Official Summaries

This bill modifies an existing requirement for the Department of State to review and report on its guidance to federal agencies on the U.S.-Taiwan relationship. (The U.S.-Taiwan relationship has been unofficial since 1979, when the United States established diplomatic relations with China and broke them with Taiwan.)

Current law requires the State Department to conduct a one-time review of its guidance governing relations with Taiwan and report to Congress on this review. Under this bill, the State Department must review that guidance and report to Congress every two years while the guidance is in effect.

The reports to Congress must (1) describe how the guidance takes into account certain considerations, such as the sense of Congress that Taiwan is governed by a representative government peacefully constituted through free and fair elections; and (2) identify opportunities and plans to lift self-imposed restrictions on relations with Taiwan.

Current Full Text

[119th Congress Public Law 45]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



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Public Law 119-45
119th Congress

                                 An Act


 
 To amend the Taiwan Assurance Act of 2020 to require periodic reviews 
    and updated reports relating to the Department of State's Taiwan 
           Guidelines. <<NOTE: Dec. 2, 2025 -  [H.R. 1512]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: Taiwan Assurance 
Implementation Act.>> 
SECTION 1. <<NOTE: 22 USC 3301 note.>> SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Taiwan Assurance Implementation 
Act''.
SEC. 2. <<NOTE: 22 USC 3301 note.>> INCREASED REPORTING REGARDING 
                    DEPARTMENT OF STATE TAIWAN GUIDELINES.

    Section 315 of the Taiwan Assurance Act of 2020 (subtitle B of title 
III of division FF of Public Law 116-260; 134 Stat. 3100) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (c)(1), by inserting ``and any successor 
        document or related document that includes guidance on relations 
        with Taiwan'' after ``memorandum''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:

    ``(d) Periodic Reviews and Updated Reports.--
            ``(1) In general.--For as long as the Department of State 
        maintains guidance that governs relations with Taiwan as 
        described in subsection (a), the Secretary of State shall--
                    ``(A) not less than every five years, conduct a 
                review of the Department of State's guidance that 
                governs relations with Taiwan, including the periodic 
                memorandum entitled, `Guidelines on Relations with 
                Taiwan' and related documents, and reissue such guidance 
                to executive branch departments and agencies; and
                    ``(B) not later than 90 days after completing a 
                review required by paragraph (1)(A), submit an updated 
                report to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
                Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House 
                of Representatives.
            ``(2) Matters to be included.--The updated reports required 
        under paragraph (1)(B) shall include--
                    ``(A) all the information required under subsection 
                (c); and

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                    ``(B) a description of how the updated guidance 
                meets the goals and objectives described in subsection 
                (b).''.

    Approved December 2, 2025.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 1512:
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 171 (2025):
            May 5, considered and passed House.
            Nov. 18, considered and passed Senate.

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