[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1460 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1460

To amend the Taiwan Relations Act to permit visits to the United States 
    by the elected leaders of the people of Taiwan or their elected 
                            representatives.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 6, 1995

Mr. Torricelli (for himself, Mr. Gilman, Mr. Lantos, Mr. Gedjenson, Mr. 
Solomon, Mr. Ackerman, Mr. Rohrabacher, Mr. Faleomavaega, Mr. Brown of 
Ohio, Mr. Deutsch, and Ms. Pelosi) introduced the following bill; which 
        was referred to the Committee on International Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Taiwan Relations Act to permit visits to the United States 
    by the elected leaders of the people of Taiwan or their elected 
                            representatives.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
    Section 1. Public Law 96-8 (22 U.S.C. 3301-3316), ``The Taiwan 
Relations Act'', is hereby amended by adding a new section 19 as 
follows:
    ``Sec. 19. The Congress further finds and declares that there are 
no legitimate foreign policy grounds for preventing members of the 
government chosen by the people of Taiwan from making private visits to 
the United States. Accordingly, notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, no individual from the democratically elected leadership chosen by 
the people of Taiwan or their elected representatives may be excluded 
from the United States on the basis of a determination by the Secretary 
of State that the entry or proposed activities in the United States of 
such individual would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy 
consequences for the United States.''
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