H.R. 8760

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8760 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 8760

To designate the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a transnational 
organized crime group.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

May 12, 2026

Mr. Perry introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary

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A BILL

To designate the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a transnational 
organized crime group.

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 ``Designating the Chinese Communist 
Party as a Transnational Organized Crime Group Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

The Congress finds the following:
(1) The 90,000,000 members of the Chinese Communist Party 
(referred in this Act as the ``CCP'') are the sole ruling 
political party of the People's Republic of China (PRC) under 
the direction of General Secretary Xi Jinping.
(2) On June 30, 2020, in direct violation of the Sino-
British Joint Declaration, the PRC passed a draconian national 
security law for Hong Kong that gives the ruling CCP sweeping 
new powers over the semi-autonomous city of Hong Kong.
(3) The national security law allows mainland Chinese 
officials to operate in Hong Kong and gives Beijing the power 
to subjugate the people of Hong Kong to the dictums of the CCP.
(4) The physical wellbeing of foreign nationals is at risk 
under the CCP's new National Security Law.
(5) In response to the CCP-led human rights violations of 
unjust abuse and detention perpetrated against the Uyghurs, 
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on July 9, 2020, that 
the Trump administration would bar the entry of the following 
three prominent CCP officials into the United States--
(A) Chen Quanguo, the Communist Party's Secretary 
of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in 
Northwest China and a member of the Politburo;
(B) Zhu Hailun, Party Secretary of the Xinjiang 
Political and Legal Committee (XPLC); and
(C) Wang Mingshan, Party Secretary of the Xinjiang 
Public Security Bureau (XPSB).
(6) On July 13, 2020, the Chinese Foreign Ministry imposed 
sanctions against four United States officials, including 
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, 
Representative Chris Smith of New Jersey, and the Honorable Sam 
Brownback, United States Ambassador for International Religious 
Freedom, in retaliation to Mr. Pompeo's July 9th announcement.
(7) On September 22, 2020, the House of Representatives 
passed H.R. 6210, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, in a 
wide, bi-partisan manner.
(8) Despite China's promise to confirm all forms of 
fentanyl as a class of drugs effective May 1, 2019, the PRC 
remained the primary source of fentanyl trafficked into the 
United States in 2019, according to a 2020 DEA Intelligence 
Report.
(9) Fentanyl is 80 to 100 times more potent than morphine 
and killed 18,335 Americans in 2018.
(10) Chinese scientists and authorities knew about the 
coronavirus as early as December 2019, but were ordered by 
Chinese government officials on January 3, 2020, to transfer 
samples to state institutions or destroy them.
(11) The CCP refused to allow the World Health Organization 
to visit their country and refused repeated offers of 
assistance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control throughout 
the month of January 2020.
(12) The Chinese government did not concede clear evidence 
of human-to-human transmission of the coronavirus until January 
19, 2020.
(13) China chose to lock down the city of Wuhan on January 
23, 2020, but not before 5,000,000 people had already left the 
city.
(14) Chinese doctors who attempted to provide transparency 
regarding the consequences of the SARS-CoV-2 virus were 
arbitrarily arrested, and several remain unaccounted for.
(15) The Chinese government imposed travel bans on its own 
people but told other nations, including neighboring ones, that 
similar restrictions were unnecessary.
(16) There have been more than 714,000 deaths from COVID-19 
in the United States and approximately 4,800,000 deaths, 
globally.
(17) The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation 
Christopher Wray recently described ``the greatest long-term 
threat to our Nation's information and intellectual property, 
and to our economic vitality, is the counterintelligence and 
economic espionage threat from China.''.
(18) Director Wray unequivocally identified the source of 
this economic espionage, malignant foreign influence, and 
menacing threat: ``when I speak of the threat from China, I 
mean the Government of China and the Chinese Communist 
Party.''.
(19) According to the updated 2017 report issued by the 
Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property, the 
PRC is responsible for coordinating a massive campaign in 
intellectual property theft, stealing anywhere between 
$250,000,000,000 and $600,000,000,000 annually from the United 
States.
(20) The IP Commission's estimate does not include the 
``full cost of patent infringement--an area sorely in need of 
greater research''.
(21) The United States Trade Representative has confirmed 
the findings of the 2017 IP Commission's report.
(22) The IP Commission found that forced technology 
transfer accounts for anywhere from $180,000,000,000 to 
$540,000,000,000 per year in lost value for the United States 
economy; of that value, the IP Commission also found that China 
accounts for the most of that theft.
(23) According to Director Wray, the level of the CCP 
criminality is so widespread and voluminous that ``the FBI is 
opening a new China-related counterintelligence case about 
every 10 hours and of the nearly 5,000 active FBI 
counterintelligence cases currently underway across the 
country, almost half are related to China.''.
(24) The nonprofit investigative body, China Tribunal, 
detailed in their March 2020 report that the CCP's campaign of 
forced organ harvesting against innocent victims could 
constitute one of the world's ``worst atrocities committed'' in 
modern times.
(25) The 2019 report issued by the Congressional-Executive 
Commission on China described the failure of the CCP to protect 
the human rights of its citizens: ``[The 2019 report] found 
that the human rights situation has worsened and the rule of 
law continues to deteriorate, as the Chinese Government and 
Party increasingly used regulations and laws to assert social 
and political control . . . The abuse of criminal law and 
police power to target rights advocates, religious believers, 
and ethnic minority groups also continues unabated, and 
reporting on such abuses became increasingly restricted.''.
(26) The criminally negligent actions taken by the CCP 
following their discovery of the coronavirus contributed to the 
loss of millions of American jobs and the onset of a global 
recession.

SEC. 3. DESIGNATION OF CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY.

(a) Transnational Organized Crime Group.--On the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall designate the Chinese 
Communist Party as a transnational organized crime group.
(b) International Criminal Organizations Target List.--On the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation shall designate the Chinese Communist Party as a top 
international criminal organization for the Department of Justice.

SEC. 4. AMENDMENT FOR PROSECUTION OF CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY.

(a) In General.--Chapter 96 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new section:
``Sec. 1969. Applying certain provisions for purpose of prosecuting 
Chinese Communist Party
``(a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
enactment of the `Designating the Chinese Communist Party as a 
Transnational Organized Crime Group Act', the Attorney General shall 
report to the Foreign Affairs Committee and Permanent Select Committee 
on Intelligence of the House of Representatives and the Foreign 
Relations Committee and Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate, 
including--
``(1) the number and extent of a racketeering activity (as 
defined under section 1961(1)) committed, aided, or abetted by 
the Chinese Communist Party; and
``(2) recommendations for penalties pursuant to sections 
1963 or 1964, with respect to any violation of section 1962.
``(b) Statute of Limitation.--No statute of limitation that would 
otherwise preclude prosecution for an offense involving a racketeering 
activity (as defined under section 1961(1)) shall preclude such 
prosecution before the date that is 15 years after the date on which 
such activity is committed by the Chinese Communist Party.
``(c) Legal Liabilities.--The protections against legal liability 
offered to any agency or instrumentality of a foreign state under 
chapter 97 of title 28, United States Code, or any other provision of 
law, shall not apply to the Chinese Communist Party during an 
investigation of the commission of a racketeering activity (as defined 
under section 1961(1)) or if the Chinese Communist Party is charged 
with committing a racketeering activity (as defined under section 
1961(1)).''.
(b) Clerical Amendment.--Chapter 96 of title 18, United States 
Code, in the table of contents is amended by adding at the end the 
following:

``1969. Applying certain provisions for purpose of prosecuting Chinese 
Communist Party.''.
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