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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.

Introduced Apr 7, 2025

Latest action (Apr 7, 2025) Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Referred to
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee
Policy area
Education
Issues
EducationForeign Policy

Summary

This bill amends the Higher Education Act to expand disclosure requirements for foreign gifts and contracts to U.S. educational institutions. It lowers the reporting threshold for gifts or contracts from foreign sources not associated with designated "covered nations" from the current level to $250,000 or more, while requiring disclosure of any amount from foreign sources associated with covered nations. The bill requires the Secretary of Education to transmit copies of all disclosed foreign gifts and contract reports to the Director of the FBI and Director of National Intelligence within 10 days of receipt. Additionally, the Secretary must send all existing Section 117 disclosure records to these agencies within 90 days of enactment, regardless of the date received or current status.

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Sponsor (1)
3 cosponsors

Actions (2)
  1. Apr 7, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. · senate
  2. Apr 7, 2025 Introduced in Senate

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 2778 — Safeguarding American Education From Foreign Control Act · Introduced Apr 9, 2025 · Cong. 119 86%
  • S 1296 — DETERRENT Act · Introduced Apr 3, 2025 · Cong. 119 80%
  • HR 455 — Protecting Higher Education from Foreign Threats Act · Introduced Jan 15, 2025 · Cong. 119 75%
  • HR 4902 — Securing Academia from Foreign Entanglements Act · Introduced Aug 5, 2025 · Cong. 119 75%
  • S 1347 — Making Education Affordable and Accessible Act of 2025 · Introduced Apr 8, 2025 · Cong. 119 74%
  • HR 938 — No Contracts with Foreign Adversaries Act · Introduced Feb 4, 2025 · Cong. 119 74%

Full text

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

April 7, 2025

Mr. Banks (for himself, Mr. Hawley, and Mr. Tuberville) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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 striking subsection (a) and inserting the following:

“(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:

“(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 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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