[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4913 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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118th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 4913
To provide for the imposition of sanctions on members of certain
organizations of the Chinese Communist Party, and for other purposes.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
July 31, 2024
Mr. Rubio introduced the following bill; which was read twice and
referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations
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A BILL
To provide for the imposition of sanctions on members of certain
organizations of the Chinese Communist Party, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Sanctioning Tyrannical and
Oppressive People within the Chinese Communist Party Act'' or the
``STOP CCP Act''.
SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS.
It is the sense of Congress that members of the Chinese Communist
Party, led by General Secretary Xi Jinping, are responsible for--
(1) violations of Hong Kong's autonomy;
(2) increased aggression against Taiwan, the Republic of
Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and India;
(3) numerous human rights violations against the people of
Hong Kong and acts of repression against the people of Tibet;
and
(4) increased acts of oppression, including the use of
forced labor, and genocide against Uyghurs and other
predominantly Muslim ethnic groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur
Autonomous Region.
SEC. 3. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO MEMBERS OF CERTAIN
CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY ORGANIZATIONS.
(a) In General.--Not later than 30 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, and on an ongoing basis thereafter, the
President shall impose the sanctions described in subsection (c) with
respect to--
(1) each foreign person that the President determines
engages in conduct described in subsection (b) and is a member
of--
(A) the Politburo, including the Politburo Standing
Committee, of the Chinese Communist Party;
(B) the Central Military Commission of the Chinese
Communist Party;
(C) the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist
Party; or
(D) any successor organization of an organization
specifried in subparagraph (A), (B), or (C) in the
event that the organization is dissolved; and
(2) each foreign person who is an adult family member,
including a spouse or an adult family member of the spouse, of
a person described in paragraph (1).
(b) Sanctionable Conduct.--A person engages in the conduct
described by this subsection if the person plays a significant role in
the development, approval, or implementation of policies or laws of the
Government of the People's Republic of China that the President
determines appear designed to--
(1) violate the autonomy of Hong Kong;
(2) harass, intimidate, or result in increased aggression
toward Taiwan, the Republic of Korea, Japan, the Philippines,
or India; or
(3) contribute to political oppression or violations of
human rights of individuals or societal groups within the
People's Republic of China, including Tibetans and Uyghurs and
other predominantly Muslim ethnic groups.
(c) Sanctions Described.--
(1) In general.--The sanctions described in this subsection
are the following:
(A) Blocking of property.--The President shall
exercise all of the powers granted to the President
under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act
(50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to the extent necessary to
block and prohibit all transactions in property and
interests in property of a foreign person subject to
subsection (a) if such property and interests in
property are in the United States, come within the
United States, or are or come within the possession or
control of a United States person.
(B) Aliens ineligible for visas, admission, or
parole.--
(i) Visas, admission, or parole.--An alien
who the Secretary of State or the Secretary of
Homeland Security (or a designee of one of such
Secretaries) knows, or has reason to believe,
is described in subsection (a) is--
(I) inadmissible to the United
States;
(II) ineligible to receive a visa
or other documentation to enter the
United States; and
(III) otherwise ineligible to be
admitted or paroled into the United
States or to receive any other benefit
under the Immigration and Nationality
Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.).
(ii) Current visas revoked.--
(I) In general.--The issuing
consular officer, the Secretary of
State, or the Secretary of Homeland
Security (or a designee of one of such
Secretaries) shall, in accordance with
section 221(i) of the Immigration and
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1201(i)),
revoke any visa or other entry
documentation issued to an alien
described in clause (i) regardless of
when the visa or other entry
documentation is issued.
(II) Effect of revocation.--A
revocation under subclause (I) shall
take effect immediately and shall
automatically cancel any other valid
visa or entry documentation that is in
the alien's possession.
(2) Exceptions.--
(A) United nations headquarters agreement.--The
sanctions described in paragraph (1)(B) shall not apply
with respect to the admission or paroling of an alien
into the United States if such admission or parole is
necessary to permit the United States to comply with
the Agreement regarding the Headquarters of the United
Nations, signed at Lake Success June 26, 1947, and
entered into force November 21, 1947, between the
United Nations and the United States, or other
applicable international obligations.
(B) Exception for intelligence, law enforcement,
and national security activities.--Sanctions under
paragraph (1) shall not apply to any authorized
intelligence, law enforcement, or national security
activities of the United States.
(d) Penalties.--The penalties provided for in subsections (b) and
(c) of section 206 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act
(50 U.S.C. 1705) shall apply to a person that violates, attempts to
violate, conspires to violate, or causes a violation of regulations
promulgated to carry out this section or the sanctions imposed pursuant
to this section to the same extent that such penalties apply to a
person that commits an unlawful act described in section 206(a) of that
Act.
(e) Implementation Authority.--The President may exercise all
authorities provided to the President under sections 203 and 205 of the
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702 and 1704)
for purposes of carrying out this section.
(f) Regulatory Authority.--The President shall, not later than 30
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, promulgate
regulations as necessary for the implementation of this section.
(g) Waiver.--Subject to subsection (i), the President may, for one
or more periods of not more than 60 days each, waive the application of
sanctions with respect to a foreign person under this section if the
President certifies to the appropriate congressional committees, not
later than 15 days before such waiver takes effect, that the waiver is
vital to the national security interests of the United States.
(h) Sunset of Waiver and License Authorities.--The President's
authority to issue waivers or licenses with respect to sanctions
required by subsection (a), including pursuant to sections 203 and 205
of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702 and
1704), shall terminate on the date that is 2 years after the date of
the enactment of this Act.
(i) Termination of Sanctions.--
(1) In general.--The President may terminate any sanctions
imposed under subsection (a) not fewer than 15 days after the
date on which the President submits in writing to the
appropriate congressional committees, and concurrently
publishes on a publicly available website of the Federal
Government, a certification that the People's Republic of China
and the Chinese Communist Party have--
(A) ceased the genocide of the Uyghurs and other
predominantly Muslim ethnic groups, including by
verifiably shutting down all internment camps for
Uyghurs and ending the practice of facilitating or
supporting forced labor and forced sterilization of
Uyghurs;
(B) ceased all forms of threats, military
exercises, and aggression toward Taiwan, the Republic
of Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and India, including
through verifiably, and for a period of not less than
one year, having not conducted, by any military or
intelligence personnel associated with the Chinese
Communist Party or the People's Republic of China, or
any agency or instrumentality thereof--
(i) any breach of Taiwan's air space,
territorial waters, or land mass; or
(ii) any acts violating the territorial
integrity of the Republic of Korea, Japan, the
Philippines, or India;
(C) ceased the undermining of the autonomy of Hong
Kong, including through respecting the terms of the
Sino-British Joint Declaration, and reversing all steps
taken to interfere with the democratic process and
governance of Hong Kong; and
(D) ceased efforts to steal the intellectual
property of United States persons.
(2) Termination of sanctions with respect to specific
persons.--The President may terminate any sanction imposed
under subsection (a) with respect to a person not fewer than 15
days after the date on which the President submits in writing
to the appropriate congressional committees, and concurrently
publishes on a publicly available website of the Federal
Government, a certification that the person has--
(A) affirmatively renounced membership in the
Chinese Communist Party; and
(B) taken actionable steps to denounce and
remediate the conduct forming the basis for imposition
of the sanction.
(j) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Admission; admitted; alien; lawfully admitted for
permanent residence; national.--The terms ``admission'',
``admitted'', ``alien'', ``lawfully admitted for permanent
residence'', and ``national'' have the meanings given those
terms in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8
U.S.C. 1101).
(2) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term
``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
(A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the
Committee on Financial Services of the House of
Representatives; and
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the
Senate.
(3) Foreign person.--The term ``foreign person'' means an
individual or entity that is not a United States person.
(4) United states person.--The term ``United States
person'' means--
(A) a United States citizen or an alien lawfully
admitted for permanent residence to the United States;
(B) an entity organized under the laws of the
United States or of any jurisdiction within the United
States, including a foreign branch of such an entity;
or
(C) any person in the United States.
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