certain privileges, exemptions, and immunities to 
Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices’’, approved 
June 27, 1997 (22 U.S.C. 288k). 
SEC. 3. LIMITATION ON CONTRACTING RELATING TO HONG 
KONG ECONOMIC AND TRADE OFFICES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—On and after the date of the en-
actment of this Act, an entity of the United States Gov-
ernment may enter into an agreement or partnership with 
the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices to promote 
tourism, culture, business, or other matters relating to 
Hong Kong only if— 
(1) the Secretary of State has submitted to the 
Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and 
the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 
Representatives a determination under section 
2(a)(1)(A) that the Hong Kong Economic and 
Trade Offices merit extension and application of cer-
tain privileges, exemptions, and immunities; 
(2) a disapproval resolution under section 2(d) 
is not enacted during the 90-day period following the 
submission of that determination; and 
(3) the agreement or partnership does not pro-
mote efforts by the Government of the Hong Kong 
Special Administrative Region and the Government 
of the People’s Republic of China—
(A) to justify the dismantling of the auton-
omy of Hong Kong and the freedoms and rule 
of law guaranteed by the Sino-British Joint 
Declaration of 1984; and 
(B) to portray within the United States 
the Government of the Hong Kong Special Ad-
ministrative Region or the Government of the 
People’s Republic of China as protecting the 
rule of law or the human rights and civil lib-
erties of the people of Hong Kong. 
(b) HONG KONG ECONOMIC AND TRADE OFFICES 
DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘Hong Kong Eco-
nomic and Trade Offices’’ has the meaning given that 
term in section 1(c) of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to extend 
certain privileges, exemptions, and immunities to Hong 
Kong Economic and Trade Offices’’, approved June 27, 
1997 (22 U.S.C. 288k). 
SEC. 4. POLICY OF UNITED STATES ON PROMOTION OF AU-
TONOMY OF GOVERNMENT OF THE HONG 
KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION. 
It is the policy of the United States— 
(1) to ensure that entities of the United States 
Government do not knowingly assist in the pro-
motion of Hong Kong as a free and autonomous city 
or the Government of the Hong Kong Special Ad-
ministrative Region as committed to protecting the 
human rights of the people of Hong Kong or fully 
maintaining the rule of law required for human 
rights and economic prosperity as long as the Sec-
retary of State continues to determine under section 
205(a)(1) of the United States-Hong Kong Policy 
Act of 1992 (22 U.S.C. 5725(a)(1)) that Hong 
Kong does not enjoy a high degree of autonomy 
from the People’s Republic of China and does not 
warrant treatment under the laws of the United 
States in the same manner as those laws were ap-
plied to Hong Kong before July 1, 1997; 
(2) to recognize that promotion of Hong Kong 
as described in paragraph (1) should be considered 
propaganda for the efforts of the People’s Republic 
of China to dismantle rights and freedom guaran-
teed to the residents of Hong Kong by the Inter-
national Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and 
the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984; 
(3) to ensure that entities of the United States 
Government do not engage in or assist with propa-
ganda of the People’s Republic of China regarding 
Hong Kong; and 
(4) to engage with the Government of the Hong 
Kong Special Administrative Region, through all rel-
evant entities of the United States Government, 
seeking the release of political prisoners, the end of 
arbitrary detentions, the resumption of a free press 
and fair and free elections open to all candidates, 
and the restoration of an independent judiciary. 
Passed the House of Representatives September 10, 
2024. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1103 
AN ACT 
To require the President to remove the extension of 
certain privileges, exemptions, and immunities to 
the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices if 
Hong Kong no longer enjoys a high degree of au-
tonomy from the People’s Republic of China, and 
for other purposes.