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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 1724 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To prohibit the use of funds supporting any activities within the Xinjiang |
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| 6 | 6 | | Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | FEBRUARY27, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. M |
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| 10 | 10 | | ORANintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee |
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| 11 | 11 | | on Foreign Affairs |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To prohibit the use of funds supporting any activities within |
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| 14 | 14 | | the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s |
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| 15 | 15 | | Republic of China. |
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| 16 | 16 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 17 | 17 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 18 | 18 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 19 | 19 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘No Dollars to Uyghur 4 |
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| 20 | 20 | | Forced Labor Act’’. 5 |
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| 24 | 24 | | SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS SUPPORTING ANY 1 |
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| 25 | 25 | | ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE XINJIANG UYGHUR 2 |
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| 26 | 26 | | AUTONOMOUS REGION OF THE PEOPLE’S RE-3 |
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| 27 | 27 | | PUBLIC OF CHINA. 4 |
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| 28 | 28 | | (a) I |
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| 29 | 29 | | NGENERAL.—No funds available to the Depart-5 |
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| 30 | 30 | | ment of State or the United States Agency for Inter-6 |
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| 31 | 31 | | national Development may be used to develop, design, 7 |
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| 32 | 32 | | plan, promulgate, implement, or execute a policy, pro-8 |
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| 33 | 33 | | gram, or contract that knowingly uses goods, wares, arti-9 |
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| 34 | 34 | | cles, or merchandise mined, produced, or manufactured 10 |
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| 35 | 35 | | wholly or in part in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Re-11 |
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| 36 | 36 | | gion of the People’s Republic of China or produced by a 12 |
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| 37 | 37 | | covered entity, unless such activity is specifically author-13 |
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| 38 | 38 | | ized pursuant to subsection (b). 14 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (b) S |
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| 40 | 40 | | PECIFICAUTHORIZATION.—The Secretary of 15 |
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| 41 | 41 | | State may specifically authorize an activity otherwise pro-16 |
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| 42 | 42 | | hibited by subsection (a) if— 17 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (1) the Secretary— 18 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (A) obtains in writing an assurance from 19 |
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| 45 | 45 | | the relevant program partner, implementor, or 20 |
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| 46 | 46 | | contractor that such partner, implementor, or 21 |
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| 47 | 47 | | contractor— 22 |
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| 48 | 48 | | (i) will not use goods, wares, articles, 23 |
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| 49 | 49 | | or merchandise mined, produced, or manu-24 |
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| 50 | 50 | | factured wholly or in part in Xinjiang 25 |
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| 54 | 54 | | Uyghur Autonomous Region of the PRC 1 |
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| 55 | 55 | | with respect to the program; and 2 |
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| 56 | 56 | | (ii) will develop a system to ensure 3 |
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| 57 | 57 | | compliance with the requirements in sub-4 |
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| 58 | 58 | | section (a); and 5 |
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| 59 | 59 | | (B) provides notice to the Chair and Rank-6 |
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| 60 | 60 | | ing Member of the Committee on Foreign Af-7 |
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| 61 | 61 | | fairs of the House of Representatives and the 8 |
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| 62 | 62 | | Chair and Ranking Member of the Committee 9 |
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| 63 | 63 | | on Foreign Relations of the Senate not later 10 |
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| 64 | 64 | | than 15 days before authorizing the activity; 11 |
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| 65 | 65 | | and 12 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (2) the activity is not otherwise prohibited. 13 |
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| 67 | 67 | | (c) R |
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| 68 | 68 | | EPORT.—The Secretary of State shall submit to 14 |
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| 69 | 69 | | the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Rep-15 |
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| 70 | 70 | | resentatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of 16 |
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| 71 | 71 | | the Senate a report on an annual basis for three years 17 |
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| 72 | 72 | | that describes— 18 |
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| 73 | 73 | | (1) all activities prohibited by subsection (a) 19 |
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| 74 | 74 | | that were carried out in violation of such prohibition 20 |
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| 75 | 75 | | and not specifically authorized pursuant to sub-21 |
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| 76 | 76 | | section (b) in the previous year; 22 |
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| 77 | 77 | | (2) any challenges in enforcing the require-23 |
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| 78 | 78 | | ments of this section; and 24 |
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| 82 | 82 | | (3) a plan to improve enforcement of the re-1 |
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| 83 | 83 | | quirements of this section. 2 |
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| 84 | 84 | | (e) D |
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| 85 | 85 | | EFINITIONS.—In this section: 3 |
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| 86 | 86 | | (1) The term ‘‘covered entity’’ means an entity 4 |
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| 87 | 87 | | listed pursuant to clause (i), (ii), (iv), or (v) of sec-5 |
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| 88 | 88 | | tion 2(d)(2)(B) of Public Law 117–78 (135 Stat. 6 |
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| 89 | 89 | | 1527) under the strategy developed by section 2(c) 7 |
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| 90 | 90 | | of such Public Law 117–78. 8 |
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| 91 | 91 | | (2) The term ‘‘forced labor’’ has the meaning 9 |
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| 92 | 92 | | given that term in section 307 of the Tariff Act of 10 |
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| 93 | 93 | | 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1307). 11 |
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