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118THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 3334
To provide for the imposition of sanctions on members of the National
Communist Party Congress of the People’s Republic of China, and for
other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY15, 2023
Mrs. M
CCLAIN(for herself, Mr. PANETTA, Mr. BUCHANAN, and Mr. PAPPAS)
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 com-
mittee concerned
A BILL
To provide for the imposition of sanctions on members of
the National Communist Party Congress of the People’s
Republic of China, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Sanctioning Tyrannical 4
and Oppressive People within the Chinese Communist 5
Party Act’’ or the ‘‘STOP CCP Act’’. 6
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 1
Congress finds the following: 2
(1) The Hong Kong National Security Law pro-3
mulgated on July 1, 2020— 4
(A) contravenes the Basic Law of the 5
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region that 6
provides in Article 23 that the Legislative 7
Council of Hong Kong shall enact legislation re-8
lated to national security; 9
(B) violates the People’s Republic of Chi-10
na’s commitments under international law, as 11
defined by the Joint Declaration; and 12
(C) causes severe and irreparable damage 13
to the ‘‘one country, two systems’’ principle and 14
further erodes global confidence in the People’s 15
Republic of China’s commitment to inter-16
national law. 17
(2) Repression of ethnic Muslim minorities in 18
the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the 19
People’s Republic of China has been ongoing, and 20
was formalized with the ‘‘Strike Hard Campaign 21
against Violent Terrorism’’ that began in 2014. 22
(3) The mass internment of Uyghur and other 23
Muslim ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur 24
Autonomous Region has been ongoing since April 25
2017. 26
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(4) The People’s Republic of China has con-1
ducted a targeted and systemic population-control 2
campaign against ethnic and religious minorities in 3
the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region by impos-4
ing and implementing coercive population-control 5
practices, including selectively enforcing birth 6
quotas, targeting minority women who are in non-7
compliance with birth quotas, and subjecting women 8
to coercive measures such as forced birth control, 9
forced sterilization, and forced abortion. 10
(5) On October 6, 2020, 39 countries delivered 11
a cross-regional joint statement to the United States 12
Mission to the United Nations on the human rights 13
abuses on Uyghurs and other minorities for forced 14
birth control including sterilization. 15
(6) On January 19, 2021, the Department of 16
State determined that the People’s Republic of 17
China committed crimes against humanity and geno-18
cide against Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious 19
minority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autono-20
mous Region, citing forced sterilizations, forced 21
abortions, coerced marriages, and separation of 22
Uyghur children from their families. 23
(7) The Department of State’s 2020 Country 24
Reports on Human Rights Practices affirmed the 25
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genocide determination and noted coercive popu-1
lation control measures inflicted on ethnic and reli-2
gious minority women in China, including forced in-3
jections with ‘‘drugs that cause temporary or perma-4
nent end to their menstrual cycles and fertility’’. 5
(8) The United States ratified the United Na-6
tions Convention on the Prevention and Punishment 7
of Genocide in 1988, recognizing that ‘‘imposing 8
measures intended to prevent births within the 9
group’’ with intent to destroy a group in whole or 10
part is an act that constitutes genocide. 11
(9) Taiwan is a free and prosperous democracy 12
of nearly 24,000,000 people and an important con-13
tributor to peace and stability around the world. 14
(10) Section 2(b) of the Taiwan Relations Act 15
(Public Law 96–8; 22 U.S.C. 3301(b)) states that it 16
is the policy of the United States— 17
(A) ‘‘to preserve and promote extensive, 18
close, and friendly commercial, cultural, and 19
other relations between the people of the United 20
States and the people on Taiwan, as well as the 21
people on the China mainland and all other peo-22
ples of the Western Pacific area’’; 23
(B) ‘‘to declare that peace and stability in 24
the area are in the political, security, and eco-25
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nomic interests of the United States, and are 1
matters of international concern’’; 2
(C) ‘‘to make clear that the United States 3
decision to establish diplomatic relations with 4
the People’s Republic of China rests upon the 5
expectation that the future of Taiwan will be 6
determined by peaceful means’’; 7
(D) ‘‘to consider any effort to determine 8
the future of Taiwan by other than peaceful 9
means, including by boycotts or embargoes, a 10
threat to the peace and security of the Western 11
Pacific area and of grave concern to the United 12
States’’; 13
(E) ‘‘to provide Taiwan with arms of a de-14
fensive character’’; and 15
(F) ‘‘to maintain the capacity of the 16
United States to resist any resort to force or 17
other forms of coercion that would jeopardize 18
the security, or the social or economic system, 19
of the people on Taiwan’’. 20
(11) Since the election of President Tsai Ing- 21
wen as President of Taiwan in 2016, the Govern-22
ment of the People’s Republic of China has intensi-23
fied its efforts to pressure Taiwan through diplo-24
matic isolation and military provocations. 25
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(12) The rapid modernization of the People’s 1
Liberation Army and recent military maneuvers in 2
and around the Taiwan Strait illustrate a clear 3
threat to Taiwan’s security. 4
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 5
It is the sense of Congress that the Chinese Com-6
munist Party, led by General Secretary Xi Jinping, has 7
committed numerous human rights violations against the 8
people of Hong Kong and the people of Taiwan, as well 9
as genocide against Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang 10
Uyghur Autonomous Region. 11
SEC. 4. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS ON MEMBERS OF THE 12
CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE CHINESE COM-13
MUNIST PARTY. 14
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after the 15
date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall im-16
pose sanctions described in subsection (b) with respect 17
to— 18
(1) each person who is a member of the Central 19
Committee of the Chinese Communist Party; 20
(2) each person who is a member of any suc-21
cessor organization of the Central Committee of the 22
Chinese Communist Party, in the event that the 23
Central Committee is dissolved; and 24
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(3) each person who is an adult family member, 1
including a spouse or an adult family member of the 2
spouse, of a person described in paragraph (1) or 3
paragraph (2). 4
(b) S
ANCTIONSDESCRIBED.— 5
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The sanctions described in 6
this subsection are the following: 7
(A) B
LOCKING OF PROPERTY .—The Presi-8
dent shall exercise all of the powers granted to 9
the President under the International Emer-10
gency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et 11
seq.) to the extent necessary to block and pro-12
hibit all transactions in property and interests 13
in property of the person if such property and 14
interests in property are in the United States, 15
come within the United States, or are or come 16
within the possession or control of a United 17
States person. 18
(B) A
LIENS INELIGIBLE FOR VISAS , AD-19
MISSION, OR PAROLE.— 20
(i) V
ISAS, ADMISSION, OR PAROLE.— 21
An alien who the Secretary of State or the 22
Secretary of Homeland Security (or a des-23
ignee of one of such Secretaries) knows, or 24
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has reason to believe, is described in sub-1
section (a) is— 2
(I) inadmissible to the United 3
States; 4
(II) ineligible to receive a visa or 5
other documentation to enter the 6
United States; and 7
(III) otherwise ineligible to be 8
admitted or paroled into the United 9
States or to receive any other benefit 10
under the Immigration and Nation-11
ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.). 12
(ii) C
URRENT VISAS REVOKED .— 13
(I) I
N GENERAL.—The issuing 14
consular officer, the Secretary of 15
State, or the Secretary of Homeland 16
Security (or a designee of one of such 17
Secretaries) shall, in accordance with 18
section 221(i) of the Immigration and 19
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1201(i)), 20
revoke any visa or other entry docu-21
mentation issued to an alien described 22
in clause (i) regardless of when the 23
visa or other entry documentation is 24
issued. 25
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(II) EFFECT OF REVOCATION .— 1
A revocation under subclause (I) shall 2
take effect immediately and shall 3
automatically cancel any other valid 4
visa or entry documentation that is in 5
the alien’s possession. 6
(2) E
XCEPTIONS.— 7
(A) U
NITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS 8
AGREEMENT.—The sanctions described under 9
paragraph (1)(B) shall not apply with respect 10
to an alien if admitting or paroling the alien 11
into the United States is necessary to permit 12
the United States to comply with the Agree-13
ment regarding the Headquarters of the United 14
Nations, signed at Lake Success June 26, 15
1947, and entered into force November 21, 16
1947, between the United Nations and the 17
United States, or other applicable international 18
obligations. 19
(B) E
XCEPTION FOR INTELLIGENCE , LAW 20
ENFORCEMENT, AND NATIONAL SECURITY AC -21
TIVITIES.—Sanctions under paragraph (1) shall 22
not apply to any authorized intelligence, law en-23
forcement, or national security activities of the 24
United States. 25
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(c) PENALTIES.—The penalties provided for in sub-1
sections (b) and (c) of section 206 of the International 2
Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) shall 3
apply to a person that violates, attempts to violate, con-4
spires to violate, or causes a violation of regulations pro-5
mulgated to carry out this section or the sanctions im-6
posed pursuant to this section to the same extent that 7
such penalties apply to a person that commits an unlawful 8
act described in section 206(a) of that Act. 9
(d) I
MPLEMENTATION AUTHORITY.—The President 10
may exercise all authorities provided to the President 11
under sections 203 and 205 of the International Emer-12
gency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702 and 1704) 13
for purposes of carrying out this section. 14
(e) R
EGULATORYAUTHORITY.—The President shall, 15
not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment 16
of this Act, promulgate regulations as necessary for the 17
implementation of this section. 18
(f) W
AIVER.—The President shall have the authority 19
to waive the sanctions required by subsection (a) for re-20
newable periods of 30 days, if the President provides a 21
written certification to the appropriate congressional com-22
mittees, which shall also be made publicly available on a 23
website maintained by the Federal Government, that the 24
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People’s Republic of China and the Chinese Communist 1
Party have— 2
(1) ceased the genocide of the Uyghur Muslim 3
population, including verifiably shutting down all in-4
ternment camps of Uyghurs and ending the practice 5
of facilitating or supporting Uyghur forced labor and 6
forced sterilization; 7
(2) ceased all forms of threats, military exer-8
cises, and aggression toward Taiwan, including 9
through verifiably, and for at least a period of one 10
year, having not conducted any breach of Taiwan’s 11
air space, territorial waters, or land mass, by any 12
military or intelligence personnel associated with the 13
People’s Republic of China or the Chinese Com-14
munist Party, or any agency or instrumentality 15
thereof; 16
(3) ceased the undermining of the autonomy of 17
Hong Kong, including through respecting the terms 18
of the Sino-British Joint Declaration, and reversing 19
all steps taken to interfere with the democratic proc-20
ess and governance of Hong Kong; and 21
(4) ceased efforts to steal the intellectual prop-22
erty of United States persons. 23
(g) S
UNSET OFWAIVER ANDLICENSEAUTHORI-24
TIES.—The President’s authority to issue waivers or li-25
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censes with respect to sanctions required by subsection 1
(a), including pursuant to sections 203 and 205 of the 2
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 3
U.S.C. 1702 and 1704), shall terminate on the date that 4
is 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act. 5
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