Uyghur Human Rights Sanctions Review Act
This bill requires the Treasury Secretary to review 10 specific Chinese companies within 60 days to determine if they are responsible for or complicit in serious human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslim groups in Xinjiang, or meet criteria under existing sanctions laws. If determined to meet these criteria, the companies - such as Hikvision, BGI Group, Tiandy Technologies, Alibaba, and ByteDance - would be added to a U.S. sanctions list blocking their assets. The Treasury must then report its findings to Congress, including the reasons for the determination, in an unclassified report with a potential classified annex. The bill directly affects these listed entities by subjecting them to potential U.S. financial sanctions.
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Introduction
Mar 2023
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Introduced Mar 1, 2023
Last action Dec 17, 2024
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Dec 17, 2024
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
lower
Mar 1, 2023
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Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Financial Services, and Ways and Means, 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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Mar 1, 2023
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1 primary · 12 co-sponsors
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August Pfluger
RRepublican
Co
Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen
RRepublican
Co
Brian J. Mast
RRepublican
Co
Don Bacon
RRepublican
Co
Jake Ellzey
RRepublican
Co
James R. Baird
RRepublican
Co
John R. Moolenaar
RRepublican
Co
Josh Gottheimer
DDemocratic
Co
Maria Elvira Salazar
RRepublican
Co
Michael Waltz
RRepublican
Co
Mikie Sherrill
DDemocratic
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