Foreign Affairs Committee, Health Subcommittee, Judiciary Committee, Energy and Commerce Committee, Education and Workforce Committee
Introduced
In Committee
On Floor
Passed Chamber
Enacted
World Deserves To Know Act This bill requires sanctions on certain members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and officials of Chinese health agencies. It also addresses related issues. The President must impose visa- and property-blocking sanctions on any foreign person who is a CCP official and who is knowingly responsible for or complicit in (1) the disappearances of whistleblowers and citizen journalists in China relating to COVID-19, or (2) limiting free speech and academic freedom in China relating to COVID-19. The President must also impose such sanctions on specified individuals who have leadership positions in China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention and China's National Health Commission (NHC). The authority to impose such sanctions shall end when the President certifies to Congress that an independent and unimpeded investigation into the potential origin of COVID-19 from the Wuhan Institute of Virology has taken place. The bill also bars federal funds and certain federal student assistance from going to institutions of higher education that enter into a contract with any element or China-based affiliate of the NHC. Federal funding to the National Academy of Sciences may not be used to enter into a contract with any element or China-based affiliate of the NHC. The Government Accountability Office must report to Congress a review of all funds that the National Institutes of Health have made available to the NHC since FY2010. This report must also be publicly available.
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Education and the Workforce, and Energy and Commerce, 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.
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Education and the Workforce, and Energy and Commerce, 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.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
International Affairs
AsiaCardiovascular and respiratory healthChinaCongressional oversightContracts and agencyDiplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroadEducation programs fundingEmergency medical services and trauma careEmployment discrimination and employee rightsForeign propertyGovernment information and archivesGovernment studies and investigationsHealth programs administration and fundingHigher educationHuman rightsInfectious and parasitic diseasesIntelligence activities, surveillance, classified informationInternational organizations and cooperationNews media and reportingPolitical parties and affiliationPublic contracts and procurementSanctionsTaiwanVisas and passportsWorld health
World Deserves To Know Act
USA118th CongressHR-229| House
| Updated: 1/20/2023
World Deserves To Know Act This bill requires sanctions on certain members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and officials of Chinese health agencies. It also addresses related issues. The President must impose visa- and property-blocking sanctions on any foreign person who is a CCP official and who is knowingly responsible for or complicit in (1) the disappearances of whistleblowers and citizen journalists in China relating to COVID-19, or (2) limiting free speech and academic freedom in China relating to COVID-19. The President must also impose such sanctions on specified individuals who have leadership positions in China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention and China's National Health Commission (NHC). The authority to impose such sanctions shall end when the President certifies to Congress that an independent and unimpeded investigation into the potential origin of COVID-19 from the Wuhan Institute of Virology has taken place. The bill also bars federal funds and certain federal student assistance from going to institutions of higher education that enter into a contract with any element or China-based affiliate of the NHC. Federal funding to the National Academy of Sciences may not be used to enter into a contract with any element or China-based affiliate of the NHC. The Government Accountability Office must report to Congress a review of all funds that the National Institutes of Health have made available to the NHC since FY2010. This report must also be publicly available.
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Education and the Workforce, and Energy and Commerce, 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.
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Education and the Workforce, and Energy and Commerce, 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.
Foreign Affairs Committee, Health Subcommittee, Judiciary Committee, Energy and Commerce Committee, Education and Workforce Committee
International Affairs
Introduced
In Committee
On Floor
Passed Chamber
Enacted
AsiaCardiovascular and respiratory healthChinaCongressional oversightContracts and agencyDiplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroadEducation programs fundingEmergency medical services and trauma careEmployment discrimination and employee rightsForeign propertyGovernment information and archivesGovernment studies and investigationsHealth programs administration and fundingHigher educationHuman rightsInfectious and parasitic diseasesIntelligence activities, surveillance, classified informationInternational organizations and cooperationNews media and reportingPolitical parties and affiliationPublic contracts and procurementSanctionsTaiwanVisas and passportsWorld health