S. 4009

Overview

This bill responds to allegations of forced organ harvesting in China (taking people's organs through force, kidnapping, or fraud), including from people targeted for their religious beliefs or ethnic background, such as Falun Gong practitioners. Within 180 days, the President would have to give Congress a list of foreign individuals and organizations that knowingly and directly took part in or helped with this practice in China, and update it at least yearly. Those listed would have their property in the United States or held by Americans frozen and be barred from entering the country; the President could waive this case by case for national security reasons, and the sanctions could not block humanitarian aid, food, medicine, or imports of goods. Within one year, the State Department, working with the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health, and intelligence agencies, would have to tell Congress whether China's government engages or has engaged in systemic forced organ harvesting, and list U.S. grants from the past 10 years that supported organ transplant research in China or with Chinese partners. The power to impose these sanctions would expire after five years.