[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S2855]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 740. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2024 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 D of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1269. EXTENSION OF EXPORT PROHIBITION ON MUNITIONS ITEMS 
                   TO THE 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. 1173), is amended by striking ``shall expire on 
     December 31, 2024'' and inserting ``shall expire on the date 
     on which the President certifies to the appropriate 
     congressional committees that--
       ``(1) the Secretary of State has, on or after the date of 
     the enactment of this paragraph, certified under section 205 
     of the United States-Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992 (22 U.S.C. 
     5701 et seq.) that Hong Kong warrants treatment under United 
     States law in the same manner as United States laws were 
     applied to Hong Kong before July 1, 1997;
       ``(2) the Hong Kong Police have not engaged in gross 
     violations of human rights during the 1-year period ending on 
     the date of such certification; and
       ``(3) there has been an independent examination of human 
     rights concerns related to the crowd control tactics of the 
     Hong Kong Police and the Government of the Hong Kong Special 
     Administrative Region has adequately addressed those 
     concerns.''.
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