[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2234 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2234

To amend title 10, United States Code, to prohibit the establishment or 
maintenance of a unit of the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps at 
   an educational institution owned, operated, or controlled by the 
                        Chinese Communist Party.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 11, 2023

   Mr. Cruz introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to prohibit the establishment or 
maintenance of a unit of the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps at 
   an educational institution owned, operated, or controlled 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 ``Deterring Egregious State 
Infiltration of Schools' Training Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF ESTABLISHMENT OR MAINTENANCE OF A UNIT OF THE 
              JUNIOR RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS AT AN EDUCATIONAL 
              INSTITUTION OWNED, OPERATED, OR CONTROLLED BY THE CHINESE 
              COMMUNIST PARTY.

    Section 2031 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(i) No unit may be established or maintained at an educational 
institution that is owned, operated, or controlled by a person that--
            ``(1) is the People's Republic of China;
            ``(2) is a member of the Chinese Communist Party;
            ``(3) is a member of the People's Liberation Army;
            ``(4) is identified by the Secretary of Defense under 
        section 1260H(a) of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National 
        Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (10 U.S.C. 113 
        note) as a Chinese military company;
            ``(5) is included in the Non-SDN Chinese Military-
        Industrial Complex Companies List published by the Department 
        of the Treasury; or
            ``(6) is owned by or controlled by or is an agency or 
        instrumentality of any person described in paragraphs (1) 
        through (5).''.
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