Sec. 5303. Report on use and applicability of sanctions to Chinese officials complicit in human rights violations and violations of United States sanctions with respect to Hong Kong
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Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the use and applicability of sanctions, including financial sanctions and the denial of visas to enter the United States, with respect to officials of the Government of the People's Republic of China complicit in— human rights violations, including severe religious freedom restrictions and human trafficking; or violations of sanctions imposed by the United States with respect to Hong Kong. The report required by subsection
(a)shall include— a list of all relevant authorities under statutes or Executive orders for imposing sanctions described in subsection (a); an assessment of where, if at all, such authorities may conflict, overlap, or otherwise require clarification; a list of all instances in which designations for the imposition of sanctions described in subsection
(a)were made during the one-year period preceding submission of the report; and an assessment of the effectiveness of those designations in changing desired behavior and recommendations for increasing the effectiveness of such designations. The report required by subsection
(a)shall be submitted in unclassified form but may include a classified annex. In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate; and the Committee on Financial Services and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.