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Union Calendar No. 106
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2330
[Report No. 108–159, Parts I and II] 
To sanction the ruling Burmese military junta, to strengthen Burma’s demo-
cratic forces and support and recognize the National League of Democ-
racy as the legitimate representative of the Burmese people, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 4, 2003
Mr. LANTOS (for himself, Mr. KING of New York, Mr. HYDE, Mr. SMITH of 
New Jersey, Mr. RANGEL, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. 
ROHRABACHER, Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA, Mr. PITTS, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. 
SOUDER, Mr. ACKERMAN, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. GEORGE MILLER of Cali-
fornia, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. HOEFFEL, Mr. BROWN of Ohio, Mr. ENGEL, 
Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. ANDREWS, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. 
OLVER, Mr. FARR, Mr. EVANS, and Mr. ABERCROMBIE) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on International Rela-
tions, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Financial 
Services, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined 
by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
JUNE 17, 2003
Reported from the Committee on International Relations with an amendment 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
JUNE 17, 2003
Referral to the Committees on Ways and Means, Financial Services, and the 
Judiciary extended for a period ending not later than July 7, 2003
JULY 7, 2003
Referral to the Committees on Ways and Means, Financial Services, and the 
Judiciary for a period ending not later than July 11, 2003
JULY 11, 2003
Reported from the Committee on the Judiciary with an amendment 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
JULY 11, 2003
Additional sponsors: Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. KIRK, Mr. DELAHUNT, Mr. BEREU-
TER, Ms. WATSON, Mr. WEXLER, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. 
MCNULTY, Mr. BERMAN, Mr. DOGGETT, Mr. NADLER, Mr. SHAYS, Mr. 
RAHALL, Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts, Mr. WEINER, Ms. WOOLSEY, Ms. 
BALDWIN, Mr. STARK, Mr. BAIRD, Mr. ALLEN, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. 
KUCINICH, Mr. FILNER, and Mr. VAN HOLLEN
JULY 11, 2003
Committees on Ways and Means and Financial Services discharged; com-
mitted to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union 
and ordered to be printed 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on June 4, 2003] 
A BILL 
To sanction the ruling Burmese military junta, to strengthen 
Burma’s democratic forces and support and recognize 
the National League of Democracy as the legitimate 
representative of the Burmese people, and for other pur-
poses.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Burmese Freedom and 
Democracy Act of 2003’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) The State Peace and Development Council 
(SPDC) has failed to transfer power to the National
League for Democracy (NLD) whose parliamentar-
ians won an overwhelming victory in the 1990 elec-
tions in Burma. 
(2) The SPDC has failed to enter into meaning-
ful, political dialogue with the NLD and ethnic mi-
norities and has dismissed the efforts of United Na-
tions Special Envoy Razali bin Ismail to further such 
dialogue. 
(3) According to the State Department’s ‘‘Report 
to the Congress Regarding Conditions in Burma and 
U.S. Policy Toward Burma’’ dated March 28, 2003, 
the SPDC has become ‘‘more confrontational’’ in its 
exchanges with the NLD. 
(4) On May 30, 2003, the SPDC, threatened by 
continued support for the NLD throughout Burma, 
brutally attacked NLD supporters, killed and injured 
scores of civilians, and arrested democracy advocate 
Aung San Suu Kyi and other activists. 
(5) The SPDC continues egregious human rights 
violations against Burmese citizens, uses rape as a 
weapon of intimidation and torture against women, 
and forcibly conscripts child-soldiers for the use in 
fighting indigenous ethnic groups. 
(6) The SPDC is engaged in ethnic cleansing 
against minorities within Burma, including the
Karen, Karenni, and Shan people, which constitutes 
a crime against humanity and has directly led to 
more than 600,000 internally displaced people living 
within Burma and more than 130,000 people from 
Burma living in refugee camps along the Thai-
Burma border. 
(7) The ethnic cleansing campaign of the SPDC 
is in sharp contrast to the traditional peaceful coex-
istence in Burma of Buddhists, Muslims, Christians, 
and people of traditional beliefs. 
(8) The SPDC has demonstrably failed to cooper-
ate with the United States in stopping the flood of 
heroin and methamphetamines being grown, refined, 
manufactured, and transported in areas under the 
control of the SPDC serving to flood the region and 
much of the world with these illicit drugs. 
(9) The SPDC provides safety, security, and en-
gages in business dealings with narcotics traffickers 
under indictment by United States authorities, and 
other producers and traffickers of narcotics. 
(10) The International Labor Organization 
(ILO), for the first time in its 82-year history, adopt-
ed in 2000, a resolution recommending that govern-
ments, employers, and workers organizations take ap-
propriate measures to ensure that their relations with
the SPDC do not abet the government-sponsored sys-
tem of forced, compulsory, or slave labor in Burma, 
and that other international bodies reconsider any co-
operation they may be engaged in with Burma and, 
if appropriate, cease as soon as possible any activity 
that could abet the practice of forced, compulsory, or 
slave labor. 
(11) The SPDC has integrated the Burmese mili-
tary and its surrogates into all facets of the economy 
effectively destroying any free enterprise system.
(12) Investment in Burmese companies and pur-
chases from them serve to provide the SPDC with cur-
rency that is used to finance its instruments of terror 
and repression against the Burmese people. 
(13) On April 15, 2003, the American Apparel 
and Footwear Association expressed its ‘‘strong sup-
port for a full and immediate ban on U.S. textiles, 
apparel and footwear imports from Burma’’ and 
called upon the United States Government to ‘‘impose 
an outright ban on U.S. imports’’ of these items until 
Burma demonstrates respect for basic human and 
labor rights of its citizens. 
(14) The policy of the United States, as articu-
lated by the President on April 24, 2003, is to offi-
cially recognize the NLD as the legitimate representa-
tive of the Burmese people as determined by the 1990 
election. 
(15) The United States must work closely with 
other nations, including Thailand, a close ally of the 
United States, to highlight attention to the SPDC’s 
systematic abuses of human rights in Burma, to en-
sure that nongovernmental organizations promoting 
human rights and political freedom in Burma are al-
lowed to operate freely and without harassment, and 
to craft a multilateral sanctions regime against 
Burma in order to pressure the SPDC to meet the 
conditions identified in section 3(a)(3) of this Act. 
SEC. 3. BAN AGAINST TRADE THAT SUPPORTS THE MILI-
TARY REGIME OF BURMA. 
(a) GENERAL BAN.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, until such time as the President de-
termines and certifies to Congress that Burma has 
met the conditions described in paragraph (3), no ar-
ticle may be imported into the United States that is 
produced, mined, manufactured, grown, or assembled 
in Burma. 
(2) BAN
ON
IMPORTS
FROM
CERTAIN
COMPA-
NIES.—The import restrictions contained in para-
graph (1) shall apply to, among other entities—
(A) the SPDC, any ministry of the SPDC, 
a member of the SPDC or an immediate family 
member of such member; 
(B) known narcotics traffickers from Burma 
or an immediate family member of such nar-
cotics trafficker; 
(C) the Union of Myanmar Economics 
Holdings Incorporated (UMEHI) or any com-
pany in which the UMEHI has a fiduciary in-
terest; 
(D) the Myanmar Economic Corporation 
(MEC) or any company in which the MEC has 
a fiduciary interest; 
(E) the Union Solidarity and Development 
Association (USDA); and 
(F) any successor entity for the SPDC, 
UMEHI, MEC, or USDA. 
(3) CONDITIONS DESCRIBED.—The conditions de-
scribed in this paragraph are the following: 
(A) The SPDC has made substantial and 
measurable progress to end violations of inter-
nationally recognized human rights including 
rape, and the Secretary of State, after consulta-
tion with the ILO Secretary General and rel-
evant nongovernmental organizations, reports to
the appropriate congressional committees that 
the SPDC no longer systematically violates 
workers rights, including the use of forced and 
child labor, and conscription of child-soldiers. 
(B) The SPDC has made measurable and 
substantial progress toward implementing a 
democratic government including—
(i) releasing all political prisoners; 
(ii) allowing freedom of speech and the 
press; 
(iii) allowing freedom of association; 
(iv) permitting the peaceful exercise of 
religion; and 
(v) bringing to a conclusion an agree-
ment between the SPDC and the democratic 
forces led by the NLD and Burma’s ethnic 
nationalities on the transfer of power to a 
civilian government accountable to the Bur-
mese people through democratic elections 
under the rule of law. 
(C) Pursuant to section 706(2) of the For-
eign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 
2003 (Public Law 107–228), Burma has not 
been designated as a country that has failed de-
monstrably to make substantial efforts to adhere
(c) DURATION OF TRADE BAN.—The President may 
terminate the restrictions contained in this Act upon the 
request of a democratically elected government in Burma, 
provided that all the conditions in subsection (a)(3) have 
been met. 
SEC. 4. FREEZING ASSETS OF THE BURMESE REGIME IN 
THE UNITED STATES. 
Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of 
this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct, and pro-
mulgate regulations to the same, that any United States 
financial institution holding funds belonging to the SPDC 
or the assets of those individuals who hold senior positions 
in the SPDC or its political arm, the Union Solidarity De-
velopment Association, shall promptly report those assets to 
the Office of Foreign Assets Control. The Secretary of the 
Treasury may take such action as may be necessary to se-
cure such assets or funds. 
SEC. 5. LOANS AT INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITU-
TIONS. 
The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United 
States executive director to each appropriate international 
financial institution in which the United States partici-
pates, to oppose, and vote against the extension by such in-
stitution of any loan or financial or technical assistance
to Burma until such time as the conditions described in 
section 3(a)(3) are met. 
SEC. 6. EXPANSION OF VISA BAN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—
(1) VISA BAN.—The President is authorized to 
deny visas and entry to the former and present lead-
ership of the SPDC or the Union Solidarity Develop-
ment Association. 
(2) UPDATES.—The Secretary of State shall co-
ordinate on a biannual basis with representatives of 
the European Union to allow officials of the United 
States and the European Union to ensure a high de-
gree of coordination of lists of individuals banned 
from obtaining a visa by the European Union for the 
reason described in paragraph (1) and those banned 
from receiving a visa from the United States. 
(b) PUBLICATION.—The Secretary of State shall post 
on the Department of State’s website the names of individ-
uals whose entry into the United States is banned under 
subsection (a). 
SEC. 7. CONDEMNATION OF THE REGIME AND DISSEMINA-
TION OF INFORMATION. 
Congress encourages the Secretary of State to highlight 
the abysmal record of the SPDC to the international com-
munity and use all appropriate fora, including the Associa-
tion of Southeast Asian Nations Regional Forum and Asian 
Nations Regional Forum, to encourage other states to re-
strict financial resources to the SPDC and Burmese compa-
nies while offering political recognition and support to Bur-
ma’s democratic movement including the National League 
for Democracy and Burma’s ethnic groups. 
SEC. 8. SUPPORT DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS IN BURMA. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The President is authorized to use 
all available resources to assist Burmese democracy activ-
ists dedicated to nonviolent opposition to the regime in their 
efforts to promote freedom, democracy, and human rights 
in Burma, including a listing of constraints on such pro-
gramming. 
(b) REPORTS.—
(1) FIRST REPORT.—Not later than 3 months 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of State shall provide the Committees on Appropria-
tions and Foreign Relations of the Senate and the 
Committees on Appropriations and International Re-
lations of the House of Representatives a comprehen-
sive report on its short- and long-term programs and 
activities to support democracy activists in Burma, 
including a list of constraints on such programming. 
(2) REPORT ON RESOURCES.—Not later than 6 
months after the date of enactment of this Act, the
Secretary of State shall provide the Committees on 
Appropriations and Foreign Relations of the Senate 
and the Committees on Appropriations and Inter-
national Relations of the House of Representatives a 
report identifying resources that will be necessary for 
the reconstruction of Burma, after the SPDC is re-
moved from power, including—
(A) the formation of democratic institu-
tions; 
(B) establishing the rule of law; 
(C) establishing freedom of the press; 
(D) providing for the successful reintegra-
tion of military officers and personnel into Bur-
mese society; and 
(E) providing health, educational, and eco-
nomic development.
Union Calendar No. 106
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 2330
[Report No. 108–159, Parts I and II] 
A BILL 
To sanction the ruling Burmese military junta, to 
strengthen Burma’s democratic forces and sup-
port and recognize the National League of De-
mocracy as the legitimate representative of the 
Burmese people, and for other purposes. 
JULY 11, 2003
Reported from the Committee on the Judiciary with an 
amendment 
JULY 11, 2003
Committees on Ways and Means and Financial Services 
discharged; committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union and ordered to be 
printed