Sanctioning Tyrannical and Oppressive People within the Chinese Communist Party Act or the STOP CCP Act
This bill requires the President to impose visa- and property-blocking sanctions on any member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee whom the President determines plays a significant role in developing or implementing policies that (1) violate the autonomy of Hong Kong; (2) harass or intimidate the people of Taiwan; or (3) contribute to the oppression of individuals or groups in China, including Uyghur Muslims. The President must also impose sanctions on the adult family members of such sanctioned persons.
The President may waive the sanctions for renewable periods of up to 60 days by certifying to Congress that the waiver is vital to U.S. national security interests.
The President may terminate any sanctions imposed after certifying to Congress that China's government and the CCP have ceased
The President may also terminate sanctions after certifying to Congress that the sanctioned person has renounced membership in the CCP and taken steps to denounce or remediate the conduct for which sanctions were imposed.
Any certifications related to termination of sanctions must also be publicly available on a federal government website.
[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3334 Introduced in House (IH)]
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118th CONGRESS
1st Session
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.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 15, 2023
Mrs. McClain (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
committee concerned
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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 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. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) The Hong Kong National Security Law promulgated on July
1, 2020--
(A) contravenes the Basic Law of the Hong Kong
Special Administrative Region that provides in Article
23 that the Legislative Council of Hong Kong shall
enact legislation related to national security;
(B) violates the People's Republic of China's
commitments under international law, as defined by the
Joint Declaration; and
(C) causes severe and irreparable damage to the
``one country, two systems'' principle and further
erodes global confidence in the People's Republic of
China's commitment to international law.
(2) Repression of ethnic Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang
Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China has
been ongoing, and was formalized with the ``Strike Hard
Campaign against Violent Terrorism'' that began in 2014.
(3) The mass internment of Uyghur and other Muslim ethnic
minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has been
ongoing since April 2017.
(4) The People's Republic of China has conducted a targeted
and systemic population-control campaign against ethnic and
religious minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
by imposing and implementing coercive population-control
practices, including selectively enforcing birth quotas,
targeting minority women who are in noncompliance with birth
quotas, and subjecting women to coercive measures such as
forced birth control, forced sterilization, and forced
abortion.
(5) On October 6, 2020, 39 countries delivered a cross-
regional joint statement to the United States Mission to the
United Nations on the human rights abuses on Uyghurs and other
minorities for forced birth control including sterilization.
(6) On January 19, 2021, the Department of State determined
that the People's Republic of China committed crimes against
humanity and genocide against Uyghurs and other ethnic and
religious minority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous
Region, citing forced sterilizations, forced abortions, coerced
marriages, and separation of Uyghur children from their
families.
(7) The Department of State's 2020 Country Reports on Human
Rights Practices affirmed the genocide determination and noted
coercive population control measures inflicted on ethnic and
religious minority women in China, including forced injections
with ``drugs that cause temporary or permanent end to their
menstrual cycles and fertility''.
(8) The United States ratified the United Nations
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide in
1988, recognizing that ``imposing measures intended to prevent
births within the group'' with intent to destroy a group in
whole or part is an act that constitutes genocide.
(9) Taiwan is a free and prosperous democracy of nearly
24,000,000 people and an important contributor to peace and
stability around the world.
(10) Section 2(b) of the Taiwan Relations Act (Public Law
96-8; 22 U.S.C. 3301(b)) states that it is the policy of the
United States--
(A) ``to preserve and promote extensive, close, and
friendly commercial, cultural, and other relations
between the people of the United States and the people
on Taiwan, as well as the people on the China mainland
and all other peoples of the Western Pacific area'';
(B) ``to declare that peace and stability in the
area are in the political, security, and economic
interests of the United States, and are matters of
international concern'';
(C) ``to make clear that the United States decision
to establish diplomatic relations with the People's
Republic of China rests upon the expectation that the
future of Taiwan will be determined by peaceful
means'';
(D) ``to consider any effort to determine the
future of Taiwan by other than peaceful means,
including by boycotts or embargoes, a threat to the
peace and security of the Western Pacific area and of
grave concern to the United States'';
(E) ``to provide Taiwan with arms of a defensive
character''; and
(F) ``to maintain the capacity of the United States
to resist any resort to force or other forms of
coercion that would jeopardize the security, or the
social or economic system, of the people on Taiwan''.
(11) Since the election of President Tsai Ing-wen as
President of Taiwan in 2016, the Government of the People's
Republic of China has intensified its efforts to pressure
Taiwan through diplomatic isolation and military provocations.
(12) The rapid modernization of the People's Liberation
Army and recent military maneuvers in and around the Taiwan
Strait illustrate a clear threat to Taiwan's security.
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS.
It is the sense of Congress that the Chinese Communist Party, led
by General Secretary Xi Jinping, has committed numerous human rights
violations against the people of Hong Kong and the people of Taiwan, as
well as genocide against Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang Uyghur
Autonomous Region.
SEC. 4. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS ON MEMBERS OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF
THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY.
(a) In General.--Not later than 30 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the President shall impose sanctions described
in subsection (b) with respect to--
(1) each person who is a member of the Central Committee of
the Chinese Communist Party;
(2) each person who is a member of any successor
organization of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist
Party, in the event that the Central Committee is dissolved;
and
(3) each 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) or paragraph (2).
(b) 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 the person 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 under paragraph (1)(B) shall not
apply with respect to an alien if admitting or paroling
the alien into the United States 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.
(c) 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.
(d) 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.
(e) 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.
(f) Waiver.--The President shall have the authority to waive the
sanctions required by subsection (a) for renewable periods of 30 days,
if the President provides a written certification to the appropriate
congressional committees, which shall also be made publicly available
on a website maintained by the Federal Government, that the People's
Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party have--
(1) ceased the genocide of the Uyghur Muslim population,
including verifiably shutting down all internment camps of
Uyghurs and ending the practice of facilitating or supporting
Uyghur forced labor and forced sterilization;
(2) ceased all forms of threats, military exercises, and
aggression toward Taiwan, including through verifiably, and for
at least a period of one year, having not conducted any breach
of Taiwan's air space, territorial waters, or land mass, by any
military or intelligence personnel associated with the People's
Republic of China or the Chinese Communist Party, or any agency
or instrumentality thereof;
(3) 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
(4) ceased efforts to steal the intellectual property of
United States persons.
(g) 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.
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House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 1486 and Rule XVIII.
The Speaker designated the Honorable Virginia Foxx to act as Chairwoman of the Committee.
GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate on H.R. 3334.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 1486, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Nunn (IA) amendment No. 1.
POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Nunn (IA) amendment No. 1, the Chair put the question on agreeing to the amendment and by voice vote, announced the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Amo demanded a recorded vote, and the Chair postponed further proceedings until a time to be announced.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 1486, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Amo amendment No. 2.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 1486, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Ogles amendment No. 3.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 1486, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Ogles amendment No. 4.
Mr. Moylan moved that the committee rise.
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On motion that the committee rise Agreed to by voice vote.
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 3334 as unfinished business.
Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H5801-5803)
The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 3334.
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
The House adopted the amendments en gros as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 243 - 174 (Roll no. 452).
Roll Call #452 (House)On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 243 - 174 (Roll no. 452).
Roll Call #452 (House)Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.