    [United States Statutes at Large, Volume 132, 115th Congress, 2nd Session]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

    Public Law 115-135
    115th Congress

    An Act

    To encourage visits between the United States and Taiwan at all levels,
    and for other purposes. <>

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
    United States of America in Congress assembled, <>
    SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Taiwan Travel Act''.
    SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
    (1) The Taiwan Relations Act (22 U.S.C. 3301 et seq.),
    enacted in 1979, has continued for 37 years to be a cornerstone
    of relations between the United States and Taiwan and has served
    as an anchor for peace and security in the Western Pacific area.
    (2) The Taiwan Relations Act declares that peace and
    stability in the Western Pacific area are in the political,
    security, and economic interests of the United States and are
    matters of international concern.
    (3) The United States considers any effort to determine the
    future of Taiwan by other than peaceful means, including by
    boycotts or embargoes, a threat to the peace and security of the
    Western Pacific area and of grave concern to the United States.
    (4) Taiwan has succeeded in a momentous transition to
    democracy beginning in the late 1980s and has been a beacon of
    democracy in Asia, and Taiwan's democratic achievements inspire
    many countries and people in the region.
    (5) Visits to a country by United States Cabinet members and
    other high-ranking officials are an indicator of the breadth and
    depth of ties between the United States and such country.
    (6) Since the enactment of the Taiwan Relations Act,
    relations between the United States and Taiwan have suffered
    from insufficient high-level communication due to the self-
    imposed restrictions that the United States maintains on high-
    level visits with Taiwan.
    SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS; STATEMENT OF POLICY.

    (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that the United
    States Government should encourage visits between officials from the
    United States and Taiwan at all levels.
    (b) Statement of Policy.--It should be the policy of the United
    States to--

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    (1) allow officials at all levels of the United States
    Government, including Cabinet-level national security officials,
    general officers, and other executive branch officials, to
    travel to Taiwan to meet their Taiwanese counterparts;
    (2) allow high-level officials of Taiwan to enter the United
    States, under conditions which demonstrate appropriate respect
    for the dignity of such officials, and to meet with officials of
    the United States, including officials from the Department of
    State and the Department of Defense and other Cabinet agencies;
    and
    (3) encourage the Taipei Economic and Cultural
    Representative Office, and any other instrumentality established
    by Taiwan, to conduct business in the United States, including
    activities which involve participation by Members of Congress,
    officials of Federal, State, or local governments of the United
    States, or any high-level official of Taiwan.

    Approved March 16, 2018.

    LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 535:
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    CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 164 (2018):
    Jan. 9, considered and passed House.
    Feb. 28, considered and passed Senate.