[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 218 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 218

  To prohibit the Secretary of Energy from sending petroleum products 
 from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 1, 2023

Mr. Cruz (for himself, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. King, Mr. Braun, 
 Mr. Bennet, Mr. Cotton, Ms. Hassan, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Mr. Boozman, Mr. 
 Hoeven, Mr. Cornyn, Ms. Ernst, Mr. Moran, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Scott of 
  Florida, Mr. Lee, Ms. Sinema, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Hawley, Mr. Scott of 
 South Carolina, and Ms. Lummis) introduced the following bill; which 
  was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
                               Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit the Secretary of Energy from sending petroleum products 
 from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to 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 ``Protecting America's Strategic 
Petroleum Reserve from China Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON SALES OF PETROLEUM PRODUCTS FROM THE STRATEGIC 
              PETROLEUM RESERVE TO CHINA.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Energy 
shall not draw down and sell petroleum products from the Strategic 
Petroleum Reserve--
            (1) to any entity that is under the ownership or control of 
        the Chinese Communist Party or the People's Republic of China; 
        or
            (2) except on the condition that such petroleum products 
        will not be exported to the People's Republic of China.
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