119-hr3563

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3563 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 3563

 To improve defense cooperation between the United States and Taiwan, 
 and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 May 21, 2025

Mr. Perry (for himself and Mr. Tiffany) introduced the following bill; 
 which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

_______________________________________________________________________

 A BILL

 To improve defense cooperation between the United States and Taiwan, 
 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 ``Taiwan PLUS Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

 Congress finds the following:

    (1) Taiwan is the 7th largest trading partner in goods with 
 the United States.

    (2) Taiwan is recognized by 12 countries as an independent 
 state, and it is presently treated by the United States as a 
 major non-NATO ally for purposes of the transfer or possible 
 transfer of defense articles or defense services under 

section 1206 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 
 2003 (Public Law 107-228; 22 U.S.C. 2321k note).

    (3) The unclassified summary of the 2018 National Defense 
 Strategy notably prioritized United States efforts to protect 
 America's allies and partners, stating that United States 
 defense objectives include ``defending allies from military 
 aggression, and bolstering partners against coercion, and 
 fairly sharing responsibilities for common defense''.

    (4) The Taiwan Relations Act (Public Law 96-8; 22 U.S.C. 
 3301 et seq.) states that ``the United States will make 
 available to Taiwan such defense articles and defense services 
 in such quantity as may be necessary to enable Taiwan to 
 maintain a sufficient self-defense capability''.

    (5) Consistent with the Taiwan Relations Act, the United 
 States Congress has for more than four decades approved 
 numerous defense articles and defense services for Taiwan's 
 self-defense, including, since 2017, High Mobility Artillery 
 Rocket Systems

    (HIMARS) , F-16 C/D fighter jets, M142 launchers, 
 MK 48 heavyweight torpedoes, Harpoon Coastal Defense Systems, 
 Stinger man-portable air defense systems, M109A6 Paladin 
 howitzers, MS-110 Airborne Reconnaissance Systems, Sniper 
 Advanced Targeting Pods, and Field Information Communications 
 Systems.

    (6) Defense Security Cooperation Agency

    (DSCA) data 
 indicates that Taiwan was the United States largest Foreign 
 Military Sales

    (FMS) customer in fiscal year 2020.

    (7) DSCA data also indicates that from fiscal years 1950 
 through 2020, Taiwan was the United States third-largest 
 Foreign Military Sales customer, tied with Japan.

    (8) Since 2010, the Department of State has notified 
 Congress of over $41,000,000,000 in FMS to Taiwan, and over 
 $56,000,000,000 in FMS to Taiwan since 2001.

    (9) The Taiwan Assurance Act of 2020 (subtitle B of title 
 III of division FF of Public Law 116-260), states, ``the United 
 States should conduct regular sales and transfers of defense 
 articles to Taiwan in order to enhance its self-defense 
 capabilities, particularly its efforts to develop and integrate 
 asymmetric capabilities, including undersea warfare and air 
 defense capabilities, into its military forces''.

    (10) Subparagraph
        (A) of 

section 1260

    (b)

    (1) of the National 
 Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 116-
 283) states, ``[the United States should continue] supporting 
 acquisition by Taiwan of defense articles and services through 
 foreign military sales, direct commercial sales, and industrial 
 cooperation, with an emphasis on capabilities that support the 
 asymmetric defense strategy of Taiwan, including anti-ship, 
 coastal defense, anti-armor, air defense, undersea warfare, 
 advanced command, control, communications, computers, 
 intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, and resilient 
 command and control capabilities.''.

    (11) Subparagraph
        (B) of 

section 1260

    (b)

    (1) of such Act 
 further states that the United States should continue 
 supporting the development of defense forces necessary for 
 Taiwan to maintain a sufficient self-defense capability by 
 ``ensuring timely review of an response to response to requests 
 of Taiwan for defense articles and services''.

    (12) In its 2019 Recommendations to Congress, the 
 nonpartisan U.S.-China Economic and Security Commission issued 
 the following judgement: ``Congress [should] raise the 
 threshold of congressional notification on sales of defense 
 articles and services to Taiwan to the highest tier set to U.S. 
 allies and partners. Congress [should] also terminate any 
 requirement to provide prior notification of maintenance and 
 sustainment of military equipment and capabilities previously 
 sold to Taiwan.''. The Commission repeated this recommendation 
 in its 2024 annual report.

SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

 It is the sense of Congress that--

    (1) enhanced support for defense cooperation with Taiwan is 
 critical to the national security of the United States, 
 including through designation of Taiwan as a member of the 
 colloquially titled ``NATO Plus'' community of states, which 
 presently includes Japan, Australia, the Republic of Korea, 
 Israel, and New Zealand, with respect to consideration by 
 Congress of Foreign Military Sales to Taiwan, as well as all 
 other rights, privileges, and responsibilities afforded to such 
 community of states; and

    (2) Taiwan should be so designated as a member of the 
 ``NATO Plus'' community of states.

SEC. 4. ENHANCED DEFENSE COOPERATION.

    (a) In General.--During the 5-year period beginning on the date of 
the enactment of this Act, Taiwan shall be treated as if it were a 
country listed in the provisions of law described in subsection

    (b) for 
purposes of applying and administering such provisions of law.

    (b) Provisions of Law Described.--The provisions of law described 
in this subsection are--

    (1) subsections

    (b)

    (2) ,
            (d) (2)
        (B) ,
            (d) (3)
        (A)
            (i) , and
            (d) (5) of 

section 3 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2753);

    (2) subsections

    (e)

    (2)
        (A) ,

    (h)

    (1)
        (A) , and

    (h)

    (2) of 

section 21 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 2761);

    (3) the matter following subparagraph
        (P) of subsection

    (b)

    (1) and subsections

    (b)

    (2) ,

    (b)

    (6) ,
            (c) (2)
        (A) ,
            (c) (5) , and
            (d) (2)
        (A) of 

section 36 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 2776);

    (4) section 62
            (c) (1) of such Act (22 U.S.C. 2796a
            (c) (1) ); 
 and

    (5) section 63

    (a)

    (2) of such Act (22 U.S.C. 2796b

    (a)

    (2) ).
            (c) Continued Application.--The Secretary of State is authorized to 
continue to apply this section with respect to Taiwan for additional 5-
year periods beginning after the end of the 5-year period described in 
subsection

    (a) if, with respect to each such additional 5-year period, 
the Secretary--

    (1) determines that such continued application is in the 
 national security interests of the United States; and

    (2) submits such determination to the Committee on Foreign 
 Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
 Foreign Relations of the Senate not later than 14 days before 
 the start of such additional 5-year period.
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