S.Amdt. 1921

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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