I will work to require U.S. publicly traded companies to disclose engagement with Chinese entities involved in surveillance, internment, forced labor, and other serious human rights abuses in Xinjiang.

Require financial disclosures from U.S. publicly traded businesses about their engagement with Chinese companies and other entities engaged in mass surveillance, mass interment, forced labor and other serious human rights abuses in the XUAR;

The bill would require public companies to disclose engagement with Chinese entities tied to surveillance, internment, forced labor, and human rights abuses in Xinjiang.

McGovern, Smith, Colleagues Re-Introduce the Bipartisan Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act | U.S. House of Representatives
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Congress.gov lists H.R.1155 as sponsored by Rep. James P. McGovern, introduced February 18, 2021, passed by the House 428-1 on December 8, 2021, and later only received in the Senate on December 22, 2022. The CRS summary says the House-passed bill would require securities issuers filing SEC annual or quarterly reports to disclose certain Xinjiang-related activities, including work with entities building detention facilities or surveillance systems.

McGovern sponsored a House-passed bill that contained the promised SEC issuer disclosure requirement, but that version did not become law.

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H.R.1155 - Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, 117th Congress
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Section 9 of the House-passed H.R.1155 was titled SEC disclosures for certain Xinjiang activities. It would amend securities law so each covered issuer must disclose report-period activity with entities involved in mass population surveillance systems, detention facilities for Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities, listed forced-labor entities, sanctioned persons, or entities responsible for atrocities in Xinjiang.

The McGovern-sponsored House bill closely matched the campaign promise: it targeted publicly traded issuers and required disclosure of engagement tied to surveillance, detention, forced labor, sanctions, and atrocities in Xinjiang.

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Text - H.R.1155 - Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act
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Congress.gov lists H.R.6256 as sponsored by Rep. James P. McGovern, introduced December 14, 2021, passed the House by voice vote that day, passed the Senate by unanimous consent on December 16, 2021, and became Public Law 117-78 on December 23, 2021. The public-law summary covers import limits, entity lists, rebuttable presumption, sanctions, and State Department reporting, but not SEC issuer disclosure.

McGovern delivered a related Xinjiang forced-labor law, but the enacted compromise did not include the specific publicly traded company disclosure requirement.

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H.R.6256 - 117th Congress (2021-2022)
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The enacted public law sets U.S. policy against forced-labor imports, requires an enforcement strategy with entity and product lists, creates a rebuttable import-ban presumption for Xinjiang goods or listed entities, requires State Department strategy reporting, and adds sanctions for serious human rights abuses connected to forced labor. The final law proceeds to definitions and approval after those sections, with no SEC issuer-disclosure section.

Official enacted text confirms the final law addressed forced labor and Xinjiang abuses but omitted the House-passed SEC disclosure mandate for publicly traded companies.

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Public Law 117-78 - Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act
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Congress.gov records H.R.6270, sponsored by Rep. Jennifer Wexton, as a securities-disclosure bill requiring issuers to publicly disclose activities related to Xinjiang, including sourced goods and whether goods or materials came from forced labor camps. It passed the House 253-163 on September 30, 2020, then was referred to the Senate Banking Committee on October 1, 2020, with no enactment recorded.

A separate House-passed disclosure bill matching part of the promise also failed to become law; McGovern is not listed as sponsor or cosponsor on the bill page.

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H.R.6270 - Uyghur Forced Labor Disclosure Act of 2020
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