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Safeguarding American Education From Foreign Control Act
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require additional disclosures relating to gifts and contracts from foreign sources.
Summary
The bill amends federal law to expand disclosure requirements for colleges and universities receiving gifts or contracts from foreign sources. Currently, institutions must disclose gifts or contracts worth $250,000 or more; this bill creates two categories: gifts from non-designated foreign sources remain at $250,000 threshold, while gifts from designated foreign countries require disclosure at any amount. The bill also clarifies that institutions owned or controlled by foreign sources must file disclosures. Under the new requirements, the Department of Education must share these disclosures with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Director of National Intelligence within 10 days of receipt. Additionally, the Department must transmit all existing foreign gift records to these agencies within 90 days of enactment.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Houchin, Erin [R-IN-9] (R-IN)
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Erin Houchin’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- NULL $21,100
- KIESLER POLICE SUPPLY, INC. $13,700
- ELWOOD STAFFING $12,400
- ANDREESSEN HOROWITZ $12,399
- APOLLO $9,100
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Actions (2)
- Apr 9, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. · house
- Apr 9, 2025 Introduced in House
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Full text
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 9, 2025
Mrs. Houchin introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce
A BILL
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require additional disclosures relating to gifts and contracts from foreign sources.
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 “Safeguarding American Education From Foreign Control Act”.
SEC. 2. DISCLOSURES OF FOREIGN GIFTS.
(a) Additional Disclosures Required.—Section 117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1011f) is amended—
(1) by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
“(a) Disclosure Report.—
“(1) In general.—Whenever any institution is owned or controlled by a foreign source, or receives a gift from or enters into a contract with a foreign source that equals or exceeds the threshold value described in paragraph (2), the institution shall file a disclosure report with the Secretary on January 31 or July 31, whichever is sooner.
“(2) Threshold value.—For purposes of subsection (a), the threshold value of a gift from or contract from a foreign source is—
“(A) in the case of a foreign source that is not associated with a covered nation, $250,000 or more, considered alone or in combination with all other gifts from or contracts with that foreign source within a calendar year; and
“(B) in the case of a foreign source that is associated with a covered nation, a gift or contract of any value.”;
(2) by redesignating subsections (d) through (h) as subsections (e) through (i), respectively;
(3) by inserting after subsection (c) the following:
“(d) Additional Submissions.—Not later than 10 days after receiving a disclosure report, document, or other record from an institution under this section, the Secretary shall transmit a copy of such report, document, or record to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Director of National Intelligence.”; and
(4) in subsection (i), as so redesignated—
(A) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (5) as paragraphs (2) through (6); and
(B) by inserting before paragraph (2), as so redesignated, the following new paragraph:
“(1) the term ‘covered nation’ has the meaning given that term in section 4872(f)(2) of title 10, United States Code;”.
(b) Transmittal of Records to FBI and DNI.—Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Education shall transmit to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Director of National Intelligence—
(1) any report, document, or other record received by the Department of Education under section 117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1011f), regardless of the date on which the record was received or the status of the case to which the record pertains; and
(2) any report, document, or other record generated by the Department of Education in the course of an investigation into the compliance of an institution with such section. <all>
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