mits an unlawful act described in subsection (a) of 
such section 206. 
(e) WAIVER.—The President may waive the applica-
tion of sanctions under this section with respect to a for-
eign person identified in the report required under sub-
section (a)(1) if the President determines and certifies to 
the appropriate congressional committees that such a 
waiver is in the national interest of the United States. 
(f) EXCEPTIONS.— 
(1) EXCEPTION
FOR
INTELLIGENCE
ACTIVI-
TIES.—Sanctions under this section shall not apply 
to any activity subject to the reporting requirements 
under title V of the National Security Act of 1947 
(50 U.S.C. 3091 et seq.) or any authorized intel-
ligence activities of the United States. 
(2) EXCEPTION
TO
COMPLY
WITH
INTER-
NATIONAL OBLIGATIONS AND FOR LAW ENFORCE-
MENT
ACTIVITIES.—Sanctions 
under 
subsection 
(c)(2) shall not apply with respect to an alien if ad-
mitting or paroling the alien into the United States 
is necessary— 
(A) to permit the United States to comply 
with the Agreement regarding the Head-
quarters of the United Nations, signed at Lake 
Success June 26, 1947, and entered into force
November 21, 1947, between the United Na-
tions and the United States, or other applicable 
international obligations; or 
(B) to carry out or assist law enforcement 
activity in the United States. 
(g) TERMINATION OF SANCTIONS.—The President 
may terminate the application of sanctions under this sec-
tion with respect to a foreign person if the President deter-
mines and reports to the appropriate congressional com-
mittees not less than 15 days before the termination takes 
effect that— 
(1) information exists that the person did not 
engage in the activity for which sanctions were im-
posed; 
(2) the person has been prosecuted appro-
priately for the activity for which sanctions were im-
posed; 
(3) the person has credibly demonstrated a sig-
nificant change in behavior, has paid an appropriate 
consequence for the activity for which sanctions were 
imposed, and has credibly committed to not engage 
in an activity described in subsection (a)(1) in the 
future; or 
(4) the termination of the sanctions is in the 
national security interests of the United States.
(h) SUNSET.—This section, and any sanctions im-
posed under this section, shall terminate on the date that 
is 5 years after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
(i) 
DEFINITIONS
OF
ADMISSION; 
ADMITTED; 
ALIEN.—In this section, the terms ‘‘admission’’, ‘‘admit-
ted’’, and ‘‘alien’’ have the meanings given those terms 
in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1101). 
SEC. 9. DISCLOSURES TO THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 
COMMISSION OF CERTAIN ACTIVITIES RE-
LATED TO THE XINJIANG UYGHUR AUTONO-
MOUS REGION. 
(a) POLICY STATEMENT.—It is the policy of the 
United States to protect American investors, through 
stronger disclosure requirements, alerting them to the 
presence of Chinese and other companies complicit in 
gross violations of human rights in United States capital 
markets, including American and foreign companies listed 
on United States exchanges that enable the mass intern-
ment and population surveillance of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, 
Kyrgyz, and other Muslim minorities and source products 
made with forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autono-
mous Region of China. Such involvements represent clear, 
material risks to the share values and corporate reputa-
tions of certain of these companies and hence to prospec-
tive American investors, particularly given that the United 
States Government has employed sanctions and export re-
strictions to target individuals and entities contributing to 
human rights abuses in the People’s Republic of China. 
(b) DISCLOSURE OF CERTAIN ACTIVITIES RELATING 
TO THE XINJIANG UYGHUR AUTONOMOUS REGION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 13 of the Securities 
Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78m) is amended 
by adding at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(s) DISCLOSURE OF CERTAIN ACTIVITIES RELAT-
ING TO THE XINJIANG UYGHUR AUTONOMOUS REGION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Each issuer required to file 
an annual or quarterly report under subsection (a) 
shall disclose in that report the information required 
by paragraph (2) if, during the period covered by 
the report, the issuer or any affiliate of the issuer— 
‘‘(A) knowingly engaged in an activity with 
an entity or the affiliate of an entity engaged 
in creating or providing technology or other as-
sistance to create mass population surveillance 
systems in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous 
Region of China, including any entity included 
on the Department of Commerce’s ‘Entity List’ 
in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region;
‘‘(B) knowingly engaged in an activity with 
an entity or an affiliate of an entity building 
and running detention facilities for Uyghurs, 
Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other members of Mus-
lim minority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur 
Autonomous Region; 
‘‘(C) knowingly engaged in an activity with 
an entity or an affiliate of an entity described 
in section 7(c)(1) of the Uyghur Forced Labor 
Prevention Act, including— 
‘‘(i) any entity engaged in the ‘pair-
ing-assistance’ program which subsidizes 
the establishment of manufacturing facili-
ties in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous 
Region; or 
‘‘(ii) any entity for which the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security has issued a 
‘Withhold Release Order’ under section 
307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 
1307); or 
‘‘(D) knowingly conducted any transaction 
or had dealings with— 
‘‘(i) any person the property and in-
terests in property of which were sanc-
tioned by the Secretary of State for the de-
tention or abuse of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, 
Kyrgyz, or other members of Muslim mi-
nority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Au-
tonomous Region; 
‘‘(ii) any person the property and in-
terests in property of which are sanctioned 
pursuant to the Global Magnitsky Human 
Rights Accountability Act (22 U.S.C. 2656 
note); or 
‘‘(iii) any person or entity responsible 
for, or complicit in, committing atrocities 
in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Re-
gion. 
‘‘(2) INFORMATION REQUIRED.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—If an issuer described 
under paragraph (1) or an affiliate of the issuer 
has engaged in any activity described in para-
graph (1), the information required by this 
paragraph is a detailed description of each such 
activity, including— 
‘‘(i) the nature and extent of the ac-
tivity; 
‘‘(ii) the gross revenues and net prof-
its, if any, attributable to the activity; and
‘‘(iii) whether the issuer or the affil-
iate of the issuer (as the case may be) in-
tends to continue the activity. 
‘‘(B) EXCEPTION.—The requirement to 
disclose information under this paragraph shall 
not include information on activities of the 
issuer or any affiliate of the issuer activities re-
lating to— 
‘‘(i) the import of manufactured 
goods, including electronics, food products, 
textiles, shoes, and teas, that originated in 
the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; 
or 
‘‘(ii) manufactured goods containing 
materials that originated or are sourced in 
the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. 
‘‘(3) NOTICE OF DISCLOSURES.—If an issuer 
reports under paragraph (1) that the issuer or an 
affiliate of the issuer has knowingly engaged in any 
activity described in that paragraph, the issuer shall 
separately file with the Commission, concurrently 
with the annual or quarterly report under subsection 
(a), a notice that the disclosure of that activity has 
been included in that annual or quarterly report that
identifies the issuer and contains the information re-
quired by paragraph (2). 
‘‘(4) PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION.— 
Upon receiving a notice under paragraph (3) that an 
annual or quarterly report includes a disclosure of 
an activity described in paragraph (1), the Commis-
sion shall promptly— 
‘‘(A) transmit the report to— 
‘‘(i) the President; 
‘‘(ii) the Committee on Foreign Af-
fairs and the Committee on Financial 
Services of the House of Representatives; 
and 
‘‘(iii) the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions and the Committee on Banking, 
Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate; 
and 
‘‘(B) make the information provided in the 
disclosure and the notice available to the public 
by posting the information on the Internet 
website of the Commission. 
‘‘(5) INVESTIGATIONS.—Upon receiving a re-
port under paragraph (4) that includes a disclosure 
of an activity described in paragraph (1), the Presi-
dent shall—
‘‘(A) make a determination with respect to 
whether any investigation is needed into the 
possible imposition of sanctions under the Glob-
al Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act 
(22 U.S.C. 2656 note) or section 8 of the 
Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act or wheth-
er criminal investigations are warranted under 
statutes intended to hold accountable individ-
uals or entities involved in the importation of 
goods produced by forced labor, including under 
section 545, 1589, or 1761 of title 18, United 
States Code; and 
‘‘(B) not later than 180 days after initi-
ating any such investigation, make a determina-
tion with respect to whether a sanction should 
be imposed or criminal investigations initiated 
with respect to the issuer or the affiliate of the 
issuer (as the case may be). 
‘‘(6) ATROCITIES DEFINED.—In this subsection, 
the term ‘atrocities’ has the meaning given the term 
in section 6(2) of the Elie Wiesel Genocide and 
Atrocities Prevention Act of 2018 (Public Law 115– 
441; 22 U.S.C. 2656 note).’’.
(c) SUNSET.—Section 13(s) of the Securities Ex-
change Act of 1934, as added by subsection (b), is re-
pealed on the earlier of— 
(1) the date that is 8 years after the date of the 
enactment of this Act; or 
(2) the date on which the President submits to 
the appropriate congressional committees a deter-
mination that the Government of the People’s Re-
public of China has ended mass internment, forced 
labor, and any other gross violations of human 
rights experienced by Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, 
and members of other Muslim minority groups in 
the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
subsection (b) shall take effect with respect to reports re-
quired to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Com-
mission after the date that is 180 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 10. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 
Committee on Financial Services, and the Com-
mittee on Ways and Means of the House of 
Representatives; and 
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations, 
the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs, and the Committee on Finance 
of the Senate. 
(2) ATROCITIES.—The term ‘‘atrocities’’ has 
the meaning given the term in section 6(2) of the 
Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act 
of 2018 (Public Law 115–441; 22 U.S.C. 2656 
note). 
(3) CRIMES
AGAINST
HUMANITY.—The term 
‘‘crimes against humanity’’ includes, when com-
mitted as part of a widespread or systematic attack 
directed against any civilian population, with knowl-
edge of the attack— 
(A) murder; 
(B) deportation or forcible transfer of pop-
ulation; 
(C) torture; 
(D) extermination; 
(E) enslavement; 
(F) rape, sexual slavery, or any other form 
of sexual violence of comparable severity;
(G) persecution against any identifiable 
group or collectivity on political, racial, na-
tional, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender, or 
other grounds that are universally recognized as 
impermissible under international law; and 
(H) enforced disappearance of persons. 
(4) FORCED LABOR.—The term ‘‘forced labor’’ 
has the meaning given the term in section 307 of the 
Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1307). 
(5) FOREIGN PERSON.—The term ‘‘foreign per-
son’’ means a person that is not a United States 
person. 
(6) PERSON.—The term ‘‘person’’ means an in-
dividual or entity. 
(7) MASS
POPULATION
SURVEILLANCE
SYS-
TEM.—The term ‘‘mass population surveillance sys-
tem’’ means installation and integration of facial 
recognition cameras, biometric data collection, cell 
phone surveillance, and artificial intelligence tech-
nology with the ‘‘Sharp Eyes’’ and ‘‘Integrated Joint 
Operations Platform’’ or other technologies that are 
used by Chinese security forces for surveillance and 
big-data predictive policing. 
(8) 
UNITED
STATES
PERSON.—The 
term 
‘‘United States person’’ means—
(A) a United States citizen or an alien law-
fully admitted for permanent residence to the 
United States; or 
(B) an entity organized under the laws of 
the United States or any jurisdiction within the 
United States, including a foreign branch of 
such an entity. 
SEC. 11. DETERMINATION OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS.. 
The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of 
complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, 
shall be determined by reference to the latest statement 
titled ‘‘Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation’’ for this 
Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional Record 
by the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, pro-
vided that such statement has been submitted prior to the 
vote on passage. 
Passed the House of Representatives December 8, 
2021. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 1155 
AN ACT 
Ensuring that goods made with forced labor in the 
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China do not enter the United 
States market, and for other purposes.