTERS
TO
BE
IN-
CLUDED.—The President shall include in the report 
required by paragraph (1) an identification of— 
‘‘(A) each foreign person that knowingly 
provides significant goods, services, or tech-
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nology to or for a person identified in the re-
port; and 
‘‘(B) each foreign person that knowingly 
engages in a significant transaction relating to 
any of the acts described in subparagraphs (A) 
through (J) of paragraph (1).’’; 
(2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘subsection 
(a)(1)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (a)’’; and 
(3) by amending subsection (d) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(d) IMPLEMENTATION; REGULATORY
AUTHOR-
ITY.— 
‘‘(1) IMPLEMENTATION.—The President may 
exercise all authorities provided under section 203 of 
the International Emergency Economic Powers Act 
(50 U.S.C. 1702) to carry out this section. 
‘‘(2) REGULATORY AUTHORITY.—The President 
shall issue such regulations, licenses, and orders as 
necessary to carry out this section.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE; APPLICABILITY.—The amend-
ments made by this section— 
(1) take effect on the date of the enactment of 
this Act; and 
(2) apply with respect to the first report re-
quired by section 6(a)(1) of the Uyghur Human 
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Rights Policy Act of 2020 submitted after such date 
of enactment. 
SEC. 3. DENIAL OF UNITED STATES ENTRY FOR INDIVID-
UALS COMPLICIT IN FORCED ABORTIONS OR 
FORCED STERILIZATIONS. 
Section 801 of the Admiral James W. Nance and 
Meg Donovan Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal 
Years 2000 and 2001 (8 U.S.C. 1182e) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘may not’’ 
each place it appears and inserting ‘‘shall not’’; and 
(2) by striking subsection (c) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(c) WAIVER.—The Secretary of State may waive the 
prohibitions in subsection (a) with respect to a foreign na-
tional if the Secretary— 
‘‘(1) determines that— 
‘‘(A) the foreign national is not directly 
complicit in atrocities, specifically the oversight 
of programs or policies the intent of which is to 
destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, 
racial, or religious group through the use of 
forced sterilization, forced abortion, or other 
egregious population control policies; 
‘‘(B) admitting or paroling the foreign na-
tional into the United States is necessary— 
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‘‘(i) to permit the United States to 
comply with the Agreement regarding the 
Headquarters of the United Nations, 
signed at Lake Success on June 26, 1947, 
and entered into force November 21, 1947, 
between the United Nations and the 
United States, or other applicable inter-
national obligations of the United States; 
or 
‘‘(ii) to carry out or assist law en-
forcement activity of the United States; 
and 
‘‘(C) it is important to the national secu-
rity interest of the United States to admit or 
parole the foreign national into the United 
States; and 
‘‘(2) provides written notification to the appro-
priate congressional committees containing a jus-
tification for the waiver. 
‘‘(d) NOTICE.—The Secretary of State shall make a 
public announcement whenever the prohibitions under 
subsection (a) are imposed under this section. 
‘‘(e) INFORMATION REQUESTED BY CONGRESS.—The 
Secretary of State, upon the request of a Member of Con-
gress, shall provide information about the use of the prohi-
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bitions under subsection (a), including the number of 
times such prohibitions were imposed, disaggregated by 
country and by year and whether additional sanctions 
under any other Act were employed to advance the pur-
poses of this section.’’. 
SEC. 4. PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT FOR 
UYGHURS, KAZAKHS, AND OTHER ETHNIC 
GROUPS. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Using funds appropriated to 
the Department of State in annual appropriations 
Acts under the heading ‘‘DEVELOPMENT
ASSIST-
ANCE’’, the Secretary of State is authorized, subject 
to the requirements under chapters 1 and 10 of part 
I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 
2151 et seq.) and section 634A of such Act (22 
U.S.C. 2394–1)— 
(A) to provide the assistance described in 
paragraph (2) to individuals who— 
(i) belong to the Uyghur, Kazakh, 
Kyrgyz, or another oppressed ethnic group 
in the People’s Republic of China; 
(ii) experienced torture, forced steri-
lization, rape, forced abortion, forced labor, 
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or other atrocities in the People’s Republic 
of China; and 
(iii) are residing outside of the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China; and 
(B) to build local capacity for the assist-
ance described in paragraph (2) through— 
(i) grants to treatment centers and 
programs in foreign countries in accord-
ance with section 130(b) of the Foreign 
Assistance 
Act 
of 
1961 
(22 
U.S.C. 
2152(b)); and 
(ii) research and training to health 
care providers outside of such treatment 
centers or programs in accordance with 
section 130(c)(2) of such Act. 
(2) AUTHORIZED ASSISTANCE.—The assistance 
described in this paragraph is— 
(A) medical care; 
(B) physical therapy; and 
(C) psychological support. 
(b) BRIEFING.—Not later than 1 year after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall 
submit to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Sen-
ate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House 
of Representatives a report that describes— 
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(1) the direct care or services provided in for-
eign countries for individuals described in subsection 
(a)(1)(A); and 
(2) any projects started or supported in foreign 
countries to provide the care or services described in 
paragraph (1). 
(c) FEDERAL SHARE.—Not more than 50 percent of 
the costs of providing the assistance authorized under sub-
section (a) may be paid by the United States Government. 
SEC. 5. PRESERVATION OF CULTURAL, RELIGIOUS, AND 
LINGUISTIC HERITAGE OF ETHNIC AND RELI-
GIOUS GROUPS OPPRESSED BY THE PEO-
PLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. 
(a) FINDING.—Congress finds that the genocide and 
crimes against humanity perpetrated by officials of the 
Government of the People’s Republic of China in the 
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region aim to erase the dis-
tinct cultural, religious, and linguistic heritage of op-
pressed ethnic and religious groups. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that the United States Government should use its 
diplomatic, development, and cultural activities to promote 
the preservation of cultural, religious, and linguistic herit-
ages of ethnic and religious groups in the People’s Repub-
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