Congress 116 - S 178 - UIGHUR Act of 2019

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Uighur Intervention and Global Humanitarian Unified Response Act of 2019 or the UIGHUR Act of 2019

This bill directs the President to impose sanctions and export restrictions related to China's treatment of the Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim Turkic ethnic group.

The President shall report to Congress a list of senior Chinese government officials who are engaged in or responsible for serious human rights abuses, including mass incarceration and political indoctrination, against Turkic Muslims in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The President shall impose visa- and property-blocking sanctions on such individuals. The President may waive the imposition of such sanctions on U.S. national interest grounds.

The President shall identify items that provide China with a critical capability to suppress basic human rights, including items that provide capability to (1) conduct surveillance, (2) monitor and restrict an individual's movement, (3) monitor and restrict access to the internet, and (4) identify individuals through facial or voice recognition. The President shall (1) place such items on the Commerce Control List (a list of items subject to export controls); and (2) require authorization for the export, reexport, or transfer of such items to or within China.

The bill terminates certain prohibitions, such as a prohibition against obligating funds for U.S. Trade and Development Agency activities in China, upon a report by the President to Congress that China has taken specified actions, including ending the mass internment of Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang.

The Department of State shall report to Congress on human rights abuses in Xinjiang, including an assessment of the number of individuals detained in forced labor camps.

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Oct 21, 2020

Second cloture on the motion to concur in the House amendment to S. 178 with an amendment (SA 2652) not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 44. Record Vote Number: 207. (CR S6343)
Oct 20, 2020

Considered by Senate (Message from the House considered). (consideration: CR S6318)
Oct 19, 2020

Second cloture motion on the motion to concur in the House amendment to S. 178 with an amendment (SA 2652) presented in Senate. (CR S6050)
Oct 19, 2020

Considered by Senate (Message from the House considered). (consideration: CR S6050-6052)
Sep 30, 2020

Considered by Senate (Message from the House considered). (consideration: CR S5923-5924)
Sep 30, 2020

Motion to proceed to consideration of the House message to accompany S. 178 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 48 - 46. Record Vote Number: 198. (CR S5923)
Sep 10, 2020

Cloture on the motion to concur in the House amendment to S. 178 with an amendment (SA 2652) not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 52 - 47. Record Vote Number: 168. (CR S5532-5533)
Sep 8, 2020

Cloture motion on the motion to concur in the House amendment to S. 178 with an amendment (SA 2652) presented in Senate.
Sep 8, 2020

Motion by Senator McConnell to concur in the House amendment to S. 178 with an amendment (SA 2652) made in Senate. (CR S5433)
Sep 8, 2020

Motion by Senator McConnell to concur in the House amendment to S. 178 with an amendment (SA 2499) withdrawn.
Sep 8, 2020

Considered by Senate (Message from the House considered). (consideration: CR S5433)
Jul 30, 2020

Motion by Senator McConnell to concur in the House amendment to S. 178 with an amendment (SA 2499) made in Senate. (CR S4618)
Jul 30, 2020

Measure laid before Senate by motion. (consideration: CR S4618-4622)
Jul 30, 2020

Motion to proceed to consideration of the House message to accompany S. 178 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 47 - 42. Record Vote Number: 153. (CR S4617)
Dec 4, 2019

Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendment to Senate bill.
Dec 3, 2019

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Dec 3, 2019

On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 407 - 1 (Roll no. 644). (text: CR H9201-9203)
Dec 3, 2019

Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 407 - 1 (Roll no. 644).(text: CR H9201-9203)
Dec 3, 2019

Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H9209)
Dec 3, 2019

At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
Dec 3, 2019

DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on S. 178.
Dec 3, 2019

Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H9201-9208)
Dec 3, 2019

Mr. Sires moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Oct 30, 2019

Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
Oct 30, 2019

Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Sep 12, 2019

Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Sep 12, 2019

Received in the House.
Sep 12, 2019

Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Sep 11, 2019

Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5450-5452; text: CR S5450-5452)
Sep 11, 2019

Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S5450-5452; text: CR S5450-5452)
Jun 3, 2019

Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 99.
Jun 3, 2019

Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Risch with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
May 22, 2019

Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Jan 17, 2019

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Jan 17, 2019

Introduced in Senate

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