[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3009 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3009

 To prohibit the use of Federal funds and resources for congressional 
               travel to the People's Republic of China.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 4, 2023

  Mr. Scott of Florida introduced the following bill; which was read 
     twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
                          Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the use of Federal funds and resources for congressional 
               travel to the People's Republic of China.

    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 ``No Overseas Congressional Help for 
International Negotiations with Adversaries Act'' or the ``NO CHINA 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF FEDERALLY FUNDED CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL TO CHINA.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law--
            (1) Federal funds made available before, on, or after the 
        date of enactment of this Act shall not be expended for any 
        congressional delegation or other congressional trip to the 
        People's Republic of China; and
            (2) Federal resources, such as military aircraft, shall not 
        be used for any such delegation or trip.
    (b) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be 
construed to apply to congressional travel to Taiwan.
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