118 HR 5659 IH: Stop Funding Our Adversaries’ Research Act U.S. House of Representatives 2023-09-21 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

I118th CONGRESS1st SessionH. R. 5659IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESSeptember 21, 2023Mr. Posey (for himself and Mr. Williams of New York) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and TechnologyA BILLTo prohibit Federal research agencies from carrying out certain activities with certain countries, and for other purposes.

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the Stop Funding Our Adversaries’ Research Act.

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Prohibition on Federal research agencies carrying out certain activities with certain countries

(a)

In general

No funds appropriated or otherwise made available may be used by any Federal research agency (as such term is defined in section 10001 of the Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation Act (42 U.S.C. 18901)) to conduct research, develop, design, plan, promulgate, implement, or execute a policy, program, order, or contract of any kind with the government, or any agency or instrumentality of such government, of a country of concern, or an entity organized under the laws of such a country, unless any such activity is specifically authorized by an Act of Congress enacted after the date of the enactment of this section. (b)

Definition

In this section, the term country of concern means the People’s Republic of China (including the Special Administrative Regions of China, including Hong Kong and Macau), Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela.