{"format":1,"id":"118-hr-1154","congress":118,"number":"H.R. 1154","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2023","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To combat forced organ harvesting and trafficking in persons for purposes of the removal of organs, and for other purposes.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To combat forced organ harvesting and trafficking in persons for purposes of the removal of organs, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2023"},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2023"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2023"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2023"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2023-02-24","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2023-03-27","vote":{"id":"118-2023-h163","question":"On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass","title":"Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act","result":"Passed","yea":413,"nay":2,"present":0,"not_voting":19,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2023/roll163.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"na","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"na","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.","date":"2023-03-28"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2023-03-27","stage":"Passed House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2023"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill imposes sanctions on persons (individuals and entities) involved in forced organ trafficking and authorizes the Department of State to revoke the passports of individuals convicted of certain crimes related to organ trafficking."},{"k":"p","t":"Specifically, the President must report to Congress a list of persons that facilitate (1) forced organ harvesting, or (2) trafficking in persons for organ harvesting. For each person on the list, the President must impose property- and visa-blocking sanctions."},{"k":"p","t":"Furthermore, the State Department may deny or revoke the passport of an individual who has been convicted of a federal crime of knowingly transferring any human organ for valuable consideration for use in human transplantation, if the individual (1) is subject to imprisonment or supervised release resulting from that conviction, and (2) used a passport or crossed an international border when committing that crime."}],"words":144},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Sets up sanctions on persons the President determines facilitate forced organ harvesting or trafficking in persons for the removal of organs, allows passport refusal or revocation for certain organ-trafficking convictions, and adds organ-harvesting assessments to two annual State Department reports.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1154/text/eh#HF567EAE3DAEE452DBE1E7F591E29B661"},{"label":"Sec. 5","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1154/text/eh#H89656B9DC3604219A7FCECEBC03CE5F7"},{"label":"Sec. 6","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1154/text/eh#H9C9636DA5DF54461AC895503E1E89C94"}]},"core_areas":["Sanctions on persons facilitating forced organ harvesting","Passport denial and revocation for National Organ Transplant Act convictions","Foreign country reporting on organ harvesting and trafficking"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Requires the President, within 180 days of enactment, to submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a list of each person the President determines funds, sponsors, or otherwise facilitates forced organ harvesting or trafficking in persons for the removal of organs.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 6","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1154/text/eh#H9C9636DA5DF54461AC895503E1E89C94"}},{"text":"Requires the President to block all transactions in property and interests in property of a listed person under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, where the property is in the United States or in the possession or control of a United States person.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 6","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1154/text/eh#H9C9636DA5DF54461AC895503E1E89C94"}},{"text":"Makes a listed individual inadmissible to the United States and ineligible for a visa, and revokes any current visa or entry documentation of that individual with immediate effect.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 6","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1154/text/eh#H9C9636DA5DF54461AC895503E1E89C94"}},{"text":"Allows the President to waive sanctions on a person for periods of up to 180 days each, case by case, if the President certifies to the appropriate committees of Congress at least 15 days earlier that the waiver is vital to United States national security interests.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 6","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1154/text/eh#H9C9636DA5DF54461AC895503E1E89C94"}},{"text":"Allows the Secretary of State to refuse or revoke the passport of an individual convicted under section 301 of the National Organ Transplant Act who is subject to imprisonment or supervised release and used a passport or crossed an international border in the offense.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1154/text/eh#HF567EAE3DAEE452DBE1E7F591E29B661"}},{"text":"Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 so that the reports required by sections 116 and 502B include an assessment of forced organ harvesting and trafficking in persons for the removal of organs in each foreign country.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 5","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1154/text/eh#H89656B9DC3604219A7FCECEBC03CE5F7"}}],"unexpected":[{"category":"selective_carve_out","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1154/text/eh#H9C9636DA5DF54461AC895503E1E89C94"},"heading":"Imposition of sanctions with respect to forced organ harvesting or trafficking in persons for purposes of the removal of organs","effect":"Excludes certain kinds of transactions and cases from the sanctions: importation of goods, admissions required by UN headquarters and other international agreements, and transactions for agricultural commodities, food, medicine and humanitarian assistance. It also allows 180-day case-by-case presidential waivers.","amount":null,"quote":"Sanctions under this section may not be imposed with respect to transactions or the facilitation of transactions for—"}]}],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2023-03-27","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1154/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-02","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1154","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1154/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/118-hr-1154.png","v":"df7c623c40be","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 1154, 118th Congress: Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2023. House: 413 Yea, 2 Nay. Outcome: Passed House, 27 Mar 2023."}}