1. Short title; table of contents (a) Short title This Act may be cited as the Hong Kong Autonomy Act . (b) Table of contents The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Definitions. Sec. 3. Findings. Sec. 4. Sense of Congress regarding Hong Kong. Sec. 5. Identification of foreign persons involved in the erosion of the obligations of China under the Joint Declaration or the Basic Law and foreign financial institutions that conduct significant transactions with those persons. Sec. 6. Sanctions with respect to foreign persons that contravene the obligations of China under the Joint Declaration or the Basic Law. Sec. 7. Sanctions with respect to foreign financial institutions that do business with foreign persons that contravene the obligations of China under the Joint Declaration or the Basic Law. Sec. 8. Waiver, termination, and congressional review process. Sec. 9. Rule of construction. 2. Definitions In this Act: (1) Alien; national; national of the United States The terms alien , national , and national of the United States have the meanings given those terms in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1101 ). (2) Appropriate congressional committees and leadership The term appropriate congressional committees and leadership means— (A) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the Committee on the Judiciary, the Select Committee on Intelligence, and the majority leader and the minority leader of the Senate