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Introduced March 5, 2026 by Rafael Edward Cruz · Last progress March 5, 2026
This bill strengthens U.S. ability to identify, name, sanction, and block perpetrators of forced organ harvesting and increases transparency to protect victims and patients, but it risks mistaken or overbroad travel and visa restrictions, diplomatic and research frictions, business compliance costs, and some definitional and enforcement gaps that could limit long-term effectiveness.
People in the U.S. could be safer because the law targets and sanctions foreign individuals and entities responsible for forced organ harvesting, reducing their ability to use U.S. financial systems and assets.
Victims and human-rights advocates gain accountability because the President must publish an initial unclassified list (within 180 days) and update it annually, and the law permits visa denial and revocation for persons linked to forced organ harvesting—making perpetrators more visible and harder to enter or operate in the U.S.
Victims, law enforcement, and health systems get clearer legal recognition and reduced ambiguity because forced organ harvesting is explicitly defined and the statute uses the existing federal definition of 'organ,' aiding investigations, prosecutions, and interagency enforcement.
Individuals could lose legitimate travel, diplomatic, or humanitarian access because visa revocations and broad inadmissibility rules risk mistakenly listing or blocking people when information is incomplete.
U.S. businesses and individuals face the risk of losing access to property or having transactions blocked if they unknowingly deal with listed foreign persons, creating compliance costs, potential asset freezes, and legal exposure.
The sanctions regime includes an IEEPA waiver for national-security reasons and a 5-year sunset, which may limit sustained pressure on perpetrators and create uncertainty about long-term enforcement effectiveness.
Based on analysis of 10 sections of legislative text.
Requires the President to identify and sanction foreign persons involved in forced organ harvesting in China and directs a U.S. government assessment of China’s transplant practices.
Requires the President to identify foreign persons who knowingly engaged in or helped forced organ harvesting in the People’s Republic of China and to impose targeted sanctions (asset blocking, immigration/visa restrictions) on those persons, with narrow humanitarian and law‑enforcement exceptions, a presidential national‑security waiver, and a 5‑year sunset on the authority. Directs the State Department, in consultation with HHS and NIH, to produce a public report evaluating China’s organ transplant policies and practices, including estimates of transplant numbers, donor sources, U.S. grant links, and whether forced organ harvesting qualifies as an atrocity under U.S. law. Sets specific timelines for lists and reports (initial list within 180 days, updates annually, State/HHS/NIH report within one year), requires periodic public disclosures about waiver use, allows classified annexes, bars using the sanctions authority to target imports of goods, and applies IEEPA penalties for violations of implementing regulations.