[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2117 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2117

 To limit the authority of the Secretary of Commerce to remove Huawei 
Technologies Co. Ltd. from the entity list maintained by the Bureau of 
                         Industry and Security.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 15, 2019

  Mr. Romney (for himself, Mr. Rubio, and Ms. Collins) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                  Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To limit the authority of the Secretary of Commerce to remove Huawei 
Technologies Co. Ltd. from the entity list maintained by the Bureau of 
                         Industry and Security.

    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 ``Huawei Prohibition Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON REMOVAL OF HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO. LTD. FROM 
              ENTITY LIST OF BUREAU OF INDUSTRY AND SECURITY.

    The Secretary of Commerce may not remove Huawei Technologies Co. 
Ltd. (in this section referred to as ``Huawei'') from the entity list 
maintained by the Bureau of Industry and Security and set forth in 
Supplement No. 4 to part 744 of title 15, Code of Federal Regulations, 
until the Secretary certifies to Congress that--
            (1) neither Huawei nor any senior officers of Huawei have 
        engaged in actions in violation of sanctions imposed by the 
        United States or the United Nations in the 5-year period 
        preceding the certification;
            (2) Huawei has not engaged in theft of United States 
        intellectual property in that 5-year period;
            (3) Huawei does not pose an ongoing threat to United States 
        telecommunications systems or critical infrastructure; and
            (4) Huawei does not pose a threat to critical 
        infrastructure of allies of the United States.
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