No Place for Propaganda Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6520
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Crenshaw, Dan [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2020-04-17
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad

Fraud offenses and financial crimes

Infectious and parasitic diseases

International organizations and cooperation

United Nations

Visas and passports

World health
Latest action: action_date: 2020-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-04-17
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>No Place for Propaganda Act of 2020</b></p> <p>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. </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6520 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 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the No Place for Propaganda Act of 2020 . 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. .