[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 22 Placed on Calendar Senate (PCS)]

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                                                         Calendar No. 4
118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 H. R. 22


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 23 (legislative day, January 3), 2023

                                Received

             January 24 (legislative day, January 3), 2023

                          Read the first time

                            January 25, 2023

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar

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                                 AN ACT


 
  To prohibit the Secretary of Energy from sending petroleum products 
 from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting America's Strategic 
Petroleum Reserve from China Act''.

SEC. 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.

            Passed the House of Representatives January 12, 2023.

            Attest:

                                             CHERYL L. JOHNSON,

                                                                 Clerk.
                                                         Calendar No. 4

118th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                                H. R. 22

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                                 AN ACT

  To prohibit the Secretary of Energy from sending petroleum products 
 from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China, and for other purposes.

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                            January 25, 2023

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar