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UIGHUR Act of 2018
Introduced: December 20, 2018
Introduced by:
Sherman, Brad
Democratic
· California
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Passed Senate
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Became law
Dec 20, 2018
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and the Judiciary, 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.
Dec 20, 2018
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Uighur Intervention and Global Humanitarian Unified Response Act of 2018 or the UIGHUR Act of 2018
This bill restricts executive agencies from procuring goods and services from foreign persons involved in China's mass detention of the Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim Turkic ethnic group in Xinjiang province. It also places export controls on various technologies used to facilitate the mass detentions.
What's happening now
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and the Judiciary, 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.
Committees of jurisdiction
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