S.Amdt. 2467

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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