State Department must update Taiwan policy rules every five years.
H.R. 1512 — Taiwan Assurance Implementation Act · Filed by Ann Wagner (R-MO) · 3 cosponsors · Introduced Feb 21, 2025 · Signed
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What it does
The bill tells the State Department to review its Taiwan policy rules. Reviews must happen at least every five years. The State Department must report updates to Congress within 90 days. Congress gets to see all guidance documents and related materials.
Who it affects
The State Department must do the reviews and reports. Congress gets regular updates on Taiwan policy.
One thing to notice
The bill does not say what happens if the State Department misses the deadline.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
3 cosponsors: 2 Democrats, 1 Republicans.
- Feb 21, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Feb 21, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs and Senate Committee on Foreign Relations · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs”
- May 5, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1822)”
- May 5, 2025 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Mast moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended”
- Nov 18, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Senate Committee on Foreign Relations discharged by Unanimous Consent”
- Nov 18, 2025 — Passed both chambers · Congress.gov: “Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8208)”
- Nov 21, 2025 — Sent to president · Congress.gov: “Presented to President”
- Dec 2, 2025 — Signed into law · Congress.gov: “Became Public Law No: 119-45”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Dec 2025 to Dec 2025.
Those reports show $200,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 8 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Ann Wagner, who sponsored the bill, received $1,214,250 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Peabody Investments Corp — $200,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- guidance — Official rules and instructions that tell government workers how to do their jobs.
- State Department — The part of the U.S. government that handles relations with other countries.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,615 characters) on Jun 3, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,342 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Dec 2025. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jan 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-18.
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