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<dc:title>117 S1029 IS: Sanctioning and Highlighting Authoritarian Medicine and Eugenics Act of 2021</dc:title>
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<dc:date>2021-03-25</dc:date>
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<distribution-code display="yes">II</distribution-code><congress>117th CONGRESS</congress><session>1st Session</session><legis-num>S. 1029</legis-num><current-chamber>IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES</current-chamber><action><action-date date="20210325">March 25, 2021</action-date><action-desc><sponsor name-id="S355">Mr. Cruz</sponsor> introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the <committee-name committee-id="SSFR00">Committee on Foreign Relations</committee-name></action-desc></action><legis-type>A BILL</legis-type><official-title>To require the imposition of sanctions with respect to forced abortions by the Government of the People's Republic of China.</official-title></form><legis-body display-enacting-clause="yes-display-enacting-clause"><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="section-one" id="id2F7470EE40CF4134B452E745CE51260A"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Sanctioning and Highlighting Authoritarian Medicine and Eugenics Act of 2021</short-title></quote> or the <quote><short-title>SHAME Act</short-title></quote>.</text></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section" id="id6B162C5E65A94AF097F83299CD31E01C"><enum>2.</enum><header>Imposition of sanctions with respect to forced abortions by the Government of the People's Republic of China</header><subsection id="IDE258D3D5A7FB4BBB897AD72AF56E0306"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The President shall impose the sanctions described in subsection (c) with respect to each person identified under subsection (b)(1)(A).</text></subsection><subsection id="ID84F933E87EC94FC09E3243319E8D227F"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Report required</header><paragraph id="id3AB2A0FB9606409AB001B139A7864F75"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that—</text><subparagraph id="id3394922127F14EBABAC74FB6C5397246"><enum>(A)</enum><text>identifies any official or agency of the Government of the People’s Republic of China and any member of the Chinese Communist Party that the Secretary determines knowingly orders, controls, or directs, or routinely conducts any action to carry out, a coercive birth-limitation policy carried out in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region or upon residents of that region, including involuntary abortions, involuntary sterilizations, mandatory contraception use or contraceptive implantation, deceptive contraceptive implantation, government control of birth spacing, or mandatory birth permits; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id5916908D4BD147DEB6B88CA69B7966F1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>includes a determination of whether the action described in subparagraph (A) of a person identified under that subparagraph was motivated or carried out against an individual on the basis of the identity, including race, religion, or ethnicity of the individual.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idb68ad943108d458b92c5ab7a239a0daf"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Sources of information</header><text>In preparing the report required under paragraph (1), the Secretary may use any publication, database, web-based resource, public information compiled by any government agency, and any information collected or compiled by a nongovernmental organization or other entity provided to or made available to the Secretary, that the Secretary finds credible.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id57db4b30832945edb5324fde9e6627bc"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Form of report</header><text>The report required under paragraph (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified index.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id770014691a5f4a958af86b8fd2b02231"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Publicly available list</header><text>Not later than 30 days after the date on which a report is submitted to the appropriate congressional committees under paragraph (1), the Secretary, in coordination with Secretary of the Treasury and the Director of National Intelligence, shall publish on a publicly available internet website maintained by the Department of State, in English and Mandarin Chinese—</text><subparagraph id="id6729a75266424c5b97adcb3611c4123e"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a list of each person identified under paragraph (1)(A);</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idE66BEAF8CF6945B7BA9B966120E83C11"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a description of the location where the action for which the person was so identified occurred;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idcd0ac942f1614e1ab1c12e534637f41f"><enum>(C)</enum><text>a determination with respect to whether that action was motivated or carried out against an individual on the basis of the identity, including race, religion, or ethnicity of the individual; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="ide4f00d9446a84d84a285ebaf99df77c6"><enum>(D)</enum><text>a statement of whether that person has been designated for the imposition of sanctions pursuant to the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (subtitle F of title XII of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/114/328">Public Law 114–328</external-xref>; <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/2656">22 U.S.C. 2656</external-xref> note). </text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id7021d2fa55e84dc1ad919d045989f864"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Sanctions described</header><paragraph id="id34869e6e8af14a6b820b462555e6a5bb"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The sanctions described in this subsection are the following:</text><subparagraph id="id9883822de25d48ce8a55269bd0c7c275"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Property blocking</header><text>The President shall, pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/50/1701">50 U.S.C. 1701</external-xref> et seq.), block and prohibit all transactions in property and interests in property of a person identified under subsection (b)(1)(A) 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.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idb00faffd5b0e4dcbb735f939a904f065"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Aliens ineligible for visas, admission, or parole</header><clause id="idb040e2e69cea4a459ffb55c4605f08a1"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Exclusion from the united states</header><text>The Secretary of State shall deny a visa to, and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall exclude from the United States, any alien identified under subsection (b)(1)(A).</text></clause><clause id="id4ec2379d35c04b0183c4aa3af2de674f"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Current visas revoked</header><subclause id="ida24c259a12064a5ca1c5792c57aad92d"><enum>(I)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The issuing consular officer, the Secretary of State, or the Secretary of Homeland Security (or a designee of any such officer or Secretary) shall revoke any visa or other entry documentation issued to an alien identified under subsection (b)(1)(A), regardless of when the visa or other documentation was issued.</text></subclause><subclause id="id66d4f51b2007484fa1d55361f1374a5f"><enum>(II)</enum><header>Effect of revocation</header><text>A revocation under subclause (I) shall take effect immediately and shall automatically cancel any other valid visa or entry documentation that is in the alien’s possession.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idad00fb6c6146423f897b828a20f4de2d"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Inapplicability of national emergency requirement</header><text>The requirements under section 202 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/50/1701">50 U.S.C. 1701</external-xref>) shall not apply for purposes of paragraph (1)(A).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id46e80b3021e145cda75542da38b39249"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Exceptions</header><paragraph id="id9fce0016ea3e49a18c84a290394e62bd"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Intelligence activities</header><text>This section shall not apply with respect to activities subject to the reporting requirements under title V of the National Security Act of 1947 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/50/3091">50 U.S.C. 3091</external-xref> et seq.) or any authorized intelligence activities of the United States.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id5a8a34490d25434798bdc5af7c9322c3"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Compliance with united nations headquarters agreement</header><text>Subsection (c)(1)(B) shall not apply with respect to the admission of an alien to the United States if such admission is necessary to comply with United States obligations under the Agreement between the United Nations and the United States of America regarding the Headquarters of the United Nations, signed at Lake Success June 26, 1947, and entered into force November 21, 1947, under the Convention on Consular Relations, done at Vienna April 24, 1963, and entered into force March 19, 1967, or under other international obligations.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ide7f2cbbf543949aaa14defdef005052d"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Implementation; penalties</header><paragraph id="idde5772abb6de4361b15629a0b7e0e352"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Implementation</header><text>The President may exercise all authorities provided under sections 203 and 205 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/50/1702">50 U.S.C. 1702</external-xref> and 1704) to carry out this section.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide88280e666864a0c9e3911e8e72f4252"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Penalties</header><text>A person that violates, attempts to violate, conspires to violate, or causes a violation of subsection (c)(1)(A) 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 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/50/1705">50 U.S.C. 1705</external-xref>) to the same extent as a person that commits an unlawful act described in subsection (a) of that section. </text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idE25601431E2441F78F6F28E9FCE4D3CD"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section:</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id98C6656E4F92494B9AF4E077D7498944"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Admission; admitted; alien</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The terms <term>admission</term>, <term>admitted</term>, and <term>alien</term> have the meanings given those terms in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101</external-xref>).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id62A0FFAE0EC5401E88E2D8AA6E63A474"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Appropriate congressional committees</header><text>The term <term>appropriate congressional committees</term> means—</text><subparagraph id="idF99C96715BC148D38D3F063846F00C2D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idE37D2C1F01534373877DC6946F9200D9"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id41EE483756A34DBBBE51074C93BC6291"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Person</header><text>The term <term>person</term> means an individual or entity, including a governmental entity.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1FA733D026C34DC2B27568E6B4743F9A"><enum>(4)</enum><header>United States person</header><text>The term <term>United States person</term> means—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAE06616D0B424976925A9346B101901F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a United States citizen or an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id71BEE783739B418887A317181E9AFBBD"><enum>(B)</enum><text>an entity organized under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within the United States. </text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section></legis-body></bill>