[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 281 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 281

To prohibit the export to the People's Republic of China of satellites 
                           and related items.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 6, 1999

 Mr. Sweeney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                  Committee on International Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the export to the People's Republic of China of satellites 
                           and related items.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON EXPORTS TO CHINA OF SATELLITES AND RELATED 
              ITEMS.

    Notwithstanding any provision of subtitle B of title XV of the 
Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 
(22 U.S.C. 2778 note), or section 902 of the Foreign Relations 
Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 (22 U.S.C. 2151 note), no 
satellite of United States origin or related items may be exported to 
the People's Republic of China.

SEC. 2. DEFINITION.

    As used in this Act, the term ``related items'' means the satellite 
fuel, ground support equipment, test equipment, payload adapter or 
interface hardware, replacement parts, and non-embedded solid 
propellant orbit transfer engines described in the report submitted to 
Congress by the Department of State on February 6, 1998, pursuant to 
section 38(f) of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2778(f)).
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