[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 2467. Mr. MERKLEY (for himself and Mr. Cornyn) 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 end of subtitle D of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1266. 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. 1174), is amended by striking ``shall expire'' 
     and all that follows 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. 
     5725) that Hong Kong warrants treatment under United States 
     export control laws and regulations in the same manner as 
     such 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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