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118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3334 
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 
MAY 15, 2023 
Mrs. MCCLAIN (for herself, Mr. PANETTA, Mr. BUCHANAN, and Mr. PAPPAS) 
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 com-
mittee 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. 
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 ‘‘Sanctioning Tyrannical 
and Oppressive People within the Chinese Communist 
Party Act’’ or the ‘‘STOP CCP Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The Hong Kong National Security Law pro-
mulgated 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 re-
lated to national security; 
(B) violates the People’s Republic of Chi-
na’s commitments under international law, as 
defined by the Joint Declaration; and 
(C) causes severe and irreparable damage 
to the ‘‘one country, two systems’’ principle and 
further erodes global confidence in the People’s 
Republic of China’s commitment to inter-
national law. 
(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’’ that began in 2014. 
(3) The mass internment of Uyghur and other 
Muslim ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur 
Autonomous Region has been ongoing since April 
2017. 
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(4) The People’s Republic of China has con-
ducted a targeted and systemic population-control 
campaign against ethnic and religious minorities in 
the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region by impos-
ing and implementing coercive population-control 
practices, 
including 
selectively 
enforcing 
birth 
quotas, targeting minority women who are in non-
compliance 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 geno-
cide against Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious 
minority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autono-
mous 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 
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genocide determination and noted coercive popu-
lation control measures inflicted on ethnic and reli-
gious minority women in China, including forced in-
jections with ‘‘drugs that cause temporary or perma-
nent end to their menstrual cycles and fertility’’. 
(8) The United States ratified the United Na-
tions Convention on the Prevention and Punishment 
of Genocide in 1988, recognizing that ‘‘imposing 
measures intended to prevent births within the 
group’’ with intent to destroy a group in whole or 
part is an act that constitutes genocide. 
(9) Taiwan is a free and prosperous democracy 
of nearly 24,000,000 people and an important con-
tributor 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)) states that it 
is the policy of the United States— 
(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 peo-
ples of the Western Pacific area’’; 
(B) ‘‘to declare that peace and stability in 
the area are in the political, security, and eco-
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nomic 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 de-
fensive character’’; and 
(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 Govern-
ment of the People’s Republic of China has intensi-
fied its efforts to pressure Taiwan through diplo-
matic isolation and military provocations. 
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(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. 
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that the Chinese Com-
munist Party, led by General Secretary Xi Jinping, has 
committed numerous human rights violations against the 
people of Hong Kong and the people of Taiwan, as well 
as genocide against Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang 
Uyghur Autonomous Region. 
SEC. 4. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS ON MEMBERS OF THE 
CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE CHINESE COM-
MUNIST PARTY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall im-
pose sanctions described in subsection (b) with respect 
to— 
(1) each person who is a member of the Central 
Committee of the Chinese Communist Party; 
(2) each person who is a member of any suc-
cessor organization of the Central Committee of the 
Chinese Communist Party, in the event that the 
Central Committee is dissolved; and 
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(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) SANCTIONS DESCRIBED.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The sanctions described in 
this subsection are the following: 
(A) BLOCKING OF PROPERTY.—The Presi-
dent shall exercise all of the powers granted to 
the President under the International Emer-
gency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et 
seq.) to the extent necessary to block and pro-
hibit all transactions in property 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 are or come 
within the possession or control of a United 
States person. 
(B) ALIENS INELIGIBLE FOR VISAS, AD-
MISSION, OR PAROLE.— 
(i) VISAS, ADMISSION, OR PAROLE.— 
An alien who the Secretary of State or the 
Secretary of Homeland Security (or a des-
ignee of one of such Secretaries) knows, or 
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has reason to believe, is described in sub-
section (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 Nation-
ality 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)), 
revoke any visa or other entry docu-
mentation issued to an alien described 
in clause (i) regardless of when the 
visa or other entry documentation is 
issued. 
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(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 under 
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 Agree-
ment 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 AC-
TIVITIES.—Sanctions under paragraph (1) shall 
not apply to any authorized intelligence, law en-
forcement, or national security activities of the 
United States. 
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(c) PENALTIES.—The penalties provided for in sub-
sections (b) and (c) of section 206 of the International 
Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) shall 
apply to a person that violates, attempts to violate, con-
spires to violate, or causes a violation of regulations pro-
mulgated to carry out this section or the sanctions im-
posed pursuant to this section to the same extent that 
such penalties apply to a person that commits an unlawful 
act described in section 206(a) of that Act. 
(d) IMPLEMENTATION AUTHORITY.—The President 
may exercise all authorities provided to the President 
under sections 203 and 205 of the International Emer-
gency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702 and 1704) 
for purposes of carrying out this section. 
(e) 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. 
(f) WAIVER.—The President shall have the authority 
to waive the sanctions required by subsection (a) for re-
newable periods of 30 days, if the President provides a 
written certification to the appropriate congressional com-
mittees, which shall also be made publicly available on a 
website maintained by the Federal Government, that the 
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People’s Republic of China and the Chinese Communist 
Party have— 
(1) ceased the genocide of the Uyghur Muslim 
population, including verifiably shutting down all in-
ternment camps of Uyghurs and ending the practice 
of facilitating or supporting Uyghur forced labor and 
forced sterilization; 
(2) ceased all forms of threats, military exer-
cises, 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 Com-
munist Party, or any agency or instrumentality 
thereof; 
(3) 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 proc-
ess and governance of Hong Kong; and 
(4) ceased efforts to steal the intellectual prop-
erty of United States persons. 
(g) SUNSET OF WAIVER AND LICENSE AUTHORI-
TIES.—The President’s authority to issue waivers or li-
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censes 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. 
Æ 
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