[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 551 Introduced in House (IH)]
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118th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 551
To direct the Attorney General to report to Congress on how United
States taxpayer-funded research has benefitted China, and for other
purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 26, 2023
Mr. Good of Virginia (for himself, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Mr.
Duncan, Mrs. Miller of Illinois, Mr. Biggs, and Mr. Gaetz) introduced
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science,
Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign
Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the
jurisdiction of the committee concerned
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A BILL
To direct the Attorney General to report to Congress on how United
States taxpayer-funded research has benefitted 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 ``No Taxpayer Funding for the Chinese
Communist Party Act of 2023''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) United States taxpayer-funded research should not be
used to benefit the People's Republic of China, especially as
China undertakes the largest theft of intellectual property in
history, as was stated by Secretary of Defense Mark Esper.
(2) According to a Congressional Report, the Chinese
Communist Party's intellectual property theft costs the United
States, and ultimately the American taxpayer, $225,000,000,000
to $600,000,000,000 worth of intellectual property every year.
(3) According to the Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs of the Senate, there were more than 35,000
foreign nationals including 10,000 from China conducting
research in the Department of Energy's National Labs.
(4) According to the Department of Education ``one
university received research funding from a Chinese
multinational conglomerate to develop new algorithms and
advanced biometric security techniques for crowd surveillance
capabilities,'' while another ``had multiple contracts with the
Central Committee of the Communist Party of China''.
(5) The Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs of the Senate found in a November 2019 report that
``American taxpayer funded research has contributed to China's
global rise over the last 20 years''.
(6) The Federal Bureau of Investigation has found that
China's government has used some students and professors in
science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields as
nontraditional collectors of intellectual property, but has
also noted that ``the vast majority of the 1.4 million
international scholars on U.S. campuses pose no threat to their
host institutions, fellow classmates, or research fields. On
the contrary, these international visitors represent valuable
contributors to their campuses' achievements, providing
financial benefits, diversity of ideas, sought expertise, and
opportunities for cross-cultural exchange''.
(7) In 2021, the Department of Justice announced that four
Chinese nationals were charged with an operation to hack into
the computers of dozens of companies, universities and
government agencies in the United States and other countries
between 2011 and 2018.
SEC. 3. REPORT ON CHINA BENEFITTING FROM UNITED STATES TAXPAYER-FUNDED
RESEARCH.
(a) In General.--Not later than one year after the date of
enactment of the Act, the Attorney General, in consultation with the
Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of
State, and the Director of National Intelligence, shall submit to the
Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the
Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate a report on the extent to
which China has benefitted from United States taxpayer-funded research.
(b) Elements.--The report under subsection (a) shall include the
following:
(1) The extent to which United States taxpayer-funded
research has benefitted China, including a list of United
States Government-funded entities, such as research
institutions, laboratories, and institutions of higher
education, which have hired Chinese nationals or allowed
Chinese nationals to conduct research, including an estimate in
the number of nationals hired or involved in research projects.
(2) A list of United States Government programs, grants,
and other forms of research funding in the fields of science,
technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields that have
directly or indirectly cooperated or affiliated with research
institutions in China or Chinese Communist Party entities.
(3) The extent to which China's funding of United States
taxpayer-funded research institutions has benefitted China.
(4) How the Government of China and the Chinese Communist
Party have used United States taxpayer-funded research,
including as part of China's efforts to support ``civil-
military fusion'' and human rights abuses.
(c) Definition.--In this Act, the term ``United States taypayer-
funded research'' means research--
(1) funded by a grant from the Federal Government or a
State government; or
(2) conducted at an institution that receives funding from
the Federal Government or a State government.
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