[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 89 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 89

   To state the policy of the United States with respect to certain 
    activities of the People's Republic of China, to impose certain 
 restrictions and limitations on activities of and with respect to the 
          People's Republic of China, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 19, 1999

Mr. Hutchinson introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
   To state the policy of the United States with respect to certain 
    activities of the People's Republic of China, to impose certain 
 restrictions and limitations on activities of and with respect to the 
          People's Republic of China, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``People's Republic of China Policy 
Act of 1999''.

          TITLE I--TRAVEL AND ACTIVITIES OF CERTAIN OFFICIALS

SEC. 101. CONGRESSIONAL STATEMENT OF POLICY.

    It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) the President should make freedom of religion one of 
        the major objectives of United States foreign policy with 
        respect to the People's Republic of China;
            (2) as part of this policy, the Department of State should 
        raise in every relevant bilateral and multilateral forum the 
        issue of individuals imprisoned, detained, confined, or 
        otherwise harassed by the Government of the People's Republic 
        of China on religious grounds;
            (3) in its communications with the Government of the 
        People's Republic of China, the Department of State should 
        provide specific names of individuals of concern and request a 
        complete and timely response from that government regarding the 
        individuals' whereabouts and condition, the charges against 
        them, and sentence imposed; and
            (4) the goal of these official communications should be the 
        expeditious release of all religious prisoners in China and 
        Tibet and the end of the policy and practice of the Government 
        of the People's Republic of China of harassing and repressing 
        religious believers.

SEC. 102. CERTAIN OFFICIALS OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA 
              INELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE VISAS AND EXCLUDED FROM ADMISSION.

    (a) Requirement.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any 
national of the People's Republic of China described in subsection (b), 
other than the head of state, the head of government, and cabinet level 
ministers, shall be ineligible to receive visas and shall be excluded 
from admission into the United States.
    (b) Covered Nationals.--A national referred to in subsection (a) is 
any military or civilian official or employee of the Government of the 
People's Republic of China who carried out or directed the carrying out 
of any of the following policies or practices:
            (1) Formulating, drafting, or implementing repressive 
        religious policies.
            (2) Imprisoning, detaining, or harassing individuals on 
        religious grounds.
            (3) Promoting or participating in policies or practices 
        which hinder religious activities or the free expression of 
        religious beliefs.
    (c) Waiver.--The President may waive the requirement in subsection 
(a) with respect to an individual described in such subsection if the 
President--
            (1) determines that it is vital to the national interest to 
        do so; and
            (2) provides written notification to the appropriate 
        congressional committees containing a justification for the 
        waiver.
    (d) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--In this section, 
the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' means the Committee 
on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on International 
Relations of the House of Representatives.
    (e) Sunset.--This section shall cease to have effect 4 years after 
the date of the enactment of this Act.

                       TITLE II--FORCED ABORTION

SEC. 201. SHORT TITLE.

    This title may be cited as the ``Forced Abortion Condemnation 
Act''.

SEC. 202. FINDINGS.

    Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) Forced abortion was rightly denounced as a crime 
        against humanity by the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal.
            (2) For over 15 years there have been frequent and credible 
        reports of forced abortion and forced sterilization in 
        connection with the population control policies of the People's 
        Republic of China. These reports indicate the following:
                    (A) Although it is the stated position of the 
                politburo of the Chinese Communist Party that forced 
                abortion and forced sterilization have no role in the 
                population control program, in fact the Communist 
                Chinese Government encourages both forced abortion and 
                forced sterilization through a combination of strictly 
                enforced birth quotas and immunity for local population 
                control officials who engage in coercion. Officials 
                acknowledge that there have been instances of forced 
                abortions and sterilization, and no evidence has been 
                made available to suggest that the perpetrators have 
                been punished.
                    (B) People's Republic of China population control 
                officials, in cooperation with employers and works unit 
                officials, routinely monitor women's menstrual cycles 
                and subject women who conceive without government 
                authorization to extreme psychological pressure, to 
                harsh economic sanctions, including unpayable fines and 
                loss of employment, and often to physical force.
                    (C) Official sanctions for giving birth to 
                unauthorized children include fines in amounts several 
                times larger than the per capita annual incomes of 
                residents of the People's Republic of China. In Fujian, 
                for example, the average fine is estimated to be twice 
                a family's gross annual income. Families which cannot 
                pay the fine may be subject to confiscation and 
                destruction of their homes and personal property.
                    (D) Especially harsh punishments have been 
                inflicted on those whose resistance is motivated by 
                religion. For example, according to a 1995 Amnesty 
                International report, the Catholic inhabitants of two 
                villages in Hebei Province were subjected to population 
                control under the slogan ``better to have more graves 
                than one more child''. Enforcement measures included 
                torture, sexual abuse, and the detention of resisters' 
                relatives as hostages.
                    (E) Forced abortions in Communist China often have 
                taken place in the very late stages of pregnancy.
                    (F) Since 1994 forced abortion and sterilization 
                have been used in Communist China not only to regulate 
                the number of children, but also to eliminate those who 
                are regarded as defective in accordance with the 
                official eugenic policy known as the ``Natal and Health 
                Care Law''.

SEC. 203. DENIAL OF ENTRY INTO THE UNITED STATES OF PERSONS IN THE 
              PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA ENGAGED IN ESTABLISHMENT OR 
              ENFORCEMENT OF FORCED ABORTION OR STERILIZATION POLICY.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of State may not issue any visa to, 
and the Attorney General may not admit to the United States, any 
national of the People's Republic of China, including any official of 
the Communist Party or the Government of the People's Republic of China 
and its regional, local, and village authorities who the Secretary 
finds, based on credible information, to have been directly involved in 
the establishment or enforcement of population control policies forcing 
a woman to undergo an abortion against her free choice or forcing a man 
or woman to undergo sterilization against his or her free choice.
    (b) Exceptions.--The prohibitions in subsection (a) shall not apply 
in the case a national who is the head of state, the head of 
government, or a cabinet level minister.

SEC. 204. WAIVER.

    The President may waive the prohibitions contained in section 
203(a) with respect to a national of the People's Republic of China if 
the President--
            (1) determines that it is in the national interest of the 
        United States to do so; and
            (2) provides written notification to Congress containing a 
        justification for the waiver.

                        TITLE III--HUMAN RIGHTS

SEC. 301. SHORT TITLE.

    This title may be cited as the ``Political Freedom in China Act of 
1999''.

SEC. 302. FINDINGS.

    Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) Congress concurs in the following conclusions of the 
        United States Department of State on human rights in the 
        People's Republic of China in 1996:
                    (A) The People's Republic of China is ``an 
                authoritarian state'' in which ``citizens lack the 
                freedom to peacefully express opposition to the party-
                led political system and the right to change their 
                national leaders or form of government''.
                    (B) The Government of the People's Republic of 
                China has ``continued to commit widespread and well-
                documented human rights abuses, in violation of 
                internationally accepted norms, stemming from the 
                authorities' intolerance of dissent, fear of unrest, 
                and the absence or inadequacy of laws protecting basic 
                freedoms''.
                    (C) ``Abuses include torture and mistreatment of 
                prisoners, forced confessions, and arbitrary and 
                incommunicado detention''.
                    (D) ``Prison conditions remained harsh [and] [t]he 
                Government continued severe restrictions on freedom of 
                speech, the press, assembly, association, religion, 
                privacy, and worker rights''.
                    (E) ``Although the Government denies that it holds 
                political prisoners, the number of persons detained or 
                serving sentences for `counterrevolutionary crimes' or 
                `crimes against the state', or for peaceful political 
                or religious activities are believed to number in the 
                thousands''.
                    (F) ``Nonapproved religious groups, including 
                Protestant and Catholic groups * * * experienced 
                intensified repression''.
                    (G) ``Serious human rights abuses persist in 
                minority areas, including Tibet, Xinjiang, and Inner 
                Mongolia[, and] [c]ontrols on religion and on other 
                fundamental freedoms in these areas have also 
                intensified''.
                    (H) ``Overall in 1996, the authorities stepped up 
                efforts to cut off expressions of protest or criticism. 
                All public dissent against the party and government was 
                effectively silenced by intimidation, exile, the 
                imposition of prison terms, administrative detention, 
                or house arrest. No dissidents were known to be active 
                at year's end.''.
            (2) In addition to the Department of State, credible 
        independent human rights organizations have documented an 
        increase in repression in China, and effective destruction of 
        the dissident movement through the arrest and sentencing of 
        pro-democracy and human rights activists not already in prison 
        or exile.
            (3) Among such activists are the following:
                    (A) Xu Wenli, Wang Youcai, and Qin Yongmin, who 
                were sentenced to 13 years, 11 years, and 12 years, 
                respectively, for their participation in forming the 
                China Democracy Party.
                    (B) Li Hai, who was sentenced to 9 years in prison 
                on December 18, 1996, for gathering information on the 
                victims of the 1989 crackdown, which according to the 
                court's verdict constituted ``state secrets''.
                    (C) Liu Nianchun, an independent labor organizer, 
                who was sentenced to 3 years of ``re-education through 
                labor'' on July 4, 1996, due to his activities in 
                connection with a petition campaign calling for human 
                rights reforms.
                    (D) Ngodrup Phuntsog, a Tibetan national, who was 
                arrested in Tibet in 1987 immediately after he returned 
                from a 2-year trip to India, where the Tibetan 
                government in exile is located, and following a secret 
                trial was convicted by the Government of the People's 
                Republic of China of espionage on behalf of the 
                ``Ministry of Security of the Dalai clique''.
            (4) Many political prisoners in China are suffering from 
        poor conditions and ill-treatment leading to serious medical 
        and health problems, including--
                    (A) Gao Yu, a journalist honored by UNESCO in May 
                1997, who was sentenced to 6 years in prison in 
                November 1994 and has a heart condition; and
                    (B) Chen Longde, a leading human rights advocate 
                now serving a 3-year reeducation through labor sentence 
                imposed without trial in August 1995, who has 
                reportedly been subject to repeated beatings and 
                electric shocks at a labor camp for refusing to confess 
                his guilt.
            (5) The People's Republic of China, as a member of the 
        United Nations, is expected to abide by the provisions of the 
        Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
            (6) The People's Republic of China is a party to numerous 
        international human rights conventions, including the 
        Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or 
        Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

SEC. 303. CONDUCT OF FOREIGN RELATIONS.

    (a) Release of Prisoners.--The Secretary of State, in all official 
meetings with the Government of the People's Republic of China, should 
request the immediate and unconditional release of Ngodrup Phuntsog and 
other prisoners of conscience in Tibet, as well as in the People's 
Republic of China.
    (b) Access to Prisons.--The Secretary of State should seek access 
for international humanitarian organizations to Drapchi prison and 
other prisons in Tibet, as well as in the People's Republic of China, 
in order to ensure that prisoners are not being mistreated and are 
receiving necessary medical treatment.
    (c) Dialogue on Future of Tibet.--The Secretary of State, in all 
official meetings with the Government of the People's Republic of 
China, should call on that government to begin serious discussions with 
the Dalai Lama or his representatives, without preconditions, on the 
future of Tibet.

SEC. 304. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL PERSONNEL AT 
              DIPLOMATIC POSTS TO MONITOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE PEOPLE'S 
              REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

    There is authorized to be appropriated to support personnel in the 
United States Embassies in Beijing and Kathmandu, as well as the 
American consulates in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Shenyang, Chengdu, and Hong 
Kong, in order to monitor political repression in the People's Republic 
of China, $2,200,000 for fiscal year 2000 and $2,200,000 for fiscal 
year 2001.

SEC. 305. DEMOCRACY BUILDING IN CHINA.

    (a) Authorization of Appropriations for NED.--In addition to such 
sums as are otherwise authorized to be appropriated for the National 
Endowment for Democracy for fiscal years 2000 and 2001, there is 
authorized to be appropriated for the National Endowment for Democracy 
$7,000,000 for fiscal year 2000 and $7,000,000 for fiscal year 2001, 
which shall be available to promote democracy, civil society, and the 
development of the rule of law in China.
    (b) East Asia-Pacific Regional Democracy Fund.--The Secretary of 
State shall use funds available in the East Asia-Pacific Regional 
Democracy Fund to provide grants to nongovernmental organizations to 
promote democracy, civil society, and the development of the rule of 
law in China.

SEC. 306. ANNUAL REPORTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA.

    (a) Reports.--Not later than March 30, 2000, and every year 
thereafter, the Secretary of State shall submit to the Committee on 
Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on International 
Relations of the House of Representatives a report on human rights 
matters in China during the preceding year, including information 
on religious persecution, the development of democratic institutions, 
and the rule of law. Each report shall provide information on such 
matters in each region of China.
    (b) Prisoner Information Registry.--(1) The Secretary of State 
shall establish and maintain a registry which shall provide information 
on all political prisoners, prisoners of conscience, and prisoners of 
faith in China. The registry shall be known as the ``Prisoner 
Information Registry for China''.
    (2) Information in the registry required by paragraph (1) shall 
include information on the charges, judicial processes, administrative 
actions, uses of forced labor, incidences of torture, lengths of 
imprisonment, physical and health conditions, and other matters 
associated with the incarceration of prisoners referred to in paragraph 
(1) in China.
    (3) The Secretary of State may make funds available to 
nongovernmental organizations presently engaged in monitoring 
activities regarding political prisoners in China in order to assist in 
the creation and maintenance of the registry required by paragraph (1).

SEC. 307. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMISSION ON 
              SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN ASIA.

    It is the sense of Congress that Congress, the President, and the 
Secretary of State should work with the governments of other countries 
to establish a Commission on Security and Cooperation in Asia which 
would be modeled after the Commission on Security and Cooperation in 
Europe.

SEC. 308. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING DEMOCRACY IN HONG KONG.

    It is the sense of Congress that the people of Hong Kong should 
continue to have the right and ability to freely elect their 
legislative representatives.

SEC. 309. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING ORGAN HARVESTING AND 
              TRANSPLANTING IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

    It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) the Government of the People's Republic of China should 
        stop the practice of harvesting and transplanting organs for 
        profit from prisoners that it executes;
            (2) the Government of the People's Republic of China should 
        be strongly condemned for such organ harvesting and 
        transplanting practice;
            (3) the President should bar from entry into the United 
        States any and all officials of the Government of the People's 
        Republic of China known to be directly involved in such organ 
        harvesting and transplanting practice;
            (4) individuals determined to be participating in or 
        otherwise facilitating the sale of organs harvested through 
        such practice in the United States should be prosecuted to the 
        fullest possible extent of the law; and
            (5) the appropriate officials in the United States should 
        interview individuals, including doctors, who may have 
        knowledge of such organ harvesting and transplanting practice.

                      TITLE IV--CONCESSIONAL LOANS

SEC. 401. SHORT TITLE.

    This title may be cited as the ``Communist China Subsidy Reduction 
Act of 1999''.

SEC. 402. FINDINGS.

    Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) The People's Republic of China has enjoyed ready access 
        to international capital through commercial loans, direct 
        investment, sales of securities, bond sales, and foreign aid.
            (2) Regarding international commercial lending, the 
        People's Republic of China had $48,000,000,000 in loans 
        outstanding from private creditors in 1995.
            (3) Regarding international direct investment, 
        international direct investment in the People's Republic of 
        China from 1993 through 1995 totaled $97,151,000,000, and in 
        1996 alone totaled $47,000,000,000.
            (4) Regarding investment in Chinese securities, the 
        aggregate value of outstanding Chinese securities currently 
        held by Chinese nationals and foreign persons is 
        $175,000,000,000, and from 1993 through 1995 foreign persons 
        invested $10,540,000,000 in Chinese stocks.
            (5) Regarding investment in Chinese bonds, entities 
        controlled by the Government of the People's Republic of China 
        have issued 75 bonds since 1988, including 36 dollar-
        denominated bond offerings valued at more than $6,700,000,000, 
        and the total value of long-term Chinese bonds outstanding as 
        of January 1, 1996, was $11,709,000,000.
            (6) Regarding international assistance, the People's 
        Republic of China received almost $1,000,000,000 in foreign aid 
        grants and an additional $1,566,000,000 in technical assistance 
        grants from 1993 through 1995, and in 1995 received 
        $5,540,000,000 in bilateral assistance loans, including 
        concessional aid, export credits, and related assistance.
            (7) Regarding international financial institutions--
                    (A) despite the People's Republic of China's access 
                to international capital and world financial markets, 
                international financial institutions have annually 
                provided it with more than $4,000,000,000 in loans in 
                recent years, amounting to almost a third of the loan 
                commitments of the Asian Development Bank and 17.1 
                percent of the loan approvals by the International Bank 
                for Reconstruction and Development in 1995; and
                    (B) the People's Republic of China borrows more 
                from the International Bank for Reconstruction and 
                Development and the Asian Development Bank than any 
                other country, and loan commitments from those 
                institutions to the People's Republic of China 
                quadrupled from $1,100,000,000 in 1985 to 
                $4,300,000,000 by 1995.

SEC. 403. OPPOSITION OF UNITED STATES TO CONCESSIONAL LOANS TO THE 
              PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

    Title XV of the International Financial Institutions Act (22 U.S.C. 
262o-262o-1) is amended by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 1503. OPPOSITION OF UNITED STATES TO CONCESSIONAL LOANS TO THE 
              PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

    ``(a) In General.--The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the 
United States Executive Directors at each international financial 
institution (as defined in section 1701(c)(2)) to use the voice and 
vote of the United States to oppose the provision by the institution of 
concessional loans to the People's Republic of China, any citizen or 
national of the People's Republic of China, or any entity established 
in the People's Republic of China.
    ``(b) Concessional Loans Defined.--As used in subsection (a), the 
term `concessional loans' means loans with highly subsidized interest 
rates, grace periods for repayment of 5 years or more, and maturities 
of 20 years or more.''.

SEC. 404. PRINCIPLES THAT SHOULD BE ADHERED TO BY ANY UNITED STATES 
              NATIONAL CONDUCTING AN INDUSTRIAL COOPERATION PROJECT IN 
              THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

    (a) Purpose.--It is the purpose of this section to create 
principles governing the conduct of industrial cooperation projects of 
United States nationals in the People's Republic of China.
    (b) Statement of Principles.--It is the sense of Congress that any 
United States national conducting an industrial cooperation project in 
the People's Republic of China should:
            (1) Suspend the use of any goods, wares, articles, or 
        merchandise that the United States national has reason to 
        believe were mined, produced, or manufactured, in whole or in 
        part, by convict labor or forced labor, and refuse to use 
        forced labor in the industrial cooperation project.
            (2) Seek to ensure that political or religious views, sex, 
        ethnic or national background, involvement in political 
        activities or nonviolent demonstrations, or association with 
        suspected or known dissidents will not prohibit hiring, lead to 
        harassment, demotion, or dismissal, or in any way affect the 
        status or terms of employment in the industrial cooperation 
        project. The United States national should not discriminate in 
        terms or conditions of employment in the industrial cooperation 
        project against persons with past records of arrest or internal 
        exile for nonviolent protest or membership in unofficial 
        organizations committed to nonviolence.
            (3) Ensure that methods of production used in the 
        industrial cooperation project do not pose an unnecessary 
        physical danger to workers and neighboring populations or 
        property, and that the industrial cooperation project does not 
        unnecessarily risk harm to the surrounding environment; and 
        consult with community leaders regarding environmental 
        protection with respect to the industrial cooperation project.
            (4) Strive to establish a private business enterprise when 
        involved in an industrial cooperation project with the 
        Government of the People's Republic of China or other state 
        entity.
            (5) Discourage any Chinese military presence on the 
        premises of any industrial cooperation projects which involve 
        dual-use technologies.
            (6) Undertake to promote freedom of association and 
        assembly among the employees of the United States national. The 
        United States national should protest any infringement by the 
        Government of the People's Republic of China of these freedoms 
        to the International Labor Organization office in Beijing.
            (7) Provide the Department of State with information 
        relevant to the Department's efforts to collect information on 
        prisoners for the purposes of the Prisoner Information 
        Registry, and for other reporting purposes.
            (8) Discourage or undertake to prevent compulsory political 
        indoctrination programs from taking place on the premises of 
        the industrial cooperation project.
            (9) Promote freedom of expression, including the freedom to 
        seek, receive, and impart information and ideas of all kinds, 
        regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, 
        in the form of art, or through any media. To this end, the 
        United States national should raise with appropriate 
        authorities of the Government of the People's Republic of China 
        concerns about restrictions on the free flow of information.
            (10) Undertake to prevent harassment of workers who, 
        consistent with the United Nations World Population Plan of 
        Action, decide freely and responsibly the number and spacing of 
        their children; and prohibit compulsory population control 
activities on the premises of the industrial cooperation project.
    (c) Promotion of Principles by Other Nations.--The Secretary of 
State shall forward a copy of the principles set forth in subsection 
(b) to the member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation 
and Development and encourage such nations to promote principles 
similar to these principles.
    (d) Registration Requirement.--
            (1) In general.--Each United States national conducting an 
        industrial cooperation project in the People's Republic of 
        China shall register with the Secretary of State and indicate 
        that the United States national agrees to implement the 
        principles set forth in subsection (b). No fee shall be 
        required for registration under this subsection.
            (2) Preference for participation in trade missions.--The 
        Secretary of Commerce shall--
                    (A) consult the register required under paragraph 
                (1) before the selection of private sector participants 
                in any form of trade mission to China; and
                    (B) undertake to involve those United States 
                nationals that have registered their adoption of the 
                principles set forth in subsection (b).
    (e) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) The term ``industrial cooperation project'' refers to a 
        for-profit activity the business operations of which employ 
        more than 25 individuals or have assets greater than $25,000.
            (2) The term ``United States national'' means--
                    (A) a citizen or national of the United States or a 
                permanent resident of the United States; and
                    (B) a corporation, partnership, or other business 
                association organized under the laws of the United 
                States, any State or territory thereof, the District of 
                Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or the 
                Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

SEC. 405. PROMOTION OF EDUCATIONAL, CULTURAL, SCIENTIFIC, AGRICULTURAL, 
              MILITARY, LEGAL, POLITICAL, AND ARTISTIC EXCHANGES 
              BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA.

    (a) Exchanges Between the United States and China.--Agencies of the 
United States Government which engage in educational, cultural, 
scientific, agricultural, military, legal, political, and artistic 
exchanges shall endeavor to initiate or expand such exchange programs 
with regard to China.
    (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that a 
Federally-chartered not-for-profit organization should be established 
to fund exchanges between the United States and China through private 
donations.

                        TITLE V--RADIO FREE ASIA

SEC. 501. RADIO FREE ASIA.

    (a) Repeal of Limitation on Grant Amount or Grant Use.--Subsection 
(d) of section 309 of the United States International Broadcasting Act 
of 1994 (title III of Public Law 103-236; 22 U.S.C. 6208) is amended--
            (1) by striking paragraphs (4) and (5); and
            (2) by redesignating paragraph (6) as paragraph (4).
    (b) Repeal of Additional Grant Limitation.--Paragraph (2) of that 
subsection is amended by striking ``, and shall further'' and all that 
follows through ``September 30, 1999.'' and inserting a period.
    (c) Repeal of Sunset on Grant Authority.--That section is further 
amended--
            (1) by striking subsection (g); and
            (2) by redesignating subsections (h) and (i) as subsections 
        (g) and (h), respectively.
    (d) Conforming Amendments.--Subsection (c) of that section is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)--
                    (A) by striking subparagraph (A); and
                    (B) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) and (C) as 
                subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively; and
            (2) by striking paragraphs (3) and (4).
    (e) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated for ``Radio Free Asia'', $30,000,000 for fiscal year 2000 
and $30,000,000 for fiscal year 2001.
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