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S 4009 Passed a chamber

Requires the President to impose sanctions on foreign persons found to have knowingly and directly engaged in or facilitated forced organ harvesting in China, including blocking their property in the United States and barring their entry.

Official title: Falun Gong and Victims of Forced Organ Harvesting Protection Act

Next stop House: awaiting action
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Received 05-OCT-2026
Senate
Introduced 05-MAR-2026
Referred 05-MAR-2026
Approved by committee 17-JUN-2026
Reported 27-JUL-2026
On the calendar 27-JUL-2026
Passed 28-SEP-2026
Key points
  • Requires the President to submit to Congress, within 180 days, an unclassified list of foreign persons involved in forced organ harvesting in China, with updates within one year and annually after that.
  • Blocks property and interests in property of listed persons under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and makes listed aliens inadmissible to the United States.
  • Exempts sales of food, medicine, and agricultural commodities, humanitarian assistance, and transactions needed to comply with United Nations headquarters obligations.
  • Requires a State Department report within one year on China's organ transplant policies, including a formal determination on systemic forced organ harvesting, and lets the President waive sanctions for national security reasons. Sanctions authority ends five years after enactment.
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International Affairs

Sponsor Ted Cruz (R-TX) Cosponsors · 11
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