A bill to direct the Secretary of State to seek to enter into negotiations with the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office to rename its office the "Taiwan Representative Office", and for other purposes.

This bill requires the Department of State to seek to enter into negotiations with the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO) to rename its office in the District of Columbia the Taiwan Representative Office. (The U.S.-Taiwan relationship is unofficial, and TECRO is Taiwan's principal representative office in the United States.)

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1513 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1513

  To direct the Secretary of State to seek to enter into negotiations 
 with the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office to rename 
    its office the ``Taiwan Representative Office'', and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 10, 2023

   Mr. Rubio introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Secretary of State to seek to enter into negotiations 
 with the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office to rename 
    its office the ``Taiwan Representative Office'', 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. DESIGNATION OF AND REFERENCES TO TAIWAN REPRESENTATIVE 
              OFFICE.

    (a) Statement of Policy.--It shall be the policy of the United 
States, consistent with the Taiwan Relations Act (22 U.S.C. 3301 et 
seq.) and the Six Assurances, to provide the people of Taiwan with de 
facto diplomatic treatment equivalent to foreign countries, nations, 
states, governments, or similar entities, and, consistent with this 
policy, to rename the ``Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative 
Office'' in the United States as the ``Taiwan Representative Office''.
    (b) Renaming.--The Secretary of State shall seek to enter into 
negotiations with the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative 
Office to rename its office in Washington, DC, the ``Taiwan 
Representative Office''.
    (c) References.--If the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative 
Office is designated as the Taiwan Representative Office, any reference 
in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the 
United States Government to the Taipei Economic and Cultural 
Representative Office shall be deemed to be a reference to the Taiwan 
Representative Office, including for all official purposes of the 
United States Government, all courts of the United States, and any 
proceedings therein.
    (d) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be 
construed as entailing restoration of diplomatic relations with the 
Republic of China (Taiwan) or altering the position of the United 
States with respect to the international status of Taiwan.
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