[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 117 (Thursday, June 25, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S3410]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1921. Mr. MERKLEY (for himself, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Markey, Mr. Scott 
of Florida, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Gardner, and Mr. Wicker) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4049, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2021 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle E of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1262. CERTIFICATION REQUIRED FOR TERMINATION OF 
                   PROHIBITION ON COMMERCIAL EXPORT OF CERTAIN 
                   MUNITIONS TO HONG KONG POLICE FORCE.

       Section 3 of the Act entitled ``An Act to prohibit the 
     commercial export of covered munitions items to the Hong Kong 
     Police Force'', approved November 27, 2019 (Public Law 116-
     77; 133 Stat. 1174), is amended to read as follows:

     ``SEC. 3. CERTIFICATION REQUIRED FOR TERMINATION.

       ``The prohibition under section 2 shall remain in effect 
     until the date on which the Secretary of State submits to 
     Congress under section 205 of the United States-Hong Kong 
     Policy Act of 1992 (22 U.S.C. 5725) a certification that 
     indicates that Hong Kong continues to warrant treatment under 
     United States law in the same manner as United States laws 
     were applied to Hong Kong before July 1, 1997.''.
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