Sec. 4. Imposition of sanctions with respect to provision of genetic monitoring technology to covered countries
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Not later than the date that is 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and as appropriate thereafter, the President shall— impose the sanctions described in subsection
(b)with respect to each foreign person that the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, determines— is responsible for or complicit in, or has directly or indirectly engaged in, gross violations of internationally recognized human rights; has provided, is providing, or poses a significant risk of providing, to an entity in a covered country genetic sampling and analysis technology that could directly or indirectly enable gross violations of internationally recognized human rights, as determined by the Secretary of State or the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services; conducts genetic sampling and analysis and is located in, has headquarters in, or is organized under the laws of, a covered country, including— any entity placed on the Entity List for human rights abuses directly or indirectly related to genetic monitoring efforts, including— the Institute of Forensic Science; CloudWalk Technology; FiberHome Technologies Group; Forensic Genomics International; the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences; the Chinese Academy of Sciences; and BGI Group; national key labs and other state-affiliated research institutes providing genetic sampling and analysis technology for public security purposes; any college or university in the People’s Republic of China that is determined by the Secretary of Defense to be involved in genetic monitoring and human rights abuses, including— any college or university in the People’s Republic of China that conducts genetic research or hosts dedicated security and monitoring initiatives or laboratories, including such a college or university designated under the double first-class university plan ; and any college or university in the People’s Republic of China that conducts research or hosts dedicated initiatives or laboratories for any security entity of the People’s Republic of China, including the People’s Liberation Army, the People’s Armed Police, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Ministry of State Security; any enterprise for which the majority shareholder or ultimate parent entity is the Government of the People’s Republic of China at any level of that government; any privately owned company in the People’s Republic of China that has— a history of subcontracting for the People’s Liberation Army, the People’s Armed Police, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of State Security, or any affiliate of any such entity; or an owner, director, or senior management official who has served as a delegate to the National People’s Congress, a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, or a member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party; and any subsidiary, successor, or alias of an entity described in any of clauses
(i)through (v); or owns or controls, is owned or controlled by, or is under common ownership or control with, an entity described in subparagraph (A), (B), or (C); and impose the sanctions described in subsection
(c)with respect to each alien the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, determines is a corporate officer of an entity described in paragraph (1). The sanctions described in this subsection are the exercise of all of the powers granted to the President by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ( 50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq. ) to the extent necessary to block and prohibit all transactions in property and interests in property of a foreign person if such property or 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. An alien described in subsection (a)(2) shall be— 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. ). The visa or other entry documentation of any alien described in paragraph
(1)is subject to revocation regardless of the date on which the visa or other entry documentation is or was issued. A revocation under subparagraph
(A)shall— take effect immediately; and cancel any other valid visa or entry documentation that is in the possession of the alien. The President shall exercise all authorities provided under sections 203 and 205 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702 and 1704) to carry out this section. Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall issue such regulations, licenses, and orders as are necessary to carry out this section. A person that violates, attempts to violate, conspires to violate, or causes a violation of subsection
(b)or any regulation, license, or order issued to carry out that subsection 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. Sanctions under this section shall not apply to any activity 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. Subsection
(c)shall not apply with respect to the admission of an alien to the United States if such admission 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. The authorities and requirements to impose sanctions authorized under this section shall not include the authority or a requirement to impose sanctions on the importation of goods. In this paragraph, the term good means any article, natural or manmade substance, material, supply, or manufactured product, including inspection and test equipment, and excluding technical data.
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