Sanctioning Supporters of Slave Labor Act

Sanctioning Supporters of Slave Labor Act

This bill expands existing sanctions on foreign individuals and entities responsible for human rights abuses (e.g., such as torture or forced labor) against members of Muslim minority groups or other persons in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.

Specifically, this bill requires sanctions on foreign individuals and entities that knowingly (1) provide material support to the parties subject to the existing sanctions for human rights abuses in Xinjiang, or (2) engage in a significant transaction relating to such human rights abuses.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7998 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7998

     To amend the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 to impose 
 additional sanctions relating to human rights abuses in the Xinjiang 
                       Uyghur Autonomous Region.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 9, 2022

 Mr. Banks (for himself, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Ms. Tenney, Mr. 
 Gallagher, Mr. Hern, Mr. Lamborn, Mrs. McClain, Mr. Buck, Mr. Steube, 
Mr. Reschenthaler, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Ms. Herrell, Mr. Babin, Mr. Allen, 
  Mr. Johnson of Louisiana, Mrs. Lesko, Mr. Gimenez, Mr. Waltz, Mrs. 
Harshbarger, Mr. Moore of Alabama, Mr. Newhouse, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. Smith 
of New Jersey, Mr. Huizenga, Mr. Rose, Mr. Cawthorn, Mr. Burchett, Mr. 
  LaTurner, and Mr. Meuser) 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 amend the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 to impose 
 additional sanctions relating to human rights abuses in the Xinjiang 
                       Uyghur Autonomous Region.

    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 Supporters of Slave 
Labor Act''.

SEC. 2. IMPOSITION OF ADDITIONAL SANCTIONS RELATING TO HUMAN RIGHTS 
              ABUSES IN THE XINJIANG UYGHUR AUTONOMOUS REGION.

    (a) In General.--Section 6 of the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 
2020 (Public Law 116-145; 22 U.S.C. 6901 note) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph 
                (3); and
                    (B) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:
            ``(2) Additional matters to be included.--The President 
        shall include in the report required by paragraph (1) an 
        identification of--
                    ``(A) each foreign person that knowingly provides 
                material support to or for a person identified in such 
                report; and
                    ``(B) each foreign person that knowingly engages in 
                a significant transaction relating to any of the acts 
                described in subparagraphs (A) through (F) of paragraph 
                (1).''; and
            (2) in subsection (b), by striking ``subsection (a)(1)'' 
        and inserting ``subsection (a)''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a)--
            (1) take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act; 
        and
            (2) apply with respect to each report required by section 
        6(a) of the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 submitted 
        before, on, or after such date of enactment.
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