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        <dc:title>Taiwan Assurance Implementation Act</dc:title>
        <citableAs>Public Law 119–45</citableAs>
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        <citationNote style="-uslm-dtd:public-law">[(<citableAs>Public Law 119–45</citableAs>)]</citationNote>
        <editionNote style="-uslm-dtd:updated-through-note">[This law has not been amended]</editionNote>
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    <main style="-uslm-dtd:legis-body"><longTitle><docTitle style="-uslm-dtd:legis-type">AN ACT</docTitle><officialTitle style="-uslm-dtd:official-title">To amend the Taiwan Assurance Act of 2020 to require periodic reviews and updated reports relating to the Department of State’s Taiwan Guidelines.</officialTitle></longTitle><enactingFormula style="-uslm-dtd:enacting-clause">Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</enactingFormula>
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            <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">SECTION 1. </num><editorialNote role="uscRef" style="-uslm-dtd:usc-reference"><b>[</b><ref href="/us/usc/t22/s3301">22 U.S.C. 3301 note</ref><b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">SHORT TITLE. </heading>
            <content class="block" style="-uslm-dtd:text">This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle style="-uslm-dtd:quote">Taiwan Assurance Implementation Act</shortTitle>”.</content>
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            <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">SEC. 2. </num><editorialNote role="uscRef" style="-uslm-dtd:usc-reference"><b>[</b><ref href="/us/usc/t22/s3301">22 U.S.C. 3301 note</ref><b>]</b> </editorialNote><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">INCREASED REPORTING REGARDING DEPARTMENT OF STATE TAIWAN GUIDELINES. </heading>
            <chapeau class="block" style="-uslm-dtd:text">Section 315 of the Taiwan Assurance Act of 2020 (subtitle B of title III of division FF of Public Law 116-260; 134 Stat. 3100) is amended—</chapeau>
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                <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">(1) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">in subsection (c)(1), by inserting “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">and any successor document or related document that includes guidance on relations with Taiwan</quotedText>” after “<quotedText style="-uslm-dtd:quote">memorandum</quotedText>”; and</content>
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                <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">(2) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">by adding at the end the following new subsection:<quotedContent style="-uslm-dtd:quoted-block">
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                    <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="d">“(d) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Periodic Reviews and Updated Reports.—</heading>
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                        <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="1">“(1) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">In general.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">For as long as the Department of State maintains guidance that governs relations with Taiwan as described in subsection (a), the Secretary of State shall—</chapeau>
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                            <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">“(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">not less than every five years, conduct a review of the Department of State’s guidance that governs relations with Taiwan, including the periodic memorandum entitled, ‘Guidelines on Relations with Taiwan’ and related documents, and reissue such guidance to executive branch departments and agencies; and</content>
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                            <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">“(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">not later than 90 days after completing a review required by paragraph (1)(A), submit an updated report to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.</content>
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                        <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="2">“(2) </num><heading style="-uslm-dtd:header">Matters to be included.—</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-dtd:text">The updated reports required under paragraph (1)(B) shall include—</chapeau>
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                            <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="A">“(A) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">all the information required under subsection (c); and</content>
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                            <num style="-uslm-dtd:enum" value="B">“(B) </num><content style="-uslm-dtd:text">a description of how the updated guidance meets the goals and objectives described in subsection (b).”</content>
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