I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2621 
To impose sanctions against individuals who are nationals of the People’s 
Republic of China who are responsible for gross violations of internation-
ally recognized human rights committed against other individuals in 
the People’s Republic of China, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 2, 2015 
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey (for himself and Mr. LIPINSKI) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and 
in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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 impose sanctions against individuals who are nationals 
of the People’s Republic of China who are responsible 
for gross violations of internationally recognized human 
rights committed against other individuals in the Peo-
ple’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 ‘‘China Human Rights 
Protection Act of 2015’’. 
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SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Armed Services, the 
Committee on Financial Services, the Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on 
Homeland Security, and the Committee on the 
Judiciary of the House of Representatives; and 
(B) the Committee on Armed Services, the 
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban 
Affairs, the Committee on Foreign Relations, 
the Committee on Homeland Security and Gov-
ernmental Affairs, and the Committee on the 
Judiciary of the Senate. 
(2) GROSS VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONALLY 
RECOGNIZED HUMAN RIGHTS.—The term ‘‘gross vio-
lations of internationally recognized human rights’’ 
includes— 
(A) extrajudicial killings; 
(B) torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrad-
ing treatment or punishment; 
(C) prolonged arbitrary detention, causing 
the disappearance of individuals by the abduc-
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tion and clandestine detention of those individ-
uals; 
(D) forced abortion or sterilization; 
(E) psychiatric or medical experimentation 
or organ harvesting of individuals without con-
sent or obtained in detention; and 
(F) other flagrant denial of the right to 
life, liberty, or the security of an individual. 
(3) 
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 of any jurisdiction within 
the United States, including a foreign branch of 
such an entity. 
SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF SANCTIONS FOR GROSS VIOLA-
TIONS OF INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED 
HUMAN RIGHTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The President shall impose the 
sanctions described in subsection (b) with respect to an 
individual who is a national of the People’s Republic of 
China the President determines, based on credible infor-
mation— 
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(1) is responsible for gross violations of inter-
nationally recognized human rights committed 
against other individuals in the People’s Republic of 
China, particularly those individuals who seek to ob-
tain, exercise, defend, or promote internationally rec-
ognized human rights and freedoms, such as the 
freedoms of religion, expression, association, and as-
sembly, and the rights to a fair trial and democratic 
elections; 
(2) acted as an agent of or on behalf of another 
individual who is a national of the People’s Republic 
of China in a matter relating to an activity described 
in paragraph (1); or 
(3) has materially assisted, sponsored, or pro-
vided financial, material, or technological support 
for, or goods or services in support of, an activity 
described in paragraph (1). 
(b) SANCTIONS
DESCRIBED.—The sanctions de-
scribed in this subsection are the following: 
(1) INADMISSIBILITY TO UNITED STATES.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Ineligibility of the indi-
vidual to receive a visa to enter the United 
States or to be admitted to the United States. 
(B) REVOCATION.—If the individual has 
been issued a visa or other documentation, rev-
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ocation, in accordance with section 221(i) of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1201(i)), of the visa or other documentation. 
(2) BLOCKING OF PROPERTY.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—The blocking, in ac-
cordance with the International Emergency 
Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), 
of all transactions in all property and interests 
in property of the individual 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) INAPPLICABILITY OF NATIONAL EMER-
GENCY
REQUIREMENT.—The requirements of 
section 202 of the International Emergency 
Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701) shall 
not apply for purposes of this section. 
(c) REGULATORY AUTHORITY.—The President shall 
issue such regulations, licenses, and orders as are nec-
essary to carry out this section. 
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SEC. 4. WAIVER AUTHORITY AND EXCEPTION TO COMPLY 
WITH 
UNITED 
NATIONS 
HEADQUARTERS 
AGREEMENT. 
(a) WAIVER AUTHORITY.—The President may waive 
the application of sanctions under section 3 with respect 
to an individual who is a national of the People’s Republic 
of China if the President— 
(1) determines that such a waiver is in the na-
tional security interests of the United States; and 
(2) not later than 30 days prior to granting 
such a waiver, submits to the appropriate congres-
sional committees notice of, and a justification for, 
the waiver. 
(b) EXCEPTION TO COMPLY WITH UNITED NATIONS 
HEADQUARTERS AGREEMENT.—Sanctions under sections 
3(b)(1) shall not apply to an individual who is a national 
of the People’s Republic of China if admitting the indi-
vidual into the United States is necessary to permit the 
United States to comply with the Agreement regarding the 
Headquarters of the United Nations, signed at Lake Suc-
cess June 26, 1947, and entered into force November 21, 
1947, between the United Nations and the United States, 
or other applicable international obligations of the United 
States. 
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SEC. 5. TERMINATION OF SANCTIONS. 
The President may terminate the application of sanc-
tions under section 3 with respect to an individual who 
is a national of the People’s Republic of China if the Presi-
dent determines and reports to the appropriate congres-
sional committees not later than 15 days before the termi-
nation of the sanctions that— 
(1) credible information exists that the indi-
vidual did not engage in the activity for which sanc-
tions were imposed; 
(2) the individual has been prosecuted appro-
priately for the activity for which sanctions were im-
posed; or 
(3) the individual has credibly demonstrated a 
significant change in behavior, has paid an appro-
priate consequence for the activity for which sanc-
tions were imposed, and has credibly committed to 
not engage in an activity described in section 3 in 
the future. 
SEC. 6. ESTABLISHMENT OF CHINA HUMAN RIGHTS DOCU-
MENTATION CENTER. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State shall seek 
to provide for the establishment of and provide funding 
for an independent, nongovernmental organization, to be 
referred to as the China Human Rights Documentation 
Center, to— 
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(1) compile, publish, and archive credible evi-
dence of nationals of the People’s Republic of China 
who commit gross violations of internationally recog-
nized human rights against individuals in the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China; 
(2) receive evidence of such violations from non-
governmental organizations and governmental enti-
ties; 
(3) establish an online and searchable database, 
in English and in Chinese, and establish other multi- 
media information platforms, in English and in Chi-
nese, of credible evidence of such violations for re-
search and educational purposes; and 
(4) compile, publish, and archive credible evi-
dence of individuals who are nationals of the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China who are engaged in— 
(A) censorship of the Internet, restrictions 
on the freedom of expression, the free flow of 
news and information, and the silencing of 
peaceful dissent against government policy or 
practice; 
(B) threats, surveillance, censorship, deten-
tion, beatings, or the denials or delays of visas 
of United States or other foreign journalists 
working in China; 
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(C) threats, beatings, surveillance, deten-
tion, or threats to the loss of jobs or profes-
sional status made against— 
(i) individuals who are human rights 
lawyers seeking to represent clients de-
tained in extra-legal detention centers; 
(ii) individuals considered by the 
United Nations Working Group on Arbi-
trary Detention to be detained arbitrarily 
in China, including Tibetans, Uyghurs, and 
individuals who are members of the Falun 
Gong; 
(iii) individuals who are democracy, 
labor, environmental, or free speech advo-
cates; 
(iv) individuals who are petitioners or 
bloggers; 
(v) individuals accused in govern-
mental anti-corruption campaigns; and 
(vi) individuals from religious commu-
nities that are independent of government- 
approved religious organizations; 
(D) restrictions on the right to freedom of 
religion and the ability to exercise peaceful reli-
gious practice, in public and private, inde-
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pendent of government restrictions or oversight 
of religious teachings or choice of religious lead-
ers, particularly the arrest and detention of reli-
gious leaders, the destruction of property or 
heavy fines, and the ‘‘patriotic education’’ of re-
ligious leaders; 
(E) implementing China’s population con-
trol policies, including through the coercive and 
persistent monitoring of fertility, the issuing of 
heavy fines, and threats made for the loss of 
employment or the denial of residency and 
other government benefits to children born be-
yond the government-prescribed limit; 
(F) profiting from or overseeing slave 
labor, particularly in detention facilities, or 
from sex or bride trafficking or those engaged 
in beating, threatening, or detaining individuals 
seeking to disrupt trafficking in persons net-
works; 
(G) profiting from the sale of organs har-
vested from an individual without consent or 
while an individual is in detention; 
(H) disrupting or prohibiting, through vio-
lence, intimidation, discrimination, or threats, 
attempts to organize independent trade unions 
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