Uyghur Human Rights Sanctions Review Act

Bill: 118-hr-1324
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Pfluger, August [R-TX-11]
Introduced: 2023-03-01
Policy area: International Affairs
Latest action: action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-03-01
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Uyghur Human Rights Sanctions Review Act</b></p> <p>This bill requires that certain Chinese companies be evaluated for placement on the specially designated nationals and blocked persons list, also known as the SDN list. (Being placed on the SDN list can deny the designated individual or entity access to nearly all aspects of the U.S. financial system; it can also deny access to any assets the designee has that are under U.S. jurisdiction, and U.S. persons are usually prohibited from transacting with the designee.)<br /><br />The bill requires the Department of the Treasury to determine if certain specified Chinese companies (such as Alibaba Group Holding, Ltd.&nbsp;and ByteDance Ltd.) are (1) responsible for or complicit in serious human rights abuses against Uyghurs or other predominantly Muslim ethnic groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China, or (2) meet the criteria for the imposition of sanctions under certain U.S. laws or executive orders. If the Department of the Treasury determines that a company meets either of these criteria, Treasury must place the company on the SDN list.</p>

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1324 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 1, 2023 Mr. Pfluger introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs , and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary , Financial Services , and Ways and Means , 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 A BILL To require a determination of whether certain Chinese entities meet the criteria for the imposition of sanctions, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Uyghur Human Rights Sanctions Review Act . 2. Determination of whether certain Chinese entities meet criteria for imposition of sanctions (a) In general Not later than 60 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; or (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); (iii) section 105, 105A, 105B, or 105C of the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 ( 22 U.S.C. 8514 , 8514a, 8514b, and 8514c); (iv) 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; or (v) Executive Order 13553 ( 50 U.S.C. 1701 note; relating to blocking property of certain persons with respect to serious human rights abuses by the Government of Iran and taking certain other actions), as amended on or after the date of the enactment of this Act; (2) if the Secretary of the Treasury determines under paragraph (1) that an entity is responsible for or complicit in, or has directly or indirectly engaged in, serious human rights abuses described in subparagraph (A) of that paragraph or meets the criteria for the imposition of sanctions described in subparagraph (B) of that paragraph, the Secretary shall include the entity on the list of specially designated nationals and blocked persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control; and (3) 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. (5) China Electronics Technology Group Co. (6) Zhejiang Uniview Technologies Co., Ltd. (7) Alibaba Group Holding, Ltd. (8) Baidu, Inc. (9) ByteDance Ltd. (10) China TransInfo Technology Co., Ltd. (c) Form of report The report required by subsection (a)(3) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.