IIB 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 535 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JANUARY 10, 2018 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 
AN ACT 
To encourage visits between the United States and Taiwan 
at all levels, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Taiwan Travel Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The Taiwan Relations Act (22 U.S.C. 3301 
et seq.), enacted in 1979, has continued for 37 years 
to be a cornerstone of relations between the United 
States and Taiwan and has served as an anchor for 
peace and security in the Western Pacific area. 
(2) The Taiwan Relations Act declares that 
peace and stability in the Western Pacific area are 
in the political, security, and economic interests of 
the United States and are matters of international 
concern. 
(3) The United States considers any effort to 
determine the future of Taiwan by other than peace-
ful means, including by boycotts or embargoes, a 
threat to the peace and security of the Western Pa-
cific area and of grave concern to the United States. 
(4) Taiwan has succeeded in a momentous tran-
sition to democracy beginning in the late 1980s and 
has been a beacon of democracy in Asia, and Tai-
wan’s democratic achievements inspire many coun-
tries and people in the region. 
(5) Visits to a country by United States Cabi-
net members and other high-ranking officials are an 
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indicator of the breadth and depth of ties between 
the United States and such country. 
(6) Since the enactment of the Taiwan Rela-
tions Act, relations between the United States and 
Taiwan have suffered from insufficient high-level 
communication due to the self-imposed restrictions 
that the United States maintains on high-level visits 
with Taiwan. 
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS; STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that the United States Government should encour-
age visits between officials from the United States and 
Taiwan at all levels. 
(b) STATEMENT OF POLICY.—It should be the policy 
of the United States to— 
(1) allow officials at all levels of the United 
States Government, including Cabinet-level national 
security officials, general officers, and other execu-
tive branch officials, to travel to Taiwan to meet 
their Taiwanese counterparts; 
(2) allow high-level officials of Taiwan to enter 
the United States, under conditions which dem-
onstrate appropriate respect for the dignity of such 
officials, and to meet with officials of the United 
States, including officials from the Department of 
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State and the Department of Defense and other 
Cabinet agencies; and 
(3) encourage the Taipei Economic and Cul-
tural Representative Office, and any other instru-
mentality established by Taiwan, to conduct business 
in the United States, including activities which in-
volve participation by Members of Congress, officials 
of Federal, State, or local governments of the United 
States, or any high-level official of Taiwan. 
Passed the House of Representatives January 9, 
2018. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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