Falun Gong and Victims of Forced Organ Harvesting Protection Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Falun Gong and Victims of Forced Organ Harvesting Protection Act requires the President within 180 days to list foreign persons determined to have knowingly and directly engaged in or facilitated forced organ harvesting in China, update the list as information emerges and at least annually, and impose property-blocking and immigration sanctions. Listed property under U.S. jurisdiction is blocked; listed aliens are inadmissible, visa-ineligible, and subject to immediate visa revocation. IEEPA penalties apply to violations. Intelligence and law-enforcement activities, U.N. headquarters obligations, food, medicine, humanitarian aid, related finance, and humanitarian transport are protected. The President may waive sanctions case by case for national security but must report waiver use every 120 days. Sanctions authority ends after five years, and it does not reach importation of goods. Within one year, State, consulting HHS, NIH, and relevant intelligence elements, must determine whether the PRC government engages or formerly engaged in systemic forced organ harvesting; assess law and practice, prisoners of conscience including Falun Gong practitioners, transplant and donor volumes, organ sources and procurement timing; list ten years of U.S.-supported research ties; and, if systemic harvesting is found, determine whether it is an atrocity. The final version adds congressional intelligence committees, intelligence-community consultation, findings, and a nonbinding call to investigate and condemn coercive organ procurement.
Who Benefits and How
Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, prisoners of conscience, and other potential victims gain a mandatory sanctions and investigation framework. Human-rights organizations and congressional committees gain recurring lists, waiver reports, and a detailed public assessment with an optional classified annex. Humanitarian organizations, food and medicine suppliers, and aid-finance and transport providers benefit from express sanctions exclusions. U.S. importers retain protection from goods-import sanctions, and U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement operations remain outside the sanctions restrictions.
Who Bears the Burden and How
PRC officials, transplant entities, and other foreign persons found responsible face blocked property, prohibited transactions, exclusion from the United States, and visa cancellation. U.S. persons dealing with listed parties face IEEPA compliance and penalty risk. The White House, Treasury, State, HHS, NIH, and intelligence community must investigate, list, update, sanction, administer waivers, report every 120 days, trace grants, estimate opaque transplant activity, protect classified information, and make systemic-practice and atrocity determinations.
Key Provisions
- Requires a public, updateable list of foreign persons involved in forced organ harvesting in China.
- Blocks listed property and bars or revokes United States entry documents for listed aliens.
- Protects intelligence, law enforcement, U.N. obligations, food, medicine, and humanitarian transactions.
- Requires 120-day reporting on national-security waivers and ends sanctions authority after five years.
- Requires an intelligence-informed report on systemic harvesting, transplant volumes, organ sources, timing, and U.S. grants.
- Requires a conditional atrocity determination if systemic forced organ harvesting is found.
- Exempts importation of goods from the Act's sanctions authority.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires financial and immigration sanctions against foreign persons involved in forced organ harvesting in China and mandates an intelligence-informed assessment of China's transplant system and U.S. research ties.
Key Policy Areas
Human Rights, Sanctions, Organ Transplantation
Primary Purpose
Requires financial and immigration sanctions against foreign persons involved in forced organ harvesting in China and mandates an intelligence-informed assessment of China's transplant system and U.S. research ties.
Policy Domains
Falun Gong and Victims of Forced Organ Harvesting Protection Act
Identified Gains
- Falun Gong practitioner communities
- Uyghur communities and other prisoners of conscience
- Human-rights advocacy organizations
- Humanitarian aid providers
- Congressional foreign-affairs and intelligence committees
Identified Costs
- Foreign government agencies and officials facilitating forced organ harvesting
- PRC transplant hospitals and providers
- Treasury sanctions administrators
- State Department visa and human-rights staff
- HHS, NIH, and intelligence agency staff
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
ReportedPlaced on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. …
Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Risch with an …
Reported by Mr. Risch, with an amendment
Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with an …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Introduced in Senate
Mr. Cruz (for himself and Mr. Merkley) introduced the following …
Mr. Cruz (for himself, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Young, …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Congressional foreign-affairs and banking committees, Department of Health and Human Services, Federal legislative records staff
Treasury sanctions administrators faces effects in multiple directions
Positive-direction: Congressional foreign-affairs and banking committees, House and Senate intelligence committees, State Department sanctions and reporting staff
Negative-direction: Department of Health and Human Services, HHS and NIH transplant-policy staff, National Institutes of Health grant-review staff, PRC officials facilitating forced organ harvesting, Relevant intelligence community elements, State Department human-rights staff, State Department visa officers
Falun Gong practitioners and Uyghurs, Falun Gong practitioners and prisoners of conscience, Victims of forced organ harvesting
Positive-direction: Falun Gong practitioners and prisoners of conscience, Victims of forced organ harvesting
Negative-direction: Victims seeking broader economic sanctions
PRC transplant entities facilitating forced organ harvesting, U.S.-PRC transplant research collaborators
Human-rights research organizations, Humanitarian aid and medical suppliers, Humanitarian aid providers
Chinese goods exporters, United States importers of Chinese goods
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "affected_people"
- → Falun Gong practitioners, prisoners of conscience, and other victims
- "health_partners"
- → Department of Health and Human Services and National Institutes of Health
- "sanctions_decider"
- → President of the United States
- "financial_enforcer"
- → Department of the Treasury
- "visa_and_report_lead"
- → Department of State
- "intelligence_partners"
- → Relevant elements of the intelligence community
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