Sec. 5. Imposition of sanctions with respect to forced organ harvesting within the People’s Republic of China
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The President shall impose the sanctions described in subsection
(c)with respect to each foreign person included in the most recent list submitted pursuant to subsection (b). Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a list of foreign persons, including senior government officials, military leaders, and other persons who the President determines are knowingly responsible for or complicit in, or have directly or indirectly engaged in, the involuntary harvesting of organs within the People’s Republic of China. The President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees an updated list under paragraph (1)— as new information becomes available; not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act; and annually thereafter for five years. The list required by paragraph
(1)shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex. The sanctions described in this subsection are the following: The President shall exercise all of the powers granted to the President by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ( 50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq. ) (except that the requirements of section 202 of such Act ( 50 U.S.C. 1701 ) shall not apply) to the extent necessary to block and prohibit all transactions in property and interests in property of the person if such property and interests in property are in the United States, come within the United States, or are or come within the possession or control of a United States person. A foreign person included in the most recent list submitted pursuant to subsection
(b)is— inadmissible to the United States; ineligible to receive a visa or other documentation to enter the United States; and otherwise ineligible to be admitted or paroled into the United States or to receive any other benefit under the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq. ). A foreign person described in subparagraph
(A)is also subject to the following: Revocation of any visa or other entry documentation regardless of when the visa or other entry documentation is or was issued. A revocation under clause
(i)shall take effect immediately and automatically cancel any other valid visa or entry documentation that is in the foreign person’s possession. Sanctions under paragraph
(2)shall not apply to an alien if admitting or paroling the alien into the United States is necessary to permit the United States to comply with the Agreement regarding the Headquarters of the United Nations, signed at Lake Success June 26, 1947, and entered into force November 21, 1947, between the United Nations and the United States, or other applicable international obligations of the United States. The penalties provided for in subsections
(b)and
(c)of section 206 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ( 50 U.S.C. 1705 ) shall apply to a person who violates, attempts to violate, conspires to violate, or causes a violation of regulations promulgated to carry out subsection
(a)to the same extent that such penalties apply to a person who commits an unlawful act described in section 206(a) of that Act. The following activities shall be exempt from sanctions under this section: Activities subject to the reporting requirements under title V of the National Security Act of 1947 ( 50 U.S.C. 3091 et seq. ). Any authorized intelligence or law enforcement activities of the United States.
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Imposition of sanctions with respect to forced organ harvesting within the People’s Republic of China
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