The draft decision to establish and improve a legal framework and enforcement mechanism for safeguarding national security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region[2], commonly referred to as the Hong Kong national security law[2][4][5][6], is a bill[7] that is currently being deliberated on the third session of the thirteenth National People's Congress, held from 22 May 2020 to 28 May 2020, and is scheduled to be voted on at the end of the session on 28 May 2020.[8]