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S. 2933 117th Congress Senate

Chinese Communist Party Accountability Act of 2021

Official title: A bill to impose sanctions with respect to members of the Chinese Communist Party and heads of Chinese health agencies relating to the COVID-19 pandemic, and for other purposes.

Introduced: October 5, 2021 Introduced by: Roger Marshall Republican · Kansas See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

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Chinese Communist Party Accountability Act of 2021

This bill requires sanctions on certain members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and officials of Chinese health agencies.

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.

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.

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  • HR 3922 World Deserves To Know Act
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2933: Chinese Communist Party Accountability Act of 2021. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-2933/
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"S. 2933: Chinese Communist Party Accountability Act of 2021." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-2933/.
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S. 2933, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-2933/.
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