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<dc:title>119 HR 1005 : CLASS Act</dc:title>
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<dc:date>2025-12-04</dc:date>
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<distribution-code display="yes">IIB</distribution-code><congress display="yes">119th CONGRESS</congress><session display="yes">1st Session</session><legis-num display="yes">H. R. 1005</legis-num><current-chamber display="yes">IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES</current-chamber><action><action-date date="20251204">December 4, 2025</action-date><action-desc>Received; read twice and referred to the <committee-name committee-id="SSHR00">Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions</committee-name></action-desc></action><legis-type>AN ACT</legis-type><official-title display="yes">To require public elementary and secondary schools to disclose certain funds received from, or contracts with, a foreign source, and for other purposes.</official-title></form><legis-body display-enacting-clause="yes-display-enacting-clause" style="OLC" id="HAA6B2BFE2F9A48FE9CE32AA8E92F3544"><section id="HD1A9D46E11DC473EBA718B0C5605923F" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Combating the Lies of Authoritarians in School Systems Act</short-title></quote> or the <quote>CLASS Act</quote>.</text></section><section id="H50BB81EEBEEC49EEA19715316399E3A3"><enum>2.</enum><header>Disclosure of foreign funding and contracts</header><subsection id="H9D0EAB6095FA41B9893417AE6764ADEF"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">As a condition on receipt of Federal financial assistance under any applicable program by a public elementary school or a public secondary school, the school, not later than 30 days after receiving funds in excess of $10,000 in the aggregate from a foreign source, or entering into one or more contracts with an aggregate value in excess of $10,000 with a foreign source, shall submit to the Secretary of Education a written disclosure that identifies—</text><paragraph id="HCD9E314B84AA4FA6AC09441ADDADF41E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the name and country of origin of the foreign source;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H859CF40495324A32B1B0510AA2CB10B8"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in a case in which a school receives funds from a foreign source—</text><subparagraph id="HBCE69687C9934957AE0682A71AE2FB8A"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the amount of funds received from that source; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H10C5BF178EBD48BB991CF0993CB221A3"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any terms or conditions applicable to the receipt of such funds; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H28D609B968A243C3AD788B37B82AFACA"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in a case in which a school enters into a contract with a foreign source, the terms and conditions of such contract.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H1F3A262F795F40638B8784417834F5AD"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text><paragraph id="HB99FBF1AF1ED416C9F41CB8524DB589B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The term <term>applicable program</term> has the meaning given that term in section 400 of the General Education Provisions Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/20/1221">20 U.S.C. 1221</external-xref>).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HFC75D04CEB9A4A7D897E89E39A53F6B6"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The terms <term>elementary school</term> and <term>secondary school</term> have the meanings given those terms in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/20/7801">20 U.S.C. 7801</external-xref>).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HFF989ED11EB24175A797420184E701C0"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The term <term>Federal financial assistance</term> has the meaning given that term in section 7501(a)(5) of title 31, United States Code.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H3F599FEB94794B4B9A3287777A64FD98"><enum>(4)</enum><text>The term <quote>foreign source</quote> has the meaning given that term in section 117(h) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/20/1011f">20 U.S.C. 1011f(h)</external-xref>).</text></paragraph></subsection></section></legis-body><attestation><attestation-group><attestation-date date="20251203" chamber="House">Passed the House of Representatives December 3, 2025.</attestation-date><attestor display="yes">Kevin F. McCumber,</attestor><role>Clerk.</role></attestation-group></attestation></bill> 

