skip to main content
Hide All The Ads With a Yearly Membership Subscribe ▶

S. 2710 (116th): A bill to prohibit the commercial export of covered munitions items to the Hong Kong Police Force.

React to this bill with an emoji

(About Ads | Hide These Ads)

Sponsor and status

Photo of sponsor Jeff Merkley

Jeff Merkley

Sponsor. Senator for Oregon. Democrat.

Thumbnail of bill text
Read Text »
Last Updated: Nov 21, 2019
Length: 2 pages
Introduced
Oct 24, 2019
116th Congress (2019–2021)
Status

Enacted — Signed by the President on Nov 27, 2019

This bill was enacted after being signed by the President on November 27, 2019.

Law
Pub.L. 116-77
Cosponsors

17 Cosponsors (9 Democrats, 8 Republicans)

Source
Congress.gov
(About Ads | Hide These Ads)

History

Oct 24, 2019
 
Introduced

Bills and resolutions are referred to committees which debate the bill before possibly sending it on to the whole chamber.

Read Text »

Nov 19, 2019
 
Passed Senate (House next)

The bill was passed in a vote in the Senate. It goes to the House next. The vote was by Unanimous Consent so no record of individual votes was made.

Read Updated Text » See Changes »

Nov 20, 2019
 
Passed House

The bill was passed by both chambers in identical form. It goes to the President next who may sign or veto the bill.

thumbnail image of vote View Vote » Read Updated Text » See Changes »

Nov 27, 2019
 
Enacted — Signed by the President

The President signed the bill and it became law.

S. 2710 (116th) was a bill in the United States Congress.

A bill must be passed by both the House and Senate in identical form and then be signed by the President to become law.

Bills numbers restart every two years. That means there are other bills with the number S. 2710. This is the one from the 116th Congress.

This bill was introduced in the 116th Congress, which met from Jan 3, 2019 to Jan 3, 2021. Legislation not passed by the end of a Congress is cleared from the books.

How to cite this information.

We recommend the following MLA-formatted citation when using the information you see here in academic work:

“S. 2710 — 116th Congress: A bill to prohibit the commercial export of covered munitions items to the Hong Kong ….” www.GovTrack.us. 2019. October 5, 2023 <https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/s2710>

Where is this information from?

GovTrack automatically collects legislative information from a variety of governmental and non-governmental sources. This page is sourced primarily from Congress.gov, the official portal of the United States Congress. Congress.gov is generally updated one day after events occur, and so legislative activity shown here may be one day behind. Data via the congress project.