[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4797]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2468. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2025 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 appropriate place in subtitle H of title X, insert 
     the following:

     SEC. 10.__ PROHIBITION ON EXPORT OF CRUDE AND REFINED OIL AND 
                   CERTAIN PETROLEUM PRODUCTS TO THE PEOPLE'S 
                   REPUBIIC OF CHINA

       (a) In General.--The Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 
     U.S.C. 6201 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 
     101 the following:

     ``SEC. 102. PROHIBITION ON EXPORT OF CERTAIN PETROLEUM 
                   PRODUCTS TO THE PEOPLES REPUBIC OF CHINA.

       (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, no petroleum product described in subsection (b) that is 
     produced in the United States may be exported from the United 
     States to the People's Republic of China.
       ``(b) Petroleum Product Described.--A petroleum product 
     referred to in subsection (a) is
       ``(1) crude oil;
       ``(2) refined oil or a refined oil product;
       ``(3) residual fuel oil; or
       ``(4) any other petroleum product (other than natural gas 
     or any natural gas liquid product).
       (c) Applicability.--
       (1) Petrolium products in transport.--Subsection (a) shall 
     not apply to any petroleum product described in subsection 
     (b) that is in theprocess of being transported from the 
     United States to the People's Republic of China as of the 
     date on which the prohibition under that subsection takes 
     effect pursuant to subsection (d).
       ``(2) Naturatl gas.--Subsection (a) does not apply to 
     natural gas or any natural gas liquid product.
       (d) ``Effective Date.--The prohibition described in 
     subsection (a) shall take effect on the date that is 10 days 
     after the date of enactment of the China Oil Export 
     Prohibition Act of 2023.''.
      (b) Clerical Amendment--The table of contents for the Energy 
     Policy and Conservation Act (Public Law 94-163; 89 Stat. 871; 
     114 Stat. 2034) is amended by inserting after the item 
     relating to section 101 the following:

``Sec. 102. Prohibition on export of certain petroleum products to 
    the People's Republic of China.''.

       (c) Conforming Amendment.--Section 101(b) of division O of 
     the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016 (42 U.S.C. 
     6212a(b)) is amended by inserting ``and section 102 of the 
     Energy Policy and Conservation Act'' after ``subsections (c) 
     and (d)''.
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