3.0.0 4457 2023-01-11T13:45:19Z 2023-01-11T13:45:19Z Senate S 2020-08-05 116 ssfr00 Foreign Relations Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2020-08-05T23:17:37Z 2020-08-05 ssfr00 Foreign Relations Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. IntroReferral 2020-08-05 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress K000393 Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA] John Kennedy R LA Neely N International Affairs Asia Business ethics China Civil actions and liability Corporate finance and management Foreign and international corporations Government ethics and transparency, public corruption Government information and archives Marketing and advertising Protest and dissent International Affairs 00 2020-08-05 Introduced in Senate 2020-09-16T14:34:19Z Combating Chinese Propaganda Act or the CCP Act

This bill prohibits any company doing business in the United States from taking certain actions relating to the government of China.

Specifically, such a company may not (1) make public statements that reflect Chinese government propaganda, except for statements required by a Chinese government regulation to protect health or safety; (2) take actions contrary to its fiduciary interests at the behest of the Chinese government; or (3) furnish personal information about Chinese dissidents to the Chinese government. Such a company shall report to the Department of State and Department of Commerce each instance in which the Chinese government attempted to pressure the company to take such prohibited actions.

The bill imposes criminal monetary fines and imprisonment for a company or company official that knowingly violates these prohibitions.

]]> CCP Act Display Title CCP Act Short Title(s) as Introduced CCP Act Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced Combating Chinese Propaganda Act Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to prohibit companies doing business in the United States from amplifying propaganda originating from the Government of the People's Republic of China, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s4457is/xml/BILLS-116s4457is.xml 2020-08-05 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.