Sponsor
Scott Perry
Representative · R-PA
Representative · R-PA
The bill gives U.S. law enforcement and policymakers stronger tools to target CCP-linked crimes, human-rights abuses, and trade theft—potentially protecting security, IP, and public health—but does so at the risk of escalating U.S.–China tensions, higher costs for Americans, increased litigation and resource burdens, and potential impacts to civil liberties and international cooperation.
Federal law enforcement and prosecutors (DOJ/FBI) gain clearer, expanded authorities and coordination to prioritize, investigate, freeze assets, and pursue CCP-linked criminal activity (including RICO tools), enabling faster, more comprehensive disruption of transnational crime that threatens U.S. security and supply chains.
U.S. businesses and workers benefit from strengthened justification for trade remedies, sanctions, and export controls based on documented IP theft and forced technology transfer, which could protect jobs and domestic industries.
Border communities, health systems, and families could see reduced fentanyl precursor flows and overdose deaths if the bill's findings facilitate pressure or cooperation to curb PRC-linked exports of precursors.
U.S. consumers, businesses, and taxpayers face heightened risk of economic retaliation and trade disruption because framing and legally labeling the CCP as a criminal or transnational organized actor could provoke reciprocal sanctions, tariffs, or trade barriers that raise prices and disrupt supply chains.
Tech workers, financial institutions, immigrants, and the traveling public risk expanded surveillance, civil‑liberty intrusions, and reduced legal protections if the bill's findings and removals of certain foreign‑state liability protections are used to justify broad counterintelligence, surveillance, or liability-expanding measures.
Federal law enforcement and taxpayers could see constrained prosecutorial discretion, politicization of DOJ/FBI priorities, and increased litigation if statutory declaratory designations force agencies to prioritize the CCP even when intelligence or changing threats suggest otherwise.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Designates the CCP as a transnational organized crime group, requires DOJ/FBI designations, enables RICO actions, extends RICO limitations to 15 years, and limits certain foreign-state immunity.
Official title: To designate the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a transnational organized crime group.
Introduced May 12, 2026 by Scott Perry · Last progress May 12, 2026
Designates the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a transnational organized crime group and requires immediate Department of Justice and FBI formal designations on the date of enactment. It creates a new criminal-enforcement pathway in federal law to pursue racketeering (RICO) actions against the CCP, extends the statute of limitations for such prosecutions, and removes certain foreign-state liability protections for CCP-linked investigations and prosecutions. The bill also requires the Attorney General to report within 90 days on alleged racketeering activity by the CCP and recommended penalties under RICO, and it adds the new provisions to Title 18 of the U.S. Code. The Act contains congressional findings describing harms the bill attributes to the CCP and PRC, including economic espionage, human rights abuses, and public-health and drug-trafficking concerns.