GENOCIDE GAMES Act
Bill: H.R.6586 | Sponsor: Rep. Gallagher, Mike (R-WI)
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
Guaranteeing Enemy Nations Omit from Criminalizing, Impeding, or Detaining Exceptional Global Athletes Magnifying Exploitation during Sporting events Act or the GENOCIDE GAMES Act
This bill requires the President to impose sanctions on certain foreign individuals who materially supported a gross violation of internationally recognized human rights against a 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games participant.
Upon receiving credible evidence of such a human rights violation, the President must impose property- and visa-blocking sanctions on any foreign individual associated with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), including the president of the IOC, who the President determines materially supported the violation of human rights, including by providing to participants false, reckless, or negligent assurances of human rights assurances by the government of China.
This bill's requirements shall terminate on March 13, 2023.

To require the imposition of sanctions pursuant to the Global Magnitsky 
Human Rights Accountability Act to certain members of the International 
Olympic Committee who are complicit in the perpetuation of human rights 
   abuses in the People's Republic of China, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Guaranteeing Enemy Nations Omit from 
Criminalizing, Impeding, or Detaining Exceptional Global Athletes 
Magnifying Exploitation during Sporting events Act'' or the ``GENOCIDE 
GAMES Act''.

SEC. 2. GLOBAL MAGNITSKY SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN 
              INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE (IOC) OFFICIALS WHO ARE 
              COMPLICIT IN THE PERPETUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN 
              THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

    (a) Determination Required.--Beginning on the date of the enactment 
of this Act, each time the President receives credible evidence that a 
gross violation of internationally recognized human rights has occurred 
against a 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games participant, the 
President shall determine by a preponderance of evidence whether a 
foreign person described in subsection (b) materially supported such 
gross violation of internationally recognized human rights.
    (b) Foreign Persons Described.--A foreign person described in this 
subsection is a foreign person who is--
            (1) President of the International Olympic Committee; or
            (2) any other individual associated with the International 
        Olympic Committee who the President determines has materially 
        assisted a gross violation of internationally recognized human 
        rights.
    (c) Mandatory Sanctions.--The President shall impose the sanctions 
described in subsection (f) with respect to each foreign person 
described in subsection (b) that the President determines materially 
supported a gross violation of internationally recognized human rights 
pursuant to subsection (a).
    (d) Rule of Construction.--For the purposes of this Act, material 
support of a gross violation of internationally recognized human rights 
shall be construed to include false, reckless, or negligent assurances 
to 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games participants regarding 
human rights assurances provided to the International Olympic Committee 
by the government of the People's Republic of China, the Chinese 
Communist Party, or any agent acting on their behalf or under their 
control.
    (e) Reports to Congress.--Each time the President makes a 
determination pursuant to subsection (a), the President shall notify 
the appropriate congressional committees of the foreign person 
concerned, the President's determination, and the basis for such 
determination.
    (f) Sanctions Described.--
            (1) In general.--The sanctions described in this subsection 
        are the sanctions described in section 1263(b) of the Global 
        Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (subtitle F of title 
        XII of Public Law 114-328; 22 U.S.C. 2656 note).
            (2) Exception for intelligence activities.--The requirement 
        to impose sanctions under this section shall not apply with 
        respect to activities 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 intelligence activities of the 
        United States.
    (g) Waiver.--The President may waive the imposition of the 
sanctions under this section with respect to a foreign person if the 
President determines and reports to the appropriate congressional 
committees that a waiver is in the national security interests of the 
United States.
    (h) Implementation.--
            (1) In general.--The President may exercise all authorities 
        provided to the President under sections 203 and 205 of the 
        International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702 and 
        1704) to carry out this section.
            (2) Exception relating to the importation of goods.--The 
        authorities and requirements to impose sanctions authorized 
        under this Act shall not include the authority or requirement 
        to impose sanctions on the importation of goods.
            (3) Good defined.--In this subsection, the term ``good'' 
        means any article, natural or manmade substance, material, 
        supply, or manufactured product, including inspection and test 
        equipment and excluding technical data.
    (i) Penalties.--A person that violates, attempts to violate, 
conspires to violate, or causes a violation of this section or any 
regulation, license, or order issued to carry out this section shall be 
subject to the penalties set forth in subsections (b) and (c) of 
section 206 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 
U.S.C. 1705) to the same extent as a person that commits an unlawful 
act described in subsection (a) of that section.
    (j) Report on Implementation.--Not later than 15 days after 
imposing sanctions under subsection (a), the President shall submit to 
the appropriate congressional committees a report regarding measures 
taken to implement this section.
    (k) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
        ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
                    (A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House 
                of Representatives; and
                    (B) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
                Senate.
            (2) 2022 olympic and paralympic winter games participant 
        defined.--In this Act, a ``2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter 
        Games participant'' is any United States or foreign person 
        involved in the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, 
        including athletes, spectators, government and private 
        officials, members of the press, and persons involved in 
        economic activity related to the Games.
            (3) Foreign person.--The term ``foreign person'' means an 
        individual or entity that is not a United States person.
            (4) United states person.--The term ``United States 
        person'' means--
                    (A) a United States citizen or an alien lawfully 
                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. SUNSET.

    This Act shall terminate on March 13, 2023.
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