[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9158 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9158

  To prohibit the differential treatment of Hong Kong with respect to 
   China and to impose sanctions with respect to certain persons who 
   undermine democracy and human rights in Hong Kong, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 4, 2026

   Mr. Self introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit the differential treatment of Hong Kong with respect to 
   China and to impose sanctions with respect to certain persons who 
   undermine democracy and human rights in Hong Kong, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Hong Kong Equal Treatment Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON DIFFERENTIAL TREATMENT AND IMPOSITION OF 
              SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO HONG KONG.

    (a) Differential Treatment Prohibited.--Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, the United States Government may not provide the 
Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong with differential treatment 
in relation to the People's Republic of China.
    (b) Imposition of Sanctions With Respect to the Undermining of 
Democracy and Human Rights in Hong Kong.--
            (1) In general.--The President shall impose the sanctions 
        described in paragraph (2) with respect to each foreign person 
        determined by the Secretary of State, in consultation with the 
        Secretary of the Treasury, or the Secretary of the Treasury, in 
        consultation with the Secretary of State--
                    (A) to be or have been involved, directly or 
                indirectly, in the coercing, arresting, detaining, or 
                imprisoning of an individual under the authority of, or 
                to be or have been responsible for or involved in 
                developing, adopting, or implementing, the Law of the 
                People's Republic of China on Safeguarding National 
                Security in the Hong Kong Administrative Region;
                    (B) to be responsible for or complicit in, or to 
                have engaged, directly or indirectly, in--
                            (i) an action or policy that undermines 
                        democratic processes or institutions in Hong 
                        Kong;
                            (ii) an action or policy that threatens the 
                        peace, security, stability, or autonomy of Hong 
                        Kong;
                            (iii) censorship or other activity with 
                        respect to Hong Kong that prohibits, limits, or 
                        penalizes the exercise of freedom of expression 
                        or assembly by citizens of Hong Kong, or that 
                        limits access to free and independent print, 
                        online, or broadcast media; or
                            (iv) the extrajudicial rendition, arbitrary 
                        detention, or torture of any individual in Hong 
                        Kong or other gross violation of 
                        internationally recognized human rights or 
                        serious human rights abuse in Hong Kong;
                    (C) to be or have been a leader or official of--
                            (i) an entity, including any government 
                        entity, that has engaged in, or whose members 
                        have engaged in, any of the activities 
                        described in subparagraph (A), subparagraph 
                        (B)(i), subparagraph (B)(ii), or subparagraph 
                        (B)(iii); or
                            (ii) an entity whose property and interests 
                        in property are blocked pursuant to this 
                        section;
                    (D) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or 
                provided financial, material, or technological support 
                for, or goods or services to or in support of, any 
                person whose property and interests in property are 
                blocked pursuant to this section;
                    (E) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted 
                or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or 
                indirectly, any person whose property and interests in 
                property are blocked pursuant to this section; or
                    (F) to be a member of the board of directors or a 
                senior executive officer of any entity whose property 
                and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this 
                section.
            (2) Sanctions described.--Notwithstanding the requirements 
        of section 202 of the International Emergency Economic Powers 
        Act (50 U.S.C. 1701), the President shall exercise all powers 
        granted to the President by that Act to the extent necessary to 
        block and prohibit all transactions in all property and 
        interests in property of the foreign person if such property 
        and interests in property are in the United States, come within 
        the United States, or are or come within the possession or 
        control of a United States person.
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