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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 1503 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To combat forced organ harvesting and trafficking in persons for purposes |
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| 6 | 6 | | of the removal of organs, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | FEBRUARY21, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. S |
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| 10 | 10 | | MITHof New Jersey (for himself and Mr. KEATING) introduced the fol- |
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| 11 | 11 | | lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and |
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| 12 | 12 | | in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subse- |
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| 13 | 13 | | quently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such |
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| 14 | 14 | | provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned |
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| 15 | 15 | | A BILL |
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| 16 | 16 | | To combat forced organ harvesting and trafficking in persons |
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| 17 | 17 | | for purposes of the removal of organs, and for other |
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| 18 | 18 | | purposes. |
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| 19 | 19 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 20 | 20 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 22 | 22 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stop Forced Organ 4 |
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| 23 | 23 | | Harvesting Act of 2025’’. 5 |
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| 24 | 24 | | SEC. 2. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 6 |
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| 25 | 25 | | It shall be the policy of the United States— 7 |
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| 29 | 29 | | (1) to combat international trafficking in per-1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | sons for purposes of the removal of organs; 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (2) to promote the establishment of voluntary 3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | organ donation systems with effective enforcement 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | mechanisms in bilateral diplomatic meetings and in 5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | international health forums; 6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (3) to promote the dignity and security of 7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | human life in accordance with the Universal Dec-8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | laration of Human Rights, adopted on December 10, 9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | 1948; and 10 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (4) to hold accountable persons implicated, in-11 |
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| 40 | 40 | | cluding members of the Chinese Communist Party, 12 |
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| 41 | 41 | | in forced organ harvesting and trafficking in persons 13 |
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| 42 | 42 | | for purposes of the removal of organs. 14 |
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| 43 | 43 | | SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 15 |
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| 44 | 44 | | In this Act: 16 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (1) A |
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| 46 | 46 | | PPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CON -17 |
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| 47 | 47 | | GRESS.—The term ‘‘appropriate committees of Con-18 |
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| 48 | 48 | | gress’’ means— 19 |
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| 49 | 49 | | (A) the Committee on Foreign Relations 20 |
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| 50 | 50 | | and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Sen-21 |
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| 51 | 51 | | ate; and 22 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and 23 |
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| 53 | 53 | | the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of 24 |
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| 54 | 54 | | Representatives. 25 |
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| 58 | 58 | | (2) FORCED ORGAN HARVESTING .—The term 1 |
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| 59 | 59 | | ‘‘forced organ harvesting’’ means the removal of one 2 |
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| 60 | 60 | | or more organs from a person by means of coercion, 3 |
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| 61 | 61 | | abduction, deception, fraud, or abuse of power or a 4 |
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| 62 | 62 | | position of vulnerability. 5 |
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| 63 | 63 | | (3) O |
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| 64 | 64 | | RGAN.—The term ‘‘organ’’ has the mean-6 |
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| 65 | 65 | | ing given the term ‘‘human organ’’ in section 7 |
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| 66 | 66 | | 301(c)(1) of the National Organ Transplant Act (42 8 |
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| 67 | 67 | | U.S.C. 274e(c)(1)). 9 |
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| 68 | 68 | | (4) T |
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| 69 | 69 | | RAFFICKING IN PERSONS FOR PURPOSES 10 |
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| 70 | 70 | | OF THE REMOVAL OF ORGANS .—The term ‘‘traf-11 |
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| 71 | 71 | | ficking in persons for purposes of the removal of or-12 |
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| 72 | 72 | | gans’’ means the recruitment, transportation, trans-13 |
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| 73 | 73 | | fer, harboring, or receipt of a person for the purpose 14 |
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| 74 | 74 | | of removing one or more of such person’s organs, by 15 |
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| 75 | 75 | | means of— 16 |
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| 76 | 76 | | (A) coercion; 17 |
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| 77 | 77 | | (B) abduction; 18 |
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| 78 | 78 | | (C) deception; 19 |
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| 79 | 79 | | (D) fraud; 20 |
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| 80 | 80 | | (E) abuse of power or a position of vulner-21 |
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| 81 | 81 | | ability; or 22 |
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| 82 | 82 | | (F) transfer of payments or benefits to 23 |
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| 83 | 83 | | achieve the consent of a person having control 24 |
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| 87 | 87 | | over a person described in the matter preceding 1 |
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| 88 | 88 | | subparagraph (A). 2 |
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| 89 | 89 | | SEC. 4. AUTHORITY TO DENY OR REVOKE PASSPORTS. 3 |
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| 90 | 90 | | (a) I |
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| 91 | 91 | | NGENERAL.—The Secretary of State may 4 |
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| 92 | 92 | | refuse to issue a passport to any individual who has been 5 |
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| 93 | 93 | | convicted of an offense under section 301 of the National 6 |
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| 94 | 94 | | Organ Transplant Act (42 U.S.C. 274e) and is subject 7 |
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| 95 | 95 | | to imprisonment or parole or other supervised release as 8 |
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| 96 | 96 | | the result of such conviction if such individual, in the com-9 |
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| 97 | 97 | | mission of such an offense, used a passport or crossed an 10 |
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| 98 | 98 | | international border. 11 |
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| 99 | 99 | | (b) R |
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| 100 | 100 | | EVOCATION.—The Secretary of State may re-12 |
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| 101 | 101 | | voke a passport previously issued to any individual de-13 |
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| 102 | 102 | | scribed in subsection (a). 14 |
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| 103 | 103 | | SEC. 5. REPORTS ON FORCED ORGAN HARVESTING AND 15 |
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| 104 | 104 | | TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS FOR PURPOSES 16 |
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| 105 | 105 | | OF THE REMOVAL OF ORGANS IN FOREIGN 17 |
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| 106 | 106 | | COUNTRIES. 18 |
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| 107 | 107 | | The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 19 |
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| 108 | 108 | | et seq.) is amended— 20 |
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| 109 | 109 | | (1) in section 116 (22 U.S.C. 2151n), by add-21 |
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| 110 | 110 | | ing at the end the following: 22 |
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| 111 | 111 | | ‘‘(h) F |
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| 112 | 112 | | ORCEDORGANHARVESTING AND TRAF-23 |
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| 113 | 113 | | FICKING INPERSONS FORPURPOSES OF THE REMOVAL 24 |
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| 114 | 114 | | OFORGANS.— 25 |
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| 118 | 118 | | ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The report required by 1 |
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| 119 | 119 | | subsection (d) shall include an assessment of forced 2 |
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| 120 | 120 | | organ harvesting and trafficking in persons for pur-3 |
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| 121 | 121 | | poses of the removal of organs in each foreign coun-4 |
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| 122 | 122 | | try. 5 |
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| 123 | 123 | | ‘‘(2) D |
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| 124 | 124 | | EFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 6 |
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| 125 | 125 | | ‘‘(A) F |
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| 126 | 126 | | ORCED ORGAN HARVESTING .—The 7 |
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| 127 | 127 | | term ‘forced organ harvesting’ means the re-8 |
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| 128 | 128 | | moval of one or more organs from a person by 9 |
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| 129 | 129 | | means of coercion, abduction, deception, fraud, 10 |
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| 130 | 130 | | or abuse of power or a position of vulnerability. 11 |
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| 131 | 131 | | ‘‘(B) O |
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| 132 | 132 | | RGAN.—The term ‘organ’ has the 12 |
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| 133 | 133 | | meaning given the term ‘human organ’ in sec-13 |
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| 134 | 134 | | tion 301(c)(1) of the National Organ Trans-14 |
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| 135 | 135 | | plant Act (42 U.S.C. 274e(c)(1)). 15 |
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| 136 | 136 | | ‘‘(C) T |
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| 137 | 137 | | RAFFICKING IN PERSONS FOR PUR -16 |
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| 138 | 138 | | POSES OF THE REMOVAL OF ORGANS .—The 17 |
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| 139 | 139 | | term ‘trafficking in persons for purposes of the 18 |
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| 140 | 140 | | removal of organs’ means the recruitment, 19 |
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| 141 | 141 | | transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of 20 |
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| 142 | 142 | | a person for the purpose of removing one or 21 |
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| 143 | 143 | | more of such person’s organs, by means of— 22 |
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| 144 | 144 | | ‘‘(i) coercion; 23 |
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| 145 | 145 | | ‘‘(ii) abduction; 24 |
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| 146 | 146 | | ‘‘(iii) deception; 25 |
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| 150 | 150 | | ‘‘(iv) fraud; 1 |
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| 151 | 151 | | ‘‘(v) abuse of power or a position of 2 |
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| 152 | 152 | | vulnerability; or 3 |
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| 153 | 153 | | ‘‘(vi) transfer of payments or benefits 4 |
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| 154 | 154 | | to achieve the consent of a person having 5 |
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| 155 | 155 | | control over a person described in the mat-6 |
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| 156 | 156 | | ter preceding clause (i).’’; and 7 |
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| 157 | 157 | | (2) in section 502B (22 U.S.C. 2304)— 8 |
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| 158 | 158 | | (A) by redesignating the second subsection 9 |
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| 159 | 159 | | (i) (relating to child marriage status) as sub-10 |
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| 160 | 160 | | section (j); and 11 |
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| 161 | 161 | | (B) by adding at the end the following: 12 |
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| 162 | 162 | | ‘‘(k) F |
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| 163 | 163 | | ORCEDORGANHARVESTING AND TRAF-13 |
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| 164 | 164 | | FICKING INPERSONS FORPURPOSES OF THE REMOVAL 14 |
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| 165 | 165 | | OFORGANS.— 15 |
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| 166 | 166 | | ‘‘(1) I |
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| 167 | 167 | | N GENERAL.—The report required by 16 |
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| 168 | 168 | | subsection (b) shall include an assessment of forced 17 |
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| 169 | 169 | | organ harvesting and trafficking in persons for pur-18 |
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| 170 | 170 | | poses of the removal of organs in each foreign coun-19 |
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| 171 | 171 | | try. 20 |
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| 172 | 172 | | ‘‘(2) D |
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| 173 | 173 | | EFINITIONS.—In this subsection, the 21 |
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| 174 | 174 | | terms ‘forced organ harvesting’, ‘organ’, and ‘traf-22 |
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| 175 | 175 | | ficking in persons for purposes of the removal of or-23 |
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| 176 | 176 | | gans’ have the meanings given those terms in section 24 |
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| 177 | 177 | | 116(h)(2).’’. 25 |
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| 181 | 181 | | SEC. 6. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO 1 |
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| 182 | 182 | | FORCED ORGAN HARVESTING OR TRAF-2 |
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| 183 | 183 | | FICKING IN PERSONS FOR PURPOSES OF THE 3 |
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| 184 | 184 | | REMOVAL OF ORGANS. 4 |
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| 185 | 185 | | (a) L |
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| 186 | 186 | | ISTREQUIRED.—Not later than 180 days after 5 |
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| 187 | 187 | | the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall 6 |
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| 188 | 188 | | submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a list 7 |
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| 189 | 189 | | of each person that the President determines funds, spon-8 |
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| 190 | 190 | | sors, or otherwise facilitates forced organ harvesting or 9 |
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| 191 | 191 | | trafficking in persons for purposes of the removal of or-10 |
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| 192 | 192 | | gans. 11 |
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| 193 | 193 | | (b) I |
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| 194 | 194 | | MPOSITION OFSANCTIONS.—The President shall 12 |
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| 195 | 195 | | impose the following sanctions with respect to a person 13 |
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| 196 | 196 | | on the list required by subsection (a): 14 |
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| 197 | 197 | | (1) P |
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| 198 | 198 | | ROPERTY BLOCKING.—The President shall 15 |
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| 199 | 199 | | exercise all of the powers granted by the Inter-16 |
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| 200 | 200 | | national Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 17 |
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| 201 | 201 | | U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (except that the requirements 18 |
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| 202 | 202 | | of section 202 of such Act (50 U.S.C. 1701) shall 19 |
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| 203 | 203 | | not apply) to the extent necessary to block and pro-20 |
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| 204 | 204 | | hibit all transactions in all property and interests in 21 |
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| 205 | 205 | | property of the person if such property and interests 22 |
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| 206 | 206 | | in property are in the United States, come within 23 |
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| 207 | 207 | | the United States, or are or come within the posses-24 |
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| 208 | 208 | | sion or control of a United States person. 25 |
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| 212 | 212 | | (2) ALIENS INADMISSIBLE FOR VISAS , ADMIS-1 |
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| 213 | 213 | | SION, OR PAROLE.— 2 |
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| 214 | 214 | | (A) V |
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| 215 | 215 | | ISAS, ADMISSION, OR PAROLE.—In 3 |
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| 216 | 216 | | the case of an individual, that individual is— 4 |
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| 217 | 217 | | (i) inadmissible to the United States; 5 |
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| 218 | 218 | | (ii) ineligible to receive a visa or other 6 |
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| 219 | 219 | | documentation to enter the United States; 7 |
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| 220 | 220 | | and 8 |
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| 221 | 221 | | (iii) otherwise ineligible to be admitted 9 |
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| 222 | 222 | | or paroled into the United States or to re-10 |
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| 223 | 223 | | ceive any other benefit under the Immigra-11 |
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| 224 | 224 | | tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et 12 |
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| 225 | 225 | | seq.). 13 |
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| 226 | 226 | | (B) C |
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| 227 | 227 | | URRENT VISAS REVOKED .— 14 |
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| 228 | 228 | | (i) I |
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| 229 | 229 | | N GENERAL.—The visa or other 15 |
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| 230 | 230 | | entry documentation of the individual shall 16 |
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| 231 | 231 | | be revoked, regardless of when such visa or 17 |
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| 232 | 232 | | other entry documentation is or was 18 |
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| 233 | 233 | | issued. 19 |
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| 234 | 234 | | (ii) I |
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| 235 | 235 | | MMEDIATE EFFECT .—A revoca-20 |
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| 236 | 236 | | tion under clause (i) shall— 21 |
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| 237 | 237 | | (I) take effect immediately; and 22 |
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| 238 | 238 | | (II) automatically cancel any 23 |
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| 239 | 239 | | other valid visa or entry documenta-24 |
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| 243 | 243 | | tion that is in the individual’s posses-1 |
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| 244 | 244 | | sion. 2 |
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| 245 | 245 | | (c) E |
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| 246 | 246 | | XCEPTIONS.— 3 |
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| 247 | 247 | | (1) E |
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| 248 | 248 | | XCEPTION RELATING TO IMPORTATION OF 4 |
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| 249 | 249 | | GOODS.— 5 |
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| 250 | 250 | | (A) I |
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| 251 | 251 | | N GENERAL.—The authorities and re-6 |
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| 252 | 252 | | quirements to impose sanctions under sub-7 |
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| 253 | 253 | | section (b)(1) shall not include the authority or 8 |
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| 254 | 254 | | a requirement to impose sanctions on the im-9 |
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| 255 | 255 | | portation of goods. 10 |
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| 256 | 256 | | (B) G |
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| 257 | 257 | | OOD DEFINED.—In this paragraph, 11 |
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| 258 | 258 | | the term ‘‘good’’ means any article, natural or 12 |
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| 259 | 259 | | manmade substance, material, supply or manu-13 |
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| 260 | 260 | | factured product, including inspection and test 14 |
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| 261 | 261 | | equipment, and excluding technical data. 15 |
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| 262 | 262 | | (2) E |
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| 263 | 263 | | XCEPTION TO COMPLY WITH INTER -16 |
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| 264 | 264 | | NATIONAL OBLIGATIONS .—Subsection (b)(2) shall 17 |
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| 265 | 265 | | not apply to the admission of an individual if the ad-18 |
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| 266 | 266 | | mission of the individual is necessary to comply with 19 |
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| 267 | 267 | | United States obligations under the Agreement be-20 |
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| 268 | 268 | | tween the United Nations and the United States of 21 |
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| 269 | 269 | | America regarding the Headquarters of the United 22 |
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| 270 | 270 | | Nations, signed at Lake Success June 26, 1947, and 23 |
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| 271 | 271 | | entered into force November 21, 1947, under the 24 |
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| 272 | 272 | | Convention on Consular Relations, done at Vienna 25 |
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| 276 | 276 | | April 24, 1963, and entered into force March 19, 1 |
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| 277 | 277 | | 1967, or under other applicable international agree-2 |
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| 278 | 278 | | ments or treaties. 3 |
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| 279 | 279 | | (3) E |
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| 280 | 280 | | XCEPTION RELATING TO THE PROVISION 4 |
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| 281 | 281 | | OF HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE .—Sanctions under 5 |
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| 282 | 282 | | this section may not be imposed with respect to 6 |
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| 283 | 283 | | transactions or the facilitation of transactions for— 7 |
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| 284 | 284 | | (A) the sale of agricultural commodities, 8 |
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| 285 | 285 | | food, or medicine; 9 |
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| 286 | 286 | | (B) the provision of vital humanitarian as-10 |
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| 287 | 287 | | sistance; 11 |
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| 288 | 288 | | (C) financial transactions relating to vital 12 |
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| 289 | 289 | | humanitarian assistance or for vital humani-13 |
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| 290 | 290 | | tarian purposes; or 14 |
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| 291 | 291 | | (D) transporting goods or services that are 15 |
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| 292 | 292 | | necessary to carry out operations relating to 16 |
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| 293 | 293 | | vital humanitarian assistance. 17 |
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| 294 | 294 | | (4) W |
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| 295 | 295 | | AIVER.—The President may, on a case- 18 |
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| 296 | 296 | | by-case basis and for periods not to exceed 180 days 19 |
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| 297 | 297 | | each, waive the application of sanctions or restric-20 |
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| 298 | 298 | | tions imposed with respect to a person under this 21 |
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| 299 | 299 | | section if the President certifies to the appropriate 22 |
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| 300 | 300 | | committees of Congress not later than 15 days be-23 |
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| 305 | 305 | | vital to the national security interests of the United 1 |
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| 306 | 306 | | States. 2 |
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| 307 | 307 | | (d) I |
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| 308 | 308 | | MPLEMENTATION; PENALTIES.— 3 |
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| 309 | 309 | | (1) I |
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| 310 | 310 | | MPLEMENTATION.—The President may ex-4 |
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| 311 | 311 | | ercise all authorities provided under sections 203 5 |
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| 312 | 312 | | and 205 of the International Emergency Economic 6 |
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| 313 | 313 | | Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702 and 1704) to carry out 7 |
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| 314 | 314 | | this section. 8 |
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| 315 | 315 | | (2) P |
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| 316 | 316 | | ENALTIES.—A person that violates, at-9 |
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| 317 | 317 | | tempts to violate, conspires to violate, or causes a 10 |
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| 318 | 318 | | violation of this section or any regulation, license, or 11 |
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| 319 | 319 | | order issued to carry out this section shall be subject 12 |
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| 320 | 320 | | to the penalties set forth in subsections (b) and (c) 13 |
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| 321 | 321 | | of section 206 of the International Emergency Eco-14 |
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| 322 | 322 | | nomic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) to the same ex-15 |
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| 323 | 323 | | tent as a person that commits an unlawful act de-16 |
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| 324 | 324 | | scribed in subsection (a) of that section. 17 |
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| 325 | 325 | | (e) D |
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| 326 | 326 | | EFINITIONS.—In this section— 18 |
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| 327 | 327 | | (1) the term ‘‘person’’— 19 |
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| 328 | 328 | | (A) means an individual or entity; and 20 |
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| 329 | 329 | | (B) includes a non-state actor (as such 21 |
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| 330 | 330 | | term is defined in Public Law 114–281); and 22 |
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| 331 | 331 | | (2) the term ‘‘United States person’’ means— 23 |
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| 335 | 335 | | (A) a United States citizen or an alien law-1 |
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| 336 | 336 | | fully admitted for permanent residence to the 2 |
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