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Combating Chinese Communist Party Influence Act
To direct the Director of National Intelligence to assess the national security implications of increased foreign malign influence by the Chinese Communist Party.
Summary
The bill requires the Director of National Intelligence to conduct and submit an intelligence community assessment on Chinese Communist Party foreign malign influence activities conducted outside the United States from January 1, 2023, to the present. The assessment must examine how these activities affect United States and allied interests in key regions including the Indo-Pacific, Africa, Latin America, and Europe, and analyze impacts on U.S. alliances, regional perceptions, financial systems, and national security. The bill requires the Director to submit an initial report with findings within 90 days of enactment and a final assessment within 180 days, both in unclassified form with the option of a classified annex. The assessment must address trends in foreign malign influence activities by the Chinese Communist Party and other national security implications determined relevant by the Director. The reports must be submitted to specified congressional committees including the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Armed Services, Foreign Relations, and Homeland Security, and House committees including the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Select Committee on Strategic Competition with China.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Tran, Derek [D-CA-45] (D-CA)
8 cosponsors
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Derek Tran’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- PANISH, SHEA, BOYLE, ET AL. $16,200
- GOOGLE LLC $16,138
- SINGLETON SCHREIBER $13,200
- ALTAIR LAW $13,200
- MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL $12,600
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Actions (2)
- Mar 17, 2026 Referred to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. · house
- Mar 17, 2026 Introduced in House
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Full text
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 17, 2026
Mr. Tran (for himself, Mr. Bacon, Ms. Strickland, and Mr. Harrigan) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
A BILL
To direct the Director of National Intelligence to assess the national security implications of increased foreign malign influence by the Chinese Communist Party.
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 “Combating Chinese Communist Party Influence Act”.
SEC. 2. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT ON FOREIGN MALIGN INFLUENCE ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES BY THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY.
(a) Intelligence Community Assessment.—
(1) Requirement.—The Director of National Intelligence, in consultation with other heads of elements of the intelligence community, and acting through the National Intelligence Council, shall produce an intelligence community assessment that addresses foreign malign influence activities undertaken outside the United States by the Chinese Communist Party during the three-year period beginning January 1, 2023.
(2) Matters included.—The assessment under paragraph (1) shall address, with respect to the period covered by the report, the following:
(A) Foreign malign influence activities undertaken outside the United States by the Chinese Communist Party in key regions at the expense of the United States and allies of the United States.
(B) The effect of such foreign malign influence activities by the Chinese Communist Party on United States alliances and on perceptions of the United States in key regions.
(C) The effect of increased foreign malign influence activities undertaken outside the United States by the Chinese Communist Party.
(D) The effect of foreign malign influence activities by the Chinese Communist Party on global and localized financial systems in key regions.
(E) Trends in foreign malign influence activity by the Chinese Communist Party in key regions.
(F) Any other national security implications of such increased foreign malign influence activities by the Chinese Communist Party that affect interests of the United States and allies of the United States, as determined relevant by the Director.
(b) Reports.—
(1) Initial report.—Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report containing the initial findings of the intelligence community assessment under subsection (a).
(2) Final report.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees the intelligence community assessment under subsection (a).
(3) Form of reports.—The reports under paragraphs (1) and
(2) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a classified annex.
(c) Definitions.—In this Act:
(1) The term “appropriate congressional committees” means the following:
(A) The Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate.
(B) The Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Homeland Security, and the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party of the House of Representatives.
(2) The term “foreign malign influence” has the meaning given that term in section 119C(f) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3059(f)).
(3) The term “key regions” means—
(A) the Indo-Pacific;
(B) the African continent;
(C) Latin America; and
(D) Europe. <all>
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