To amend the Taiwan Assurance Act of 2020 to require periodic reviews and updated reports relating to the Department of State's Taiwan Guidelines.

Subjects: International Affairs, Asia, Congressional oversight, Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad, Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status, Taiwan

Summary:  <p>This bill modifies an existing requirement for the Department of State to review and report on its guidance to federal agencies on the U.S.-Taiwan relationship. (The U.S.-Taiwan relationship has been unofficial since 1979, when the United States established diplomatic relations with China and broke them with Taiwan.)</p> <p>Current law requires the State Department to conduct a one-time review of its guidance governing relations with Taiwan and report to Congress on this review. Under this bill, the State Department must review that guidance and report to Congress every two years while the guidance is in effect.</p> <p>The reports to Congress must (1) describe how the guidance takes into account certain considerations, such as the sense of Congress that Taiwan is governed by a representative government peacefully constituted through free and fair elections; and (2) identify opportunities and plans to lift self-imposed restrictions on relations with Taiwan.</p>

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[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1159 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1159

 To amend the Taiwan Assurance Act of 2020 to require periodic reviews 
   and updated reports relating to the Department of State's Taiwan 
                              Guidelines.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 24, 2023

Mrs. Wagner (for herself, Mr. Connolly, and Mr. Lawler) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Taiwan Assurance Act of 2020 to require periodic reviews 
   and updated reports relating to the Department of State's Taiwan 
                              Guidelines.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PERIODIC REVIEWS AND UPDATED REPORTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 
              STATE'S TAIWAN GUIDELINES UNDER THE TAIWAN ASSURANCE ACT 
              OF 2020.

    Section 315 of the Taiwan Assurance Act of 2020 (Public Law 116-
260; 134 Stat. 3100) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (c)(1), by adding at the end before ``; 
        and'' the following: ``and any successor document or related 
        document disseminating such guidance''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d) Periodic Reviews and Updated Reports.--
            ``(1) In general.--For as long as the Department of State's 
        guidance that governs relations with Taiwan described in 
        subsection (a) remains in effect, the Secretary of State shall 
        conduct periodic reviews as described in subsection (a) and 
        submit updated reports as described in subsection (c) not less 
        frequently than every two years following the submission of the 
        initial report described in subsection (c).
            ``(2) Matters to be included.--Such updated reports shall 
        include--
                    ``(A) a description of how the guidance meets the 
                goals and objectives described in paragraphs (1), (2), 
                and (3) of subsection (b); and
                    ``(B) an identification of opportunities and plans 
                to lift self-imposed restrictions on relations with 
                Taiwan.''.
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