22 U.S.C. § 5731 — Reporting requirement
submitted 34 years ago by Pub. L. 102-383 to r/title-22-FOREIGN-RELATIONS-AND-INTERCOURSE · 365 words · no verdicts yet
The Secretary of State must report annually through 2024 on Hong Kong conditions affecting United States interests, including relations, exchanges, law changes, cooperation, democracy, and multilateral participation. The report must be unclassified and publicly posted.
(a) By March 31, 2019, and each year through 2024, the Secretary of State must report to the appropriate congressional committees on Hong Kong* conditions of United States interest. The first report covers the period since October 5, 1992; later reports cover the period since the latest report under this section. Each report must describe: (1) important United States-Hong Kong developments, including agreements that entered into force; (2) other matters affecting United States interests or relations, including changes in Hong Kong sovereignty; (3) official and unofficial cultural, educational, scientific, and academic exchanges; (4) United States laws whose Hong Kong application was suspended under section 5722(a), or whose suspension ended under section 5722(d), and the reasons; (5) treaties and other international agreements covered by the President’s determination under section 5721(b), and the reason for each; (6) major export-control cooperation problems; (7) development of democratic institutions; and (8) the nature and extent of Hong Kong participation in multilateral forums.
(b) The report must be unclassified and published on a publicly available State Department website.
(c) “Appropriate congressional committees” means (1) the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees and (2) the House Foreign Affairs and Armed Services Committees.
Not later than March 31, 2019, and annually thereafter through 2024, the Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on conditions in Hong Kong* of interest to the United States. This report shall cover (in the case of the initial report) the period since October 5, 1992, or (in the case of subsequent reports) the period since the most recent report pursuant to this section and shall describe—
significant developments in United States relations with Hong Kong, including a description of agreements that have entered into force between the United States and Hong Kong;
other matters, including developments related to the change in the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong, affecting United States interests in Hong Kong or United States relations with Hong Kong;
the nature and extent of United States-Hong Kong cultural, education, scientific, and academic exchanges, both official and unofficial;
the laws of the United States* with respect to which the application of section 5721(a) of this title has been suspended pursuant to section 5722(a) of this title or with respect to which such a suspension has been terminated pursuant to section 5722(d) of this title, and the reasons for the suspension or termination, as the case may be;
treaties and other international agreements with respect to which the President has made a determination described in the last sentence of section 5721(b) of this title, and the reasons for each such determination;
significant problems in cooperation between Hong Kong and the United States in the area of export controls;
the development of democratic institutions in Hong Kong; and
the nature and extent of Hong Kong’s participation in multilateral forums.
The report required by subsection (a) shall be submitted in unclassified form and shall be published on a publicly available website of the Department of State.
In this section, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means—
the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate; and
the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 102–383, title III, § 301, Oct. 5, 1992, 106 Stat. 1453; Pub. L. 104–107, title V, § 576(a), Feb. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 750; Pub. L. 107–115, title V, § 586(a), Jan. 10, 2002, 115 Stat. 2173; Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title XII, § 1256, Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 2056.)
- 1992Enacted · Pub. L. 102-383 · 106 Stat. 1453
- 1996Amended · Pub. L. 104-107 · 110 Stat. 750
- 2002Amended · Pub. L. 107-115 · 115 Stat. 2173
- 2018Amended · Pub. L. 115-232 · 132 Stat. 2056
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