S.Amdt. 1822

SA 1822. Mr. MERKLEY (for himself and Mr. Rubio) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1502 proposed by Mr.
Schumer to the bill S. 1260, to establish a new Directorate for
Technology and Innovation in the National Science Foundation, to
establish a regional technology hub program, to require a strategy and
report on economic security, science, research, innovation,
manufacturing, and job creation, to establish a critical supply chain
resiliency program, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on
the table; as follows:

At the end of section 3302, add the following:
(c) Transition Rule.--
(1) Interim report.--Not later than 180 days after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to
the committees specified in section 6(a)(1) of the Uyghur
Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 a report that identifies each
foreign person, including any official of the Government of
the People's Republic of China, that the President determines
is responsible for serious human rights abuses in connection
with forced labor using Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, or
members of other Muslim minority groups, or other persons in
the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
(2) Imposition of sanctions.--The President shall impose
sanctions under subsection (c) of section 6 of the Uyghur
Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 with respect to each foreign
person identified in the report required by paragraph (1),
subject to the provisions of subsections (d), (e), (f), and
(g) of that section.
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