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H.R. 6586: GENOCIDE GAMES Act

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H.R. 6586: GENOCIDE GAMES Act

117th Congress · introduced 2022-02-03 · International Affairs · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2022-02-03 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Gallagher, Mike [R-WI-8] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

GENOCIDE GAMES Act

Plain summary

Guaranteeing Enemy Nations Omit from Criminalizing, Impeding, or Detaining Exceptional Global Athletes Magnifying Exploitation during Sporting events Act or the GENOCIDE GAMES Act This bill requires the President to impose sanctions on certain foreign individuals who materially supported a gross violation of internationally recognized human rights against a 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games participant. Upon receiving credible evidence of such a human rights violation, the President must impose property- and visa-blocking sanctions on any foreign individual associated with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), including the president of the IOC, who the President determines materially supported the violation of human rights, including by providing to participants false, reckless, or negligent assurances of human rights assurances by the government of China. This bill's requirements shall terminate on March 13, 2023.

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Official text

GENOCIDE GAMES Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Gallagher, Mike [R-WI-8] · 31 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Michael T. McCaul (R-TX), Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Daniel Webster (R-FL), Ann Wagner (R-MO), Brian Babin (R-TX), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), W. Gregory Steube (R-FL), John H. Rutherford (R-FL), Gus M. Bilirakis (R-FL), Randy Feenstra (R-IA), Brian J. Mast (R-FL), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Glenn Thompson (R-PA), Ted Budd (R-NC), Rick W. Allen (R-GA), Troy Balderson (R-OH), John Joyce (R-PA), Adrian Smith (R-NE), Ashley Hinson (R-IA)

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Record fed-us-cong117-hr6586 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117