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Stop Funding Our Adversaries Act of 2023
To prohibit Federal spending on funding research in China, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill prohibits Federal agencies from directly or indirectly funding or supporting research that is conducted by the Government of the People's Republic of China, the Chinese Communist Party, or entities owned or controlled by either. The prohibition applies to funding through grants, subgrants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and other funding mechanisms provided by multiple agencies including Defense, Veterans Affairs, Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, Interior, Transportation, and Health and Human Services.
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Actions (2)
- Feb 5, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. · house
- Feb 5, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 5, 2025
Ms. Tenney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
A BILL
To prohibit Federal spending on funding research in China, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Stop Funding Our Adversaries Act of 2023”.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON FUNDING RESEARCH IN CHINA.
The Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, the Secretary of Energy, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Transportation, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, or any other Federal agency may not directly or indirectly conduct or support, through grants, subgrants, contracts, cooperative agreements or other funding vehicles, research that will be conducted by—
(1) the Government of the People’s Republic of China or any agent or instrumentality of the Government of the People’s Republic of China or any entity owned by or controlled by the People’s Republic of China; or
(2) the Chinese Communist Party or any agent or instrumentality of the Chinese Communist Party or any entity owned by or controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. <all>
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