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<item congress="113" measure-type="hr" measure-number="5103" measure-id="id113hr5103" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2014-07-14" update-date="2014-07-25">
<title>Chinese Communist Economic Espionage Sanctions Act</title>
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<action-date>2014-07-14</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Chinese Communist Economic Espionage Sanctions Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that the Chinese Communist Party and the government of China should be condemned for conducting cyber and economic espionage against the United States.</p> <p>Directs the President to prohibit transactions in property and property interests of a covered Chinese state-owned enterprise or a person who is a member of the board of directors, an executive officer, or a senior official of a covered Chinese state-owned enterprise if such property and property interests are in the United States, come within the United States, or are within the possession or control of a U.S. person. </p> <p>Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to require each financial institution that is a U.S. person and has within its possession or control such assets that are in the United States to certify to the Secretary that the financial institution has frozen these assets. </p> <p>Makes an alien who is a member of the board of directors, an executive officer, or a senior official of a covered Chinese state-owned enterprise ineligible for U.S. admission.</p>]]></summary-text>
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