1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Hong Kong Be Water Act . 2. Definitions In this Act: (1) Appropriate congressional committees The term appropriate congressional committees means— (A) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Armed Services, the Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and (B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Armed Services, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on Financial Services, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives. (2) Basic law The term Basic Law means the Basic Law of Hong Kong. (3) Foreign person The term foreign person means an individual or entity that is not a United States person. (4) Hong Kong The term Hong Kong means the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China. (5) Joint declaration The term Joint Declaration means the Joint Declaration of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the People's Republic of China on the Question of Hong Kong, done at Beijing December 19, 1984. (6) Knowingly The term knowingly , with respect to conduct, a circumstance, or a result, means that a person has actual knowledge, or should have known, of the conduct, the circumstance, or the result. (7) National The term national has the meaning given that term in section 101(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1101(a) ). (8) United states person The term United States person means— (A) a United States citizen or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence to the United States