Protecting America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve from China Act

Bill: 117-hr-8488
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2022-07-26
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Asia

China

Energy storage, supplies, demand

Foreign Trade and International Finance

Oil and gas

Strategic materials and reserves

Trade restrictions
Latest action: action_date: 2022-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-07-26
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Protecting America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve from China Act</b></p> <p>This bill prohibits the sale and export of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to China. Specifically, the bill prohibits the Department of Energy (DOE) from selling petroleum products (e.g., crude oil) from the SPR to any entity that is under the ownership, control, or influence of the Chinese Communist Party. Further, DOE must require as a condition of any sale of crude oil from the SPR that the oil not be exported to China.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8488 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 26, 2022 Mrs. Rodgers of Washington (for herself, Mr. Duncan , Mr. Upton , and Mr. Scalise ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To prohibit the Secretary of Energy from sending petroleum products from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protecting America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve from China Act . 2. Prohibition on sales of petroleum products from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Energy shall not draw down and sell petroleum products from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve— (1) to any entity that is under the ownership, control, or influence of the Chinese Communist Party; or (2) except on the condition that such petroleum products will not be exported to the People’s Republic of China.