Title: Uyghur Human Rights Sanctions Review Act
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
Uyghur Human Rights Sanctions Review Act
This bill requires the Department of the Treasury to determine whether specified Chinese entities (1) are responsible for serious human rights abuses against Uyghurs or certain other predominantly Muslim ethnic groups, and (2) meet the criteria for the imposition of certain sanctions.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9596 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9596

  To require a determination of whether certain Chinese entities are 
  responsible for human rights abuses that meet the criteria for the 
    imposition of sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights 
   Accountability Act or the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 15, 2022

Mr. Pfluger (for himself, Mr. Ellzey, and Ms. Sherrill) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 
 and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require a determination of whether certain Chinese entities are 
  responsible for human rights abuses that meet the criteria for the 
    imposition of sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights 
   Accountability Act or the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020.

    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 ``Uyghur Human Rights Sanctions Review 
Act''.

SEC. 2. DETERMINATION OF WHETHER ACTIONS OF CERTAIN CHINESE ENTITIES 
              MEET CRITERIA FOR IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 30 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation 
with the Secretary of State and the Attorney General, shall--
            (1) determine whether any entity specified in subsection 
        (b)--
                    (A) is responsible for or complicit in, or has 
                directly or indirectly engaged in, serious human rights 
                abuses against Uyghurs or other predominantly Muslim 
                ethnic groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 
                of the People's Republic of China; and
                    (B) meets the criteria for the imposition of 
                sanctions under--
                            (i) the Global Magnitsky Human Rights 
                        Accountability Act (22 U.S.C. 10101 et seq.);
                            (ii) section 6 of the Uyghur Human Rights 
                        Policy Act of 2020 (Public Law 116-145; 22 
                        U.S.C. 6901 note); or
                            (iii) Executive Order 13818 (50 U.S.C. 1701 
                        note; relating to blocking the property of 
                        persons involved in serious human rights abuse 
                        or corruption), as amended on or after the date 
                        of the enactment of this Act; and
            (2) submit to Congress a report on that determination that 
        includes the reasons for the determination.
    (b) Entities Specified.--An entity specified in this subsection is 
any of the following:
            (1) Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd.
            (2) Shenzhen Huada Gene Technology Co., Ltd. (BGI Group).
            (3) Tiandy Technologies Co., Ltd.
            (4) Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co., Ltd.
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