US Congress Senate Bill 3600 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: Introduced on May 5 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-05-05 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Pending: Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Authorizes the President to impose property- and visa-blocking sanctions on foreign individuals and entities involved in deliberate acts to conceal or distort information about a public health emergency of international concern, including COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019). Specifically, the President may impose sanctions on (1) a government official (or a senior associate of such an official) who is responsible for or complicit in deliberate acts to conceal or distort information about an international public health emergency, or who financially benefits from such acts; or (2) a foreign person or entity that has materially assisted or supported such acts.

Li Wenliang Global Public Health Accountability Act of 2020

Sen. Tom Cotton [R-AR]	Sen. Josh Hawley [R-MO]	Sen. Kelly Loeffler [R-GA]	Sen. Pat Toomey [R-PA]
Sen. Steve Daines [R-MT]	Sen. Thom Tillis [R-NC]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-05-05	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

HB6421 (Same As) 2020-03-31 - Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
HB7132 (Related) 2020-06-08 - Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, the Judiciary, and Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
HB7733 (Related) 2020-07-23 - Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3600/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s3600/BILLS-116s3600is.pdf