Official Summaries

No Dollars to Uyghur Forced Labor Act

This bill prohibits the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development from spending funds on a policy, program, or contract that knowingly uses goods from China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) or produced by entities associated with forced labor in XUAR.

This prohibition includes goods from (1) the XUAR; (2) entities that source materials from the XUAR; or (3) entities involved with forced labor from the XUAR, such as entities in the XUAR that manufacture goods with forced labor or entities working with the XUAR government to transport forced laborers.

The State Department may waive this prohibition, after notifying Congress, if it obtains written assurance that the relevant program partner (1) will not use goods produced in the XUAR for the program, and (2) will develop a system to ensure compliance with the bill's prohibitions.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1724 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1724


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 6, 2025

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 AN ACT


 
   To prohibit the use of funds supporting any activities within the 
  Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``No Dollars to Uyghur Forced Labor 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS SUPPORTING ANY ACTIVITIES WITHIN 
              THE XINJIANG UYGHUR AUTONOMOUS REGION OF THE PEOPLE'S 
              REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

    (a) In General.--No funds authorized to be appropriated to the 
Department of State or the United States Agency for International 
Development may be used to develop, design, plan, promulgate, 
implement, or execute a policy, program, or contract that knowingly 
uses goods, wares, articles, or merchandise mined, produced, or 
manufactured wholly or in part in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 
of the People's Republic of China or produced by a covered entity, 
unless such activity is specifically authorized pursuant to subsection 
(b).
    (b) Specific Authorization.--The Secretary of State may 
specifically authorize an activity otherwise prohibited by subsection 
(a) if--
            (1) the Secretary--
                    (A) obtains in writing an assurance from the 
                relevant program partner, implementor, or contractor 
                that such partner, implementor, or contractor--
                            (i) will not use goods, wares, articles, or 
                        merchandise mined, produced, or manufactured 
                        wholly or in part in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous 
                        Region of the PRC with respect to the program; 
                        and
                            (ii) will develop a system to ensure 
                        compliance with the requirements in subsection 
                        (a); and
                    (B) provides notice to the Chair and Ranking Member 
                of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 
                Representatives and the Chair and Ranking Member of the 
                Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate not later 
                than 15 days before authorizing the activity; and
            (2) the activity is not otherwise prohibited.
    (c) Report.--The Secretary of State shall submit to the Committee 
on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Foreign Relations of the Senate a report on an annual basis for three 
years that describes--
            (1) all activities prohibited by subsection (a) that were 
        carried out in violation of such prohibition and not 
        specifically authorized pursuant to subsection (b) in the 
        previous year;
            (2) any challenges in enforcing the requirements of this 
        section; and
            (3) a plan to improve enforcement of the requirements of 
        this section.
    (e) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) The term ``covered entity'' means an entity listed 
        pursuant to clause (i), (ii), (iv), or (v) of section 
        2(d)(2)(B) of Public Law 117-78 (135 Stat. 1527) under the 
        strategy developed by section 2(c) of such Public Law 117-78.
            (2) The term ``forced labor'' has the meaning given that 
        term in section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1307).

            Passed the House of Representatives May 5, 2025.

            Attest:

                                             KEVIN F. MCCUMBER,

                                                                 Clerk.