# 119-hr-4830: Uyghur Genocide Accountability and Sanctions Act of 2025 119-hr-4830, Uyghur Genocide Accountability and Sanctions Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4] (R-NJ); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-04-21). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4830 - As of: 2026-04-21 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: 119-hr-4830 - Congress: 119 - Title: Uyghur Genocide Accountability and Sanctions Act of 2025 - Status: introduced - Introduced: 2025-08-01 - Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4] (R-NJ) - Cosponsors: 2 - Policy area: International Affairs - Touches household money: yes - Last recorded action: 2026-04-21 ## Summary **Expanded sanctions and accountability for abuses in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.** This bill would broaden the list of sanctionable crimes, require targeted company listings and mandatory entry bans with narrow waivers, fund survivor care and cultural preservation, and bar federal purchases tied to forced labor. - Would authorize the Secretary of State to fund medical, physical, and psychological care for Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and other oppressed people living outside China. Grants and training for local providers would be allowed and the federal share of those costs would be capped at 50%. - Would bar executive agencies and Department of Defense commissaries from contracting with or buying PRC-origin products or with persons identified as complicit in abuses, with limited waiver authorities and required implementation reporting to Congress. It also mandates a governmentwide report on PRC-origin seafood purchases and national security implications. - Would expand sanctionable conduct to explicitly include systematic rape, coercive abortion, forced sterilization, involuntary contraceptive implantation, organ-removal trafficking, forced child separation to boarding schools, and forced deportation or refoulement. It would require the Treasury to determine within 60 days whether named firms such as Hangzhou Hikvision, BGI Group, Dahua, Tiandy, China Electronics Technology Group, Uniview, and ByteDance meet criteria for OFAC designation, make entry bans mandatory with a written waiver process, and fund counter-propaganda, evidence gathering, and an organ-harvesting strategy. ## Cosponsors (2) - Rep. Moolenaar, John R. [R-MI-2] (R-MI), 2025-08-01T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Suozzi, Thomas R. [D-NY-3] (D-NY), 2025-08-01T00:00:00.000Z ## Provisions PRIA read - Medical care for survivors abroad: benefit, medium. This bill would let the State Department help pay for medical, physical, and mental health care for survivors from Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and other targeted groups who suffered abuses in China and now live outside China. The U.S. share could be up to 50% of costs. It would also fund grants to buil… - Entry bans for atrocity enablers: benefit, low. This bill would make entry bans mandatory for people complicit in forced sterilization, forced abortion, or similar abuses. The Secretary of State could grant a waiver only if the person is not directly complicit, admission is needed for U.N. or law‑enforcement duties, and it serves U.S. national s… - Support to document and counter abuses: benefit, low. This bill would let the State Department fund groups to collect and secure evidence of atrocities, train investigators, and protect witnesses. The Secretary would quickly compile cases of relatives of U.S. citizens or green card holders detained or missing in Xinjiang to support advocacy, in consul… - Smithsonian fund to preserve cultures: benefit, low. This bill would authorize $2 million each year for fiscal years 2026 through 2029 for the Smithsonian to start a Repressed Cultures Preservation Initiative. The program would support research, exhibits, and education about threatened cultures, including groups targeted by officials in China. - Ban contracts with forced-labor suppliers: mixed, medium. This bill would bar federal agencies from contracting with companies tied to genocide or forced labor in Xinjiang. Agencies could not contract with parties named in the Uyghur Human Rights report, suppliers whose goods were detained under the forced‑labor law, others the agency and State find compl… - Ban China seafood for troops: mixed, medium. This bill would block the Defense Department from buying seafood that originates in or is processed in China for military dining, including Navy galleys. Raw or processed China seafood would also be barred from commissary shelves, with narrow waivers. The commissary sales ban would start 30 days af… - Broader sanctions and firm designations: mixed, medium. If enacted, the government would expand what counts as sanctionable abuse in Xinjiang, including sexual violence, forced sterilization, organ trafficking, child separation, and forced returns to China. Covered persons would include people in Xinjiang and members of those groups abroad. The Presiden… ## Related bills - 119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025 - 119-hr-9237: Take Care of America’s Veterans Act - 119-hr-2082: WISH Act - 119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act - 119-hr-5303: FREEDOM for Gao Zhisheng and All Political Prisoners Act - 119-hr-4829: Transnational Repression Policy Act ## Sources - [119-hr-4830 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4830) ## Related - [119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3151) - [119-hr-9237: Take Care of America’s Veterans Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9237) - [119-hr-2082: WISH Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2082) - [119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1262) - [119-hr-5303: FREEDOM for Gao Zhisheng and All Political Prisoners Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-5303) - [119-hr-4829: Transnational Repression Policy Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4829) - [All bills in Congress](https://policyrisk.com/legislation) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4830 (as of 2026-04-21).