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(e) UPDATES.—The Secretary of State may include 
any updates to the strategy required by subsection (a) in 
the annual Trafficking in Persons report required by sec-
tion 110(b) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 
2000 (22 U.S.C. 7107(b)). 
SEC. 5. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS RELATING TO FORCED 
LABOR IN THE XINJIANG UYGHUR AUTONO-
MOUS REGION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 6(a)(1) of the Uyghur 
Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 (Public Law 116–145; 
22 U.S.C. 6901 note) is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘(F) Serious human rights abuses in con-
nection with forced labor.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE; APPLICABILITY.—The amend-
ment made by subsection (a)— 
(1) takes effect on the date of the enactment of 
this Act; and 
(2) applies with respect to the first report re-
quired by section 6(a)(1) of the Uyghur Human 
Rights Policy Act of 2020 submitted after such date 
of enactment. 
(c) TRANSITION RULE.— 
(1) INTERIM
REPORT.—Not later than 180 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
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President shall submit to the committees specified in 
section 6(a)(1) of the Uyghur Human Rights Policy 
Act of 2020 a report that identifies each foreign per-
son, including any official of the Government of the 
People’s Republic of China, that the President deter-
mines is responsible for serious human rights abuses 
in connection with forced labor with respect to 
Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, or members of other 
persecuted groups, or other persons in the Xinjiang 
Uyghur Autonomous Region. 
(2) IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS.—The President 
shall impose sanctions under subsection (c) of sec-
tion 6 of the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 
2020 with respect to each foreign person identified 
in the report required by paragraph (1), subject to 
the provisions of subsections (d), (e), (f), and (g) of 
that section. 
SEC. 6. SUNSET. 
Sections 3, 4, and 5 shall cease to have effect 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-
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public of China has ended mass internment, forced 
labor, and any other gross violations of human 
rights experienced by Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, 
Tibetans, and members of other persecuted groups 
in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. 
SEC. 7. 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, the Com-
mittee on Ways and Means and the Committee 
on Homeland Security of the House of Rep-
resentatives; and 
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations, 
the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs, the Committee on Finance and 
the Committee on Homeland Security and Gov-
ernmental Affairs of the Senate. 
(2) 
FORCED
LABOR.—The 
term 
‘‘forced 
labor’’— 
(A) has the meaning given that term in 
section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 
U.S.C. 1307); and 
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(B) includes convict labor and indentured 
labor under penal sanctions. 
(3) FOREIGN PERSON.—The term ‘‘foreign per-
son’’ means a person that is not a United States 
person. 
(4) PERSON.—The term ‘‘person’’ means an in-
dividual or entity. 
(5) 
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. 
Passed the House of Representatives December 14, 
2021. 
Attest: 
CHERYL L. JOHNSON, 
Clerk. 
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