HR 9668 United States House · 118th Congress

SHIELD Against CCP Act

HR 9668, the SHIELD Against CCP Act, establishes a DHS Working Group to assess and coordinate efforts against specific threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party. The Working Group examines issues like immigration system exploitation (e.g., identity theft, human trafficking), predatory economic practices (e.g., forced labor, IP theft), and threats to critical infrastructure, including fentanyl trafficking and cybersecurity risks. It requires DHS to produce annual threat assessments for Congress, coordinate with federal and local partners, and report on program efficacy, with the Working Group terminating after seven years. The bill directly affects DHS operations and its collaboration with intelligence and fusion centers to address these security concerns.

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Sep 2024

Committee Review

Dec 2024

House Passage

Dec 2024

Senate Passage

President

Introduced Sep 18, 2024 Last action Dec 11, 2024

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What changed between versions

Introduced in House → Engrossed in House · 9 edits · Dec 10, 2024

MAJOR

The engrossed version of the SHIELD Against CCP Act significantly narrows the scope of the DHS Working Group's duties by removing references to malign influence operations, transnational repression, threats to critical infrastructure, export control vulnerabilities, and cryptocurrency money laundering. It adds a new duty focused on illicit financial activity by Chinese Money Laundering Organizations and consolidates the fentanyl/drug trafficking focus. A new implementation section explicitly protects free speech, and reporting requirements are expanded from two committees to ten congressional committees across both chambers.

Scope change

The bill's scope was narrowed by removing several categories of threats (malign influence operations, transnational repression, critical infrastructure threats, export control vulnerabilities, cryptocurrency money laundering) while adding a focused duty on illicit financial activity by Chinese Money Laundering Organizations. Oversight was broadened from two committees to ten congressional committees. A new explicit free speech protection was added as a constraint on all Working Group activities.

SCOPE

Removed the Working Group's duty to examine 'malign influence operations and transnational repression targeting United States persons' (former subparagraph C).

Removed the Working Group's duty to examine 'threats to critical infrastructure' (former subparagraph D) and removed 'risks to the critical infrastructure supply chain' from the economic practices list.

Removed the Working Group's duty to examine 'exploitation of vulnerabilities in the United States export control regime, including the export in violation of law of controlled technologies from the United States' (former subparagraph G).

Removed 'money laundering practices' and 'emerging money laundering techniques, including cryptocurrency' from the Working Group's duties.

Added a new duty (subparagraph D) to examine 'support for illicit financial activity by Chinese Money Laundering Organizations, including any repatriation to China or any other country of the proceeds derived from the activities described in subparagraphs (A) through (C).'

Changed reporting and briefing recipients from two specific committees (House Homeland Security and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs) to a newly defined term 'appropriate congressional committees' covering five House committees (Homeland Security, Ways and Means, Financial Services, Judiciary, Foreign Affairs) and five Senate committees (Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Banking/Housing/Urban Affairs, Finance, Judiciary, Foreign Relations).

REQUIREMENT

Added a new section 2(g) 'Implementation' requiring all activities under the section to comply with constitutional, privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties protections, and explicitly stating that activities 'may not infringe upon the lawful exercise of free speech by United States persons.'

Removed the phrase 'in accordance with applicable constitutional, privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties protections' from both the information sharing duty (section 2(c)) and the research and development requirement (section 2(f)), as these protections are now consolidated in the new section 2(g).

DEFINITION

Removed the definition of 'critical infrastructure' from the definitions section, consistent with its removal from the Working Group's duties.

Floor votes · House Dec 10, 2024

How they voted

409–4

Passed · 17 other

Total votes 430

Dec 10, 2024

D Democratic211

203 Yea 2 Nay 6

96% Yea

I Independent1

1 Yea

100% Yea

R Republican218

205 Yea 2 Nay 11

94% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

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Committee

Amendments

Dec 11, 2024

Committee

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

upper

Dec 10, 2024

Introduced

On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 409 - 4 (Roll no. 498). (text: CR H6568-6569)

lower

Dec 10, 2024

Lower · Passed

Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 409 - 4 (Roll no. 498). (text: CR H6568-6569)

lower

Dec 10, 2024

Introduced

Mr. Green (TN) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.

lower

Dec 10, 2024

Lower · Passed

Committee on the Judiciary discharged.

lower

Dec 10, 2024

Lower · Passed

Committee on Ways and Means discharged.

lower

Dec 10, 2024

Lower · Passed

Committee on Financial Services discharged.

lower

Dec 10, 2024

Lower · Passed

Committee on Foreign Affairs discharged.

lower

Dec 10, 2024

Lower · Passed

Reported by the Committee on Homeland Security. H. Rept. 118-850, Part I.

lower

Sep 25, 2024

Lower · Passed

Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

lower

Sep 25, 2024

Lower · Passed

Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence Discharged

lower

Sep 18, 2024

Committee

Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Financial Services, the Judiciary, and Foreign Affairs, 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.

lower

Sep 18, 2024

Introduced

Introduced in House

lower

Sep 18, 2024

Committee

Referred to the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence.

lower

1 primary · 6 co-sponsors