[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
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[H.R. 535 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.535

                     One Hundred Fifteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
           the third day of January, two thousand and eighteen


                                 An Act


 
To encourage visits between the United States and Taiwan at all levels, 
                         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 ``Taiwan Travel Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
    Congress finds the following:
        (1) The Taiwan Relations Act (22 U.S.C. 3301 et seq.), enacted 
    in 1979, has continued for 37 years to be a cornerstone of 
    relations between the United States and Taiwan and has served as an 
    anchor for peace and security in the Western Pacific area.
        (2) The Taiwan Relations Act declares that peace and stability 
    in the Western Pacific area are in the political, security, and 
    economic interests of the United States and are matters of 
    international concern.
        (3) The United States considers any effort to determine the 
    future of Taiwan by other than peaceful means, including by 
    boycotts or embargoes, a threat to the peace and security of the 
    Western Pacific area and of grave concern to the United States.
        (4) Taiwan has succeeded in a momentous transition to democracy 
    beginning in the late 1980s and has been a beacon of democracy in 
    Asia, and Taiwan's democratic achievements inspire many countries 
    and people in the region.
        (5) Visits to a country by United States Cabinet members and 
    other high-ranking officials are an indicator of the breadth and 
    depth of ties between the United States and such country.
        (6) Since the enactment of the Taiwan Relations Act, relations 
    between the United States and Taiwan have suffered from 
    insufficient high-level communication due to the self-imposed 
    restrictions that the United States maintains on high-level visits 
    with Taiwan.
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS; STATEMENT OF POLICY.
    (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that the United 
States Government should encourage visits between officials from the 
United States and Taiwan at all levels.
    (b) Statement of Policy.--It should be the policy of the United 
States to--
        (1) allow officials at all levels of the United States 
    Government, including Cabinet-level national security officials, 
    general officers, and other executive branch officials, to travel 
    to Taiwan to meet their Taiwanese counterparts;
        (2) allow high-level officials of Taiwan to enter the United 
    States, under conditions which demonstrate appropriate respect for 
    the dignity of such officials, and to meet with officials of the 
    United States, including officials from the Department of State and 
    the Department of Defense and other Cabinet agencies; and
        (3) encourage the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative 
    Office, and any other instrumentality established by Taiwan, to 
    conduct business in the United States, including activities which 
    involve participation by Members of Congress, officials of Federal, 
    State, or local governments of the United States, or any high-level 
    official of Taiwan.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.