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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 284 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To promote bilateral tourism through cooperation between the United States |
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| 6 | 6 | | and Mexico. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | JANUARY11, 2023 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. C |
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| 10 | 10 | | UELLAR(for himself and Mr. MCCAUL) introduced the following bill; |
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| 11 | 11 | | which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To promote bilateral tourism through cooperation between |
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| 14 | 14 | | the United States and Mexico. |
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| 15 | 15 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 18 | 18 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘United States-Mexico 4 |
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| 19 | 19 | | Tourism Improvement Act of 2023’’. 5 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SEC. 2. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 6 |
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| 21 | 21 | | It is the policy of the United States— 7 |
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| 22 | 22 | | (1) to continue deepening bilateral tourism 8 |
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| 23 | 23 | | through governmental cooperation between the 9 |
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| 24 | 24 | | United States and Mexico; 10 |
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| 28 | 28 | | (2) to improve third-party tourism to the 1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | United States and Mexico through joint inter-2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | national promotional efforts; and 3 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (3) to seek to prioritize and expand the tourism 4 |
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| 32 | 32 | | industries in both countries by emphasizing ex-5 |
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| 33 | 33 | | changes in various international economic sectors, 6 |
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| 34 | 34 | | including relating to— 7 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (A) hospitality and accommodation; 8 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (B) retail; and 9 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (C) cultural education. 10 |
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| 38 | 38 | | SEC. 3. STRATEGY TO EXPAND BILATERAL TOURISM 11 |
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| 39 | 39 | | THROUGH COOPERATION WITH MEXICO. 12 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (a) I |
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| 41 | 41 | | NGENERAL.—The Secretary of State shall de-13 |
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| 42 | 42 | | velop a strategy through the High Level Economic Dia-14 |
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| 43 | 43 | | logue (HLED) platform to carry out the bilateral tourism 15 |
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| 44 | 44 | | policy described in section 2 and to encourage the Govern-16 |
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| 45 | 45 | | ment of Mexico to take reciprocal action relating to bilat-17 |
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| 46 | 46 | | eral tourism. 18 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (b) E |
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| 48 | 48 | | LEMENTS.—The strategy required under sub-19 |
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| 49 | 49 | | section (a) shall— 20 |
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| 50 | 50 | | (1) encourage more joint tourism initiatives be-21 |
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| 51 | 51 | | tween the United States and Mexico, including col-22 |
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| 52 | 52 | | laborations between governmental and nongovern-23 |
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| 53 | 53 | | mental entities; and 24 |
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| 57 | 57 | | (2) encourage United States and Mexican non-1 |
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| 58 | 58 | | profit institutions and private businesses to assist 2 |
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| 59 | 59 | | prospective and developing entrepreneurs in 3 |
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| 60 | 60 | | strengthening their business skills in the United 4 |
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| 61 | 61 | | States and Mexico. 5 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (c) R |
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| 63 | 63 | | EPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 6 |
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| 64 | 64 | | of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall 7 |
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| 65 | 65 | | submit to Congress a report on the strategy required 8 |
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| 66 | 66 | | under subsection (a). 9 |
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