Protecting America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve from China Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2806 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2806

  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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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 9, 2025

 Mr. Weber of Texas (for himself, Mr. Balderson, Mr. Ogles, Mr. Zinke, 
 Mr. Cline, Mr. Scott Franklin of Florida, Mr. Webster of Florida, Ms. 
Tenney, Mr. Babin, Ms. Maloy, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Shreve, Ms. Boebert, Mrs. 
Bice, and Mr. Smith of New Jersey) introduced the following bill; which 
          was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 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, 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.
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