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Code · STATUTE-COMPILATIONS · Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019 · Sec. 2

Sec. 2. DEFINITIONS

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## SEC. 2 DEFINITIONS **[**[22 U.S.C. 5701 note](/us/usc/t22/s5701)**]** In this Act: ####
(1)Appropriate congressional committees The term “**appropriate congressional committees**” means— #####
(A)the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate; #####
(B)the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate; #####
(C)the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate; #####
(D)the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; #####
(E)the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate; #####
(F)the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives; #####
(G)the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives; #####
(H)the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives; #####
(I)the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives; and #####
(J)the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives. ####
(2)Social credit system The term “**social credit system**” means a system proposed by the Government of the People’s Republic of China and scheduled for implementation by 2020, which would— #####
(A)use existing financial credit systems, public records, online activity, and other tools of surveillance to aggregate data on every Chinese citizen and business; and #####
(B)use such data to monitor, shape, and rate certain financial, social, religious, or political behaviors. ####
(3)United states person The term “**United States person**” means— #####
(A)a United States citizen; #####
(B)a lawfully admitted permanent resident of the United States; or #####
(C)an entity organized under the laws of— ######
(i)the United States; or ######
(ii)any jurisdiction within the United States, including a foreign branch of such an entity.
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