S.Amdt. 740

SA 740. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2024 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. 1269. 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. 1173), is amended by striking ``shall expire on
December 31, 2024'' 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.
5701 et seq.) that Hong Kong warrants treatment under United
States law in the same manner as United States 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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