[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4840 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4840

 To amend the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 to 
exclude the Government of the People's Republic of China from eligible 
  foreign governments with which Federal employees may participate in 
                           cultural exchange.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 29, 2021

 Mr. Murphy of North Carolina introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 to 
exclude the Government of the People's Republic of China from eligible 
  foreign governments with which Federal employees may participate in 
                           cultural exchange.

    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 ``End Misleading Cultural Exchanges 
Act''.

SEC. 2. EXCLUSION OF GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA FROM 
              CERTAIN CULTURAL EXCHANGES.

    Subsection (a) of section 108A of the Mutual Educational and 
Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2458a(a)) is amended by adding 
at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(3) For purposes of this section, the term `foreign government' 
does not include the Government of the People's Republic of China.''.
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