I 119THCONGRESS 1 STSESSION H. R. 733 To provide for a review of sanctions with respect to Hong Kong. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JANUARY24, 2025 Mrs. K IM(for herself, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. BURCHETT, and Mr. LAWLER) 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 a review of sanctions with respect to Hong Kong. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. REVIEW OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO 3 HONG KONG. 4 (a) D ETERMINATIONWITHRESPECT TOIMPOSITION 5 OFSANCTIONS.—Not later than 180 days after the date 6 of the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit 7 to the appropriate congressional committees a determina-8 tion, including a detailed justification, of whether any per-9 VerDate Sep 11 2014 17:52 Mar 04, 2025 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H733.IH H733 ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS 2 •HR 733 IH son listed in subsection (b) or (c) meets the criteria for 1 the imposition of sanctions pursuant to— 2 (1) section 1263(b) of the Global Magnitsky 3 Human Rights Accountability Act (22 U.S.C. 4 10102(b)); 5 (2) Executive Order 13818 (50 U.S.C. 1701 6 note; relating to blocking the property of persons in-7 volved in serious human rights abuse or corruption); 8 (3) section 7 of the Hong Kong Human Rights 9 and Democracy Act of 2019 (22 U.S.C. 5701 note; 10 Public Law 116–76); 11 (4) section 6 of the Hong Kong Autonomy Act 12 (22 U.S.C. 5701 note; Public Law 116–149); or 13 (5) Executive Order 13936 (22 U.S.C. 5701 14 note; relating to Hong Kong Normalization). 15 (b) P ERSONSPREVIOUSLYSANCTIONED.—The per-16 sons listed in this subsection, which include officials of the 17 Hong Kong Special Administrative Region who were sanc-18 tioned by the Department of the Treasury in August 2020 19 and require updates related to their current role, are the 20 following: 21 (1) John Lee Ka-chiu, Chief Executive. 22 (2) Eric Chan Kwok-ki, Chief Secretary for Ad-23 ministration. 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 17:52 Mar 04, 2025 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H733.IH H733 ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS 3 •HR 733 IH (3) Chris Tang Ping Keung, Secretary for Se-1 curity. 2 (4) Zheng Yanxiong, Director of the Liaison 3 Office of the Central People’s Government in Hong 4 Kong. 5 (c) P ERSONSLISTED.—The persons listed in this 6 subsection, which include officials of the Hong Kong Spe-7 cial Administrative Region, are the following: 8 (1) Paul Lam Ting-kwok, Secretary for Justice. 9 (2) Sonny Au Chi-kwong, Secretary General of 10 the Committee for Safeguarding National Security 11 of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. 12 (3) Raymond Siu Chak-yee, Police Commis-13 sioner. 14 (4) Esther Toh Lye-Ping, Judge of the Court 15 of First Instance of the High Court. 16 (5) Amanda Jane Woodcock, Deputy Judge of 17 the Court of First Instance of the High Court. 18 (6) Victor So Wai-tak, Chief Magistrate. 19 (7) Peter Law Tak-chuen, Principal Magistrate. 20 (8) Stanley Chan Kwong-chi, District Judge. 21 (9) Adriana Noelle Tse Ching, District Judge. 22 (10) Kwok Wai-kin, District Judge. 23 (11) Amy Chan Wai-Mun, Deputy District 24 Judge. 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 17:52 Mar 04, 2025 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H733.IH H733 ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS 4 •HR 733 IH (12) Andy Cheng Lim-chi, Magistrate. 1 (13) Johnny Chan Jong-herng, Judge of the 2 Court of First Instance of the High Court. 3 (14) Patrick Chan Siu-oi, Non-Permanent 4 Judge of the Court of Final Appeal. 5 (15) Wilson Chan Ka-shun, Judge of the Court 6 of First Instance of the High Court. 7 (16) Andrew Chan Hing-wai, Judge of the 8 Court of First Instance of the High Court. 9 (17) Andrew Cheung Kui-nung, Chief Justice of 10 the Court of Final Appeal. 11 (18) Anderson Chow Ka-ming, Justice of Ap-12 peal of the Court of Appeal of the High Court. 13 (19) Susana Maria D’Almada Remedios, Judge 14 of the Court of First Instance of the High Court. 15 (20) Joseph Paul Fok, Permanent Judge of the 16 Court of Final Appeal. 17 (21) Veronica Heung Shuk-han, Magistrate. 18 (22) Susan Kwan Shuk-hing, Vice-President of 19 the Court of Appeal of the High Court. 20 (23) Johnson Lam Man-hon, Permanent Judge 21 of the Court of Final Appeal. 22 (24) Alex Lee Wan-tang, Judge of the Court of 23 First Instance of the High Court. 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 17:52 Mar 04, 2025 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H733.IH H733 ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS 5 •HR 733 IH (25) Anthea Pang Po-kam, Justice of Appeal of 1 the Court of Appeal of the High Court. 2 (26) Derek Pang Wai-cheong, Justice of Appeal 3 of the Court of Appeal of the High Court. 4 (27) Jeremy Poon Shiu-chor, Chief Judge of 5 the High Court. 6 (28) Roberto Alexandre Vieira Ribeiro, Perma-7 nent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal. 8 (29) Don So Man-lung, Principal Magistrate. 9 (30) Frank Stock, Non-Permanent Judge of the 10 Court of Final Appeal. 11 (31) Ada Yim Shun-yee, District Judge and 12 former Principal Magistrate. 13 (32) Wally Yeung Chun-kuen, former Vice- 14 President of the Court of Appeal of the High Court; 15 current Commissioner on Interception of Commu-16 nications and Surveillance. 17 (33) Maggie Yang Mei-kei, Director of Public 18 Prosecutions. 19 (34) Anthony Chau Tin-hang, Deputy Director 20 of Public Prosecutions V (Technology Crime). 21 (35) Jonathan Man Tak-ho, Deputy Director of 22 Public Prosecutions I (Magistrates’ Courts). 23 VerDate Sep 11 2014 17:52 Mar 04, 2025 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H733.IH H733 ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS 6 •HR 733 IH (36) Derek Lai Kim-wah, Senior Assistant Di-1 rector of Public Prosecutions IV(2)(B) Commercial 2 Crime (ICAC). 3 (37) Laura Ng Shuk-kuen, Senior Assistant Di-4 rector of Public Prosecutions III(1)(C), Higher 5 Courts (Court of First Instance). 6 (38) William Siu Kai-yip, Senior Assistant Di-7 rector of Public Prosecutions III(1)(A), Higher 8 Courts (Court of First Instance). 9 (39) Andy Lo Tin-wai, Assistant Director of 10 Public Prosecutions I(2), Magistrates’ Courts, (Cus-11 toms & Excise). 12 (40) Ivan Cheung Cheuk-kan, Assistant Direc-13 tor of Public Prosecutions III(2)(B), Higher Courts 14 (District Court). 15 (41) Crystal Chan Wing-sum, Senior Public 16 Prosecutor, Technology Crime (Technology Crime). 17 (42) Cherry Chong Man-yan, Senior Public 18 Prosecutor, Higher Courts (Court of First Instance). 19 (43) Wilson Lam Yi-yeung, Senior Public Pros-20 ecutor, Policy and Administration (Office of the Di-21 rector of Public Prosecutions). 22 (44) Edward Lau Wan-cheung, Senior Public 23 Prosecutor, Commercial Crime (Commercial Crime). 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 17:52 Mar 04, 2025 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H733.IH H733 ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS 7 •HR 733 IH (45) Vincent Lee Ting-wai, Senior Public Pros-1 ecutor, Magistrates Courts (Magistrate Courts). 2 (46) Karen Ng Ka-yuet, Senior Public Pros-3 ecutor, Technology Crime (Technology Crime). 4 (47) Jennifer Tsui Sin-chi, Senior Public Pros-5 ecutor, Technology Crime (Technology Crime). 6 (48) Memi Ng, private lawyer, fiat counsel ap-7 pointed by the Hong Kong Government to serve as 8 prosecutor. 9 (c) A PPROPRIATECONGRESSIONALCOMMITTEESDE-10 FINED.—In this Act, the term ‘‘appropriate congressional 11 committees’’ means— 12 (1) the Committee on Foreign Relations and 13 the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Af-14 fairs of the Senate; 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