Title: No Place for Propaganda Act of 2020
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
No Place for Propaganda Act of 2020
This bill directs the President to deny a visa to a United Nations (U.N.) representative or participant in U.N. activities who, as an official or agent of a foreign government, deliberately concealed or distorted information about a serious public health risk to other countries that (1) relates to the international spread of disease, or (2) implicates a public health matter that potentially requires international action.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6520 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6520

 To provide additional criteria to deny admission to the United States 
 for certain persons affiliated with the United Nations, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 17, 2020

   Mr. Crenshaw (for himself, Mr. Roy, and Mr. Yoho) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide additional criteria to deny admission to the United States 
 for certain persons affiliated with the United Nations, 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 ``No Place for Propaganda Act of 
2020''.

SEC. 2. VISA LIMITATION FOR CERTAIN REPRESENTATIVES TO THE UNITED 
              NATIONS AND PARTICIPANTS IN UNITED NATIONS ACTIVITIES.

    Section 407(a) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal 
Years 1990 and 1991 (8 U.S.C. 1102 note) is amended--
            (1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by inserting 
        ``or participant in activities of'' after ``representative 
        to'';
            (2) in paragraph (1), by striking ``(1) has been found'' 
        and inserting ``(1)(A) has been found'';
            (3) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (2) and 
        inserting ``; or'';
            (4) by redesignating paragraph (2), as so amended, as 
        subparagraph (B) and moving such subparagraph, as so 
        redesignated, 2 ems to the right; and
            (5) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) based on credible evidence, has, in the capacity of 
        such person as an official, agent, or instrumentality of the 
        government of a country, deliberately concealed or distorted 
        information on a serious, unusual, or unexpected public health 
        risk to other countries that--
                    ``(A) relates to the international spread of 
                disease; or
                    ``(B) carries implications for public health in a 
                manner that potentially requires a coordinated 
                international response or immediate international 
                action.''.
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