IIB 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1540 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
MAY 6, 2025 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 
AN ACT 
To provide for the imposition of sanctions with respect to 
forced organ harvesting within 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. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Falun Gong Protection 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It is the policy of the United States to— 
(1) avoid any cooperation with the PRC in the 
organ transplantation field while the Chinese Com-
munist Party remains in power; 
(2) take appropriate measures, including using 
relevant sanctions authorities, to coerce the Chinese 
Communist Party to end any state-sponsored organ 
harvesting campaign; and 
(3) work with allies, partners, and multilateral 
institutions to highlight China’s persecution of 
Falun Gong and coordinate closely with the inter-
national community on targeted sanctions and visa 
restrictions. 
SEC. 3. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO 
FORCED ORGAN HARVESTING WITHIN THE 
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. 
(a) IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS.—The President shall 
impose the sanctions described in subsection (c) with re-
spect to each foreign person included in the most recent 
list submitted pursuant to subsection (b). 
(b) LIST OF PERSONS.— 
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(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
President shall submit to the appropriate congres-
sional committees a list of foreign persons who the 
President determines to have knowingly and directly 
engaged in or facilitated the involuntary harvesting 
of organs within the People’s Republic of China. 
(2) UPDATES OF LISTS.—The President shall 
submit to the appropriate congressional committees 
an updated list under paragraph (1)— 
(A) as new information becomes available; 
(B) not later than one year after the date 
of the enactment of this Act; and 
(C) annually thereafter until the date of 
termination under subsection (h). 
(3) FORM.—The list required by paragraph (1) 
shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may in-
clude a classified annex. 
(c) SANCTIONS
DESCRIBED.—The sanctions de-
scribed in this subsection are the following: 
(1) BLOCKING OF PROPERTY.—The President 
shall exercise all of the powers granted to the Presi-
dent by the International Emergency Economic 
Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (except that 
the requirements of section 202 of such Act (50 
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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 are or 
come within the possession or control of a United 
States person. 
(2) INADMISSIBILITY
OF
CERTAIN
INDIVID-
UALS.— 
(A) INELIGIBILITY FOR VISAS, ADMISSION, 
OR PAROLE.—A foreign person included in the 
most recent list submitted pursuant to sub-
section (b) 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 VISAS REVOKED.—A foreign 
person described in subparagraph (A) is also 
subject to the following: 
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(i) Revocation of any visa or other 
entry documentation regardless of when 
the visa or other entry documentation is or 
was issued. 
(ii) A revocation under clause (i) shall 
take effect immediately and automatically 
cancel any other valid visa or entry docu-
mentation that is in the foreign person’s 
possession. 
(3) EXCEPTION.—Sanctions under paragraph 
(2) shall not apply to an alien if admitting or parol-
ing 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 Na-
tions, signed at Lake Success June 26, 1947, and 
entered into force November 21, 1947, between the 
United Nations and the United States, or other ap-
plicable international obligations of the United 
States. 
(d) 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 who violates, attempts to violate, con-
spires to violate, or causes a violation of regulations pro-
mulgated to carry out subsection (a) to the same extent 
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