Guaranteeing Enemy Nations Omit from Criminalizing, Impeding, or Detaining Exceptional Global Athletes Magnifying Exploitation during Sporting events Act or the GENOCIDE GAMES Act
This bill requires the President to impose sanctions on certain foreign individuals who materially supported a gross violation of internationally recognized human rights against a 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games participant.
Upon receiving credible evidence of such a human rights violation, the President must impose property- and visa-blocking sanctions on any foreign individual associated with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), including the president of the IOC, who the President determines materially supported the violation of human rights, including by providing to participants false, reckless, or negligent assurances of human rights assurances by the government of China.
This bill's requirements shall terminate on March 13, 2023.
[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6586 Introduced in House (IH)]
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117th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 6586
To require the imposition of sanctions pursuant to the Global Magnitsky
Human Rights Accountability Act to certain members of the International
Olympic Committee who are complicit in the perpetuation of human rights
abuses in the People's Republic of China, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 3, 2022
Mr. Gallagher (for himself, Mr. McCarthy, Mr. McCaul, Mr. Waltz, Mr.
Fitzpatrick, Mr. Wenstrup, Mr. Webster of Florida, Mrs. Wagner, Ms.
Cheney, Mr. Babin, Mrs. Miller-Meeks, Mr. Steube, Mr. Gibbs, Mr.
Rutherford, Mr. Bilirakis, Mr. Feenstra, Mr. LaTurner, Mr. Mast, Mr.
McKinley, Mr. Johnson of Ohio, Mrs. Walorski, and Mrs. Steel)
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 require the imposition of sanctions pursuant to the Global Magnitsky
Human Rights Accountability Act to certain members of the International
Olympic Committee who are complicit in the perpetuation of human rights
abuses in 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 ``Guaranteeing Enemy Nations Omit from
Criminalizing, Impeding, or Detaining Exceptional Global Athletes
Magnifying Exploitation during Sporting events Act'' or the ``GENOCIDE
GAMES Act''.
SEC. 2. GLOBAL MAGNITSKY SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN
INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE (IOC) OFFICIALS WHO ARE
COMPLICIT IN THE PERPETUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN
THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.
(a) Determination Required.--Beginning on the date of the enactment
of this Act, each time the President receives credible evidence that a
gross violation of internationally recognized human rights has occurred
against a 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games participant, the
President shall determine by a preponderance of evidence whether a
foreign person described in subsection (b) materially supported such
gross violation of internationally recognized human rights.
(b) Foreign Persons Described.--A foreign person described in this
subsection is a foreign person who is--
(1) President of the International Olympic Committee; or
(2) any other individual associated with the International
Olympic Committee who the President determines has materially
assisted a gross violation of internationally recognized human
rights.
(c) Mandatory Sanctions.--The President shall impose the sanctions
described in subsection (f) with respect to each foreign person
described in subsection (b) that the President determines materially
supported a gross violation of internationally recognized human rights
pursuant to subsection (a).
(d) Rule of Construction.--For the purposes of this Act, material
support of a gross violation of internationally recognized human rights
shall be construed to include false, reckless, or negligent assurances
to 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games participants regarding
human rights assurances provided to the International Olympic Committee
by the government of the People's Republic of China, the Chinese
Communist Party, or any agent acting on their behalf or under their
control.
(e) Reports to Congress.--Each time the President makes a
determination pursuant to subsection (a), the President shall notify
the appropriate congressional committees of the foreign person
concerned, the President's determination, and the basis for such
determination.
(f) Sanctions Described.--
(1) In general.--The sanctions described in this subsection
are the sanctions described in section 1263(b) of the Global
Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (subtitle F of title
XII of Public Law 114-328; 22 U.S.C. 2656 note).
(2) Exception for intelligence activities.--The requirement
to impose sanctions under this section shall not apply with
respect to activities subject to the reporting requirements
under title V of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C.
3091 et seq.), or any authorized intelligence activities of the
United States.
(g) Waiver.--The President may waive the imposition of the
sanctions under this section with respect to a foreign person if the
President determines and reports to the appropriate congressional
committees that a waiver is in the national security interests of the
United States.
(h) Implementation.--
(1) In general.--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) to carry out this section.
(2) Exception relating to the importation of goods.--The
authorities and requirements to impose sanctions authorized
under this Act shall not include the authority or requirement
to impose sanctions on the importation of goods.
(3) Good defined.--In this subsection, the term ``good''
means any article, natural or manmade substance, material,
supply, or manufactured product, including inspection and test
equipment and excluding technical data.
(i) Penalties.--A person that violates, attempts to violate,
conspires to violate, or causes a violation of this section or any
regulation, license, or order issued to carry out this section shall be
subject to the penalties set forth in subsections (b) and (c) of
section 206 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50
U.S.C. 1705) to the same extent as a person that commits an unlawful
act described in subsection (a) of that section.
(j) Report on Implementation.--Not later than 15 days after
imposing sanctions under subsection (a), the President shall submit to
the appropriate congressional committees a report regarding measures
taken to implement this section.
(k) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term
``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
(A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House
of Representatives; and
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the
Senate.
(2) 2022 olympic and paralympic winter games participant
defined.--In this Act, a ``2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter
Games participant'' is any United States or foreign person
involved in the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games,
including athletes, spectators, government and private
officials, members of the press, and persons involved in
economic activity related to the Games.
(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;
or
(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.
SEC. 3. SUNSET.
This Act shall terminate on March 13, 2023.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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.
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.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
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