HR4830-119

What This Bill Does

The Uyghur Genocide Accountability and Sanctions Act is a sanctions, support, documentation, and procurement bill focused on abuses by the People's Republic of China in Xinjiang. It expands Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act reporting beyond persons in Xinjiang to affected groups outside China and adds covered abuses such as systematic rape, coercive abortion, forced sterilization, involuntary contraception, organ-removal trafficking, forced child separation into boarding schools, and forced deportation or refoulement. It makes State Department visa denial mandatory for certain foreign nationals complicit in forced abortion or sterilization atrocities unless a tightly justified national-security, UN-headquarters, or law-enforcement waiver is provided to Congress. It authorizes development-assistance funds for medical care, physical therapy, and psychological support for Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and other oppressed-group survivors outside China, with U.S. funding capped at 50 percent of assistance costs. It directs a cultural-preservation feasibility report and authorizes $2 million annually from fiscal 2026 through 2029 for a Smithsonian Repressed Cultures Preservation Initiative. Treasury, in consultation with State and DOJ, must decide within 60 days whether named entities such as Hikvision, BGI Group, Tiandy, Dahua, China Electronics Technology Group, Uniview, and ByteDance meet sanctions criteria. State must produce a strategy to counter PRC propaganda denying genocide, support documentation of atrocities, assess forced organ harvesting, and report on federal procurement of PRC-origin or PRC-processed seafood. Federal agencies may not contract with persons identified in Uyghur sanctions reports, forced-labor import denials, or PRC forced-labor activity. DOD may not procure PRC-origin or PRC-processed seafood for military dining facilities, and commissaries may not sell PRC-origin seafood products, subject to limited waivers and overseas exceptions.

Who Benefits and How

Uyghur survivor communities benefit from expanded sanctions coverage, medical care, physical therapy, psychological support, and atrocity-documentation assistance. Kazakhs and other oppressed ethnic groups benefit because survivor support and cultural-preservation provisions are not limited to Uyghurs alone. Smithsonian Institution programs benefit from a $2 million annual authorization for a Repressed Cultures Preservation Initiative. U.S. seafood producers benefit if military dining facilities and commissaries shift away from PRC-origin or PRC-processed seafood.

Who Bears the Burden and How

Named Chinese technology companies face Treasury determinations that could place them on the OFAC specially designated nationals list. Executive agency procurement officers must avoid contracts with listed persons, forced-labor suppliers, and entities facilitating Xinjiang abuses. Defense Commissary Agency officials must remove or waive PRC-origin seafood sales and assess compliance. State Department human rights offices must produce visa-waiver notices, survivor-support reports, propaganda strategy, atrocity documentation support, organ-harvesting strategy, and seafood procurement reports.

Key Provisions

• Expands Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act sanctions reporting to more abuses and affected groups inside Xinjiang and abroad.
• Requires visa denial rules, waiver notices, and congressional information on forced abortion or sterilization complicity.
• Authorizes survivor support and $2 million annually for a Smithsonian Repressed Cultures Preservation Initiative.
• Requires Treasury sanctions determinations for named Chinese surveillance, genetics, technology, and platform companies.
• Bars federal contracts and DOD seafood procurement involving listed abusers, forced-labor goods, and PRC-origin seafood sources.