[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2525 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2525

  To prohibit Federal spending on funding research in China, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 26, 2023

  Mr. Marshall (for himself, Mr. Rubio, and Mr. Braun) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
               Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit Federal spending on funding research in 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 ``Stop Funding Our Adversaries Act of 
2023''.

SEC. 2. PURPOSES.

    The purposes of this Act are--
            (1) to ensure that Federal funding does not support any 
        research in China; and
            (2) to combat the military-civilian fusion policy of the 
        People's Republic of China.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Chinese communist party.--The term ``Chinese Communist 
        Party'' includes any agent or instrumentality of the Chinese 
        Communist Party and any entity owned by or controlled by the 
        Chinese Communist Party.
            (2) Federal agency.--
                    (A) In general.--The term ``Federal agency'' has 
                the meaning given the term in section 102 of the Robert 
                T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance 
                Act (42 U.S.C. 5122).
                    (B) Inclusions.--The term ``Federal agency'' 
                includes the Department of Defense, the Department of 
                Veterans Affairs, the Department of Energy, the 
                Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the 
                Interior, the Department of Transportation, the 
                Department of Health and Human Services, the Department 
                of Agriculture, the Department of Homeland Security, 
                the Department of Commerce, the Department of 
                Education, the Department of Housing and Urban 
                Development, the Department of Justice, the Department 
                of Labor, the Department of State, the Department of 
                the Treasury, the Small Business Administration, the 
                United States Agency for International Development, the 
                National Science Foundation, and the Smithsonian 
                Institution.
            (3) Federal funding.--The term ``Federal funding''--
                    (A) means any grant, subgrant, contract, 
                cooperative agreement, and any other method through 
                which the Federal Government provides funding to a 
                recipient; and
                    (B) includes a method through which the Federal 
                Government provides funding to a subrecipient at any 
                tier.
            (4) Government of the people's republic of china.--The term 
        ``Government of the People's Republic of China'' includes--
                    (A) any agent or instrumentality of the Government 
                of the People's Republic of China;
                    (B) any entity owned by or controlled by the 
                People's Republic of China; and
                    (C) any organization managed by the Government of 
                the People's Republic of China, the People's Liberation 
                Army Ground Force of China, and any public institution 
                of higher learning in China.

SEC. 4. PROHIBITION ON FUNDING RESEARCH IN CHINA.

    The head of a Federal agency may not directly or indirectly 
support, through any Federal funding, research that will be conducted 
by the Government of the People's Republic of China or the Chinese 
Communist Party.
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