HR 6586 · 117th Congress 2021–2023, ended

GENOCIDE GAMES Act

Introduced Feb 3, 2022 Originated House Sponsor Mike Gallagher R-WI

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Latest action · Nov 1, 2022 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedFeb 3, 2022
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Guaranteeing Enemy Nations Omit from Criminalizing, Impeding, or Detaining Exceptional Global Athletes Magnifying Exploitation during Sporting events Act or the GENOCIDE GAMES Act

This bill requires the President to impose sanctions on certain foreign individuals who materially supported a gross violation of internationally recognized human rights against a 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games participant.

Upon receiving credible evidence of such a human rights violation, the President must impose property- and visa-blocking sanctions on any foreign individual associated with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), including the president of the IOC, who the President determines materially supported the violation of human rights, including by providing to participants false, reckless, or negligent assurances of human rights assurances by the government of China.

This bill's requirements shall terminate on March 13, 2023.

Cosponsors 31

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 3, 2022 to Feb 11, 2022; 21 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-MOAnn WagnerOriginalFeb 3, 2022
R-OHBill JohnsonOriginalFeb 3, 2022
R-OHBob GibbsOriginalFeb 3, 2022
R-OHBrad R. WenstrupOriginalFeb 3, 2022
R-TXBrian BabinOriginalFeb 3, 2022
R-FLBrian J. MastOriginalFeb 3, 2022
R-PABrian K. FitzpatrickOriginalFeb 3, 2022
R-FLDaniel WebsterOriginalFeb 3, 2022
R-WVDavid B. McKinleyOriginalFeb 3, 2022
R-FLGus M. BilirakisOriginalFeb 3, 2022
R-INJackie WalorskiOriginalFeb 3, 2022
R-KSJake LaTurnerOriginalFeb 3, 2022
R-FLJohn H. RutherfordOriginalFeb 3, 2022
R-CAKevin McCarthyOriginalFeb 3, 2022
R-WYLiz CheneyOriginalFeb 3, 2022
R-IAMariannette Miller-MeeksOriginalFeb 3, 2022
R-TXMichael T. McCaulOriginalFeb 3, 2022
R-FLMichael WaltzOriginalFeb 3, 2022
R-CAMichelle SteelOriginalFeb 3, 2022
R-IARandy FeenstraOriginalFeb 3, 2022
R-FLW. Gregory SteubeOriginalFeb 3, 2022
R-PAGlenn ThompsonFeb 4, 2022
R-CAKen CalvertFeb 4, 2022
R-TXMichael C. BurgessFeb 4, 2022
R-GARick W. AllenFeb 4, 2022
R-NCTed BuddFeb 4, 2022
R-OHTroy BaldersonFeb 4, 2022
R-NEAdrian SmithFeb 11, 2022
R-IAAshley HinsonFeb 11, 2022
R-PAJohn JoyceFeb 11, 2022
R-ILRodney DavisFeb 11, 2022

Committees 2

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

ChamberCommitteeWhat it did
HouseForeign Affairs Committee
Referred Feb 3, 2022
HouseJudiciary Committee
Referred Feb 3, 2022
Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee
Referred Nov 1, 2022

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Nov 1, 2022Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
  2. Feb 3, 2022Introduced in House
  3. Feb 3, 2022Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on 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.

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8, Clause 18

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 168, no. 22, February 3, 2022, page H947.

Titles 3

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced
To require the imposition of sanctions pursuant to the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act to certain members of the International Olympic Committee who are complicit in the perpetuation of human rights abuses in the People's Republic of China, and for other purposes.
Short Title(s) as Introduced
GENOCIDE GAMES Act
Guaranteeing Enemy Nations Omit from Criminalizing, Impeding, or Detaining Exceptional Global Athletes Magnifying Exploitation during Sporting events Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: International Affairs.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Feb 3, 2022Introduced in House

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