[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1107 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1107


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 28, 2023

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 AN ACT


 
 To direct the Secretary of State to take certain actions with respect 
   to the labeling of the People's Republic of China as a developing 
                    country, 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 ``PRC Is Not a Developing Country 
Act''.

SEC. 2. STATEMENT OF POLICY.

    It should be the policy of the United States--
            (1) to oppose the labeling or treatment of the People's 
        Republic of China as a developing country in any treaty or 
        other international agreement to which the United States is a 
        party;
            (2) to oppose the labeling or treatment of the People's 
        Republic of China as a developing country in each international 
        organization of which the United States is a member; and
            (3) to pursue the labeling or treatment of the People's 
        Republic of China as an upper middle income country, high 
        income country, or developed country in each international 
        organization of which the United States is a member.

SEC. 3. REPORT.

    Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate committees of 
Congress a report identifying all current treaty negotiations in 
which--
            (1) the proposed treaty develops different standards for 
        the enforcement of the treaty based on the development status 
        of the member states of the treaty; and
            (2) the People's Republic of China is under consideration 
        for becoming a party to the treaty.

SEC. 4. MECHANISMS FOR CHANGING THE DEVELOPMENT STATUS OF THE PEOPLE'S 
              REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

    (a) In General.--In any international organization of which the 
United States and the People's Republic of China are both current 
member states, the Secretary, in coordination with the heads of other 
Federal agencies and departments as needed, shall pursue--
            (1) changing the status of the People's Republic of China 
        from developing country to upper middle income country, high 
        income country, or developed country if a mechanism exists in 
        such organization to make such a change in status;
            (2) proposing the development of a mechanism described in 
        paragraph (1) to change the status of the People's Republic of 
        China in such organization from developing country to developed 
        country; or
            (3) regardless of efforts made pursuant to paragraphs (1) 
        and (2), working to ensure that the People's Republic of China 
        does not receive preferential treatment or assistance within 
        the organization as a result of it having the status of a 
        developing country.
    (b) Waiver.--The President may waive the application of subsection 
(a) with respect to any international organization if the President 
notifies the appropriate committees of Congress, not later than 10 days 
before the date on which the waiver shall take effect, that such a 
waiver is in the national interests of the United States.

SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Appropriate committees of congress.--The term 
        ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means--
                    (A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the 
                Committee on Ways and Means of the House of 
                Representatives; and
                    (B) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
                Senate.
            (2) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of State.

            Passed the House of Representatives March 27, 2023.

            Attest:

                                             CHERYL L. JOHNSON,

                                                                 Clerk.