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Calendar No. 4
118th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 22
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
January 23 (legislative day, January 3), 2023
Received
January 24 (legislative day, January 3), 2023
Read the first time
January 25, 2023
Read the second time and placed on the calendar
AN ACT
To prohibit the Secretary of Energy from sending petroleum products from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China, and for other purposes.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Protecting America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve from China Act
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Prohibition on sales of petroleum products from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Energy shall not draw down and sell petroleum products from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve—
to any entity that is under the ownership, control, or influence of the Chinese Communist Party; or
except on the condition that such petroleum products will not be exported to the People’s Republic of China.
Passed the House of Representatives January 12, 2023.
Cheryl L. Johnson,
Clerk.
January 25, 2023
Read the second time and placed on the calendar