HR 1540
Passed a chamber
Requires the President to sanction foreign persons found to have knowingly and directly engaged in or facilitated forced organ harvesting in China, including blocking their U.S. property and barring their entry into the United States.
Official title: Falun Gong Protection Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
24-FEB-2025
Referred
24-FEB-2025
Passed
05-MAY-2025
Senate
Received
06-MAY-2025
- Requires the President to submit a list of foreign persons linked to involuntary organ harvesting in China within 180 days, updated annually
- Blocks U.S. property of listed persons under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and makes them inadmissible, with existing visas revoked
- Allows the President to waive sanctions case by case if in the vital national security interest, with reports every 120 days
- Requires a State Department report on China's organ transplant policies within one year, and terminates sanction authority after five years
- Exempts humanitarian transactions, intelligence activities, and the importation of goods from sanctions
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (24-FEB-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 05-MAY-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Judiciary Committee (House)
- Foreign Affairs Committee (House)
- Foreign Relations Committee (Senate)
International Affairs
■ 10 R■ 2 D
10 Republicans
2 Democrats