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Senate Bill 218
118th Congress(2023-2024)
Protecting America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve from China Act
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Introduced in Senate on Feb 1, 2023
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Introduced in Senate 
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S. 218 (Introduced-in-Senate)


118th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 218


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

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

February 1, 2023

Mr. Cruz (for himself, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. King, Mr. Braun, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Cotton, Ms. Hassan, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Mr. Boozman, Mr. Hoeven, Mr. Cornyn, Ms. Ernst, Mr. Moran, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. Lee, Ms. Sinema, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Hawley, Mr. Scott of South Carolina, and Ms. Lummis) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

A BILL

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 or control of the Chinese Communist Party or the People's Republic of China; or

(2) except on the condition that such petroleum products will not be exported to the People’s Republic of China.