Uyghur Genocide Accountability and Sanctions Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Senator Dan Sullivan
Introduced
Summary
Expands accountability for specific human-rights abuses and blocks PRC-origin seafood from Defense supply chains. This bill would add new categories of abuse to U.S. reporting and sanctions lists and would restrict the Department of Defense from buying or selling seafood tied to the People’s Republic of China.
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- Adds four specific abuses to the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act list, including forced sterilization and coercive abortion, trafficking for organ removal, forced child separations into boarding schools, and forced deportation or refoulement. Reports would have to identify foreign persons who knowingly provide significant goods, services, or technology or who engage in significant transactions related to these acts.
- Gives the executive authority to implement these changes under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and to issue regulations, licenses, and orders. That would create a statutory pathway to target and regulate foreign suppliers tied to the listed abuses.
- Would bar the Department of Defense from procuring or selling PRC-origin or PRC-processed seafood for military dining facilities and commissaries, subject to limited waivers and transition rules. The bill also would require a Department of Defense Inspector General report within 180 days assessing verification policies for prohibited seafood sources and references existing forced-labor and sanctions statutes.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
7 provisions identified: 4 benefits, 3 costs, 0 mixed.
Medical help for persecuted groups
If enacted, the State Department could pay for medical care, physical therapy, and mental health support for eligible Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and other listed victims who live outside China. U.S. funds could pay no more than 50 percent of each person's costs. The Department must brief Congress within one year and may fund grants to treatment centers and training.
Sanctions for named China firms
If enacted, the Treasury Secretary would have 60 days to decide if seven named companies helped commit serious human rights abuses. If so, Treasury would add them to the OFAC list of specially designated nationals and blocked persons and send Congress a report explaining why.
Ban federal contracts with abusive suppliers
If enacted, executive agencies would be barred from contracting with companies named in expanded Uyghur reports, companies whose goods were detained under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, or companies found to facilitate genocide or forced labor. The President must report to Congress on implementation within 180 days. The Uyghur report rules would also expand which abuses are listed and allow emergency economic authorities to be used.
Counter-propaganda and cultural funding
If enacted, the Secretary of State would deliver a counter-propaganda plan within 30 days and could use an existing Countering PRC Influence Fund to carry it out. The Smithsonian could receive $2 million each year for fiscal years 2026 through 2029 to start a Repressed Cultures Preservation Initiative.
Support investigations and family tracking
If enacted, the State Department could fund NGOs and investigators to collect and preserve evidence and protect witnesses. The Department would begin compiling lists of family members of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents missing or detained in Xinjiang as soon as practicable. The Secretary would report within 90 days on whether forced organ harvesting occurred since 2017 and suggest a strategy if found.
Visa ban for forced sterilization actors
If enacted, the bill would make entry to the United States unlawful for people complicit in forced sterilization or forced abortion, except in narrow cases. The Secretary of State could only waive the ban after specific written findings and must notify Congress and publicly announce bans and waivers.
Ban China-origin seafood for military
If enacted, the Defense Department would be barred from buying seafood from China for military dining facilities, with limited exceptions and a waiver option. Commissary stores would not be able to sell China-origin seafood except by waiver. The commissary ban starts 30 days after enactment and the full prohibitions take effect 90 days after enactment. The DoD Inspector General must report on procurement rules within 180 days.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Dan Sullivan
AK • R
Cosponsors
Jeff Merkley
OR • D
Sponsored 7/30/2025
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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